St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-19
CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR.

The Annual Fair of the CaledOni;
County Agricultural Society and Fai
Ground Co. was held on the Fai
Grounds in this place on Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 16, IL
and 18. We make notes of the Fair a
things occurred and as we saw them:
Tuesday opened bright and beautiful
too bright some thought to last long
Stock commenced to arrive upon tn,
grounds in large numbers in good sea
son-the Superintendent of Cattle say
ing the largest he had ever seen. L
has been said by many old farmers thai
it was by far the largest exhibition o
stock ever upon the grounds, and O
first rate quality. 1t commenced tc
arrive in the vicinity of the grounds tC
a large extent the night before the Fail
putting up at neighboring farmers.
THE TOWN TEAMS
consisted of strings of eight yokes eacl
from st. Johnsbury, Waterford, Barnet
and Lyndon. The string from St
Johnsbury consisted of six yokes from
E. g. t. Fairbanks, one yoke of P. S
Stevens, two Jokes from Alanson AL.
drich. The Fairbanks cattle weighed
in aggregate 22,682 pOunds-their large
fat pair weighing 5,1O7 pounds; Stew
ems pair years old, 5000 pounds and
Aldrich's $3.50 and $3.50 respectively
The nine yokes averaged $3.50 pounds
each. All were good without excep-
tion,-Mr. Aldrich's Devons being es-
pecially fine animals.
The oxen from Barnet were splendid
specimens of cattle. One yoke of Jas.
Roy-fat, weighing 1880 pounds. VIM.
Roy had three yokes-one weighing
3,3I5 one 1890, and one 4, $50 pOunds!;
Joseph Roy 3,615 pounds; Nathaniel
Roy yoke 1875 pounds Joseph Roy
3,8l5 pounds John Gilfillan $3.50 and
b. S. and w. A. Dow $3.50 pounds.
The aggregate weight of the Barnet
string was 30,625 pounds, averaging
about 1888 pounds per yoke.
The Waterford cattle usually so good
were somewhat smaller than formerly,
owing to there not being as many old
cattle, but they we're fine looking in
deed, and we think the quality not SO
far behind after all. H. C. Davison's
two Jokes weighed $500 and $500
pounds; c. L. DavisOn's one yoke $500
pounds; Geo. Barker's one yoke $3.50
pounds; F. D. Williamson one yoke
3,4I5, l.. S. Freeman yokes years
old $3.50 and $3.50 pounds; Cyrus Hill
one yoke $500 pounds; Barton Works
exhibited very handsome pair Dew
ons years old. The eight yokes aver
aged 3,454 pounds each.
H. F. Gilbert of Concord had one
yoke of large working oxen weighing
$3.50 pounds.
The Lyndon cattle were also good, A.
& w. A. Bemis one yoke 1000 pounds;
A. F. Rowland 2 yOkes one 5 years old
1900 and one years old 1880 pounds,
very handsome. Joel F. Sanborn 2
yokes-one pair years old 1920
pounds, one pair 5 years old $500
pounds; C. D. Bigelow yokes one
pair 800 and one $3.50 pounds, P. B.
Graves one pair 6 years old 100 pound;
Chas. Hubbard one yoke 5000 pounds
the nine yokes averaging3 8, 48O pounds
each.
j. F. Hale exhibited two yokes
years old steers $500 pounds each
Nathan Gilman one pair 2 years old
steers; S. Ranney one yoke years old;
j. G. HOvey 3 pairs of 2, 3, and years
old; E. P. Allen one yoke years old
3,OlS pounds, one yoke A years old |
1850; F. R. Palmer one pair grade
DevOns 3 years old $500 pounds; By
ron Varnum had a wonderful pair 2 |
years old Devon steers, that performed |
many antics on raised plank. Also
Frank Newell exhibited a nice pair of
trained Devon calves; o. H. Woods
one yoke 2 years Odds; AFRO B. Stark
pair of nice Devon yearlings, and two
other pairs of steers.
CATTLE IN PENS.
The exhibition of dairy cows was
numerous and of all grades. H. C.
Dawson Durham COW L. B. Church |
Durham cow and heifer; S. j. Hastings
lot of Jersey COWS and heifers and |
graded stock; also II grade sheep; A.
o. d j. Bemis good lot of short horns
and grades, and % Southdown sheep
Charles L. Stevens years old Devon
heifer 935 pounds, and yearling bull.
j. Il (. BatcheldeT had some very nice |
Devon stock that was good to look up
on. They seem to delight in good
stock, and well they may. Their two
years old heifer is perfect beauty, and
hard to beat. G. w. and S. w. Sprague
mad some nice Devons and grades; T. |
Z. Bray pair twin calves, weight $50
pounds, and a lot of grade COWS and
calves, one bull (yearling) 1854 pounds.
j. !G. HOvey, John Morrison, T. B.
Wheeler, E. H. Cushman and ]. Ross
exhibited graded stock very meritori-
GUS; e. A. Sylvester large fat COW
Harvey G. Woods and H. 1. Woods
good grade cows, S. S. Stoddard 5
Durham cows, and a lot of smaller
stock o. H. Woods a good bull calf;
b. 5. & w. A. Dow lot ofgrade calves.
VIM. Clement showed SOW and 8
pigs weeks old-beauties, also ]. B.
Stanton SOW and IL pigs weeks old