The Portland daily press., 1885-09-02
BANGOR.
The New England and Eastern
Maine Fair.
Better Weather and Much Brighter
Outlook.
A coodIy Gathering Witnesses the
Races.
Abstract of Hon. George q. LorIng's
Admirable Address.

| SuCCH NlIy VI bu0 EdSJ nave T6CON6ISu
from the depression of yesterday with
amazing alacrity. There is an amount of
goaheaditiveness and sanguinity among
Bangorites that is peculiar to this commun-
Ity and savors more of the western type of
character than the average down-east
Yankee. They accepted the situation yes
terday with Socratic philosophy, dear as
was their hope to make the combined East
ern Maine and New England fair shining
success and realizing that everything de-
pended upon the weather. They had the
grounds fitted with no stinted hand, the ami
mails second to no similar display in the
eastern States, the halls with rare displays
and all that was wanted was the crowd. In
this, Judging from present appearances, they
will not be disappointed
The morning was threatening and lowery
but shortly after s o'clock it cleared away
finely and the sun, the welcome sun, was
very warm.
AT an early hour the travel towards Maple
wood Park set in right earnestly. Hun
dreds of barges, wagons buckboards, &C.,
conveyed loads to the grounds for the fee of
ten cents.
BY 10 O'Clock there were several thousand
people within the enclosure, viewing the
cattle, watching the exercising horses, in
specting the agricultural implements, and
the hundred and one things to be seen.
| Porter & Wood of Boston make very
large exhibition of threshers, moving ma
| chimes, cultivators, horse rakes, ETC., in
building. A. w. Grays Sons, of Midtown
Springs,iVt., has fine exhibit of horse
| power for farm use of various kinds, thresh-
ers circular saws, etc. Belcher & Douglass
of Chicopee Falls, Mass, displayed plows
and so on Fred Atwood of Winterport had
a large line of farm implements in build
ing. The North Wayne Tool Co. exhibit in
the same building great variety of scythes,
axes, ETC., some of the tools being the same
as were sent to New Orleans. The Halo
well Granite Company has specimens of axe
and hammer heads, etc., an industry in
which they have engaged for some years in
addition to their granite works.
A fine specimen of the work of the Halo
well Granite Company upon the grounds is
monument some twenty feet high, sur
mounted by life-size statue of Faith. 1t is
for cemetery and was sold for $4,000.
| Beneath the grand stand and wing adj
| joining is variety show of articles too num-
| erous to recapitulate. Noticeable, however,
among them is the display by the Taunton
| Iron Works of Boston, of the same descrip-
| ton OF goods extensively dealt in by B. F.
| Atkinson & Co. of Portland.
The products of the garden and dairy and
| the poultry display is in the same building
and is very fine.
| A base ball game was started in the field
| in the centre of the track and attracted
much larger crowd than did the opening ex-
| ercises of the fair
! AT II O'Clock the Bangor Band played in
| front of the headquarters building, and Hon.
| George B. Loring, late United States COM
missioner of agriculture and now president
of the New England Agricultural Society,
proceeded to deliver the opening address.
His subject was Farming and Forestry in
Maine" and an abstract of the admirable
address is given below:
PRESIDENT LoRINGs ADDRESS.
The speaker opened with well-deseryed trib-
| ute to the thrift and intelligent industry of the
farmers of Eastern Maine. 1t is section which
ergy and work of New England and rivals manv.
more fortunately located and of oil der growth. Ii
refgtation Of the charge that the agriculture Of
be found here. Everything shows thrift and pros
| perity.
The following interesting statistics were given:
| From 1850 to 1880 the population of Maine in
| creased from 583, 100 to GAS, ,936, removed as it
is from those stimulating Influences which have
| given such fabulous growth to many sections and
| States more fortunately, or perhaps differently
| located. The number of farms has increased In
than 100000 acres have been added to the i'm
proved Land and The &c, value Of the farms has in
| 625, in $780, Tie value of the agricultural ma
| chinery and implements has increased in the
same period from 50 557 to $4, ,94S, ,04S. The
early escuent, in which respect it has largely in
| creased. The wheat crop has multiplied nearly
95 sss tons in 1855, to f,1o77ss tons in isso sS
| In 1850, 8 436,O ,O40 bushels of potatoes were
raised; in 1880, 7,999,625 bushels: The value of
the live stock increased from 50 705, ,726 in 1850
increased from Al ,721 to 81 ,s48 The number Of
has become famous for its large thrifty, well.
shaped es eatte. 9e The 20 COWS have increased
0m Sheen 5 Seacbe to eS Sos4 and The he mpe
swine, 1860. The yield OF butter, which in
| 1850 % was as 9.243,S11 pounds reached in 1880.
| 14,103,9 ,96S pounds. The production of cheese
| fell off from 2,436, 6,454 pounds to 1,167,73O
| pounds.
But these figures alone do not tell the story
| From the farms which have produced these re
| suits, have been reaped the means of supporting
the institutions of the towns, counties and State
| are monuments to the thrift and intelligence of
the farmer. The highway, village green and the
|
| with trees and flowers. The mental activity and
| enterprise which once belonged to the theoretical
farmers belongs to the practical cutivators of
the SOIL who avail themselves of every discovery
| of science in the task of Subdung nature to the
| wants and necessities of man.
But the enterprise of Maine is not confined to
| agriculture. Her manufactures occupy very
| considerable amount OF capital and labor. In the
manufacture of boots and shoes she has an in
vested capital of 81, 1863 O0O yielding in products
| $5823, 541 In cotton manufactures she has S15,-
| 292, ,087 invested and an annual product of S13-,
| woolen manufactures. And she has sc, ,339 3O6
| invested in the lumbertrade, yielding an annual
| product of 81, ,933, 1866. In this last enterprise
| she was the pioneer and for long time a leader.
| Bangor was for many years the largest emporium
| Of lumber in the country, and now after the ex-
on the list of lumber States He spoke of the i'm
portance of preserving this trade to the State and
| of caring for every acre of timber land. Tree
farming should form an important part of the agri-
culture OF State so rich in forest resources, and
the owner of forest should be fully protected by
law. In this task, nature is always ready to assist
| man. There IS, no doubt larger supply of grow
ing wood in New England to-day than there was
nifty years ago. But the choice of trees, modes of
planting and methods of handling are all mpor-
tant; Is it too much to say that a tree standing
on tne Spot where it sprang up spontaneously and
where all its surroundings are genial-will make
more WOOD IN n ten years than its transplanted
neghboMr M is likely to in fifteen years? The tree
is the best guide in the selection Of varieties for
each locality Maine is well situated to set ex-
ample OF forest legislation
l
meeting was held in the office below, which
was addressed by Col Needham of Yer
mont, secretary of the New England Society,
in behalf of the continuance of the New Or
leans exposition during the coming winter.
The premium committees of the New Eng
landSociety were announced by DR.. Loring.
| THE RACES.
There were some $500 people upon the
grounds in the afternoon to witness the
races. The band discoursed music in front
OF the grand stand, in which about 1000
spectators were seated. The judges for the
races were T. O. King of Hartford, Conn,
B. D. Whitcomb Of Boston and W. S. Jewett
of st. John, N. B.
The first race was to have been between
three-year-old colts and under, but as the
purse did not fill an exhibition heat was
trotted between Dictator Chief and Nelson,
both owned by c. II. Nelson of the Sunny
side stock farm of Waterville. 1t was
close and pretty exhibition, Dictator win
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