Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-11
JUICY SIRL0|N
WHICH CAN Be
CUT WITH! | FORK
Maine Boys and Girls
Baby Beef Club to
Market Dec. IA
Sunday, December 81 to be
Baby Beef Day-Orders
Taken Through State Cham
Der of Commerce - Angus
Calves in fine Condition

Here it is at last. Maine raised
beef. To the boys and girls OF
Cumberland and Sagadahoc counties
must be given the credit for helping
to solve the great problem of the
East-that of feeding itself.
Last January ON a raw Sunday
morning the Boys and Gills' Baby
Beef Clubs of Cumberland aud Saga
Cahoc COUNTIES quietly un!oaded n
carload of over fifty head Of sleek
coated, jet MACK, handsome Aber-
Angus calves, just arrived from
tile West.
A finer bunch oe calves ne~.r came
into this StatA and they were pur-
chased for the State Chamber of
Commerce by Philip Il. Park, chair
man Of the Live Stock Committee.
The calves wt,s distributed omorS
the boys ard girls from PCwnal,
Yarmouth, Cascc, Gorham. Scarho7'
and New CT ,ucesser in Cumrcrland
county; AMI in Richmond II Saga
dahoc COUNT.
The calves, a.! off spring o. pure
old, and weighed close to 451 pounds.
Mr. Park, :ieing unable &C secure
credit for the boys and giriS at the
Portland 5a ks, took their notes
| himself. TAG caves cost ao1ut $40
each and and S30r in prizes was Of
fered to make the competition kcener.
The boys and ;s;,ls have been hard
~ N 1vHc fn~ rlV
a year, and last fall made some fine
showings q: The various fans. The
calves have Eccn all corn fed. and
Mr.. Park AID his farm manager, DR..
Karl j. Sc like. FOR eight years i'll
charge of the department of Animal
Husbandry ct Cornell and for two
years Ficll REPRESENTATIVE Of the
Aberdeen Angus Association. agreed
that the sttcis were in thu finest
condition.
William > Hunter, Industrial
Agent Of the Maine Central, has Of
fcrcd a series Of prizes for tic boys
and girls in connection with tic
sale.
rians arc being made by NJ. PlrlI
III SOilIlCCtIOit Will &httiuScA iii'i
W. Blake of the State Chamber of
Commerce for the sale of these cattle
at auction, December IS. Some of the
steers will weigh close to 1900 pounds
and arc in prime condition. The g:.'s
have not been at all beaten by the
boys for. their calves are all show 1g
up finely. The animals will DC
81 III
and will be in condition to cut up. and
sell the last week in December.
Sunday. December 81 has been de-
clared Baby Beef Day., the day
when every family who wishes TO
encourage the boys and girls in their
beef raising efforts will serve it I
their tables. This is one of the faw
opportunities Maine people will ha e
to obtain real prime holiday babT
beef, now slaughtered in Chicago. oitt
on account of its tremendous de-
mand very little of it ever gets "r~t.
Solves Abandoned Farm Problem
when Maine farmers get to rails
ing their own beef and also produc-
ing the corn with which to tattcn it,
we shall have solved the question of
what to do with our abandoned
farms ana also will be helping to
feed New England" says Mr.. Park.
Six farms in all. one of which was
abanuo3-I and others of which were
but little cultivated, are used by Mr.
Park in his raising of Polled Angus
cattle in jefferson
"Tno abandoned farm is something
that affects everybody, for when a
farm is abandoned there are three
distinct losses: the customer, the
producer. and the loss in taxes which
somebody else must pay. In Lincoln
county. where | am carrying on farm
operations there has been a decrease
of nineteen per cent in farms be-
tween 1900 and 1920. while the per
capita tax. has increased from S31
TO $50, which shows how the loss
in Cuc.'c ''rc as increases the tax
cs of other people in the county," Mr..
PARK, added.