Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-15
The Nine Towns Fair.

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In several departments the exhibition
was larger even than we indicated last
wsek, including cattle to which we gave
so much space. There were 9S pairs of
oxen and steers, herds 6, bulls 8, COWS
so, Jersey cattle 81, horses III, sheep
2ol, swine Is, and "a coops poultry
In vegetables there were As exhibitors
and fruit %. In floral hall there were
10 exhibitors and 25S articles. In me-
chanics' hall were AZ exhibitors and 1876
articles The total number of entries
was sos.
Of the six fine herds of cattle, r. &
H. M. Elwell, Langdon, had II, 7 COWS,
8 heifers, A cows and the bull, "Mar-
quier of Oxford" E. w. Bancroft,
Terrace Hill stock farm, Bellows Falls,
5 cows, | yearling, bull calf and bull,
Fall Mountain Boy" A. M. Wins
low & Sons, Putney, cows, l two years
old heifer, 2 yearling heifers, yearling
bull and bull calf These were all
Durhams. Geo. B. Williams of Wal
pole had nine head of Jerseys, and 9TH
ers had smaller number of fine cattle.
The Natives were not plenty, the
farmers generally presenting improved
stock, but nice COW with good record
was shown by J. H. Putney. Many
pairs of oxen of from to 7 years,
weighed $500, $500, up to 1890.
Amongst the brood mares and colts
we desire to make special mention of a
Black Hawk mare and her months old
colt, belonging to T. l.. Randall of
Springfield, Vt The colt was by" Car
mac" and was greatly admired. 1t is
very seldom so attractive young colt is
seen upon any fair ground We under
stand the colt was sold upon the grounds
for one hundred dollars.
We observed the stock of cattle and
horses from Terrace Hill Stock Farm"
managed by John Wilmoth, attracted
much attention. The show of short
horns and grade cows, was certainly very
fine. The thoroughbred bull "Comet,"
3 years old, weighing 1000 lbs, was
splendid animal. The stations, " Car.
nae " and Hambletonian Chief" of
course attracted the attention of every
one, and the two Gray Morrill, Mares"
with their foal by their side, were very
much admired. The other gray mare,
Fanny Hoyt" (who won the three min
ute race, on Tuesday, made very fine
appearance on the track, and gave indi-
cations of good speed and powers of en-
durance
SHEEP.
The show of sheep both coarse and
fine wool was well indicated last week,
and was so large that many exhibitors
do not appear in the premium list A.
w. Burt, Buffum & Howe, Henry Burt
of Walpole and j. S. Walker of Lang
don, all had excellent samples from their
fiocks. o. III. p. Watkins made fine
showing of middle woods, as did also w.
G. Leonard,
HORSES
A handsome show of matched horses
was made in the afternoon of the second |
day. Among them were teams owned |
by j. w. Hayward, G. b. Williams, J. |
l.. Mitchell, Geo. Jennings and others of
Walpole, Col. G. L. King of Bellows
Falls, and Thomas Dinsmore of Alstead
Single horses by M. w. Davis d. C. |
Gorham and A. S. Watkins, Westmin-
ster, VIM. Robertson, Putney, ]. s.
Walker, Langdon, d. C. Ordway, Wal
pole, and others.
The exhibition of stations included
some of the best stock horses of either
state, several of which have been award
ed premiums at other fairs embracing
larger territory. Among them were
" Clematis," owned by G. B. Williams,
and "Carnac" and Hambletonian
CHIEF" owned by E. w. Bancroft
" French Champion, owned by Fred J.
Hubbard of Walpole, Green Mountain
Tiger" owned by Dwinnell & Weaver,
Cambridgeport, and Goodwood,' by
F. NJ. Wetherbee, Langdon.
OF the other horses, Michael Murphy
of Alstead had an attractive dark brown
3 years old colt, and Col King nice
black two years old. and L. o. Powers
of Athens, also exhibited nice 2 years
old. Geo. A. Weston of Westminster.
had on exhibition good years old
colt, and Luke Rice of the same town, a
fine mare and colt. A perfect little
beauty ON the grounds was sucking
colt of some four months, belonging to
Geo. B. Holland of WalpoIe. The trot-