The Portland daily press., 1875-09-22

sition on this side of the room and exhibits a
great variety of implements, the most impor-
tant being three Charter Oak swivel plows; he
also has Silver Eagle plows, patent potato
digger, Excelsior lawn mower, Clarks patent
store truck, Meadow King mowers, post hole
anger, patent pitchforks-horse and hand.
power, pruning tools, seed sower, Hollngswortn
horse rake, Pacific horse rake. wine and cider
presses, corn shelter, subsoil pillow, carriage
jack, seed drill, hand cultivator. skeleton apple
parer, combination wrench, fruit picker and
many other small articles. Kendall & Whit
ney fill up the rest of this side with large dis
play of tools, implements, etc., including hay
cutters, Hussey plows, horse rakes, hay tedder,
Whitman threshing machine, BUCKEYE mowers,
cider presses, churns, lawn mowers, also one of
their famous cucumber wood pumps and large
variety of farmers tools of every kind and de-
sciiption. In the center of the hall T. j.
Akeley g. Son make fine display of their
carriages.
Passing up stairs and turning to the leftthere
is another kind of horse hoe exhibited by V.
S. Palmer of Kenduskeag. Next to this f. G.
Merrill of South Paris shows some plows and
cultvators. Tobie & Clark Bros, Auburn,
pine pump. The next space is allotted to De-
mond & Son, who show some good parlor and
cook stoves Next to them Lewis L. Pray of
Portland has sleigh, and Sewall l.. Abbott
two behind this. A. M. & j. f. Cobb of East
Deering show very neat skeleton wagon.
On the opposite side are shown some OK bows
made by Jno. Staples of North Yarmouth.
Howiand Bros. of Topsham exhibit something
new in the moving machine line, it is what is
called screw mower. Next tolthem White
more Bros. of Boston exhibit their Champion
horse rake and Victor feed cutter, s. Morrill,
of Vienna sleigh, S J. Newell curious look
ing machine called painters vice.
In the corner Smith & Son and Edward
Cobb of South Gray show some fine sleighs. In
the center of the ball Everett & Small OF Bos-
ton show some plows and seed sewers,
and the Vermont Farm Machine Co., horse
rake and an improved maple sugar evapora-
tor.
The rear of this story is devoted to poultry.
Some cages of very fine looking poultry have
been placed in position, but as they were not
tagged when we made our inspection we were
unable to learn who exhibited them.
Outside are shown some of the larger imple-
MEETS, such as grain sower and coverer, a
road maker aud Others
In the evening the attendance was good,
though not very large. Many ladies were pres
ent The crowd amused itself by sauntering
from hall to hall, gazing with equal pleasure
upon pianos, pictures, and big potatoes The
Portland Band discoursed music during the
evening, and some young women started an
opposition by pounding the keys of the pianos
and organs. There was not large attendance
from out Of town.
The description of the halls devoted to art,
vegetables and truit is reserved for to-morrow's
issue.
The members of the various societies altered
in the evening in the Superior Court room, and
Society, delivered the address az follows:
PRESIDENT PRINCES ADDRESS.
BROTHER FARMERs:-The old winds that oc.
casionally come sweeping down upon us from
the north, the varigated foliage the crimsoned
leaf, the absence of the feathered songsters
with many other unmstakabe signs remind
us that another season is near its close and that
the fruits of the husbandman will soon be gar
nered.
The season now drawing to close has been in
many respects favorable one. Earth has not
withheld good increase, our barns and grana.
ries are we'll filled. and we'll directed labor has
been well rewarded, and we have many reasons
to come to this our festal occasion with thank
full hearts and bright hopes for the future.
While in many sections of not only our own
but foreign countries the fruits of the toll of
years have been swept away by devastating
floods we have reason to rejoice in bountiful
harvests.
History teaches us that the degeneracy of a
people is sure to follow the neglect of agricul-
ture, hence we should study to check the i'm
poverishing system that exists to greater or
less extent in all sections of our country, and in
stead encourage system of gradual develop
ment and Improvement seeking to clothe the
earth with the fruits that have been 80 gener-
ously furnished US by an allwise Creator, en-
deavOring to rise to a higher level by educating
ourselves, and children in the science of agri-
culture, by studying and teaching the beauties
of nature, deploring ignorance and endeavor-
ing to honor ourselves and our calling by more
intelligent labor.
Te become successful farmers we must be
educated in our vocation, not mere theorists,
but educated in the practical duties of life
looking carefully into everything intended to
promote the interests Of our profession, ever
keeping in mind that a successful farmer must
be progressive one.
Let us not fear labor, for it is not curse ex-
cept to those that make it such. 1t is neces-
sary for the development of our systems, either
mental or physical Still we should ever keep
in mind the fact that labor unaccompanied by
high and noble thoughts, by desire for inn.
provement, becomes drudgery; hence we
should endeavor to invest our occupation with
dignity and importance, teaching our children
to fulfil the true and noble purposes of life
that failure lies not SO much in locality as in
the people themselves. We should endeavor
to have a fixed purpose, and aim to do well
what undertake.. and if praaf rpSultS are
not within our reach be content with such as
lie within our compass. 1t our ability and
capital will not warrant us in engaging in
farming on an extensive scale, let US be salts
fed with more moderate possessions, recollect-
ing that small but fertile farms, under the
direction of intelligent labor, not only make
much more ample returns than where much
more is attempted than can be well accom-
plished, but is much more pleasing to the eye
and satisfying to the Intelligent mind. :,
Let us not scorn the opportunity for small
but sure gains for the doubtful prospect of
greater ones, nor have an over desire for wealth,
forgetting the true and noble purposes of life.
Above all things let US honor our profession,
with progress for our watchword, experiment.
ing carefully, and not everlasting our physical
to the neglect of our mental and moral sys-
tems-study that our physical energies may be
directed by a well cultivated mind, ever keeping
in view the fact that life is at least in great
measure either mentally or intellectually what
VIC mdh0 ~. OOOu SeeQ WQ6tuer COmulLIeu
to well cultivated field or we'll stored mind
will bring forth beautiful harvest. Ever keep
in mind that we harvest what we sow.
Brother farmers of Maine, complain not of
your lot but recollect that industry and econ
omy should be a principle not a necessity.
for compare yoar lot cultivating, going over
| rugged hills, doing your part in building up a
virtuous, industrious, ana intelligent people,
with those of the favored Equatorial chimes
where natures productions are spontaneous,
/ where the inhabitants become even too indo-
lent to clothe themselves, living in dleness and
ignorance.
Let us thoughtfully exercise all the faculties
with which we are endowed and although we
may not achieve great results, nor amass great
fortunes. and roll in gorgeous luxury, neither
shall we be oppressed by poverty and want,
1t has been we'll said that amid all that is
bright and beautiful in nature, there is nothing
thatblooms with such unfading colors there is nc
perfume on earth fraught with such fragrance,
as the flowers of good works. And, brother
farmers keeping this in view, let us in every
department of our lifes great Fair make the
best possible exhibition, that at its close we
may have the unbounded satisfaction that We
| shall re ;eive the first prize from an all wist
Judge whose judgment never errs.
At the conclusion of President Princes re
marks, the presiding officer, Mr.. Gilbert, Of
Turner, introduced Prof. MIC. Fernald of Oron(
College, who delivered very entertaining ant