. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . Dont trouble to apologize, I answered. The nativebeef, when properly prepared, is vastly better than the westernbeef. Why dont \ou serve it altogether? The farmers will not fatten the animals for market as thewestern animals are fattened, for one thing, he said. f^utthe main reason we do not use the native beef more is that thereare no facilities for keeping it long enough before using. Wehave no cold-storage plants in Aroostook. So we have to relyupon Chicago — or the Boston shippers
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . Dont trouble to apologize, I answered. The nativebeef, when properly prepared, is vastly better than the westernbeef. Why dont \ou serve it altogether? The farmers will not fatten the animals for market as thewestern animals are fattened, for one thing, he said. f^utthe main reason we do not use the native beef more is that thereare no facilities for keeping it long enough before using. Wehave no cold-storage plants in Aroostook. So we have to relyupon Chicago — or the Boston shippers from that cit\-, rather —for our supply of tender, well kept beef. Thus for lack of cold-storage plants, and l)ecause the farmerswill not fatten cattle for the market, Aroostook county, with hergrain fields and superabundance of grass and hay, exports oatsand hay and potatoes to the westward and has to look to Chicagofor beef. And her fields are manured almost wholly with imported 92 IX KAIK fertilizers, instead of llie waste products returned to the sothrough the niedimn of domestic animals. But I find that stockfarming and dair\ino; are steadily coming into vogue in Aroos-took, and that in them, more even than in King Potato, liesthe agricultural lulureol the countw The advantages of Aroos-took for these industries aremanifold. Its grasses are therichest and most luxuriant inthe state ; its pasturage is thefinest in the whole easterncountry ; and the scorchingdroughts of other sections areentirely unknown. As soonas the hay is cut the next cropsprings up, and in September,when the fields in other partsof New hjigland are brownand bare, Aroostook is cover-ed with a rich verdure affording abundant feed until late in thefall. Stock comes to the barn in excellent condition, whereample mows filled with the best of hay. provide their winter keep-ing. The Aroostook .soil, so prolific of all vegetation, is especi-ally adapted for the raising of vegetables in a high de
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