Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-12

= sxhibitioa 70 a1oed really hungry naa
! dinner. The products of the dairy were
.ot nsascoas. nor ware they superior to thoss
vhich had come under orr observation ct
prsvioas Fairs. Sugar and honey were IN
Isir quantity and quality. S.
Bot Ne must pan to the numbefless sgfl-
cultural implsnents and labor-saving machines
On exhibition. It was truly refreshing to
notice the progress Of inventive science and
the triumphs of Yankee ingenuity and perse-
verence - svidenced In and about Mechanics
Hall. Here were al descriptions of ingenious
and labor-saving Implements and machines
from IN apple parsr and patent mouse-trap
10 tho most complex moving machine, patent
erist mill OF steam carriage. And it was
fact that of all these multiform and
various machines and implements some good
and eommsndstory word could be spoken.
Nothing seemed made in vain. Every arti-
Gle had doubtless been gotten up to supply
want felt bsfore it's creation. 1t had work
before il to do, q vacant place to ill ere the
first thought of it ever found place in the
teeming brain of the originator. The world
needed il. and it sprang into existence to meet
that need. It sought to bear for earth's
toiling millions, q part of the heat and bur-
dens of the day. And 60 far as it success
fully does this, Just 90 far is it's inventor en-
titled to the thanks and grateful remembrance
of mankind. If he who causes two blades
of grass to grow where but one grew before
10 . public benefactor, surely he who enables
one man OF woman to perform with greater
ease and in less time the work Of two or more
men or women, is worthy to be ranked high
a. a lover of his race. Such were our thoughts
- we viewed, with much satisfaction, so
many different varieties of labor-saving i'm
plements. The humble pillow, which years
since had seemed to have reached the acme of
perfection. was before us to- day in large num-
bers and with added and apparently indis-
pensable improvements. The harrow, which
our good fathers thought incapable of a
higher utilization, had, under the inventive,
plodding genius of our friend Sheldon of
Calais. assumed the concentric forml and was
claimed thereby to be capable of doing twice
the work of an ordinary harrow. The now
ing machines and the horse rakes, by the use
of which many q farmer during the late re-
bellion WAS enabled to give two of his sons
to the Union, and with the remaining one do
the hsying and harvest work Of the farm
| were especially abundant at Brattleboro, and
all of them were worthy the attention and
praises bestowed upon them by the farmers.
Then there were labor-saving churns and
milk racks, washing machines and clothes
wrngers, and an innumerable host of minor
articles TO make easy the labors of the house
wife. Miles Patent Meat Cutters and Sau
sage Machines were there in large quantities
and in great variety of sizes, from one suit
able for the work of the largest wholesale
meat dealer to one that no family however
small ought to live another day without pur
chasing. These machines are constructed or
just the right principles and in the mos
perfect manner. and cannot fail of being i'm
mensely popular with an appreciative public
Their merits were being fully and ably Sc
forth BY Mr.. A. g. Bradish, formerly 0
Montpelier, who 10 now the General New
England Agent for the sale of the same
Mr.. BradiPh was evidently d" master of tn
situation. )" and was doing thriving bushes
with this favorite machine. He was also ex
hibiting . patent curtain fixture or fastene
which for its beauty, simplicity and dura
bility must command universal favor. Thi
fixture il also manufactured by the Mile
Company Then there was the Joyce Fore
Pump,-a pump that many a New Englan
farmer ought to own-exhibited by Whit
temore i Co., of Boston, who also had on Ell
hibition Q large assortment of plows, ayr
cultural implements kc.-a notice of a.
which would more than fill this paper. L
short, turn which ever way you would, some
thing new, improved, useful, desirable or OF
namental met your gaze, and one could n
help feeling . just pride that he lived in a
age and section of country so noted fer il
progress snd its Improvements in the practi
cal and useful arts.
Passing from the well-flled Mechanic
Hall, We found ourself among the swim,
Here the show is fair, but might have bee
both larger and better. There were fe'
fine white Chesters and Suffolks, and moi
black Essexs Indeed the blocks were her
largely the outnumbering race, and we SUI
pose our Dem ocratic brethren will proclaim
this fact as only another evidence OF the sa
decentralization of the times.
The number of sheep on the grounds WI
large and the quality very superior. Th
department. of the fair, we ii. nix, has neve
been excslled- Col. Needham sees
10 insist that it was surpassed by the I" il
little sheep that went to Hamburg" III
Merinos, the Saxonys, the South Downs, th
Tsxels, &C., were all here we'll represente,
held wouldlpurchase an ordinary farm. "
couldn't help thinking that sl,5OO-th
price asked for one Merino Buck-was rath,
too much money to invest in one fleece.
A. Bemis of East Burke, had the only Ion
wool sheep on exhibition from the State, an
they were much admired. Vermont " bea
the crowd on sheep.
We n ext come to the cattle, and here aga
this Fair has never been surpassed in We
mont. II was . rich treat for even a repoT
er to 60 through the well-6lled stalls, al
feast his eyes upon the large and beautii
array Of stock so comfortably quartered ther
in. What then must have been the pleasu
of the farmers aud connoieseurs in fine stot
- they infinitely inspected all the fine ar
mails ON exhibition at Brattleboro! The di
play was uncommonly large, and noted mo
for it's uniform high quality than for the a