St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-07-23
oar F0iI.--HiHts to Exhibitors
and also to the managers.


September 18th, 10Th and 3Oth having
been set apart for our annual county
fair, and as this time is nigh at hand, it
becomes every one to prepare something
make his show of tat oxen, working cat
tie, cows, and calves, superior to what
they have been in former years. You
have plenty OF time to make your choice
OF what you will exhibit, and let it have
your attention from now until our fair
Your sheep and lambs also want Il little
extra attention. Give them good feed,
and keep the poor ones by themselves :;
this will improve them better than by
letting them run together The boys
want to BEGIN TO handle the steers and
have them well broken. The people like
TO sc the boys coming on to the fair
ground with well trained steers. And
here let me suggest to the boys, why can
you not make up Il nice string of steers
in every ncighborhood, and attach them
TO Il cart or wagon, and load up with
the products of the farm, and take your
sweethearts and come TO the fair: and
see who will turn out the best team and
make the best exhibition. Would it not
be well for the managers Of our fair to
offer n premium for the same? Now
boys take hold of it, and call the girls to
help you, and let us see what you can
do.
We should also have better show OF
butter and cheese than we have had
Instead of having one dozen tubs of but
ter and half Il dozen cheeses, we should
have one hundred. Why are not the
dairy women more fully represented al
our fairs with their butter and cheese
There is better butter and more of it
kept at home every year than Is exhibit
cd. Why not bring it out and make q
grand display OF the products OF the
dairy DO not be afraid to do it for
fear that there Will not he room for it
and no chance to exhibit it. Arrange
mcnts Will be made so that every on,
will have an opportunity to make good
display.
Our fairs have become holidays for the
old and younG, rich and poor, and nearly
all attend them. From ten to twenty
thousand people visit the grounds in til,
course of the three days. Now | would
call the attention of our authorities to
what the public want and what the pull
lie will have, and they should at once be
called upon to make the Improvement,
val. Let Us start from the village TO &C
TO our fair grounds and we lind Il narrow
and poor road. from fourteen feet &c
thirty feet wide, and ut one place, be.
tween Mr.. Deans and Mr. Belknap's
the fences are only twenty-five feet apart
\ road laid out three rods wide, and the
public have only twenty-five feet be-
tween the fences, and steep bank be.
tween road and fence. Shame, Out
with such things. Give Us a good wide
road and a straight one. If three rods
us a bridge wide enough for teams tC
pass both ways ut the same time am
walks on each side for people who are OF
foot and do away with those hair.
breadth escapes we all have witnessed
within the last few wears. Every mar
and boy thinks, when he has started fol
the fair, he has two-forty nag, ant
every one must stand from under as they
have got the excitement of the race, anC
want to show their best speed Is il
not surprising that more people have moi
got hurt ; Only a few years ago one
Mr.. Spaulding got knocked down anC
almost killed by a two-forty team as ii
came dashing home from the fair, through
crowds of men, women and children
who had no protection save to climb the
nearest tree, or jump over the fence into
the field. Just think Of crowd of five
hundred teams, and from five to tel
thousand people, damned through an Ole
bridge only fifteen and half feet wide.
Give us a wide straight road from tn,
fair grounds to the depot-wide enough
for teams to pass each other and at the
same time give protection to the people
who are on foot. The time has come
when the public demand better tho,
roughfare to our fair grounds, and il
the authorities build it, no man will com.
plain. c.
1t is somewhat remarkable that the
pecuniary condition of the missionary
society is the same, apparently, that ii
was one year ago. Though the receipts
for June, 1859, were slightly in advance
of what they were in June, 1868, the
receipts for the last ten months (Septem-
Der 1st to June 30) have fallen SO much
below the hope OF the Prudential Com
mittee that 100000 will be needed in
July and August, if the present financial
year is to close without a debt. Last
year the receipts during these two
months were S2O2, 3GS.30.