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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1912
Page
3
Market reporting broad availability of vegetables and fruit with strong potato and corn yields. Eggs remain scarce and pricey, butter and apples modest, with frost warnings signaling season end. Beef steady, veal and lamb modest, poultry priced, hay trending $15 to $16 a ton.
The annual Richmond fair drew large crowds with H F Smith as president and N H Skelton as secretary. Winners included Arthur Blanchard in horse pulling, Edward Rideout in oxen pulling, Skelton and Patten in garden products, and multiple prizes in cattle, farm stock, driving horses, and trotting stock.
The West Bath column notes a weak squash crop this year and rising Bull Moose sentiment with possible Progressive support. Cottages close for winter while roads and ferry service adjustments draw attention. farmers report strong apple and potato crops and late-season activity along the river towns.
The Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine dated Sept. vo shutting out all foreign grown potatoes from Newfoundland Ireland Germany and the British Isles to stem famines and high prices. Eugene Grubb, a potato expert, called the measure essential to prevent pest invasions while noting no immediate price alarm.
Letters from Mrs. Henry Leisberger and Mrs. G B Whittington tout the Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound as healing long standing female weakness. The article also discusses potato quarantine impacts on prices and farmer reactions citing Mr. Grubb on supply, demand, and storage behavior amid export/import dynamics.
Embree of FALLING OFF Co E Maine Farmers Union estimates northern Aroostook yields at about 60 bushels per acre after surveying fields. If correct, total shipments may reach near 10 million bushels, well below last season. He notes current price at 50 cents a barrel, risking little profit if trend continues into 1912.
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