Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-10-01
WILMINGTON FAIR.

nearly all the people of that town and large
attendance of agriculturists from all the neigh
boring towns. The fame of this goodly town
and of its excellent cattle is abroad in the land
and connoisseurs of this department of stock
would no more think of staying away from her
annual festivals than of going TO heaven with
out repentance.
With our better half and an abridged edition
of her we arrived at Wilmington shortly before
10 o'clock, and entered the village under the
escort of the "South team" consisting of 80
pairs of oxen drawing an omnibus cxtcmporiz-
ed for trs occasion and containing several score
of women and children. Over the omnibus
waved a banner bearing the device of full
blood "short-horn." The Wilmington Cornet
Band, which, by the way, is constructed out of
some most excellent material, did the escort
duty for this huge team. The streets were
densely packed with living mass of humanity
and it was with difficulty that the marshals
could open way for the living moving pride
of the farmers of the South end. This team
passed through the principal street in the viii
lage and then changed front and marched back
to the field. In few minutes the music and
the marshals were moving off on the Dover
road, but they shortly returned heading the
team from the North end. Again the streets
were lined with people intent upon the seeing
which end of the town was to be declared vic
tor in this annual strife for pre-eminence But
the contest was not doubtful. The 65 pairs of
cattle constituting the North team was too much
for their townsmcn of the South, albeit some of
the best pairs were in the team Of the latter
The oxen of the North were this wear vctori
Gus.
The Fair ground was well stocked with choice
cattle. Every pen was full and every post had
one or more dttaches. OF this very respecta-
BILE portion was thoroughbred short horn or
Durham We noticed three bulls, several cows
and number of heifers and calves that were
pure blood. Daniel Cushman was the largest
exhibitor of this sort of stock His bull .
years old from the herd of Mr. Fonda of New
York, was in our opinion little ahead of any
thing else on the ground, although the bull
owned by C. 7. Alvord and sired by Krkleav
ington, and the bull owned BY Reue Smith and
raised by Mr. Fonda, are both excellent animals.
Mr. Cushman also exhibited COW 6 wears old.
heiter years old and calf by her side. and
two heifers years old, all of which can show
satisfactory pedigrees. Mr. Cushman's thor
ough-bred stock compares favorably with any
we have seen in the State, and it is deserving
the attention If oil Ia, 1.
short-horn element in their herds of cattle
Reuel Smith and c. 7. Alvord also exhibited
some superior stock. Where all is so good it
is difficult to discriminate and we could only
do justice to all by giving the names of every
exhibitor
Among the yokes Of cattle on the ground we
observed many very excellent and beautiful
pairs Of young cattle. There were but few
pairs over years of age, as the cattle that are
here raised find markets abroad as soon as they
reach working condition. We cannot re-
frain from noticing two pairs of steers which
for size and general excellence combined NAV
safely challenge competition. Daniel Cushman
exhibited pair years old which weighed ATS
lbs.i and Charles Bissel pair of yearlinrs
which weighed 2245 lbs. If any town or coun-
ty can beat this our hat, such as it is, is at its
service. Nearly all the stock was of that uni
formly excellent quality which has given VIII
mington deservedly high reputation as a stock
growing town. There were several horses,
colts and sheep on exhibition, but the cattle we
have noticed were the bright particular stars at
which the men would look and look again as if
they could not be satisfied with the view alone.
We fear that some of the visitors did not all
the while keep in mind that part of the deca-
logue which forbids the coveting of neigh
boris OK.
The hall was better filled with the products
of the dairy, the Kitchen the garden, and the
farm, as well as with the finer and more orna-
mental handcraft of the ladies than at any pre-
vious exhibition. The specimens of garden
vegetables were not noted for their monstrosity
but for their perfect form and excellent quality,
such as every gardener can and should raise
The samples of potatoes were numerous and in
cluded nearly every variety cultivated in this
county. c. NJ. Russell exhibited specimens of
26 varieties. The apples, although few in num-
Der and variety, were the best we have seen in
this county this year. ]. II. Russell exhibited
the best sample of spring wheat that we have
ever seen. Some of it was in the straw which
was four to five feet long in the bundle; and
portion of it was shelled. The product was
about 20 bushels to the acre. The butter was
all good and some of it superior, and the cheese
looked well. The samples of maple sugar were
nice to look at and we found them exceedingly
toothsome. The frocking, carpetings, fannels
and WOODEN cloth for mems wear showed that
those useful but now somewhat Questionable
household arts and economies are vet in exis-
tence in Wilmington; and the excellent bread
and dairy products furnished pleasing evidence
of the culinary skill of her good housewives
Specimens of Dentistry by DIR. Haynes of VIII
minston, and DIR. Comegys of this village, and
samples of printing by our neighbors, james
II. Capen and George f. Selleck, adorned the
table devoted to the fine arts and fancy work
Messrg GOrhams and n Chile cont.1,.ol