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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-17

Orono, July 16.-Miss Helen c.
Spaulding, formerly home demon
stration agent in York County has
been appointed clothing specialist OF
the Extension Service in Orono TO
succeed Miss Edna NJ. Cobb who re-
signed July /.
Miss Spaulding who received a E.
S. degree from Simmons College in
1913 has had wide experience to quail
ify her for her new duties. The year
following her graduation from Sim
mons in 1913, she was supervisor of
the Candy Kitchen in Boston. The
next year she was superintendent Of
the vesetable department in a labor
atory kitchen in Boston. In 1915 and
1916 she was superintendent Of break
fasts and salads in the laboratory
kitchen and in the fall Of 1916 she ran
q tea house at Medford, Mass. A part
of 1917 she served as Matron at
Grams Sanatorium in Rutland Mass.
The following two years she was Ma
iron at Oahn College, at Honolulu,
Hawaii.
In 1919 she returned to the United
States and took up the duties of home
demonstration agent in York County.
This position she held for tivc Yeas
at the end of which time she resign
cd to return to her home in Nashua,
New Hampshire.
Upon the resignation Of Miss Cobb,
she returns to Maine to act as Cloth e
ing Specialist. In her new position.
she will have charge of all clothing
work done by the Extension Service
in Maine and will work with the
home demonstration agents in each
county
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BLOOD SPOTS IN EGGS

Blood spots in eggs are due to the
rupture of small blood vessels in the
ovary or oviduct of the hen. These
small clots pass down the oviduct
along with the yolk and are included
in the egg. If these clots are local
lied, that is, confined to one small Sec
ton of the egg, they may be removed
when the egg is used and it's food
value will in no way be injured. If.
however. these spots are generalized,
that is, distributed throughout the en-
tire egg, 1t Is unfit for consumption.
These spots are apt to be numerous
at this season of the year.
If you have only slight trouble
along this line, it is due to the indi-
vidual weakness of hen or a few
hens and there is nothing which you
can do to stop it. BY all means, rig
up a Gambling apparatus SO you can
candle your eggs before selling them
and remove the eggs containing these
spots. This will save q number of
complaints from your customers, who
do not understand the cause of blood
spots and refuse to believe these eggs
are fresh.
The appearance of these spots, when
the eggs are candled. are as bright red
spots or streaks. They can be easily
detected, If they are of ordinary size
and the egg is twirled in front of the
candle. A bloody egg, or one in which
the spot is generalized, has a red tint
throughout.
However. If you have number of
cases of blood spots. there is evidently
something wrong in the feeding of
your flock, such as the feeding of a
forcing feed. or too much protein in
the mash. Numerous blood spots are
the result of forcing. I would advise
no more than 20 per cent of the mash
as meat scrap. If you are feeding
milk in any form in addition to this,
it would be wise to cut down on the
it entirely. or cut down TO about Is
per cent meat scrap. Allow your birds
plenty of range and green food.
The only way to prevent the spots
from appearing in the eggs is to watch
the feeding system carefully. At this
season. when the birds begin to slow
up in production, there is the tendency
either to increase the amount of mash
fed to the birds, or. by some, to in
crease the amount of meat scrap in the
mash, in an effort to maintain produc-
ton. 1t is not necessary nor adViSa
ble to do the latter, and the former,
i. e., increasing mash consumption by
cutting down the amount of grain fed,
should be done gradually and in mod
Grafton. If birds are fed at the rate
of or pounds of grain per day dur
ing July and or pounds during Au-
gust and September, and they are al
lowed to balance their ration at will
by free access to the mash, there
ought not to be any difficulty.
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WALDO COUNTY FARM NOTES

Every farmer to be successful, like
all builders for the future, must be
something of an optimist. He must
persevere in planting time, however
adverse the conditions may appear.
and if he does his part his Faith
will usually be rewarded at harvest
time
I thought of this, this morning, as
I took a walk through my fields cor
an inspection Of tho crops alter the
rain. Lodged places in the grass in
dictate that at least an average hay
crop viii be secured though late
Potatoes look fine. they have almost
leapad out Of the ground the past
week some are budded to blow and
no sign of the larva of the beetles
something unknown for the past 10
years at near the middle of July.
oats. peas, beans and tomatoes are
making a good growth and look
promising. Cucumber pumpkin and
squash vines are making a rank
growth and not a striped beetle has
been seen this season; that danger
is past. Other garden crops look
We'll The only crop below normal is
corn, II is very small for the time of
year but with warm September
there is hope Yet for a full crop. 1t
viii depend on a warm late autumn.
Strawberries arc late like other
crops and field Strawberries are very
small.
Pastures continue good and COWS
are giving a large flow of milk. Ow-
ing to the cool weather very few
horn flies have appeared yet and for
the same reason lice and mites ars
not troubling the hens and chickens
so much as usual.
Many peas were planted in the
northern section of Waldo county for
the canning factory at Unity and a
good crop seems almost assured AL
this writing. Many farmers consid-
er peas one of the surest and most
profitable crops to raise.
The outlook for apples is about
normal, better than last year. On
the whole it is a pretty good year on
the farms. Another thing for which
10 be thankful is the marked absence
OF tornadoes and severe thunder
storms. | can remember a year. I
thlnk II was about the 10th Of Nav
1880, that an observer standing on
a hill near Lewiston counted more
lhan dozen fires at one time. all
set by ENTHUSIASTICALLY. in this wear
OF Grace, 1926, we farmers of Maine
nave much to encourage us.-R. w
Howard, Montville.
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REGULARITY IN FEEDING MORE
IMPORTANT THAN IN MILKING

OF all dairy operations, milking on
most farms takes the greatest
amount of time, and to many per-
sons is the most irksome task. 1t
has commonly been assumed that cows
should not only be MIXED regularly
but also by the same man each time.
Doubtless this has had much to do
with the distaste many persons
have for dairy work.
Experiments by the United States
Department of Agriculture at the
experimental farm of the Bureau of
Dairying at Beltsville, Nd, show
that with COWS that are average to
good, milking may take place at ir-
regular hours without any marked
effect upon production. Whether
very high producers would show
similar results has not been deter
mined.
1t was found, however. that when
irregular milking was accompanied
by irregular feeding the production
was lessened about per cent. APP
parently COWS are more sensitive to
changes in the feeding routine than
to variations in the hours Of milk
ing. The conclusion is not to be
drawn from these experiments that
regularity in doing the dairy work
Is a TldLLer OIL liLll6 Importance, DuL
rather that COWS can occasionally be
MIXED earlier or later than usual if
there is something else to which the
dairyman desires to give his time.
Though it is generally believed
that cow will produce more when
MIXED always by the same person,
the practice in many large diaries
where there are several mixers is to
milk the COWS as they come, rather
than to reserve certain cows for
each man. At the bureaus expert
mental farm, IL cows were divided
into three groups of four cows each,
and each group was MIXED regularly
by the same man for 40 days. The
u cows were then MIXED by the
same three men in such way that
no COW was MIXED twice in success
sion by the same man. After 40
days the cows were changed to regu-
lar milking again for 40 days. The
results show an increase Of only
about about 0.05 per cent in the
milk and butter fat through steady
milking by the same man. This is
so little as to be almost negligible.
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growing. Halleck became a ALA.
that on August II he wired cI- ..lea
Pretty strong evidence is acc,,r.n ~
lating that there is a combins,lo.
formed or forming to make = ' fo..'
bic resistance TO the draft in "
York, pennsylvania, Indiana w
lucky, and perhaps some Of ths LII osn'
States. The draft must he enfo S.n!
for otherwise the army cannot I.
kept up. But to enforce il MAJ -
quire the withdrawal of a con.;s ~
able number of troops from tbo s'a,
This possible, and / think yerv I nro
bable, exigency must be nroy ~,
for" On August Is. Grant answe-eG
from the lines before Petersh,,r..
IF there is any danger Of an mrs
ing in the North to resist the d..
or for any other purpose our low
governors ought to organize the r.,I
tia at once TO resist 1t. five are =
draw troops from the field N tsso =
the loyal States in harness n 1n
prove difficult to suppress the rebsI.
hon in the disloyal States. Nv win
drawal from the James River womb
mean the defeat Of Sherman"
When Lincoln had read both ,.,.
grams he wired Grant. 81 have see,
your dispatch expressing your nm
willingness to break your hold wber.
you are. Neither am l willing Ho;S
on with bull dog grip and chew ana
choke as much as possible. A. Lin.
coin"
Was there ever finer example n,
political courage? The process n
wearing down the enemy must Of ne.
cessity be tedious and costly. 4
would not provide any such ouict
and dramatic success as would raise
the dropping spirits in the North ana
give favorable turn to a doubt.
full political situation. Lincoln's an.
sWer gave Grant just the reenforcs.
ment he needed, and was a firm de.
cision that what was militarilv rigtt
should be done without regard n
what was or might appear TO be no.
litically expedlent. ~
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Grange Highly Hon
Ored
President Coolidge and Secretary
Jardine Expected at Portland

President Coolidge and Secretary
Jardine Expected at Portland
That the session of the National
Grange in Portland, Me-. November
10-1S, will be the largest fraternal
gathering ever held within the Dor
ders of New England is assured by
the widespread interest manifest in
the event by grange people in every
one of the six states in the North
eastern group; while the affair takes
on added interest from the eXpecta-
ton that President Coolidge will be
present on Friday, November u, and
speak in the Portland municipal audi
torium that afternoon or evening.
William NJ. Jardine. National Secre-
tary of Agriculture, Will also be a
guest and speaker at the Portland
meeting, and has signitied his inten-
ton of being one of the candidates
for the seventh degree at that time.
When the National Grange last met
in New England, it was in November,
1920, Immediately following the ma
tional election which made CALVIN
Coolidge-then Massachusetts COVER
nor-vice- president of the United
States. and Mr.. Coolidge addressed
the Grange people in Mechanics
Building. Boston, more, than 5000
people joining in giving him a most
enthusiastic reception. His return
this year as chief executive of the ma
ton will be the signal for such a
greeting from the Grange members at
Portland as few public men have
ever received, and will make that city
a veritable New England Mecca on
November u.
Included in the class of seventh
degree candidates which the grange
Will initiate at Portland will be Uni
ted States senators, congressman and
some of the New England Governors,
already numbered actively in the
ranks of the grange. Many of these
distinguished guests will address the
sessions of the National Grange and
the big questions of the day will be
under frequent discussion.
For the entertainment of the thou
sands who go to Portland about
200 hotel rooms will be put at the
disposal of the visitors, while hun
dreds OF private homes will be thrown
open, under the direction of a thor
oughly organized housing committee.
All local arrangements are in the
hands of Perley c. Dresser of the
cottNe committee OF the Maine
State Grange, whose address is 1855
congress street, Portlt nd The
handling of the crowds. supervision
of auto parking and all similar details
at Portland, will be in the hands OF
Chief Arthur II. Field of the Maine
State Constabulary, Mr.. Field being
one of the prominent officers of the
Maine State Grange. In many New
England Grange communities the
members are planning to make up
auto bus parties and journey to Port
land in real neighborhood fashion.
while in other localities parties in
Guiding several automobiles will go
together as a motor caravan.
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upon the kind Of weather which pre-
walls during the growing season.
Don't forget the three essentials, a
good working machine, properly
mixed materials ard high pressure
on the nozzles.-E. L. NeWdick,
Chief Div. of Plant Industry.
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| considerably reduce the cost of pro-
| duction. Poultrymen whose plants
are situated in the country and also
most farmers are ideally located foI
growing capons.
In addition to the feed the capons
pick up on the range they should be
given a grain ration twice d day and
should constantly have access to 4
good dry mash. They should be cor =
lined to a small enclosure Tor about
two weeks before putting them on
the market and fed a special fat
| teninS ration to finish them up pro-
perry. 1t IS important TO have them
connned for this period as they will
accumulate fat more readily and the
flesh VIII be very tender and OF su-
perior quality.
In order TO completely empty their
crops CaponS should be confined for
tWenty-tour hours before killing
without feed and water. The stick
ing method is considered the best
method of killing. Vixen this meth
Cd is practiced The fowl is hung up
by the feet, the head held i'll the LETT
hand and the whole bouy stretched
TO full length. Force the mould.
open, then with very sharp, mar
row blaoed knlfe held in the right
mana, sever with a single sweep lne
blood vessel at the back of ths
throat. Then turn the knife ana
plunge the point through the roof to
point just behind and between the
el es Here the brain is reached and
all feeling is then lost if properly
STUCK. Inc muscles relax ana the
feathers come out easily.
picked they bring very little. They
should always be dry picked as tacy
are more attractive looking and britg
a better price. In picking capons 1t
Is important not to remove the feath-
ers from the neck and head. those
on the lower part Of the legs, the tail
feathers, those at the base OF the tail
and the feathers of the last two
joints oil the wings.
"A characteristic by which a capon
Is known is its head, so under no cir
cunStances should the head be re-
moved.
MoSt markets require capons to be
lett unoraWn and the feet and tie
mead left on. All blood and filth
should be cleaned from the head and
ieet. Care should be taken in pick
ing not to tear the skin. If bad tears
nave been made sew them I'D.
The carcasses after picking should
De hung in cool place until all the
animal heat has entirely left the
body. Then they are ready to be
packed In boxes or barrels of con-
Venlent size holding about a. 6o1er
carcasses each. OF course if ca
are shipped in warm weather they
should be packed in ice but in Janu-
afy' FEBRUARY and March the sea-
son IN which most capons are ship
pea, ice is not necessary.
Nothing helps the sale and price
or capons more than neatness and
attractiveness, so these should be
given special considera ton.
Besides the markets in our large
eastern cities where the demand for
capons Is constantly growing, many
capon producers can secure fancy
prices FOR their product by contract
ing with high class boarding schools
restaurants and hospitals where
quality is appreciated. MANY indi-
Viduals from among the wealthy
class OF people are willing to nav a
handsome price for choice capons
FLAVOR, quality and attractiveness
mean much in securing customers of
this TYNE 20
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FARM BUREAU NOTES

During the past few DAYS. Tia
county agent, S. \. Day has been
working on foundation seed plots
Eleven men in the county are work.
ing with the county agent on til.
potato seed plots, endeavoring 10
keep the lowest possible amount q.
disease from the crop. The men
have secured by raising or buying.
the best seed obtainable; as far as
being free from disease.
These seed plots have been plant.
ed away from other potatoes. each
carefully planted by hand and eaet
potato cut by itself so all hills from
one tuber would be together A.
present the owners with the count
agent are going over the plots, re.
moving hills which have signs c,
disease. The per centage is much
smaller than last year. The I've
principal diseases found are the mo,
sale and the leaf roll. 1t is pecu,
iarly noticeable that there is les
mosaic and more leaf roll than ks-
year with the same type seed. LaiI
er the potatoes will be dug and sep
arated so that the owners may haf
the best for their own seed anoths1
year.
The object is two-fold. First, .
show the methods TO be used y
fighting potato diseases and second
to establish centers from whici
farmers may obtain clean seed
Men who have seed plots this veal
are r. \. Yorke. H. c. Morrill, Z;
Windsor. w. Fl. Arnold. Sout1
China, Fl. r. Hyson, II. B. mitchell
China. VI. f. Fowler, y. B. RAM,
II. X. Bradstreet, Albion, N.
Knight Oakland, L, G. Palmer
Kcnts Hill, W. p. Briggs, NlnthTog;,
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GATHERED HERE AND THERE

The crops in the vicinity of Man
chester are looking very good owing
to the weather we have had: the
rain of last week was a boon to the
crops and if the frosts hold off this
1all chances are very good for get
ting a fairly good crop.
The Mrs. Cunningham and Len
fest of North Washington. report the
prospect as good for at least an
average crop of blueberries this sea
son.
Quite a few of the farmers in
North Augusta, have started having
The hay crop will be somewhat
llghter this year, on account of the
dry weather. The rain of last week
has done great deal of good to the
gardens.
W. S. Knowles of North Augusta
has started a pine grove He has
planted 5000 pine trees which are
DONG well, considering the very dry
season.
The boys" in Hinckley have be-
gun haying. Tuesday afternoon.
NA-Si'i' "tiO5C dSGS we're ~, ~.
70, rs, and 20 years, which com
bined make a total of S82 years, got
into the barn five large loads of hay.
They were very happy working to-
gether and no quarrels have been
reported.
Quite number in North Bowdoin
ham are beginning haying. The hay
crop is rather light
Our Farmingdale correspondent re-
ports that wild strawberries are very
plentiful here this season. The hay
crop is very poor.
Clark Ellis Of the DR.. Mann road,
Skowhegan, is surely leading in gar
dening this year. Mr.. Ellis always
mas fine gardens but this year, con-
sidering the season, he is at the
head and now has quantities of peas
and other vegetables are looking fine.
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JULY II

SATURDAY. JULY II
1851 p. NJ. Washington time signals.
Zoe T. Vi. Weather report; early
stocks; announcements.
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kct.
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ments.
645 p NJ. Lost and found
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80 +. VI. Sport results.
SUNDAY. JULY is
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100 NJ. Weather report; announce
ments.
$50 T. NJ Midday service, Radio
Parish church, non-Sectarian, Rev.
Howard O. Hough. pastor
80 T. NJ. Evening service. First
Baptist church. Portland. Rev.
VIM. S. Jacobs. pastor.
9.45 2. NJ. WEAF. Goldman Band
concert.
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