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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1910
Page
6
A Bath market report notes reduced farmer arrivals due to poor traveling conditions. Eggs sell at 25–30 cents a dozen, dairy butter about 30 cents a pound, potatoes 50–55 cents, and cabbage likely to rise. Meat and poultry prices are listed with scarce native pork, eggs steady, and hay at $20–$22 a ton.
The Maine Pomological Society executive committee met in Auburn to plan the largest New England fruit show outside Boston next November. The Maine Seed Improvement Association was organized at Waterville with over 100 charter members and a full slate of officers and committees.
EK E Beker of Bowdoin writes to the Maine Farmer detailing potato costs and yields per acre, including labor and seed expenses, and estimating a profit of about 20 dollars per acre. The note explores time value and market risk while examining broader game protection and hunting history in New England. It also reports the Interstate Association for Trap Shooting 1909 averages led by Charles G. Spencer of St. Louis with 97.20 percent.
Mrs Lucey Farrar of Bath reports six hens laid 1081 eggs between January 9 1909 and January 9 1910. An unrelated medicine ad promotes Mother Gray's Australian Leaf tonic for kidney and urinary troubles with claims of energy relief. samples offered by mail from LeRoy New York.
At the Enterprise Grange gathering this evening the program includes Wasic Choy Events of the Week, Lecturer Paper, On Orcharding a Fest on tree location, best fertilizer, shipping method, a verdict on apples unfit for market, select reading by Mrs. J. C. Shepard, host magazines and papers, Eva Hathorne music, Miss Alice Libby, rent paving crop notes, and Daniel Brown stories, with N. H. Skelton and C. S. Libby.
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