Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-22
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
THE COUNTY FAIR.
rho second Exhibition in New
fame Village.

r,, sbo,, ought to Have Been Larger,
,,, thc weather was Fine, and Every
,odv Had Good Time.
The Wndham County fair, held Wednes-
lac on President Benedicts grounds in
T:ufanp village, was success in that the
-,,.tbpr was perfect, the fair was admira-
tir managed, and it furnished delightful
Jsy,s onting for 1900 or 1000 people who
o ..ms together, mainly from the West river
valley towns
oven. dairy cows and sheep were good
chow. Horses and poultry failed to mate
rolize as they ought to have done. The
First REGIMENT band of Brattleboro made
ibe day cheerful with its bright and inspir-
mo music played without stint. 1t was
handsome sight when, as a sort of grand
sntrqp the band, with Lieut.. H. C.. Street
AZ of Brattleboro as marshal, led the
Townshend and Newfane teams of big
oypn around the grounds. Over all waved
,ba stars and stripes from brand new flag
,tatf 60 feet high and straight as an arrow.
II is not in the province of The Phoenix
"a scold the people for sins of omission on
an occasion like this, but it seemed to
many observers that the only lack was on
tbq part of the people themselves in not
,aknr pains to bring to the fair samples of
what their farms and gardens have pro-
5nred during the year. The County fair
cannot be made great show, drawing peo-
ME and exhibits from distance, but it can
be made, year by year, means of showing
tbq results of the everyday work of our
country farm life, and best of all, it can
bring the people together to get acquaint-
ed cultivate neighborliness and good fell
bvship, and go home feeling that, after
all life is not all grind and drudgery.
The whole number of cattle on the
grounds was about one hundred, fairly
FOOD exhibit, but it might have been much
larger if all those within easy access who
own cattle worth showing had had them
at the fair. Newfane and Townshend
competed on town teams. The lightest
rair of oxen in the Newfane team weighed
5j3j pounds, and the heaviest 1000 pounds,
the latter owned by Chas. Morse and the
former by H. G. johnson. Another pair
in this team owned by D. A. Dickinson
weighed 1910. A good pair owned by the
town $3.50, another 1926, one owned by w.
r. Hildreth 3640, by Chas. w. Morse 1915,
lyW Park 800, by w. T. Bruce 3060, by
Hescock Il Son 3410.
The Townshend team averaged consid-
eably less in weight, but the cattle were
younger and they were awarded the first
premium. The exhibitors of oxen in this
team and the weight of their cattle were as
follows O. A. Davis 344S, town 3475 and
549O, b. Fisher $3.50, A B. and f. l.. Der
" 2S3O James Franklin 1920, E. B. Batch
elder $500, f. S. Morse $40, F. Lawrence
s?i2, p. II. Rutter 1882 The average
weight of the oxen in the Townshend team
was 32S5; average weight of the Newfane
team 3j13. Both teams would compare
very favorably with any heretofore shown
BY these towns at the county fair. There
we're but few working oxen except those
shown in the teams.
Sylvester Charter, whose bones are still
mconsumed by fire, was on hand with one
Of his inseparable companions which have
given him his familiar name, this one a
thoroughbred veteran whose services to the
county have, no doubt, been of value.
H. NJ. Ridder of Wardsboro exhibited a
thoroughbred Holstein bull, bred from
stock bought from the Geo. G. Fisk herd
Of Springfield, Mass, also thoroughbred
cows and heifers from the same stock. In
al about 10 or II bulls were exhibited
Dmhams, Holsteins, Jerseys and grades
Among the exhibitors of these were the
blowing: w. r. Rand, g. p. Thayer, F.
Nerrfed, John H. Ware, II. M. Hall, w
T. Bruce, S. B. Higgins, John Whitaker
J. H. Ware showed herd of thorough
bred and grade Jerseys, comprising twelve
head among which was handsome thor
oughbred Jersey bull. T. M. Albee had
herd of grade Durhams. His cows have
made high average record as mixers
Z. p. Osgood exhibited a herd of gooC
grade Durham cows and heifers. G. b
Johnson showed a grade Durham heifer il
milk five months, whose daily yield OF but
ter was one and one-seventh pounds. ID
fairbanks had a handsome tiye-years- oil
Durham COW.
There were seven or eight exhibits
sheep, all of the coarse wool breeds.
C. Lowe had an extra good coarse WOO
buck, a pen of ewes and eve lambs; w
T. Bruce, Southdown buck, ewes an
ambs; VIM NJ. Ware, ewes; G. E. Ware
buck lamb; G. w. Barnes, buck; ii. w
Hail. pen of coarse wool sheep; ID. 4
Johnson, flock of sheep and lambs, and
few others exhibited sheep
An interesting family of four red an
four white pigs, with Jersey red mother
vas shown by H. Hescock q Son. On
solitary animal shown by H. NJ. Hall CON
Eeted the exhibit in this line.
The show of horses was not so large q
usual Stations were shown by W. I
White, r. F. johnson and G. II. Betterly
brood mares and colts by Cyrus Hardin
and |. F. Thayer; three-years-old colts Q
I, F. Johnson and F. Whitaker; twI
years-od colts by E. w. Morse and II. v
Sanders; yearling colts by j. j. Dodg
Dan. Boutelle, Guy Albee and Charles
Nichol, each exhibited driving horses al
all We're awarded premiums.
The fruit and vegetable display won
have shown for more had it been mass'
On the tables in the lower hall instead
being scattered. The individual specimen
were excellent. w. G. Ballou of Newfal
bad the largest variety, showing pyram
Of very nice blue pearmain apples, hank'
gtomatoes, carrots, parsnips, beets, ca
Oages and turnips. That Windham couh
farms We're not altogether unproductiye W
shown by E. r. Whites specimen OF pa
ey from his South Wardsboro farm, whl'
Produced 140 bushels on two and ana
acres, with no fertilizer applied since u
spring Of 1892. w. T. Bruce's display
~ varieties of apples was a nice Oh
There were several smaller displays, all
aem good, which the premium list me
IONS The vegetables showed wise
tctOn of varieties, and careful culCl'