Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-08
BELLOWS falls Zines,
BELLOWS FALLS, OCT. $, 1875,
County Fair,

formed that it was success in several
departments, and that the show of cat
tie and horses was not only excellent but
prominently brought out the fact that
there is an increasing interest among the
farmers of the county in stock raising, in
Guiding sheep of which there was a good
exhibition of both coarse and fine woods,
Floral hall perhaps suffered more than
any other department from the weather,
and was not so largely represented as u.s.
ual, and the aggregate attendance was of
course much less from the same reason.
The receipts we are informed amount to
nearly 5000. We copy below from the
Brattleboro Record and also elsewhere the
premium list from the same source.
STOCK,
r. Il Z. r. Smith of Wilmington, who
are among the enterprising stock raisers
of the county, exhibited short horn
bull Duke of Guilford) three years old,
and weighing 1000 pounds, and calf
ten months old, weighing 1856 pounds.
A. M. Winslow & Sons of Putney had
specimens of their celebrated Durham
stock, whose reputation is known far and
near. The COW Constance was beauty,
admired by all. w. L. Richardson of
Brattleboro had five yoke of splendid
matched cattle, one pair of steers three
years old weighing 1925 pounds. Chaun-
cey Smith of Wilmington had fine
grade herd of seven head, COW weigh
ing 1880 pounds. The large grade herd
of IL cows and heifers owned by j. o.
Follett of Townshend, attracted much
attention. J. b. Ware of Townshend
had some nice Jersey cattle George
Warwick from the Houghton farm in
Putney, brought a number of Dutch or
Holstein cattle, conspicuous for their pc
culiar color. Among the other stock
raisers whose herds were represented,
were j. l., Nichols & Son, P. Rutter d
Son, and A. A. Mason of Townshend, HI.
M. Hall, the Nathan Mortified estate,
w. r. Rand and j. III. Merrifeld of
Newfane, Edwin Moore and Jerome Hol-
den Of Westminster, Charlie Harris of
Brattleboro, and Asaph Adams of Dover.
In the trial of trained oxen there was
shown the results of kind of training
too much neglected. The four teams on
trial all worked admirably, but that of
Frank Churchill was clearly entitled to
the first premium.
Sheep, both of the fine and coarse
wool varieties, were well represented.
The South Downs and other breeds of
large sheep are much more plenty than
formerly. A buck weighing 207 pounds
owned by j. I. Herrick of Dummerston,
was among the best specimens. There
were also good specimens from the fiocks
of j. Holden and G, NJ. Cory of West
minister, Frank Churchill, Calvin Brad
ley, w. r. Fisher and B. b. Brigham of
Townshend, G. M. and Edwin Morse of
Newtane. Fine wool sheep were entered
by X. Marcy of Newfane, j. Holden and
q. Nj. Cory Of Westminster. The exhi-
bltion of horses was very creditable to
the farmers of the county. A matched
pair owned by III. H. Kimball OF Rock
ingham, were among the handsomest. j.
&. Davis of Brattleboro was present
with his celebrated stallion, Young Am
erica. Maj Holton of Jamaica and
Henry Winslow of Putney, had each
pair of fine matched horses. The show
OF young horses was quite good.
FRUITS, &C.
OF this department the Brattleboro
Phoenix has the following:
The fruit and garden vegetables were
not numerous but of excellent quality
}. l.. Nichols of Townshend showed 100
varieties of apples, SO of which were
grated fruit. Russell Mason had % va
rieties ofapples, Joel Grout of Newfane q
varieties, Willard Lindsey, 40, Rodney
Marcy go, Fl. G. Eager 81, Jared Hol-
brook of Brattleboro So; j. A. Church
Ill of Townshend 25; Calvin Bradley
10; 5. ID. Conant, Grafton, "a. There
were some fine specimens of pears, grapes,
crab apples, plums, canned fruit. &c. ;;
also onions, squashes, turnips, beets,
pumpkins, eitrons, potatoes carrots, pars-
nips, peppers, gourds, DC.
No better maple sugar was ever exhib-
tied than that shown by Warren Higley
OF Marlboro and S, ID. Winslow of Town.
shend. Tempting specimens of honey
were presented by M. o. Howe of New
fame and G. E. Boynton of Cambridge
port. Butter of the gilt-edged variety
was shown by Jared Holbrook of Brat
tleboro, Mrs. A. j. Parker of Windham.
}. w. johnson, Mrs. W. NJ. Ware, and
A. A. Mason of Townshend, and VIM.
L. Bruce, Geo. B. johnson and Rodney
Marcy of Newfane.
The address by Gen. Banks was post.
poned till Thursday, 10 A. NJ, when
quite large audience gathered to hear