. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . )ate them 1)\- sjtraxing the vines four or five times inthe season with the Bordeaux mixture, a solution of sulphate ofcopper and carbonate of lime in equal parts, which, ifthoroughl\- done, will keep the fungus from the field. Thespraying is i)erformed with an atomizing machine, and now theinventive genius of Aroostook is exercised upon the prol)lemof the best way to condiine paris green and the fungicitle .solu-tion into one mixture wiiich ma\ be successfull\ applied to thevines in a
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . )ate them 1)\- sjtraxing the vines four or five times inthe season with the Bordeaux mixture, a solution of sulphate ofcopper and carbonate of lime in equal parts, which, ifthoroughl\- done, will keep the fungus from the field. Thespraying is i)erformed with an atomizing machine, and now theinventive genius of Aroostook is exercised upon the prol)lemof the best way to condiine paris green and the fungicitle .solu-tion into one mixture wiiich ma\ be successfull\ applied to thevines in a single I Fl A I MA K I 1 )ii: >i:. With the coming of vSeptember the danger from enemies of thevines has and the jiotato harvest begins. The tubersliave not yet got their full growth, but there is a cry for Aroos-took potatoes from all over the American land, and it is early inthe season that the> fetch the highest prices. The harvest time 86 IX FAIR AROOSTOOK. lasts until the 10th of October, by which time it is safe to assumethat all of Aroostooks potato crop is garnered. The potatoesare dug with a machine which turns them from two rows at onceinto the common furrow i)etween. The picking is done byhand, and is tlie only part of the field work for which no prac-ticable machinery has lieen as yet invented. Bands of men andwomen from distant localities appear in the fall in the countr\ to engage in potato picking, much as the stroll-ers swarm from the New York cities into the hop-growing coun-ties to pick hojis in the harvest season. The small and thedamaged ])
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