Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-10-06

of his animals made a good show at
this fair. In grades and natives /.
B. Piper, W. H. Kelton, w. t. Wig
gins, B. M. r. Nelson, E. r. Cook,
L. j. Leland and Geo. B. Case each
exhibited creditable animals. F. D.
Williamson showed some heifers of
the Ayershire build; w. III. Kelton
showed the best grade Jersey heifer
we have seen; w. j. Mcdowell
showed a very large bull calf; John
Thorp had big grade Jersey; N.
M. Scott showed his family cow-a
noted mixer.
The sheep pens were pretty well
filed. Phillips Bros. showed twelve
of their Cotswolds, several of which
won prizes at the state fair, and are,
perhaps, as good as any in the state.
One Of the number sheared 13 lbs,
or, and the flock averaged IL lbs.
10 or. at the last shearing. Henry
Salmon has been successful in rails
ing this breed of sheep and is a close
competitor with Phillips Bros. He
showed 10 animals; w. w. -Rowell
exhibited over thirty Shropshire
downs-ffteen full blood-and he
made fine showing. His sheep
were a credit to the fair. S. R.Lathe
showed good grade sheep of this
breed. Frank Hall showed a fine
Leicester buck which weighed 255
pounds; John Thorp q Shropshire
down buck that weighed 210. B. M.
R. Nelson had several pens of fine
sheep of different breeds. L. A.
Darling still keeps up his old breed
of Southdowns- good sheep. E.
F. Hinckley has several fine sheep;
c.. B. Leland had also an exhibition
of grade sheep.
P. S. Hitchcock and j. B. Free
man showed sows and pigs, and G.
S. Phillips registered boar. What
on earth does "Chet" want of that
fellow?
POULTRY.
Homer Leland, who has been get
| +;ncr into +I,o I,,ci,,occ Of 10 iCinn fovvlc
carried off the palm in poultry. He
showed ten or dozen coops, which
contained fifteen varieties Of hens,
ranging from a bantam to q Brahma,
a game fowl to Langshan. Mr..
Leland showed some Scotch rabbits,
and Geo. Reed a dog and puppies.
S. r. Lathe showed some ducks.
Warren Caswell some very large
geese and ducks. There were other
exhibitors. The poultry part of the
fair might be made of much interest
if a good house was made for it and
the premiums were made large
enough to bring out the fowls.
FRUIT.
The showing of apples was large
in variety and quantity. W. D. Ty-
Ter of Irasburgh, who is well posted
on fruit topics and takes pleasure in
growing fruit, led off with "a differ
ent varieties of apples; F. P. Cheney
had II varieties. E. T. Hinckley,
E. A. Norton, Mrs. j. Cameron, Mr..
Flanders, L. S. Alden and others
helped fill the tables with this fruit.
There were a few Orleans county
grapes-the season is little short up
this way for grapes.
VEGETABLES.
H. E. Lyon of Westmore, who is
making quite a speciality Of garden
vegetables, made the largest single
exhibit, which included several varie-
ties of "truck.' Potatoes were in
abundance and rarely ever better.
J. P. Teller, B. F. Emerson, L. M
Darling, Elisha Foster, M. J. Owen
and others had fine potatoes. O. V.
Percival made a good exhibit of
beans; J. G. Oliver of pease Carl
Farley of turnips, pumpkins, etc.
Mrs. j. G.. Cameron showed large
squashes. This department deserves
more room and generous premiums.
BUTTER, CHEESE AND SUGAR.
The amount of butter was not
large but the exhibitors were among
the best dairymen of the county.
Mr.. Aldrich of the Meadow Brook
creamery, Glover, showed tub of
very fine factory butter there was
also. a tub from the Craftsbury
creamery of like character. J. c.
Oliver showed tub and box butter of
his usual standard. Frank Lemos
of Irasburgh showed very fine spec.
linen of trunk butter. Judge Oliver
Mr.. Hinckley, Warren Caswell ant
: R. A. Gray exhibited cheese. all o.
which appeared to be good.
There were several very fine tub
of sugar, both stirred and tub. Ii
maple honey, w. W. Foster tool
the lead; J. W. Howard was th
only exhlbiter of bees honey. Thi
department was fairly we'll filed ant
t was very creditable.
+ MECHANICAL WARES, ETC.
D The exhibit of mechanical ware
: was rather light, though there wer
e several gentlemen present who wer
!; acting in the interest of manufactur
/, ers of various machines. J. w
/ Murkland showed one or two of hi
: sugar arches, and the Murklan
+; plow. His arches are simple and cas-
F; lily set up and run. A large numbe
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