The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-07-12
TIE sHEARING PREMIUM.

TIE sHEARING PREMIUM.
The Committee on Shearers were
Messrs s. Gilmore, of OskaIoosa, X.
Denton, Of Iowa City, and w. X. Sica-
foos, of Toledo The premium, five dol
lars, for the best shearer, was declared
awarded to Mr.. William Scott, of Oska-
loosa.
The awards being made known, DR..
I. Holyoke, the President of the meet
ing, introduced n, II. Brainard, ESQ,
editor of the Iowa City Republican, who
briefly addressed the audience in inter-
csting and practical remarks on the sue
cess of wool-growing in Iowa, the advis-
ability of abandoning graip-growing for
sheep raising, the large comparative pro-
fits OF the latter to the farmer, in conse-
quence of the difference in cost of trans
portation to the sea-board, etc.
Mr.. Bra.nard ought to have been fol-
lowed by a free discussion by the practi-
cal wool-growers present, ON the best
breeds OF sheep, methods of raising and
feeding, cure of diseases, etc. Had that
course been followed, we, at least, had
been better pleased and the audience bet
entertained. However, this feature will,
we hope, certainly be introduced at the
next festival.
And SO the talking ended. DR.. Shaft
er offered the following resolution:
Resotred, That DR.. L. Holyoke, of
Poweshiek county; j. S. Mcfarland, of
johnson county Don c. Gates, of Scott,
and Mr.. Long, of Iowa county, and
Thomas McGitfen, OF Jefferson, be ap-
pointed committee TO confer with the
Wool. Growers Association of South
eastern Iowa, with view to effecting q
union of that organization with the one
represented at this festival prior to the
spring of 1866.
On motion, Prof Parker was requested
to furnish his poem for publication.
a well-deserved resolution of thanks
to the citizens of Grinnell for courtesies
extended TO the visitors and exhibitors
closed the interesting exercises but not
the doors of the audience room nor the
programm' Of entertainment devised by
Grinnell liberality and zeal, as the grati-
fed partakers of ice cream and lemonade,
prepared by the fair citizens and handed
from seat to seat of the visitors well at
tested. This feature of the Festival was
heartily enjoyed even by the least sheep
ishly-leained of the visitors. =,
The closing entertainment and not the
least of the fun, was Of Gospel order, and
given in the words of Holy Writ, by
Rev. d. S. Cochranc, Pastor of the
Congregational Church, who read the
following words from the 18th chapter of
jeremiah and 22d verse, as especially
applicable to jeff, Davis, and explaining
why that rebel found his last ditch in
cl1noline and delaine:
Sand if thou say in thine heart,
wherefore come these things upon me p
For the greatness Of thy iniquity are thy
skirts discovered, and thy heels made
bare"
We are glad to be able to add that
Scott county was represented by C. $.
Ellis, Don G. Gates, A. H. Gorham, and
=. Warner, Esq, all practical WOOL
growers; the last three of whom would
have had some of their sheep with them
had not a stupid blunder of a railroad
agent as to rates of freight prevented.
The press was represented by Messrs.
Brainard of the Iowa City Republican,
the Foreman of the Marengo Review,
Condit of the Montezuma Republican,
and the editor of the Gazette.
We are under personal obligations to
Hon. j. b. Grinnell, President Magoun,
Dr. Sears, i. c. Phelps, Esq, and other
citizens of Grinnell, and to Mr.. j.. S.
Mcfarland, the Secretary of the Festival
Dr. Shaiier and others for favors received
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