Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-01

! Model, q massive beast, solid and
powerful as a tug boat. took first
honors, and drew first prize in the
entries of three year old bulls. F. w.
Faughts Mohunkus Chief took the
prize for two year old bulls. Flint
stone Model was declared by the
/ Judges to be the grand champion bull,
Iandwas awarded the champions ro-
settle E. E. Gle drew most of his
money in the exhibits of herds, taxi
ing the first prizes for the graded
herd. four animals, get of one sire,
and two animals, produce of one COW.
| His animals were all fine looking
lones. and showed their breeding even
by the wya they walked. c. l. Gill
! bert took every prize that was offer
ed for three year old COWS. Mr..
Faught's calf herd took the first prize
in this competition.
The Andrews brothers of Exeter.
/ Me, and E. w Files of Portland, were
| the leading winners among the eX-
hibitors of Ayrshires. Mr.. Fules
! Royal Exchange was declared the
! grand champion bull. and if size and
/ theft" are any indication the judges
award must have been right. Bess
Exchange, also owned by Mr.. Files
| took the first prize for two year old
lheifers. and three of the calves own
! ed by Mr. Files took all three prizes
| for senior heifer calves. j, O. and
Q. d. Andrews animals took the first
: prize for junior bull calves, the first
third and fourth for three year old
cows, the first and second for Junior
iyearling heifers, and the first and
second for junior iheifer calves. For
| the youn herd and the calf herd,
herds owned by Mr.. E. w. Files took
the first prize. Mr.. Files entries in
! classes w and X, for four animals,
T! get of one sire and two animals pro-
duce of one COW, also took the first
prizes. Mr.. Files had an exceptional
~ large and we'll picked exhibit,
showing entries of two herds in class
". His animals are all good stock,
and they certainly looked it when
they were brought out before the
spectators at the Judging stand.
The judges Of the sheep did up their
work Wednesday. They had lot to
do. There was strong competition in
many of the classes, as there were
many breeders represented there by
large exhibits. The judging of the
sheep was an especially interesting
time for the onlookers. and there were
many exclamations of delight, espe-
cially from the younger folk, when
the little woolIy lambs were brought
out and put through their PAGES. If
| oil hn oh
States had as much wool on them as
some of the sheep shown at the fair,
there would be no need Of paying so
much for suit this year. But may
be they don't. One can hardly say
that sheep are groomed or curry
combed, but these sheep surely did
| look as though they had had some
sort of massage before they were
given over to the judge. Their wool
seemed to glisten, if wool can be said
TO ghsten. and they looked every one
OF them like the leaders in the sheep
400 Their liquid baaing was a re-
lnlnder Of days gone by. Some of the
F., older of the gentleman sheep dis
prayed a slight tendency to remove
obstacles in the person of other gem
| tieman sheep by the process known as
putting This furnished no small
amount of amusement. There were
10 or dozen different breeds of sheen
on exhibition at the fair, and there was
strong competition among the exhibit
ors of the different breeds Each
! breed however seemed to have one
! particular exhibitor who had done a
! niue better job than his fellows in
! the caring for and raising of his
! sheep' "A. D. Bailey of Skowhegan
was perhaps the leader among the
. exhibitors of Leicesters. Suffolks and
! Rambouiletts. His ewes and rams
! took large part of the money oefarod
Tor specimens of these breeds The
Long branch Farms of Bowdoinham
and L. W. Jones of South China split
up the money in the competitions for
hampshire Downs. Their animals
were fine looking ones. and to the
: iayman seemed to deserve all the
awards they got. The Stratton Stool,
Farms of Waterville and George w
| weeks OF Canaan were the chief nriza
winners among the exhibitors of OK
tord Downs. The Long Branch Farms
ALSO ulo most of the winning of the
J
prizes Tor Cheviots. Robert c. Ham
/ iet OF Bowdoinham was the 1aadar
among those who showed Southdowns
ana Horned Dorsets. His sheen wer,
/ practically without competition in ,his
class' for they drew prize after nr,ze
& T. Hamiin of East Wilton had
some Shropshires at the fair which
. look the larger part of the money
Tor their class. Mr.. Hamlin also had
some Llncolns which were winpere IN
many OF the entries for this class
me Sunset Ridge Farms of Fairfield
showed some sheen which boro ~
i'ahle OF DICKINSON and Delano Mer,
nos Ihelr display was the one
winch took most of the money r
dlIpert Of Pennington had a nice
looking flock of Spanish Merinos
when VIII go home with some moro
biue ribbons One is inclined to won
/ der why some enterprising man doesn,+
devise a list of names for tba va
rlous breeds of sheep. All the nanoos
we nave are names of English conn
ties or nearly all, and they all ana
i ~ shife. It is hard on the sheen
to have the shears so near then, al,
j the time
Girls Club Contest
An interesting feature of the af-
/ tefhoon program was the contest
I staged on the DIaffprp, ~ 49, ~.