The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-27
FAIR TODAY,
RIGBY,S STALLS CROWDED WITH
BLUE BLO0DED STOCK.
New England Fair is Ready For
all Corners.

Noble HOrSo-6ulAy -AoWS, SWlno
and Sheep Are Represented by the Best
in the Country-Jim and Joe the Prize
Oxen Are Among the Siehts-Interest
ing Races on the Card-What to Soc
and How to See 1t.
Rigby Park is resplendent. All day
long yesterday an army of men hustled
in the work of preparation, and every
thing is in readiness for the grand oper
ing of the big fair today. The park re
sembled miniature city. There is every
thing here that can be imagined from q
trained rabbit to the Nautch dancers
from tho Midway Plaisance. Every-
thing was bustling yesterday. Manager
Farnham and his many assistants we1e
busy as bees, while Superintendent Libby
of the horse department., and Superin-
tendent Hayes, who has charge Of the
cattle were kept busy all day assigning
quarters to new arrivals of stock which
kept coming all day long. 1t is the finest
show of blooded stock ever seen in Maine,
and probably in New England. Super
intendent Hayes, who has had an expert
euce in such matters of over thirty years,
SAYS he has never seen anything like it,
It is going to be big fair-big in every
sense of the word, and nobody in Port
land should let the week pass without a
visit to >Rigby.
HOW THE PARK LOOKS.
As one turns to the right beyond the
grand stand after entering, he is struck
with the immense number of tents that
have been erected everywhere. They are
used for every conceivable purpose; by
agricultural firms, for fancy cattle, for
freaks, for restaurants, for photograph
galleries, and by the fakir and side show.
Beyond the settlement of tents are the
stables, where the horses are to be found,
and still further on at the extreme end
of the park the cattle, sheep and swine
are located.
AMONG THE CATTLE.
Things were lively in the cattle depart
ment all day, and the believing of mag
nificentlbulls, the lowing of good natured
Jerseys and the plaintiye bleating of
baby calves made sweet music for the
farmers ear.
Alonzo Libby's fine herd of forty As :
shires arrived today looking sleek and
fat.
The magnificent display of G l. Hood
of Lowell attracted great deal of atten-
tion.
S. S. Marsh of Sutton, Mass, has a
unique display of eight head of Dutch
belted cat tie.
Kingleside Farm of Paris attrac is Wis
itors to it's stalls by flaming sign made
of premium ribbons won at different
fairs by stock from this famous farm.
They make fine showing.
AN ORPHAN ARRIVAL.
A stranger arrived at Rigby yesterday
morning in the person of a young Jer-
sey calf, that came in Maine Central car
No. 1871, without any card or name at
tached, and apparently without an own
er. SUPERINTENDENT HayesYat once adopted
him and he now eats and sleeps as con-
tentedly at Rigby as if it had always
been his home.
Z. f. Fernald of Saco has curiosity
in the shape of q monster COW, which is
in a tent by herself She weighed zoos
pounds on the Saco city scales two weeks
ago. and is eight years old. She is prob
bly, the biggest COW in New England,
and is very clever.
J. D. Avery of Buckland, Mass, has
the finest yoke of matched oxen that
7 have ever seen. They are "Joe and
.Jim.'' and are without a peer in the
country. They are coal black in color,
handsomely marked with pure white.
and as sle ok and clean as thoroughbred
racer, They are true Holstens, are seven
wears old, seventeen hands high, girt
fourteen feet, and combined weight is
800 pounds. They are as playful as two
kittens and splendidly trained, will lift
their heads high in the air at a word OF
command and do almost. anything but
talk. At the Vermont fair they drew
10. 600 pounds, at the Valley fair, 10,047
mounds. and have pulled load of stone
weighing 1851 pounds. L G. Libby,
the famous Maine drover, says he has
never seen an oxen that could compare
with these monster beauties.
They have grown 700 pounds the past
year and will probably increase 100(
hounds more They have always beer
worked on farm and are not simply
show oxen.
THE SHEEP AND SWINE.
The sheep entries include several hun
dred representatives Of the show stock o.
New England breeders. Simpson Stocl
Farm sends some of the sheep recently
alluded to in this paper. Other exhibit
ors are Hilton, Waugh, Corbet, Fletcher
Pendexter, Morrill, of Queb &c, ETC. Ok
ford, Down and Shropshires are mos
numerous, but members of other breeds
are plenty enough to insure good compe
tition.
Messrs. Pendexter, Adams, Wallis ant
others send swine as well as sheep. Th'
swine have comfortable quarters b,
themselves, and the many different breed
can be readily compared.
The poultry department. will be larg
) and the specimens Of Branhas, Cochin