Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-10-01

Rutland County Fair.


FIVE Spanish merino ewes, five eve
lambs, FIVE buck lambs, and one yearlng
buck, the last yielding fleece weighing
Is ga pounds. Five aeeces, from as
many ewes, We're also ON exhibition, which
averaged IL IL pounds.
Mr.. NJ. NJ. Dikeman, of Hubbardton,
exhibited three year old buck, from
Hammond's buck, and a full blooded At
wood eve, This sheep sheared, May 9,
at the age of eleven months, 20 IL lbs.
of WOOL Also a yearling buck for which
when ''little lambn he was offered 500.
He had also ON exhibition ten lambs
Mr.. d. remarked that some gentlemen
from Wayne county. New York, after
canvassing the State pretty thoroughly,
gave his sheep and lambs the preference,
and bought of him.
Mr.. James Eayres, residence not given,
had fifteen ewes, "grade sheep also ten
lambs, two buck lambs, one two year old
buck and one yearling.
Mr.. L. l.. Holden had five New Ok
fordshire ewes, five ditto. lambs, and one
seven year old Cotswold buck.
Mr.. j. B Proctor, of Centre Rutland,
la G.. Do,,lor ,,,or;no vaarlnp aueS
yielding an average weight of ten pounds
of wool each, and two yearhng bucks,
one of which sheared II l-2 pounds.
OF stations on the ground, the only
tmo which we particularly noticed, were
an Orange county morgan, splendid an
imal, exhibited by Mr.. S. F. Kelley, of
Rutland, and DR.. Mobiles Abe Lincoln,
which we shall have occasion to notice in
trotting match.
In the class of matched horses, we no
tced beautiful pair of dark chestnut
horses, six years old, the aggregate weight
of which was 1900 pounds. Some of the
pecularities of these animals were that
, their eyes were silver edged exactly alike,
f also the stars on their foreheads, the ships
on their noses, and their white hind tet,
locks were very similar, They wert
owned by Mr.. P. Worcester, of Ira.
8 Mr.. A. j. Mead, of West Rutland, hac
!. a fine pair of greys, six and seven year.
y old, half brothers, from the old Gre!
g Hawk.
n Mr.. Geo. A. Hadum exhibited a car
It riage horse, years old, a Morgan, from
y a Hambletonian mare, which he said hat
e moved sixty tons of hay the past season
if and hauled it all into the barn, and haC
II done all the other work on the farm sine
: planting time.
% Mr.. E. Porter, of West Rutland had
Sherman Morgan mare, seven years Ole
which looked WE'LL although he said sh
ID ha d sucked a colt all summer. We Ill
s. derstood him to say that two years ago L
Ks drove her 341 miles and set up two mon1
in ments in 5 IL days.
!" At ten o'clock A. M. on Thursda
~ there was trial of speed In trottlng, b
u tween stations, and also between mar
10 and geldings, best 3 In 5. Dr.Noble's Al
VI Lincoln, and the Adams Horse, Hambl
ne tonian. from Middletown, driven by M
Is Cephas C. Stone, were the on y ones tn
10 appeared, and the race was easily won
y Abe Lincoln in two minutes and forty-o
seconds.
", For trial between geldings and maj
=. there were entered black mare, Fa
-, ny Nearing" five years old, by Mr.. W
=, lard of Fairhaven, q" KITTY Green" 10
years old, by Mr.. Brckbee, and "Ploug
boy" seven years old, in charge of N
~ G. G. Stone. The race was won by ia
=. ny Nearing, in $50, $50, and 3 mi
utes.
:, We would simply remark further, tt
: Kitty Green in the afternoon won a re
- easily over two competitors, and 1t "
I deemed by those who were acqualnt
with her that she did quite as we'll
:: could be expected, considering the lit
: opportunity that she has had.
- We understand that the receipts at
=, gate for admission tickets were about tt
- hundred dollars. The number Of perst
in attendance is variously estimated
from three to four thousand. Althou
we have given somewhat extended
tedious account of the Fair, it is, IN IL
~ very imperfect and meagre We hear'
y remarked in town that it could hardly
=. known by the appearance OF the sire
- | A.. tLo,o x,yoo n fa IN at all One rpa