Show the ice crop threatened maines ice crop ia seriously threatened by drought the water supply has been gradually falline fal linc until now the small rivers are nearly dry and the jarger ones are lower than for years in the kennebec the water has not been so low for years at augusta one can easily wade across the androscoggin is practically without water and the mills at lewiston would be shut down were it not for the fact that the lakes have been tapped and a supply thus obtained but the lakes are several feet lower than for years in the penobscot the water is so low that the current is not powerful enough to keep back the tide and the water accordingly is so salt that should winter set in suddenly the ice would be entirely unfit for consumption boston transcript |