The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
THE WILMINGTON FAIR.

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ance at least it was most successful fair
There were from 1900 to 5000 people out
Excursion trains brought some 800 from
North Adams, Readsboro and other points
along the line. There were somewhere about
100 that came by team from BrattlebOro, in
Guiding tally-ho party of fourteen under
"Uncle' Lewis Higgins guidance. There
were throngs also from all the neighborine
towns and of sons and daughters of Whining
ton in distant cities. Three bands, two from
Readsboro and the Wilmington band, which
has for several weeks been under the train
ing of Sweet, furnished the music.
The opening feature Immediately after the
arrival was the parade, which was very pref
ty and tasteful. Headed by 10 bicycles, four of
them by John Gallup, Fred Averill, o ii
Jones and Ossian Butterfeld being
prettiy decorated, and by the band, it con-
sisted of a cavalcade of ladies and gentlemen
on horseback including Geo johnson and
der, Charlotte Kidder, Ktte Ware, Henry
Boyd, VIII Young, Florence Sargent, Leone
Russell and others their horses all being gaily
decorated.
Next came decorated carts and floats,
headed by Howard Russell and wife, Mrs
Clarence Brown and friend, Mrs c ID wheeler
and daughter Cora, Eugene Cushman and
wife, Ransom Moore and wife, Mrs G ID
Spencer and others. The carts were all
trimmed in bright colors and neat designs
that of Mrs Brown in yellow being perhaps
the prettiest.
Then after the Readsboro band came the
trade floats for the corner drug store, very
neat design in pink and blue; for o o Ware II
cart filled with some 80 bright and happy
children swinging flags and drawn by 2OoXen !;
for c ID Spencer e. Co, G l. Howe, fish and
oysters and Perry Davis, harnesses. The
Second Readsboro or Italian band brought up
the rear with Frank Cheney and his brother
in-law in breakdown rig drawn by horse
and an OK to represent "Old DiXie.'
On the grounds the show was good though
hardly up to last year as whole, and an es-
pecially creditable one in the way of vegeta-
bes and fruits, particularly maple sugar.
There were 20 horses, % yoke of oxen, 90
bulls, cows and young stock and 02 sheep on
the ground, the, latter indicating that the
Wilmington farmer is not being frightened
very extensively by the calamity cry of the
politician under ''free WOOL" In fact one of
the most intelligent of them expressed his be-
lief to us that wool was ''now going to have
its day. and he business which had been
steadily running down on his hands hereafter
| to go up. One could not help noticing that
the cattle were not up to what they used to
be in Wilmington. there were but a few pair
of what could be called superior oxen and the
arge, fine bred and fine grained Durhams
that used to be characteristic of Wilmington
stock are lamentably mixed with inferior
breeds. There were few Jerseys and grades
by r Mckenzie, DR. A w Rice, 0 j Ward,
Rev ID Mann 4 Son and } H Stowe e. Son
who had herd of 10, one of them thorough
bred.
Indeed the farms of Stowe & Son, Mann e.
Son and O j Ward seemed capable, any one
of them of making Il very good fair alone. The
former, beside their fine Norman stallion and
herd of Jerseys and several other cattle. had
3 varieties of beets, 3 of carrots, and three
of p9bhoUpS bpsiIpS SuIInShps. citrOns. tllrnID
ETC.. their their fine show of sheep. Mann
& Son had some pretty grade calves, Il Hol-
stein COW and grade Jersey, two yoke of
oxen and several varieties of turnips and
fruit; Ward had an Is years old mare and
sucking colt, a yearling colt and three-years
old that weighed 1860 besides another horse
half dozen more calves, steers and several
varieties of apples and pears in the fruit eX-
hlbit.
In the way of horses of course the beautiful
stallion, Linden which was brought up
from Brattleboro, was the great
feature. But there was also magnificent 10
years-old Clydesdale stallion that took first at
North Adams and Wilmington last year, by
John r Currier of Readsboro. But there
was particularly good show of every day
stock, brood mares and colts and working har-
nesses such as farmers can most profitably
raise. Among these were a particularly good
two-year-old colt by f NJ Haynes Il Son, 4
year-old by n M Haskell & Son, 3-year-old
sired by .'Deerfeld" by F White, pretty
2-year-old by Smith n Titus, a 3-year-old by
Henry May 4 Son, a 15-year-old brood mare
and very likely sucking colt by D l. Sprague,
three and four year-oIds by T III Alyord, 2
year-old by + d Sprague, two ycarlings and
4-year-old' by H L Wilmington, pair of Agar
olds by Winfield Boyd, and pair of grand
workers, by Percheron stallion out of a
French draft mare, weighing 1920 pounds,
exhibited by r FL Moore, and 4-year-old by
j G Batchelder.
In the way of oxen some particularly good
ones were the well-matched siX-year-olds
weighing 900 exhibited byWarren andOscar
w BOYD, another pair by A and Fl E Boyd,
some smooth I-year-olds by VIM Titus, the
5-year-olds by H l. Wilmington, the 3-year-old
by j II Hughes. Other oxen were eXhibite
by c NJ Ware, II May, E b Corbett G l.
Wilder, three yoke, Z j Dickinson and II b
Ware.
bred Shropshire and Southdowns, 16 in all
and very superior animals.
ii l. Mllington had Il pen of - breeding
ewes grade SouthdownS and also II lambs and
Il buck.
OF swine there were only two lots. sow
and pig - weeks old exhibited by DR. W
Rice and litter by II l. Fox.
Mann & Son had Il head of cattle on the
ground including fine u months old bull of
Craikshui stock, the father being imported
from Scotland , pens of Shropshire and
Southdown sheep, bucks, lambs and breeding
ewes.
The show of poultry consisted of As birds
in ALL and included silver spangled Ham
burgs, white and brown LeghOrns, by + a
Taintor of Jacksonville. Plymouth Rocks by
Carl S Barnard. Geo + Haynes of Wilmington
and w S Allen. who showed 90 BIRDS In
this department was also a fox exhibited by
Willie Temple.
The show of vegetables also contained a
mammoth pumpkin by j I'll Stowe; 80 pOta-
toes weighing IS pounds of the Rural New
Yorker variety by A & ii E Boyd; six
varieties of beets and turnips and carrots be-
sides several of potatoes by l. A Xix; three
of cabbages and several of potatoes by L
Aldrich: five of potatoes and summer squash
from Iowa, seed by III f May; some Beauty
of Hebron potatoes of which five weighed
nine pounds by III w Stearns: fine show of
turnips, radishes, cabbages. citrons, parsnips,
barley, oats. buckwheat. beans, peas and
cucumbers by Rice & Rappelye; "A magnifi-
cent one of beets by 5 q Batchelder and or
potatoes of several .Varietits by Ill Nj FItch;
five .Sorehead" cabbages, weighing 60 pounds
by + II Davenport; tomatoes by ii Haskell
& son: sauashes by Geo Z Haynes: japanese
pumpkins by II b Ware; squashes of several
varities by A NJ Fox.
The largest show of fruit was by o III Cope
land of Coleraine, whose exhibit was des-
cribed at Bratteboro. Hubbard Il Son
showed 10 varieties of apples and several of
pears and \ l. johnson, nne varieties, while
+ r Raw had large show rs did " Il Ware
of golden russets, + L Fisher, Haynes
Son and Geo ii Streeter, the latter as nice as
ever seen. There was an exhibit of grapes by
ID Hume.
There was fine exhibit of corn by J G
Botchelder. o J Ward, o ii Copeland, X
Hughes. VIM Titus, W A Brown, \ ID Moore
& Son. Rice 4 Rappelye, A NJ Fox, Haskell 4
! Eit1h and of nnnlnrn hu Glar=