Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-09-24
NUMBER 80.

the president OF the Oxford County
Agricultural Society, has numerous lines
of everyday business, exhibited num-
Der of pianos, player pianos, etc., and
his space in the lower hall was con-
tinuously the center Of an interested
crowd.
At a booth near the hall door, w. P.
Maxim of s. p. Maxim & Son, South
Paris, demonstrated the virtues of Paroid
roofing, and distributed well-worded
advertising matter.
s. B. & z. S. Prince, the Norway dry
goods dealers, exhibited good line of
cloaks, furs, etc., in the upper hall.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
In these days, even on our Maine
farms, machinery is an important thing,
perhaps the important thing, for the
farmer who does his work at the least
Expenditure of muscle is the one who is
getting the largest profit out of his labor.
Hardly decade ago, it would have
seemed surprising that one of the first
things to be seen on entering the
grounds was a row of engines to be used
on the farm, but that is the case now.
Ranged along the fence near the entrance
gate were several different makes of gaso-
line engines, and they are not the least
interesting of the fair exhibits by any
means.
Under the grand stand were shown
other lines of agricultural implements.
10. X. Clifford OF South Paris, agent for
the Syracuse plow, exhibited several
different styles of those plows, including
two or three swivel hand plOws, and the
modern, up-to. date sulky plow, which
allows one man to handle his team and
turn the furrow in comparative comfort.
| A. w. Walker IL Son of South Paris, a
well-known firm, one of whose impor-
tant lines of business Is the sale of agri-
cultural implements, showed an ex-
tensive line of these machines, of the
several makes which they handle.
Twenty or more different implements
were in the assortment, including all
kinds of plOws, harrows, cultivators,
weeders, planters, ensilage cutters, and
so on. The display marks quite con-
trast with the day when the land plow,
the spike-tooth harrow, and one style Of
cultivator made up the farmers outfit of
machinery.
The Cummings Manufacturing Co. of
South Paris showed line of the Paris
and o. X. level land and swivel plows,
an old standard line of goods made in
South Paris for many years, which is
now made by this company at the old
foundry. They also showed the Cum
mings barrel press, an invention of X. l..
Cummings for heading apple barrels
quickly, easily and well, which is uD-
questiouably good thing.
| SOME OF THE CATTLE.
The show of cattle, while it may not
have been quite as large by the record as
in one or two previous years, was not
noticeably less, and was certainly large
and excellent.
Of course the Hartford string, with
Moses Young in general command, ar
rived early. They started at 6 o'clock
Monday morning, and after good days
trip pulled into the grounds at Monday
afternoon. There were seventeen yoke
of oxen and steers in the string. OF
these seven yoke belonged to Moses
Young, five to O. +. Turner, four to B.
F. Glover, and one to c. c. Russell. Be-
sides these o. K. Turner had bull and
heifer for exhibition, SO that there were
| in all thirty-six cattle in the string.
One of the early arrivals on the
grounds was the Holstein herd of K. l..
Pike of South Waterford, which came in
Monday night and stayed through.
There were three-year-old bull, 2
year-old bull, and long string of cows
and heifers, over twenty head in all.
| c. A. Bonney OF East Sumner showed
ten head, five of them full blooded Hol-
stems, with big 2-year old bull at the
head of the herd, and five grades.
S. II. Millett of Norway had eighteen
head of Herefords, one of them being a
good-natured yearling bull, iull blooded,
| and the rest grades.
II. Arthur Robbins of Norway showed
twenty-five head of grade ,Herefords,
COWS, heifers and steers, and they were
pretty string.
Frank Pike of Norway showed two
yoke of good steers.
c. r. Penley, South Paris, a grade
Guernsey cow and pair of 2-year-old
grade Hereford steers.
Benjamin Tucker of Norway had If
teen head, most Of them full.blooded
Holsteins. One of them is bull which
is brother to the famous Field cow,
with record Of $4,000 pounds of milk
in a year. Another is 6-months calf,
with a gilt-edge pedigree which the
Democrat couldn't begin to remember;
and not the least interesting was pair
of twin heifer calves which arrived the
preceding Sunday.
l.. 4. McIntire of Waterford, who is
vice president of the society, exhibited
twelve Holstein cows and heifers, three
full bloods, the rest grades.
J.. S. and J. II. Millett, Norway, show.
ed ten head, including Durham bull
and nine cows and heifers, Durhams and
Guernseys.
A. J. & F. L. Millett, Norway, showed
herd of a dozen Durhams, full-bloods
and grades.
W. ii. & G.. II. Dunn, Norway, a herd
of thirteen Ayrshires, at the head of
which is 2-year-old bull, the son Of i'm
ported parents, which is unquestionably
one of the best in the state. All but
| three of the animals exhibited are full
bloods.
W.K. Clifford, South Paris, good
grade Jersey heifer.
L. S. Merrill, South Paris, good
Jersey cow.
Fresh from the circuit Of the three
state fairs, S. NJ. King of South Paris
was on hand with twenty-one head of
his famous Kingleside Farm Jerseys.
Six of them were bulls, the rest cows and
heifers, and all had done their share Of
money-getting at the state fairs, in CON-
petition with the other famous Jersey
herds of the state.
Bion Greeley, West Paris, full-blood
Ayrshire bull and three heifers.
Will Young, Norway, showed fifteen
head of cattle. Two yoke of steers were
Herefords, the rest were Jerseys of high
breeding, bull, and ten cows and
heifers.
f. Parlin, South Paris, handsome
grade Jersey COW and grade Durham
yearling heifer.
Almon Churchill, South Paris, four
good grade COWS and heifers.
"Here's where you get your beef
stock" remarked good farmer as he
looked at the herd Of ten from Birch
| mont Farm, West Bethel, owned by Mrs.
L. e. Bean. They are full-blood Here
fords, and as fine specimens of the breed
as can be found.
A heifer calf 10 months old which
came from the Birchmont herd was
shown by G. II. Porter of South Paris.
Thayer Bros, Paris Hill, showed eight
grade Durham cows and heifers, and two
woke of steer calves as handsome and
| we'll matched as could be desired.
D. L. Brett, 0tisfeld, eight head,
mostly full.blood and grade Holsteins.
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