Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-10-04

and beautiful; one of them owned
by Wilcox & Rowell of Albany, the
other by Brown g. Hall of this place.
W. H. Chase of Sheffield exhibited the
third and he was nearly the equal of the
others. Mr.. Chase had cows and other
ANIMALS of this stock. Some of the no
ted Ayrshire stock of the county was
not here, but the Drury Boys of Green's
boro brought mp nine animals, and J. B.
Cook seven others. Their COWS
are of good size and their milking quail
tiles are said to be excellent. G. W.
Bridgman of this place has fine bull
of this breed. The Kimball Brothers of
Albany, had good representatives of
this stock. The Jerseys were best
shown by DIR. r. B. Skinner of Barton,
who has taken much pains for the last
ten years to obtain first class herd of
cows. Joseph Owen showed good bull.
Amos Cook some very fine heifers.
Henry Cook had several fine animals,
W. G. Brown premium COW. Geo. Cass
a good bull. This stock was mostly
from Barton and Glover. The show
Of Durhams was very meagre. Mr.. G.
L. Baker of Greensboro had five COWS.
F. H. Foster a large calf and A. H.
Keller a meritorious COW. Mr.. Keller
showed large Dutch bull from the
Thomas Baker stock, now owned by
Henry Cutler. Only one string of cattle
was formed, this from Barton. They
were good lot of oxen. The Sutton
people had made arrangements to take
up string but the weather was so
rainy that they gave up the undertaking.
There are many good yokes of cattle in
this county, if they could be got together.
Nothing is of more interest in the Cal
edonia county fair than the oxen, end
more ought to be done at this fair toward
exhibiting the good oxen of the county
Mr.. L. G. Baker of Greensboro exhibited
very fine pair of heavy four year old
oxen. They were much the best on the
ground. Joseph Dow and g. G. Skinner
of Barton had each fine pair. W.
had little time to look over the pen.
where the younger cattle were kept
but noticed two very fine pairs of steers
owned by j. G. Gray of this town, ais,
a pair of three year olds belonging t,
E. S. Woodward. S. G. Wilcox anC
Freeman Bean exhibited trained calves.
SHEEP.
This county produces excellent sheeI
and, with the exception of merinos, which
are not kept to any great extent, ha
most of the approved breeds. The sho1
at this time was large, the pens bein
all full. In grades, Cotswolds, Leices
tiers, and South Downs there were som
superior ANIMALS. B. NJ. R. Nelson ex
hibited more than twenty. chiefly grades
that were excellent animals. w. c
Brown and his neighbor, B. F. Peterson
competed for the fat sheep premiums
each winning premium. G. B. Lelan
showed nearly twenty good grade sheer
G. +. Cutler took some premiums on hi
grades. Lyman Darling has made tn
raising of South Downs something of
, speciality for some years, and exhibite
, several sheep of this breed. B. NJ.
Nelson had two bucks of this breed.
Leicesters, j. S. Underhill of Charlesto
had five ewes and several bucks. MI
: Q. raises good sheep of this breed an
takes much pains to attend the fair eac
year. G. E. Rowell, and B. M. R. Ne
son also showed Leicesters. The Kin
ball Bros. of Albany have taken muc
pains to obtain an excellent breed
> Cotswolds and have been so successf,
as to obtain premiums at the New En-,
3 land, the State, and our county fair
i. They took twenty-five sheep of tn
t blood and many half breeds to this fai
!. and their show was very meritoriou
e They had one lamb on which the wo
, now measures II inches, and sheep tn;
4 shear very heavy heeces. They VIC
e most of the premiums on this kind
}. sheep. Mr.. Nelson had two bucks
1 this breed, one winning premium.
i SWINE.
The swine men did not make a gre
s show of hogs this year. G. B. Lelar
J had a SOW and fine litter of pigs. '
), L. Virgins had u black republican SC
:, with a litter of Garfield pigs which
n extOlled very highly. W. c. Brow
n showed good pig of the full male pc
e suasion, White Chester breed, N. Bur
IS ham ditto. Geo. F. Reed showed VIII
e he could do in the line of pigs. Ho
d are going up in price every day, and
II is we'll to be posted on this branch.
It stock raising. The breed of Chesters
d this vicinity is hard to beat.
l. POULTRY.
It The poultry show was rather sma
but of interest. John Campbell broug
six very fine Pekin ducks. Jose
is Owen and Frank P. Robinson also e
r hibited ducks. Guy E. Rowell show
y goose 80 years of age, and two We