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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18
HAR MOkY.

With the eighteen inches of snow
that fell last week, there is still
enough to make it hard travelling in
most places.
Lee Collins was in town, Saturday,
and has sold the remainder of his
farm on the Wellington road to Uriah
Whitehouse of Wellington.
There are many cases of severe
colds and grip in this section, and
the "medicine man" is kept busy,
One day recently DI. J. s. Bragg at
tended patients in six towns and two
counties. He went to Bangor, Thurs
day, with patient to be operated on
for appendicitis.
DR.. F. o. Turner, who had rib
broken some two weeks ago, is able
to be about the house. Mrs. Turner
has returned from Boston, where she
has been selecting her spring stock
of goods.
George N. Chadbourn is remodeling
and enlarging his house. Arthur
Rowell of Scion is doing the work.
Myron Bemis is spending the week
in Parkman with his aunt, Mrs. Jane
Dorr.
Owing to the travelling the schools
will begin, April 30.
Orlando Cobb has two thousand
trees tapped and reports good run
of sap. His product finds ready
market at $1.00 per gallon.
Everett Reed, who moved to Lew
iston, last fall, has returned to his
/ farm here.
/ Steadman Hatch has been suffering
from slight shock, but is improving
now.
w. E. Marble, who has been in Los
Angeles, Cal, the past winter, is ex
pected home next month for the sum
mer. Mrs. II. j. Davis, who has been
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18
BLACKWELL.

Mrs. d. l.. Gray of Fairfield passed
Sunday with E. O. Danforth and
family.
Miss Alice Weston, teacher of mu
sic, visited the Eames school, Friday.
The fve-year- child of Cole
Richards is very i'll, and attended by
DIR. Kennison.
The Christian Scientists held their
services at Rufus McKenney's, Sun
day.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18
MADISON CENTER

Heman Hunnewell of West Madison
spent the day, last Monday, with Mrs.
". ID. Hayden and family.
Amos Clark and wife, who have
been working for Rufus Mckinney
the past winter, are going to move on
to their farm, this week.
Perley Corson is running the saw
for the Steward Brothers at their mill
in Cornyille.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18

Thousands have pronounced Holl-
ister,s Rocky Mountain Tea the great
est healing power on earth. When
medical science fails, it succeeds.
Makes you we'll and keeps you we'll
35 cents, Tea or Tablets. G. R. Fogg
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18

visiting her daughters in Norwolk,
Cal, is also expected home next
month.
Warner Lawrence, who has been
visiting his sister, Mrs. B. F. Cooley
and other relatives here returned to
his home in Dunbarton, n. H., Tues
day. He is accompanied by his broth
er, Henry, who will go from there to
California hoping to improve his
health.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18

You may think you are lonesome, but you
will never know what lonesomeness is until
you are on your death.bed and realize that
you are going alone.
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18

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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18

1t is expected that more potatoes
will be planted this spring in Dexter
and vicinity than at any other time in
the history of the town. Potato
growing for the past three or four
years has been very profitable for the
farmers and each year they are going
into this line of agriculture on a lar
ger scale. One of the largest growers
in Dexter, in the past, has been Harry
Weymouth and this year Mr.. Wey-
mouth states that he will plan about
40 acres of the tubers. This is nearly
double the acreage of former years on
Mr.. Weymouth's farm. Other farmer
are understood to be contemplating
planting more than in the past and if
the season should prove to be good
one there will be many tubers raised
in 1907 in this section.
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Colts Castrated.

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tfI3 H. S. ELLIOTT, Athens, Maine.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18

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are not important?
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18
Outdoor Athletics.

The Boston Journal Has Made Big Rep
utation for its High Class Sporting News.
With Spring come thoughts of base
ball, golf, tennis and the other out
door sports which help to make this
season the best of the year.
The sporting department of The
Boston Journal is handled in bright,
interesting way which has won for
it many followers among lovers of
clean sport. 1t covers every field of
athletics, and offers a valuable OPP
portunity for reference on all matters
pertaining to the out door world.
Bob Dunbar's column is a feature OF
every issue, and his snappy items and
clear answers to questions from read :
ers are recognized as authoritative.
Arthur MCPHERSON, whose trip with
the baseball team has given him a
line on the new material and the
prospects for a successful season, will
cover the baseball games, and his
writeups will be watched by eager
fans wherever the national game is
played.
Careful attention is paid to the
other branches of summer sport, and
devotees of golf, tennis, rowing and
all forms of outdoor activity may find
here interesting accounts of events,
made doubly attractive by carefully
prepared photographs.
At the same time the other features
of The Boston journal, such as the
women's page, the financial columns
and the editorials, continue to exer-
else that influence which is building
up for The Journal its reputation as
New England's home newspaper.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-18
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If you want to oblige a friend. do some
thing for him his way instead Of your own
way.
A great many people see themselves as
others see them. but they don't believe what
they see.
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A FEW CURES OF WELL-KNoWN PARTIES.

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The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06

fail at mining or would fail at any
thing, but the good old farm will
take care Of them. We can get llv-
ing there and SO we stay. But thank
the Lord, the demand for finer fruit,
and the outside production of finer
fruit, and the various fungous dis
eases that appear in the orchards
every year, drive the careless man out
OF the rut. This is going to drive
the unbusiness-like man off the face
OF the earth. To you, young man,
who have faith in the old soil, there
is no greater Or grander business
proposition than the farm offers you
today.
| was born on New England farm
and have always got my living from
one. | have educated two boys. They
have been educated at Cornell uni
versity, and they have returned to
the farm to make their mark in life.
My boys are back on the farm first,
because they see more pleasure and
more enjoyment and more real free
dom and comfort there, working
among the trees, the plants and the
vines, than they would find anywhere
else. And then there is more money
in it. They would not look to the
$I,5oo salary of some of these pro-
tessors. The boys have learned good
business methods and are now work
ing for money that is in the business
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06

thoroughly scrubbed A large portion
of this work is done by Japanese, who
stand over the vats, see that the water
is frequently changed, sort the lem
ons as they are washed, and<arrange
them in boxes.
Special buildings Of large size have
been constructed for the reception and
curing of the lemons after they are
washed. These buildings are, as
rule, SO arranged that air will circulate
readily and rapidly through them.
The boxes containing the lemons
are piled in blocks, each block con-
tanning from five hundred to six
hundred boxes. These large block,
of boxes are then covered with huge
canvas tents, which are arranged in
such way that the air can circulate
under them.
The fruit is allowed to remain un-
der these tents for several months,
and during that time it undergoes a
process of sweating and curing which
reduces the roughness of the skin and
also greatly improves it's texture
Chemical changes in the fruit also
takes place, all of which lead to it's i'm
provement
An important question which has
not yet been fully worked out in con-
nection with the lemon has to do with
it's keeping qualities after it is taken
from the tents In this respect the
foreign product is to a certain extent
superior. Rapid improvements are
being made, however, largely owing
to the painstaking efforts of the pack
ers.
During the curing process the lem
on is subject to many serious diseases
Or rots. Little is yet known in regard
to the causes of these AS rule, the
lemon is shipped without refriger-
alton. In fact, refrigeration has a
tendency to cause decays of various
kinds. FLORIDA Advocate.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06
How Lemons are Cured.

Many of our readers have doubt.
less wondered why it is that while
our oranges and grapefruit compare
favorably with those of any country
for fine smooth skin and texture,
Florida lemons are rougher and not
as pleasing to the eye as imported
fruit. The fact is all imported lemons,
as well as California fruit, are put
through an elaborate curing process.
This process is described by Prof B.
L. Galloway, chief of the Bureau of
Plant Industry at Washington, in the
Youths Companion, as follows:
The lemon industry is not so i'm
portant as that of the oranges. Prior
to eight or nine years ago the larger
portion of our lemons came from
abroad, especially from Italy The
production of American lemons, how
ever, has been greatly increasing, most
of them being grown in California
Lemons intended for distant sale
are not allowed to ripen on the tree
They are gathered when green, and
must go through what is called a
curing process before they can be
placed on the market.
AS the lemons are now handled
they are taken from the trees and
carried to special establishments,
where facilities have been provided
for washing them thoroughly. They
are placed by machinery in large vats
containing water In these vats re-
volving brushes constantly stir the
lemons, and the skin in this way is
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06
SOILS.
Continued from first page.)

On the surface, plants grow and
die. Through the first few inches
their roots penetrate, and in the same
the dead plants are buried and dis
integrate. This portion, therefore, by
degrees, assumes brown color, more
or less dark according to the guam
tity and amount of contained organic
matter. Into the subsoil, however,
the roots rarely penetrate-except for
moisture-and the dead plants are
rarely buried at so great depth.
Still this inferior Cor lower) stratum
is not wholly destitute of organic
matter. However comparatively i'm
pervious it may be, still water makes
its way through it, more or less, and
carries down soluble organic and min
eral substances which are continually
being produced during the decay of
organic materials lying above
Thus, though not sensibly discol-
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06

plus water is removed from the sur
face. This removal of excess is also
like changing the climate for the bet
ter.
Sixth, an efficient drainage carries
off the water SO rapidly as to bring
the land sooner into a workable state,
thus insuring earlier crops. It also
rescues the farmer from the tickle
uncertain seasons
Seventh, in consequence of this re-
moval of water by drainage, the soil
is actually deepened The deeper the
drains, provided the water has still
ready escape, the greater the depth
of soil available for the purpose of
vegetable nutrition
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06

Commercial estimates put the 1906
prune crop of California at 49,, 200, 900
pounds, against 62,5oo,ooo pounds in
1905. This seasons output has been
exceeded but once (Ioo2) in the past
seventeen years. The crop of 1902
was estimated at Io7,oooooo pounds.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06

ored by this organic material, the
subsoil in reality contains an appre-
ciable quantity Of organic matter
which may be distinctly estimated.
The rains wash down likewise the
different minerals entering into the
composition Of organic life.
Horace Greely many years ago rec
ognizing the truth of the above state
ments, advised the farmers of Long
Island to plow their sandy soils and
turn up their subsoils to the light
and elements. They did so with re-
sulting curses loud and deep, followed
by thanks.
The first result was that the fertile
soil was too deep for the nutrition
Of plants. Later on, as the top soil
formerly subsoiD became more fer
tile it joined the now subsoil (former-
ly top soiD and the farmer reaped
the benefit Of Horace Greely's advice
in increased depth and fertility of
soil
1t will be useful now to return
to a consideration of some of the
beneficial effects of draining the land
First, it carries off all stagnant wa
ter, and gives ready escape Of the
excess of water from rains.
Second, it arrests the ascent of wa
ter from beneath, whether by capillary
action or the force of springs, and
thus not only preserves the surface
soil from undue moisture Ca great
advantage Of itself, as great moisture
on the surface by it's evaporation
tends to chill and keep the soil cold),
but also frees the subsoil from the
lingering presence of those noxious
substances which, in undrained land,
so frequently lodge in it and impair
the growth Of deep-rooted plants.
Third, this constant ascent of water
through the soil causes similar de-
scent of fresh air giving oxygenating
processes greater freedom of action
The air is, in fact, sucked in with
the water, as the latter passes down
to the drains.
Thus where good drainage exists
not only is the land refreshed and
organic material rendered soluble by
every shower that falls, but those
fertilizing substances derived from the
air are brought to the ultimate feed
ing roots of plants, but which are
largely lost on undrained land by such
rains flowing over and away from the
surface.
Fourth, but other consequences Of
great practical Importance follow
these immediate effects.
When thus readily freed from the
constant presence Of water the soil
gradually becomes dryer, sweeter,
looser and more pliable. These are
practical benefits, equivalent to a
change of soil
Fifth, with the permanent state of
moisture the coldness of many lands
causes a backwardness of vegetation
which only disappears when the sur
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06

The California Fruit Grower esti-
mates the total shipments of citrus
fruits from California during the sea-
son Of Ioo5-o at 27,oIo carloads,
against 3I,422 carloads the preceding
season.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-03-06
DO YOU WANT TO BUY
The Best
Fruit and Truck Farm
in Florida
At a Great Sacrifice !?
Can be Made To Pay for
Itself in One Year.

Forty acres, cleared. fenced and drained. Four
acres sub-irrigated. on which can be produced
any vegetable that can be grown. Similar land at
Sanford, planted to celery. lettuce. ETC., yields
ST 500 to 50, 900 per acre
Artesan we'll on premises, from which water is
piped over entire inc1osure.
Grapefruit oranges and Tangerines. of super
ior varieties which should yield 900 to 500 boxes
this year. Also 100 fine pecans just coming into
bearing.
House. outbuildings and all Improvements
modern and up-to-date.
Transportation facilities the best. being located
near two lines of railroad and the St. Johns river
The manager of the Agriculturist is authorized
to furnish the address and give directions for
reaching the premises to anyone desiring to pur-
chase such place.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26

THO Breakdown Sort.
"Jigley seems to be very fond OF walk
Ing"
one of those cheap motor cars they're man
ufacturing-
eyes, that's what ] mean."-cathoilo
Standard and Times
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26
IDLEWOOD PARK WILL
OPEN MONDAY NIGHT
Popular Amusement Resort Has Been Practically
Rebuilt and Has Many Attractions Never
Seen Before in Richmond.
Seen Before in Richmond.

Monday evening promptly at o'clock
a signal bomb Will be fired in lakewood
Park, myriads OF brilliant electric
lights Will flash forth. K essnich's Band
Will play the opening march, and the
gates of Richmond's popular family
pleasure park Will be open for the
season.
Those who saw the lakewood of eight
weeks ago. and who see the lakewood
Monday night, Will be amazed at the
changed condition, for Lakewood has
risen, Phenixlike, from the ashes. and
like the Phenix of mythology, has
arisen more beautiful than before the
fire"
Beautiful flowers Will line the walks
and sunken pools. artistic floral de-
signs Will adorn the grounds and over
1t all will flash out nightly thousands
of incandescent lamps in places appear
ing like fireflies or glowworms, and
in other parts of the park being group
ed so as to resemble swarms of these
phosphorescent insects and worms.
The crowning features of the park
this season Will be the free open-air
vaudeville theatre. Kessnich's Band of
twenty artists. the dazzling and
mystifying electric fountain and the
countless new summer park attrac-
tions which have been installed for
this season at great expense. Many
of last seasons attractions. such as "Ye
Olde Mile" roller coaster. swimming
pool, fun factory and Hale's Tours,
have been rcmodeled and made almost
new.
In Eye olde Mile" for instance, the
grottoes in the mysterious passages have
all been remodcled and refitted with
new scenes, such as New York by
Moonl ght.' 1.-THE San Francisco Earth
quake" "Christmas Eve" THE Mermaid
or the Mariners Dream" and several
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26
THE TIMES DIspArcn RICHMOND VA SUNDAY MAY 2e 1907

the management has organized n thor
ough police patrol system, and Will not
tolerate the slightest effort of inter-
ference or disorder on the part of any
one. lakewood Ii to be popular family
resort III all that the term implies
The large dancing pavilion las been
made larger than last season, and has
n stage for the better accommodation
of the orchestra. This pavilion can be
engaged for private parties, balls and
receptions for any afternoons or eve
nings. and Mcssrs Conncll & Miller.
the popular Richmond caterers. Will
serve dainty luncheons or substantial
dinners to parties Ut reasonable prices,
and at short notice
In order to prevent tho park becom-
ing 0stale" during the season, the man
aeemcnt is corresponding with pro-
prietors of number of new amusement
devices with view to having them
brought to Lakewood as the season pro-
crosses.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26
How Odd.

How Odd.
The English language seems to be
Quite queer at times. for when
A joV!al friend goes on a spree
We say: Hes off again"
Catholic Standard and Times.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-26

Texas, is a guest of Mr.. Menard Dos
we'll and family.
Professor j. NJ. Harris. of Culpeper,
was here this week visiting his daugh-
ter. Mrs. b. p Willis.
Mrs. j. p. Rowe has returned from
visit to relatives in Richmond.
Mrs. Il. c, Hayes, OF Washington, is
guest of her father, Mr.. a. b. Bow
ering.
Mrs, John Gatewood, OF Jacksonville.
Fla. is Ill here with typhoid fever at
the home of her mother, Mrs, H. M.
Crutchheld
Mrs, W. L. Coates and son have re-
turned from n visit to Baltimore,
Mr., and Mrs. II, A, Davis, of Urban
ma, spent several days here this week
as guests OF DR.. j. Garnet King and
family,
Mrs, G. n, Howard is visiting rela-
tiyes in Alexandria.
Miss Judith Shepherd is visiting her
sister, Mrs, Philip Stern, In Baltimore,
Mrs. II. w. Sanford and son. who
have been visiting relatives in Spot
sylvania county, have returned to their
homo in Newport News