Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
Maine Gossip
Cut on the Farm.

this time o year;
Lambs and calves are gotun' risky,
birds begnnin' to appear;
Down along the stream the willows have
sort of golden glow,
And the hens ara cackln' loudly and the
ROSTERS proudly crow:
Little colts with tails ai curly hoist
their hind legs in the air,
And the farmer gets up early to begin
his duties there.
Out upon the farm it's splendid just
49,, about TINS time In spring,
When the Winters gloom Is ended and
there's cheer in everything.
Larks and robins busy Singin', black
birds ehirpin in the trees,
And II cheerful promise whispered out
OF passin breeze:
Squirrels Scootin' on the fences, fields all
gettin' green once more;
Every day the world commences to look
finer than before.
Out upon the farm it's lovely Just along
about this time:
There, are new nests in. the hedges, and
the wheat is lookin' prime;
All the streams are gladly gurglin where
the pebbiy shadows are.
At the gate a pig is tryin to break
through the lower bar;
Round the gables swallows dartin'
stubbles turnin' dry and brown.
But the work out there is startin', and /
guess III stay in town.
S. Z. Kiser in Chicago Reeord-Herald.
East New sharon is a great place
for white ash, writes correspondent.
For 4 years every winter big lot of
shovel blocks have been hauled and
this winter IS no exception. Allie Wat.
son has got out 1n3 dozen shovel
blocks; Harry York has get out 40 dnz-
en- and George Follett quite number
of dozen, and still more ash is left.
Bangor News: The Bangor Board of
Health is something's called upon. to in
restieatc peculiar eases. Such a one
developed recently. when Il man was
round living in decided squalIr IA
from any nelghhors and with no COM
panions than n flock Of doves, numer-
ons hens and eat. which shared his
ill-ventilatea shack. The man was bad
~ frost-bitten, and he was taken te
The city farm. What makes the case
rather remarkable is that investigation
showed him to have 4 bank account of
$1,000, and To be the owner of neat
little cottage which rented for S15 n
month
Peaobscot saw mills are getting an
carly start this spring, says the Bdn
COR News, the Encel mill at Webster
having begun saving last Thursday
while the big plant Of the Eastern Mig.
Go. at South Brewer will begin opera
lions ON Monday, April I. The steam
mill of William Engel & Co. at East
Hampden Will start April Il to 80, the
Stems Lumber Co. at East Hampaen
between April % and May |. and Morse
IL Co, Bangor, about April l.. The Sar-
gent mill in South Brewer will be OPP
Grated this year by the Patton Lumber
Co. Of Albany. y. y. under the man.
agement of Don A. Sargent. This mill
has considerable quantity of pine
legs, and some other stock that WAS
cut around Brewer pond last winter.
Reports frem the woods continue To
tell Of logs left on the yards, because
OF lack Of snow on which To haul them
TO the landings, and the aggregate thus
left behind will amount probably to
5e0a,66 or e,o00 600 feet. II is thought,
however, that very nearly the average
quantity of logs will come down in the
penopscot drives this spring, and Pc
nobscot boom officials expect that the
rafting will he close to last years fig
Brunswick Record; Forty-t three hens
owned by Blaise Gamache laid 773 eggs
during the month Of March, an average
of practically 25 eggs a day. The rec
ord for January, February and March
was 1893 eggs. For the thirty one DAYS
of March the record for each day was
as follows, 20, &c, &C. 10, 20, 80, 27, a, 10,
"a, 80. n, %, 80, %. 90. "a, "a, % q,
IS, q, %, &c, 25, Il, 81, 26. IA
Bert Chambers neighbors, says the
East Burnham correspondent of the
Pittsfield Advertiser are wondering
what will happen next at Hilltop Farm.
His little daughter on entering COM
plant to her mother last Saturday of
hearing a sound which she claimed was
something like a chicken would make,
her mother on investigating an old ash
barrel nearly full Of ashes which had
heen covered all winter found a moth
erless chicken. They are wondering now
il came there as there have not been
any setting hens there this winter To
their knowledge. Neighhers are Won
dering why ashes wouldn't. be cheaper
10 TaiSt tHclT ctlckeHS with tHdH HENS,
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Biddeford Record ''Jae k,Hs Chief En-
gineer Charles B.i Bonser's' educa ted
parrot, is dead. The bird became i'll.
Sunday, and although everything posi-
BILE was done in an attempt to prolong
his life, grew steadily Worse until
Thursday morning, when he died.
Jack" was a very old parrot, a good
talker and pet of the family, end his
death occasioncd almost rs much sor-
row as that of Il child would have done.
He had been in the .I!onser family for
46 years.
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