Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-06
The Dominion Fair.
CONCLUDED


inform in color, being of rich red hue
til white face, throat, belly and the
,wer part of legs and tail. They seem to
- finer boned animal and earlier ma
Ired than the Durhams.
The Jerseys are not better if as good as
hose shown in Vermont, but are evident
" well cared for.
The Galloways are easily described
They are large, black as a coal, and have
no horns. When we asked the attendant
what extra qualities the Galloways were
noted for, he shook his head and said mo
pix Ingleese;" but we were just as well
liked AS he, for we could not polly 200
.rong Say,' so we were all square. But
we did not learn much about the Gallo
ways. They are less in size than the Dur
nlms or Herefords, and do not show the
milking capacity of the Ayrshire or rich
ness of the Jersey.
OF sheep we Judge there were nearly or
quite four hundred head shown, and not II
single little, wrinkled, greasy-backed
Merino in the whole lot to bless YER
monter's sight.
In point of numbers the noble South
down came first, with animals which
would give mutton chop which would
wal beef steak in size.
The Leicestershires were next in i'm
portance, followed by South and Shrop-
shire downs in order named. One flock
of Soulhdowns which we saw were quite
inferior to the flock of Mr.. Billings of
Woodstock The Shropshires did not
seem to be favorites.
OF swine there were about two hundred
and fifty head, nearly rs many Berkshires
rs of all the rest, which were mostly large
or small Yorkshires and Essex. Some of
he Berkshires were very handsome pigs,
us indeed were mostly all the rest, as we
lid not see Il scrub in the lot; but we don t
like the face of the Yorkshire-his nose is
quite too pug to meet our idea of the beau
tiful.
There was a large and handsome build
ing devoted to poultry, which we under
stood to be well filed, but did not get in
to see it.
HORSES.
The show of horses was excellent in
point of numbers and had many good and
some very poor animals in it-much more
unequal in quality than that of either of
the other classes Of stock.
The following from the Star (Montreal)
will show how it was estimated at home,
as well US the arrangement of it:
As to the horses, it may be said there
are many good entries and also many
inferior ones. The arr tngement, however,
could hardly have been worse. Thorough
breds are mixed with draught horses, and
draught horses among carriage horses,
and Shetland ponies among Clydesdales
1t is consequently almost impossible to
Judge Of the horses as class. Numbers
are not placed on the catalogue, so there is
no guide to the class, name and owner of
particular animals. The thorougbreds are
but poor specimens and below the mark,
although there is one fine animal whose
name is not ascertainabe. The show of
roadsters is only fair. There is one good
mare and colt, with few others only
passabe. The carriage horses shown are
mostly light draught animals. Among
the agricultural breeds there are some
good draught colts and fine stations.
There are very few teams to be seen.
Some Of the exhibitors must either have
anticipated some great advantage by
bringing their poor knocked kneed ami
mails here, or else they must have been
pretty big fools--p probably both. Some of
the animals are of the wretchedest descrip
ton. The Clydesdales are truly magnifi-
cent. Some imported stock attracts great
attention. A very fine lot of Shetland
ponies is on view, and the Jerusalem
ponies gathered quite "a crowd.
The thing which strikes Il states man as
odd is the absence Of the track for the
agricultural hdss trot" There all
horses were shown in a ring, perhaps
twenty rods in diameter, and in this ring
their style and action was shown by the
groom leading them by the bride, except
for hunters, and they had Il hurdle to leap
made of bars laid on pins driven into
posts, and hemlock twigs woven in to give
it the appearance of hedge. No " trot
ting to sulkey," no "trials of speed" anC
the Yankee hOrseman would have voted
the horse exhibit " slow" But as Il rule
we think they have as good or better
horses than we see in Vermont.
In agricultural implements and ma
chinery the exhibit was large and move
one to Yankee. The best and chiefest
characteristic of Canadian machinery is
its soliditv, 1t is built to stand wear and
tear and is of double the weight anC
strength of ours, excepting the mowers
which are built on the American model
There are plows by the score, all Landslide
plows, and all, or nearly all, iron; some
with handles six feet long running fal
back and all iron except about Il foot o
wood where the h nd grasps the handle
They had such funny little points-no
more than six inches wide, with long anC
wide mold-boards; and in these plows one
comes far toward discovering the secret o.
how Scotch and Canadian farmers car
draw such straight burrows. The pillow il
50 long that short crooks would seem tt
be impossible.
We saw three potato diggers of different
styles and very heavy, calculated for tive
horses, but heavy at that.
There were two familiar objects-th
Odds and Gray's horse powers and thresh
ers, and they stood the comparison we'll
There was nothing of Canadian manufac
ture which could approach them.
We thought we had found the Vernon
farm machine company's evaporator-i
was made exactly like it except being O
tin-but the exhibitor said it was his owl
patent.
A very queer harrow was that made G
iron about three.eighths of an inc
square, each piece a band about fou
inches square, each holding the other lik