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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-13
Annual Meeting
I.H Agri. Club

Tho College All Club held Its an
-, friday evening at Balentins
u.,, This organization is made UP
No. -, and women students in the
:. Of Maine. who are former
..rh,rs Of boys and girls agri-
'n, ,,ural and home economics clubs.
All college men and women ut the
,,.,varsity are eligible to belong to
~. S club II they have completed one
~. ..or. wears Of All club work.
OF n rsay. there are IS members in
l lmsve 10 seniors, 10 juniors, 19
co asomores and 10 freshmen.
sO ~ following Is the membership
~. IN hy counties; Androscoggin
a as"ntv Kenneth Field. Auburn:
Coa ar x. Gibbs. Livermore Center;
Ui,a A Grant, Leeds Center. Saga
HAL HAL County: Wilhelmina f. Dun
danv' Topsham; Earl T. Blodgett,
p1,,n,vSdoinham; Raymond II. Blodgett'
powdoinham; Kenneth X. weber,
6O aroostook County: Wallace Elliott,
p-a.nue Isle; Wallace Higgins,
Wan,eton: Paul D. Lamoreau.
presoue Isle: Mabel Kirkpatrick,
p pnrtare: Hope Craig, Portage;
,,"r;eI Kirkpatrick, Portage. Cum
y..i.nd County: Leon NJ. Sanborn,
s e. Edith Merchant, Walnut
uilI. Ernest w. Merchant. Walnut
Ii;n. Row w. Rand, Sebago Lake.
NM Trsnklin County: Orlando w.
r.r,oinoton. Alvin Newell.
rarmington: Rutillus Allen. North
Tsv. Wendell E. Mosher. North Jay:
ynuise Taylor. Dead River. Han
coct County: Harlan J. Emery. Sails
hury Cove; Horace S. Estey. Els
worth; Leo NJ. Staples. South Penob-
scot: Reginald Johnson, Hancock.
Ksnnebec County: Harold r.
Norton Winslow; Russell E. Foster,
Fast Augusta: Agnes Masse, East
vassalboro; Edwin A. Wilson. Wins
law. Theda Royal. Augusta; Ken
moth d Cram. Litchfield. Lincoln
County: Myrtle NJ. Walker, Wis
casset.
oxford County: Francis G. Buzzell,
Fryeburg; Richard c. Dolloff. Rum
ford Arthur l.. Brooks. South Paris;
Merton Parsons. South Paris; Win
ona' Young, Norway; Anthony A.
Beeaker, Rumford.
Penobscot County: Robert A. Tate.
East Corinth; Ethel Andrews. Still
water; Lois Andrews, saltwater;
Grace Bridges. Orono; James Bridges.
Orono; Irene A. Emerson. Brewer;
Leta French, Brewer: Annette Mat
thews. Hampden Highlands: Clara
W. Peabody. Orono; Helen A. Pea
body, Orono; Russell Smith, East
Corinth; Dana Brockway. East
CorintL: Grace ". Murray. Hampden
lids: Elizabeth McCracken, Brewer:
Barbara Pierce. Brewer; Fred Roll
Inns, Garland.
Somerset County: Virginia HI.
Smith. North Arson: Robert NJ.
French, South Scion: Mary e..
Weimer, New Portland. Waldo
County: Ruth Leman, Liberty;
Lloyd f. Boynton. Liberty.
Washington County: Frederick b.
Chandler, Machais; Carroll F.
Wilder, Dennysville: Winona r.
Look, Jonesboro; Emma E. Thomp-
son. Machias; Archibald V. Smith,
Steuben: Elouise Thompson. Calais.
Work County: Gertrude f. Hammond,
Eliot; W. Grafton Nealley, South
Berwick.
AGRI PAGE r..
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MADISON
Contest for Step Dancers

Contest for Step Dancers
The contest for step dancers 90
years of age or over at the Pastime
Moving Picture theatre "Wednesday
evening was an event of much in
terest to the large audience present.
The contest was held at the close
of the first show and there were six
contestants who appeared in the fol-
lowing order: John Perry of Arson,
George Lane, Joseph Morrow and
Harry Gogan, all of Madison; b.
Bouchard of Skowhegan and John
Frabotta of Madison.
The judges, who were picked from
the audience. were: Thomas Clarkin,
Andrew Strang, Mike Landry, Will
liam Jardine and Alfred Squires. The
first prize of So was given to B.
Bouchard, the second prize of So to
Joseph Morrow, and the third prize
of 81 to John Berry. The violinists
who furnished music for the dancers
were: Joe Willet, John Deroche and
Mrs. Adelaide Bean. Another con-
test for step dancers under 80 years
of age is to be held in about two
weeks.
The ball held "wednesday evening
at the Strand Theater under the
auspices of the Arson Baseball AS
sociationl was enjoyed by large
company of persons. There were
number of unique features, among
which was a baseball game. Music
for the evening was furnished by
my Own Six orchestra.
A jolly evening was passed at the
F. c. Clark store Thursday evening
by the clerks and management.
There was dainty lunch served by
a committee Of ire women clerks.
After this came an informal social
hour and games. 's'
The big passenger car Of the Som
erset Traction Company, which has
been stalled on Main street for the
past two days with a broken axle,
was finally repaired Friday and
again put into service.
Deputy Sheriff George Walker re-
turned Thursday from a few days
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make the most efficient tools for
cleaning the droppings boards.
Refuse lime is excellent for sprink-
ling on the floor of the henhouse and
around the roosts after cleaning. It
| is just as good as first-grade lime for
the whitewash.
| Hay and excelsior make the best
nest material obtainable. Hens cam
not scratch it out of the nests like
straw or shavings.
Plenty Of good clean nests will dis
courage the habit of "fioor-laying."
! Clean nests mean fewer Gull eggs.
! A regular supply of pure water is
essential to egg production. A pan
under leaking cock, either from the
house pressure tank or from a bar
rel. makes a good watering trough
the drip drip. drip encourages fire.
! Quent drinking.
| Steady, consistent feeding Is the
only kind that pays. The hen keeps
regular hours and irregular feeding
soon upsets her. A heavy feed one
day and going hungry the next does
| not encourage egg production.
Wheat straw makes the best litter
for the scratching room. After two
weeks in the henhouse, it makes ex-
cellent bedding for the stock in the
barn and the fresh straw is better
for the health of the flock.
Water troughs and mash hoppers
should be from eighteen inches to
the hens scratching straw into them.
The laying mash should contain
two per cent salt to encourage drink
ing and to keep the fowl in good
health. Charcoal grit, ground lime
stone and oystershell are best fed In
separate hoppers where the hen may
help herself.
If roosters are kept over for the
breeding flock. they should be VIM
tered in q separate house and turned
with the hens six weeks in advance
of date eggs are to be gathered for
Matching.
A warm, well-ventilated house is
necessary for laying hens. Beware
roosts.
Hens need some kind of green feed
the year around. Bluegrass pasture
around the house Is fine or oats, and
wheat may be sowed. If a stand of
alfalfa can be obtained near the
houses, it makes excellent "hen pas
ture." Alfalfa meal makes good
winter green feed. 1t should be
mixed with the dry mash.
Regular culling twice a year will
increase the profits. Lazy hens
should be the first to leave the farm,
the ones that stay on the roost of
mornings. Then an examination of
each hen will show good and poor
ones-after poultry expert has
showed you how to Gull your particu-
lar breed, if you are not experienced.
Clean eggs, packed in bright, new
yn,-to A chn
fattening period pays on all fowls to
be marketed. A separate pen with
moist mashes and grain before them
at all times means quick fattening. |
Special markets may be worked up
on eggs and dressed fowls. Sunrise
Eggs from Milk-fed Hens" may bring
premium of Ave cents on the dozen.
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PLANT LICE
LIVE ALL WINTER

The most persistent pest ain the
garden is the plant louise or aphis.
You can't start after them too early
for they live all winter and stand
below zero weather, ready to thaw
out and start action with the first
breath of spring. Clean up all dead
stalks Of plants known to have been
infested last summer and burn them.
Although the most prevalent,
plant lice are most easily controlled,
and there is no good excuse for hav-
ing them in quantity. If you have
them at all you will have them
wholesale. Nicotine compounds in
the form of spray or dust are sure
death to these intruders. A spray
is necessary and tobacco tea made
from cheap cigars or cigar clippings
Is effective. Nicotine in commercial
forms, of which Black Leaf 40 is a
standard, is-a convenient form, a
small portion mixed with water ac-
cording to directions Staying lice
wholesale.
There are some 200 odd different
kinds of plant lice ranging in color
from the common green to black
through reds and browns. Their
life history is interesting. Female
aphides hatch in spring from eggs
laid in autumn. Some females hold
over and lay new crop in the
spring.
These spring matches are females
without wings which soon mature
and give birth TO females like them
selves instead of eggs. They all
soon grow up and produce genera
ton after generation.
Then comes a strange change late
in the season. \ generation of wing
ed aphides appear. Earlier in the
year they are Yingless and can't
move far. The winged lot proceed
to distribute themselves to other
feeding grounds and rates new
tribes.
Late in the fall final generation
of small males and females appear
and this generation lays the eggs to
hatch in spring and some of them
live over winter if they haven't COM
pleted their task.
AT the first sign of a plant louise
get out the spray gund and the to-
bacco compound. Stop them in
their tracks, for the rabbit is as
nothing from a breeding standpoint
compared with the aphis.
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Sheepscot Valley Grange
EntertainS Lincoln Pomona

Sheepscot Valley Grange enter
tanned Lincoln Pomona OH Tuesday,
February 9. There was a good
attendance with Worthy Master
Newman Felt in the chair. After
the regular routine of business was
transacted, twelve candidates We're
instructed in the 5th degree. An
excellent dinner was served at noon,
this Grange is noted for its fine dim
ners. At the afternoon session the
following program was offered:
Address of Welcome, Brother
Miete Master of thost Grange, re-
Spouse Brother Fisk of Alma; Flag
salute: reading. Sister Houdiett;
song. Sister Sandelin: song, Brother
Clark. encored; recitation. Sister Lit
tie. encored; reading. Brother Mlete;
song, Brother Charles Peaslee, VINO
responded to an encore; song. py
Brother and Sister Miete in Finn;
stories by a number of the brothers
and sisters; duet by Brother Clark
and Sister Turner; song by Grange.
closed in form.
Next meeting, to be with Whitefieid
in March.
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Caribou Grange

The Grange hall at Greenridge,
Caribou, will be rebuilt this season.
The Grange has now in the treasury
nearly 500, which will go toward
that purpose, and $500 had already
been subscribed toward the work
when o. B. Griffin and G. P. Findlen
started out Wednesday of last week
soliciting subscriptions for the pur-
pose, and getting 5000 more. Two
thousand dollars in all will probably
be subscribed for this work. The
present building will be torn down in
March or April, and then the re-
building will be commenced as soon
as the frost is out. The basement
floor and the foundation will be of
concrete, while the walls and ceiling
will be Of steel. The new hall will
be of kind of bungalow style, with
dining-room, heating plant ana
kitchen in the basement The hall
and ante rooms will be on the first
floor. The building committee con-
sists of Fred d. Ashby, chairman,
o. B. Griffin, secretary, Carl Rasmus-
sen, Thomas j. McCubrey and George
p. Findlen. The present hall was
built about 40 years ago, and has
done excellent service, forming II
very useful community center for
a region considerably distant from
any Of the AroostOok villages.
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Maine Fruit Growers
Convention. Portland

The official program for the Fruit
Growers Convention which will be
held az Auburn, Thursday and Fri
day, Feb. IS and 10 was announced
Friday by State Horticulturist George
a. Yeaton. The meeting will be held
under the direction of the state de-
partment of agriculture and the Au-
burn Chamber of Commerce.
Registration and the greeting of
old friends will be the first on the
program on Thursday, the opening
day. Then will follow addresses by
Sam o. Foss, Jr., secretary of the
Auburn Chamber of Commerce on
What the Auburn Chamber of
Commerce Stands For" by A. X.
Gardner, crops specialist of the ex-
tension service of the University of
Maine on Greater Profit by Properly
Fertilzins the Orchard" and by
State, Horticulturist George A. Yeaton
of Chelsea on Pruning the Bearing
Orchard" A round table discussion
in charge of State Horticulturist
Yeaton will begin at 11.40 A. NJ.
Addresses will be given at the
afternoon session of Thursday by Dr.
George NJ. Twitchell of Auburn on
The Cost of Producing a Barrel of
Apples" and by Prof r. A. Van
Meter, professor of horticulture of
the Massachusetts College of Agri-
culture on Spraying to Control
Scab and Insect Pests A banquet.
arranged by the Lions Club, will be
held in the evening.
Papers will be read at the morning
session of Friday by Harold Kimball
of Portland, traffic representative of
fof nj 6Whaf tho State
Pier Can Do for the Orchardists of
Maine" by F. NJ. McDonough of
Middleport, n. Y, a crops specialist,
on "Some of The Things We Have
Learned About busting to Control
Scab and Storage Troubles" and by
Commissioner of Agriculture Frank
p. Washburn on Interpretation of
the Maine Apple Packing Law" A
discussion of a uniform apple grading
and packing law for the New Eng
land states, led by. A. NJ. G. Soule,
chief of the division of inspection of
the state department of agriculture
will begin at 11.20 A. NJ.
DR.. Donald Folsom. pathologist at
the Maine Experiment Station, will
deliver an address on "Scab as a
Mcintosh and Storage Malady." and
he will be followed by Prof. G. H.
Merchant of the University of Maine,
who will discuss the subject 1.-THE
Apple Survey of Maine and Some Of
the Benefits That will Come from 1t"
at the afternoon session of Friday.
The meeting will conclude with a
discussion of the subject How Can
the Experiment Station be of More
Assistance to the Orchardists of
Maine?"
? The following subjects will be
taken up in round table discussions;
1. Is liquid lime sulphur injured
by freezing?
2. Will fertilization take the place
of cultivation in the young orchard ?
3. At what time should nitrate of
soda be applied to the orchard to get
the most benefit from it?
4. Should more than one applica-
ton of nitrate of soda be made dur
ing the growing season?
s. What about running hogs in the
bearing orchard?
s. Are young trees that are af-
fected with black rot canker worth
trying to save?
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Leaky SeparatOrs

No farmer In his right MIND would
feed butterfat to his pigs and poultry
not at the present lofty price of
butterfat. Nevertheless. q good many
farmers are feeding butterfat to their
stock, albeit unintentionally. It's a
grand and glorious feeling for the
pigs and poultry when they get nice
bit of rich butterfat in the skimmilk,
but it does not generate any such
feeling in the breast of the farmer
who is feding it when he finds
out about it.
The fault lies with the great labor
saver of the farm-the cream separ-
ator. There is no way of knowing
just how much money is lost to the
farmers of the country in this way in
a years time, but if accurate figures
could be compiled. there is no doubt
that the total amount Of such losses
would be startling.
In Pottawattamie county, Iowa. one
rev separator which had not been
properly adjusted lost its owner al
most enough money in a single
month to have paid his association
dues for six months. The total loss
during the year in Clayton county,
Iowa, if averaged among the men,
byrs of the nine associations in that
county, would amount to more than
six dollars per member.
Cow testers give the following as
some of the more common reasons
why some separators do not give the
oest results: Worn howl. spindles and
bushings; machines not standing
perfectly level: machines net tuned
up to the rated speed: bowls setting
too low; and worn and loose discs.
It may be rather trite to say that it
pays to replace worn parts with new
ones but 1t is well worth repeating.
Another thing. i. does not take long
to find out whether the machine is
STANDING level. ana it makes a lot of
difference TO the owner And it is
we'll to bear in mind that best results
cannot he cNr ectrd IN a slowly
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Poultry Bulletins

Many boys and girls will raise
poultry this year. Perhaps some of
you do not know that a number of
free bulletins have been published
by the United States department Of
agriculture especially for Junior
farmers. You will find each one Of
them valuable.
Here is the list: Care Of Mature
Fowls, No. 1105; Incubation of Hens
Eggs, No. 11O6; Brood Coops and
Appliances, No. 1907; Care of Baby
Chicks, No. 110S: Preserving Eggs,
No. 1109: Management of Growing
Chicks, No. I'LL; Culling for Eggs
and Market, No. 1112: Poultry Houses,
No. 1113; Common Poultry Diseases,
No. 1114; Selection and Preparation
of Fowls for Exhibition, No Ills.
Frank Cheney of Chelsea has a
flock of go laying hens from which
he averages 80 eggs a day, some days
getting as many as 81. He prefers
Rhode Island Reds for laying pur-
poses. Mr.. Cheney has one hen
which IL two years old this spring
that has never moulted. These hens
are fed dry mash and cracked corn
and oats, they also get oyster shells
and ground bone. They are housed in
two pens, one 14X16. the other 12x1S
with drop front windows.
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Qualities For
Gold Medal

The COW Highacre Pretty Nab
owned by o. H. Sanborn of Weld has
finished test. making CIT lbs fat in
the 305 day class, $40 lbs is the re-
quirement for gold medal and thus
the COW qualities for gold medal
when she freshens in May. She is q
granddaughter of Pogis 95th OF
Hood, who has 2 gold medal daugh-
tiers. She is the first gold medal
daughter of her sire, Johnny Pogis
Of Meadow Farm.
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Poultry Pointers

A window. in the east end of the
poultry house gets the birds off the
roots earlier as the light of early
dawn and the suns first rays come
directly into the house.
When we are careless and allow the
droppings to accumulate under the
roosts, we pay the penalty with sick
birds.
A wide hoe and an old wash tub
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LitehfeId Grange

Owing to the unfavorable condition
of the roads and weather there was
no meeting Of the Grange on Friday
evening Feb. 9Th, the regular date.
There will be an all day meeting
Of the Grange on Friday, Feb. 1S,
with dinner as usual.
The lecturer is endeavoring to Sc
cure a speaker from away to take a
part in the special program to be
given at the afternoon session.
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turned machine. Directions for
operating generally come with I all
separators. They. should be fol-
lowed; that's why they are given. Is
your separator getting all the cream
out Of the milk?
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] News from the
Oranges
Pomona Grange Dates

Please send in dates, also notify US
il dates are not correct.
Feb. 13 -Cumberland.
Feb. 17-Aroostook & Penobscot
Union.
Feb. 1S-No. Franklin.
Feb. 1S-East Piscataquis.
Feb. 23-East Kennebec.
Feb. 23-Somerset. Norridgewock.
Feb. 24-Sagadahoc. Richmond.
Feb. 24-Hancock, Massapaqua, So.
y Bluehill.
Feb. 27-Penobscot.
March 9-Somerset. North Arson.
March 10-New Century, West Peru.
March 11--Excelsior. Chesterville
Grange, No. Chesterville.
March 11-York, Buxton.
March 11-Green Mountain, Trenton.
March 26-Hancock, S @ d gwi c k
Grange, No. Sedgwick.
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business trip to Portland ana vicinS
ity. y
Judge c. r. Upper of Boothbay
Harbor arrived in Madison, Friday.
forenoon, being called here by the
critical illness Of his brother, Levi
Upper. 2
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Surprise Party

A surprise party was given Mr.
and Mrs. John MCLEOD at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward E. Durand,
Monday evening. by the office force
and the heads of the departments of
the Durand Shoe Company. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcleod were invited to the
house to a birthday party but on
arriving found it was in their honor,
They were presented with an electric
pfrcolator and an electric toaste,
by their friends.
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s,,e. will bs given the readers Of
80. ..o, In which to discuss matters
~. s.,, interest. Space will also Be
~. Items and articles Of Interest
e"'". .,.St 20 farm iifs-Ed.
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RICHMOND

A valentine party will be given
by the Christian Endeavor Society
at the vestry at 7.30 Monday evening
A Washington party will be held
for the primary and Junior classes,
Saturday at two o'clock. ~
Mrs. rlbert Knowlton of East
Woburn. Mass, Is visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman MUSE.
A. B. Haley has gone to West Med.
ford for a visit with his daughter,
Mrs. Burton Brown, after staying at
his home on North Plea ant street
for three weels.
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LOCAL NOTICE
Mauve dressed pigs wanted at ]. r.
~ner :, Augusta. jan30sat,tf
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NYE's CORNER

Mrs. Hattie Newcomb, Mrs. Myra
Lachance and Rose Henderson were
in Waterville for the day, Tuesday.
Daniel Mcdonald, who has been
very sick is reported as a little bet
ter. DIR. Walters has been in attend
ance.
The snow and blow of Wednesday
has again blocked many roads that
were just getting to be passable after
last weeks storm.
Miss Beatrice Drawn and Miss
Ruth Horne were in Skowhegan, for
the day. Wednesday, to attend the
grange 50th anniversary.
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She-What should I do, doctor? My
husband talks in his sleep?
Doctor-Give him a chance to talk
during the day.-Stray Stories.
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Stilphin Springer of Lynn. Mass,
came to Richmond, Wednesday, CALI
ed by the illness of his mother, Mrs.
Norris Thompson.
Mrs. c. e. Messenger and daughter,
Miss Marion Messenger of Gardiner,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mes
senger, Thursday.
The schools in town had but one
session Wednesday on account Of
the seye e storm.
Homer Alexander won the End
prize of $500 at the Old Fashion
Fiddlers contest held at Gardiner.
last week. He took part in the.
Augusta contest Friday evening at,
the Augusta Opera House.
Don Cate and Norman Call of the.
Central Maine Power Co. were bust
ness visitors in Bowdoinham, Tues,
day and Wednesday.
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Hiah School Play

Tickets for the play "The Whole
Towns Talking" are On sale at the
A. E. Small store Friday morning.
This will be given Monday evening,
February Is, under the auspices of
the r. H. S. Those in the play are:
Robert Stanley. Mildred Beedle.
Helen Specht, Glen Lamoreau. Hilda
Peva, Carlton Randall, Gerald Gron-
din, Alice Oddly, Catherine Soule,
Laura Grondim, Italy Hatch. Carl
Anderson.
There will be a dance after the
play. This is for the benefit of the
athletic association and the school
paper, the Garnet"
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STIM.U.PLANT
Augusta Flower Shop
AUGUSTA, MAINE

Distributors, G. s. Seavey 4 Son.
Florists, Bangor, Me.
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