The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-08-24

chickens Matched about Aprilf 20.
These various agricultural sputsuits
will be sure to interest the people
on their trip September End. \
A few minutes more brought the
Farm Bureau officers and their COM
panions to the homestead farm of
Walter II Ring in Cambridge. This
place contains $50 acres, 80 acres of
it being in tillagc. Both Mr.. and
MIS-. Ring and Mrs. Glen Ring were
at home and received their visitors
with much cordiality. This is an
other pleasant farm residence. Mr..
Rings father and grandfather lived
there before him. Daniel Ring came
there from Litchfield 80 years ago.
Mr.. W. IL. Wing built the present
two story house and greatly improv-
ed the barn by thirty foot addition
and the building of manure pit 20
80 feet. Two acres OF Monmouth
Flint corn, six acres of oats and six
or seven acres OF potatoes are the
main crops growing on the estate this
year. Dairying Is ebof 4the lead
ing projects, there being eleven grade
Jerseys, four Guernseys, three OF
which are registered and one regist
cred Guernsey bull. Nine White
Chester hogs are also kept on the
place. Glen Ring, Mr.. Rings son,
has owned another farm situated in
Cumbridge village butt on the very
day OF our visit, he had sold por
ton OF that place 10 Coburn Ray
mond For lack Of time, the ira
vellers could make only door yard
call at the Ring home and after a
ten minutes stay, the party moved on
toward Harmony. There will be
much to see by the tourists at the
Ring establishment and the valuable
results to be gained from the use OF
Il manure pit will doubtless be re-
hcarsed during the visit there.
The journey was continues through
splendid farming section and down
thru Cambridge village, an attractive
settlement with inviting scenery sur
rounding it. High up on one of the
hills the fine estate of Sumner Hamn
was visible thru the trees and it was
to be regretted that more of the fine
farms could not be visited in that
section. The newspaper man paus-
ed for a minute at the farm OF b. j.,
Folsom, who is now milking Is cows,
quite a percentage of which are pure
bred IIolsteins Mr.. Folsom was
away but his hired man was feeding
some fine looking millet to the
stock as we arrived. The Folsom
farm buildings are lighted with the
Delco Lighting System and the tic
up is equipped with tanks Of water
in each stall. Mr.. Folsom has six
work horses and in The poultry de-
partment there are 100 hons and 200
chickens of the Rhode Island Red
single comb strain. About one hun
dred tons Of hay have been harvested,
some five acres of corn are growing
and six acres of potatoes.
The hour was nearing two o'clock
and as yet the travellers had not
dined. Telephone communications
had been established with Miss Eva
Furbush Of Harmony for the midday
meal, SO on we pushed to that hust-
ling little town. Miss Furbush was
waiting for US and her immaculate
dining room ana best of food was
tempting indeed. Miss Furbush
conducts small hosiery and while
the newspaper man had heard Of her
skill as a cock, he was hardly pre-
pared for the generous supply of sub
stantial ana dainty dishes with which
she served her guests. 1t was a
pleasant visit III Miss Furbush's home
by the river side and the newspaper
man for one, at least, hopes that it
will not be the last. Miss Furbush's
home has always been in Harmony
and one of the best things that can
be said about this hospitable lady
is that AZ years of her life were spent
with her mother. After minute
spent in admiring the beautiful little
mclodian which has long graccd the
homestead, even tho it has been sue
cecded by modern piano, for must
cal purposes, goodbyes were said and
with wave of our hands, we Chug
ged on out of the village ON our way.
Much has been said of thes progress
of Harmony in the last few years and
there is everything to Indicate that
this progress has not been over cSt-
mated. Bartlett's new wooden mill
is practically completed and work has
been resumed there. There is a
fine looking school building and two
fine churches which from their out
side appearance at least, indicate that
the citizens arc liberal supporters Of
religion.
The noxt village we reached was
Athens and after short pause at the
pleasant home of Mr.. and Mrs. l..
A. Stinchfield on Elm street, and a
word of greeting with Or. Ellingwood
near his big estate, Elmwood Lawn
tho party continued down into Corn
Vile, arriving at George Fosters big
farm at A Is p. m. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. Foster were away but the OH
ers of The Farm Bureau were CORDIAL
ly received by. Floyd Goodail, VINO
is employed there. Mr. Goodall IN
formed us that Mr. Foster had about
forty head of cattle. Included are
fifteen magnificent pure bred Guern-
soys and 81 head of young stock.
There are two registered Guernsey
bulls bought this spring from West
view Farms of Pawling, N. Y, be-
side tho herd sire. Mr.. Foster has