Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-25

ments 30; domestic manufactures, 1875
bread, b honey and maple sugar, q. Sew
eral entries we're made Of butter and cheese
The space allotted to fruit was all taken up,
and was not equal to the demand The
show in this department is notably fine and
large. Q. A. Lyon, of Shelburn, shows a
hundred varieties of standard apples G.
w. Browncll, Is varieties of apples and 20
ofpears Il. W. Baker, Colchester, 80 va
rieties of apples and 8 of pears H. s.
White, Shelburn, 100 varieties Of apples !;
j. Il Smith, five varieties of pears. includ-
ing the Rostiger, now in eating condition.
Mr.. Il. NJ. Hazen, of Burlington, has fine
exhibition Of plums and pears, aud shows
two large lemons grown by himself. w. z.
Woodruff, Of Wiliston, shows punches of
hardy grapes.
The show Of cattle in quality cannot be
surpassed 10 the state. This may seem
strong language to use Of county fair in a
state where so many county fairs are held, |
but the show includes the animals which
took the FIRST premiums in half dozen clas-
PCS at the state fair, and 20, of course, must
include the best stock Of the state. The
Brighams, Asa, Calvin, and Lyman, Of Es.
sex, are noted for their fine stock, mostly
Devons, and they have some fine stock on
exhibition. Lyman has pair Of three
years-old steers, weighing 1910 pounds, and
pair of five months calves already broken
to the yoke. Asa brings the steers exhibit
ed two years ago as finely matched pair of
yearlings. Tney now weigh 29l5 pounds.
He has the heaviest pair Of yearings proba-
bly, ever shown in this county weighing 2l00
pounds. Calvin shows some excellent year
ling steers. This is the result Of extra care
and extra feed 1t is hardly probable that
such specimens Of bovine beauty could be
produced in any other way. The Ayrshires
and Shorthorns are exhibited by l.. s. Drew
and g. l.. Reynolds, of Burlington, and the
Jerseys by Z. LeCIair, of WinOoski, who
has hefer that produces II pounds of
butter week. His cattle are pure bred
and imported by himself L. T. Whitcomb,
9. Il. Davis and John Quillan, OF Essex,
also exhibit Ayrshires.
Among the articles in the town hall
which seem worthy of special notice are an
exhibition of ancient articles of domestic
manufacture, made by Mrs. NJ. r. Daniels,
of Essex. Among these are Il woven bed
quilt Of blue and white, 80 years old, but in
as good preservation as if made yesterday
table linen 80 years old homemade lin
en- pocket handkerchief which was accident.
ally boxed up by her father, MIR. Tyler,
with his hat in mailing up a partition 70
years ago, and was only recently discovered,
the high, open work tortoise shell combs, of
80 years ago; the bead bags scarfs, and
other articles of female adornment which
were the rage in 1880, ETC. Another inter-
esting article is a white knit bed-quit, of
neat, ornamental pattern, knit with two
common needles, by Miss Chloe Richardson,
of Westlord Miss Richardson is an inva-
lid who has been confined to her room for
many years. This quilt is the product of
four years labor. Some elaborate wreaths
Of worsted work, with butterflies and humble
bees among the flowers, are exhibited by
Mr.. II. N. Hickok, Of Westford. The rain
of Tuesday morning prevented large at
tendance in the forenoon, but the intervals
Of the showers were improved by young and
old, so that the grounds in the afternoon
presented very lively and animated ap-
pearancc.
Third Day.
Wednesday nights rain laid the dust, and
there was large attendance of spectators,
being estimated as high as five thousand.
The programme was fully carried out. At
half-past nine came the grand cavalcade of
all horses on exhibition, and it was univer-
sally admitted to be the finest display of
horsetlesh ever witnessed at our county fair.
Next in order was the directors meeting.
and atterward the exhibition of horses and
cattle before the judges; Of matched and
single horses for premiums, and of "Y oung
Ethan" with stock.
A little before two o'clock p. m. the car
riage with the speaker, Col. K. G. Benton,
of St. Abans, drove upon the ground. He
was accompanied by IL. G. Root, Esq, ex-
President of the Vermont State Agricultural
Society, and Il. d. Mason, Esq, President
of the Vermont Dairymen's Association
The carriage was met near the entrance by
the Sherman Band, of Winooski, which was
in attendance, and escorted to the front Of
t he seats, between them and the judges
stand. After music Col. Benton was intro.
duced by Hon. A. D. Humphrey, Vice.
President of the society, and then proceeded
to his address, which he delivered from the
carriage.
The address occupied about forty min
utes and was listened to with very good at
tenton indeed. The seats were filled with
people, and the ground for rods around was
covered with those who were standing. 1t
is but justice to the speaker to state the
fact that he had but three days notice thai
he was desired to deliver the address, and
consented only with reluctance to fill the
position. At the close of the address Col
Benton was loudly applauded the band
gave piece or two, and then the race.
came in order. There were two races fol
$3.50 each.