Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-03
FAIR POSTPONED
 OPENING TILL TODAY
Bad Weather Broke Up Any chsnvs
 fer Labor Day Crowd.

fsr Labor Day Crowd. Early Monday the management of the New London county fair saw that the heavy rain storm would forestall any attempt to carry out the Labor day programme, so that the whole fair programme was moved forward one day, and Tuesday will be the grand opener, weather permitting, instead of Monday
 l Although owing to the rainy weather the county fair did not open on Mon day. yet there were a number of people at the grounds during the day. The poultry house, few vendors booths and the cattle were the chief attrac- tions- The majority of the exhibits 1 had arrived by Monday night and were ready for the opening of the fair this morning.
 There were but two exhibitors in the dog department on Monday. Leroy Osborne had foxhound dog and bitch l and Joseph Casey showed an EnRlssl, bull terrier bitch with litter of pups Poultry in Large Members.
 There were iss entries of poultry Monday noon, and others were comi1s 1 in rapidly. indicating an exhibit h size quite up to the standard Of other years There are especially strong classes Of White Plyrouth Rocks ana White and Brown LeRhorns, and a va. riety of fancy poultry is shown, in. cludink Hondafs, White-face Blacl Mottied Ancona. Blue Andeluslans lWhite-crested Black Polish and Buf
 Polish. There Is pen ofl Peki1
 ducks and another of duckiingz an'
 there is q large display of chickens Q
 various breeds.
 The largest exhibitor in the poultr.
 department, as in former years, Is E
 B. Bellows of Houthbridge, Mass, wh
 has entered nearly 70 coops of poultry
 with 15Q coops of fancy pigeons am pet stock.
 Eggs DispIsysd.
 There Ia large display of hens an ducks eggs in the poultry department
 The bantanE are well represented thi Iyear and some especially nice speci
 mems are shown. Woodbury o. Roger
 is in charge of the poultry.
 Pigeons and Pst Stock,
 I In pigeons and pet stock Janne
 Tourtellofte of this city has a nic exhibit Redwing Turhots, Parlo Plumbers. White Fantails (the oni
 ones shown> and Jacobins entered D
 MT. Tourtellotte are al of high clasl
 He also shows Dutch rabbits and pair of pretty black and white EneliE butterfly rabbits A Persian buo
 is included ia his exhibit. H. B. Bel
 lows of Scuthbridge has an extensiv display of pet stock sud the exhsD'
 of Raymond P French Of this city
 worthy of mention, his white mice an
 rats and handsome white anpora rah bits attracting much attention. HI mammoth white AnKorss are from ti finest stock in the country. Uncle Je Lady, and Baby Bunting, ( beautif, : snow white pet, arc bine ribbon spel ' imens He also shows two Maux l1' < tens, Isle of Man breed.
 Cattle on Hand.
 There were comparatively few cal tie On the grounds Monday, but nnn more entries are expected to be . :, hand today. The cattle which wei ! shown, however, attracted much a ! tenfion and drew much favorable con ! nent for their uniform sleek and we
 kept appearance.
 James B. Palmer of Lisbon is ( hand as usual with a large and di herd of Guernseys led by his nots bull Bon Boy, This five year old by y has been shown at the local fair f
 several years and his size and gTat
 appearance never fail 10 attract al 8 nniration. MT. Palmer has six your e Guernsey bulls, one Holstein COW, r pair of nice Devon steers, a pair
 white faced steers and a number s Guernsey cows His herd nufnbe 6 s1.
 f Ray Harding of Hamburg shows h fine herd of Devon cattle that brin h forth much favorable criticism fro IS the cattlemen. There are eight pc
 of handsome. steers and a number '-i COWS and heifers. MT. Harding a 6 rived with his herd on Sunday. ' Steer Went Home to Hamburg. { Another Hamburg exhibitor is J. N Tiffany, whose nine pair of Dev
 steers class with the finest. The stee
 are of good size and are all betwe
 two and four years old. Mir. Tiffal
 has not exhibited here in the past t, n years, but previous to that for sever ,l years his entries were a notable pc le of the cattle exhibit. Soon after t "a herd arrived at the fair grounds Su le day night one of Mir. Tiffany's you Ls steers escaped and started for hon .. where II dTr1VeQ MOnudy. ln So far this year there has arriv , but one town team of oxen, the Ly1 n town team, made up of the pick of Harding and Tiffany herds.
 e- J. B, Palmer has a flock of 50 she l. of several varieties and 10 ango T. goats. He also had one wagon of pI er on the grounds Monday, including t IT grade Berkshires, two grade Wh
 Chesters, one grade Jersey and White Chester boar.
 a. The motorcycle races which are al 1 ho held three days of the fair prom ae some real excitement, For toda sa race thsFs are three entries, H. F. Bs be dick, seven horse power Excelsior. k, B, Latham of Lebanon, seven hoi iP power indiahi James Mcclure of Pa t. tueAst, R. l., seven horse power M, S. kel, Last year Burdick had 1t pre- a. much his 0Wa way in the motor rae ad but with the intFoduetien of McClu
 Hhe has been cleaning up some of
 riders in Rhode Island, there promii
 to be a eiese contest for horrors.