Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-09-30

Will and Albert Leland take, there
would be no lack of animals or OF en-
thusiasm in fair matters. Albert
secured Westmore and part of Char
lesion and came in with what looked
like market drove. Ayrshire stock
ran low, but Alfred Brown showed
large and fine bull; o. G. Mills and E.
S. Nelson COWS and younger animals.
B. M. r. Nelson showed grade Here
ford COWS and @. B. Leland some
younger animals. w. Fl. Martin took
the lead in Holsteins with a bull and
young stock. E. S. Nelson, G. W.
Clark and Carl LELAND indulge to some
extent in this breed of bovines.
SHEEP.
Cotswolds, Phillips Bros. outdid the
county, and the state for that matter,
on Cotswolds. This time they showed
only three bucks, all Of them were
very fine. E. B. True showed some
fine registered sheep, Leicesters, and
Merinoes, with a lot of excellent sheep
in grades. B. NJ. r. Nelson REINFORCED
the sheep pens by exhibiting good
sheep of various breeds. S. A. Cleve-
land was another large exhibitor and
his sheep in several garde lines were
among the best. His breed is the
Oxforddown. w. w. Rowell leads the
county in Shropshiredowns He show
ed dozen good registered animals,
starting his flock from the L.B.Harris
stock. In grades there were a large
number, among the exhibitors being
w. III. Smith, Geo. Fisk, E. R. Cook,
Carl Leland, FL. Prescott, Geo. Reed
and W. S. Mcdowell.
SWINE.
There were three or four mother
hogs with pigs, John Corley, IL. IL.
Tracy and P. S. Hitchcock getting the
premium cards. The Lelands were
also in it in male pigs.
POULTRY.
The exhibition was probably the
best and largest ever seen on this
ground and it contained birds which
had taken premiums at the Sher-
brooke and Stanstead fairs. There
were 1872 birds, 45 of which were
shown by Herbert, E. Leland, of Bar
ton, 81 by r. IT. Norris & Son, Of
Newport. These parties make the
breeding of fine poultry speciality.
The new poultry house was over fill
ed and there is great demand for
more room. E. Ell. Norris & Son
showed Barred Plymouth Rocks,
Brown Leghons, in pairs and in breed
ing pens Mr. Leland had Barred
and White Plymouth Rocks, Brown
and White Leghorns, White Wyan-
dottes, with fine grades and breeding
pens. Maud G.. Miles of ST. Johns
bury showed Silver Spangled Ham
burghs, very pretty and fine. Among
Geo. F. Reed, J. II. Cook, Peter La
Pete. Peter Pash. Ellery Larue show
ed pair Of rabbits, and Alber Leland
a female shephed dog. Much credit
is due to Mr.. T. w. Norris for his
management of the poultry depart
ment.
BUTTER, CHEESE, SUGAR AND HONEY.
The reporter has no knowledge 9TH
er than sight of tub or package of the
merits of exhibits in the above lines.
Among the exhibitors of factory made
butter were JIG. Turnbull, w. VIPER
son and Wilson & Bean. In dairy
made butter there were specimen
tubs made by F. H. Skinner, B. F.
Emerson, Henry Belford and D. j..
Carter. Warren Caswell and E. P.
Burt showed fine cheese, sage, green
and dry. In sugar there was quite a
sharp competition. The tub, cake and
honey shown by E. Barclay was the
whitest, and was indeed very fine. A.
w. Wiley, w. w. Foster, and w. Ell.
Smith had tubs Of stirred, very white
and pure F. H. Skinner and Mrs. A
A. Barber showed fine samples of
honey. J. Fl. Cook,L. G. Chesley and
J. w. Howard exhibited bees honey.
Neighbor Howard's honey is very
sweet this year.
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT.
Butter being about all the farm
staple upon which the average farmer
can depend, the interest in dairying
tools is considerable, and those who
exhibited in this line had people to
examine their machines There were
no less than four different kinds of
milk separators. Frank Wheelock of
Newport showed three sizes of the
De Laval construction; the ssBaby''
machine being very small, operated
on new principle of applying power,
and two other sizes; also a nice dog
power It is claimed that this is not
only the first in date of invention. but