Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-29

Fair of the Worcester County West ASPi-
cultural society.
The twenty-first annual exhibition of the Wor-
cester county west agricultural society opened I'M
der the most favorable circumstances on their
grounds in Barre, yesterday morning The wealth
or pleasant and well calculated to draw out
large crowd of spectators, while the officers of the
society have been untiring in their effort to make
the exhibition perfect success. The number of
spectators in attendance was unusually large, the
grounds in the vicinity of the cattle pens and in the
hall far exceeding the attendance of previous years
on the opening day.
THE STOCK.
The exhibition of stock is large and will compare
fayoraby with that of previous years. Some of the
stock, however, which was to have come from
distance, was undoubtedly detained by the heavy
rains of Tuesday night.
The thoroughbred stock, of course, claims the
first attention OF farmers, and embraces Jerseys,
Ayrshires, Short Horns, Durhams. Devons and grade
stock. The Ayrshires are well represented by the
herd Of NJ. Pollard of New Braintree, and the con-
tribuiOns OF L. e. Hill of North BroOkfeld. and A.
II. Holland of Barre. The Jerseys are principally
contributed by j. w. Morey, j. A. Allen and p
lIarwood of Barre, and their animals all show ex-
cellent care.
The Dutch cattle are well represented by full
half, and quarter blooded stock. C. Mandell of
Barre, Orrin Trow of Hardwick D. I. Stevens, and
j. f. Smith of Barre, have excellent pens of cattle
And the pair of four months old steers of w. A.
Warner of Hardwick, are well worth attention The
grade Durhams are more numerous than any other
class and their looks are such as to show that their
owners take pride in raising good looking animals
j. r. Ellsworth of Barre, VIM. Mixter of Hardwick
and A. Bradley of Barre, have some fiue specimens
exhibition f. Babbitt has pair of fat cattle that
weigh 1870 pounds, aud c. w. and j. E. Smith also
have fine pair of fat cattle. The swine; tine show
of swine is quite extensive. and embraces the York
shire, Chester County, Suffolk, and Essex breeds
while the principal contributors are j. II. Parsons
of Oakham, A. A. Hunt of Barre, and S. j. Foster
of Oakham. The boar, Gov. Butler, entered by A
A. Hunt of Barre, shows to good advantage as
representive of Chester County Whites.
The show of sheepis small, the Leicester, Cots
wolds and South Downs are the principal breeds,
and N. X. Reed of Princeton, c. Corbin, and w. p.
Adams of Barre the largest contributors.
POultry-Ihe display of fowls is large aad very
good, showing that the citizens of Barre and vi
cinity take a great deal of pride in sending their
biddies TO the fair, White DOrkns, Bramahs and
Games predominant and are mostly from the i'm
mediate vicinity of Barre. W. P. Adams, of
Barre is the largest exhibitor of turkeys.
The blowing MATCH trial OF working horses and
oxen exhibition of stations mares and colts, stall
lion colts, geding and mare colts, and carriage
horses occupied the forenoon.
THE HALL EXHIBITION.
The exhibition in the hall was large and extern
sive, and was decided attraction during the early
part of the day. The trait, vegetables and light
manufactured articles were excellent and elected
much comment The display of apples is very
good, though not as large as last year. the general
failure of the apple crop doubtless having great
deal to do with the scarcity of apples. Among the
exhibitors are f. & B. Washburn and j. B. Rice of
Barre aud c. Ruggles, of Hardwick, having very
creditabe contributions. The pears on exhibition
are all very fair. Those of T. W. Wellington, of
Worcester being remarkably good, while the con-
tributiOns of J. w. Rice and S. White of Barre,
and s. Fairbanks, of TempetOn, are all excellent.
The exhibition of grapes is not as large as it
should be at county fair, yet the samples contrib
uted are. all good, including Dianas, Delawares,
Concords and lsabellas, the principal exhibitors
being E. d. Bachelor of North Brookfeld, T. w.
Wellington of Worcester, and e. Ruggles of Hard
wick. The display of flowers is not large, Mrs.
VIM. Rice and Mrs. David Holden being the largest
exhibitors. The exhibition of cheese is very large
as it should be, considering the reputation that
Barre enjoys as being cheese producing town
the Barre Central and New Braintree factories and S.
West sending in large collections There is an ex-
cellent display of bread, but the quality will have
to be decided by the premium list. The display of
vegetables is very large and good in quality as in
quantity. T. w. Wellington of Worcester has
some handsome turnips, Mrs. VIM Lewis and
Mrs. II. Woods both exhibiting mammoth
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cauilowers. N. L. Holland of Barre has large
collection of potatoes and c. HARDWOOD has fine
display of garden vegetables. The watermelons
exhibited by G. II. Gibbs are also worthy of men
ton. The display of needle work is also large,
but as to quality, the ladies composing the COM
mittee will have to decide.
The carriages, moving machines and heavy man
usactured articles exhibited on the outside of
the hall, and among the principal attractions to
the turner's.
At one O'Clock the hungry formed in procession
and marched into the upper hall, where one of
Mars best dinners, served in his best style, was
waiting for its share of attention.
TUE SPEECHES.
Mr.. j. W. jenkins the president of the society,
introduced state delegate DR.. Geo. b. Loring who
said he came there simply to perform the duty of
delegate from the state board of agriculture and
denied the statement that the agricultural interests
of Massachusetts, were on a decline stating that if
any could say to him that the interests in agri
culture were the decline all that was needed was
to take them to Il Barre cattle show or in to the
fields and pastures of Barre. lie looked back into
the past and cited the agricultural and mechanical
interests of years ago to that of the present day,
claiming that it was the farmers who fought the
battles and made the laws of the United States, and
aided Jefferson in paying off thirty millions of the
revolutionary debt. The speaker compared the ag-
ricultural implements of to-day with those of Olden
time, and was sorry to state that the mechanics
OF to-day had not improved the pillow invented and
used by our forefathers
DR.. Loring gave very interesting description of
the system of land holding in England, and CON-
pared 1t with the system practiced in New Eng
land and compared the productveness, value and
size of farms in America to that of England, claim
ing that the system Of requiring certain kind of
business to be transacted on tenant farms was the
cause of the deterioration of land in England and
Ireland. During his address the speaker told many
interesting and pleasing Stories and closed exnress
ing the hope that at some future day. a system of
agriculture would be devised, so that farming would
| be made to pay in towns of the interior.
| Lx-Gov. Washburn of Cambridge was next in
trOuuceu, anu opeheu Oy shyllS that ditto to DR..
| Lorings address was the shortest and easiest WAY
of expressing his idea of farming, yet he would saw
a word in regard to the method of living of the
| farmers of Worcester county, and stated that by
comparison there were people in the world who
lived in as good circumstances the people Of
Worcester county, and cited several instances in
support of his assertion. He stated that in Eng
gland, where there were nearly thirty million in
habitants, not more than thirty thousand of them
were land holders, or ever hoped to be, and COM
pared the wages of all kinds of labor the conti-
nent with the wages for the same kind of labor in
the new world.
Mr.. Washburn also compared the agricultural inn
pements In at the present day in various parts
Of the world with those used by the farmers in the
United States, and also stated that there was moi
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