Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-28
Our Fair.

Owing to the necessary absence of .he editor of our agricultural department from our Coun- ty Fair, we are unable to give as full and crit ical a report of it as we would wish E; but we will try to not fall into the error of our cotem porary and make ourselves appear ridiculous by passing judgment on what we do not un- derstand. '-' 2','''0 '~2' ',.D 's'"
 The grounds had been greatly enlarged and improved. The track is increased to half mile, and was in good condition. The weather both days, was very attractive, and the attend ance was therefore good, the enlargement of the grounds giving it the appearance of being smaller than it really was. . .r.,-..
 The Fair. we understand to have been q
 The display of stock on Wednesday was, we should say, very creditable to our county The exhibition of working oxen brought out some of the finest teams that we had ever seen A string of seven yoke, entered by Henry Peck of Morris, was the best matched and attracted the most attention. FEE. Warner, of Plymouth, had some very neat cattle, among which one yoke weighs about 3,600 lbs. George w Wood- ruff and B. Humaston both had splendid yokes of cattle, that deserved the premiums that they obtained. There were several others worthy of notice, but we failed to learn the owners names. There were several very fine cows ac- cording to our notion. One fat COW belonging to MT. Turner, of Northfeld, weighed l, 400 lbs. A Devon Heifer, owned by J. s. Titus, Durham COW of J. H. Hubbard's, COW own ed by Cyrus Catlin, and a yearling heifer be- lenging to J. &. Titus, attracted a good deal of notice. The finest bull calf on the ground, in our opinion, belonged to Tomlinson Wells. It is three-fourths blood Durham, was -four months and four days old, and weigheds4673 lbs. We should say that this part of the exhi- bition was most decided success aaf ea
 The display of horses we considered not up to the mark. There were few very fine ami mals entered, and they attracted the more att 'tention for want of any strong competition
 Two or three handsome stallions. were entered
 and all, we believe, took premiums. MT. H. J. Peck brought up an assortment, composed of stallions, geldings, mares and colts, and was well rewarded with premiums. Earl Buckine. ham showed some handsome geldines. T. A Warren drove neat pair of matched horses. Mr. H. A. Bottsfordl brought away the, fret premium for mare roadsters;u and Edwin Mci
 Neil the second. Both of these were ef. very fine
 mares, and the choice in favor of Mr. Botts
 ford's must have been made on some very fine point aa sbg84s oG ss flj1s sjs; zila4 d
 Of Domestic Manufactures there was small ull show. By looking at the premium list, we have an inventory of nearly, everything on the tables. Many of the articles were. however. of very fine material and workmanship, and the display, though small, was very creditable in it's general character. t ,slit ,4ag.n,ao3 t-9 The departments of Vegetables and Horti- culture were little better represented, Ap- ples, however, were scarce, as the ercp is small. The best show of frnit was in grapes, of which there we're several samples of fine varieties < We are indebted to Wm. Norton fora fine bunch of Isabeils's s, and to Lewis Smith of liar
 winton, for some delicious Northern Musca-
 dimes and Hartford Proliics. isa5 hhaora san
 The articles of General Manufacture were
 not numerous, but most of them were valuable.
 c. F. Smiths Pneumatic churn is a new inven.
 tion, and we think an important one. It in. troduces air into the cream while it is being