Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-30

by quantity but also by quality. the quail
ity being determined by analysis, and
based ON the amount of protein. carbohy-
drates. fat ana mineral matter in the
Watef-free grain. their relative feeding
values to lie judged by a scale TO be eS-
tablished by experiment station experts
and others.
Mr., W. X. Kellogg, president of the
Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake COMPANY
Battle Greek. Michigan. offers Il cash
prize of 500 for the best ten ear exhibit
of White Dent corn grown in New
England in 1910
The Massachusetts Society for the Pro-
of $50 to be awarded on corn grown in
New England in 1910. The distribution
of the prizes is yet TO be decided.
The Worcester Grange offers to the
Grange in Massachusetts making the best
exhibit of five traces of corn grown by
its members in 1910, cash prizes amount
ing to so
The Worcester Agricultural Society
has voted to contribute $50. to be dis
tributed later rs special prizes.
The Connecticut State Grange has con-
tributei $50
The international Harvest r Company
through Mr.. w. ID. Ross Of Worcester
has contributed merchandise worth sl,5.
The to"-Mortimer Fertilizer Company,
of New York City, has contributed prizes
amounting to $40
The Swift-Lowell Fertilizer Company,
of Boston. has contributed $2J.
The New England Fertilizer Company.
of Boston, has contributed So.
Hon. J. Lewis Ellsworth, secretary of
the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture.
is the treasurer. and all monies pass
through his hands
II this Board should see fit to appoint
a committee on agriculture from among
its active members, such committee could
help materially in the work by interest
ing local boards, and its advice and
council will be fully appreciated
Secretary Edward NJ. Banding OF
Bangor in reporting conditions
throughout the State, said:
The Completion of 81 miles of rail-
road building by the Bangor & Aroos-
took Railroad in a single season was
one of the most notable events trans
piring in Maine during the year just
passed, and the extension thus made to
Aroostook's transportation facilities
marks an important step in the devel-
opment of this great northern county,"
New Boards of Trade have been or
ganized at Bethel, Clinton, Milford and
East Machias.
Fred f. Eastman. president of the
Portland BOARD of Trade, spoke on
Some Industrial Possibilities in
Maine" as follows:
Some Industrial Possibilities in Maine.
The State of Maine today in natural
and undevelOped or partially developed
resources Is one of the richest states of
the Union. Practically half the State is
still unsettled and is yielding millions of
markets of the country. The settled and
cultivated half of the State aside from
the slate and granite of the quarries is
making something of a showing in the
Gay 81 stock. grain, dairy products, hay.
rorn, potatoes, and other farm produce.
~ is Encouraging to note the recent re-
~ival of interest in agricultural matters
that is being maifested on all sides. 1t
is healthy sign and ought, | believe
will. result within "A few years in largely
increasing the value of the arabic lands
of the State and the amount of their
production. 1t takes but a moment of
thought to realize that from neither the
forests, the quarries, or the farm lands
is but a small relative amount of wealth
being annually realized in proportion to
what remains. If this is so what shall
We say about that resource Of the State
which might he of greater wealth produc-
ing value than any other one resource
is confined to neither the settled or un-
settled half Of the State. which. while it
is daily, hourly wasted with a pitiful
prodigality, yet remains in vastly greater
amount unused than used-the white coal
of Maine, her water powers?
] know that the subject is becoming
hackneyed of late. Some of the Boston
people told me that last year on their
excursion to Maine they heard nothing
else from kittery to Bangor but water
power till it seemed they must lust for
a change have something beside water
Water is all right in moderation" said
one man, land | expected to have to
drink it when | came down into Maine.
but don't fill my throat and ears with it
at the same time. While IL is true that
much has been said about it, there is
certainly much more that can be well
SAID and there IS no one subject that de-
mands from the state Board of Trade
more painst aking thoughtful. and coura-
conservation and development of Maine
water powers. The state Board repre-
senting as it does 50 many thousands of
the business and professional men can
have practically a determining influence
in public matters that affect the bust
ness interests of the State II should
through its legislative committee he on
the spot with this influence when the
water power legislation Of the next few
years is under consideration.
Now when it comes right down to
facts on this subject of water power and
its uses am free. and indeed hasten
to confess myself unqualiiiedlv a Iayma n
and ron-expert As business man Of
the State, however, ! cannot help but he
int rested in the further development of
the powers of our rivers at such places
as Saco Westhrook Lewiston. Water
willie, Rumford and Madison. and the
furtherance of such projects as the new
storage basin in the Masalloway region
as shall regulate fiowaee and sustain and
protect the Industries in oiir State now
located at the sources Of power. Dis
claiming further any knowledge Of hydro