The Newtown bee., 1895-09-13

the Housatonic river on the hill, on Tues- day of this week. It didn't look like a real good fair day early in the morning, for lowry looking clouds hung over old | Mt Tom and just spoiled that pretty view to the northward which is enjoyed by so | many of the visitors who occasionally | get breath of time to gaze away to the l hills to see what kind of panorama of | beauty is spread out about there. But a | few lowry clouds didn't make any differ | ence with the management of the New l Milford fair, for bright and early they were at their posts of duty, from Presi- | dent A. J. McMahon down to the most humble of the superintendents, and right here it ought to be remarked in justice to
 SECRETARY J. H. COCHRANE, that more efficient and gentlemanly secretary, who can hustle out the work of a fair in 8 systematic manner, cannot be found. He is a whole team and his assistants know how to assist. But to re- turn from this Aggression, to the weather. By the time the cattle began to arrive it had decided to clear away, and kept get. ting hotter and hotter as the hot old fel- low up in the sky let his beaming rays down upon the grounds.
 Tuesday was cattle day and the cattle | came in goodly numbers for nearly 100 pair, 95 pair to be absolutely correct, fil- ed into the grounds, to say nothing of the other stock. What kind of cattle were | they? We'll when you hear every nine out of 10 farmers you meet say that they
 never saw such fine collection of cattle | together, not black sheep in the lot, you can come to the conclusion that
 what gathered at New Milford thls year
 are rather more than the average; at least most of us are perfectly willing to leave the matter to the farmers judge
 ment. There were about 20 pair more on
 the ground this year than were there, last season. It may be of inteI est to
 know just who the owners of some of
 these nice cattle are. We'll let's see. The | first string that attracted particular at- tention were the 10 pair belonging to
 N. P. Beardsley of Roxbury, that man of cattle in this section and raises some
 mighty fine specimens himself. His
 string ranged in ages from calves up to
 cattle old enough to know their business
 perfectly, and was headed by his hand some Devon bull, Proposer. Herman A..
 Beardsley, his neighbor over in Roxbury,
 also showed some
 VERY EXCELLENT CATTLE
 in his string of eight pairs, especially some calves and yearlings. These were the largest strings Of cattle that came.
 But not to dwell too long'on the.merits of
 the different cattle, others who had cattle
 at the fair were from the town of New
 Milford, R. A. Osborne B pair, N. w.
 Kinney ?, D. Stone l, J. Sullivan l, B..
 M. Leavenworth l, L. T. Peet }, Merton
 Peet l, J. McMahon l, F. M. Squires l,
 W. D. Stone 3, John Hall l, John Wells
 ,, R. Mallory 5, Hallen l, Town of New , Milford 3, Mrs W. H. Hine l, c. Smith l |
 Somers 2, s. B. Warner 3; from Bridge
 lett 2, F. Taylor l, D. Garfield ?, A.
 Northrop 2, G. Northrop l, J. H. Keeler,
 Jr., ?, M. Hatch 4, Young Brothers 2,
 Abijah Patterson 1; from Kent Don c.
 Peet ?; from Roxbury w. F. Trowbridge
 3; from Woodbury T. B. Terrill 4 !; iron
 Watertown s. H. Peck 3; from Litchfield
 H. B. Goslee 1, c. L. Dudley g.
 At II 30 they formed in line and took a l little turn down the track in order to come into thelr positions at which judge 3 ment on their particular merits was to bt ] given. Superintendents G. W. Squires } and A. J. McMahon were everywhere } looking for the judges, placing the cattle who seemed to get little mixed, anC 5 now and then having an ear for the news ] paper men, who never forget to be a the fairs to occasionally bother the busy ] men. In class IF for working oxen 2 Devon grade, the successful contestants l were for calves R. c. Mallett first ane 2 second premium; yearlings Oscar Oar. E win 1st; T. B. Terrill 2d; two years old 1 R. A. Osborn 1st, T. B. Terrill 2d; thre, - years old, N. W. Kinney 1st, E. N. Somer 9 2d; four years old A. A. Sullivan 1st, 5 l. H. Peck 2d; five years old and over, Oar
 win Keeler 1st, N. W. Kinney 2d. Int
 judges were Cyrus E. Prindle, John W
 McMahon, Amos Northrop and Free f Jones.
 ? In class IS, Durham grade, calves ane T yearlings, H. A. Beardsley 1st, two-year t olds Don c. Peet 1st, R. J. keeler 2d three years old M. B. Mallett 1st, R. J - Keeler 2d four-year-old, Fred Taylor 1st t M. B. Mallett 2d i; five-year-olds and ove '- W. D. Stone 1st, H. A. Beardsley 2d d Judges, D. H. Garfield, H. B. Ferris e In class 19, mixed or native oxen f Calves N. P. Beardsley lst, R. A. Os e borne 2d; one-year-old N. P. Beardsle.
 lst, John E. Wells 2d; two-year-olds !. NIP. BEARDsLEY
 e lst and 2d three-year-olds, W. F. Trow h bridge 1st, s. B. Warner 2d; four-year
 olds, Charles Dudley 1st, B. M. Leaven
 worth 2d; five-year-olds and over, s. B ., Warner 1st, Hiram Goslee 2d. Judes, y s. Cowan, F. D. Clark, A. c. Platt
 This finished the judging of the cattle ex y cept in class 20 for draught oxen. Th' e farmers enjoy this test of their nobl d cattle's strength and take pride in show
 ing what they can do. There are som s people who think the cattle ought not tt j. be put through this performance ant j. some of this class were at the fair, Tues
 day, making themselves disagreeable b, e suggesting that the cattle were bein. /. treated inhumanly, yet these same per ? sons would see an old horse goadet
 around the race track to win race an, d think it great sport. There is no doub c but both performances, from human }. point, ,are nos' 'fioWery beds of ease''for tn, [. dumb animal, but if the race horse is al d lowed to go for the pleasure of the love r of the race track there seems no just req e son why the farmer should not have tn t equal right to see how much his cattl l, can draw. if he chooses, so long as h. 1t does not abuse them, and the drivers a g New Milford this year seemed much nor n reasonable with their cattle than on pre- e vious years. The farmer loves his cattl
 and is not likely to abuse very severel. t what he prizes. The drawing contest d were watched with keen interest, an, y some extra clever work was done. Tn
 prize takers were for the best three-year a olds, $. B. Warner 1st, J. s. Thornhil 8 2d, Charles Dudley 3d; best four-year
 olds, s. H. Peck 1st, Charles Dudley 2d .- T. B. Terrill 3d; best five-vear-olds an' e over, s. H. Peck 1st, s. B. Warner 2d, W D. Stone 3d. Judges s. M. Brinsmade
 N. W. Kinney. I. A. Hawley, J. P. Cum l. mings, J. s Coan.
 e In class 21 tor
 TRAINED STEERS
 ! {, R; c. Mallory took first premium and J. $ D Thornhil second. Judges, P. E. Clark, c. A
 Buckingham, B. J. Atwood.
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