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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1917
Page
3
Instructions from the Maine Department of Agriculture outline preserving unsugared fruit juices for jelly making. Sterilize juice without sugar, bottle hot, seal, and process in water bath. To use, test gelling quality, add sugar, and proceed as with fresh juice. longer storage possible for certain fruits. June 9 1917.
Self- defense message from E. L. Newdick stresses high seed prices and seed shortages in Maine. He urges farmers to select and save sturdy seed this season, emphasizing local varieties, fall selection, and neighbor cooperation to ensure good seed for next year.
The article describes nest designs for commercial poultry, favoring multi nest systems over single boxes. It explains layout, size, access, and cleanliness benefits, noting seven to fifteen feet long nests with three or four entrances aid egg safety and reduce breakage.
Dr B T Galloway is appointed assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture to aid in liaison with the Council of National Defence and state boards of food production. R A Pearson, president of Iowa State College of Agriculture, becomes assistant to the Secretary and arrives in Washington April 21. Pearson, born Evansville Indiana in 1873, studied at Cornell and led New York dairy and agricultural efforts before leading Iowa State College since 1912.
A Maine Farmer editorial argues veal slaughter drives meat prices and calf shortages. It questions readers on meat, butter, milk, and leather costs and hints at compulsory drafts if veal consumption continues to shrink cattle numbers.
A short note on butter waste estimates. If 20 million households lose 1/16 of an ounce daily, 312,500 pounds vanish per day and 114 million pounds yearly. Making that butter would require 265 million gallons of milk from over half a million cows.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges farmers in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, New England and mountainous Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee to grow more buckwheat. It suits upland areas, is good where other crops fail, and provides human food, poultry feed, and high protein dairy by product middlings.
In a May 15 telegram the Secretary notes openness to nitrate import if price justifies investment. Chile supply for this season is insufficient and private sources at $76 per ton would require costly private transport. Government can spare only 4,000 tons, with transport and insurance costs rising, and experts doubt widespread profitability at $75 to $80 per ton.
A method tested by farmers uses cheap cracked rice to feed chicks under 24 hours old, avoiding milk. Reported results include high fryable yields with minimal diarrhea after hatch, citing a breeder who raised 135 of 138 chicks thriving on rice over several years.
Stanley Wallace joins Maine Central as brakeman in Bath yard. Hyde Windlass Co ships gear to Jacksonville. P M Olm’s found tire returned after thanks from owner. Funeral of Lewis Deejay at City Home. Lake on Washington Street forms 120 by 12 feet. Knitting fad for Navy League afghans grows. Bath works hire draughtsmen for destroyer projects. sixteen expected. Prolonged fishing reports and whaling sightings near Monhegan. Abenaki schooner lightered and headed to Boston. Yacht Ariadne returns from Newfoundland voyage with quarantine flag. Knickerbocker Ice Co raises prices amid high salaries and 6 percent profit aim. McKuay property development advances at North and Lincoln Streets. Henry Biggins returns to Percy & Sons after illness. LeBaron Church and Harold Dickerman plan summer shipyard work in Bath. Penny machines pulled from streets by marshal. Ida Van Valkenburgh, W C T U suffrage speaker, touring Lincoln and Sagadahoc counties this week.
Cr E Cashman of Portland joins the Texas machinist crew and Capt N W Brewer commands the steamer Wiwurna set to connect with the Boston boat in summer. Bath residents hear news of navy letters and shipbuilding with various visitors, tradesmen, and social notes across town.
Summer residents visit Mouse Island for swimming while steamship crew and local families take trips to lakes and mountains. Bath events include a dance at Fort Popham, Elks band concert plans, and a Pullman conductor on the Portland-Rockland run. Community news covers hunting licenses, wills, anti suffrage activity, and local church history project.
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