St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-23
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specimens. w lille the premium list of
course will tell the story of merit as
seen by the committees, we propose to
mention those who exhibited, without
attempting to discriminate particular
ly between the exhibits. 1t is not our
purpose to neglect any exhibitor,
though among so much that is good
there is little danger that somebody
will be overlooked. 1t is safe to say
there were no very poor cattle shown.
j. w. Gorham exhibited pair of steer
calves and one bull calf of the grade
Devon and Durham species, which
were very good looking animals H.
C. Kinney, grade calves and Jersey
heifers Asa B. Howard, pair grade
calves j. Whitcher trained yearling
steers and a grade Devon bull calf H.
L. Smith, grade and dairy COW w.
B. johnson, three grade cows, n two
year-old heifer and bull calf l..
Morris, grade calf S. j. Hastings,
grade and Jersey cows J. B. Cook,
several head of fine grade cattle A.
X. & G.. N. Drury, fine display of
Ayrshires J. w. Blair, Ayrshire bull
E. g. T. Fairbanks g. Co., their well
known herd of Jerseys w. n. Noyes,
Jersey bull calf Daniel Cox, Jersey
yearling bull and several cows other
exhibitors of Jerseys were j. B. Cook,
j. P. Miller, A. c. Farmer and John
Ladd, each of whom made an excellent
show of this deservedly popular breed.
Other exhibitors of grade cattle were
William Russlow, E. & Il. Fairbanks
g. Co., w. d. Bullock, S. Chickering,
James Trefran, II. w. Ayers, A. w.
Hastings, Oscar Brown, C.. Z. Curtis,
VIM. Clement and Edwin Harris w.
B. johnson showed handsome two
year old bull. In the way of Durhams
H. C. Dawson exhibited COW, j. F. &
E. E. Hale bull calf, c. l.. Dawson a
bull, Fairbanks & Co. several head ;
also o. II. Woods and Loren Foss.
THE SHOW OF SHEEP
was fairly large, and abOunded i'll
handsome specimens of almost every
sort j. R. Galbraith had three pens
of grade sheep to show; G. j. Trefran
also pen of grades; A. X. Quimby
two pens of grades Henry Ross sew
eral pens of COtswolds and grades
F. w. Smith, COtswOlds; r. p. Harvey
and Geo. G.. Lawrence had a number OF
grades also j. B. Cook made a good
showing of fine woods; Fairbanks &
: Co. several pens of COtswolds; j. Hig-
this line; T. H. Lyster, grade buck and
several sheep; William Belden, nu-
merOus COtswOlds, and A. o. q j. Be
mis-, quite a number of fine looking
SouthdOwns. The sheep pens were
the center of much attraction, and il
would have bothered anybody but al
expert to pick out the very best. We
don't care to run the risk of discrimi-
mating.
The show of Swine was not very
large, but extremely good. VIM. Glenn
ent exhibited SOW and pigs; E. p
Allen did the same, and j. b. Stanton
also H. C.. Kinney exhibited boar
the only one shown. The exhibit
in this department was about on al
average with what it usually is a
county fairs.
, POULTRY.
The show of poultry was light, onl,
2 about twenty cOops being on TIN
. ground. The exhibitors were II.
!, Koepka, L. S. Woods, C. H. Higgins
+ j. w. Eastman, j. II. Annis, A. C
Farmer, C. E. Curtis, Edwin Harris, f
o. Wilcox, G. R. Crosby, Ellen Wright
F. Vance and n. p. Bowman.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, ETC.
The show in this department wa
not very extensive. b. F. Rollins ex
hibited several horse powers j. NJ
:, Warner, hay tedders G. B. Davis cul
tivatOrs and there were several plows
harrows and farm wagons shown. Glib
: son & Holmes showed IA patent fee
g box and steamer for preparing foo'
I for horses and cattle. II. c. Moor
was on hand with a fine display o
carriages and harnesses, and the Ign
don carriage company made exhibit
in their line. The Cooley Creame
D was on exhibition, and specimens o
I butter tubs and other things necessar.
for the dairy.