Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-05
The County Fair.

The County Fair.
If three days had been made spec
tally for the purposes of the fall festl-
val, they could not have been more
propitious than the three days of last
week. Warm, dry, with good roads,
clear skies, and nature robed in the
gorgeous colors of late autumn, it
was pleasant to spend the days out
of doors. Stimulated, possibly, by
the great shows as Burlington and at
st. Johnsbury, our farmers respond
ed generously to the invitation to
bring out their stock and other ex-
hibts, and they have no reason to be
ashamed of the fair of 1885.
HORSES.
The show of horses, always
good on these grounds, was very
large and embraced nearly twenty
stations, a dozen paires and about
twenty single driving horses, with
mares and colts to make the number
fully hundred. Among the stall
lions we mention j. G.. Hunts hors-
es, Che had two) the Briggs, Ches-
ley. Dunklee, Kimball Bros. as
among the best Of the younger
ones f. G.. Williams had very fine
one, F. Reynolds, /. Stephenson,
d. w. Porter and Fred Sisco. There
were about twenty mares with
their stock and it was a difficult
thing to determine which was really
best. Nixon Morse, nimball Bros,
G. w. Cook, J. A. Brown, F. G.
Williams, W. j. Young, j. G. Orne,
and others had worthy animals of
this kind. We notice among the
three year-old colts as specially
worthy of mention, one belonging to
G. w. Cook, Valley Bros. W. E.
Patterson, fine gray, part Percher-
on, that weighed 1900, another ami
NAL owned by W. A. Merriam, a
large one by E. H. Lathrop, and a
good one by VIM. Wilson, j. A.
Brown and A. C. Chase. Salmon
Nye had a beautiful Auctioneer,
t. B. King one that weighed 1145.
Among yearliLgs Frank Williams
had Ben. Franklin, Nixon Morse a
pretty one. The matched carriage
horses were good, but we had little
opportunity to see them. The track
was alive with carriage horses and
we hardly see how the judges were
able to do justice to all parties in
any award. We notice in this con-
nection the Norman stock exhibited
by Maj. Josiah Grout of Derby, who
showed his fine imported stallion.
Dieppe, which weighs 400 pounds
and is perfect in form and action
and shows his blood in quite a pro.
geny Of colts, which he lhas already
sired Maj. Grout had a ID blooC
Norman colt, four months-old, thai
weighed 600 pounds-a beautiful
-animal-and two other sucking colts
from Dieppe. His stock attracted
much attention. Maj. Grout is do
ing meritorious thing on his stool
farm by purchasing fine blooded ami
mails, which the farmers of the coun
ty ought to appreciate. The count.
races, SO called, were sharp and ere
ated quite an interest. The four
year-old race was trotted by O. S
Dorman's "Barrington,' 10. Has
let's "Sunrise' and John Atkin
"King Pharaoh" harrington LIST
Sunrise I'd, Pharaoh Sd. The stallio
race was trotted by Darlington
Mitch. Hunts Lambert j. c
Hunts ''Marksman" and Pharaoh
Darlington LIST, Lambert I'd, Pharao
Sd, Marksman 4th.
There was good show of oxer
none of extraordinary size, but som
very fine pairs. Of steers it can /
said that rarely has been seen bette
pairs than the three-year-olds b.
longing to President G. l.. Bake
also those of E. w. Porter; the fou
years-old belonging to Horace Hal
cock, Freeman Bean, G.. w. Lelar
and N. G. Ufford. There were son
very heavy yearlings, among whit
we saw two pairs belonging to d. Y
Porter, 1885, and 1865 pounds. M
Porter had two pairs of three-yea
olds that weighed respectively 24'
and 2425. n. G.. Ufford, Edw
Pierce, G.. B. Leland, Bean Bro
and several others are entitled
credit for bringing a large number
cattle of different ages to help t
exhibition. Geo. Bridgman and G
Reed got away with premiums
trained calves. We hunted arou
among stalls and pens to see WI
we could find there, but could L
get much Information. There was
very large number of heavy cal,
of the different breeds, besiC
grades and natives. In Durha
Freeman Bean took the lead, sho
ing very large, fine bull and sew
al other animals. His bull, tv
years-old, weighed 1910. Ell.
PillsbuIy showed seventeen head
Jerseys, some of them very fine a
mails, both club and herd be
stock. His bulls and some of
cows are from noted strains OF bloc
DR.. r.. B. Skinner had thirteen Jerst
on exhibition his hull siy fine 70