Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-11

shall There were large number Of entries o
stock, vegetables, butter and cheese in IN,
forenoon. There was fine show of frui
ana grapes and good show of fat cows, OK
en- and sheep
There was splendid exhibition Of articles
in the Floral Hall There were several fine
oil paintings, chromos, drawings, lots of rag
carpets bedquilts and fancy needc.work,
some fne medley pictures and an aquarium
full of living fish. .rr
There was goodly attendance the first
day. although everything had not yet been
brought in but few from other towns had
arrived.
Wednesday, the 25tb, opened with the
same matchless weather we had the day be-
fore. AT an early hour people began to
pour in by hundreds from the neighboring
towns, with loaded teams, filed with boys
and girls, ladies and gentlemen, and driving
along their cattle and fine horses to be placed
on exhibition, and by 10 o'clock, a. m, there
was very large crowd on the Fair Grounds.
The Hast Wallingiord Band were on the
stand making beautiful music. Floral Hall
had been enlarged 10 nearly double the size it
was last year. Wednesday, this Hall, large as
it was, was filed. There was a large number
of additional entries made of articles placed
in the hall, comprising butter, cheese, honey,
vegetables, fruits cattle, horses and ag-
ricultural implements enormous pumpkins,
squashcs, beets, apples, grapes, tomatoes,
etc.
There was picnic excursion that came to
Wallingford, consisting of the Sunday School
from SALISBURY, nearly filling two cars,
numbering about eighty. They arrived on
the ll:33 a. IN. train. When marching in
procession through our streets they presented
most beautiful appearance. They march
ed through the Fair Grounds and then broke
up and were let go where they chose
There was another Sunday School, from
Dandy. They came with teams.
A little before 3 p IN. there was a perfect
jam all around the speakers stand. 1t was
the largest gathering of any kind that has ov-
er been known in Wallingford.
The President, G. D. Chiids, with few
remarks, introduced to the assemblage the
orator of the day, Hon. james NJ. Slade, |
who tn delivered an address over an hour
in ler4 4h. 1t was an able and scholarly
production. He spoke in a practical man
ner to them as farmers. He thought the
tendency is to desire to own too large farms
Industry on small farms would make men
rich quicker than with shiftless management
IN large ones. He favored farmers clubs
aud agricultural libraries. He did not ap-
prove of rushing "out West" as soon as they
ire Of age In this connection he held up
Vermont as the best state in the world "to
De born in, to live in, to die in If any
Ioung man is goingto be farmer, by all
means be vermont farmer" if he is
native. There is no wider field for enter.
rise than in our own State.
The President then introduced J. Q. Ba-
Ter, our former townsman, who made short
peech full Of good sense and appropriate to
he occasion.
President Childs then made few valedic-
ory remarks, in which he told them how
'roud he was OF them that day, aud told
hem how he thanked them ali for all they
ad done to make the Second Annual Otter
,reck Valley Fair great success.-Cor.
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