There are also a Uu-re luini- 1 the pleasure of thcsport, was not less than twenty 



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bw niiles (listaiu and in siglit of East Ihomas- 

 to.i at a place called Goose river : at this point is 

 Mr.' Carlton's lime establislmioiit. 



LIME KII.-N3 AND LIME MAKING. 



' The lime kilns are built of a kind of mica slate 

 rock, somewhat resemblii.f: the common soap 

 stone and nearly impervious to fire. Each k. n 

 is about fourteen feet high and ten feet long with 

 three openings under it, something like the com- 

 mon hoi- kiln. It requires about seven cords o 

 spruce or hemlock wood to burn one, liuiMiied 

 casks of lime. Much of the wood tor lime lu.rn- 

 inn- is procured from the numerous umnh!ibitc<i 

 and inhabited islands in Penobscot bay, and upon 

 the coast : the wood costs ,*2 25 per cord. Ihe 

 casks for the lime cost eighteen cents each. 

 There are more than one hundred hme kiliis at 

 Thomaston and thirty or forty at Camden Uie 

 frei'dit to Boston is about twelve and a iialt cents 

 each cask. They burn about three hundred and 

 fifty casks in one kiln at one burning ; and it re- 

 quires about three men to lake care ol eaeli kiln. 

 The lime rock is generally very hard, and is first 

 blown out of the quarries, then beaten into smal 

 nieces, and carted to the kih.LS which are situated 

 near the landim;s in Thomaston and Camden,— 

 it being cheaper to transiwrt the rock near the 

 wharf wliere the wood is lauded, than to cart the 

 wood to the quarries. The business of making 

 casks for the lime employs huge numbers ot the 

 people in the interior of Waldo county. 



riSII AND FISHING IN MAINE. 



In no part of the world can there be found a 

 greater abundance of excellent fish than in the 

 waters within and adjacent to the bmils ot Maine. 

 Besides the cod, haddock, ctisk, and all the lish 

 commonly caught on the coast more westerly m 

 New England, salmon in great tiuantities are 

 found in the easterly bays and rivers of Maine. 

 On the Penobscot bay this beantil'til fish is easily 

 caught in what we sometimes call fly nets. The 

 salmon is not surrounded in the net, but meeting 

 it in his passage up the stream, the moment he 

 feels the touch of the twine, he rushes forward and 

 is inextricably entangled in the meshes. 



Another mode of taking the salmon practised in 

 the rivers of Maine, is to use a very small silk or 

 hair line with an exceedingly small hook, having 

 for bait an artificial fly. This line is attached to a 

 fishing rod very slender and elastic. The fish 

 seizes the fly as it is permitted to float upon the 

 surface of the water in some eddy, or where the 

 water runs rapidly over a slight fall : and the uio- 

 meut he becomes annoyed by the tickling of the 

 little hook he darts wtth the speed and fury of 

 madness hither and thither, the angler playing 

 with his intended victim, by now checking his 

 speed with a gentle pull upon the line, and now 

 " paying out" the line until the fish is exhausted 

 by his own strngcle, and is quite easily captured. 

 This kind of salmon fishing somewhat resem- 

 bles that of the salmon trout which is a sort of 

 miniature representation of the larger fish in beau- 

 ty of shape and activity, in the cold streams run- 

 ning from the mountains in N. Hampshire ; none 

 but those who have a natural taste with a patient 

 and active arm can well succeed in the angling of 

 trout. Mr. P. of N. Y. of a great Wall St. banking 

 house was aboard the Bangor boat, ImvUig come 

 all the way of luore than three luuidred miles in 

 a rapid passage by car and steam! oat, to enjoy the 

 pleasure of quail or partridge i<liootiiig " down 

 east;" some of the passengers \. .Te so « isr as to 



conjecture that Mr. P had ■• higher gome" in 



view than either quails, partridges or grouse. 

 Although salmon fishing w^as (;ut of season, Mr. 



P at the dinner table, took iiom his pocket a 



neat hook with the artificial fly, such as we have 

 described, and informed us h;'W he had taken 

 other journeys from hoihe luirely for the enjoy- 

 ment of salmon fishing in iMaiue. Nay more, in 

 one season he had bought oft" some half a dozen 

 salmon fishers upon one of the i-niall rivers, 

 paying them for taking up their set lifts, whatever 

 they asked, as high as seven to ten dollars a net, 

 that he might alone enjoy the pleasure nf.ingling 

 for salmon with the fly bait and delirme hook. 

 He succeeded in making the salmon bite and in 

 catching several fish weighing from twelve to 

 Jwcnty pounds, the cost of each of which, jviid in 



THE FARMER'S MOi MHLY VISITOR. 



dollar 



HUNTING DEEK AND MOOSE. 



In the neii;hborhood of Bangor there is much 

 sport lor the huntsman. Deer are killed in abund- 

 ance all along in the up-river rown^ This year 

 they are found in lamer numbers than is usual. 

 The wolves iiursue them, and they are driven 

 from the fore.-ts in towards the settlements. Bears 

 are also caught in considerable numbers. An- 

 other animal called the caiT.boo, about_ hall-way 

 between the deer and the moose, is frequently 

 killed bv the inlmbitaiits on the Penobscot. Dur- 

 ing the deep snows of the winter, the deer collect 

 in'hcrds at some sjiriiis, or upon some runiiiug 

 stream of water, and beat the snow down lor a 

 considerable space around, making for themselves 

 a yard where thev remain in peace except their 

 retreat is discovered bvthe wolves or the hunters 

 hounds. If found in their places of retirement, 

 thev meet with a terrible slaughter, and many 

 more are freipientlv killed than the siiortsman can 

 remove, their carcases being left untouched tor 

 wolves, foxes, and other animals to prey upon. 



The moose is frequently taken in the interior 

 of Maine. A gentleman 'living about six luiles 

 fi-oin Bangor got possession ofa moose calf a few 

 weeks old and kept it for two or three years. The 

 animal became perfectly gentle, and wandering 

 about the adjacent wood procured his accustomed 

 food from the trees and shrubs, and returned 

 home regularly at night. On one unlucky occa- 

 sion his rambles extended too far, and a lundier- 

 man whose lodge was in the neighborhood shot 

 him. The gentleman regretted the loss exceed- 

 ingly, as the animal had become very large and 

 strong, and he bad determined to try the experi- 

 ment of putting him into the yoke for labor. 



CITY OF BANGOR. 



The citv of Bangor, a1 the head of navigation 

 about six iiiilesfVom the iiicjuth of Penobscot bay, 

 contains, according to the census of 1840, eight 

 thousand six hundred and eleven inhabitants 

 The Penobscot river here divides the county of 

 that name from the county of Hancock, v.hich ex- 

 tends from the mouth of the bay on the right or 

 easterly side all the way uj) and beyond Bangor 

 until it reaches the coiui"ty of Washington, which 

 latter county, until it was divided by taking off an 

 extensive tract of land on the north-east corner of 

 the State called the county of Aioostock, embrac- 

 ed the whole distance of the easterly line of Maine 

 bordering on the British province of New Bruns- 

 wick. A rail road has been made fiom Bangor 

 to Orono, up the Penobscnt river twelve miles, 

 where there are falls in the river, and numerous 

 saw mills turning out immense quantities of ma- 

 nufactured lumber. 



Bangor is more favorably situated for an ulti- 

 mate large interior trade than any other city ol 

 New England, with the exception perhaps of 

 Boston. The late speculation carried this city 

 beyond its natural growth, and it has been made 

 to "feel a revulsion which jialsied its trade and 

 business for a time. Yet it is a beautitiil place : 

 it has many elegant buildings. The Kenduskeag 

 river, which here empties into the Penobscot, di- 

 vides the town ; and from the elevated groimd on 

 either side looking over the stream, the view of 

 the private and public buildings and surrounding 

 yards and gardens is pleasing to the eye. A little 

 eastward from the town is an arsenal o\yned by 

 the United States. The avenues leading into the 

 town from liiflerent ilirections are well inatle and 

 anqile roads. Tlie Hangor house is an establish- 

 ment nearly ■' s liu-gc as the Trernout house in 

 Boston ; it v.;u. finished and furnished at an ex- 

 pense of more thnn one hundred thousand dollars, 

 and is kept in .". M.\le that would not discredit an 

 elder city. 



EXCELLr.Nr LAND IN PENOBSCOT. 



Our journey w.'is about forty miles north in the 

 interior of the c-ounty of Penobscot to Dover, the 

 shire town ot Ihe new county of Piscataquis. It 

 was remnrUable that in the month of October we 

 should make fifty miles of this jonrney in a sleigh 

 drawn by a single horse. Leaving Bangor at nine 

 o'clock im Monday morning, October 26, we en- 

 connti-ied a severe snow storm from the north- 

 east. ai:.l hetore we arrived at the meeting house 

 in Kxetcr it lav on the ground nearly six inches in 

 depth. The snow came and lay on tl;e groimd 

 many miles to the south-west nearly as deep as it 

 did here; and all of it was ffwept away in the 



severe rain that followed in the last days of the 

 inonth. We regretted for the moment that the 

 mound should be covered so as to shut out the 

 view of the capacity and CjUality of the soil. 



There is no better country in the northern states 

 for acricultural purposes than the interior of Pen- 

 obscot county. Exeter, Corinth, Garland and 

 Charleston, are all first rate townships. They are 

 situated on the elevation w hicb divides the waters 

 ol the Penobscot and the Kennebeck. The swells 

 of land, sufticiently rolling to carry away the su- 

 perabundant water, are not so steep and not so 

 prominent as the hills of Masssachuselts and New 

 Hamiishire, between the Merrimack and Connec- 

 ticut, or those of Vermont. Roads are made over 

 them in any and every direction laid out in a di- 

 rect line. A large portion of the land is almost 

 entirely free from rocks upon the surface. The 

 soil seems to be underlaid with limestone, which 

 in some cases breaks through to the surface. lu . 

 place of stone walls which are common in other 

 parts of New England, the swamps ; fford excel- 

 lent cedar timber tor the erection of permanent 

 fences. The beauty of the many miles of cedar 

 fences, together with the capacious, well finished 

 barns of the manv farmers, furnished ample evi- 

 dence, although the earth was covered with snow, 

 that tiie soil of this country was of the best kind. 

 The country has not yet been long enough settled 

 to develop its utmost value. Nearly half of this 

 part of the countv of Penobscot yet remains in 

 the original forest! In many of the towns there 

 seems not io be a single acre of waste land. Even 

 the low sunken swamps are valuable for the 

 abihidance of cedar which they produce. The 

 following is the mode in which fences are con- 

 structed Iiom this limber :— the logs are cut at the 

 lencth ol' twelve to sixteen feet, and laid on blocks 

 a little above ground, a transverse short stick or 

 block being placed so that a second shall rest 

 upon the first, and these are extended to the 

 heielit of ibur and five sticks. The next length 

 rests upon the other end of the same blocks as the 

 first. This done, two upright split stakes stand- 

 ing on either side at the point where the logs 

 meet pass through bored holes in a cross split 

 piece which fastens the whole and keeps the large 

 logs in their position until the sticks give way 

 from decay or rottenness. The cedar is .said to 

 be more durable than other timber for fences; 

 even more lasting than chestnut. 



Much of the land in Penobscot county is supe- 

 rior to the best portion of the hill lands in other 

 parts of New England. Excellent fields of Indian 



corn have been there raised during the present 

 season : if too cold lor corn, it is the right kind of 

 land for wheat and oats and peas, and lor [jotatoes 

 and gra.ss. In Exeter and the vicinity ho)) rais- 

 ing has been a business to some extent. Apple 

 trees are here as thrifty as they are in the \ iciiiity 

 of Boston. Ou the declivity of one of those hand- 

 some swells of land liicing a little to the south, 

 near the centre of Exeter, stands one of the most 

 beautiful ajiplc orchards that can be ibund in the 

 country. The country here has not been settled 

 a suflicient time to bring- the earliest orchards to 

 a full bearing. Considerable attention has been 

 jiaid to grafting and inoculation of ajiple trees. 

 Apples iiear a higher price in the market at Ban- 

 gor than they do at Boston. 



POTATOES AN ARTICLE OF COMMERCE. 



Potatoes are a very profitable crop : they are 

 raised twenty-five and thirty miles in the interior, 

 and carried to the seaboard for shipping. The 

 farmers realize much ready money from the pota- 

 toes shi[)i)ed to the southern market. A man in 

 Frankfort, a small jiort on ihe Penobscot, below 

 Bangor, kept an account of the (|uantity of pota- 

 toes luit on ship-board from one wharf in that 

 town, in the year 18.3f, and found that (i5,C0O 

 bushels were shipped during the year lioiii that 

 one wharf Potatoes are a sure crop in that coun- 

 ti-v — they can be raised and secured at an ex- 

 liense not exceeding twelve and a half cents a 

 bushel; and ilie jiricc which the fiu-nier obtains 

 is rarely less than 25 cents the bushel, and some- 

 limes twice that sum. 



"should AULD ACQUAINTANCE EE FORGOT r" 



Among the hundreds of emigrants from New 

 IIam])shire whom we met and took by the hand, 



was the venerable and worthy Capt. J. E , 



from Concord, who with three sons and a son-in- 

 law and their ii'i.iilies have seltied do^vn in the 

 splendid town of Exeter, on and near a tract 



