I06 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



the manufacturer of a carriasre or a machine who would sav 

 that he hadn't anything which he dared to show there. You 

 would not buy his goods. The fair is an advertising medium. 

 The farmer who brings his fruit or potatoes to the fair brings 

 them there for those who live in the town, that are not producing 

 them, to see. 



The horse part of the fair is the very hardest part, I have 

 found, for the fair management to conduct properly. So it is of 

 importance, as you are organizing your fair, that you have a 

 premium list that is full. ]\Iake it not alone for one class. Offer 

 not your premiums alone for speed. That is a mistake that has 

 been made by many an association. They say it is the trot that 

 will bring the people. There is no doubt about that, but it is 

 not the thing that is beneficial. I am not saying a word against 

 speed. There should be premiums for the standard bred horse, 

 which means the trotting horse ; arrange a place for him but do 

 not give him all of it. There is something besides the trotting 

 horse to be considered, something besides the standard bred 

 horse. Give him what belongs to him but do not give him the 

 w^hole. The horse is a beast that is used not alone for speed. It 

 is not of such vast mportance how fast a horse can draw a pneu- 

 matic tired sulky around a ring. There are other purposes for 

 which a horse is used. Encourage the man who is engaged in 

 the breeding of the standard bred, offer a prize, if you will, for 

 those that are bred within your Central ]\Iaine or your State of 

 Alaine ; give that man a chance to compare his horse with those 

 of other men, for it is by the comparison of one man's product 

 with another's that information is gained. But we need more 

 than this. Here is the carriage horse, and the hackney horse 

 which is a specialty of the carriage horse. ]\Iake a class for the 

 carriage or the hackney horse. ]\Iake a class for the coach 

 horse of a pure breed. That takes in the French coach horse 

 and the Ge "man coach horse. Even if there is but one German 

 coach horiie in the State of ]\Iaine, make a class for him and 

 induce the owner to come with that horse. Then the people who 

 come to the fair can see what a German coach horse is. Then, 

 again, there is the draft horse. We have different breeds of 

 draft horses; we have the Percheron and we have the Norman, 

 but these are so nearly alike that it is not necessary to make two 

 classifications. Then we have the Clyde and the Shire, between 



