Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-07

|Runford
Baking
Powder
Makes food light,
wholesome and
easily digested.


transportation of the products. but the
raw material is here in large quantities.
1t is estimated that the growth of the
spruce in our forests is furnishing a
continuous annual crop of more than
| 600.000,OO0 board feet of lumber, and
ii is noteworthy that in this investi-
cation we find more towns desiring the
erection of lumber mills than of any
other classes The distribution of our
granite, ready to be wrought into
building material, our clay and sand
for the manufacture of brick and tile
| is as broad dis the boundaries of the
State; and although our limestone and
slate deposits are less extensive there
is sufficient of these materials within
our borders to make them practically
| ineXhaustiblc.
| ''Thc textile industries are proftably
| carried on in Maine and are capable
| of great expansion. The packing of
sardines and the curing of fish are ex-
| tensive industries but have by no
| means reached their limit. The man
ufacture of shoes and clothing gives
| employment to thousands of our peo-
| pie and scores of other Industries,
great and small are bound to expand
as the country increases in popula-
| ton.
"One of the industries which should
appeal to the young men of moderate
| means is agriculture. There probably
| is no State in the Union where good
! farming land can be purchased at so
| low a price as in Maine, and no State
where the leading crops average
yield so large or a value per acre so
| high as in this State. In the raising
of potatoes Maine easily leads all
| other states. In 1908 the crop in
Maine averaged 225 bushels per acre:
Utah, the state having the second
highest yield. averaged 100 bushels
per acre; while the yield for the whole
country averaged So 10 per acre.
Maine raised 26, 100000 bushels on 49,
900 acres. while New York, the only
state producing more potatoes than
Maine, raised "a, 800. 900 bushels on 425,
900 acres. an average of 81 bushels per
acre. Eight states planted larger
acreage chan Maine. The average
farm value of potatoes in Maine on
December | was nearly 10 cents per
bushel below the average for the whole
country. yet an average acre in Maine
was worth $137.25; in Utah. $50; and
for the entire country, $6049.
"Orchardng, dairying. market gard
ening. the raising of live stock. poul-
try. small fruits, etc. when carried on
in a proper location and with the
energy and intelligence usually given
to mercantile and commercial pur-
suits. are as certain to produce as
profit able results.
Never since the early settlement OF
The State, when land was practically
given to actual settlers. has there
been 50 great demand for farm and
farm lands as has existed within the
last few years. While for generations,
a large number of farms in the state
could be purchased for less than the
cost of the buildings, in recent years
prices in many sections have IN
creased while in others farms can
vet be bought at nominal price. In
some of the best potato sections on
the Aroostook river the prices OF
farms have gone 50 high as t" d"
rrohjbitjvc to Il prospective purchaser
unless he already possesses COM
potency. yet in most any other sec
| ton of the State the prices are low
wien compared with most other sec
tons of the country.
according to present indications
the state of Maine will in the near
future not only largely increase as
manufacturing state but will become
the leading agricultural State in New
England, cxcelling in dairy and or
| chard products as it now exceeds
| nearly every other state in the Union
| in the production of potatoes
1
a petition was received at the Office OF
| the secretary of State yesterday praying
| that the Governor and Council grant a
pardon or Communication of the sentences
| which Thomas Forth is serving in Au-
| burn Jail, Androscoggin county. for viola
ton of the prohibitory law. John r.
! Slatterv of Lewiston is the counsel for
the petitioner and the case will probably
| be assigned Il hearing at the next meet
| ing of the Governor and Council
The petitioner represents that he mas
been convicted of certain offenses against
| the prohibitory law of the state OF
| Maine and that he is now conilhed III
| Auburn Jail. in the county of Androscog'
| gin on mittimuses issued by reason OF
| said convictions which demand the pay
ment of fines aggregating $500 or i'm
| prisonmcnt aggregating eight months IN
the event that said fines are not paid
that upon one of said mittimuses upon
4 which the petitioner was committed tc
Jail fine of 500 was imposed. and in ad
dition to said fine term of four months
Imprisonment was added and in tbs
event of on-payment of said fine fur
Their imprisonment of four months wa:
imposed: that upon said mittimus he was
committed to Jail Feb. g. 1910, He fur
Their represents that he is a sufferer from
tuberculosis. which has been aggravated
since his Imprisonment, and that further
imprisonment will seriously endanger hi:
health: that he believes that he has al
ready been sufficiently punished Where
fore he respectfully petitions that he ma,
be granted a full pardon for his offenses
or such Communication of sentences as may
be deemed reasonable and just.
Announcement was made Wednesday
at the office of the Board of Railroad
Commissioners of the receipt of the re-
ceipt of petition from the Municipa