Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-08

Waterville. This tree is situated close
to the main part of the business sec
ton and lust off Main street. Unlike
the tree at Norridgewock it is in a
preserved state and possesses all of its
parts, where the tree at Norridge-
wock has lost all but the trunk. The
tree in Waterville is over eight feet in
diameter and the main part extends
about twelve feet into the air and
then branches off into two large limbs
one of them being nearly four feet in
diameter. 1t is a tall willow and the
branches spread at tie top nearly 40
feet and extend we'll out ovefs the
roadway The ree5is said to be over
100 years old.
Civil Engineer Taylor who superin-
tended the putting in of the village
water plant at Bingham has investi-
gated the water supply situation at So-
lon village. He advises the use Of wa
ter from Baker Pond, estimating the
cost at between $4,000 to s50.eOG. while
a drilled-well supply would cost some
what less.
the pouItryman has to contend with is
that OF Matching and rearing chickens
to renew his flock. 1t is safe to say
that more commercial plants go bank
rupt over this difficulty in hatchiing
and rearing than from any other one
cause. Fer some years past the Maine
Agricultural Experiment Station has
been devoting attention to this sub
ject and has been endeavoring to find
out whether il was not possible to
overcome most of the common troubles
OF this sort by breeding into a flock
of poultry such a high degree of con-
stitutional vigor and vitality that the
eggs would hatch and the chickens live
and grew under any reasonable eondi-
tons of management. What success
has been obtained in this direction up
on the Experiment station poultry
plant is indicated by tbs fact that IN
the Matching season OF 1911, which by
common report Of poultrymen all over
the country was an unusually bad sea-
son for Matching and rearing, il took
on the average but rs eggs in the i'm
Iclbator to produce one chicken. A sam
of one single high laying bird is illu-
minating as showing the possibilities
of breeding hatchability of eggs and
INABILITY of chickens into a strain OF
poultry. From this bird there were in
cubated in the spring OF 1911 60 egg
Only two Of these eggs were infertile
and of the IS eggs left 10 empryos died
in the shell and 4S Matched into good
strong healthy chickens. OF these IL
chickens Matched only died before
reaching maturity. All of these died
within three weeks after they were
Matched. This left a total of AZ adult
chickens from 50 eggs put into the in
cubator after all loss from infertility
dying i'll the shell and chick mortality
has been deducted. When the condition
Of the stock in respect to vitality and
constitutional vigol is such as TO make
it possible to hatch and rear chickens
III this way, there is no reason why
there should not be profit in the chick
en- business
The people in South Scion have been
somewhat aroused in the last few DAYS
in the rumers that an escaped convict
from Massachusetts was in hiding at a
saw mill and barn there. The affair is
being investigated and officers have
been notified. The matter grew out Of
an alleged revelation made by a clair
voyant. A farmers wife in that vicin-
lily visited the elairvoyant several days
ago was told that a man had escaped
from an asylum or prison in Masse-
chusetts, had come to Maine thinking
this State was all woods, but found
that II wasn't aud that he was hiding
IN her barn. This farmers wife thought
40 more of the matter until few DAYS
later she was in augusta when a wom-
an there from Massachusetts said that