Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-05-25
Maine Gossip
The Isle of the Lona Ago.

How the winters are drifting like flakes
| And the summers like buds between;
| And the Year. in the sheaf--so they come
l and they go
| On the Rivers breast with its ebb and
| flow,
AS they glide in the shadow and sheen.
There's a magical Isle up the River Time
Where the softest of airs are playing:
| There's a eloudless sky and tropical
| And a voice as sweet as vesper chime
| And the Junes with the roses are stay
ing.
And the name of this Isle is the Long
And we bury our treasures there:
There are brows of beauty and bosoms
They are heaps of dust, but we loved
them so!
There are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There are fragments of song that nobody
sings,
| There's a harp unswept and lutte with
out strings,
There are broken vows and pieces of
And the garments that SIZE used to
wear.
There. are hands that are waved when
the fairy shore
| BY the mirage is lifted in air;
| And we sometimes hear through the tur-
bulent roar
Sweet voices we heard in the days gone
When the wind down the River is fair.
oh. remembered for aye be the blessed
All the day of our life till night.
And when evening comes with its beauu-
| And our eyes are closing in slumber
May that Greenwood" of soul be
benjamin f. Taylor
f. r. Daggett, the well known mar
ket gardener of Topsham, has been
lappointed State vice president of the
Vegetable Growers Association of
America. This association, was or
ganized in 1908 and includes in its
membership leading vegetable grow
ers and truckers from all sections OF
the United States and Canada. 1t is
exerting a strong influence in its
field of activity and through its week
|ly publication, the Market Growers
Journal, and its annual meetings Is
producing a better understanding oil
growing and marketing methods
throughout the country The last
annual convention was held in Boston
last September. The 1912 convention
will be in Rochester. September 4, .
and 6.
Mrs. Lizzie n. Kimball of Skowhe-
gan has made what she believes IS
the record hatch of chickens this sea
son. She made three sittings of eggs
of Plymouth Rock breed which made
I42 eggs and from these she got 40
chicks. Two eggs We're infertile. She
| put 16 eggs under a Black Eagle hen
and got l6 chicks. She claims that
her success is due TO the fact that
few days before the chicks hatched
she sprinkled the eggs with water.
York correspondence reports agri-
cultural conditions in optimistic vein;
Farmers are predicting a big hay
crop. They say the outlook was new
er brighter than at present. The OLE
fields are looking green and every
thing points to a good crop in every
part of York county. The season is
more backward in many ways than
for a dozen years. The ground is wa
ter soaked from the 40 days rain.
Many farmers have not finished their
plowing Gardens in many localities
will not be planted until the last week
| In this month. Farmers will not plant
as many potatoes as they intended
earlier in the season because the
prices of seed potatoes is almost pro-
hibitive They will not pay s1.eo for
seed potatoes. the highest price for
quarter of a century.
A merger of apple growing inter-
ests in and about Norway threatens
to revolutionize that industry, or, as
an exchange declares, promote rev.
olution in this hitherto quiet section"
The application has been sent to the
Secretary of State for charter to or
ganize the Pennessewassee Fruit
Growers Association. This is a co.
operative association of apple men
whose sole purpose is to grade. pack
and ship apples honestly. They Will
hire manager who is a disinterested
person to grade. pack and ship their
apples. Wilson Conant of the Oxford
Bears came down and helped them
organize. They will use their name as
a trade mark and pack their apples
and mark them just what they are. IT
marked fancy No. Ones that is what
they will be. And No. Twos the same
They expect to get as much for the
seconds as they have heretofore got
for the firsts and make enough profit
on the best to make a good profit.
The new association plans to buy
necessities, such as fertilizer and
chemicals, spraying compounds and
machinery as they may need. With
the oxford Bears already organized in
this county the outlook for better
money in the orchard business is
bright.