The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-14
THE hartford FAIR.

The nineteenth annual fair of the
Hartford County Agricultural Society
began at the fair grounds, Bel Air, on
Tuesday. The weather was all that
could be desired. The sky was bright
and the air was ballny. The first day
was occupied chiefly in arranging the
various articles for an effective display
and consequently there were compare
lively few paying visitors on the
grounds.
The display of horses was admirable
and gave evidence of the greater at
tention given by Hartford farmers to
breeding good horses. The cattle, too,
showed the effects of careful breeding,
aud where there were SO many fine
animals of popular breeds it would be
difficult to discriminate between them.
The display of sheep and hogs was
small but embraced some good speci-
mems. There are also some nice fat
cattle and sturdy oxen on the grounds.
There never has been so fine an as
sortment of farm products and garden
vegetables at the fair. The dis
play by the Fallston Farmers Club
was especially noticeable for it's com
prehensiveness and variety. Indeed,
no Hartford farmer would have had
cause to blush for the showing his
county made of her material resources
and the skill and enterprise of her
farmers.
The household department was not
up to the average in the number of
articles shown, but the golden butter,
the beautiful bread, the tempting pies,
cakes, &C., attested the skill of Har-
ford's famous housewives, no less than
the specimens of their needlework and
their taste in making fancy articles.
The machinery department was also
lacking in variety, but the maoufac-
turers of carriages showed handsome
specimens of the carriage makers art,
both of home and foreign construc-
ton.
In the class of thorough bred horses
w. F. and G.. A. Hays exhibited their
stallion Herald, and won a first pre-
MUM, the second premium being
awarded to R. NJ. Towards North
Wind. j. s. Richardson also received
a first premium for his mare, and
Grant Stockham won several pre-
miums in this class.
For standardized trotters J. H. C.
Watts, John X. Cowen and Grant
Stockham won premiums. J. r. Car
yer also showed two-year-old. Mr..
Cowen also received a premium for his
registered heavy-draft stallion Docile,
and P. j. Shannahan first for his i'm
ported Clydesdale stallion.
In the general utility class Robert
G. Richardson won first premium
for Almont Chief, Jr., and w. J. Hop
kins Sc cond ON Evergreen. Other ex-
hibitors in this class were John G..
Norris, James McCurdy, w. Ayres,
Grant Stockham, w. E. Hanway, s.
Phillips, r. G. Cronin, J. H. Howard,
G. E. Scarf, j. B. Harkins and C. E.
Biles. G. B. Osborn got LIST premium
for his mare and /. G.. Waterman I'd.
For mare and foal, in this class,
Robert G. Richardson won the LIST and
J. G. Dawson I'd premium.
Spans of horses were shown by G..
B. Osba4p, Oliver A. Bay, R. c. Cron-
in, J. o. Dawson, w. s. Hanna and J.
r. Sitter The latter was awarded
premium.
In the three-year old class Lewis
Carlyle received list and j. P. Mitchell
I'd premium. Other exhibitors were
T. Winfield Scarf and F. B. Haviland.
Oliver A. Ramsay, list for two-year
old colt and J. p. Mitchell Cd.
R. w. Holland, Jr., was awarded a
LIST premium for a pair of heavy draft
horses w. H. Smithson, list for a
yearling colt and John w. Preston I'd.
Frank johnson and Cormick Bros.
were also among the exhibitors in this
class.
Mule teams were shown by w. H.
Tucker and w. F. and g. A. Hays.
s. M. Shoemaker, of Baltimore
county, exhibited his imported hack
ney stations, receiving 1st and I'd pre-