Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-09-25
STOCK NOTES
By G. M. Hatch

the fairs are any sort of criterion
L ts-s IS certainly a growing senti-
t3snt in favor of the swine industry.
There has never been any time in
years en- there have been as
lstany pi. I Maine fairs and per-
d thps no time when there has been
] many different varieties of pigs.
dare say il may have been the
Result Of the high prices for spring
,tlgs the past season which has
Treated this interest in exhibiting
les products Of the pen and in some
Y Instances they have been brought
tlcng by men who were showing
I they kinds Of stock and to whom
z was but little trouble.
| There has never been any really
rsanizsd effort to promote swine
s3reeding. A farmer would have one
two breeding sows one year and
be next he would be out of the bust
fsss' sort Of off again on again
ecne again Finnegan" affair that no
pc minded much so long as the
fcusewife had plenty of good backs
p suffice with the Saturday night
kked beans.
/ Maine farmers have never taken
pa kindly to black pigs so some
pr Of White Chesters have been
Fun1 in the farmers sly. OF course
II all know that the black pigs eat
ss than the white ones but that
PENS to make not a bit of difference
the farmers young life.
1--we hear little about Duroc- Jerseys,
fanpshires or other new breeds.
fney have come and gone or are
fefsed with the Chesters and are
Ne white or nearly so and that
ems to be the predestined fate
Fa the kinds of swine.
Just how and what the status of
II sheep in Maine is will have to
II revealed by some one who has
ore knowledge of the subject than
There has been a very fair repre-
Nation Of the f1ocks of Maine at
Inherent fairs except at Bangor
mere they barred out all except the
euer recognized breeds from re-
Ewing any cash awards. That this
iould work any injury to the indus
seems highly improbable but at
same time there seems less de-
and for sheep than at any time in
yeral years.
me lower price of wool has had
lch TO do with a slackened demand
breeding stock in all probability
aa 1t has been this same fear of
stuatlon in wool prices which has
Inc past deferred many from en-
slng in the business for there has
DO quite a little investment in
uipment before the flock is well
established.
is not likely that the low prices
around 30 to 40 years ago VIII
ryan but there is an uncertainty
fdustry
with good crop of hay harvested
most sections Of Maine there
.ouid be a good demand for young
kock TO winter and this seems to
lfseds.
10 me 1t seems as IL the Guernseys
NJ, ~ IN the greater demand.
never have noted so many trans
NJ OF young Guernsey bulls TO
tsms where grade cows are kept and
s'e nave also been no small num-
DINERS. 49,
!ohn W. Foster Of New Vineyard
t.ae several purchases Of females
Ky are registered early in the sea-
~, ana has but recently had trans
aeo 10 him five animals, bull and
us FEMALES. from the Lakewood
~ OF Don NJ. Towne of Madison,
I'm mas been for some years the
ae OF Langwater Uncle Sam ana
~ recently a herd sire from
ueerties Farm of Saugerties, N. Y,
OF the best known of Guernsey
eeoins establishments in the coun-
rosewood Farm OF Madison,
wien T. D. Salley & Son are the
.uupp.'etors, have been selling several
ns sons of their young sire King
So Who was by the $35, 900 Lang
..er Eastern King and thus the
|ere goes on.
|. Aehnebec county Is and has been
n a long time one of the hot beds
Eor oouernseydom and 1 note sales
Ievs ana also purchases Of Guern-
| ud.. oy Abbott Farm owned by
kusts WIN. r. Pattangall, Of Au-
be winthrop there has been laid
bst 'ouIndation for a Guernsey herd
|lav Snnould go far, this being Fair
kho ha arm the property of Mr.. Hunt,
koicasa.s secured animals Of the
Ne h; breeding and is winning at
honth. fairs. His twenty two
The ' oid bull was grand champion
ksistorr recent Maine State Fair at