Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-01
National Republican Ticket.
Orleans County Fair.

held on Tuesday and Wednesday
last, followed by the races on Thurs
day and Friday. The weather open
ed on Tuesday most auspiciously
with prospects of pleasant week,
but this rainy year has no full week
to give to sunshine, and the rain
was falling on Wednesday morning
and continued to fall almost during
the entire day. 1t was showery
Thursday, somewhat interfering with
the races. The rain and the condi-
ton of the roads cut down the at
tendance greatly, diminished the re-
ceipts, made it impossible to conform
to the programme of exercises and
made Wednesday at least, day of
discomfort, instead of pleasure. Not
withstanding,all there was a fair at
tendance each day, and the business
was pushed forward by the managers
to the satisfaction of those present.
Owing to the rain and the almost
complete breaking up of arrange
ments on Wednesday, we found it
very difficult to get facts or to make
a full and satisfactory report.
HORSES.
Orleans county has an excellent
reputation for the character of her
horses, and the show of horses at
this fair during the last ten years
has been the greatest attraction.
During the last few years the effort
on the part of horse men and breed
ers has been such that they have not
only put into the county some very
excellent animals, but they have
stimulated on the part of the farm
ers and others a desire to improve
horse stock, and to show it. The
establishment of the noted studs of
horses at Derby and at E. Hard
wick, and the effort of Burbank &
Williams, the Hunts and others in
the northwestern part of the county,
and the effort of others to procure
fine bred animals, have tended to
greatly improve the stock in this
section.
There were without doubt from
$50 to 16O entries of horses and
colts. Among the more noted stall
lions we mention the high bred ami
mails owned by Burbank & Williams,
"Charley Ray" the Kimball Bros
"Cyclone - the Mossman & Mathie
horse, Gotta Queeche - the Owen &
Grout horse, 'Henry s.; the w.
r, Rosebrook Morgan horse. In
the line of stock ''for common pur-
poses,' mention might be made of
the Wells, the Reynolds, the Lath-
rop, the Parker, the Kendall, and
some other horses. The Percheron
and heavy horses included the noted
animals owned by S. ID. Hobson &
Sons, the A. ]. Lang horse, the
Mossman horse, and the w. B.
Story horse. There were eighteen
entries of stations four years old
and over. The three-year-old list
was smaller, but was worthy of
praise. Among these we mention
the Rex Patchen colt owned by Jerry
Drew, the Luther G.. Dow colt, a
very fine Morgan Abdellah, owned
by E. HI. Lathrop, the d. E. Han
cock animal, the Knight colt, and
the Boden colt. Among the Perch
erons of this age, Geo. F. Davis had
a colt from the Maj. Grout horse
which was very fine and weighed 1854
pounds. d. Z. Hancock, Irwin Lack
ey, O. Marsh and Z. HI. Cloud were
exhibitors of fine animals. The
two-year-old stations numbered ten
or a dozen, and they were good ones.
In the line of blood for carriage
horses, we noticed the Mossman, the
w. B. Anderson, the Hamilton, the
Knight, the Shepard, the Spencer
and the Burt Blake colts the Perch
erons were quite numerous in this
age and the VIM. Baird, the Hobsor
and the Story colts were perhaps the
best. The show ring was nearly
full of ''mares and their stock" anc
it was a difficult task to decide OF
the relative merits; there were p
entries in this line, and nearly q
sucking colts were entered for pre-
miums. There were IL entries O
yearling colts and they were yer,
extra lot. Among some of thes'
we mention the S. E. King, d. D
Bean, Salmon Nye Burbank & Will
liams, Baxter & Grow, and L. d
Adams colts. In three-year-old
there were nearly as many entries
most of them frst-class animals
There were II entries of carriag
horses, among which we mention til
f. j. Tinker, w. K. Annis, Burban
& Williams, G. n. Hlbbard, r. E
Skinner and J. d. Kendall, as anon
the best. The matched drivers il
cluded horses down to two years {
age and there were seven pair. Jerr
Drew, Z. j. Tinker, S. d. Ho0so
& Sons, I. III. Darling, John Ur
and F. w. CalderWood exhibite
good spans. j. B. Freeman, w. 4
Merriam, w. r. Rosebrooks, an
Valley Bros. showed good pairs {
work horses Jos. Paquet put in
draft horse. There was considerab
trotting in county purses which shoy
ed the stations and the colts owne
an the county to be speedy. III
record OF these trots will be four
amono tho Eacor1c undar tho hoo