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

ris, buck grade; A. & w. Bemis, buck,
yearling ewes, five eve sheep; J. r.
Galbraith, yearling buck.
SOuthdowns-A. & w. Bemis, eve
lambs, yearling ewes, buck lambs,
yearling and two year-old bucks.
Grades and MiscellaneOus-W. c.
Gleason, three grade lambs; w. w.
Wright, yearling grade buck and two
year-Old Shropshire buck; Frank
Vance, grade yearling buck; j. r.
Galbraith, fat sheep, grade ewes, grade
yearling ewes, grade buck and grade
buck lambs; C. l.. Stevens, Merino
buck A. * w. Bemis, pen of five fat
sheep.
w. C. Gleason, White Chester pig
A. o. Harris, Chester boar; w. w.
Wright, two six-months'-old Lank-
shire sows and four Lark
shire boar; w. F. Woods, twenty
eight-weeks' boar; William Higgins,
Poland China spring pig, A months
old, and a four months spring pig !;
j. & E. Batchelder, SOW and pigs w.
w. Wright, shOtes ID. X. Wakefield,
Yorkshire breeding SOW and pigs, boar
and fat pig Robert Gibson, Chester
boar; S. j. Hastings, Poland China
breeding SOW, boar sand spring pigs :;
l.. S. Brock, Chester boar, SOW and
pigs A. II. Harris, Chester boar; 7.
N. Vail, breeding SOW and pigs; E. P.
Allen, Chester spring pigs; VIM.
Clement, SOW and pigs; j. C. Higgins,
breeding SOW and pigs; d. C. Gage,
SOW and pigs.
POULTRY.
This department is in charge of Geo.
X. Crosby. The number of entries is
pigeons, six of Light Brahmas, ten of
Plymouth Rocks, four of Langshans,
three of White Leghorns, two of Ham
burgs, three of Wyandottes, eight of
Bantams, five of Brown Leghorns, one
of turkeys and ten of geese. The eXhib-
itOrs are w. l.. SWEET, II entries :;
Burdick & Underwood, entries A.
a. Miles, u entries G. +. Curtis, ) en-
tries G. w. Cook, four entries Frank
A. Massey, four entries l.. A. Ladd,
3 entries; j. c. Higgins, entries
Henry Carrick, c. b. Stevens and Her
bert n. Johnson, = entries each Q. G..
Baldwin, Edwin Harris, Edwin and
Edwin l.. Johnson, A. NJ. Bowen, w.
H. Wheeler, Frank r. Warner and
Jonathan Ross, each.
CARRIAGES.
II. c. Moore exhibits seven carriages
of various kinds; Lyndon Carriage
company, five: Geo. n. NJ Bean, two
horse farm wagon.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
b. F. Rollins, separator, horse-pow-
er, threShing machine and manure
spreader; Franklin Davis, tanning
iiiill -. Nipi Is, iIl'C SNiNtl l'lON .
st. Adams Foundry company, horse
powers; j. c. Moore, horse rake /;
John Houghton, horse rake, hay cut
ter, horse hoe and side-hill plows; f..
c. Hall, G. p. Metcalf and II. A. Blake,
side-hill plows Geo. b. Davis. harrow,
swivel pillow and hay tedder; w. f.
Cameron, swivel plows.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
In this department there were 269
fourteen loaves of wheat, Graham and
brown and two cakes. Butter was well
represented nineteen tubs and three
cases. Only eight cheeses were shown
The show of apples was large but OF
poor quality, twenty-five varieties
being represented. George Gilbert
had twenty and Orange Ladd ten va
rieties. Plums were never as well
represented before, in quantity ol
quality.
HONEY AND SUGAR.
The display is very small, and only
two cans and one jar of maple honey
and a tub of sugar are shown.
Bees honey is not as largely shown
as usual.
CANNED FRUITS AND JELLIES.
This department is well filled, and
the display is larger than usual. There
are % jars.
The great attraction of the afternoon
was the
WRESTLING TOURNAMENT,
for the championship of the world and
purse of $3.50, in prizes of $3.50, 800
sos and S35. The entries were II. NJ
Dufur, champion of the world; Geo
w. Flagg, champion of Vermont
Patrick O'Donnell, champion of Cana
da, and J. G. LOomis of Braintree, III
this state, who came without any
championship hOnOrs, in place of w
E. Clatlin, champion of New York
The grand stand was filled by an eager
and interested crowd, the people were
kept back by ropes stretched across
the track, and apparently as much in
terest centered in these athletic con
tests as is usually the case i'll the
''hOss- trOt." O'Donnell aud LOOMS
were the first to step out, and the first
contest was collar and elbow. O'DOn-
nell was the favOrite, on account of hi.
agility and suppleness. The next wa,
a GraecO- Roman contest. In thi,
O'DOnnell "drew first blood" Loomi,