Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-08-29
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The potato shipping season of 1915
1917 is here. The farmer mas peer
busy since spring planting and cult.
waiting and now he is gathering the
results of his labor and will soon know
what the harvest will be.
The members of the farmers unions
are now turning their attention to the
marketing problem and renewed activ-
ity on a larger scale than ever before
is being noted. The State has been
divided into divisions as follows:
Aroostook division, Eastern division,
Central division, Western division and
oxford division.
The Aroostook division composes all
that territory included in Aroostook
county except Wytopitlock which is in
the Eastern division. The Eastern di-
vision includes all territory along the
Vanceboro line east of Bangor. The
Central division reaches from Bangor
to Augusta and the Western division
extends from Augusta to kittery. The
Oxford division is oxford county.
Guy c. Porter of Houlton will be in
charge of the Aroostook division. and
Fred A. Bulge Of Mattawamkeag will
have charge of the Eastern division.
and General Manager Embree will keep
supervision over the other divisions
From now on the general managers
office will be very busy. for every year
shows rapid gains in the operations of
the unions. Last week in company
with F. A. Bulge, Manager Embree
vision for the purpose of assisting the
locals in perfecting their plans Some
radical changes were made which place
the whole division in a position to sue
cessfully conduct their shipping opera
tions.
New Unions Organized.
On Monday afternoon Messrs. EN-
bree and Bulge organized the Kingman
Farmers Union under the laws of the
State with officers as follows: Presi-
dent. A. A. Patch. Kingman, Me: vice
president. Ray Thompson, Prentiss.
Me-; clerk, P. E. Averill, Prentiss. Me-;
treasurer. Vinal Judkins, Kingman.
Directors: A. A. Patch, A. r. Thomp-
son, Vinal Judkins, George ORoke,
Charles Allen, A. S. Leighton, Fred
Shannon.
This union will operate at their
house in Kingman with A. r. Thomp-
son as manager
On the 22d Messrs. Embree and
Bulge returned to North Lincoln and
organized the North Lincoln farmers
union with officers as follows: Presi-
dent. Ellis Stone, Lincoln Center, Me;
vice president, E. E. Crocker, Lincoln
Center, Me-; treasurer and clerk. B. c.
Hammond, Lincoln Center, Me- Di-
rectors: Ellis B. Stone. Willis Ham,
mond w. A. Arthers. w. E. Clark, E.
E. Crocker. c. r. Sweet, r. E. Corbert.
Running capital to the amount of
$500 was pledged and the union is now
in position to start operations from
their house in North Lincoln.
The Crop Outlook
The crop outlook in the Eastern di-
vision is flattering and the unions look
for a successful season. From this
section Manager Embree went to
Aroostook and there got in touch with
crop and shipping conditions The
farmers are busy marketing the early
varieties and the result shows about
100 barrels to the acre. While some
OF the spuds are running small, the
quality is very fine and the early crop
will show good returns. The late va
rieties it is feared will not make as
good showing. Fields that a few
days ago looked fine are now showing
late rust and the tops are going down
rapidly. This condition does not oh
tain in all sections. but it is safe to
predict that the late crop will be dis
appointing. The best outlook appears
to be in and about Easton. where the
rust has held off better than in and
about Presque Isle.
The potato grower had many prob
lens with which to contend this sea-
son. The greater portion of the cron
was planted without potash and This
has kept the farmers guessing as TO
what the harvest would be. II ,s
little early to determine the value as
between potash and no potash, but that
the helds treated with potash will WELD
better than those without potash is
certain.
f. A Adams of Easton has exploded
al theorles In raising potatoes The
writer visited field owned by Mr..
Adams and inspected the 10th consecu-
i've crop of potatoes grown on this
neld. Mr. Adams method is to treat
the soil with eight loads of dressing
and 100 pounds Of commercial fer.
tliizer Of the grade of 5-s-7 until this
year when he used a grade analyzinp
per cent in potash. The maximum
yield was 1876 barrels and the minimum,
100 barrels The appearance Of this
lield at this time is better than anv
neld visited and it will be interesting
70 note the number of barrels har-
vested this season. It was interesting
70 note that the fields treated with
barnyard dressing are not afflicted with
late rust to the extent noted in the
neIds chemically treated.
On Saturday Manager Embree. r r
Austin, manager of the F. U. G. e. 8
Company. and G. o. Holway made
visit to the Turner farmers union.
This Is new but progressive union.
On the 29th Messrs. Embree and Hol.
way will visit Eliot. and on the 3oth
West Paris