The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-10-06

interesting. Mambrino Thatcher, owned
by John j. Hayes OF Boston, received the
gold medal as stallion for general use,
which is the highest gift of the Society,
and has been conferred only on Fear.
naught and Young Morrill, The silver
medal was awarded to Lord Byron,
owned by Daniel Spencer of Kingston, r.
I. Col. II. s. Russell Milton, Mass,
showed the superk 5.year old stallion,
Dreadnaught by Fearnaught, with 6
colts by Fearnaugbt, including the very
promising three. year.old Clarence, orig.
ipally entered in the Country Gentleman
Breeders Stakes for 1874 but not to be
started, as he has been used this year in
the stud. j. Carter Brown exhibited
the noted stallion Hampton Court; and
among other thoroughbrcds, we noticed
those oe W. I. Cook, Foxboro, Mass,
John S. Parks, Providence, and Jason
Houghton, Milton, Mass. Other contrib
utors to several divisions of the horse
class were G. f. Pcndergrast, East Sails.
bury, Mass. (Golddust stock Chas. L..
Grant, York, Me. ; F. Hussy and F..
Brown, Dover, N. H.. j. G.. Davis,
Brattleboro, VT; Chas. Il. Smith, O..
NJ. Draper and Sosiah D. Richards,
North Attleboro, Mass. T. j butcher
of Hopedale, NJ. G. Mcngis of Billerica,
G. R. Sargent Of Ncwburyport, NJ. D.
Merrell Of West Newbury, and John s.
Moulton of Boeton, Mass Daniel Spen-
GER, North Kingston Geo. II. Matter.
son, Centrevllc A. ID. Remington, An.
thony r. II. Perry, Bristol Chas.
Adams, Cumberland Il Bishop, North
Scituatc, (all Rhode. Island), and j. b.
Barnaby, G. S, Wilson, II. G. Russell,
W. L. Cole, S. Bennett, and JAS. Lynch,
of Providence.
The sheep we're neither very numerous
nor especially remarkable. Cotswolds
were shown by S liartwell Washington,
Conn. Benjamin Sumner and w. D.
Hilton, Woodstock, Conn, Hayward
Bros. Bridgewater, Mass, and Il. G.
Hill, Elmore, VT, aud Aanson Warren,
WATERFOWL, Conn. Shropshire Downs
by j. Garter Brown, and Me,inos by A.
Il. Perkins, Pomfret, Vt. The swine
were still less numerous, but included
some very good animals. representing 8
droves in Massachusetts,, Connecticut and
Rhode Isand. The Poultry tent was
rather better filled that usual, holding a
very good collection of birds from large
number of fanciers.
In implements and miscellaneous ar.
ticles, the display was exceedingly good.
We wi not attempt to particularize, for
the reason that we did rot observe any
important novelties among the former,
and to enter upon the vast catalogue OF
the latter would be to undertake q task
beyond present limits Of space.
The show of fruits, flowers, vegetables
and farm products at Howard Hail i'm
pressed us as much better than usual.
There were nearly thousand well filed
plates Of fruit-apples, pears, u few peach
es and grapes, and some pther kinds
while the ornamental plants and flowers
made up an extensive and brilliant dis.
play, and the vegetables and similar pro-
ductons were out in strong force, as they
have not always been. This part Of the
exhibition was mainly contributed by
local cultivators, though we noticed en-.
tries by Jas. Wick of Rochester and some
other rather distant horticuturists 1t
is saying a good deal of the Howard
Hall exhibition, but not more than the
truth justi6es, to say that it formed q
worthy supplement to the great and in
tere,tiug display at Narragapse't Park
Country Gent.