Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-10

In the line of draft horses and Perch
erons D. P. Gushing of Burke show
ed a beautiful black horse, Champion,
1000 pounds, that has taken premi-
ums wherever shown; Henry IL. Le-
land exhibited his big gray Command
er, horse of fine figure and good ac-
ton; A. N. Page also showed good
horse in this line; Coach Boy, now
owned by Henry Flint of Troy, always
attracts attention and is the sire of a
large number of good colts.
We shall not undertake to report in
detail on other horses and colts. In
registered stations there were, besides
some mentioned above, five entries of
three year olds, seven two year old,
and four yearlings. There were
about twenty fillies, twelve mares
with their stock, and large number
of sucking colts seeking premiums.
The show of carriage horses was quite
large In pairs some SIX or eight and
among the single a dozen or more.
The show taken together was fine and
satisfactory. 1t was unfortunate that
the cavalcade had to be given up, as
seen to be understood and appreciat-
ed. The effort of the horse breeders
of the county is showing itself in the
character of the stock. We missed
this time the Burbank & Williams
stock and the Highland Stock Farm
animals, which would have been a
very valuable addition.
CATTLE.
The number of cattle shown was
much too small, some extra effort
ought to be made to bring out the cat
tie of the county. A few good yokes
of oxen were seen. w. G. Hawkins,
whose eye measurers up an OK with
utmost precision, had a very fine pair
of cattle Sam Nelson, Geo. n. Jen-
ness, A. J. Leland, @. B. Leland and
and H. B. Gray showed oxen and
took away the premium money. The
Lelands put in quite a large number of
cattle of various kinds and ages. Mr..
Hunter of Lyndon, who took up the
trained steers won a premium on each
pair. Q. NJ Rowell of So. Albany had
large pair of bulls which he uses as
oxen. G. B. Leland showed a pair of
calves that weighed 1900 pounds and
were finely matched. John France
exhibited a Holstein calf s months
old that weighed $50 pounds. E. w.
Barron showed his registered Aver
shire bull, purchased Of L. S. Drew of
grades we mention the stock of r. B..
Skinner all registered and of good
milk pail record. He showed COWS, a
fine bull, heifers and calves. j. S.
Cook, who is building up fine herd
of Jerseys, had eight animals. G. S.
Jerome, Geo. D. Bickford, D. j. Orne,
Glib Cass and some others exhibited
thoroughbred stock of this order. O..
F. Cutler had several fine COWS. r.
S. Twombly also showed two cows and
ing qualities. Geo. w. Clark had a
fine Holstein animal. E. r. Clark ex
hibited some excellent devon stock.
Anderson Bros. had grade Durham
bull. Wallace Jerome showed a good
pair of trained Holstein calves. John
Teller showed nice Ayershire heif
er.
SHEEP.
We do not remember to have seen
better show Of sheep in some years.
animals were Rowell s. Thorp of E.
Albany in Shropshiredowns. These
gentlemen bought some fine animals
of L. B. Harris year or two since and
recently bought a magnificent buck,
weighing 248 pounds, and carrying an
enormous fleece. This animal was the
! best shown at the State fair and came
| from the Corcoran herd in Canada. The
price paid was probably more than
was ever paid for buck in this conn
| ty. Beside the buck the parties had
several pens of the downs, both reg
stored and grade. In Cotswolds, Phil
lips Bros, of Glover carried off the
palm by long odds. They have, as
premium records show, some of the
best animals in New England Their
flock was headed by their splendid
imported buck with several pens of
lambs and sheep. L. B. Harris of
Lyndon showed two pens of register
ed Merinos, recently bought in Wor-
cester, Mass, and they are among the
very best.
3. NJ. r. Nelson and S. B. Nelson
showed several pens of fine grade ami
mails. Carl Leland, a. F. Hinkley,
Martin Durkn, John P. Teller, L. S.
Nye and Geo. n. Jenness each helped