pgQ ADAPTABILITY OF MAINE TO DAIRYING. 



There is no town in which more or less milk is not produced, but 

 there are whole sections where dairying as a business is not known. 

 There are whole sections where the name and object of a cheese 

 factory is scarcely known or thought of, sections too, that are well 

 adapted to their location and successful operation, and where 

 associated dairying would pay a larger per cent, than any branch 

 of farming now pursued in those sections, and it is the province 

 and privilege of this paper to prove to such that dairying is not 

 only adapted to Maine as a whole, but to those in particular by 

 the judicious showing up of its many promising points of superi- 

 ority, and publishing it broadcast over the State. Public attention 

 will be called to investigate and individuals led to experiment, and 

 investigation and experiment go to help establish and endow that 

 which is beneficial. They whom money stimulates and whose 

 pens write and aid will be recognized as public benefactors. 



Maine is situated between the 43d and the 47th parallel north 

 latitude, and between the Piscataqua and the St. Croix rivers, one 

 upon its western, the other upon its eastern boundary. It is at 

 the extreme northeast part of the United States. Only one-half 

 the State is settled as yet, a dense lumber forest covering all the 

 unsettled part of the north and northwestern portion of its terri- 

 tory, Maine is covered with a complete net-work of ponds, lakes 

 and streams, forming noble rivers, as may be seen by a glauce at 

 the map. It is drained by several river systems, the principal of 

 which are the Saco, the Kennebec, the Penobscot, the St. John's, 

 the Androscoggin, Sandy, Piscataqua, Aroostook, Union, Machias, 

 and others on a smaller scale. Maine is neither flat nor moun- 

 tainous, but rather moderately hilly, with a general high, rolling 

 surface, well watered, wooded, and easily accessible. It is crossed 

 from east to west by a line of railroad, and has numerous connect- 

 ing branches either built and operating as contemplated, opening 

 up every section more or less ; and its sea-coast line with numer- 

 ous good harbors and navigable rivers, place the whole settled 

 portion in easy and direct communication with the rest of the 

 world and open up its home or foreign markets to an extent not 

 surpassed or equalled by other States or countries in the world. 

 The climate is free from malarious diseases nearly, and though 

 fevers and pulmonary diseases prevail more or less, is as healthy 

 in this as most other places, and exceeds many in this respect. 



In no State or country are cattle so free from disease of all kinda 

 and 80 little risk in loss by death from destructive distempers. 



