Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-01
perienced and intelligent farmer, to

perienced and intelligent farmer, to
superintend it. The present season
he put in fifty acres, more or less, to
grain, corn, vegetables, etc., and
had the good luck to bring his stuff
to perfection before the frosts. He
used during the year II tons of Pa
cific guano with some manure, and
believes his success in getting an
early and heavy crop is owing in no
small degree to the use of this fer
tilizer. He fitted up a large space
in the patriotic colors, red, white and
blue, and filled it with almost every
kind of vegetables, with strings of
corn, bakets of wheat, oats and bar
Iy, and other products, all of which
were tie very best of their kind and
so arranged as to make them
most attractive. We shall be pleased
to see Mr.. Merrill and Mr.. Willough-
by at the fairs hereafter. The next
best show in the line of vegetables
was by Frank Wheelock, and the
third by S. A. Hunt. M. j. Owen,
B. w. Flanders. Almon Gray and
others showed their garden truck.
Despite the frosts and backward
season, Mr.. Merrill, Mr.. Whellock
and A. A. Williams made good
show with traces of corn. We men
ton in this connection a very fine
display of fruit made by Deacon E.
E. Andrews of Berlin from his Fair
mount Nurseries. He is a reliable
man and he is growing fruit and
trees that commend themselves to
all who know their worth. 0. w
Davis & Son, also of Washington
county, whose nurseries are at Water
bury, made a good display of very
fine apples.
MECHANICAL WARES.
J. W. Murkland showed several
of his sugar arches, one of his house
| or church furnaces, and several kinds
of his plows. During the last few
years he has had large sales for the
plows, arches and furnaces, and they
are advertising themselves pretty
effectively throughout all this part
of the county. Melvin Elliott show
ed large sap heater with evapora-
| tor attachment, also a beautifully
modelled boat the frame covered
with tin or iron. II. A. & j. Keir
showed one of their water heaters
in active operation, 7. c. Batchel-
der experimenting and distributing
circulars. 1t seems to be very eff
fective heater, and well adapted to
the use of all who need to warm
water for animals in winter. A. q.
Aliston showed a heater of simple
construction which is made at Lyn-
don. True & Blanchard of Newport
made very fine exhibit of tin goods
which they manufacture, also of
stoves. Mr.. Elliott showed stoves
and ranges M. J. Smith showed
very beautiful piece of marble, head
stone work from his shop in this
village. John L. Twombly put in
some fine specimens of cabinet work.
G. S. Phillips showed what he
could do in guns as well as in
birds. A. B. Spler exhibited
pair of work harnesses of good
stock and fine workmanship. G.
F. Percival put in an electric light
ing apparatus from Kimball & Davis
mandatory in Boston. A small
dynamo Gan apparatus for generating
electricity was run by an engine,
and room lighted by incandescent
lamps. The room was beautifully
draped with curtains from Mr.. Per-
cival's furniture rooms and supplied
with elegant and costly stuffed-over
parlor sets and other furniture. One
could almost imagine while in the
brilliantly lighted and costly furnish
ed rooms that he had dropped into
palace. Mr.. PercivaPs furniture,
which is speciality with him, is sold
quite largely at wholesale, and he
keeps several hands at work upon it.
The lighting apparatus is among the
very best made, and the parties are
over driven with work in supplying
the demand. 1t may be of interest
to know that Mr.. Kimball, the head
man in the manufacturing concern, is
Fred Kimball, son of the late r. M.
KimbalI, a former resident of this
town. Mr.. Percival is agent for the
light apparatus. A plant like the
one exhibited would cost, all put in,
$3.50. G.. E. Grandy of Newport
took down one of his two horse pow
er engines, very excellent machine
for the price, and capable of doing
a great amount of work, and showed
it's operation. He also exhibited
pumps of various kinds. Mr.. Grandy
is keeping a variety of useful things
in the line of engines, pumps, saws,
plumbing goods, ETC., ETC., and is a
very competent mechanic and engin-
eer. Agents for the Vermont Ma
chine Co.'s goods were present with
two kinds of Cooley creamers, churns,
butter workers and other dairy appa-
ratus. This company is furnishing
: the best of everything in their line
and they keep abreast of the times in
all improvements. Beauman Butler OF
St. Johnsbury the ingenious inventor
t was present and showed machine
r for dropping phosphate which does
the work admirably and as rapidly as