The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-05-21
INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
OPPORTUNITIES.

On another page we print from the
last report OF the Commissioner of In
dustrial and Labor Statistics what is
said of the opportunities for new in
dustries in 81 of the 26 towns in Waldo
county. Belmont, Brooks, Burnham,
Searsmont and Waldo failed to report,
We should be glad to publish reports
from these towns, with any additional
information that may be furnished
from the other towns, concerning which.
it appears to us, more might be said.
The tide seems to be setting this way,
for every week our county correspon-
dents report the sale of farms to parties
from out of the State or from other Sec
tions of the State. The two successful
creameries in Belfast, and Others on the
line of railroad are stimulating dairy
ing, which is increasing the fertility
and productiveness of the farms, and
the labor saving machinery, telephone
and rural free delivery, contribute to-
ward making farming more profitable
as well as a pleasanter occupation.
Commissioner Lyons we'll says:
The agricultural possibilities of Maine
are no doubt many fold greater than the
present products of our farms. By the
use of increased knowledge and i'm
proved machinery our potato crop has
more than doubled in the past few
years, and there is room for still greater
expansion not only in this crop but of
all others in the line of fruits, grain and
vegetables.
As examples of what may be done in
the way of creating new towns and
building up old ones, we may cite the
cases OF Millinocket and East Mllli-
nocket; developed from unbroken for
est far from civilization; and Rumford
Falls, East Llvermore, Madison ard
other towns which have forged rapidly
ahead in wealth and population, by the
development of water power within
their borders and the utilization of the
natural wealth of our forests i'll manu-
featuring industries.
The wonderful development of the
South agriculturally may serve as an
object lesson in this regard. We re-
Gently gave an outline of what Texas
has accomplished in this direction, and
read the other day of Texan and his
wife who were making bridal tour
after having been married twenty years.
They had not had money enough for a
journey before, but last year cleared
SIS, 900 from is acres of onions. Nine
teen solid car loads of strawberries
passed through Rocky Mount, n. c.,
one day recently on their way to the
northern markets, and Atlanta COM
mission men estimate that, barring &C
cidents, Georgia will ship this year at
least 5000 car loads of peaches, valued
at $4,000, OO0 Thousands of cars are
annually carrying from the South to
Northern and Western markets fruits
and vegetables approaching in value
500, 100000. The trucking industry
originating in the Norfolk section of
Virginia about half century ago has
within the past twenty or twenty-five
years, and especially during the past
ten years, extended down the coast to
the Mexican border, and is firmly plant
ed in the highlands of Arkansas, Ten
nessee and Virginia. The procession
of early fruits and vegetables north
ward and eastward now begins to swell
its annual volume from Texas and
Florida in January or February, and
the strawberries, watermelons, canta-
loupes, peaches, apples, cabbage, kale,
sprouts, tomatoes, yams and other
fruits and vegetables are striking evil
dences of the tendency to diversified
ton in Southern agriculture.
In discussing the Southern truck
growing industry as a factor in the
standardization of the nations diet the