The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-21
FARMERS, FESTIVAL.
The New England Agricultural Exhibi-
lion.

Dr.. George B. Loring, President, and Daniel
Needham, Secretary of the New England
Agricultural Society, met the officers of the
Hotel yesterday morning. OF the officers of
the State Association who were present were
Gen. John Marshall Brown, President, Hon.
Samuel WATSON, Secretary and Trustees
W. f. Garcelon, I. D. Henderson and B. M.
Hight. Mr.. Noyes of the Massachusetts
Ploughman, and Mr.. Boardman of the Maine
Farmer were also present. The forenoon was
occupied in looking about for place for the
display of agricultural implements and fancy
articles. Several exhibitors had intimated that
they would like steam power to operate ma
chinery and the officers were anxious to fur
nish these facilities if possible. With this in
view they visited Browns sugar house. Here
there was an abundance of room and fine
facilities for furnishing any quantity of steam,
but some of the officers feared that it would be
too far out of the way, and the project was
given up. City Hall can be fitted up at a
small expense, and will probably furnish aH
abundance of room for all the articles offered,
except that the project of steam power will
h"'0 " No SNOh ny AhO Sui1CIlco III tL6 ulaiu
hall are to be floored over and extended out
beyond the present point making space
fifteen feet wide On each side and twenty. five
feet in the rear. There is alsosto be flooring
over the main stairway and one directly over
head, even with the next floor. All the ante
rooms will be utilized also. The art gallery
will be in the School Committee room, The
agricultural implements will be exhibited at
the building on the Park, as formerly.
gentleman from Michigan has contracted
to erect windmill on Lake Tewksbury and
proposes to forceIwa ter through a pipe to all
the cattle stalls on the Park. The invention is
an entirely new one, land he is anxious to show
its practicable workings.
Mr.. Campbell of New Hampshire is to bring
four car loads of different kinds of birds
Many of them are very rare and entirely new
to this part of the country.
The tralroad and steamboat arrangements
are excellent. The Boston & Maine, Eastern
Portland & Rochester, Grand Trunk, and
several of the Maine roads and steamboats, are
to carry freight and passengers both ways for
one fare. The Maine Central goes one better.
and offers to sell half fare tickets and carry all
aIttCles lor eAnlDltOQ Tree.
The executive officers of the New England
Society held meeting and made an important
amendment in the rules as printed in the
premium lists. The rule says that those enter.
ng horses 1or premiums must pay ten per cent
of the aggregate premium offered in the class
entered, and also the owner must nav his
regular admission fee. This twas gamended so
that all owners who enterlhorses and pay the
entrance fee, as above, shall be admitted free,
as we'll as drivers of the same. In Glass four
Nos. "a, Is and 26, the first premium shall read
''two years old and over instead of "two
years old and under three"
All those who have not yet received the
premium lists should call at p Preble street
the present headquarters of the Fair, and get
copy free.
Yesterday afternoon the gentlemen named
above, accompanied by representatives of the
city papers, took carriages and drove to Pre-
sumpscot Park. Dr. Loripg and the other
visitors expressed themselves highly pleased
with the appearance of things there. The
track was found in good condition, the sheds
needed few If any repairs, and the implement
building was in as goodAorder as when left last
season at the close Of the state exhibition
After looking over the grounds carefully, the
party drove to City Hall and inspected the i'm
provements proposed to be made there. They
next visited the agricultural implement store of
A. L. Dennison, on Preble street, and were
shown new ipulverizer recently invented by
Mr. Dennison. The principle is simple, it con-
sisting of number Of chains formed Of large