Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-24
The international Dairy Fair.

The international Dairy Fair.
We have been to the great dairy fair,
and are safe back again, and its stupen
dous proportions have not quite taken
away our breath. Tie fair was huld in
the American Institute Il building occu-
pying the entire block between second and
third avenues, and GA and 9th streets.
We will try and give our readers some
idea Of the interior view of the hall, which
we should judge to be about three hundred
feet long and perhaps two bundled feet
wide. A part Of this is taken up by Il
raised platform running around the central
portion, and here were dairy implements
of all descriptions, beside large amount
of other articles of all sorts for display for
advertising and sale.
As one enters the nall from the front.
the first object which attracts the attention
from its prominence and position is .
pyramid of cheese from II. X. & A. B.
Thurber, which we judge to be forty or
fifty feet high. The base is formed Of ten
cheeses each weighing eleven hundred
pounds, and from that are all sizes. shapes
and colors. Between this pyramid and
the entrance are tables of cheese, and
standing next the platform at the entrance
IS 70" OF cattle separated only by u walk
and railing from the tables of cheese near
by. Behind the pyramid are more tables
OF cheese and butter and then the fountain
which throws II jet Of water nearly to the
root OF the arch which spans the hail.
Next is the music stand, from which
afternoon and evening the Seventh Regi-
ment band discoursed music. Next in order
is column of Ashton's salt which is the
last prominent object in the centre of
the hall.
On either side of the centre are pvra-
mids of Higgins salt, the factory liled
salt, cheese from Smith & Undcrhill, and
imported cheese from Roelhlisbcrrer s.
Gerber, the scent of which pervadud the
entire hall. We We're Standing near here
when an elderly couple pissed, she With
her nose "sniffed up" He remarked
" This is imported cheese" She replied,
" 1t smells strong enough to be imported; -
another standing near added, at is strong
enough to have come over alone" Net
to put too fine point on it, it stunll mos,
abominaby to our nostrils Bro. Chceycr
last year thought the butter and cheese
would be contaminated by the too near
presence of the cattle. We would not
trust our COWS near such cheese lest their
milk be tainted. In the space about these
conspicuous objects were the tables for
batter and cheese, and there was Il LARGE
amount of it there, but excepting few
samples Of " ornamental butter ~ in Glass
casfs the butter was all in packages which
were nailed up till the judges examined
them, and again nailed up, and the dairy
man could contemplate to his heart s con
tent the outside of the packages and get
what he could Of suggestive interest from
them. Having sent package of butter
we OF course felt II natural interest in
knowing whether it had been received MI
right. We sent it on Thursday, the 4tb,
as it was advertised that goods would only
be received at tho Institute from the 4,h
to the 8th inclusive. Wednesday afternoon
we called to sec if our butter had been
received. Yes, we should find it inside
on the Vermont table" We went in. If
was not on the Vermont table. There
was no Vermont table. 1t was not on anv
other table, but we finally found it at the
receiving door, the cover opened. and w.
ing with thirty or forty other packages
beside and among the sawdust which had
been used for bedding the cattle. where Il,
must have had its place since the FRIDAY
or Saturday before. On Thursday there
was Il Vermont table, and some butter nm
it, while other packages, ours amonq tha
rest, were on wrong tables, but finally yve
got ours located where it belonged. Tbere
was lack of management there was either
want of executive ability, or of proner
force to do the work as it should be dnno
and this fact was plain to all who h,d
dealings with it,
Ofthe quality of the exhibit we can Give
no estimate, for the reasons given. that
one could neither see the color or tosta tbo
flavor. the packages being all closed. Of
dairy implements there was a good show
In the milk setting apparatus Vermont
had the greater share, there being but two
or three besides those from Vermont. and
one of these, from the Farm Implement
Company of West Hartford, Conn. was
shown by Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Cook, both
till lately connected with the Vermont
Farm Machine Company at Bellows Falls
The Fuguson Bureau Company of Bur.
lington showed five of their crenmeries of
various sizes, besides handsome model
of creamery, furnished with &" Bureaus ~
They had about fifty small glass Jars of
uniform pattern filed with butter from
the various daries in the state using the
Bureau, and it looked very nice. They