Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-10-10
LitcE field Town Fair.

LitcE field Town Fair.
One of the best agricultural towns in Kennebec
county is old Liiclfeld. We have recently ba5
occasion TO pass through it in several directions.
and have been much pleased with the fine farms
aud evidences of thrift which We everywhere saw.
Although there are no very high hills, the sur
lface generally is rolled up into ridges which in
-ures good drainage, and the soil being for the
most part, a clay loan, is easily worked and nro
iuctive. OicbardIng has always received care
full attention, and the product of apples this sea-
ION, IL simply enormous. Other crops with the
reception of the potato hch suffered somewhat
from drouth have been good.
The annual festival of the Farmers Club of itch
field was held Tuesday. The weather in the
morning was veiy unpromi>ing, and AS the notice
Of the meeting specified. that ''if Tuesday was
rainy it would be postponed to the next fair
day. the officers who had met at the grounds
early IN the moiDiug, decided that the exhibition
must he postponed, and notice to that effect wa,
speedily circulated through portion of the tow .
But very soon wagons began TO pour in loaded
with people, and the sun coming out the oficers
decided to countcrmaud the order for no.tnone
nent and made Efforts to have the stock and arti-
ces for exhibition brought in, nut the nrevious
notice had the effect to keep much of il ayay
The pt ople continued to pour in from Litch6eld
and the adjoining towns and even from Auburn
and Lew ston, and by noon there must have been
nom four to five thousand persons on the ground
a.
tapldly possible, but the entrees were not all
competed neiore one o'clock.
The display of fruit, particularly of apples was
very fine. There were thirty-two entries Of thi,
luit, the larger exhibitors being follows J. L.
Perry, 81 varieties; Iapham and Packard 81 :.
| Lorer 20 Metcalf, q; + p. & A. c. True l6 !:
| John Purinton, Il; Orrin Berry. Is; VIM Wv
msp Is, VIM Springer, l5-al.o several varieties
Of luscious grapes G. Roberts. Jr., IL; W Otis,
IL; Henry Huntington, y; S. II. Ring, !; Asa L.
Zn,,t a obi a, q
seloped and well rrened specimens of BALDWIN :
POI tiers, Bell Flowers, Grsvenstens, Rbston Pip
pins, HubbaidstUns, Northern Spies and other
choice and well known varieties, we have rarely
seen on exhibition. There was also good dis
play OF grapes and aud one or more OF cram
berries
The display Of seed corn 10 trace was yerv good
showing that tins important crop has heen very
successful The same was tue cf potstoes and
garden vegetables.
quality was good. Mrs. Asa Z. smith took the
first premium on both butter aud cheese Mrs.
Wm Cunningham the second or bait r, and Mrs
Josiah True third. The LADIES' more than per-
ioi med their part toward the success Of the eyhi
bltlon, the entities in the shape of domestic and
| fancy articles being numerous, and the quality
excellent. There WAS the quilt with 1000 pieces
| made by an old lady of 50, without the aid of
| glasses, also other quilts just good and pretty
! with not tenth part as uanv pieces. There were
n
| ets, tides and thousand other curious and use
| fol things which we cannot mention in detail
| The eutries OF stock were few in number, and
confined mostly to working oxen and steers The
| first premium Tor working oxen awarded to
| Hamilton Buker; Tor rsught oxen, the first to
| Hamilton Buker, second to a. F. Berry and
| hind to Rufus smith. For three year, olds, the
first premium was awarded To NJ. a. llue. secon
| to Charles 1. Hall, thnd to A. Berry. The lat
| ter also took the frat and second premiums on
| Old The hnrsa b;,b
came off at three O'Clock excited but little atten
| ton and hardly lesseped the crowd around the
| exhibition building. The man th the patent
knife sharpeuer, the cheap jewelty man, the pea
| nut vender, the whip seller, ald score of other
auctioncers, huckslers, cigar cider and cake sell
els, each striving 10 outtalk his neg hbor created
| a hubbub unknown before, since the confusion OF
| tongues at the bulidiDg of the tower of Babel
| There were no rows aud very little signs of in
| toNcation, but everybody WAS ia for good time
| and appeared TO have 1t. Ine cigar veuder had a
brisk business, and out Of cui iou,ty we counted
| the smokers IN front If the exhibition building
/ until the number exceeded hve hundred Truly,
/ these are not hard times. BY three O'Clock wap
ons began to leave the gIouuds, and at we there
were but few left. and most OF the artlc, on ex-
| nlhtion had been removed 1t was short show,
| bat an exceedingly lively one.
Ii has often b. en- Ienai ked that the character
| of the early settlers Of town have much to do
| with its future progress, and this holds tue OF
| LucLield. The fl 81 settlers woie men of char
| actel and energy, aud tnen giand,ohs aud great
| graudsons who now TIL the soil cleared by their
ancestors, ar ent,fpi sIng, industrious and thrifty
| The affairs of I t Farmers club whose exhibition
| we have briefly descrb> d, are III the hands OF
young men who take great interest Ia them, and
| manage them with distinguished ability and it Is
| truly x atiiying to lind these Young men whose
natural abilities and education such to quail
ily them for any position, engaged III tlling tue
| soil, and then IL bnnglng together specimens OF
| heir products iOr thereby stlIQu
| ing competition and iesuluog in progress. II
more young men would emulate the example oil
those we saw In Lchheld, the complaint If hard
| times would soon be over. W. b. l.,