Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-07
Orleans County Fair.

Inc annual Ialr LOT IHe year AOsO
fell upon three perfect days, and the
weather invited large attendance. The
auspicious and harmonious efforts of the
newly formed Agricultural Society with
the Fair Ground Co.. served largely to
increase the interest in the fair, and to
swell the number of exhibits and of
people. On account of having been con-
fined largely in our duties as Secretary.
it was impossible for us to see, much
less to examine the very large number
of animals and articles that deserve
mention in these columns. and we can
only speak of them in classes in a gen.
eral way. 1t has been many years since
the county has seen as many very good
horses together as were seen last week.
Nearly thirty were entered as single car
riage horses. Among the finest of these
were those driven by S. 2. Pinney,
Waldron Brown. G.. R. Bryant, J. NJ.
Pillsbury and G. W. Bridgman. These
were fast steppers there were a dozen
that were worthy of mention. The show
of matched carriage horses was not large
but was good. W. A. Jackson, J. j.
Allen, G.. w. True and E. P. Church
each drove fine pair. There we're sew
eral fine pairs of work horses, among
which were those of G. W. Wheeler, B.
Mossman, and o. D. Rowell OF mares
| ana coIJs Jnere was very largo num-
Der; as whole they were very credita-
BILE to the exhibitors. The number and
the character of the stations showed
that there is desire to keep such ami
mails as will keep up the credit of the
horses in this locality. Of the older
horses were the Tice, the Human, the
Cook, the Grout, the Hawkins, the
Worthley, the Mossman, the Dunklee
and several other noted animals. Among
the three year-olds were the Worthley
the J. S. Phillips and the Oliver Val
ley colts. There were many cattle or
exhibition, and each of the thorough
bred breeds was represented. Of oxer
the show was fairly large. The Barton
town team was made up of pairs owned
by S. d. Drew (two pairs), W. G. Haw
kins, D. Owen, A. F. Mcneil, John 6
Hall, S. N. Fisk, W. H. Martin, G. c
Skinner and N. G. Ufford. The larges
{ pair belonged to Mr.. Drew, the pretties
pairs to N. G. Ufford and G. Cutler
Thomas Bakers Dutch cattle wer
present, some 10 in number. They al
tracted considerable attention. Th
l Jerseys were numerous. There WEI
several COWS from the herds of Drs. ,
F. g. R. B. Skinner, lot of younge
animals belonging to E. P. Cotton an
6 good animals from other owners. III
: Ayershires were chiefly owned by !
e Buchanan. W. H. Chase had sever;
|" fine Devons. There was not a lare
u show of Durhams. Of cows, J. L. Woo
n man, J. A. Riley and Thos. Baker hs
!. fine animals. J. A. Riley showed vel
y large Durham bull calf. The exhibitit
" of grades and natives was quite larg
u but we cannot report names of owne
as we did not have time to examine Il
y tags.
> The sheep pens were very full. al
the Society added some $25 to the pr
~ miums list in order to reward the she
owners for bringing out so large numbt
Cotswolds were shown by W. B. Gull
Kimball Bros, and w. H. Chase.
Darling brought out his fine Southdov
8 buck; John Anderson and B. III.
=. Nielsen showed fine Leicester bucks.
grades and natives there were probab
a hundred animals. The swine pc
ls had usual number of hogs and pie
.. A. f. Mcneil, A. F. Stockwell, E.
80 Hinkley, G. w. Leland and G.
so Bridgman competed for hog premium
es Mr.. Mcneil had very large sow wi
n some fine pigs. Mr.. Stockwell alwa
81 shows fine lot of hogs.
The poultry cages were numerous a
40 the variety of fowls was large. The
lS were hens of all kinds, from the comm
barnyard fowls to the silver pencile
" ducks, geese, turkey. pigeons and pc
10 cocks. Dana Locke had FIVE sto
cage that was full from basement to
100 tic and included all kinds of fow
's1 There were other large cages. Not Il
than l6 parties competed for butter p
'Sl miums, nearly as many for sugar, a
30 several for cheese. The articles exhi
tied were unusually fine. We were
',S formed by the committee that it v
51s next to impossible to tell which v
lsS really best The county ought TO be W
70 pleased with the show made at this ia
I'M of these important products.
of The fruit and vegetable departmel
a were too badly crowded with exhibits
Id afford fair chance for display. N.
sr, Ball from Newport was present W
'as his usually large display of fruit a
,es vegetables. His apples consisted of
oil. different varieties, and they were
ir- ceedingly fine. G. W. True, J.
err Hall, M. H. Mason, E. Currier, Mo
of Beedle. John Wav and others shov