Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-29
Maine Has Better Farms
Than States West.
Insurance Commissioner Put.
MANS Annual Report.
Decrease Of Consumption In Maine
And Other Capitol News.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Mort Meeting Of Governor and Council,
Tuesday, Aug. 80, at 10 A, M.

The steel pillars that support the
dome of the Capitol are circled with
wooden frames and upon this frame
WORK is being fastened bent sheets ot
copper which transform the slender
steeL bars into bronze columns in eff
feet
proposed Better Fire Protection.
one matter that suggests itself RI
the mind of the Journals State House
scribe Is that. before the architect
completes his new Capitol improve
ments, he should devise better protec-
ton against destruction of life and
valuable records in the basement Of
fees occupied by the board of health,
There the windows are barred with
fixed steel gratings, like those of a
jail In case of fire breaking out
firemen could effect entrance and the
records be taken out only by the door
into the basement vestibule The fire
= might be. as there was a small one not
long ago in the waste paper car, in this
vestibule.
Two methods might be used to i'm
prove matters here, The bars could
be done away with making the base
ment less of a prison. or the bars. re-
gates. locked over night from within
In either case. in event of fire. the
health department folks could get out
through the windows and through the
same exits the important records might
be saved.
These records in the north office of
this department include. for one item,
the returns from Names town and city
oil Of oil i,th he
deaths since 1892. These records are
kept in large cabinets in drawers on
the original cards arranged in alpha
betical order. Previous to the insti-
tuition of this system by the health de-
partment of Maine in 1892. the hunting
up of such records was big job. A
State senator of the last legislature re-
marked that he once charged $50 for
searching up a birth record for a client.
Nowadays Maine citizen can secure
such information back to 1892 by APP
plying to the health department and
pay no fee.
Maine Beats the West!
The U. S Agricultural report shows
that the State of Maine farmers are
raising more crops per acre than those
in the much Wanted agricultural
Kansas as Boomer Lawry of the Pub
Lefty Dept. of the Labor Bureau tells
the Journal Man.
In Maine. for example, the potato
yield is 225 bushels per acre while that
of Idaho is 200 bushels and the aver
age for the country 1868 bushels.
Maine stands third in the number of
bushels raised per acre and third in
ali ,;t,tI in tnf1
acreage.
In Maine potatoes were worth
S1O575 per acre in December 1909 on
the farmers land. In Pennsylvania
5000, Michigan $3675. Idaho $96. and
the average for the country was only
$500.
Names corn crop was worth last
year $517. 900. the average harvest be-
ing 80 bushels to the acre.
In Illinois it was 359. Iowa BIB. Ne
,braska 24S. Kansas 1919 and Texas 49,
bushels per acre.
In Maine this crop on the ground OF
the farmer was worth $3o,4l per acre
against 1857 in Illinois. $l5.A III
Iowa. s124O in Nebraska. $1075 IN
Kansas and $t140 in Texas. while the
average for the country was $l5.2o.
October 1. 1909. corn in Maine was
selling at SIS cents the bushel at tue
farm against 50 cents i'm ILLINOIS, %
cents in Iowa. SIS cents in Nebraska %
cents in Kansas and "A cents in Iexas'
the average for the country being OIL
cents
All of which proves that the farmer
In Maine can raise more crops at
higher prices to the acre. than can d
farmer in these much advertised asrl-
cultural states of the South and west
In addition the farmer. here down
east. has the advantage OF living Ill u
land of educational and other au-
vantages which many of the Wes'er"
farmers do not enjoy.
At the state Library has been re-
ceived Theodore Roosevelts AFRICA"
Game Trails
Insurance Commissioner Beecher
Putnam has some $50 insurance Col"
panjes on his list in the state '"
Maine In New York there are more
than 400 of these companies
At the Educational Department the
Journal State House Man learns 'ra
new common schoolhouse VIII
built at Isle au Haul chiefly tnfoue "
the contributions and efforts Oh SUM
mer visitors.
In the Employees room III 'he
tol basement is the great. great iane
father of all frogs. From UP oi - :,
to where his tail would be. II ne no"
a tail. he measures nearly " Iee.- -
former years he resided in the ISL az" ,.o
Game Commissions office but there ne :,
made visiting sports think they na
the D. rs. This frog is the oisses@
croaker in Maine with the sole eAcep
ton of Democratic stump speaNo
Game Commission Department.
In a decision handed down SAY,
day Attorney General Warren e. rn"
brook of Waterville rules that IN we"
of the special resolves passed oy .ns
legislature for screening lakes ano
ponds. that it never intended tha'
there should be such liberal con-
struction of Chapter 145 of the puo"e
laws of 1909 as to authorize the com.
missioners to use any part or ina,
approximation for screening lakes aho