The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-09-29
THE VALLEY FAIR.
THE GRANDEST SUCCESS YET.
Attendance OF Over $4,000 PeO.
pie.
A HORSE SHOW, CATTLE SHOW,
HORTICULTURAL SHOW, ALL
IN ONE
SOME EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Has Right TO be Prouder
Than Ever.
SOME EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Brattleboro Has Right TO be Prouder
Than Ever.

There Is no other adjective that will ade.
quately describe the Eighth Annual Valley
Fair. If there was anybody before to deny
that 1t was the biggest all.rOund thing Of its
ti"d IN New England, or America either,
there is not now.
Tn re are shows in special lines that can
beat this, but there never was fair that
could. A breeders meeting In Vermont or
| Kentucky. or anywhere else, would count
itself very successful that could match It In
the number and quality of Its STANDARDIZED
horses, with so many of them of national
reputation, and Its perfect type Of the Mo-
gans.
A special show of Holsteins, or Jerseys, or
Devons, or other high breeds of cattle might
surpass 1t In the one line, but for repre-
sentation of all together the fairs can be
counted with your fingers that will equal It.
And for heavy working oxen there was never
the like Of 1t.
In fruits, vegetables. and grains there is
tural at Boston. And is was not merely .
show OF phenomenal things; it was q magni-
fcent exhibit of actual commercial products,
all of prime quality.
As for maple syrup and suger, there is
nothing anywhere to compare with 1t.
X Felch, the veteran poultryman, says
there is cnly one fair that can surpass 1t In
that department.
The great increase made Ia the exhibits of
manufactures and farming tools ana imple-
ment shows the reputation 1t Is getting.
1t fulflls the Id al of q fair In being first
and distinctlveIy farmers show, represen.
tative of our soil. our products and our meth.
DDS. and leading upward In all these respects.
The y.ung stock being exhibited from year
to year shows the effects of It., and as one
veteran agricultural editor remarked. "he
never saw such n crowd of intelligent OBJ
servers"
With this as basis, the embellishments In
the trOtting, which was most interesting. and
In the vision uf loveliness which we call the
coaching parade, round 1t out into great
success.
At the bottom this success has two reasons.
The whole community takes hold to help.
The men in charge do not spare effort any
year to 0utd0 their previous achievements. A
number could be named In charge Of depart
ments or features who have not slept and
hardly eaten during Its progress, and who
have seen nothing Of the show outside nf
their departments.
The weather was a little threatening Wed
nesdav and doubtless kept back some people,
but the attendance tell only little short of
the first day last year. But yesterday more
than made up shortsge, making the total at
tendance the largest ~ the history of the SO.
clety, last years attendance exceeding any
tickets sold this year was about 10000 and
the total receipts, estimating the rcsipts |
from special privileges 10 be the same as last
year. and there caHnot be much variatiOn,
we're IS 266 80, which IL better than last year
By upwards OF 5000. The amount paid on
premiums will exceed that Of last year which |
was about $2SOO. probably som $500
besides the $22jU for the races,
lhe net ssprofits . o t the me as last
year. between $l,5vO and $4,000. The grand
stand receipts were for first day. $4O0; sec.
)nd dsy, SG25