The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-12
ADDISON COUNTY FAIR.
The Exhibits, the Races and the Premium
Awarded.

The Exhibits, the Races and the Premiums
Awarded.
The fortieth annual fair of the Addi-
son County Agricultural society was
held on the grounds in Middlebury on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday OF
last week. In point of exhibits and at
tendance it was fully up to the stand
ard.
TIE EXHIBITS.
In our last issue brief mention was
made of some of the principal things
shown, but only few were mentioned.
We cannot undertake TO cnumerate all
the articles and animals on the grounds,
but will endeavor to include the more
prominent
In floral hall there was the customa-
ry display of oil paintings. The best,
perhaps, were on china, from lite, done
by Miss Aggie Peak of Bristol. Others,
of merit, were shown by Miss Cora
lIolley of Cornwall, Miss Cora Farm
ham of Shorcham and Miss Jennie ID.
Robbins of Cornwall. Mrs. Moses De-
Poutce of New Haven had her usual
fine display of flowers, handsomely
arranged; and there were exhibits of
flowers. also, by Mrs. J. &. Tucker and
Mrs. Myron Langworthy of Middle.
bury. NJ. ID. ParInelee of Middlcbury
had large assortment of pumpkins.
Seeds grains of various sorts were
shown by l.. W. peet of Cornwall
VIM. Easton of the same place, f.. A.
Langdon and NJ. DePoutee of New
Haven, Geo. Roscoe OF Addison, }. p.
Fem and NJ. ID. Parmee of Middle
bury. The lattcr's Polish wheat attract
cd considerable attention. Apples
were exhibited by i. W. Crane of Bird
port, j. p. Fem of Middlebnry and
Mr.. DePOutee. and fruits of several
kinds by Il. l.. llcmenway of BridpOrt
and A. {. Hooker and n. &. March of
Middlebury. OF vegetables there was
quite variety, the principal exhibitors
being II. j. Manchester of Cornwall
and Geo. Sheldon and G.. ID. Sumner of
"Cuban Queen" were shown by A. G..
Sumner Of Bristol and musk-meons by
+. l.. Moody of Weybridge. There
were two exhibits of honey--one by b.
W. Crane and the other by Miss Ida
Hanks of Weybridge. &. j. Tulley of
AIiddlebury showed immense purple
leaf turnips. OF potatoes the show was
large. One sort, mo. 1872" shown by
Hon. j. NJ. Dyer Of Salisbury, yielded,
it was stated, at the rate of $40 bushels
TO the acre, where other wel-knowu
varieties produced only 100 to l2j
bushels. +. s. Wright of Weybridge
had samples of the "Pecan," variety
originated in Ferrisburgh and said to
be very productive on river bottoms.
Another noticeable sort were the
"Champion," curiously variegated,
from the farm of Ira b. Smith, Mid
dlebury.
A limb of crab-apple tree was shown
by Mr.. Dyer, bearing both ripened
fruit and blossoms.
Wells, Richardson a. Co. of Burling-
ton had large exhibit of their i'm.
proved butter color, which is put up in
25-cent, 5O-cent and 81 packages. They
claim that it is the best thing made for
the purpose; that it will not color the
bntter-milk and cannot become rancid
The agent, Mr.. Harrington, gave away
large quantity of the smallest pack.
ages, SO that dairymen could test fol
themselves the merits OF the prepare
tions.
L. NJ. Chapman & Co. of Middlebury
showed Number of handsome organs
of several standard makes and also q
great variety of sewing machines. rs,
tey organs were shown by II. W. Hall
A. l.. Bailey's Burlington representa-,
tive.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND vEIn
Giles.
Among the vehicles were a number
of open and top wagons and carriages
shown by b. +. Haskell of West Corn
wall buggies, by Il. A. Foote ~ Son
Cornwall; the Auburn farm wagon
by ii. b. Dodge, Middlebury, and the
Milburn hollow-aXIe farm wagon by II
"A. Foote ~ Son. The Triumph roaC
machine, made by Moulton a Ives
NergeDnes, was the only machine o
the kind on the ground. The remain
ing articles of this class were: Acm,
pulverzing harrow, shown by G.. ID
Smead of Waltham; Cassidy sulkv
pillow and Gray two.horse thresher an(
cleaner, by Il. A. Foote a. Son; stee
plows and sulky plows with breaker
attachment, made by John Deere, Mo
line, H., exhibited by their agent, l.
q. Whitford of Addison, who also hal
the Novelty grlndstOne, "A very etiectiv,
contrivance Tor grinding moving ma
chine knives, and the Deere combinet
harrow and drag, with y steel teeth
X. 4. Goodale of Addison had Tia,
Buckeye low-down harvester, new
machine, binding with Irvine. 1t i
less cumbersome than the machine
formerly sold, will pass through ten
and-s-hali-foot gate and sells al S235.