Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-28
STATE HOUSE.
Spring Planting Talk by
Commissioner Gilman.
CORPORATION Business for Month
Of May Will be Light.
Number Organized 10 Date Is 60---!otal
For Month May be 10.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Friday, June %, at 10 A. M.

SdIS GEt a. ~ - we
Commissioner Gilman Of the depart
ment Of agriculture was at the Capt.
tGl Saturday forenoon on business con-
nccted with the work Of the depart
mcnt, and left for his home in FOxcroft
in the afternoon. In speaking Of the
backwardness of the season Mr.. Gill
man said that as yet there had been
bu. very little planting done in the
state as a whole, although it was well
along in some sections. In ArOOstOok
county considerable has been done, as
the farmers of that county are al
ways early in their work. Stories are
told, in fact, of that county, to the ef-
feet that oftentimes the work of plant
ing will be going on at one end of a
piece Of land while the other end Will
he buried in snoW bank. Some plant
ing mas been done in the northern part
Of Piscataduis county, but in WASH
mgton county the work has not yet
been commenced, and the same is true
of many other sections. Mr.. Gilman
states that the season is about Two
weeks behind the average, but mat
there is yet no need of worrying, ana
Nature always looks after her own.
He mad. he said planted potatoes one
year on the 18th day of June. the po-
tatoes being of the Orono variety. ana
got one of the best yields he had ever
secured. Speaking of potatoes he said
tfat there would be 4 greater acre
age planted in northern ArGOstook this
season than ever before. provided that
there was not too much wet weather.
The present month. which comes TO
a close Thursday. will be marked by
somewhat unusual lightness in the way
Of the corporation business OF the
State. rs the number which have Deen
organized since the month came in IS
small, and while the falling off of bus
mess i'm this line is not the greatest on
record perhaps, still it is below the
average. The number of corporations
which had filed their certificates of Or
ganization at the office of the secretary
Of State up to Saturday noon was 60.
aud 1t is likely that the remaining four
DAYS NAV bring the total for the month
to 20. There is a feeling on the part of
some of those who have to do with the
CORPORATION business that perhaps the
stock markets have got enough at pres
ent. as the number of speculative cor
porations which have been organized
during the month being comparatively
small. While those which have been re-
cciynd at the office are of the kind
which intend To do business. Some cor
porations which were chartered und"r
n special act Of the Legislature" have
been received. AS far as Maine C'"'i
| the railroad, corporations which haze
been received indicate that there is
much business in railroad development
as usual.
| Prof. Hitchines of the entOmOlOgical
| branch Of the department of agricui-
| ture has recently sent out circular
| which should be of much value to the
| student in that branch of natural ms
| tory, and which gives complete detais
| for collecting killing and preserving IN
| sects of all kinds. and also suggestions
| in regard to keeping the specimens for
| display purposes.
| Col. f.. G. Harrington, secretary or
| the Board Of Railroad Commissioners.
| left Saturday for Moosehead lake,
| where he will enjoy few days fishing,
| and was accompanied on his trip by ex-
| Mayor Charles :. HichbOrn.
| Cen A. T.. Farnham was paSS"n
| ger IN the forenoon train Sunday. GO
inc to Boston, where he will meet Rear
| Admiral CoghIan and accompany him
| TO B@ngor.