Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-09-23
The County Fair.

we have been compelled to do for
several years, with an apology for the
weather. 1t is becoming almost pro-
verbal that whatever other thing
there may be the Barton fair will be
set to strike rain storm. Whether
providential or accidental the effect is
the same, and the inconvenience, disa-
greeableness and loss occasioned by
the rain are such as to greatly injure
the fair. This year, after a long
drought, the rains began to fall the
night before the fair and it rained
almost uninterruptedly till the three
DAYS ended. Despite the unfavOra
BILE prospects those who had stock and
articles for exhibition came out in
good numbers and made an exhibition
that under favorable auspices might
be considered fairly good. In some
departments the show was creditable,
and in none a failure. Owing to the
fact that everything was crowded into
the rain and most of it into a few
hours on Wednesday, we are unable
to give a very full newspaper account
of it. We make a special mention of
only few things, such as we saw.
HORSES.
The one part of the exhibition most
worthy was the show of horses, which
was large and very creditable. The
interest taken during the last few
years in thoroughbred and fine blood
ed horses has improved the character
of horse stock much and there are at
present many animals of great merit.
In stations there were many of the
noted horses of the county. We no.
ticed among the number the Knowl-
ton horse, the Bean, the Burbank &
Williams, the Kimball and others
among those entered as roadsters, all
noted, and among horses for general
purpose, the Mossman "Coach Boy"
the fine Hobson horse, the Boden, the
Oliver, and others. Among the large
number of two and three year olds we
mention the Hartman colt, the An
derson, the France and the Bean colts.
ID. B. Cushman of Burke showed a
Percheron-Morgan, two years old,
which weighed 1910 pounds-a fine
animal. We might add the names of
the Grout & Owen, the B. B. Blake,
the John Mathie, the G. A. Doody,
the 0. A. Grow, the O.. A. Ware,
the S. E. King stations in the list of
worthy animals.
In brood mares and colts there
were large number. OF mares we
mention the Kittridge mare, the L.
S. Nye, the Jerry Drew, the Nelson
Lyman, the II. I'll. Leland, the E. F.
Hinkley and Andrew Wright's. Sew
eral of these and others had some
fine colts of different ages to show
the character of their stock. Among
the many fine sucking colts it was
not an easy matter to determine the
best. Mr.. Nye, Mr.. Drew, Mr.. Jen-
ness, Mr.. Danforth and many others
showed large and fne-bred colts.
The colts, yearlings and two year
olds, were rather too many for us to
''catch on very fully. OF those en-
tered as roadsters we mention the
two fine colts entered by L. S. Nye,
the Burbank & Williams, the D. D.
Bean, the Hagar, the Dexter, the
James Dwyer, the G. B. Leland, the
NJ. p. Jenness, the f. F. Hinkley
colts. J. B. Freeman showed an ex-
cellent pair of work horses.
OF carriage horses there were about
twenty-five entries and it would not
be possible for US to pass wisely on
their merits. In matched horses there
were several fine spans, including the
Lovetell, the Crane, the Geo. Whit
together the horse show was very
satisfactory. Many of the best road
sters were entered in some of the
races and are not mentioned here.
CATTLE.
The show of oxen was very good.
Barton, on account of the ease of
driving oxen in, had much the larger
number of oxen. A string of five
yokes was made up of pairs belong
ing to Messrs. Hawkins, Virgins,
Nelson, Williamson, and John and G.
B. Leland. All these are nice pairs.
Mr. Hawkins twin pair of Dutch cat
tie are fine and others were among
the best shown for some years. Z.
F. Hinkley of Glover and Salmon
Dodge of Irasburgh each showed
very large and thrifty pair of oxen
that were among the very best. A.
A. Williams showed two pair of pref
ty steers and there were a few pairs
beside.
The number of animals of the diff
ferent breeds of cattle, except IN Jer-
seys, was small. The Jerseys were
out in good numbers. Dr. R. B.
Skinner took the lead, showing sever
al of his registered cows, bulls, etc.
His stock is good. When he buys he
gets the best and all that good feed
and good care can do is done to de-
velop and keep up his COWS. His
butter yield is very large. The DR..
entered thirteen animals. j. Z. Cook,
who has had from time to time some
of the Skinner stock, has good herd
Of Jerseys and grade Jerseys which
show well and have an excellent rec