Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-07-27

fconaauci from Is, pase.l

An interesting display here is the great
Canada cheese, said to e the lAFses.
cheese ever made. 1t scents an acre OF
u,ore Of the Agricultural building. To see
TIE to,, of this monster cheese You have 70
climb = staircase. and there the scent Is
almost strong enough to befstsl. The ex-
hihisor iugenioasly puts ever MS chesss
plaeard which reads:
Tons"
Ar first glance olle reads ii tons and fails
10 notice the .'lts. mott after the figures.
Hence many visitors go home declaring 70
their friends there that At the Norid
fair they saw 4 cheese which weighed -
Oeo tous. Further information given by the
exhibitor about his cheese IS that the mass
r,ao,,ir,Ad the milk OF 14.tao COWS which
were n,ilked by 1865 pretty dairy maids,
thaueh he ne.lects TO say how many days
the l40oo COWS and 1866 pretty DAIRY
maids were thus employed. In the ae-
sence of more precise information on this
point the visitor will do well to assume
that the 400 cows were MIXED once, or
/ 600 COWS fourteen times, or NO COWS sew
euty times. by eorrespondingly smaller
number OF pretty dairy maids
Seine Of the advertising methods EN-
nloy,,i herr. make very interesting exhibits
of themselves. One firm builds model
cf the great Touring mills in Minneapolis.
Another erects with sacks OF flour a
medieval castle. A third shows us thar
always interesting process, weaving silk
from the cocoon 10 the finished hanuAef
chief which may be bought on the spot
with your name embroidered in the cor
ner An old d-fashioned log house, with Its
well sweep, its oahen bucket, its spring
and spriug house for the milk, attracts
much attention. French-made English
pIum puddinz is shown in huge pyramid
of which the top cone weighs four ana =
half pounds and the bottom one 81
rounds, the weight of the whole pudding
being upward of thousand pounds.
IL is in agricultural machinery that
America completely outstrips the remain
der of the world, and in this section some oi
the most enterprlsiRg and skiiltu OF All
yertisers have been ut work, Their ainaI
ing displays of machines and implements
are in motion They have costly paVilioEs
over them, luxurious rugs on the moor,
electric lights in pro:usion. statues and
figures, expensive printing matter whlsh
Is eobbled up by the ton. Nothing could
he more effective than the advertising de
vice of a rtLper and mower manufacturer,
He has employed artists aud model makers
To paint and set up perfect model of his
immense factory, with the surrounding
scenery Where railways run along on
two sides OF the works there are miniature
railroads with trains of passenger ami
freight cars constantly passing to and fro
On the other side, where the river is, thert
tug-boats, steamers, sailing vessels NOV,
up and down. The whole is cleverly de
signed ana executed and attracts much
attention.
The only things in the machinery exhibit
which struck me as being positively new
were Germ planter which uses wire ropes
stretched from one side of the field To the
other 10 enable the driver to mark straight,
lines, and projections ON the wires auto
matically to drop the corn in hills of abso
lutte uniformity; and a potato harvesting
machine which it is claimed will dig Tn.
potatoes without cutting them, put them
in sacks, and plow the land ready for an.
crop which it may be desired to follow, al
BY going once over the ground.