The Lewiston Sun wants to know why turkeys are growing scarcer in Maine? The Maine experiment station might be better qualified to answer, but the impression is that it is because it does not pay to raise them – Portland Press.

Then what’s the good of the Dingley tariff on turkeys? Why prevent us from buying our turkeys from Canada?

But see how the reasons accumulate: (1) The Waterville mail said it was foxes and skunks; (2) The Biddeford Journal said it was mysterious disease and in-breeding; (3) The Bangor News said it was free trade with Iowa; (4) Now The Portland Press says it doesn’t pay. Which’ll you believe?

50 Years Ago, 1955

•Finals of the first State-wide apple pie baking contest for high school students, which got underway Friday at Skowhegan, will be held in January at Lewiston Memorial Armory during the annual Agricultural Trades Show sponsored by the Maine Department of Agriculture.

The department said that 60 schools will participate in the baking contest before it winds up at Lewiston.

Ribbons will be awarded in the area contests with cash prizes going to the winners and runners-up in the finals at Lewiston.

25 Years Ago, 1980

Home heating oil prices have jumped as much as a nickel a gallon on spot markets this week amid cold, fall weather, increasing crude oil prices in the United States and concern about the lengthy cutoff of petroleum shipments from Iraq and Iran.

Despite the drop in consumption, home heating oil sold for 90 to 92 cents a gallon on the spot market Wednesday, up from about 87 cents Monday and 7 to 8 cents a gallon above the current long-term contract price.