Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-08

and COW, both three-years-old, and heller calf.
all exhibited by G. b. Granger OF Randolph. Flor
ence McCarty Of waitsfeld had twelve grade cat
tie, nine Durhams and three Jerseys. William @.
Clark OF Brookfield brought q fine looking ten
years.old COW and her calf, full blood Jerseys,
and Fred Blanchard grade Devon bull. The rest
of the stock was from Mortified, as follows: DIR.
o. o. Davis a grade Devon COW and heifer, Colonel
G. d. Williams one Jersey COW, J. II. circuit grade
Jersey COW, and W. W. Holden five grade Jerseys,
j. c. Hopkins one pair steer calves, T.. W. Cochran
a cow and yearng heifer, native stock, W. Il,
Dunsmoor, Durham and Devon grades, both year
lings, Walter Dunsmoor two Devon steers, six
teen months old, and VIII Woodbury. three year
ling heifers For matched oxen entries were
made by Cassius Peck of Brookfeld, A. L. Will
liams and Michael Collins Of Mortified. Work
ing oxen were entered by George Richards Of
Brookfeld, A. S. Cross and C. A. Tracy Fat
oxen by A. S. Allis of Brookield, William Loemis
and William Benson NJ. Derby had pair OF
yearlings and pair Of two-y ears-old and William
Kingston the same. William o. Shaw had pair
of yearling steers and J. o. Dyer of Brookfed
fine pair Of threeyears-old, weighing three thou
sand two hundred and forty pounds.
THE SHEEP
pens extended across the south end and were well
filed. OF coarse woods, G. W. Newton had three
grade lambs and buck, Boynton and Moseley
buck lamb and yearling and five eve lambs; e.
d. Fisk, Brookfeld, three grade ewes and three
lambs and one grade buck; L. W, Cochran one
yearng grade buck. The fine woods were
hardly up to the standard. William o. Shaw
brought a yearling grade buck and H. P. Abbott,
Brookfeld, three grade ewes three full blood
ewes and a two-year-old buck. G. b. Fisk, Brook
field, exhibited three Spanish Merino ewes and
the same number of lambs, besides n buck Henry
Jones also had buck OF the same breed Cots
wolds were well represented. o. C. Wilder, Waits
field, showed three full blood eve lambs and two
bucks; Alfred ,Ioslyn, Waitsfeld, six grade eve
lambs, six grade sheep and one buck; II G. Kib-
bee, Brookfeld, nine in all, bucks, ewes and
lambs W. L. Dunsmoor had ten sheep G. W.
Flagg nine, G. W. Buzzell, three Robert Harper,
Roxbury, one grade buck, William Roys. Rox-
bury, a two-year-old grade buck also a couple
of pens of nice grade lambs and sheep by Mr..
Harper
There was fine show Of swine. Geo. B. LOOMS
exhibited six pigs and SOW, Poland China; Boynton
fifteen pigs and two sows; George Denney, Will
Jamestown, a boar, thirteen pigs and sow, all
Berkshres II. C. Kibbee, Brookield, seven Po-
land China pigs and SOW; W. H. Bacon, Williams
town, a fine Berkshire boar; George Crane, Will
Jamestown two Berkshire sows with thirteen pigs.
THE POULTRY EXHIBIT
was very good. l.. w. Avery had two trios OF
Partridge Cochins and William o. Shaw some
Guinea hens and White Poands. L. S. Simonds.
Williamstown, showed fine Brahma cock and
two hens, eighteen months old and two coops OF
chickens from them, all good fowls; also two
coops of White Bantams. There were seven
coops of Plymouth Rocks, one each by Lyman
Wright, George b LOOMS, c. c. Gokey, ii. ii
Walling, c. S. Richmond, II. G. Kibbee, Brook
field, and IL. 2. Abbott, Brookfield. ii. c. MoselN
had pair of Black Bantams and George Roys.
Roxbury, hen with some very small chicks. DIR
walling's Silver Seabright Bantams ELECTED the
most praise; he had also nice lot of Brown Leg
horn chicks and C. S. Richmond three of the SAM
kind H. C. Kibbee, Brookfield. showed larg'
and varied assortment OF fowls, Narraganseti
Gray turkeys, Bolton Gray hens, White Pekin
ducks, Golden Seabright chicks, Rose Comb
Bantams and nice geese. Luther Blanchard had
some turkeys and Brown Leghorn chicks, II. p.
Abbott Brookield, and Ora Boyce, Roxbury,
bronze turkeys.
THE DISPLAY OF COLTS
was the finest it is said, of any reported this year.
better than at the state fair. +. A. Wiley had
a yearling, Joseph Denny a three-years-old, and
Ira +. Whitaker a two-y ears-old. Michael Spoyd
had two fine geldings, two and three-years-
old. Edison Kimball exhibited a very fine three
years-old mare, Wallace Felch brood mare and
colt, Henry Jones two-y ears-od colt, and Thomas
Elliott another brood mare and colt A. S. Cross
brought two colts, two and three years old, and
Henry Averil large three-years-od bay stallion
Brood mares with colts were shown by C. W. AL
drch, Henry Averl and Florence McCarty Of
Waitsfeld. Mr.. McCarty, c. b. Granger of Ran
dolph and Simon Williams Of Roxbury each had a
two-years-old.
FLORAL HALL
was universally pronounced to be the best exhi-
biton ever made here, and 30 was proportionately
hard to write up The first thing attacked was
the vegetables, and they certainly were fine lot
Beginning at the door on the east side the first
to attract the visitors attention large crook
neck squash, exhibited by S. L. Wellington, and
two huge squashes by H. II. Walling. +. W.
! Cochran had six varieties of potatoes l.. W.
Blanchar I'd of Brookfed six yellow Swedish tur-
nips and three Marblehead, Hubbard and mar
row squashes, besides large collection of veg
etables, and sixty-five varieties of grains and
| seeds George Crane of Williamstown brought
two turban squashes, Ralph Whitney of Williams
town one peck of snowflake potatoes, A. L. Will
iams one dozen each Of carrots and beets and one
peck of turnips, c, c. Gokey parsnips, squash and
general collection, r. +, Clark, eeven-years-old,
| potatoes, and his father r. w. Clark, one peck
of turnips, Alfred Joslin of Waitsfeld six late
cabbages, pumpkins, eight varieties Of potatoes,
six kinds of beets, one dozen each, parsnips and
vegetable oysters, and three varieties Of beans,
| C. s Richmond three Hubbard squashes, f. Ed
wards and +. A. Howarth two pecks potatoes, A.
| W. Ferry of Braintree, w. ii. LOOMS and George
Crane Of Williamstown, j. A. Reed of Brookfeld,
W. NJ Smith and Willie Davenport of Brookfeld
H. N Scott of Braintree, d. A. Farnham, A. S.
Cross, John Mudgett, Dan Guild and II. Barker all
had fine specimens OF various kinds Of potatoes
The Adams Slate & Tile Company exhibited
some fine specimens Of their roofing slate, S. IL
| Allen a Moseley cabinet creamery, and win II
Rice of waitsfield his bicycle.
} At the south end OF the table in the center was
A. F. spaulding's force pump and drawing cut
meat chopper, and b. G. Sanborn, Brookfeld, had
two nice brass underground scales. W. W
Holden showed two ten-pound boxes Of butter and
maple sugar and Dan Guild large tub of sugar.
George Crane. Williamstown, X. II. Barnard
Waitsfeld, and j. C. Reed, Brookfied, had sage
cheeses and Messrs, Barnard Reed and H. d
Abbott, Williamstown, plain cheeses A pretty
sled was marked, Kit Brooks, and d. ID, Field
showed some good butter tubs
Among the exhibitors OF butter we noticed U
A. Clark, Jr., Brook6eld, A. Ladd, Roxbury, G
c. Gokey A. S. Cross and L. W. Blanchard
Brookfed Horse shoes were shown by j. W
Parmeter, Brookfeld, w. G. Briggs Chaunce,
Dewey, Luther Knapp and c. C. Gokey. Freeman
Thresher had nice pail of timothy seed and X
| W, Clark some Lost Nation" wheat. A birt
house made by Rev. c. H. Covell Of Brookfeld
with a jack-knife and saw, attracted much atten
ton In the southwest corner Cobleigh & Kings
bury had samples of their sash and blinds, ant
Mrs. c. A. White chair covered with patch
work. and L. H. Howe had fine set OF wood sea
chairs. Charles Doles large collection Of vege
tables was In this corner The exhibitors OF ap
pies were Charles f. Morse, Williamstown, Sal
mon Williams, Roxbury, DIR. NJ. McClearn, J. w
Williams, +. d, Sargent, Brookfeld, Fred Parker
Frank Hopkins, Aaron Webster, Roxbury, and S
P. circuit. Charles Dole had case OF grapes