The 1894 State Fair in Lewiston Offers Local Farmers a Great Opportunity

This was a piece published in the August 10th, 1894 edition of the "Waterville Mail" in regards to the State Fair in Lewiston. 


Source: 
Prince & Wyman, "The Waterville Mail (Vol. 48, No. 11): August 10, 1894" (1894). The Waterville Mail (Waterville, Maine). 1552. 

A Great Chance for Our Farmers

       It is not every year that such an opportunity is offered the farmers of Maine as is now before them. At the coming State Fair, Lewiston, September 3-7, there will be $25 waiting for the best ten pounds of butter salted with Diamond salt. $50 in three prizes for best Oxford Down lambs. One Babcock milk test costing $12 for the cow giving largest number of pounds of butter fat in one day of the Fair. $50 in three prizes for the best four cows owned by one man yielding the largest number of pounds of butter fat the third day of the Fair, and besides these all the regular society premiums so liberal as to be oftentimes criticised, amounting to nearly seven thousand dollars. Remember the regular entry fee covers all specials and these sums should tempt hundreds to exhibit. Entries close August 18th. Send to Secretary G.M. Twitchell, Augusta, for blanks and list.