Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-20
Stock Notes
prices Paid Friday
By G. NJ. Hatcl

Chesterville, but whose post Office
is Dryden, has recently purchased
seven months old Guernsey bull
calf from T. w. & !. w. l.oberts of
Philadelphia, Pa.
This calf is by Beechwood Gypsy
King 93457, a son of the $4,000 bull,
Langwater Eastern King, md out of
Nella Girl of Pencoyd, one of the
best lines in the production Of but
ter fat.
Mr.. Wetmore has had Guernseys
for years. most of them grades and
has made them pay. Securing a
few females that were registered he
has good success making a few good
sales and serving to fix the de-
termination to have more and bet
ter ones.
From Ralph S. Norton's Foreside
Farm he obtained a son of Sitting
Bull of Glencairne which was regis
tered as Sitting Bull of Dryden.
From him he has secured some nice
young stock and has lately bought
two mature females that are regis
tered stock and bred in good lines.
The news comes to us of the total
dispersion of the registered Guern-
sey stock at Elmdale Farm, Nor
ridgewock property of the late Cony
Russell. Mr. Russell was very much
interested in Guernseys and had
won we'll at local fairs. He also
had a nice flock of 100 sheep with
few each of registered sheep of Ok
ford Downs, Hampshires and
Shropshires.
The death of Otis NJ. Hilton Of
Arson at the ripe age of eighty one
years is noted. He was always a
farmer and stock breeder, was par
ticularly interested in any kind of
good stock and had shown fine
stock for years at many of the
Maine fairs with his fancy running
particularly to oxen and steers.
Only the past year he fed a pair of
fancy three year Odds t hat were
pronounced one of the finest pairs OF
the season. For some fifteen or
more years he had judged this class
of stock at Franklin County Fair,
Pennington and l think his last
work of the kind was at Somerset
County Fair, Arson, where he iudg-
ed the oxen and steers about the
first of October. No one would have
thought him as old by 10 or Is years
and he was mentally alert and also
in his judging work moved more
like a man OF so.
The Aroostook Beef PRODUCERS
Association has recently been or
ganized at meeting at Presque
Isle. S. A. Morrison of Windsor,
Mass, secretary of the Eastern
Beef Producers Association was
present and outlined the advantages
OF such an association for Aroos-
took. Mr.. Morrison is superin-
tendent of z. NJ. Cranes big Here
ford breeding farm at Windsor and
is no stranger to Maine breeders. he
having for years been ~ Central
Name Fair Waterville, in charge of
Mr.. Cranes show herd, winning on
the last occasion of showing there.
every blue but one. Mr., Morrison
spoke from his official point of view
as secretary of the Producers As
ISOLATION and gave all breeds due
credit. Officers of the new organ
ization are D. c. Getchell, Lime
stone. president; E. E. Parkhurst.
Presque Isle. Y. president: Vernon
Beverly, Presque Isle. secretary:
Frank Hussey, Pressure Isle, treas,
urer; and an executive committee of
Aben Welts. Caribou; Wallace
Maddell, Caribou; Tom Houghton.
Fort Fairfield; Hiram Russell. Per-
nam; and H. w. Kitchen, Pressure
Isle. 40
Those Aroostook farmers are de-
termined to have the very best
there is in whatever line their ac
tlvities are engaged. / There have
been a few dark days in the past
but they got by and with a par
ticularly rosy future promised as
Well as very satisfactory present
they are branching out in new lines
Aroostook made free for all rae
Ing so popular that the fair which
does not offer something of this
sort hears a lot of circumstances
from its patrons. John r. Braden.
long the acknowledged pacing king
OF Maine has been retired and in
MS place reigns Bessie McKlvo
both to the credit of Pressure Isle
while jackson Grattan for Houlton
and Roy Grattan Wed with the
Braden "hoss" f or honors. Now
Houlton, Caribou and Fort Fairfield
are In the market for something
Just a little better in the free for all
line and they will have them, too,
even If some nave not already pur-
chased
w. R. Christie who acknowledges
10 s30o.OO0 profit from his potato
growing this season, is now engaged
with the light harness horses, that
IS, trotters and PAGERS He was
formerly a breeder of registered
percherons and had stud of real
We have heard but little of draft
morse breeding In Aroostoory COUNTY,