Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-17
For Farmers Of Maine
| Says ,Ex Conn. Gilman.
Inducements 10 Those Interested
IN Any Line Of Agriculture.
Statistics Of Interest Regarding
= kenHebec and Somerset Cos.

A great deal of definite and inter-
esting information regarding agricul-
tural resources and productions of the
State is contained in a supplementary
report OF the department of agricul-
ture compiled b. A w. Gilman of
Foxcroft short time before his re-
tirement from the Office of commits
sioner of agriculture. Mr.. Gilman in
his Introduction says: mo state can
offer a more promising future to the
farmers than Maine. Farm land can
be purchased at reasonable price
and In some parts of the State at
very low price. The opportunities are
not limited to one kind of farming,
but they are diversified and offer an
indueement to one interested in any
line of agriculture. Railroads give
excellent service. furnishing ample
transportation to home and outside
markets. Names 20 .cities and excel
Lent summer resorts furnish home
market that is unsurpassed"
DR.. George NJ. Twtchell of Auburn
in a contributed article to the report
under title, THE Agriculture of
Maine" says: THE agricultural
strength of Maine lies in its diversified
possibilities. Maine cannot produce as
many acres of corn as Iowa or Kan
sas. but she can distance either in
Weld per acre. Maine has not the
prairies for pasturage, but she has the
silos where the succulent food there
wasted can be converted into beet al
a profit The peculiar adaptability OF
Maine soil to the growing Of potatoes
is seen in the rapid increase both in
volume per acre and total output.
Today all the older counties are rap
idly increasing the acreage and fuzzy
eaualling Aroostook. On the hills of
Kennebec county six acres gave 2I5O
bushels with practically no deeayed
potatoes In fact in all the counties
it has been no uncommon thing to re-
cord 300 bushels per acre The high
est State yield outside of Maine is
New York. where the average is 125
bushels per acre. Here it has been
225 bushels for years and the average
is steadily increasing. The potato
crop OF 1910 in Maine Appropriated
35.000,090 bushels of which one-haif
were produced in Aroostook county"
Former State Dairy, Instructor. r.
w Redman in touching upon Maine
udlTy ing says. LAIR SlnS III -"oi'S
has advanced rapidly during the last
few years, though a shortage OF
. crops in the summers of 1907 and 1908
caused decrease in the total number
OF COWS in the State. There is an in
creasing demand for milk, cream, but
ter. cheese and dairy stock at good
prices. Maine enjoys an extra good
market for sweet cream; market
which will take care of all that can
be produced with much larger num-
Der OF cows than We have at the pres
ent time. Milk and cream are both
being shipped in large quantities to
Southern New England for consump-
ton. both raw and pasteurzed. Some
butter is being made in private dair-
jes. but the demand is far greater
than the supply. Only few diaries
i'm Maine are making cheese. Some OF
the cheese makers received in the fall
of 1910 Is cents per pound for plain
cheese and rs cents per pound fol
sage and tansy cheese with all active
market. Dairy stock is scarce. very
good prices being paid for milking
cows. while young stock sells readily.
PA. Campbell. professor of anima
industry at the University Of Maine
indiscussing The Live Stock lndustr!
q Mama ,.r.s "a 8 lss se:ss 'ss ass'
in Maine should not 6a raised on thu
Marie farms. Maine is FAR bette'
adapted than many other states u