The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-17

The cabin launch, Lucie E.,owned by Hon +
Walls of Vinalhaven, which went ashore in ~
storm of July % h and was reported wrecked
proved to have sustained very little damacs
She remained on the shore until last WOO.
when Mr.. Geo. A. Gilchrest Aoated ~
and had her towed to Belfast where sb,
was taken out on the marine railway Fri
day afternoon. few of her floor timber,
were started, causing her to leak but she sus
tanned no other damage. and even the canva,
awning over the cockpit remained standing
| W. A. Macomber has made the necessary 70.
pairs.
BUSINESS CHANGES. Some important bust
ness changes took place last week, First. il
became known that Edgar l.. Harding and
Colby A. Rackliffe had bought the hardware
business of Albert C. Burgess. and later tina,
they had bought out Capt. John W. Jones and
would continue business in the two stores q.
which they had taken leases for ten years. The
Burgess business was established in 1868 and
occupies three floors and basement, The
Jones store is somewhat smaller, and in con.
nection with it the Hilton store, few doors
below, bought recently by Capt. Jones, has
been used for storage. The goods from this
store will be moved to the other stores, and
both will be kept open until fall, when perma-
nent arrangements will be made. Mr.. Burgess
will retire from active business. Capt, Jones
has not announced his intentions. He will
take vacation, but is too active man to re-
main idle long After many years as COM
mander of vessels in the coasting trade he has
had very successful business career, and if
so inclined could afford to take life easily. The
new firm of Harding & Rackliffe will start with
the best wishes of everybody Mr.. Harding has
been clerk in the Jones store for 10 years
has been the buyer for the past 10 years, is very
popular,a land equally efficient as buyer and sales
man. MIR. Rackliffe is young man of sterling
qualities and well equipped for business
career. The new firm will retain the services
of Gardner w. Lane, who has been employed
in the Jones store for the past five years and
is thoroughly conversant with the business.
EGGS is EGGS. The Boston Transcript fig
ures out very profitable season for those en-
gagged in the egg business. 1t says:
This years egg season, in which eggs are
plentiful and cheap is waning. Egg yields
are diminishing and prices going up. Hens
are beginning to take rest. In the local
market the best eggs range between IS and 40
cents dozen and if there is any change in
this price before next spring it will be by up
ward movement. Whether this increase in
price comes too early in the season is an open
question, answered differently according to
what point of view is assumed. Some of the
facts are plain. AS eggs have been unusually
cheap during the summer the consumption has
been large. During the first six days in
March the receipts at Boston amounted to 49,
927 cases. Then the small farms began to
send their products to the market as they had
more than they needed for home consumption,
and the Boston receipts for the first six days
in April went up to 47,901 cases. Prices tum-
bled but eggs continued to arrive in larger
quantities In the corresponding days of May,
66096 cases arrived then the tide turned and
59,637 cases was the total for the first six days
in June, this going down to 33,sS9 in the cor
responding days of July, and the August re-
celpts may be about the same. From June 5,
for example, the daily receipts fell off from
1922 cases to APO on August 1st When
eggs were low they went into cold storage, and
the present supply is $4,000 cases larger than
that OF the corresponding day last year.
There is no shortage of eggs now, nor any I'M
usual demand, but it is customary to raise the
price about this time. In fact the increase
began about two months ago, and in some of
the large stores went w only cent at time.
Still it is lower now than it was at the same
time last year, perhaps due in part to the fact
CURING TOBACCO. The gathering, or har
vesting or whatever term is proper - of
the tobacco on Pearl Brook Farm began
last week. The larger leaves were taken and
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they were attached to a stick about feet
long and then hung up in the drying house, care
being taken that the leaves do not touch each
other. Some particulars from the cyciopedia
will be of interest in this connection: The
value of the tobacco plant is wholly in the
leaves and every care is taken to increase
their size and to concentrate the strength of
the plant upon them. The best rise from the
ground, Or from the stem near the ground, al
though the flower stem rises from three to six
feet, and if left for seed the upper leaves are
retained, though less valuable. Usually, the
usual height, the operation being called ''tcp-
ping" The leaves, as we'll as all parts of the
plant, are covered with viscid down. and
resinous emulation appears they mature
adding to their weight and thickness. When
the plants are matured the process usually is
to cut the whole stem close to the ground
sometimes splitting very large plants, and re-
moving them to an open shed or partial shell
ter for preliminary drying They are some
times hung on poles, and sometimes thrown in
heaps for partial sweating or curing, the
leaves being then stripped, and further dried
or cured before packing fer market. If the
leaves are fermented before being stripped,
they are then stripped and dried more readily
and tied in bundles for packing Much de-
ponds on the state of the weather during cut
ting and curing; usually some weeks are re-
quired to perfect the drying in the curing
house, and the tobacco barns or curing houses
are prepared to use artificial heat if the
weather is damp and COOL Sometimes a sec
ond curing or sweating is resorted to before
the final manufacture, and some fanciful views
have been put forth as to the changes effected
in the constituent principles by successive
lamentations.
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