St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-09-20

bull, yearling heifer and a number OF
calves w. B. johnson, two good
COWS, a two year old heifer and year
ling bull S. J. Hastings, four head
Lawrence & WinslOw, good yearling
heifer; A. d. Forsaith, D. j. Moore
and A. D. Paige, cows and heifers /; O
Cushman, a yearling bull; William
Clement, three fine cows and the same
number of heifers iona. Adams, 6
grade COW; James Gilfillan, yearling
bull and the Dow Brothers, three
year old bull and couple of heifel
calves.
The Big Oxen and Big Steers.
Sherburn Moore's big oxen were "at
home" in the same cosy tent as last
year. st. Johnsbury has come to fee
sort of personal regard for these old
heroes, who come back each year lit
tie bigger and little handsome.r Mr.
Moore says they now tip the scales al
748O pounds, having gained during the
year 480 pounds, measuring nine feet
ii inches in girth, just an inch more
than one year ago. They are thriving
on four quarts of meal day and what
hay they want to eat and are appar-
emily good for many more county fairs.
The big oxen have competitors this
year in pair of two year old steers
that are exhibited in a neighboring
tent by the Dow brothers of Barnet
These two year olds weigh $3.50 pounds
and girth seven feet and four inches,
there being only difference of Is
pounds in weight between them. Just
what they will come to remains to be
seen. Already they far surpass any
thing in the steer line ever seen in
these parts. They weighed 1900 one
year ago.
| The CavaIcade.
The exhibition of town strings, ETC.,
that is always such feature of the
Caledonia fairs, was somewhat inter-
fered with by the bad weather that
prevailed on Tuesday, but the cattle
were brought out in the afternoon and
made a creditable showing. L. D.
Hazen had three strings, "a yoke, not
quite as many as year ago but still a
fine exhibition. The heaviest string
weighed respectively, 417O, 4480, AGO,
4430, 1850, 1900, 1900, 1900; average
4311. The next eight yoke weighed
418O, 4l2O, 1915, 1896, 4O3O, 1850, 1000,
5000 average 4016. The third string {:
$3.50, 1910, 1890, 36lO, 374O, 1890, $500,
1880; average 1896. Average weight
of the "a yoke, 4051. Aggregate weight
of the "a yoke, 97,224. The st. Johns
bury string contained seven yoke of
the Fairbanks oxen and one owned by
j. G. Hovey. The weights: $3.50,
$3.50, 34OO, $3.50, 1920, 1000, $3.50, and
Judge Hovey's $3.50. Average, 1912.
The Waterford string, owners and
weights, were as follows: F. w.
Brown, $3.50, S. B. Horr, 34OO,
L. B. Church, 1900, R. w. Remick,
5000, E. w. & B. d. Brown. 34OO,
E. A. Parks, 5000, A. B. Carpenter,
400, w C Hill, $500. The Barnet
string of two years old steers owned
by j. D. Gould weighed 24OO, 5000,
1920, 1850, 1850, respectively.
Sheep.
The good show of sheep at this fair
would seem to indicate that the Mills
bill hasn't cleaned out all the sheep
yet.
L. B. Harris's flock of Shropshires
naturally attracts the most attention
These sheep have been the most sue
cessful of any thing at the fairs this
fall where they have met with the
strongest competition. The imported
buck Felix with four of his buck lambs
and three of his eve lambs are in one
pen and three handsome imported two
year old ewes in another, with three
wethers that took Burlington premiums
for fat sheep. Mr.. Harris shows 18 in
in all.
S. j. Hastings of Passumpsic shows
the only other lot of Shropshires that
we noticed on the grounds, three
years old buck, pen breeding ewes,
yearling ewes and an eve lamb, all first
class stock.
William Higgins of St. Johnsbury
leads the procession in ColtswOlds with
a round dozen, one buck, yearling
buck, buck lamb, three ewes, yearling
ewes and eve lambs; fine lot of sheep.
In fine woods William Russelow of
North Danville makes the only show
ing, a couple bucks and three breeding
ewes, noteworthy as specimens of their
kind but not specially attractive for
the kind.
In grades j. D. Gould of Passumpsic
has the largest exhibit, ii in number,
including yearling buck, buck lamb,
ewes and eve lambs. VIM. Russelow
shows a yearling buck and M. L. Hovey
of Kirby fine flock of IL. S. j. Hast
ings, Lawrence & Winslow and T. E.
Bray are among the other exhibitors
in this department.
1. H. Hall makes the only exhibit of
Southdowns and gathers in all the
premiums in this class. He shows a
flock of 19 fine sheep and lambs.
Swine.
The exhibit of swine is about the
same as usual. l.. A. Darling has six
entries, White Chester boars and pigs,
and @. A. Harris five entries of the
same breed. w. L. SWEET shows two
Berkshire pigs, and there are other ex-