Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-09-29
HALTFAX FdIR.
A Good Nay, Good show, ana u Large
Attendance.

Attendance.
For the first time in its three years exist
ence, the Halifax agricultural society had a
good day for its annual exhibition, which was
held at the West village on Wednesday Of this
week. In spite of bad weather the two pre-
vious exhibitions were large and excellent, and
this year there was no indication of a falling
of in interest In the live stock department
the largest display was Of working oxen and
steers the total number Of Jokes of matched
cattle, from yearlings up to oxen four and five
years old, being about 20. In Halifax, as
throughout this county, the heavy working
oxen have all been cleaned out and driven
away, and the range of weights per yoke was
in consequence from 5000 to $500 pounds
The quality of these young cattle, 3 and 4
years old, was excellent Probably the hand
soonest pair on the ground were Benz BARRIERS
3-year-olds, weighing 1910 pounds. Mr.. Bar
Der also had good pair of 2.year-olds as did
Edwin Preston, H. Hillman l.. Thurber, and
others. There were some eight or ten yokes
of excellent yearlngs, ID. T.. Tucker, w. Thur
Der and Perry Hall being among the exhibit
ors. Mr.. Hall, we believe, showed in all seven
Jokes of matched cattle. G. f. Griffin pres
ident of the society, was the largest exhibitor
in the live stock department, showing / 6 head
Of cattle, 10 sheep and three horses. pair
of trained calves, 10 and IL months old and
weighing 1900 lbs, shown by Mr.. Grifins
young son, were especially noteworthy. In
the hands of Master Freddie these steers are
perfectly 'handy, land are driven at pleasure
with or without a yoke. A pair of 1.months
calves SHOWN by Perry Hall were also care
fully trained, and without extra feed tipped
the scale at 1870 pounds. Mowry d Powers
showed yearlngs, COWS and calves. Probably
the best COW shown was d. fuckers grade
T. Larrabee, W. Z. Thurber aud others also
showed cows Among the exhibits of j. q o.
j. Hale was n very fine year-old bull weigh
ing 1900 pounds. Jerome Thompson showed
a fine grade Durham bull working in team, A.
Hildreth and l.. II. Ballou 2.year-old bulls
and @. o. Thurber Il Son an S-months Dur
ham, weighing ego lbs, out of ID. S. Pratts
herd. There were several pens of horses,
brood mares aud colts, of which the premium
list will tell the story. OF swine there was a
fair show Israel Stowe exhibited two litters
of young pigs. Benz Barber showed pen
of 10 grade Southdown sheep, Horace Learn
ard one of 10 grade Cotswold lambs, and G.
F. Griffin one of 10 grade Southdowns and
Cotswolds. Niles Plumb showed a . months
old lamb weighing 1875 pounds, and Z. Thur
Der yeOrling buck weighing lj5 pounds.
The display in floral hall was so large and
the crowd so great that We are only able to
say in general terms that the exhibits here
showed trustworthy interest on the part
and skill ON the part of their wives and
daughters. The display of fruit indicated a
good crop OF apples and pears II. q. Bell,
Geo. Barber, Chas. Lamphear and G. II. Hig-
ley being among the leading exhibitors The
display of potatoes was excellent. Sumner
Worden showed II varieties. OF new varie-
ties there was the White Star by Sumner
Worden, and White Lily by Mowry q Pow
ers, the latter producing p bushels from two
1T aaI A5rv y,1n
Mowry Il Powers also showed genuine Irish
potatoes grownfrom seedimported this spring.
The Early Sweds shown by them promises
great productiveness Rice popcorn of I'M
usual size was shown by Geo Barber. Ono
of the most notable features in the floral hall
display was the great number and variety of
handsome Towering plants. Especially OBJ
servable was a very large fuchsa shown by
Sarah Scott and a Gamma by Mrs. Emory
Whitney Considerable pains was taken in
the display of articles OF antiquity, including
a sword cane 40 years old by l. H. Barney,
Temp mat 30 years old by Mrs Mowry, "lit-
tie brown jug" 100 years old, brought from
Ireland by the great grandfather of Milton
Powers home-spun and woven wooden bed
cover with the name and date inwoven-
''Jerusha II. Phelps, Windhan Co., Vt,
1S49"-numerous pieces of table linen, and
many other articles which must be left to the
pICulluul ihA. l1ulbIOlutI1 lhhCN hIllClth
were shown in great variety and many Of
these articles were very fine, but of these,
also, we are compelled TO let the premium
list speak.
The address was delivered about o'clock
by John S. Anderson, a practical farmer of
Shelburne Mass, who shoke chiefly on stock
breeding. We hope to make some use of
his excellent address in another issue Mr..
Anderson demonstrated his interest in the
him by the society to be given to boys un-
der - who raise the best steer calves and
| to girls under the same age for the best
bread and butter. The Jacksonville band
furnished acceptable music. There seemed
to be, as there we'll might be, a general
feeling of satisfaction with the success Of the
exhibition. We find it impossible to give the
premium list this week with satisfactory de-
gree of completeness, and its publication is
| therefore deferred to next week.
After the address there was an exhibition
of trotting and carriage horses.