Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-09-23
a HORSE JOCKEYS ORGAN ON THE
BARTON HORSE TROT.

There is paper published in the city of
New York, the title of which is Turf Field
dnd Fdrm." Some time since we printed an
extract from its columns, wherein agricultur-
al societies were styled "Green Pumpkin
Associations" and feeble attempt made to
cast odium upon such of them us refused to
be transformed into agricultural Hoss
Trots," tor the benefit of the sporting COM
munty and their attendant pickpockets
DULLES and bummers.
The paper referred to frequently exercises
its wit upon the farmers although it claims
to represent " the Farm In the number
before us there is an article in which the
honesty of the farmers generally is contrasted
with that of" sporting men, not mt all favor
ably to the former. But what we are about
to refer to more particularly is an article in
the same number from one of its editors who
attended the recent trotting match mt the
Roaring Brook Park in Barton. He says:
fair was in progress their Roaring Brook Park and
FRIDAY was the third and last day Of the exhibition We'd
matters, aud Mr. j. skinner the Treasurer Of the Assoca
t assured us shat the agricultural part Of the Fair had
equal to the expenses But Friday a red-etter day. 1t
was devoted exclusively trials speed three
races on the card for local horses and everybody had come
out 10 see the horses Over four thousand people passed
through the gates of the Park up that Wild hy por
ton OF Vermont four thousand people form big crowd 1t
equal 20 an attendance Of at least fifty thousand Jerome
fark' The receipts on Friday three what they
were on Wednesday, and Thursday, these receipts pac
ei the Association firmly their feet, il is surprising
learn that the managers somewhat partial the sports
the turf Had not been for the racing the exhibition would
nave LETT the Association In debt the Association
"le money And recolect this up In moral economical
u$i-iearng Vermont The people stubborny std home
when punkns cabbages were placed on exhibition But
on set sinful left kitchens
anu heir helds and, donnng their Sunday attire, ouneyed
by the thousand Roaring Brook Park The argument Is
very practical in favor Of exhibitions speed and the
managers Of the Park have the good
the argument If these practical demonstrations unset the
logic OF papers like the New England Farmer
Of ours The logic is 0yerthrown simply
minded theorzrs do not understand the peope have not
rose with the progressive tide the people have done.
"llave not rose" is pretty good for a
member of the metropolitan press 1t is not
the grammar, however, but the statements
of this writer that we wish to critcsc. 1t is
barely possible that he could be in Barton
during the races, upon the judges stand,
conversing with Mr.. Skinner and other men,
bers of the Trotting Park Company, and not
know that these races were held by that
Company, and that the Orleans County Ag-
ricultural Society, which held Fair on the
two days previous. (and of which Hon. |. n.
Cusllman and not Mr.. Skinner is treasurer,)
had no part nor lot in them whatever. In
the matter of success, also he Is equally at
FAULT. Heretofore the meetings of the "Green
Pumpkin Association have been, as rule,
more successful than the horse trots held up-
on these grounds. If it was different this
year. the reason turned not upon the superior
popularity of horse trots, but upon the fact
that the fair was poor one, owing to the
lateness OF the season, which prevented u
good show of farm and garden products, and
the almost simultaneous occurrence of the
New England and State Fairs, which drew
away many people and much of the stock
that would otherwise have been shown
when we add, on the other hand, that in adj
ditlon to the horse trot there was balloon
ascension (the second one that has ever oc-
Cured in this part of the State.) on the