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An independent farm journal Vol 3 No 2 Late Spring Ag Industries 2011

Rains and orderly dirt farming has Next year…

Large effect upon our journal
This edition of the paper was to have
had its focus upon planting, plowing, seeds and
This spring edition, 2012
will likely concentrate upon
a new late spring focus, an
annual agriculture / industri-
al edition.
Two years ago a late spring
dry off in Maine, also hurt
the timely start up of crop-
there has been precious little startup of Maine’s ping in Maine. Such a pivot
major cropping, both in Penobscot and Aroos- is needed journalistically
took. We haven’t a report regards Franklin or for our sanity to get you the
farm news.
Waldo Counties, nor Somerset. However Som-
erset is aptly named and traditionally gathers in - The Publisher
more sun, annually.. Instead we concentrate
this issue upon that we know best as a sheep First Clinic
market publication at heart and ownership, to New Team
Penning
concentrate upon the 2011 lamb crop and the Charleston
prospectus of the sheep farming future in Facility in
Maine. Full start to that on page 6. pictures
Cat mouse with workers, state, lacks vision
Article by the publisher
A private engineering firm with continued
contracted work for the primary controller of
Manufacturers.
firm has made compli-
His and or pivot to stripping
process equipment is
the 2 Millinockets’ mills, Brookfield Power, mentary business ar- not there yet says Day,
indicated to MainelyAgriculture, “We have it rangements with the administratively.
all in front of us but always seem to step right Katahdin Paper Co, “We see the
Graphic by Mainely Agriculture
over it.” LLC that has been bene- potential for the
Richard Day of ficial to and for Day’s Millinocket Mill to be
Day’s Welding & Ma- and KPC mill employ- an incubator along the
chine, Medway offers ees. lines of the spokes of
millwright services, The recent threats to wheel where agricul-
among the firm’s many progress in the region to ture, food production,
other skills as Engi- evaporate local taxes, State lacks vision
neers, Contractors and sell the mills for a dollar Continued to page 2.

NEW ENGLAND LIVESTOCK EXPO INSIDE: Memorial Day 2011

meaning to present
Alternative Fodders: Profile:
On page 9
War on Terror.

Soy vs Fish meal Billy Webster

Contributed photo from NELE

Academic studies Five sheep holding generations of the

should be dusted off Websters are represented by a grandfather, Pop
and reconsidered in (d) dad to Bill, his brother and children, Phil and

McCain Foods co-founder dies at 81

farming when new mar- children and grandchildren within the show cir-
ket trends influence the cuit sheep show realm that is the Maine summer
same. We look at soy- fair season. Phil and Bill and families have been
beans and fish meal for mentors to many kids and adults entering the poor
feeding lambs this issue man’s golf game that is the spirit of showmanship Wallace and previously deceased brother
to help producers gain and crafting the true look of the breeds. We turn Harold established the french fry capital of Mc
more feed value per lb / to Billy this profile starting on page 7, offering up Cain Foods in Florenceville, New Brunswick.
fodder, on page 9. his steadfast tale. The rise this close relationship border town has to
Maine was influential to not just Canada and the
Vous parlez rest of the consuming pubic, but to Maine itself
Francais ? “We rush so you can flush” Next Issue for the number of employees based in Easton and
Easton is the largest frozen potato operation on
Notre colonne
Valley View Septic Focus: the East Coast with more than 500 workers. Mc
Sur l’agriculture
Par notre Serving the State Fair Cain died at home in Toronto, May 15.
Corporate structure is the major buyer of the
variously grown Aroostook potato types and the
Investments of the
Correspondante Tri-County Area from Charleston Season
Francaise
‘Est on page 4 285-7374 717-6194 2011
number of farmers this company assists enlargens
that above number of workers to make their fami-
ly legacy a place in the sun for Maine farming.
great wars p 12
DORR’S EQUIPMENT CO.
468 Hammond St. - Bangor, Maine 04401
Ph 945-5965 Or 942-4655 Fx 990-4924
2 Spring Agriculture/Industies Issue Mainely Agriculture has said it will begin decommissioning the mills. Publisher’s Note: By invitation only, a meeting
State lacks vision nomy unrecovered from In the meantime, the layoffs have stoned a ripple between the new Governor, Brookfield Asset
a September 2008 clo- effect around the region with local businesses Management and leaders of the communities af-
Continued from page 1.
sure of the company’s suffering, as much, with most of their customer fected was held May 25 at a local eatery. No
natural resources production items can be ongoing sister mill in Millinock- base without work of any kind. announcements were forthcoming from that for
products manufactured when orders dictate so et. That closure left 150 our press date. No statements to the press was
workers are multi-tasking, trained individuals and workers jobless. State L ayoffs are one thing, permanent closure expected. It remains to be seen if this Governor
are able to jump from one trade to another in and local government and mothball yet another. Mothball implies a has any ideas positive about what to do with what
manufacturing and for service providers in a space officials are working to future. Far greater the threat to the community is left of the paper plantation that is and was Great
like the spoke of a wheel to fill the spokes of sweet talk investors to Katahdin Paper has voiced, suggested tearing out Northern Paper Company. The mess that is the
working pies available to this approach for this revitalize those mills by equipment, shipping it out, stripping and laying present leadership controlling the mills is root
region. The Katahdin Paper Co. LLC mill in East July 31, when mill par- bare the inadequacy of an apparent poor leader- cause to the present demise. For comment:
Millinocket closed on April 1, sending home near- ent company Brookfield ship is quite another animosity most workers pvsmilksheep@aol.com
ly 450 workers into the challenged regional econ- Asset Management we’ve talked with get instantly red faced about.
May 21
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Agriculture is Bangor – USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced they anticipate House,
dropped at many receiving Fiscal Year 2011 Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) program funds for irrigation Hammond
southern Maine assistance to landowners needing the same in Maine and therefore are accepting applications until Tractor
Irving stations. July 1, 2011. Another program titled EQIP sign in is also July 1 and has a broader small farm impact.
AMA, administered by NRCS, is available in 16 states where participation in the Federal Crop
Union
Auburn,
Farmington, Insurance Program is historically low. AMA assists agricultural producers to manage risk and
Kittery, and voluntarily address water management, water quality, and erosion control by incorporating conserva-
tion practices into all farming operations. “This Those opposed to the
selected Mass, &
New Hampshire
(and other) program(s) give landowners an addi- Voter turnout for yes vote were deter-
Katti M. Webb tional opportunity to construct or improve their the recent city referen- mined to see the city
refueling sites Independent Dental Hygienist
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drivers of: Dover-Foxcroft, ME conservation practices,” said Juan Hernandez, shadow of Paul Bunyan household taxes. That
Hartt Trucking, 207 564-0095 State Conservationist for NRCS in Maine. “This is past. The Bangor city no vote lost by a wide
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12 Stillwater Ave., Bangor handed the vote to the Northern Maine will
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soon as all ducks are
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from the present facility the race track also will
to the new will take benefit farmers, with lo-
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What’s your favorite Port?
Maine ports are in the news again as AFL New stock. Other Maine river
England launches a new feeder station at Port- ports such as the Brewer
Cianbro Dock and Winter-
land in June. The 20 container ship size vessel port could likewise handle
will have its primary port of call - Halifax - and a ship size of this size.
return with ancillary drops to Beantown and back News Release: Two weeks after helping to secure work
Dredging left undone at
from the National Guard to keep the current Aroostook
to Halifax under the cover of “The American Winterport. However, there
off farm work force employed into the first quarter of
Feeder Lines’ New England. Coming with the is a long airstrip in town
fiscal year 2012, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced in
shipper’s announcement is the notion Maine ports Winterport likewise moth-
late May, she helped set up Maine Military Authority
balled, waiting for business
are few and far between with praise for Portland. types with a better plan to
with an additional $3.2 million contract.
Most fishermen know this to be partially true, Waite, Maine antique fill up WGS pix Collins, a member of both the Senate Armed Services
marry far faster Atlantic
Portland is closer to the primary customer(s) for Committee and the Senate Defense Appropriations Sub-
regular shipments of carrageenan in this instance , a
Maine produced seaweed food extract and faster
shipping will get started soon. Also a press recogni-
shipping / manufacturing
with the needs for Maine
and the nation. An example
cited by a previous owner
Maine Grass Farmers Network Editor passes
What began as a teleconference board meeting of
committee, was instrumental in securing the contract
from the General Services Administration. Employees
will refurbish 80 high-tech, communications Humvees
for the United States Army Communications-Electronics
tion with this announcement is the new status for the of Winterport Docks is the grass farmer interests arranged by Diane Schivera, Command. This contract also will secure jobs until 2012.
city of Eastport and Maine’s new option above the former food locker building Paula Roberts and Alice Begin with NRCS coodi- In total, the Army has provided $9.3 million in new
fray of the middle American states to be the new east left spoiled to be converted nation, some 6-7 years ago, rapidly developed into Maine work since April 2010. A contingent of senior
to manufacturing by enti-
coast port of disembarkation and import for live an excellent newsletter edited by sheep farmer Pau- Army officials that included Major General Raymond
ties needing air and sea lift
la Roberts of Meadowsweet Farm, Swanville. A Carpenter, the chief of the Army National Guard visited
status. Empty now for
long time sheep farmer, she and husband Sumner the plant at Loring recently..
more than a dozen years.
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First 100 days for Governor convoluted
Maine Governor Paul Le Page doesn’t think before he
speaks. He thinks ruffling feathers is a parlor game. He
seems not to care if talented people in state government are
quitting right and left to get themselves away from any
association with his administration. He lacks vision and
does not yet know he is a one term governor.
In my age group, I go back as far as Gov John Reed and
THE AMERICAN’S CREED c 1941
for me the best Governor since then was Jim Longley. Jim
Longley knew he was a one term Governor and pledged it in
his campaign to not ask the voters again for another term..
Nutshell view: Brennan, a spender. McKernan, a
caretaker like Reed. King, a seeker of higher office, while
this Governor and Baldacci added more than one monkey
wrench in new cronyism, the schools and Baldacci was
wishy washy on most issues, and now Le Page, health care
and public television. What next?
Paul Le Page has to grow up and start facing state
problems quietly with direction not stupid quotes for the
sake of stupid quotes. That is extremely boring and counter
productive. I seriously doubt he can muster in new invest-
ments into Maine industry as he only seems to know whole-
sale / retail. Not enough yet Mr Le Page.
Reid dislikes the President’s
Israel-Palestinian Border Stance
What you have inherited from
your fathers, earn over
again for yourselves - with: Fabienne Prost, Paris -
or it will not be yours. www.caracolivres.com
Tel: 0975 768 760/03 84 25 17 78
skype: prost.fabienne
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Lasting friendships…hers
Politics is not a bad Après quoi court t’on ?
profession! If you succeed Après quoi court t’on? Après l’amour, le bonheur, la réussite, l’accomplissement et
there are many rewards, finalement la mort? Dans cette course en avant, il y a parfois des pauses qui sont les
bienvenues. Mon séjour à Fishguard en fut une. Le voyage, comme une page blanche,
if you disgrace yourself comme une virgule dans une vie, un soupir dans une partition, un passage ou un pont
you can always write a book. entre deux pages de vie.
- Attributed to Ronald Reagan J’errais à Fishguard. Non pas à la recherche des fantômes du passé, et de ces sacrées
~ bonnes femmes qui, avec leurs manteaux rouges et leurs fourches ont fait la légende de
ce petit port de pêche du Pays de Galles. Non, plutôt à la recherche de moi-même. Entre
certitudes et incertitudes. Quel chemin choisir ? Quel est le bon ou le moins mauvais ?
Dans cette petite auberge de globe-trotters, tenue par le savoureux Steve, j’ai rencontré
Wallace, avec qui nous avons partagé des moments, et de grandes discussions sur la vie,
son expérience de journaliste, sur l’acte d’écrire, la vocation, etc..Et ses encouragements,
ses idées m’ont aidé à passé le cap de la nouvelle page de ma vie.
De retour, nous avons maintenu le fil, et deux ans après, il m’a gentiment proposé de
participer à son journal, ce que j’ai fait volontiers.
De questions en questions, de rencontres en rencontres, d’obstacles en obstacles, on tisse
le fil de nos vies, pas toujours comme on l’avait imaginé au départ, mais vaille que vaille,
comme de bons petits soldats sur le grand champ de bataille de la vie.
TRANSLATION
What are we running after? Do we run for Love, Happiness, Success, Achievement and
ultimately Death? In this racing ahead, sometimes pauses are welcome. My stay at Fishguard was
one. The trip, like a blank page, like a comma in a lifetime, a sigh in a partition, a passage or a bridge
between two pages of life. I wandered in Fishguard. Not looking for ghosts of the past, and those
darn good women who, with their red coats and forks made the legend of this small fishing port in
Wales. No, instead looking for myself. Between certainties and uncertainties. What path to choose?
What is the good one or the less bad? In this small Hostel for Backpackers, held by Steve, a very
nice fellow, I met Wallace, with whom we have shared moments, and great discussions about Life,
his experience as a Journalist, about the act of Writing, Vocation, etc. .. And his encouragement, his
ideas helped me past a new page in my life. Back home, we kept in touch, and three years ago, he
kindly invited me to participate in his Newspaper, which I did willingly.
What are we running for, all of us ? I don’t have the answer. What I see is that, we weave the
threads of our lives, not always as we had originally imagined, but somehow, like good little soldiers
on a large field of battle called life.

Barack Obama has lost at least one ally for his Arab Spring
viewpoint on the Mid East. Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid rejects Obama’s recent talk in which he called for Israel
to negotiate peace with the Palestinians using pre-1967
borders as a baseline.
“The place where negotiating will happen must be at the
negotiating table — and nowhere else,” Reid told the Amer-
ican Israel Public Affairs Committee. “Those negotiations .
. . will not happen — and their terms will not be set —
Lasting friendships…his
Going back in time to when Fabienne Prost and I met and how we discussed media and making a
so-called living in it, and how independent one can be with such that is self directed and self
Founding Publisher
employed work, began this long term correspondence. A back packers lodge in Fishguard, Wales
& Editor
has a sort of romance that kept me going there on three different trips, 20 + years ago. I didn't do
WG Sinclair much but sit & read geographic, watch hikers & walk the streets of that small village, take local
busses inter-town here and there. Visit the college town Bangor,
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Wales on a bay with high mountains and sea shore view. Trips
that were partially business as I wanted to visit sheep farms and
Yak at farming shows, talk sheep with a few in-towners, look at
local women and debate with myself the notion of a trip across the
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little and food shops, but the tale of the American mercenary and
through speeches, or in the streets, or in the media,” reported the French Invasion that never happened - turned totally around -
Politico. Active Duty Military get the paper FREE within a bit of Wales history intrigued. I loved it there. The
As for the borders issue, “No one should set premature French surrendered at the local pub when the Welsh miners soon
parameters about borders, about building, or about anything Service personnel must
ran up from the holes in the earth but first with the women holding
in front of them scaring the Yank and the French. Those Welsh
else,” Reid chided. Dairy farmer
Vol 3 No 1 Logging women
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have private email to get
in black and red hoods must have been fearful ! Homely
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LURC Debate started after log drives A ship, only to be foiled by women with pitch forks, scythe and
Biology Scientist Howard Trotsky led others to abolish the the Or anyone can go to:
swords as the men were working mines became a quip (a funny
photo
Emily Adams

Scott Paper Company log drives in the early 70’s. That was
needed. What resulted from the legislature, and perhaps he
voted for the same as he later ran and won a seat, was the
creation of the Land Use Regulation Commission to oversee
unorganized territories through-out Maine. Since then
LURC faced Piscataquis County towns and others across the
a feed store, local restaurant, quick pick,
history) that enlightened my love of the fairer sex even more and
wind www.scribd.com to read
so I hung out to see if I could spot a rendition of one of those
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ancestors walking the street and have a chat. Never happened, the
ghost never appeared. I smiled at the same women each day. We
met, Fabienne and me, and have remained in touch all these years
Most farmers reading this issue found it at having walked the seashore one time for a lasting kinship picnic.
Just words to the effect that friendship has longevity, the things
that last. My words in English, hers above, a separate view,

gasoline station etc. Now mailed first class.

present her take on this chance meeting, this comradeship bring-
state that have blocked mountain top subdivisions for Plum ing French to such readers now as a writing volunteer for
Creek and others while approving individual projects on a To get the newspaper by postal mail, Mainely Agriculture.

case by case basis. Now some members of the legislature

want to throw LURC to the wind to save money and perhaps
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Maine State Grange News

Our activities each quarter
Submitted by Lois Zezima
June 28th Granite Grange #192, located at the Odd
Fellow-Masonic Hall on Main Street in Searsport
will have a fund-raiser. It will be a comedy fashion
show and a “mock” wedding. Ralph Hammond will
play the part of the bride and I will be the groom.
Time will be 7 P.M. Price will be $3.99 which
includes refreshments to be served afterwards
Submitted by Sue Hackett
Summer is fast approaching and so are events that
are held annually in the youth and junior depart-
ments. Our Yard Camp; Bake Sale is scheduled for
June 24, 11 to 6pm and June 25 8 to 1pm. We will
need lots of help and lots of customers. We have
some very nice furniture and merchandise coming in,
and we will certainly except more.
July 8 to 10 is the Northeastern Regional Youth
Conference in Brunswickat Bowdoin College. Bow-
doin is an extremely nice college with lots of shade
trees and on flat ground. Whether you are on the
youth or junior committees or not we can use your
help, if you can help please call Sue at 666-8849.
We need judges for the Public Speaking contest,
Sign-A-Song, Finger Spelling, and Drill Competi-
tion. Juniors, Youth, and Senior youth are you work-
ing on your projects for judging at the camp out? It’s
coming right up July 23. Youth Camp will be held
on August 5,6, & 7 at State Grange Headquarters.
Jr Camp is August 14 to 19.
Submitted by Tom Clark
Aroostook Penobscot Union Pomona #17 will meet
at Grand Lake #375 June 4th. Pot Luck Supper at
six o’clock, meeting to follow.

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Hay year should be good
Bill Webster, sheepman of your show of shows
“One step at a time,” Bill Webster said when Bill has been off the sheep show circuit for a The price of wool at
speaking about the craftsmanship to fitting and couple years due to a work accident which saw mills is coming up for the
showing sheep at fairs in Maine. He knows, he him fall through two stories in a barn and fractur- growers also. Hand
has taught hundreds of young people and adult ing bones to the extent one leg is now shorter than spinners market wisely
gatherers listening in making mental unspoken the other. He has been on the mend after pins, 4 and make the most from
notes at state fairs in Maine and the rest of New screws etc. were necessary and a left knee joint is the fleeces they either
England for well over 40 years. next on the medical front to be repaired. buy or grow out. It
He has judged sheep at the Fredericton Exhibi- makes for more than just
He will be out with the family this season however a farm hobby in Maine
tion, New Brunswick among his many accom-
doing such fairs as Bangor, Skowhegan, Piscataquis and elsewhere and sheep
plishments. Not the least of which was to have
Valley, Fryeburg and out of state to the Big E, a ownership is quite well
been able to see, with the wife his two children fond competition for many in Maine with good known to be entry level
earn 4-H money for school supplies, clothes and sheep and that is to say Maine farms hold their own agriculture. A lot of fun
to understand chores and animals. Mentioning in any contest there and remains a competitive lot, and learning. A fair sea-
Maine families like the Haywards, Holmquists witness the nationally known Sugarloaf Dorsets and son as a place for com-
and others over the years who have brought up others of the recent past. radery, sport, summer
their children the same way, he likens sheep sun, new friends, new
shows to more than a way of life for the summer He has seen many changes now that he is 48.
vistas and learning so
with the family but as a kind of sport. Competi- Among such changes is the fact Easter lambs on the much from other farmers

New England
tion is not the most important thing but the wins Boston market fetch $3 pound and are holding at $2 free to impart and share
are always celebrated with pats on the back to for the farmer steadily after Easter. your new found fun.
other shepherds for the good examples of breed
character they bring to the circuit.
First Clinic
New Team
Livestock Expo
What is this life if, full of care,
“Slick shearing” is the new trend, Bill or Billy to We have no time to stand and stare. Penning
his friends commented and youngsters are miss- -- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies
ing out. Not his words, he likens fitting sheep as
Charleston Windsor - The Fair-
a parlor craft on the wane and thereby is missing Facility Maple Lane Farm grounds take on a fes-
from a lot of the fairs he positioned lately. Yes, tive look each year in
the slick shorn shows the true meat animal but late May with the annu-
good judges have nimble fingers to gauge meat to al display of goats,
to bone ratio and without the dress out, the true sheep, cattle, rabbits
look of the beast character is missing for a fine and Llama when farms
comb run over with electric shears. Hardly a true from all over bring in
look at what an animal can be. A fair like the the best animals to sell,
Fredericton Exhibition positions fitting an equal fleece to barter and the
part of breed expression. A dynamic for audience state sheep association
and sheep shepherds alike to view and aspire. has the first of two
“The art of showing sheep,” Bill says, is “…fad- events in which to
ing fast.” gather wool for their
annual wool pool.
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Blue Hill
Maine Shearing 101
Fiber animals in Maine are shepherds,
gaining ground. The number
of good shearers increase each early spring
year to meet demand. This is All Photography by Jesse Schwarcz c
healthy to a larger agriculture
overall and augurs Billings Pond Farm, located on a Blue Hill blue-
well the aspect of en- berry stand is a good example of grade animal sheep produc-
try level ovine care tion in Central Maine. Corrine and Bob Sucsi oversee the
and potential earn- lot of mixed ovine annually and garner their wool for the
ings from sheep.
Wool buyers mill and sell wool bags with the pool offered by Central
trending into Maine Sheep
Association..
. Some years it
is exported
to New Bruns-
wick. Briggs and Little of Harvey Station, New Brunswick buys Maine wool
depending upon price and amounts. Some years, Central Maine Sheep Producers shift
Maine look- to Bartlettyarns of Harmony, Maine as these two oldest running mills of the province
ing for clean and Maine both offer testimony to the longevity for wool fiber and pricing with a
wool can recent upswing, nationwide. Expectations are that mill buyers will increase prices as
find it at well this year but remains to be seen with bidding. Bartlettyarns sends a truck directly
multiple fairs
with scales and Briggs and Little matches prices and pays for importation. Each buyer
and farms
caters to Maine farmers selling fall and early spring
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Soybean meal or raw soybeans with commodity Table 4. Effect of fish meal on growth & feed intakes.
No fish Commodity Sea-Lac P-value no P-value CFM

grade or Sea-Lac fish meal for rapidly growing out lambs

Item meal fish meal fish meal SE FM vs FM vs SLFM
Initial
wt, lb 37 36 36 1.0 ns ns
Final
Table 1. Composition of experimental diets wt, lb 64 63 63 1.2 ns ns
By Michael L. Thonney and Brian H. Magee, Cornell University Raw soybeans Soybean meal Ave lb
No fish Commodity Sea-Lac No fish Commodity Sea-Lac daily gain 0.64 0.63 0.63 0.020 ns ns
meal fish meal fish meal meal fish meal fish meal Daily intake
Introduction Ingredient % of DM dry matter
Previous research at Cornell has shown that lambs grow faster and Agway
intake, lb 3.83 3.45 3.60 0.091 0.006 ns
more efficiently if 2 to 3% fish meal is included in the diet to replace an sheep salt 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
Ammonium Dry matter
equivalent amount of protein from soybean meal. Recent soybean meal prices Chloride 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 /gain 3.02 2.74 2.86 0.071 0.008 ns
have been low, however, more information is needed on the substitution value Barley 66.8 70.2 69.8 70.6 72.1 72.0 Gain/dry
Bovatec 68 Matter 0.331 0.368 0.351 0.0091 0.010 ns
of fish meal for soybean meal. In addition to commodity grade fish meal, (68g/lb) 0.0221 0.0221 0.0221 0.0221 0.0221 0.0221
Omega Protein makes a high quality fish meal, Sea-Lac, designed specifically Sea-Lac Lambs were blocked on sex and location within the barn.
fish meal 3
for the dairy industry. One objective of the experiment was to determine if the Commodity Table 5. Effect of gender* on growth & feed intakes.
characteristics of Sea-Lac fish meal result in better lamb growth and feed fish meal 3 3 Item Ram Ewe SE P-value
efficiency than commodity grade fish meal. Limestone 1.88 1.7 1.6 1.91 1.7 1.63 Initial weight, lb 38 34 0.8 0.001
CoPhos 0.33 0.1 0.45 0.15 0.07
Sheep unit 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.125 0.125 Final weight, lb 67 59 1.0 0.001
With soybean meal prices low, some lamb growers have expressed vitamin premix Avedaily gain, lb 0.68 0.59 0.016 0.001
interest in using their own raw soybeans as a source of supplemental protein. Soybeans 12.7 6.75 7.3 Daily dry matter
Soybean
Thus, the value of diets with raw soybeans compared to soybean meal and diets meal 8.8 4.75 5
intake, lb 3.77 3.49 0.072 0.008
with part of the protein supplied by commodity-grade or Sea-Lac fish meal Soy hulls 15 15 15 15 15 15 Dry matter/gain 2.80 3.00 0.056 0.043
were compared. Vegetable Gain/dry matter 0.359 0.341 0.0072 0.069
Oil 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2
Cornell University test pens, 1999 soybean study.

* Gender was a blocking effect that included the effect of

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 gender and pen location.

Chemical composition is shown in Table 2.

Conclusions
Raw soybeans are almost as effective as soybean meal in
All diets were designed to contain 15% crude protein. The
providing supplemental protein to lambs fed barley-based
analyzed concentration of crude protein was slightly high-
diets. Although lambs fed diets containing soybean
er than anticipated.
meal grew slightly faster, lambs fed diets containing raw
Table 2. Chemical analysis of experimental diets soybeans consumed less feed so that feed efficiency was
Raw soybeans Soybean meal the same. Including fish meal at 3% of the diet improved
No fish Commodity Sea-Lac No fish Commodity Sea-Lac
Nutrient meal fish meal fish meal meal fish meal fish meal feed efficiency by about 8%. Commodity fish meal was at
% of DM least as effective as Sea-Lac fish meal for improving feed
Crude efficiency. Adding fish meal to the diet did not improve
proiein 15.9 16.5 15.9 15.3 15.5 15.9
NDF 23.7 19.8 26.8 27.4 25.2 26.4 rate of gain.
CA 1.31 1.45 1.25 1.06 1.10 1.38 The authors wish to thank Jeff Johnson and
PH 0.45 0.48 0.50 0.47 0.41 0.47 Omega Protein for supporting the Cornell Sheep Program
K 0.95 0.88 0.93 1.00 0.82 0.88 by supplying fish meal for this and other experiments.
Results Mainely Agriculture would like to thank Dr. Thonney for
Two pens of ram lambs – one fed the diet containing raw permission to reprint this concise report at the start of the
soybeans and Sea-Lac fish meal and one fed the diet 2011 growing out lamb season and hope soy and or fish
Procedures containing soybean meal and Sea-Lac fish meal – went off meal finds more common useage for producers, as we
feed and had to be removed from the experiment. Thus, have seen with our sheep. - The Publisher
Seventy-two purebred Dorset lambs (36 rams and 36 ewes) born in
January and February 1999 in the Cornell Dorset flock were used in this the experimental data consisted of observations on 34
experiment. Lambs were assigned two to each elevated, expanded metal floor
pens of lambs. Lambs fed the soybean meal diets gained
faster (P<0.05) than lambs fed the raw soybean diet but
The Maine Agency of
pen so that there were 36 pens of lambs (18 pens of rams and 18 pens of ewes) feed intake was lower (P<0.03) for lambs fed the raw Farm Family Insurance
as experimental units. The experiment was a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement of the soybean diet so source of soy protein had no effect on
following treatments: 1) soybean meal or 2) raw soybeans, each with 1) no fish feed efficiency. We have an agent near you.
meal, 2) 3% commodity grade fish meal replacing an equivalent amount of
Table 3. Effect of soybeans or soybean meal on Mike Fitzpatrick Miller Associates Andy Daigle
protein from soybean meal or whole soybeans, and 3) 3% Sea-Lac fish meal growth and feed intakes of lambs. 309 Main Street 636 US Rt One Box 7 400 Main Street
replacing an equivalent amount of protein from soybean meal or raw soybeans. Raw Soybean Brewer Scarborough Madawaska
The lambs were placed in experimental pens on 17 March 1999 and the Item soybeans meal SE P-value 207-989-8880 207-510-6301 207-728-4348
experiment was started on 19 March 1999. The experiment ended on 30 April Initial weight, lb 36 36 0.7 ns
Ron Kofstad Ralph Russo Randy Lincoln
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weekly. Ingredient composition of the experimental diets is shown in Table 1. Average daily Presque Isle Richmond Houlton
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Daily dry
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There was no effect of fish meal on average
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more feed (P<0.006) and were less efficient (P<0.010) 60 Main Street 269 Atlantic Highway P O Box 32
than lambs fed diets with fish meal. There was no differ- Bucksport Warren Alfred
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containing commodity fish meal or Sea-Lac fish meal.
Additional note: Should readers wish to try soy this feeding season, if available by ordering at your local feed store, buy pelleted soy
hulls or wheat midds and feed about 50% with corn. Midds or soy hulls have much more digestible fiber than alfalfa and will improve intake.
www.sheep.cornell.edu/management/economics/cspsoftware/feedform/20091116_FermentableFiber.pdf.
Midds have the advantage of higher protein and lower cost. Also, be sure your sheep have access to an appropriate sheep mineral mix.
www.sheep.cornell.edu/management/feeding/agwaymineraltag.html. - Dr. Mike Thonney www.farmfamily.com
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June 17 and 18 Yard sale
to benefit the Master Gar-
dener Demonstration Gar-
den at Rogers Farm. The
Yard Sale will be held at
410 Union Street in Bangor
near Mansfield Stadium.
FYI call 942-7396 and ask
for Kate or Theresa.
June 17 10am to noon Uni-
versity of Maine Coopera-
tive Extension will be
offering a tour of Castine's
historical trees. Jan Ames
Santerre, Project Canopy
Coordinator with the Maine
Forest Service, will lead a
tour of the historical elms
and the many other note-
worthy trees that can be
found in Castine. Castine is
one of the few towns in the
entire country where a large
number of elms survive,
many of which are over 150
years old. The tour will be-
gin at the oldest post office
in the United States. We will
also visit and measure the
next elm to be crowned
champion in the "Maine
Register of Big Trees". This
event is free and open to the
public, but pre-registration
is requested. Please call the
UMaine Extension office in
Cumberland County at 800-
287-1471 (in Maine) or
207-781-6099 before Mon-
day, June 13.
June 18, 10am-noon
Spring Pruning Workshop
hosted by the Beatrix Far-
rand Society at Garland
Farm in Bar Harbor. This
event is open to the public.
Cost is $10 for members of
the Beatrix Farrand Society,
and $15 for nonmembers,
payable at the event. Regis-
tration is limited; to reserve
a space for the Spring Prun-
ing Workshop, call 207-
288-0237. Garland Farm is
located at 475 Bayview
Drive, Bar Harbor.
www.beatrixfarrandsociety.
org. Contact Lois Stack,
lois.stack@maine.edu
June 28, 6pm The Good,
The Bad, The Bugly: a
panel of Cooperative Exten-
sion experts talk home gar-
dening. FREE educational
program hosted at the Rog-
ers Farm Master Gardener
Demonstration Garden on
the Bennoch Road in Still-
Egg time
Eagle Lake Togue Fishing
By Matthew LaRoche
Here is a unique twist for hamburgers for your Superintendent Allagash Wilderness Waterway
in Maine, family. Use grass fed ground goat for an interesting
Be careful taste experience. This recipe should make some
succulent goat-burger patties for you and your fam- Togue fishing on Eagle Lake in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway
driving. ily to enjoy! (AWW) is one of the rites of spring for many fishermen. Eagle Lake is a
9,542-acre, deep-water lake in the middle of the Allagash headwater lakes.
1 lb ground goat or lamb It is well known as one of the premier togue fishing lakes in the State of
1 medium sweet onion, chopped
Maine.
1 teaspoon of dried rosemary leaves
1 teaspoon of dried thyme leaves Read carefully, because I’m going to explain the Brady Scott method of
1 teaspoon of dried cilantro fishing for togue. You need a stout, deep-trolling rod with a flexible tip, a large reel with
1 teaspoon of ground cumin at least eight colors of lead line, with a ball bearing swivel attached at the end of the lead
Prices up for 1 teaspoon of sea saltBlack pepper to taste line. After the swivel, put on a plastic rudder, then a large single spoon, and then a No.
Lamb and wool 2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
2 sewing hook with a 3-foot leader. Brady actually made his own spoons; he gave me
one back in 1978 that I still use today. His homemade spoons were made out of the side
Easter is a holiday that tra- of a chrome toaster. They were bigger than the commercially available Murray spoons.
2 tablespoons of olive oil
ditionally sees a lot of lamb With these larger spoons, it is easier to feel the bottom of the lake. After you get rigged
meat consumed, adding up as explained above, you need to sew on live bait. We always put out a bait trap and
stress to a market that was 1.. In a medium skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the oil used the bait out of that lake. A 4- to 6-inch chub is what we always used. Sewing on a
already low on supply. Go- over medium to high heat. Add the onion, lower the bait fish is a little tricky; it takes some practice, but most fishermen can master the skill
ing into the Easter holiday, heat, and sauté for about 20 minutes until nicely in a few tries if they can find someone to show them how it is done. Basically, you insert
A week earlier, a rack was browned and caramelized. Be careful to not allow the hook through the nose of the fish twice, then thread the hook just under the skin near
$16.24 a pound. Another onions to stick to skillet. Set aside to cool. the dorsal fin, and then go over the back and place the hook just under the skin near the
example of the growing 2.. Place the ground goat, lamb or mutton in a
tail with the point of the hook facing up. You need to do this all fairly quickly so that
world protein demand, he mixing bowl, mix in the onions, rosemary, thyme,
your bait is nice and lively. The bait must swim behind the spoon and not spin. If the bait
explained, along with
cilantro, cumin, salt, pepper, cumin, mustard, and spins, it won’t work; take it off and sew on another bait fish.
drought and flooding prob-
lems in Australia and New Worcestershire sauce.
Now you need to figure out how deep and where to fish; a fish finder can help
Zealand, large sheep-pro- 3.. Shape the ground mixture into 4 to 6 patties.
with this. Brady would always fish the same locations: in front of the ranger camp, off
ducing nations, that have 4.. Grill the patties over the hottest part of your bbq,
the north shore of Little Eagle, and off the so-called proposed campsite. In early June,
decimated flocks down un- turning once, until nicely charred and cooked to
the togue will be in about 25 feet of water, and they will move out into deeper water as
der. And they can’t afford to your liking, 5-6 minutes per side for medium.
the summer progress and the water temperature warms. One more important detail --
ship lamb to the U.S. be- 5.. When done, serve with your favorite hamburger
when you troll for togue you need to go as slowly as possible; the slower the better! You
cause of our weak dollar. buns, sliced cheese, fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and
need to feel the thump-thump-thump of the spoon as it is dragged just off the bottom of
Prices to consumers have your favorite condiment-such as ketchup, mustard,
the lake. When the spoon actually hits the bottom, the thumping will stop; reel up a little
increased significantly. In
mayonnaise, barbeque, or other sauce. bit until the thumping starts again. If you can follow the bottom along, by the feel of the
addition to weather prob-
spoon, you should catch a togue in a short period of time. From mid June to the middle
lems in Australia and New - John & Phyllis Williams blackrock@hughes.net blackrock-
of July, the togue fishing on Eagle and the other Allagash headwater lakes can be
Zealand, New Zealand is jack
fantastic. The spring fishing is usually excellent, the campsites are well maintained, and
also losing land to a grow-
ing dairy industry, which in turn is reducing the land where sheep are raised. And, he said, the rangers are friendly. There are special laws regulating watercraft on the AWW.
See regulations at http://www.state.me.us/doc/parks/programs/aww/awwrules.htm For
those two countries have found new markets for lamb in Middle East countries, as good
or better than in the United States. The economies of those countries have improved more information on the AWW, go to: www.maine.gov/doc/parks/ or call 207-941-
4014, email heidi.j.johnson@maine.gov or write to the Bureau of Parks & Lands, 106
where better-quality protein products, such as lamb, are affordable. Historic lamb prices
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June 11, Group Shelter Area, Reid
LURC Public Hearing Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners News
to use to diagnose diseases first annual Maple Ma-
by diagnostic post-mor- State Park, Georgetown; performances by nia maple festival will
tem animal exams with two soloists and two bands; free with park be held June 9-11 on the
on Bowers Wind highly effective contain- admission; for more information, call: 207 campus of U Maine,
Power Project, pub- Legislature Repeals Pesticide ment, to protect people,
371-2303. This park is Maine’s most popu- Farmington for three
lic testimony, 6 p.m., plants and other animals
Monday, June 27,
Spray Notification Registry against disease. lar and last year attracted more than 181,000 days. Producers will of-
The UMaine team works visitors. Earlier this year, it opened for the fer instruction, a trade
Tuesday, June 28, MOFGA writes: and it rejected a bill with many types of agri- show and visits to local
Mattanawcook to implement a clear Super Moon viewing event and welcomed
This has been a pretty cultural producers all maple stands. For ques-
Academy, Lincoln; and concise notifica- Maine. To offer services between 400-500 visitors able to see the tions about the event
dismal legislative
Staff, applicant and tion system for all that aren't available else- extraordinarily large-appearing moon from telephone 1 800 642-
session as far as pesti-
intervenor testimo- outdoor pesticide
where, and help the veteri- Reid’s beach not far from Augusta. 9571.
ny, 8:00 a.m. Tues-
cide safety is con- nary profession but also
cerned. At the behest spraying. - from- the farmers directly via Insulated exterior Letters to the
day, June 28,
Lincoln, and 9:30 of the pesticides in- MOFGA email news service, education and
water jacketed Editor must have

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consultation. I hope you'll phone and town
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ly 6, Spectacular ture voted to abolish pvsmilksheep.com
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osecurity, and the work we
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Bowers Mountain Wind Farm. The LURC com- seeking notification ease? Dr. Anne Lich-
mission must determine whether the application about nearby aerial tenwalner spoke at
meets the statutory criteria for approval. Interest- and air carrier pesti- Fiber Folic about Bio
ed members of the public are invited to attend and cide spraying. It also Security, see
can offer testimony. FYI, call Fred Todd, LURC rejected a bill that www.Fiberfrolic.com Tanja N. Ebel, D.V.M.
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Cornville Farm & Home 474-9689 Monson General Store 997-3964 Paris Farmer's
Russ Dodge New Sharon 776-4748 Morse Grain Shed Cherryfield 546-2319 Union, Bridgton
Ellsworth Agway 667-9546 Newcombs in Perry 853-4602 Village Tieup,
Estrella’s Feed No. Anson 635-2016 Outlet Store Cannan 474-3809 Harrison
Family Market Frankfort 223-4669 Roger’s Market Hudson 327-2228
Feed Depot Easton 488-9645 Shirley General Store 695-3204 Jordan's Store,
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Hoof ‘N Tack Levant 990-0955 3 River’s Feed Milo 943-2155 Whistle Stop
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12 Spring Agriculture/Industries Issue Mainely Agriculture
Evil incarnate buried as fish meal.
Memorium 2011, Sesquicentennial of Civil War Back in Maine…..
Thirty nine Maine Iraq and Afghan
servicemen remains were cited last week by the
Worromongtogus, or mineral water, by native American Maine Military in a quiet ceremony held in Au-
name defines Togus. The location was established initially as a gusta, attended by dignitaries and Governor Paul
summer resort known as Togus Springs by a granite merchant by LePage, less than a week after Navy Seals found
and shot the leader of al-Qaida, Ossama bin
Laden. That event signals the hunt in the war on
terror is not unlike the assassins of our own histo-
ry who took Abraham Lincoln and other Ameri-
cans of our past. Terror takes many forms and
righting wrongs is an ongoing struggle for civility
in a world of opposites for so many foreign peo-
ple to fend food and shelter, public safety and the
right to freedoms elsewhere. All members of the
US military swear an oath to defend the constitu-
tion and live by that creed, even after discharge,
and it seems a given that many vets are on the
prowl watching over us, the community in which
he or she lives. It is the American way and our
reason for sacrifices. - the publisher.

Two national
US VA Togus - First veterans cemeteries
hospital facility in the nation.
name of Horace Beals. He patterned it after Saratoga Springs with
a hotel, stables, bowling alley, farmhouse, bathing house, race
track and driveways about the property to the tune of $250,000
investment. It failed. Beals died and the US government bought
it for $50,000.
President Lincoln signed an act to establish the medical facility
shortly before assassination. One of the soldiers in the detail to hunt
down the assassin John Booth (Private Joseph Zisgen) is buried
here. A Medal of Honor recipient - David Scannell is buried in
West Cemetery, Section C beneath a gilded stone. This national
cemetery includes 5,373 veterans from the time of the War of 1812
up to Korea, closing the ground to new burials in 1961. In the Source: http://vaww.visn1.va.gov/intranet/
Togus/aboutus/historycemetery/
present time, the Beals House offers no cost accommodations for
families of in-patient veterans. A few years back , a search for Buffalo soldiers was undertaken. African Americans who served in African-American regiments of
Regular US Army.
Troops mustered short-
ly after the Civil War,
became a General Co-
lin Powell project espe-
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contents entered therein
in recent years.