Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-10-07

30 colts under three years old.
Of Sheep. there were one hundred and
fifty head, no one having less than bag
full'' of wool, and some of them, ''three
bags full'' and nary ''black sheep in
the whole lot. This is said to be the
best exhibition of sheep ever given up
on the grounds, there being many pens
of the different grades. Among them
we're fine looking Leicester lambs shown
by A. G. & F. Phillips, of Glover; grade
Cotswold buck, coarse wool buck, year
ling Cotswold grade buck and Cots
void ewes by L. S. Nye, of Coventry;
large grade Cotswold buck, by |. McNeal,
of Barton. There were other lots that
were nearly, if not quite as good as any
of these.
The show of swine was small, only
4 pens. Isaac Kimball, of Coventry,
had White Chester SOW and ten pigs;
SOW sired by an Ohio Chester, introduced
into this section of the country by H.
G. Cleveland pigs sired by Pennsyl-
vania White Chester. These were the
cleanest looking specimens of the hog
and pig kindly ever saw. They seemed
to have dread of dirt and were as
white as the linen of dandy fresh
from the laundry; were nine weeks old.
weighed from 40 to 60 pounds each and
were valued at 6 dollars. George T.
Clark also exhibited sow and II Ches-
ter pigs, four weeks old, which were also
clean and lively little fellows. Harry
Cheney of Westmore, and H. o.
Whitcher, of Barton, each exhibited a
fine boar, which made up the list of
swine.
FRU1T.-N. F. Ball, of West Derby,
exhibited varieties of English apples
Peach Apple, Rip-Stone Pippins, Sha-
ker Greetings, st. Lawrence, and the
Emperor Alexanders the tree from
which the last named variety was picked,
was young one, only 4 feet high some
of the apples measured nine inches the
largest way. He also exhibited ten va
rieties of crab apples. 1t has been a
poor season for apples in this part of the
state, says Mr.. Ball. Much damage was
done in his nursery, and elsewhere, by
hail storms. Moses Beedle, of Barton,
exhibited 5 varieties of native Crabs
and several varieties of English apples f.:
a pan of grapes-a sample of some five
or six bushels raised by himself this year.
The crab apples raised by Mr.. Beedle,
according to statements of experienced
fruit growers, are superior to any other
variety raised in this vicinity. f. c.
Rowell, of Albany, exhibited two varie
ties of Russian apples grown on tree;
transplanted 3 years ago, some of which
measured twelve inches in circumference
Of VEGETABLES, there probably has
not, since the organization of the Soci
ETY., been greater show than was shown
this year. Of great pumpkins, squashes
melons, turnips, cabsages, beets, car
rot., &C., there was no end enough t,
make Vegetable Hair Invigorators" ant
Vegetable patent medicines enough t.
grease the hair of all the girls and boy
and cure all the dyspeptics in New Eng
land. A gentleman who was at tn
Franklin County Fair, told us that Their
was four times as good show as in tina
county. In this department Home
Bradley, of Bloomington, made som
20 entries, showing at least, his willing
ness to help keep up the good reputation
of the Society. Others did as well
On the same table with the vegetables
MIR. Bradley shows sample of the Sill
yer Hull Buck wheat first ever show
in the county. 1t is claimed that thi
will yield double the number of bushel
to the acre and make better -four tha
the common kind Daniel Owen an
Martin Batchelder, of Barton shove
some monster beets; some of them a
, large as logs. Lewis Arnold of Salem
, showed some Jasper Melons, which W
heard some lady say she thought would
"good to eat Ed. Standish, of Glove
had the best string of onions; J. ,
,. Hill, of Barton, the largest cabbages
. AS business at the printing office onl
!. allowed us part of the day, we wei
obliged to leave off here, until the
i, day. At one o'clock, there was a gran
cavalcade of all horses entered. The
came the cavalcade of town teams an
! yokes of cattle in class five. Either
these cavalcades was worth going tt
miles to see the light-footed hors
moving swiftly off, like the boundir
antelope, while the heavy column
yoked-up oxen, moved slowly and m
= jestically on, like the steady rolling
of the ocean tide.
! SECOND DAY.
If On the morning of the second da
/. the weather seemed rather unfavorabl,
3 cold north wind with now and then
E, slight sitting of rain. This, it W
It feared, would keep people at home
|. that the attendance would be small
II But, instead of that, the farmers ma
IL up their minds that if they stayed
q home thew should do nothing. and I'll