St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-09-12
CALEDONIA FAIR.
A GREAT SHOW OF HORSES.
Blooded Stock Kept at Home.
Elegant Weather Great Crowds.
FINANCIAL SUCCESS.

The 42d annual fair of the Caledo-
mia agricultural society and Fair
ground company opened Tuesday
and closes this afternoon. The
weather has been perfect and the at
tendance on the second day the larg
est in the history of the society. The
exhibits, races and premium list to-
gether with the other attractions are
fully described below
Small Display of Cattle.
Those who came to see a cattle
show must have been disappointed
as the exhibit of cattle has not been
as small for many years. The breed
ers of Lyndon and Burke, whose
stock goes all over the United States,
found that they could not afford to
exhibit their stock since the premium
list had been scaled down and SO the
display of cattle was unusually
small. Among those who were miss
ed were the handsome herds of Jer-
seys and Devons of L. A Darling,
East Burke, the beautiful Herefords
and Polled Angus of L. B. Harris,
w. l. Powers and T. N. Vail of Lyn-
don Centre, the ShOrthorns of A. T.
Evans, the Durhams of A. 0. & J.
Bemis, the Jerseys of Ingalls, Brots.,
the Holsteins of John Coucher, the
Polled Angus of l. H. Hall, all of
Lyndon; the exhibit of cattle by A
o. Harris and the Jerseys owned by
A. c. Farmer of East Burke. In this
list were many of the prize winners
of previous fairs not only in this
county but in New England.
In the exhibit of Jerseys T. g. Bron-
son of East Hardwick leads with IA
entries. His herd is headed by the
bull, Winfred H, II AS, which has a
fine record in breeding on both sides
His best heifer is a three-year-old
whose capacity for making butter
when a two-year-old was 1852 pounds
a year His bull calf and the year
lings are also very handsome. This
stock is all Of fine breeding and Mr..
Bronson finds ready market for it,
hardly a year passing when a car
load is not sent West. Asa S. Liv-
ingston enters 9 from the Fairbanks
herd of Jerseys, headed by the old
bull, Randolph Rex. In this herd are
two-year-old heifers, all in first
class condition. S. ]. Hastings, Wa
terford, also has entries of Jerseys,
a handsome COW, a yearling and a
two-year-old heifer.
E. H. Clark of Cabot bears away
the palm another year for Holsteins
and exhibits full herd of head, in
Guiding bull calf dropped in June,
that weighs $50 pounds. These
Holsteins were all by themselves and
attracted much attention. There
were several exhibits of grade Hol-
stems. ]. R. Galbraith showed 5
head and thoroughbred bull, Con
querer, $500, and Alfred Morse of
Barnet had a grade calf. Cook &
Wiley, st. Johnsbury, had pair of
twin steers, grade Holsteins, that
were only 2 months old and were
perfectly ma tched.
Two Herefords, or white faces"
were shown by Willis Russell, ST.
.Johnsbury, including a handsome
registered COW and heifer. S. J.
Hastings exhibited a Polled Angus
bull and 3 heifers while the best ex-
hibit of Devons was by c. L. Stevens
of North Danville.
There was a large exhibit of grade
cattle, including the following: Hol-
stein bull, w. L. SWEET; COW, r. B.
Flint; COW and bull, Thomas E.
Bray, Danville; Ed Fulford, Barnet,
bull; H. Underwood & Son, ST. J.,
heifer calf; S. ]. Hastings, heifers;
E. H. Hallett, st. J., heifer; c. H.
Cushman showed a heifer and COW,
and the latter has good butter rec
ord.
Oxen and Steers.
There were no town strings this
year and the rivalry between the
towns is an incident of the past
Representative L. D. Hazen bore off
the palm in yOkes of oxen, showing
% yoke from his Concord mills. The
two heaviest pairs weighed 1900 and
the average weight of the whole
string per pair was 1865 pounds.
Mr.. Hazen carried away most of the
premiums for strings and all the pre-
miums for fat, draft and work oxen.
E. & 7. Fairbanks & Co. entered five
yoke of oxen for the strings, John
Mason, Waterford, one pair; E. P.
Allen, one pair; ]. D. Gould, one pair;
E. A. Parks one pair. L. B. Horr
showed a fine pair of four-year-olds,
and the Dow Brothers easily took
first premium on their fat three-year-
old steers. Among the exhibits in
this department we noticed these:
Three pairs steers, Curtis S. Has
tings, Waterford; yearling grade
steers, Sol. Chamberlain, Ryegate;
yearlings, c. c. Harvey; three-year-
olds, George Gould; same, A. c. Will
liams; yearlings, ]. D. Gould; steers,
yoke fve-year-olds, Willard Kin