Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-09-20


cupola for observation. Thence three
churches, several public buildings and
most of the houses in this largest town Of
Vermont, embracing ever 1000 inhabit.
ants. are seen, together with the variegat.
ed fair ground, mile southwark. Mount
Dorset Is miles further to the south rears
its mile high crest Astounding it is said in
marble. This is great marble, slate
and soapstone section, as the samples Of
statuary, roofing and slowing at the public
buildings and fair testify. Over 1000
men are employed in the marble quarries
Of Rutland alone, and 100000 feet Of
this staple are annually quarried by them.
One firm also in the adjacent town of Cas-
Teton, has contract for slate with the
British government for some public build
ungs in Toronto, and soapstone stoves are
verify here, and remarkable for the gen.
Eal and enduring character of their heat.
We reluctantly leave our post of emf
neuce and reflection and commune and
commingle with the tide of cattle show
life. AS We enter the enclosure the MORN
ing cavalcade begins, and afterwards the
examination of horses by the judges.
Several Columbus colts show great speed,
and the Morrells and Rattlers are after
them. Henry G. Roots Bennington gray
five year old gelding shows his 2:30 bot
tom. We subsequently learn that this
animal took the first premium in his class,
and that the old Bay State sweeps the
board in the premiums on foreign horses
Alvah Adams of Boston and Edward p
Haskell of New Bedford are the successful
competitors
In the class of seven year old Sherman
Morgan stations Milton Norton of Tn
mouth and Charles Fredo of Panton won
premiums. On four year olds O. P. Thorn
ton Of Castleton and G. E. Miller of Will
liston, and on two year Odds Jesse Kinds
of Brandon, were winners. The cattle
department nex6 claims our attention.
Prominent among the believing kline"
Ito use figures are the fat premium cat
tie of G. W. Black of Westminster and H.
L. Shields of Bennington, the three year
Odds of 0. Goodrich of Richmond, the two
year olds of A. NJ. Winslow of Putney
and the yearlings of Daniel Davis Of
Windsor.
John W. Vail of Bennington took a
premium on his matchless two year old
Durham bull, Daniel Davis on his 1900
pounds five year old Devon bull, and F.
Nye of Champlain on his short horn
i" Oxford Lad 2d'' weighing 1900 pounds
We also noticed a yearling Double Duke
bull exhibited by G. w. Black of West
a fat COW by H. Bowditch of
Weybridge, two Kentucky Durham bulls
of over gross ton weight, a nameless
Alderuey COW and mule. We suppose
this last to be allied to the mooleys as we
saw cars instead of horns, and very re-
markable native medium sized ten year
old brindle mich cow This last animal
belongs to Graves e. Root of Bennington,
and her products as stated by disintcrested
parties were almost fabulous. Mr.. Root,
her owner, however, affirmed that on grass
in June she had given 70 pounds of milk
per day, that her ordinary milkings now
were 81 pounds a day, and that she had
made 20 pounds of butter in week.
From her escutcheon which is ordinary
we should not infer her capabilities. but
then she had large long, oval bag,
swelling milk veins, thin thighs and slim
neck. Such COW is not found in
thousand, and no ordinary sum would
tempt her owner to sell. Two nice heifer
calves of hers accompanied her, and give
promise, if kept at Bennington, that coun-
try will overflow with milk. There is no
danger Of an inundation in hilly Rutland.
I'm this connection we must not fail to
mention the fine red yoke of working cat
tie owned by Timothy Davis of Mont
pelier. They were perfectly matched, six
years old. and weighed $3.50 pounds.
The trials Of working cattle and team
stcrship were very severe. Not only were
they tried upon cart laden heavily with
stone, but boulder containing 81 cubic
feet and weighing 74OO lbs. was lying on
a stone boat, and those willing tested
their cattle at a dead pull. Many oftbem
were able to start it foot and some drew
1t several feet
]. S. Holden Of Clarendon beat the
crowd with thirty pound bronze turkey,
and twenty seven Of his half grown prog
eny. VIM. S. Allen Of Panton exhibited
several kinds of fowls, from the ungainly
Shanghae to the strutting Bantam, besides
geese, ducks and turkeys. He claims
that Chinese geese are most profitable,
c2eanly and least troublesome. Except in
the hatehiag season, they may be picked
once in six weeks. He exhibited also two
wild geese, that were more curious than
useful. They must be about as profitable
as deer. on farm, though their owner
uses these for barometerS. They are easily