Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-10-08

mems OF cheese. The dairy interest Of this
section is leading one, and in the excellence
OF these manufactures the people of this valley
may well be proud. The exhibition was avery
creditable one.
In the rear Of Floral Hall, which was TWEEN
ty-six by forty feet, and completely filled, was
a small building, intended, VIC suppose, for the
purposes ola
MECHANICS HALL,
Mt least il was used for this purpose. Here we
first observed the water coolers and water tubs
exhibited by tho United States Artificial Stone
Company, Of Mortified, the largely increased
demand for which duly attests their usefulness
and excellence. The same company also do a
large business in marketing slate, and have
recently patented new process for marbleizing
wood, glass or almost any other material -
They do large business, and we see hardly any
limits to the work they may do in the future.
There were a large variety Of stoves on exhibit
ton, and Edgerton Brothers made good
showing Of furniture. j. II. Hurley exhibited
some fine specimens Of marble work, and the
usual dozen or more Of sewing machines were
on hand each of which was the bestand cheap
est machine in the market, for the price,
Messrs Graves & Powers had on exhibition
their new Washington County Milk Pan, which
attracted considerable attention, and promises
to be formidable rival to the famous Jewett
Pan. Mr.. Graves states that during the first
seven days be sold over 8 900 worth We
think our farmers would do well to look into
this new patent. They may be found at d.
Dewey & Cos in Montpelier, vt Martyr & Til.
lotson's in Mortified, and at Mr.. Graves in
Waterbury.
fHE CATTLE.
Unfortunately for us the first day Of the Fair
was the best for the exhibition of cattle, and
On this day il was impossible for us to be pres
ent. One feature Of the cattle show was the
town teams; that from Brookfeld numbering
forty yokes, while the combined team Of North
field and Roxbury included ninety five yokes,
and made a string good part of the distance
around the entire track. Those people from
the adjoining towns had taken their cattle home
to great extent after the first days show, and
had brought down their families for Thursday
Among those left, however, we noticed some
fine oxen exhibited by j. II. circuit, d. Tyler,
W II. LOOMS, John Clark, +. c. Fisk, George
Mayo, VIM. W nch, Martin Andrews, F NJ
Dole and j Plastridge. There was fine yoke
Of two-year old steers by +. S Kimball, and a
nice yoke Of handy steers Of N. w. Cady's
G. c. Stevens, Of Williamstown, exhibited a
Jersey COW and bull, while Royal Clark had on
exhibition two pairs Of twin two-year old heif
ers. For further particulars in the cattle line
we shall have to refer 10 the premium list. OK
eept we will say that W. G. Clark, Of Brook
deld, exhibited lot of fine yearling steer
calves.
The only entry of SWINE, was that of some
White Chesters" by Boynton & Mosely,
which looked good enough to eat" after
they had gone through with certain prepare
tory processes.
The exhibition of
was not very large, nor did we think it nearly
as good as that at the County Fair. +. S.
Kimball had two pens of long wooded, and IL
g. Kibbee three pens Of good looking sheep
e. b. Fisk exhibited two full blooded spanish
merino rams and several eve lambs, all Of
which we're as homely as they were costly,
which is saying considerable.
POULTRY.
We were sorry not to see the familiar poultry
coop OF our friend Allen Toby, of Calais, but
it was not on hand. X. B. Mosely in White
Leghorns, F. L. Ayers in the same and in
Silver Spangled Hamburghs, W. Cove, Of
Berlin, in Bantams, and A. Darling, of Berlin,
in Brahmas, constituted the entire hen show
while c. VI. Adams, Of Roxbury, had it all
his own way in the geese line.
We did not have the pleasure Of seeing the
cavalcade of
but we were given TO understand that the en-.
tries were quite numerous, and the animal.
entered for premiums much better than usual
There were from ten to twelve entries of gents
driving horses, the first premium on which wa:
awarded to L. P. Thompson, of Roxbury. and
the second to Col. f. v Randall, of this village
We do not know OF any part of the State wher,
better horses are owned or raised, and it woulC
he very strange il the show was not first class
as we are assured it was. Forfurtber perticu
lars, however, we shall be obliged to refer oul
readers to the premium list.
| Atone o'clock P NJ, of Thursday after din
ner that would have been more enjoyable i
there had been more of it, and ii had been bet
ter cooked, and served up warmer and will
greater celebrity, occurred
THE ADDRESS,
by the President Of the Society, Hon. John Greg
DRY, who announced his theme as " Agricul
ture and the Mechanic Arfs-their Inporfdno
and Nobility" but as we shall hereafter max
extracts from it, we lorbear giving any abstrac
of it at this time. The address was well writ
ten and delivered, and was list, me- to atten
lively by the vast .hrong present.
At the conclusion of the address, the
BABY SHOW,
in which the entire crowd appeared to take
very lively and decided interest, came off il
front of the Floral Hall. There were fourteen
entries for this prize, as follows Charles Til
den, r. W. Clark, George Denny, II. O
Clahin, Anmini Williams, f. N. Bowman
Joseph Veo, Mary Gongren, Michael Splaid
II. n, Lampman, John Miller (Roxbury)
Charles II Davenport, James Evans and Georg
H. Emerson. After considerable difficulty i
clearing space. the various candidates wer
located in their mothers arms, on long bench
for the purpose of inspection by the committee
In order that future generations may accor
due credit to this heroic committee, we 81,
their names Rev. r. A. Green, s. +. Jude
Frank Plumley, Mrs. j. II. circuit, Mrs. j /
Ransom and Mrs. W. ii. Morris. A due T,
gard for truth oonstrains us to say that "
have seen people whose positions we envie,
but it wasn't this committee; not by an
means There were the fourteen little cherub
the fourteen expectant mothers, and aboI
three hundred expectant aunts, uncles az
cousins. We advised several of the commits
to get themselves out Of a bad scrape by flippir
a copper to decide on the merits Of the respe
tive babies. and rather think they were favor
bly, disposed to the suggestion but they cou
not get out Of sight long enough to decide
that way. Exactly upon what basis they ma
up their report we do not know, and, thar
heaven, it is none Of our responsibility; b.
after several ballotings, which, we understan
resulted in "no choice" an election and
| calling were made sure in tho fillowinp ord