Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-10-05

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driven by F. B. Hammond; pair OF
beautiful Morgan Hambletonians, full
sisters, 5 and years old, owned by
Milo Hines; R. A. Wilson of Westfield
drove good pair Of sorrels from SUIT
ton, P. O.. David Wiley had pair of
good ones; G. P. Fisher sported with
a sprv pair of Cyclone colts, and w.
! w. Foster exhibited likely pair of
stylish colts.
There were ten or dozen entries of
single carriage horses, nearly all Of
which might be praised. We could
not assort them all out. Bill Carpen-
ter drove a mare owned by Valley
Bros, which for speed and range was
among the best; Joseph Davidson
came down from East Hatley with a
speedy Morgan, which outfooted the
crowd; Carl Farley made the dust fly
and crowded Davidson sharp with his
big roadster; a. Paddock drove one
of the prettiest horses in the lot; L..
w. Orcutt of Burke had q Morgan
that he may well be pros47F0f A. M.
OImstead, w. H. Kelley and w. w.
Foster each showed good animals. We
mention here a very fine four year old
owned by Thomas Gebbie.
Mention should be made of the fine
Percheron stations owned by the Hob
sons of E. Brighton. They have been
an attraction of this fair for several
years.
A big crowd gathered to witness the
test of the draft horses. Flavius La
Pete first hitched to a load of stone on
a drag that weighed, by estimate, s.,
900 pounds; he managed after a little
to pull the load. Lisom Rock then
hitched to it and drew it several feet
on the first trial.
CATTLE.
Years ago they used to have in this
county what was called a "cattle
show" At the present time the name
might be changed to that of a horse
show, as the horse gets the credit chief
ly. This year there was a very credit
able show of oxen, though but few
pairs were seen. Among these we
note a good pair of workers shown by
B. M. R R.NelsOn, a very fine pair shown
by F. D. Williamson, a large pair by
Joseph Drew; fancy pair of four
year-olds by F. Bean, good pairs own
ed by the Hawkins, G. B. Leland, NJ.
J. CorIey. The steers we did not see.
Dairy stock was well represented in
Jerseys, with a fine, meritorious Hol-
stems and grade cattle. Among the
J. E. Cook, David Baker, Geo. D. Bick-
ford, Henry Cook and J. P. Ellis, each
of whom had some fine stock. E. w.
Barron showed a very fine bull from
the DR.. Skinner herd; VIM. KeltOn
showed a very fine heifer and good
COW, D. j. Orne, T. B. Piper, S. Nc
Dowell had grades in this line. In
Holsteins we noticed a very large bull
from A. w. Estey, also a good animal
and a large heifer shown by John ST.
non. There were several grade ami
mails of the breed. G.. HI. Joslyn ex
hibited a large and meritorious Dur
han bull, and Albert Wells two-year-
old bull from the Joslyn herd, either
of which would be hard to beat. F.
D. Williamson and Carl Leland and
others were represented with good
grade animals.
SHEEP.
This department was a credit to the
county. Among those making the
larger exhibits were Phillips Bros, H
M. Salmon, J. K. Thorp in Cotswolds
and Cotswold grades. The Phillips
and Salmon sheep are among the best
in the state of that breed. Mr.. Thorp's
were excellent grades. In Leicester
grades B. NJ. r. Nelson had large
number of worthy animals; S. R.
Lathe showed fine stock of this kind
of Esheep as we'll as in Shropshires;
L. M. Darling exhibited a large south
dan buck, lambs and ewes. E. F.
Hinckley showed a fine merino buck
with grade animals worthy of men
ton. VIII Rowell exhibited about
forty A 1 Shopshires, several of them
from the L. B. Harris registered stock,
with lot of large grades of this breed;
John Teller made fine showing with
this breed. Mr.. Thorp and c. B. Le-
land had lots of grade Shropshires.
SWINE.
The exhibit was rather meagre. Mr..
Williamson, Geo. L. Norton and G. S.
Phillips carrying off all the prizes and
all the hOnorS in this line.
POULTRY.
Show not large, but good. II. P. Le-
land was a large exhibitor and showed
twelve coops of chickens ranging all
the way from the smallest bantam to
the largest sorts grown. He had some
very pretty and fine Pekin ducks and
big pair of Scotch rabbits. J. N.
Bates showed some very pretty Wy
andottes. Warren Casewel showed
some good geese; Mitchell Leonard
had large pair of ducks; @. A. Kel-
ton exhibited Zebra cat with a litter
of kittens which attracted much at
tention. Mrs. Harvey Lewis showed
A. Belknap also had some good chicks
J. II. Bates showed eight coops of
pretty biddies, Wyandottes, Leghorns,
games, etc. Almon Gray had some
good Leghorns. This department of
the fair ought to be made of more i'm
portance and have larger appropri-
alton made for it.
BUTTER, CHEESE AND SUGAR.
The butter exhibit was very large
not less than twenty exhibitors. We
have no means of Judging as to the
merits and cannot partiularize The
butter was from w. w. Persons
creamery and from several of the best
butter makers in this section, and the
judges had no easy task to decide on
the relative merits Of cheese there
were good specimens from Geo. A.
Dane, Warren Caswell, Geo. L. Nor
ton and from Irasburgh creamery.
The maple sugar embraced several
tubs, both hard and stirred, with sew
eral cans of almost water white hon
ey. Among the exhibitors were G. III.