The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-04
Fourteenth Annual Fair of the
Orwell Farmers Climb.

UrWell Farmers Clnb.
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Monday and Tuesday, of last week, the
first being the day for entries, which were
not quite as numerous as they would have
been had the weather been more promis
ing, but, Notwithstanding the rain of
Monday and the general unpromising ap.
pearance for Tuesday, entries were made
to an amount that made up a most excel.
lent and credtnolo show even for larger
society than town farmers club. We
had no time to take minutes, and have
beeu disappointed in procuring from the
secretary such details as we would wish,
as his time was too fully occupied to give
them to US, and we shall be obliged to de.
pend mainly upon our memory for what
few special notices we are able to give.
There was fine show of most kinds of
stock
HORSES
Among the horses we noticed the old
Columbus horse, Gen. Sherman, who
showed some fine bursts of speed. A
very promising three year old stallion was
shown by Mossrs. Cutting & Perry, of
Shoreham in color a beautiful bay with
black points. and superior action he is
a second from Ethan Allen, having been
sired by Henry belongs Young Ethan.
Cap. +. Moore exhibited a fine four
years old chestnut stallion, by Daniel
Lambert ; he is very handsome in form
and style Of action, and gives promise of
speed has more than once carried off
the highest hopors in the classes of colts
at our County Fairs The Walker horse
Of Whiting was on exhibition and carried
eff the hest ribbon in his class he is a
fine animal, and the sire of some excel.
lent stock f. S. Warren, l. T. Branch
and others exhibited fine pairs Of match.
ed horses. Mr.. Blackmer had very
stylish bay horse, a beautiful Morgan, who
combines great beauty of form aud action,
with those good points that make up the
most useful horse Chas Sanford, a very
fine large Lambert FLY three years old, a
very fine driver. A very fne dark gray
hlly, by Abraham, was shown by 4. D.
Griswold she is four years old and very
fnst, ehc received tho Giet pi.ui,.". 80
trotter. There were other fine driving
horses but we failed to get the names OF
their owners. There was 6nc lot OF
young colts and filies and an excellent
show Of brood mares with colts. but we
have not the names of any of the exhibit.
ors
CATTLE.
There was an excellent show Of cattle,
especially of working oxen and steers, in
this class. We noticed the names of
Bascom, Buels and Hubbard upon some
very fine pairs. One pair of two. year old
Devors were very beautiful. There was
goodly show OF Jerseys, among the ex-
bibitors of which were Messrs. Douglas
OF Shoreham, and Griswold of Orwell.
The latter were just from the State Fair,
where they took number of the high.
est prizes in their class. Fine cattle were
shown in other classes, but we have not
the names of the owners.
SHEEP.
There was excellent chow in THO
class Of stock and we noticed pens of ex.
cellent Merinos exhibited by German
Cutting, +. d. Bush, |. T. Sticknoy, II.
W. Sholes, Jas, Fortres, Jr, E. Farnum,
and VIM. Walker and some pens of fine
long woods, by Jas. Doughtey and S.
Wright.
PICS AND POULTRY.
Tho show of swine and poultry was
very slim, two fat hogs by |. o. Wright,
and few full blood Berkshire pigs by
G.. A. Bush, were all the swine we saw,
and the poultry wore more remarkable
Tor their small numbers than for any
other quality.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Some fine plows were shown by q. Il.
A bell and d. Buel, and fine farm wagon
by Il. ". Bissell, and two very fine bug
gies by G. Bissett. We saw some fine
looking milk pans Of the large patterns,
but failed to get the names of exhibitors
FARM PRODUCE.
In the town Lall we noticed some fine
samples of grin, some fine exhibitions
OF fruit, also fine samples of maple syrup
and honey, and very fine samples Of
vegetables by Root, Hubbard, Abel
Branch, Griswold, Bascom and Raymond
These exhibitions were especially large
and creditable for a town show. Tue
dairy products shown were numerous and
fine.
FANCY WORK, &c.
Some fine paintings and drawings were
shown and the exhibition Of fancy work
was especially foe noticeable among which
we would name some fine specimens Of
bead work, but are sorry We cannot name
the exhibitors
FLOWERS AND PLANTS.
We noticed fine flowers aud plants
very beautiful bouquet aud flower designs
being shown by different ones; that We
regret our inability to name.
MISCELLANEOUS.
10 the hall we also noticed some fne
parlor organs from Syracuse, n. Y, a
knitting machine, sewing machine, and O
very ingenious machine for running q
scroll saw for making brackets, &c.
was exhibited by Will Kellogg Of Ben.
son, who worked it with great precision
and rapidly.
The Ticonderoga band furnished excel
lent music. The president. Mr.. Forbes
and the ether odiOsrs disshsrgsd ,ssil