St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21
Caledonia County Fair.

plete WITHOUT some mentlOn OF the
weather. Without good weather, no
fair-nOt even those held by the Gale
donia County Agricultural society
could be IA success. Hence the condi-
ton of the weather at the opening of
the fair on Tuesday morning becomes
of the utmost Importance. A reference
to the files of the Caledonian of one
year ago shows that the weather at
that time coquetted with the county
people in the early morning hours, as
it did this year, but that the sun came
out later and some magnificent weather
was the result. Herein is one of the
beauties of making record of the
weather-it passes into history for
any one to read in the CdledOnidn. SO
much for the weather.
No one expects that the contests at
fair will commence precisely at the
hour named, as it takes fair, as well as
large, bodies some little time to get
under way. But some fine-lOoking
strings of oxen came on the track to
compete for the prizes offered for the
best
TOWN TEAMS.
| The cavalcade was formed, the town
teams leading and other oxen and
steers following, and took up the line
of march around the track and then
sought the rising ground in the centre.
Here they remained until they were
examined by the awarding committee,
who awarded the prizes to the towns
of Barnet, Lyndon, Waterford, and St.
Johnsbury in the order named Every
body expected that Barnet would take
the first prize, and no town is at all
anxious to compete for it. That is
where the ROys reside, and when we
say that, it goes without the saying
that Barnet will take the lead in oxen.
f. Il T. Fairbanks & Co. furnished
five yOkes to the st. Johnsbury team,
and their weight were respectively, in
pounds, 4,652, 4,O5O, 3,7IO, 1886, $3.50 ;
the weight of the other yokes were
3,4O0, 1880 and 1890.
What the farmer is most anxious to
see is the stock. With this object in
view, we find him betaking himself to
the cattle-pens at the north end of the
ground. Here he stops to look at the
STEERS.
f. & T. Fairbanks x Co. show a pain
of two-year-Olds that weigh 3,0l4
pounds, three year Odds that tip the
scales at 2,S4S pounds, and two yOkes
that follow closely after with an avoir-
dupois record of 2,S72 and 2,7S4
pounds. g. b. Clark shows some
three year-Olds, J. G. Hovey Il yoke
of three-year-o that weigh 1850
pounds, and n. II. Gilman trained
yearlings and two-year- Odds. William
Higgins shows some yearlings, and
William Roy, three-year-olds and
grade calves.
Next we come to the blooded stock
and first, we will look at the
DURHAMS.
Dennis f. May shows n calf; II. II.
Chase, yearling grade bull; A. & w.
Bemis, grade bull calf and heifer calf
T. w. Smith, grade calves; J. G..
Hovey, two two year-old bulls, three
year-old bull. Short horns-A. O. &
J. Bemis, yearling bull, bull calf, two
yearling heifers, two two-year-olds,
two cows A. T. Evans, two-year old
bull.
DEVONS.
II. w. Aver shows yearling heifeI
and COW; C. l.. Stevens, bull calf two
Year-Old heifer and yearling bull d.
X. Wakefield, twO-year- bull j. &
E. Batchelder, two heifer calves, two
yearling heifers, two year-old
heifers, four cows, yearling bull, and
two-year-o bull.
AYRsHIREs.
G. n. Drury shows yearling bull
two mich cows, two wo-year-olG
heifers, two yearling heifers, two heifel
calves.
JERSEYS.
This is the popular breed in this
l county, us shown by the number of ex
hibits. Jonathan Ross shows a COW
+ 5. j. Tasting, bull A. q w. Bemis
three cows, heifer; w. F. Woods, bull
calf; V. ID. MouIton, COW; Henry
, Chase, twO-year-old bull ID. S. Cox
, bull calf, yearling bull, two-year- old
heifer, two cows, a dairy COW which
made the first week in June l54 pounds
l24 pounds the first week in Septem-
| Der, on pasture feed and one quart OF
meal and one of shorts f. & T. Fair
banks & Co., bull calf and heifel
(which dropped a calf when fifteen
months old three yearling heifers
, two-year-old heifer, COW, yearling bull
and year-old bull w. w. Wright
bull calf, heifer calf and COW A. & w
Bemis, two heifer calves, bull calf; H.
, Packard, bull calf and two-year- old
| grade heifer; S. J. Hastings, yearling
bull, two cows and calf.
GRADES.
S. j. Hastings, two grade calves, two
cows; William Lindsay, COW, fat COW
} two-year-old bull l.. Packard, two
r calves, two two-year-old heifers and
calves; William Higgins, bull, heifel
calves, two yearling heifers VIM. B
johnson, bull calf, yearling bull An.