St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-09-18
The COUNTY FAIR.
Largest Exhibit of Cattle, Horses,
Sheep, Poultry and Vegetables.
An Abundance of Rain and Thousands
of People.

An Abundance of Rain and Thousands
| of People.
If it had not poured Wednesday
the Add annual fair of the Caledonia
county agricultural society would
have had the largest attendance in
the history of the organization. The
rain prevented the balloon ascension
Wednesday but could not keep away
the crowd. A detailed list of the en-
tries and the premium list, which is
complete except few horses, is given
! below:
The days of the town strings are
past and it is an undeniable fact that
our county farmers are not raising
SO many oxen as in years gone by.
| But L. d. Hazen takes the lead again
in fat oxen exhibiting &c head of as
The 10 heaviest pair average 1900
pounds and the 20 heaviest 1900.
The heaviest yoke weighs 1900, the
next 100 pounds less while there are
two yoke that tip the beam at 1920
pounds. Only six yoke weigh less
than $500 T. N. Vail of Lyndon
Centre has two fine yoke of oxen.
Other exhibitors of oxen are w. w.
Sanborn, H. L. Aver, H. N. Roberts,
E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. 8 yoke; A.
A. Miles and E. P. Allen, 2 yoke;
Hazen Hyde, Barnet; L. B. Church,
Willard Kinney, John Sanborn, John
Mason, all of Waterford; r. F. Mich
OILS, ST. j. Centre. E. E. Sprague,
North Danville, E. NJ Tilden, William
Higgins, J. D. Gould exhibit steers.
HoIsteins.
Next to l.. d. Hazen, the largest
exhibitor of ca tile on the ground is
H. W. Keyes of Pine Grove Farm,
Newbury, who brought up from the
state fair 81 head from his fine herd
of 125 Holsteins. A calf born on the
fair ground Monday makes the num-
Der now on exhibition %. At the
head of the herd is the 4-year-old
bull, Rocker of Pine Grove, de-
scendant of Rocker, who sired Aagie,
the most noted Holland cow in Amer
lea. Rocker of Pine Grove weighs
about 1000 pounds, is clean-limbed
and long bodied, with good head and
horns There is more black than
white in his coloring. A two-year-
old imported bull in this herd is
Patron of Pine Grove. He is an in
bred Arts, the best bull in Holland,
and a great prize winner. Patron
shows a noteworthy escutcheon and
fine yellow skin. Next is promising
yearling bull, Prince Netherland V.
Comely, an 11-year-old, with a rec
ord of S12 pounds of milk a day,
heads a string of six COWS in milk.
Comely is well-known prize winner,
notably in the Bay State fair in Bos
ton, where she took first premium.
Tryntje of Pine Grove is an imported
5-year-old and was prize winner in
Holland. Porcelain of Pine Grove is
a handsome cow and a rich mixer,
though not so large mixer as some
of her companions. Other COWS in
the herd are Silhouette, three times a
prize winner at Vermont state fairs,
Aagie Camelia VII. and Maartje
Pine Grove. There are two 2-year-
old heifers, four yearling heifers and
six heifer calves
N. Vail exhibits a fine COW with
calf and John Coucher, also from
Lyndon, shows the nine head that
were exhibited at the state fair. In
this is a large two-year-old bull
weighing over 1000 pounds, bull
calf, yearling heifer, three COWS and
three heifers. They are fine lot.
A fair without some of the choice
Holsteins from the herd of E. H.
Clark of Cabot would be incomplete
Mr.. Clark had about a dozen head
and many of them were prize Win
ners. ]. R. Galbraith Of Barnet en-
tered "Conqueror," $500. bred by
H. w. Keyes and B. K. Graves of
Waterford showed a big Holstein
bull H. B. Wards Holstein bull
took second premium.
Jerseys.
There is more competition in .Jer-
seys this year than usual and the
premiums were scattered all over the
county. T. G. Bronson of East
Hardwick led in numbers in this class
and showed 10 head of as fine cattle
as one often sees. Winifred, 7,415,
led the string and is finely bred bull.
His vearling bull, Mercedes Rioter,
bull calves took first and second pre-
miums. His exhibit also contained
some handsome COWS, heiters and
calves.
E. & 7. Fairbanks had their usual
exhibit from their choice herd and
took good share of the premiums.
Their bull took first premium over
all competitors. In their exhibit
were two COWS, two heifers and some
handsome calves
The honor fell to Master Joseph
Fairbanks to receive the first pre-
MUM for the best Jersey cow over
all the exhibits from the fancy stock