The Portland daily press., 1877-10-12
sagadahoc County Fair.

| IOISdAhi, Oop. LIE
| Another cloudy, dismal morning, but in
| spite of discouragements there is large crowd
in attendance The display of goods in the
hall has been largely increased. The floral
| exhibit is especially fine and exceeds that of
the n e. Fair.
Mrs. f. o. Jordan of Brunswick, has several
| dishes of cut flowers. Mrs A. s. Whitehouse
| of Topsham, ,3 vases of cut flowers. Miss M. E.
Mallett has 10 pots of geraniums, chrysanthe-
| NUNS, petunias and vies.
The display of fruit is simply remarkable for
year when it is so scarce. Mr. o. B. Muriel
of Topsham, shows % varieties of very fine ap-
| Piles that grew on trees eight years old. There
were in all 257 exhibits of apples, 8 of grapes
five varieties by S. Simpson Of Brunswick,
and very few pears.
Chas. Flagg & Son of Richmond, has ship
| furnitare, and S. Strouy & Son of Bath, ship
lamps.
The music in the poultry room has been
heavily reinforced by the full equivalent of a
brass band. We notice the following new ex-
hbtors:
L Richardson, Brunswick, Q cages roueu ducks
E Nickerson, do. do spec Hamburgs.
j Skolfeld, do, Br Leghorns.
CS Newell, Topsham, do White Leghorns, / do
Polish.
j S Newell, do, do VIII Legtorns, do Black
Hamburgs.
On the grounds the venders of Yankee no
tiuns and patent nostrums and catch-penny
shows are in full blast Lung power rules the
hour.
We give the result of the examination of
draught oxen, which came off last night:
First class, # and over-C Patten, Topsham,
1st; W Rackley, do, 3D.
Second class, under ft-L W Tedford, Topsham,
it in, 1st; Isaiah Jordan Brunswick, # in, I'd
Sweepstakes drawing for oxen, open to all
oxen owned in the state. The committee
was A. Fields and Isaac Durgin of Bath, and
j. E. Mallett of Topsham. The load was 45OO
pounds of stcne and six mer. The following
shows the result
Patten, do, pi girth it 1 in, %; l. W Tedford.
do, pr 6 1T in, 81; Isaiah Jordan, Brunswick, /
pr IT 6f in, 4th.
After this exhibit S. Cushman of Lisbon,
put on his trained steers. They were one year
old last June, and girt 5 feet 61 inches. AT
the first pull they nearly ran eway with the
drag loaded with stone weighing 1854 pounds.
The load was increased to 2219 younds, which
they moved four feet at one pull, and finally to
1904 pounds which they walked off with very
handsomely.
The exhibit of breeding mares and colts con-
sistsfof 81 entries, above the average. The
show of one, two and three year old colts is far
above any previous years. Geo, E. Bunker of
Bowdoinham, exhibits twin Knox colts eight
weeks old, sired by Sagadahoc, both horse
colts, exactly alike in size and color.
In the exhibit of farm products are 40 traces
of corn, 70 pumpkins, 100 squashes. II exhib-
its of turnips, "a of potatoes, % of beets, IA of
beans. 80 of grain, of cabbages aud 5 of to-
mstoes.
G. Mitchell of North Yarmouth, exhibits J,
J. Frye's plows. There are only two exhibits
of carriages and two of moving machines.
There were eight entries of gentlemen's driv-
ing horses. but one was Withdrawn. The fol-
lowing appeared:
MN Wilson. Bowdoinham, yrs old; P K Millay
do. mare yrs old; j ii Millay, do, mare yrs old;
old; Granville Purinton, Bowdoin, geldiug yrs old
X Briery, Bowdoin, gelding yrs old; A M Brown,
Awards-1st, Capt Merriman; 2, NJ NJ Wilson; Sd,
X Milay.
THE TRoTTiNG.
The first race was for geldings or mares,
years old, for purse of $40; Sc to first, $4 to
second There were five entries, Cherry Bios
som by FL. S. Varney of Bowdonham; Daisy
Klox by Albert Stone of Bath; Defiance by
b. f. Marble of Woolweh! Careless Girl by
S. j. jordan of Bath; Kate Murphy by Chas.
Grover of Brunswick. Daisy Knox won in
3oS1, 312a.
The second race was for geldings or mares,
years old. half miles heats, best in 3. Belle,
owned by 81. S. Varney of Bowdoinham, took
first money. beating Flora Knox. owned by
Robert Jordan of Brunswick, and No Name by
G. w. Rideout OF Bowdoinham. Time 1.54,
152
The sweepstakes purse of $25 called out four
starters, John Gilpin, owned by Geo. S. Perrin
of Bath; Morrill, Boy, by Edwin Perrin of
Bath; Forest Girl, by A. NJ. Brown of Bow
doinham; Hopefully G. F. Peterson of Bruns-
wick. The race was not finished. Gipin won
the first heat in 2 50 3.4, and Hopeful the sec
ond in $50.
There were seven entr les in the race for
green horses. and Susie, owned by T, r. Rus
sell of Bath, won the first heat.