The Portland daily press., 1875-01-14


Come goose and gander, duck and drake,
Outlandish fowl of every make,
We're all to Portland going.
Despite the disagreeable weather yesterday,
City Hall was crowded from ten o'clock in the
morning until ten at night.
The managers have put up the names of the
different breeds over the coops, so that it is
very handy, especially if the visitor has but
short time to stop and wishes to see certain
breeds alone. The Committee on Premiums
were busy all day looking over the birds and
deciding upon their merits. As a result, be-
fore night, several of the coops bore the card
CT the association with the announcement that
the biris therein contained had taken PIE
MUM. The owners of the fowls were standing
around all day looking anxious and impatient
to see the result
The Reception room is crowded at all times
to see the swans and the pigeons. The child
rem take great.delight in standing around the
tank and watching the graceful swans play in
the water The collection of pigeons is the
best ever got together in the state. There are
over 200 coops, with an average OF three birds
a each coop. 1t is said that all the different
varieties are represented. In carrier pigeons
there are the blue, led, black, dun, white and
yellow In the tumblers there are the agate
almond and mottled. The turbit variety have
white, blue, red and silver winged. There are
also black, red, white, yellow and blue birds.
There are all kinds of jacobins, archangels,
priests, trumpeters, fantais, magpies, blue
birds, stariings and blue dragons, American
and California quais, peacocks, golden pheas-
ants, wild pigeons, Japanese sociables and 9TH
er birds too numerous to mention. At the fur
thtr end of the hall is case of 160 eggs of
wild birds. The collection is well arranged
and is quite sight.
N. B. Dutton of Westbrook, sold a pair of
partridge cochin pullets to Fred f. Harris for
S65 last evening. He is raising poultry to
some advantage. EU
On one coop is the following inscription:
Chicks Matched the 18th of August, 1875"
None will doubt but that they are forward
chicks.
The following are the premiums which have
been awarded up to this time:
CD Pennell, Portland, best collection of dressed
poultry So also special individual No. A. best pair
Of geese 81 do fowl 81 do turkeys 81, do ducks
City Of Portland, white swan, No 3d. list prem 49,
socety's special No 4s, silver cup; individual yi;
special No I, $40, Sd prem diploma 4th DO highly
CT. Baisdell, York. LIST prem b b red fowl,
90, and special prem No % $40, Sd prem diploma.
Charles Steward, Skowhegan, bronze turkey, LIST
prem So, 4th do b c. 30.
E. d. Aldrich, Hyde Park, Mass. Houdan fowl, LIST
prem So, special do No ISL S. No IS So ID 90 w No
81 Sd do diploma, No IS LIST prem So, No 80 chicks,
Daniel Pummer, Cape Elizabeth, Hong Kong
geese fowl I'd prem So, gray China do LIST prem 50,
wild geese list prem So, and individual special prem
No 70 S.. .rtl -
S. Written, bingham Centre, Mass. silver spang-
led polish fowl Sd prem diploma I'd do 81 LIST do 49,
and special No S.. :
H s: Hastings q Newry Corner, white turkeys list
Asa b. True, Norway, black squirrel LIST prem 49,
A. j. Colburn, Boston, white swan LIST prem So, I'd
do So, Sd do diploma, 4th do C, special do No So
vases valued at $40, male Belgian canary "a prem
Albert Noyes, Bangor, white dorking, list prem
c. S. Newell Lisbon Falls silver spang. Polish fowl,
ID prem 49, No 217 do LIST prem 3d. No 2l9 do chicks,
I'd prem 49, socieys special do No 20 silver cup NO
r. o. Conant, Portland, California quail, list prem
50.
L. Lobenstein, parrot. list prem so.
A. H. Puringtoh, Kittery, white crested black
do Sd prem So, special do No % silver cup:
Wm H. Milken, Jr., colored pea fowl, LIST prem
So, society's special So, and special No 81 SIS.
j. X. Lunt, Portland, white Polish crested, "a
prem So.
B. A. Davis, Pennington, bronze turkey, Sd prem
f. w. Cleasby. South Paris, Houdan fowl b C, do
2g3 c. and individual special No 80 So.
crested fowl, 1st prem So, special prem No 50 illus
trated bible valued at &c. do chicks list prem 3d. red
pile game LIST prem So.