Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-31
FINLAND County Fair.


The Twenty.sixth Annual Fair OF thu
Rptland County Agricultural Society il
10 be held at Rutland on Wednesday anc
Thursday, September 18th and 18th. Thu
Society is now placed upon sound basis
its life membership numbering between
four and five hundred members, and tn,
grounds are now in the permanent pos
session of the Society. The officers of tbt
Society are all we'll known, reliable ant
enterprising citizens. In its present con
aition the Association is entering upon q
rew era, and the coming annual exhibi
tom promises to be one of the best held in
The quarter century of its existence. II
will have bnt little competition to draw
from either the exhibition or the attend.
anee. from the fact that it is to be held
at an earlier date than most of the ad.
Joining counties, and the State Fair being
held at an extreme part of the State, this
exhibition will in a measure take its place
in western Vermont. The premium list
has been entirely revised and several new
features introduced, among which is a
premium of fifty dollars to be distributed
among the four be st cheese factories in the
following points:
First The factory that produces the
greatest number of pounds of market
cheese in proportion to the number of
mounds Of milk received at the factory the
present season.
.Stc0na Best average prices received
through the season exclusive of charges,
freight and commission on sales per
pound
IAird. To the exhibitors of the best
specimen of cheese, of fifty pounds, man.
ufactured on the 18th day Of August,
1871.
F0urth Written statements of the
method OF manufacturing must accom-
pany each specimen presented, and state
ment Of the number of pounds of milk re-
ceivtd ut the factory and the number of
pounds of cheese sold during the season.
The frat premium of $50 is to be given
to the factory exoelling in the most points
to the second, $15; third, $40 fourth, SIS.
In the Floral Hall department one hun
drod dollars is placed at the disposal OF
the committee, to be awarded on meritori-
ols articles. Ten dollars is to be given
for the largest and best display by any
one rerson, and five dollars for the second.
From this largo cffer of premiums the
Floral Hall, ought to excel any exhibition
o. later years.
The Society have been exceedingly for
tunate in securing DR.. Middleton Gold
smith 10 deliver the annual address The
address will be every way worthy the oo
casiou, and will be particularly addressed
to farmers,-not dealing in any ornamen-
taion If speech, or discussion of political
subiectp,-bu will be science applied to
farming in plain and practical talk on
subjects vital to their vocation, and none
who li-teu but will be benefited. We be.
Heve DR.. Goldemith to be tho beat and
mot dire,t speaker upon scientific and
agricultural subjects of my man in Vcr
mont and perhaps in New England, pre-
s,ntiun thoughts and suggestions which
20 right home TO the every day life and
experience to TIE class to whom they are
addressed. His paper before the Vermont
D irymen's Association, last year, i said
20 have been the best on the particular |
subject of which it treated of any pre-
ssp,pd in this country. In order that the
frmers may have the full benefit of the
discussion, undisturbed by any outside
attractions. it will be delivered at some
hall in the village. on the evening of the
first d4y Of the Fair, and not as hereto
fore CIV the grounds on the last day of the
Fair. He should have the attention Of Il
lac audience Of the farmers of Rutland
county.
The races are to extend through the
two DAYS. Those for matched horse9.
premium $50, and $50 race, premium $50,
to take place on Wednesday. On Thur
day, double team race, premium $50, and
swe ,petak,s, premium $50.
We hope the people of Rutland county
will present to this exhibition their test,
of v hatever kind it may be. Although,
on account of the drouth, some classe7 of
crops have not been perhaps as good as on
previous years, yet all should remember
the improvement for the future depends
upon each individual effort, and the com
parison and Improvement the Animal
II IF, ha
furnish ample room for the exhibition OF
the productions of all, both old and
Young. The farm, the garden, the work
shop, the and the household should
all be represented, aud thus increase the
interest and merits of The Fair Let none
refrain from bringing their offerings from
the fear that they are not as good as
others may have produced. If each and
all will bring their best, the exhibition
will be a success. Not only bring your
productions, but let the purpose of your
coming together as farmers, citizens and
neghbors, be to have a good time, for
such occasions come none too often in the
busy lives Of the people. Leave at home
your cares and the vexations of everyday |
life, determined to make the Twenty sixth
Annual Fair in old Rutland County in
every respect festival of good things.
AsIATIC CHoLERA.-The dreaded Ash
attic cholera has made its appearance IN
Paris. Several cases are reported to have
occurred in various parts of the city. |