Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-17
The State Fair.

and we then gave Driet notice OF the e4ni-
bition and its prospects at that time. Wed
nesday afternoon and Thursday We PERSONAL
ly inspected the grounds on which the Fair
was holden and made cursory examination
Of the articles and animals presented for ex-
hibition. We found the Fair grounds suita-
bic for their purpose and easy accessible by
cars or carriages. The show of cattle was
very large aud fine. We have seldom seen it
equalled at State Fair. The horse display
was one that must have delighted the eyes OF
the lovers of this noble animal. Rarely are
so many really valuable and quick stepping
horses gathered in one enclosure. The ami
mails from the Vermont Stock Farm in Shell
burne elected much praise from all beholders.
We quered whether these horses were not
being bred and.trained more for the sports OF
the turf than for use and service on the farm
or as roadsters even.
In the sheep department there were any
numbers OF fine MerinOs, but a limited sup
oily of the large long-wooled Cotswolds &c.
U R. Gray of East Montpelier had the finest
show of long wooded and South Downs, and
ne carried away many premiums. We have
seen as large and as excellent show of swine
It a County Fair, as were found in the pens
at Rutland. In the poultry line our friend
Allen Toby of Calais was ahead as usual
having twenty cages of excellent fowls, but
there were may other birds shown that were
creditable to their owners and exhibitors.
Floral Hall was fairly but not largely
6lled, except by the countless multitude OF
visitors on Thursday. Take out the flower
llsplay by James Wick and that together
with the show of native and everlasting
grasses, in bouquets and in bulk,) exhibited
W the ladies of Rutland County, and Flora
dali would have been almost as desolate as a
deserted banquet-hall after the guests have
finished their revelry. The mechanical de-
partment and agricultural implements had a
respectable representation.
Fruit were in fair abundance and looked
rs well as could be expected under tue Cir
cumstances. Still we incline to think Rut-
land and the region round about it Is not a
very superior fruis-growing section. Veget-
,bIes were nowhere to be seen. Lanes
american Sugar Beets looked large but
lonesome best ie measure of onions, d.
minutlve squash and small pumpkin. Any
.orner grocery could beat the State Fair i'll
this line.
Que of the noticeable features in the Far
was tue display of Kansas productions, e1hb-
led by the Topeka Atchson and Santa Fe
Railroad managers. The grains and the veg-
etables, and the grasses &c. were finely rep
reseuted. There were specimens of Kansas
soil and stones and brick and coal &c. &c. all
irtistically arranged and worthy to stand
with credit as the productions or representa-
lions of any country.
Another interesting and valuable exhibition
was that given by Mr.. Jacob Graves Of Read
ing, Mass, of his " incubator - or chicken
hatcher in full progress, and with chickens
IN and about it ranging from few minutes
to several days old and more cutting their
way out of the shell as one stood watching
the eggs. We have not space here to enter
into a description of the machine or of its
mode of operation, but both were truly
wonderful, and SO simple that child could
understand them.
In another place we give fell list of the
premiums awarded, which should tell better
than would be possible for US to do it, the
actual and comparative exceilences of the
things which secured these awards, at least
if these reports do not truly do this, then the
committee must have blundered, or their
judgments been fallible, we may not say
which. The weather during the entire exhi-
btion was fne, albeit it was swelteringly hot
Thursday, and no serious accidents or mis-
haps, occurred to mar the festivities Of the
occasion. There was any amount of the in
evtable horse-racing and fast time was made
IN several trots.
The crowds of people in attendance al
though large, can hardly be said to have been
immense save on Thursday. The hotels sue
'eeded in feeding all who applied but their
sleel ing accommodations were taxed beyond
their CAPACITY on Wednesday and Thursday
night. We found pleasant but somewha
crowded accommodations at the Bardwel
House, kept by j. W. Cramton, Esq, and,
will the H.ratd please notice, utterly fail
ed to interview the mysterious and much
abused A. j. Smith.