Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-09-17
Our Own Oxford County Fair Again
LARGE AND FINE EXHIBITS, DRAWING
CROWDS. AND THE RIGHT KIND OF WEATHER.


l0hT KIND OF WEATHER.
cd Hereford herd Of sixteen head
mainly purebreds, - they have onl
three grades on the farm. They ha'
also two Jokes of the handsomest white
fac6 steers to be seen anywhere, just m
der ton and eleveu months respectively
+; 81. A. Robbins of Norway showed
whitefaced herd Of something like TWEEN
ty, three of them purebreds and the res
grades.
George Babineau of South Paris, +,
handsome yearling Holstein bull.
| T. B. Doughty Of Norway, q purebret
Jersey COW and yearling bull.
| W. r. Young Of Norway showed {
herd OF very handsome Jerseys, attract
i've to all who have fancy for the littl'
fawn oolored cattle.
SHEEP AND SWINE.
Harold e. Whitman of Buckfield
breeder of Hampshire Down sheep
showed aocks Of sheep and lambs snt
made number Of single entries OF thes,
black-faced animals.
L. j. Trask of West Paris showed ,
flock OF purebred Down sheep and Z
Down buck.
A. E. Morse Of South Paris showed ,
Yorkshire SOW and six pigs. These ar,
white, as 1t is hardly necessary to say
He also showed Duroo Jersey SOW witt
six pigs, and it is likewise hardly neces
sary to say that these are red.
Thomas Mcknight of South Psril
showed Duroc Jersey boar.
j. w. 8. Colby OF South Paris showed
Chester boar. He also showed {
Shropshire ram lamb.
j. A. Tburlow of South Paris, q Berk
sbire boar, and Chester SOW with sever
pigs.
Emerald Swallow of South Paris, 6
Chester SOW with eight little pigs.
The great attraci ion in the swine pens
for the general public, was a Berkshire
SOW exhibited by C.. d. Merrill of Nor
way, with six pigs four days old whsr
the fair opened. The pigs we're evidently
cross of the Duroo Jersey and the
Berkshire strains, as their color was 6
red ground spotted with black much
after the style of coach dog. Few had
ever seen pigs that looked like that.
POULTRY.
A handsome lot of birds were exhib
tied under the grand stand. Not &C
many as in some past years, but just 81
goodNas ever. The fanciers of the vicin.
ity respond readily to the opportunity to
display their stock. Not so many see II
a. would IL It were in more conspicu
Gus place, but the fanciers find it.
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT.
The vegetable shelf was crowded and
packed with products OF field and gar.
den, above the average in general appear
ance, condition and arrangement.
Collections of field crops and garden
vegetables were shown by Mrs. f.
Dudley, South Paris, c. D. Morse. Water.
ford, j. B. Field, Norway, and Mrs. F.
q. Noble, Norway.
There were three assortmonts OF field
and garden vegetables in the class for
boys-by Ernest c. Watson, Norway, IL
years old, Albert Knightly, Norway, and
Hosea A. Curtis, 10 years old, and they
were revelation as showing what boys
can do. Many men could be put to
shame by what these boys have done.
Then there were exhibits by the score
in the line of the different lines of vege.
tables. Squashes, cabbages and pota-
toes were particularly good, and could
hardly be exoelled, and in other varie.
ties the exhibit measured up well.
Considering the condition of The apple
crop in the state, there was fair show
ing of fruit, though the quantity was
less than the average, az is the case with
the crop. Professor George A. Yeaton,
who judged the fruit as he has for some
years, says that the Baldwin, Of Oxford
County suffered less from the past severe
winter than was the case in the rest OF
the state. and that In the rest of the
state the Bald wins will be about twenty.
five per cent of an average crop.
Among the largest exhibitors in the
fruit department were W. G. Conant,
Hebron, E. NJ. Kesne, Hebron, a. G.
Bowman, Hebron, P. V. Everett, He.
bron, NJ. F. Holman, Oxford, z. o.
Paris, Hiram Porter, South Paris, w. N.
Judkins, South Paris, John P. Howe,
Norway, Mrs. Frank Dudley, South Par
is, Oscar N. Cox, Norway, Oliver G.
Buck, Hebron, D. B. Upton, Norway,
Charles Cummings, Hebron, Merton
Rawsop, Hebron, Chase Orchards, Buck
field, Clifford Scothorne, Hebron, L. E.
Whitman. Hebron, W. A. Hersey, Nor
way, W. T. Knightly, South Paris, and
others.
Among the interesting things on the
fruit shelf was plate of Baldwins grown
on a tree top grated by Daniel Warren
of North Waterford in 1925 They were
said to be the first Baldwin scions set In
Waterford. The tree on which these
were grown bore barrel of apples in
1917.
THE ORANGES
As in previous years, the grange exhib.
it's constituted large fraction Of the OK.
hibit in the upper hall. There were six
of them, the same AZ last year, and all
occupying the same spaces as before.
Iu these latter days, 1t Is the under
standing that the grange exhibits are to
be Judged not on the basis Of decorative
effect or display Of antiques or curiosi-
ties, however interesting those may be,
but principally on an agricultural basis,
that is, "a displays of that which is pro-
duced on the farm. So they now 60 out
side of this field very little.
Norway Grange used the patriotic
colors red, white and blue, for Its deoora.
tons, and had service flag with five
stars at the front. The oenterpiece was
horn of plenty pouring out the fruits
of the Earth, which was we'll conceived
and effectively carried out.
West Paris Grange also made use OF
the patriotic colors for Its decorations,
and showed . service flag with four
stars. A fireplace with cut flower deco.
rations formed the centerplece.
haa nd al