The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-09-26
WinOOski Valley Fair.

having as good grounds as any other in the !
state in regard to beauty and other advant- |
ages of situation. The view from the
grounds is always fine, whatever may be
seen at the fair That held last week was
no exception to the general excellence of
the Winooski valley fairs. All departments
contained good exhibits. The show of
stock was the best ever made on the grounds.
HORSES.
Prominent among the equines, of which
there were many fine specimens, were those
exhibited by Fred Smith of Barre, headed
by Mambrino Jet descended from Mann
brine Patchen through MambrinO Lance.
With the jet horse were some of his colts,
two fine three-year old drivers black as
their sire, one from a Hambletonian and
the other from a Reindeer mare. There
were also three equally good five year-olds
from Clydesdale mares The celebrated
| Auctioneer, with number Of his colts,
was shown by Henry Town of Montpelier.
| b. Hennessey of Moretown made a good
! show OF trotters and roadsters, among them
| Wild Irishman by Ward Lambert Nellie
| Harvester, a brood mare with colt,
and one-year- old gelding. Other horses
were a two-year-old stallion, grand
son of Auctioneer, shown by II. II. Chip
man of Waitstield; a fine three-yedr-old
stallion, half Percheron and half Clydes-
day, by w. G. White of Richmond; brood
mares and colts by j. +. Flanagan, +. T..
| Foss of DuXbury and j. j. Nelson, and
| two-year-old hlly by Mcmillan Brothers of
! DuXbury. Among other registered horses
| in the stalls We're Mountain Boy, shown by
DR.. f. G.. Hooker, Waterbury sherwood,
! two-years-old, by l.. Il. Josin, Waitsfeld
| Others not above noticed were Reindeer,
| shown by ID. a. Gray, DuXbury; colts, one
year-old, by Daniel Hopkins, Waterbury
! Center; two-year-Olds and three-year-Olds,
l.. Il. Joslyn; four-years-old, A. j. Darling,
| MddleseX. In drivers and workhOrses, NJ,
| o. Evans of Waterbury showed good horses.
Only two of the races We're trotted, all
subsequent to Wednesday being prevented
by rain. On that day, in the two-year-old
class, DR.. Hooker's stallion won in 500 In
the 2:40 class, Ben Harrison, a promising
tive-year-old, son of Wedgewood and a dam
by Ethan Allen, was entered by l.. ID. Mute
of Marshfield and driven by Henry Town of
Montpelier won in three straight heats;
quickest time, 1851.
Whatever may be said of the merits of
Holstein cattle as a breed, the herd ex-
hibited by II. II. Walling of Northfeld and
headed by the three-years-old bull Lord
| Douglas, was a fine lot of registered stock.
DR.. Walling also showed four grade Hol-
stein heifers, a Jersey hefer registered, and
three other specimens of this favorite stock.
Holsteins were also shown as follows: A
pair of one-year-old grade steers, good
working oxen by L. w. Knapp of Middle
sex; grade bull, weighing 1,lO5 pounds,
and four grade calves, by A. j. Darling of
Middlesex. Jerseys were also shown as fol-
lows: Two thoroughbred cows, and other
stock by f. r. Town of Waterbury; two
grade cows, A. A. Somerville of DuXbury; a
one-year-old thoroughbred bull by Jesse Fos-
ter and three-year-old by w. +. Guptil of
Waterbury. Grades were shown by Allen
Foster and II. E. Haseltine of Waterbury.
A herd of Devons exhibited by Edwin
House OF Waitsfeld was leading feature
OF the cattle show. 1t consisted of two
thoroughbred two twO-ypar-O6
heifers, two pairs of one-year-old registered
Devons, and other young stock, making in
all thirteen head. Durhams and grades were
well represented by the herd Of Florence
Mccarthy of Waitsfield, who also showed
two pairs of heavy three-year-old steers.
A fine thoroughbred Durham bull was ex-
hibited by David Harvey of Waterbury
grade calves by Nathaniel Somerville of
Duxbury and j. E. Sheple of Waterbury;
grade one-year- olds by Thomas Grandfield
of Moretown. Working oxen were ex-
hibited by Daniel Hopkins of Waterbury
Center; a pair of calves, two months old,
weighing $50 pounds, by Charles Carpenter
of Waterbury; pair of three-year-old steers
weighing $500 pounds, by o. F. Watts,
Waterbury; one pair of four-year-old grade
Durhams. weighing 1920 pounds and pair
of four-year-old Devons weighing 1856
pounds by CIV Randall, Waterbury.
SHEEP AND SWINE.
In this department, number of "sheep
voted " and promised well for the wool and
mutton industry of the valley-one that
might perhaps be more largely followed and
represented at the agricultural fairs No
ticeabe exhibits were: Middle woods, j. Il.
Hills, Middlesex, A. b. Shonio, Duxbury,
w f. Guptil; Cotswolds, thoroughbred,
Thomas O'Brien; grade, David Harvey, w.
II. Goodwin ID. c. Green. A few fine pork
ers were exhibited, whose appearance indi-
Gated that they would not much longer be
able tn their bacon II r RnVpp and
w. E. Guptl showed White Chester; sows
and pigs. Jacob Foss, w. f. Guptil.
POULTRY.
The feathers were not so numerous as in
years past, but covered some pretty good
birds. The leading specimens were three
Plymouth Rocks, shown by j. b. Hills of
Middesex Other exhibits were Wyan-
dottes, Golden Pheasants, Blue Spanish
and Plymouth Rocks; and Narragansett
turkeys by f. f. Foss, DuXbury; the Brown
Leghorns, by f. A Cameron, Middlesex
handsome pair of bronze turkeys by
Thomas O'Brien, Duxbury; three fine
ducks, by Birney Griffith, Moretown; two
pairs of field ducks fine specimens, by
Jacob Foss of Duxbury; three pretty doves
by Warren Moody, Waterbury. A live
plump coon formed peculiar annex to the
poultry show.
FLORAL HALL.
In this department the show was literally
were tantalizing objects protected as they
were by glass case. The exhibit of apples
was extensive in variety and contained
. many fine specimens of fruit. o. w. Davis
exhibit of forty-fve varieties made fine
display, prettily overhung with branches
of crabs. Others who had creditable eN-
hibits We're o. w. May, Joseph Anterior,
Peter Bennett and John Parker. Good
samples of butter We're shown by e. Il.
Towne, Waterbury, c. T. Eddy, Waitstield,
Edwin Moody, o. W, May and Mr.. Richards.
, Potatoes were headed by III. f. Smiths eX-
hibit of seventeen varieties, chief among
which was the prize Polaris Fifteen of the
latter mastadon potatoes filed peck meas
ure and weighed fifteen pounds. j. b,
Hills showed fine collection of thirteen
varieties Other exhibitors were j. A,
: Parker, ]. f. Flanagan, Sanford Eddy and
Allen Jewett. A. A. Lewis of DuXbury
had large collection of fine vegetables.
, Il. l.. White and II. Il. Hazeltine were ex-
{ hibitors of mammoth pumpkins. With the
exception of the large, rich-looking cheeses
shown by w. e. Guptil and the specimens
} of butter, before mentioned, dairy products
, were noticeably lacking, when the extent
, to which dairying is carried on in the region