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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15
CLINTON

John HUBBARD, Charles Blackie Ed
ward. Goodwin and Carroll Nelson,
employees of the Maine Central Rail-
road at Waterville, were callers at
their homes. Thursday evening.
Mrs. Lottie Fisher was business
caller in Waterville, Thursday.
Mrs. Gertrude Gerald is confined
to her home by illness.
Mrs. Ross Holt was in Waterville
yesterday, visiting at the home of
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Her
ron. Her little girl. Roberta. return
ed home with her after visiting with
her grandparents for a few days.
Miss Doris Thresher motored to
Waterville Thursday afternoon.
Dana Danforth and Bert King of
Fairfield were business callers in
town Thursday.
Ira A. Witham and son. Roger
Witham. were business callers in
Gardiner, Thursday.
Miss Doris 0onya motpred to
Orono, where she will pass the week
end.
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Agricultural School
Urged For Southland

New Orleans, May 14-(P(-Roy
Tasco Davis, American minister to
Costa RIGA. stopped in New Orleans
long enough on his way to visit his
Columbia, Mo-, home to say that a
school of tropical agriculture should
be established in the South.
"The future of the Caribbean coun-
tries lies in agriculture" said Mr..
Davis. There are hundreds of thou
sands of acres of undeveloped lands
there as rich as the Garden of Eden.
but there are no schools to teach
scientific culture of the soil. Num-
bers of Costa Ricans have asked for
information about colleges of agri-
culture to which they could send their
sons for learning that would profit
them in the tropics.
"Thc interests of the United States
and Latin-American countries are
mutual. If production could be in
creased, good roads built and the
country developed more in Central
America, the people there would have
more money to buy manufactured ar
ticlUS from the states"
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Egg Grading

N"AlthouEh eggs are Soiu py tHe
case count method 1t is generally rec
ognized that those eggs which are or
the largest size and of the best quail
ty bring the best price per Dozen
SAYS O. NJ. Wilbur, poultry specialist
of the University of Maine. There are
two factors which go to determine egg
grades, namely, the size which is de-
termined by the weight per dozen;
and the quality as determined by the
appearance of the interior condition
of the egg as it is held before light
or egg candle.
1.-The only recognized standard for
eggs at the present time is the weight
weigh at least two ounces or at the
rate of "a ounces per dozen. No flock
of hens produces eggs which are all
up to the standard size or over. There
is a wide variation in the size of eggs
produced by different fiocks, Because
of these variations which occur in
eggs the only fair way upon which
eggs should be bought and sold is to
base the price per dozen upon the va
rious grades. When eggs are sold on
the graded basis then the person who
is producing the largest and best
quality eggs will receive the highest
price while the poultryman who is
producing small and inferior quality
egs will be getting less price as he
eggs will be getting less priceas he
should get. Until eggs are sold on
graded basis there is no incentive for
poultrymen to produce better quality
eggs. Under the present system of
selling eggs by the case count the
poultryman who has the best quality
eggs is handicapped in getting the
price which he should while the poul-
tryman producing the inferior quality
eggs receives more than they are &C
tually worth. This is especially true
when eggs are sold at local stores.
when eggs are graded they carry
better in transportation and present
the market and since the purchaser
cannot determine the quality of the
egg by looking at it from the outside
the appearance of them as they are
presented to the purchaser will have
much to do with the sale of the
product.
Eggs are one of the food products
which are very perishable and the
conditions under which the eggs are
produced or are kept after being laid
will have much to do with how soon
the quality will deteriorate. Some eggs
also contain defects such as blood
spots when they are laid and the
only way the quality of an egg can be
determined without breaking the shell
Is to hold them before q light or egg
candle and when the case of eggs con-
tains a few eggs of inferior quality in
it. it Is very likely to decrease the
price of all the eggs in the case. The
matter of egg grade is an important
oneand should be carefully considered
by everyone who Is shipping eggs to
the commercial market"
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Sparrows Save American
Farmer 126,5OOOOO in 1925

Z skulls Of mice and other small
rodents. In fact, some owls are well
worth seventy-fiye dollars apiece TO
| the farmer who is fortunate enough
to have his farm selected for its
home.
Y The hawk is a working partner of
the owl. In fact, they may be said
| to operate on twenty-four hour
basis. the hawk taking the day shift
and the owl, the night. ButNjust as
| the old mayor of Hamlin begrudged
| the piper his due when once the rats
| were gone, the farmer has murder in
his heart against the hawk for the
! occasional chicken he swoops away
the seventy-five different kinds of
| hawks and owls in this country,
| only six-including the Cooper's
| hawk, the sharpshinned hawk and
the goshawk-do more damage than
good and should be killed on sight.
Where a price is placed on the head
| Of all hawks and owls indiscrimin-
| ately. money is wasted and real
| harm done.
Not so very long ago the potato
| bug put in its orange and-bla APP
| pearance to such an alarming extent
| that for a while it looked as If the
| entire project of potato growing
might have to be abandoned unless
something could be done to keep the
| pest in check. This time 1t was the
| rose breasted grosbeck who came to
the fore and saved the skin Of the
good old Irish potato.
To go back to the sparrow. The
periodical cicada, better known as
| the seventeen year locust is the
| special victim of the English spar
rows. Not only do they consume
| these destroyers wherever they find
| them, but they appear even to take
a definite pleasure in doing 1t. OBJ
servers have watched groups or
, them tearing them viciously TO
pieces and venting all their spar
rowy spleen in breaking off legs and
wings. Besides, the asparagus
| beetle, the tent caterpillar. the
| cankerworm and the drop and army
| worms are eaten in large quantities
by this variety of sparrow.
The chipping sparrow specializes
| in caterpillars of all kinds. Cabbage
| worms. cankerworms. cut-worms Of
both the ground and creeping var
| ieties, and drop worms are their
| favorites. The examination of a
| chipping sparrow will bring to light
| hundreds of these worms and to
| their eggs, not to mention the large
| amounts of weed seed eaten to
| make up a balanced ration. The
| tree sparrow has been credited by
| the biological survey with eating
annually in the state Of Iowa alone,
| 1,750,O00 pounds of weed seed.
The breeding places for birds are
| fast disappearing as the woodland
is being swallowed UP, fence hedges
| and roadside bushes are being de-
stroyed. Brush lands should not be
burnt over but left to attract the
| birds. While the number of birds
| is decreasing, due to lack Of pro-
| lection and the disappearance of
| their natural conditions for flourish
| ing, the number and varieties of in
sects are increasing at an appalling
! rate
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many different breeds. We should
expect so to 80 per cent fertility
among the larger breeds as the
Rode Island Reds or Plymouth
Rocks and among the smaller more
active breeds as the Leghorns and
Anconas 80 to IS percent. OF this
expectancy we should receive hatch
of 80 to So per cent. AS to just
what percentage we will actually get
out of the shells depends on many
factors that cannot be discussed here.
but the human factor is big one:
also how the eggs have been cared
for and the efficiency of the machine.
If the mems have not been pre-
viously mated for a space of more
than a month then we may save eggs
for Matching in six days but If the
hens have been running with males
from which we do not desire chicks
then it is necessary to wait three
weeks, and after the male has been
removed from the flock fertility will
go down in five or six days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15
PoultryNotes
DON'T GULL TOO EARLY

You can't always tell what kind of
man a ten year old boy is going to
make. Even when he is fifteen he
may not show up for the best there
is in him for the remaining years
of his life. Many a genius at twenty
five was unsupported of coming
greatness. It's that way with chick
ems. Unless the defects are al
together too prominent you better
wait till the birds are a quarter or
half grown before you condemn
them as hopeless culls. 1t takes
: time for color to come out to full
maturity. Even one week makes
a mighty difference in the appearance
of young bird. Be patient. They
are putting on flesh, building bone
and muscle and nerve-growing
rapidly into money for you anyway.
Let them grow. OF course any
cripple or evident weakling better
be put out of existence at once.
His room is better than his mon
strous little body. But go slow in
culling the strong youngsters.
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Grange to Send Club
Members to SPRINGFIELD

To all the oranges in Maine are
being sent copies of letter outlin-
ing the plans of the State Chamber
of Commerce for giving to $50 Maine
boys and girls and their county club
leaders, in September, free trip and
a weeks encampment at the Eastern
States Exposition in Springfield,
Mass.
The selection will be made from
the senior division of the agriculture
al and homie making clubs, and will
be based on the merits of the 1925
club work, with the added stipula-
ton that every member to be eligi-
BILE must be carrying on, Sept. l,
this year, an approved project in a
satisfactory manner as vouched for
by the extension agents in his or her
county. Club members who have al
ready had the honor of representing
their counties in demonstration team
work at the Easten States EXPOSE
ion will not be eligible.
The distribution by counties will
be as follows: Androscoggin and
Sagadahoc, IL; Aroostook, 10; Cum
merland. 10; Franklin, 8; Hancock,
ID; Kennebec, 10; Knox and Lincoln,
10; Oxford, IL; Penobscot, 10; Pts
cataquisr 10: Somerset, ~: Waldo,
IL: Washington, 10; York, 10.
To the State Chamber of Com
merce has been delegated the raising
of fund of $4,000 to cover the cost
of this trip and encampment. All
the oranges and other organizations
in the State interested in boys and
girls club work, will be given an OPP
portunity to contribute.
William @. Hunton, Industrial
agent of the Maine entral railroad,
who has long been champion of
club work, has been chosen by, the
committee to act as treasurer of the
fund. TfS, other members of the gen.
eral COMMITTEES are: President,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15
BY SAMUEL r. GUARD

Sparrows alone saved the Ameri-
can farmer $126,520,000 in 1925.
This startling figure in favor Of the
much maligned sparrow is computed
by a conservative estimate that the
amount Of weed eaten by these birds
saved one per cent Of the estimated
value of all farm products for the
year. All varieties Of sparrows are
included, not just the despised Eng
fish sparrow which is, of course. not
so prolific in the country as In the
towns and cities.>
Around $500. 100000 year is what
the Department of Agriculture COM
putes as the loss to agricultural in
terests through insects and pests.
The natural consumer of these de-
stroyers is the bird. The biological
survey of the Department of Agri-
culture has been at work for years
in making a bird census and deter
mining which birds do more harm
than good.
Four hundred million birds is their
cautious estimate of our feathered
population and each is worth on the
average seventy-flve cents. In other
words, $300,000000 worth of birds
are continually flying over our heads,
settling in our trees and working to
protect our crops. The nine most
populous varieties are, In the order
song Sparrows, cat birds, chipping
sparrows, house wrens, king birds
and blue bfrds.
OF course, the bird destroys at the
same time he serves, and for this he
has earned considerable amount of
enmity from his host the farmer. A
flock of black birds steals bushel
of wheat worth, let us say $1.50. But
likewise, they will eat not less than
five bushels of insects. which If left
to multiply, would ruin fully ten
bushels or SIS worth of grain the
following season. The farmer is,
therefore, actually nine bushels of
wheat ahead for each one stolen,
which would seem to acquit the
blackbird and send him winging
back to the fields where he belongs.
Only one reliable method exists of
finding out just what birds eat and
that is by examination of their
stomachs. During the past twenty
FIVE years the biological survey has
examined the stomach contents of
no less than $4,000 birds (mostly
collectors specimens: few were kill
ed for sake of eXamination). The
results are most encouraging, to
mention only few.
One female martin had consumed
1000 mosquitoes. A single meadow
lark had eaten SO cut-worms for his
betweenmeal nourishment. The
stomach of a tree swallow was found
to contain 40 chinch bugs swallowed
hole, as well as the remains of In
sects of ten other species. The
stomach of a flicker showed % white
grubs and that of a nighthawk. 81
May beetles-the white grub in its
adult stage. Another nighthawk
yielded up $40 grasshoppers, SO
bugs. beetles. wasps and one
spider.
The case for the owl is very
strong. The retreat of one pair or
barn owls was found to contain 5000
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15

George F. West; vice-President,
William I. Cummings; Treasurer.
George S. Hobbs and Director, Hen
ry F. Merrill of the State CHAMBER
of Commerce; John E. Abbott, mas
ter of the State Grange; DR.. Leon S.
Merrill, director of the agricultural
extension sevrice in Maine: Lester
H. Shibles. State club leader; John
w. Leland, president of the Maine
Federation of Agricultural Associa-
tions; Edgar B. Lord, president of
the Maine Fedeation of Farm Bu-
reaus; B. F. Cleaves, executive sec
rotary of the Associated industries
of Maine; Maj. E. E. Philbrook, Guy
P. Gannett, V. w. Canham. Edmund
H. Mcdonald, Daniel w. Hoegg.
Louis E. White, Mrs. 1ilda l. Ives;
A. L. T. Cummings, secretary.
The first contributors to the fund
are Androscoggin Pomona Grange
and Pine Tree Grange of Lisbon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15
MONTyILLE

NORTH-H. F. Jackson was In
Rocllland a few days last week on
business.
Walter Bantom has a bad attack Of
erysipelas in his arm.
Ruth Penney. who has been to the
Bangor Hospital for appendicitis, re-
turned to her sisters. Mrs. LOUIS
Flye. in Freedom Wednesday.
Harold Nutter has been visiting
friends in Thomaston and Winter Har-
Dor for the past week.
Mrs. Clifton Morse remains about
the same.
Two large moose were seen to cross
Bert Halls field last Sunday.
Alfred Jackson was in Thorndike all
day Monday putting up potatoes to
ship to parties in Rockland. Mr.. jack
son has nearly a car load of potatoes
on hand that are stored in Thorndike.
Mr.. Phillips. who has boarded a..
Eugene Tenney's most of the time
since last November. has moved to
camp in Knox. 3
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15

ME York. Dainty refreshments were
served and a general good time was
enjoyed. Ns~
Mrs. Edith Walker, Mrs. Scott Me-
Nally and Mrs. Mabel Osborne were
business callers in Fairfield and Wa
terville, yesterday.
Glendon Larkin is confined to his
home by illness.
Miss Lucy Young has returned to
her home in Augusta, after visiting
with her grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Pierce of Baker street and 9TH
er friends in town.
Henry McKenney has moved his
family from the Horseback road in
to the upstairs Whitman rent on Rail-
road street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde T. Walker are
in Wilton, where they are passing,
the weekend at the home of Mrs.
Walkers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lor-
en- H. Dyke and family.
The services will be held as usual
at both the local churches Sunday
morning and evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15

about them carefully after the soil
is filled in and soaked. Choose a
cloudy day If possible and If it is
sunshiny and warm it is advisable to
shade the transplanted plants with
paper. strawberry boxes or flower
pots for a day or so. A board set on
flower pots is a convenient method
forshading a whole row at once.
For the spring growing plants re-
quiring a rich soil, a little sheep ma
nure may be mixed with the soil at
transplanting time so the roots will
have food at once. Do not be too
generous with fertilizer. however.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15

radishes is good digging. If the soil
is we'll worked, pulverized fine. and
is reasonably fertile, anybody can
grow radishes in hurry. The
WE'LL titled soil makes it easier for
the taproot to reach down for the
food which fattens it into the round
spicy globule to tempt the palate a
little later.
1t is better not to give the soil in
| which radishes are planted fresh
manure. The prepared commercial
| fertilizers, either natural or chemic-
| al, will be better than fresh stable
manure. Wood ashes are an excel-
| lent dressing for the radish bed as.
like most root crops, a potash ferti-
| lizer is the most effective in develop
! ing root growth.
A gardener needs five kinds of
radish seed-extra early, early, late
! crop, summer and winter. One
| mistake that is made in nine out of
| ten cases is sowing the seed too
| thick. The radish must have room
| to develop. If the plants are stand
| ing crowded in the row only per-
! centage of them will have a chance.
Thin them to an inch apart as soon
as they are up.
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Kennebec County
Farm Bureau Notes

With the exception of two more
meetings, the pine planting demonstra-
tions being held as a part Of the pro-
gram Of the Extension Service of the
Farm Bureau, are over. Two recent
meetings were held on the farms of
W. S. Knowles of North Augusta and
w. E. Strong Of Riverside.
The trees secured for the paintings
have been secured from the Maine
Forest Nursery and have been either
two-year seedlings or three-year-old
transplants. Mr.. Strong set out trees
on an old field which he did not wish
to cultivate any longer.
The methods used in setting out
these trees which are from six to
eight inches tall, when they arrive, is
to take from boxes and place in damp
place where they should be kept until
ready to set. The holes are dug with
a shovel or mattock, the mattock be-
ing better. The trees should be set
in rows six feet apart each way. The
object Of this close setting being per-
haps 3-fold. First-Natural forest con-
ditions. trees grow straight and tall.
Second-As soon as branches begin
to intertwine the lower ones are shad-
ed and soon die and drop off. Third
AS a most effective means Of fighting
pine tree weevil.
The holes are dug about eight in
ches deep and in setting them great
care Is taken that the roots are not
doubled under and that they are not
dried
A plantation Of white pine is consid-
cred a permanent investment. 1t adds
to the value Of the farm and in about
20 years is ready to thin. At this tlme
some can be used for lockwood. 1t is
estimated that a stand will be ready
to harvest in from 40 to so years.
At the demonstration on the farm
of Donald Bowie the whole student
body of Litchfield Academy were
present with Prof. Upper the princi-
pal. At Albion the sub-principal and
one of the classes of the high school
attended the demonstration.
About $4,000 trees have been set in
the county this year. In every case
white pine was used, with the excep-
tion of the farm Of Fred w. Dyer of
Sidney. Mr.. Dyer used Norway pine
and filled in with white pine. The
idea Of using Norway pine was as a
precaution against white pine blister
rust. Neither blister rust or white
pine NSeVll dHect norway pine, al
though both of them do serious dam
age to white pine. Mr.. Dyer intends
to cut out the Norway pine in about
20 years If the stand Of white pine is
satisfactory; If not, he will cut out
the white pine and allow the Norway
pine to stay to maturity.
Other demonstrations have been
held at the farms of the following
Frank H. Taylor, winthrop; l.. D. Lin
coin. Wayne: H. w. Austin. South
China and E. H. Whittier of Albion.
Mr.. Taylor Is cutting a certain sec
ton OF his wood lot every year for his
use and setting out white pine in
place of the trees he removes. Mr..
Austin has an old pasture in which
little pine trees are coming UP thickly
He plans to set out about 1000 trees
every year to fill in and in a short
time will have a full stand all over
the pasture.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-15

The radish is the first vegetable
to go into the ground and one
vegetable that every gardener seems
certain to plant. We now have be-
wildering array Of radish varieties
and it is only necessary to select ac-
cording to shape and earliness. The
little round extra earlies can go IN
now. Some that need longer sea-
son may be planted at the same
time and with them some of the long
red Or white ones which need still
longer period. Three rows will give
succession with one planting and
two weeks later the same success
sion can again be sown.
Radishes are cool weather vegeta-
bles! They are tender, crisp and
snappy after the fast growth of early
spring. In the hotter weather of
midsummer they get pithy and fiery.
We now have summer and fall rad
ishes of a different type, much larg-
er, approaching turnips and carrots
in size that grow in the hot wealth.
err and keep up the radish success
sion and offer fine material for slic-
ing in salads.
The main feature In getting good
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women's Division, Farm Bureau

Dates for next weeks meetings are
as follows: May Is, China, the sub
ject will be "Healthful Clothing;
May 10, Fayette, "Healthful Clothing"
including Correct Posture and Foot
wear; May 20, Albion, Correct Foot
wear; May 81, South China, Health
full Clothing" including Correct
Posture and Footwear" In between
meetings will be held May IS at Sid
ney, subject, Millinery" and on
May 20 at Winslow. the subject be-
ing Desserts"
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~ ONE slight renaissance Of 'the
- glory that was Greece" may be
e~kse~,nd sea Nssp American


- glory that was Greece" may be
- achieved in our American
country-places through the erection
of that white-pillared .loveliness
known as the pergola. Set on a
wide green lawn and clambered over
by roses or grape-vines, its snowy
columns cleaning like marble
through the greenery, the pergola
has more than a suggestion Of
those tempted groves" of long
past Golden Age.
For this reason, or rather to OBJ
tain this effect, the pergola should
always be painted white. The old
fashioned grape-arbor used to be
painted green, almost invariably.
But, while pleasing, the green-paint-
ed arbor did not furnish nearly so
effective background for the vines
which entwined themselves around
it, as does the white-painted per-
| COLA of today.
Also, the pergoia is more beat-
tiful in form than the arbor OF an
earlier day, though perhaps it does
not afford so dense a shade. White
columns are perhaps the most grace
full form of architecture ever con-
eeived. They enrich the beauty of