The Portland daily press., 1876-10-11
FARMERS, FESTIVALS.
The Fair at Pleasant Hill, scnrboro'.

Cape Elizabeth began their first annual eXhl-
bition and fair at Pleasant Hill yesterday
morning If they keep improving on this their
first effort, it is hard to calculate the extent of
their future exhibitions The fair held yester-
day was most successful affair in every par
ticular. The building erected near the track
for the hall display was well filled with useful
and fancy articles, contributed by the ladies,
and the products of the farm and orchard. On
the grounds there was good sho wing of neat
stock and horses and colts, with number OF
fine sheep and swine. The horses were not all
en- the grounds yesterday, as they are not dis
played until to-day. Mr.. w. b. Nutter, the
genial breeder of horses. showed bnt one of his
many fine steppeIs, Kitty Morris. To-day Lon
Morris and others of the family will be present.
Mr.. James A. Skillings of the Cape exhibited
quite a number of the Patchen stock. He had
two mares with their foals, gelding three
years old and one two years old; also a mare
two years old and a yearliDg colt. Ichabod
Foss of Scarboro' showed mare with yearling
colt and foal by Lon Morris.
Among the neat stock shown is fine Dur
ham BULL one year old, and heifer two years
old, exhibited by P. Clancy of Cape Elizabeth
B. Larrabee of Scarboro' shows grade jersey
COW. Thomas Dyer of the Cape has fine
looking bull and four cows, grade Ayrshire and
Jerseys. Silas Skillings shows fine large
Ayrshire and Jersey bull and several calves.
James S. Libby of Scarboro' sends fine look.
ing grade Devon COW and yoke of cattle z
years old and girting feet inches. S f.
Jordan of the Caps exhibits fine grade
Durham COW, six years old, yearling hefer
grade Durham, and yearling jersey, S. G.
Jordan shows grade Ddtch bull Of fine pro-
portions. b, Larrabee shows a fine yoke of
three year old steers, as does Eben S. Libby of
Scarboro. B. S. Larrabee enters yoke of
oxen four years old, girting six feet and half;
Chas. e. SkillIngs of the Cape a yoke grting
seven feet and one inch. johnson Libby has a
very handsome yoke of red cattle, six years
old, girting feet and II inches. J. P. Cham
berlain Of the Cape shows yoke of oxen six
years old and girtipg feet inches: A. Plum
mer Of Scarboro', yoke eight years old, feet
in girth. George Ell. Alderman of the Cape
exhibits very fine grade Ayrshire COW and
heifer. w. w. Whitney of the Cape has
fine looking yoke of seven feet cattle. B. Lar
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steers, three years old. w. H. Small shows
large Jersey bull, two years old. G. f. Libby
of this city makes good showing Of bis Jer-
seys. He exhibits the bull Euclid and a num-
Der of his family. c. Crowley of the Cape
exhibits large two year old grade Durham
bull. John Kilbourn exhibited yoke of cattle
feet and 10 inches in girth; Nathaniel Dyer
Shnwpd vo1ya ffva ri ay,d r;r fip 60
S. S. Drew of the Cape exhibited yoke the
same age, girting feet inches L. Cobb ex.
hlbted a yoke grting feet 3 inches, and a ins
Jersey COW. George Sweetsir of Scarboro'
showed yoke of cattle girting upwards of Z
feet. c. z. Trckey of the Cape showed two
Durham COWS, one eight and the other five
years old.
G. f. Libby of this city sent fine specimens
of his Berkshire swine and merino sheep.
Ebenezer Libby of Scarboro exhibited q fine
flock of six ewes. n. L Huston, farmer for
James Libby, exh ibited lot of fine turkeys.
Lawrence Libby shows several coops of game
fowl. David Plummer shows specimens of his
fine pigeons, hens and geese. Mr. Seth L..
Plummer exhibits wagon and sled of his own
manufacture. In this connection we should
speak of a farm wagon made by Mr.. j. L.
Larrabee OF Scarboro. 1t was his first effort
at carriage building and must certainly be
called success.
In the hall is to be seen fine case of stuffed
birds exhibited by E. N. Atwood. His father,
VIM Atwood, shows lead and copper ore, J.
T. Bond of Knghtville shows a set of double
harnesses manufactured in his shop. They are
we'll made and show evidences of fine work.
msnship. w. f. buddy exhibits handsome
single harness. On one end of the centre ia
BILE is large pumpkin pie presented by Miss
Emily Stevenson. 1t will be cut this after
noon. G. f. Libby and Geo. W. Allen each
make very large display of fine looking veg
etables. Mr.. LIBBY shows eight large squashes
grown from one seed. w. B. Nutter shows
specimens of the hard shell squash G. Nc
Keuney of Scarboro shows 26 different varie-
ties of apples. Fine displays of fruit are also
made by G. L. Libby. David o. Plummer of
the Cape, Edward Thompson, Seth Scammon
of Scarboro, and Capt. John Larrabee. Mrs.
w. P. Hunnewell and B. Larrabee show very
fine lots of butter. Walter Nutter has a fine
picture of Lon Morris, painted by e. G.
w lloOA VI Guio Ciby diSO d uduc Hullb
and doll which his mother played with long
years ago. Mrs Natter shows very hand
some drawn tug. Mrs. John Alexander shows
a handsome rubber plant Mr.. Scot Kilbourne
shows case of handsomely arranged SHELLS
and MOSES. S. 7. Jordan of the Cape shows
a fine lot of beets and other vegetables. L. W.
Walker has a monster squash weighing 70
pounds. Capt. John Larrabee exhibits chair
100 years old. A very pretty knit bed spread
is shown by Miss B. Larrabee. Miss Lizzie
NJ. Dyer shows fine quilt. Emily F. Dyer
shows handsome wax wreath. j. A. Stan
ford of Scarboro shows moss aud shell work.
Mrs. John I. Alexander exhibits a handsome
quilt Mrs. johnson Libby exhibits fine blan-
keting of her own manufacture. Mrs. d. FL.
Hilton made fine display of handsome needle
work, fancy chairs and foot rests. Among
other articles in the hall We noticed thread
tidy, Miss Lizzie Dyer; thread tidy. Miss
Susan Pickett; worsted tidy, Mrs. Charles
Pickett; shell work, Mrs. j. Alexander; wool
en- quilt, Mrs. Bracket; lamp mats, Annie
Scammon;
The forenoon was spent in arranging the ar
ticles and stock. and in the afternoon the trial
of draft oxen took place. To-day there will
be trottipg and examination of horses.
Sagadahoc County Fair.
The Sagadaho: County Fair commenced its
three days session yesterday. The number of
entries is unusually large. The horse entries
have not yet closed, but it is expected that the
horse exhibit will be better than that of former
years. A good-iisplay of vegetables is made in
the lower hall, while in the upper hall the rugs,
quilts and other household manufactures make
q good exhibition, The fruit looks very tempt
ing, aud there is fine display of butter; also
in one end OF the hall the photogra phs, paut-
ings and drawings are hung. The committee
on neat stock made their examination 10 the
forenoon, commencing on town teams. Bath
showed the best team consisting of tea yoke.
In this team We noticed especially splendid
looking pair of cattle belonging to Goss g. Saw
yer of Bath, and another yoke belonging t.,
Chadbourne & Flint, girth 8 feet Bowdoin
showed twelve yoke, Topsham eleven. the larI
est yoke being f.. 8 ia. Richmo id eighteen
yoke largest girth feet b.loupinp TO John