Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-09-18
county FUir.


was rainy and but little progress was
made. Thursday morning though col
was propitious and at an early hour the
people were astir aud at eleven O'Clock
the entries were complctcda and the books
closed. There were in tha aggregate
about $40 entries.
The most numerous class of entries is
that Of Dairy Products including maple
sugar and honey, to which the follow
ing named persons contributed. But
tcr-C. II. Whittemore, Noah Dmon,
G. ii. Fassett, ID. +. James, Schuyler
Chadwick, Moses Elwood, (2tubs), Dan
iel Johnson, j. c. Chappcll, J. G. Welch,
SIS. March, d. Oliver, Geo. =. Marsh
A. M. Chadwick, Charles Cotton, Philo
Horslins, John Fish, ir., Clubs Nathan
Chadwick, a. =. Chambcrlin, and A.
II. Royce. An honorable list compared
with the three or four of last year and it
afforded Us peculiar satisfaction to be
enabled to say that the contributions of
themselves with scarcely an exception
were Individually creditablc. In the
cheese section there was less COMPETE
ton and on our hurried running over of
the book we found but five names as
contributors. There may have been
more but we did not recognize them if
there were. OF maple sugar there were
some fine samples. 1t is to be regretted
that the Society does not require from
every competitor for premium in these
and all kindred classes full statement of
the manner Of producing the articles.
We cannot understand what benefit the
public is expected to derive from an cx-
hibition Of choice samples unless they
arc to know something of how they are
to be reproduced. "A statement of how
many cows are MIXED, of what breed,
and how kept, of the manner of setting
the milk, of churning the milk or cream
as the case may be, the method of work.
ing the butter, the amount and kind of
salt used, how the butter is packed and
what disposition is made of
the skinned milk and many other
items such as the profit of green fodder
ETC., and finally the profit of the dairy for
Il month or a week would form interest
ing andvaluable reports. AS in the case of
maple sugar there is general spirit of
inquiry in regard to better methods of
that could be met in no
other way so satisfactory as in this.
In the cattle class the contributions
to the Ayrshire section was as follows:
ID. 5. Cleveland, Franklin l yearling
bull and coy, r. j. SAKE yearling
bull; l yearling hcifer = two years old
heifers and COW. Bart Whitney, COW,
heifer calf. I. II. Paris / two year
Did bull, and two year old heifers, 1.
Cummings, calf, II. II. Tracy, l bull
calf, VIM. p. Mobiles, yearling bull, ].
Cummings Jr., cows, Benjamin Fish,
IT., three year old bull, 2 cows, , two
year old heifers, yearling heifer, and
calf, and VIM. 5. Green COW. Green
and Chadwick exhibition several fine
good Ayrshire heifers.
There We're some few animals entered |
Is Durhams, but we have not list of
,he entries. We happen to know that
here are two very fine animals from the
lerd of MessIs. Winslow & Sons, of Put
ley, owned N this County, and we very
much regret that their owner should not |
80 far sympathise with the objects of
he Society as to exhibit them, even if
ne cannot see that his immediate pecu-
liary interest will be advanced by so
ioing. We had supposed it a conceded |
ooint among all breeders of thorough
bred stock that the Fair is to them of all |
men most valuable.
= a gentleman who had served on the |
on Durham told us that |
here were some certificates shown them.
We inquired who were the owners, and
he assured Us that the Committee were
lot supposed to know anything about to
whom the animals belong, rs if certi-
led pedigree could be of any possible
'alue without the owners name in it.
1t is assuring to see with what peril
lacity man can stick to an idea when
lie once gets hold of it. The sheerest
allacy that we have encountered is that
+ the managers of our Society in sup
losing that by cheating the public out
+ more than half the advantages to be
erived from an inspection of the ami
nails they can secure more impartial de-
isions from the judges, as if every Judge
id not, by some means, in spite of him
elf, know to whom the animal or arti-