The Newtown bee., 1898-04-08
THE CATTLE SHOW.


The annual spring sale and cattle show
took place at Frederick Bryan's lot,
Wednesday, March 30. OF late years,
since horses have been brought here by
the carloads from the West, Canada and
Vermont, the decline of cattle has con-
tinued from year 10 year. Waterto 1n,
in years gone by, was known all over
the United States for it's fine breed of
steers and oxen, and at our cattle shows
could be seen, year after year, farmers
from every state, looking after fine bred
working oxen and steers, and it was
nothing new to see carload of steers
leaving the station for other parts. The
writer of this remembers well a farmer
who came here all the way from Indiana
to purchase two yoke of cattle, at a very
high price at that. But all is changed
now. Horses have taken the place of
cattle. and farmers who formerly had
four to five yoke of the fine bred Devon
cattle, have gone out of the business en-
| tirely and use horses in their place. There
| is only one farmer in our town yet who
still cllngs to the old custom and persists
in raising cattle, and doing his work
with them, although it has ceased to be
profitable. The only place in our rural
neighborhood where cattle are still pre-
| dominant.is Mortified. Here horses have
not been introduced to the extent they
have been here and elsewhere, and PEG
pie in search of a good and handsome
pair can find them there. The annual
spring show, last Wednesday, was one
of the best held here in years, and, if the
number of yOkes were not as numerous
as they have been, the quality of the cat
tie were by far superior to those we have
seen here within the past three or four
years. On the ground were 81 yekes.
| William Gilbert of Mortified exhibited
three pair, w. G. Gilbert of No :thfeld,
six pair, all fine Devons; Joseph John
son OF Thomaston, two pair !; F. Is. Peck
OF woodbury., two pair; t. B. Terrell OF
Woodbury.. three pair; Bennett Atwood
of Woodbury., two pair; Anthony New
ton of Nor5hfeld, one pair of heavy Dur
hams that attracted much attention
Caleb Humiston, Thomaston, one pair OF
red Durhams that tipped the scale al
1000; Norris Humiston, Thomaston, two
pair of fine Durhams, and three pair OF
Holsteins F. 81. Hin of Morris, one pair
Charles A. Thcrp of Litchfeld, three
pair Of Devons and two pair of HoIsteins
Hiram Atwood of Bethlehem, one PAL,
| DaUnps. "a Sp1iFh of
one pair; Julius Skilton of Watertown
one pair; Joseph c. Lamphere of Water
town, three pair; George a Skilton OF
WATERFOWL, two pair; Charles B. Wood
ward of Watertown, one pair Devons
Truman 2. Baldwin of Watertown, ont
pair Devons; Frederick Judd of Water
town, two pair Devors; Andrew Oar.
row of Watertown, one pair Davons
Daniel Woodward of Watertown, five
pair of DevonH, Of which one pair were
twins four years old and one of the hand
soonest pair on the ground; Samuel Fl
Peck Of Watertown, four pair, and one
handsome bull, all fine thoroughbred
Devons; A. 81. ScoviIl of Watertown
tertown, one pair Devons; Harry S
Blakeslee of WatertoWn, one pair Dew
ons; Garner Curtis of Mortified, one
pair which he sold to John M. Boards ley
of Newtown; Atwood Brothers of Mid
dlebury, one pair; Hector Richards, East
Morris, one pair Duraams. During the
afternoon, Harry Bl4keslee loaded on
number of large rocks, and then the
draught commenced. AS there were quite
a number of heavy cattle on the ground
the work was continued for over an hour
The finest pair of cattle on the ground
were sma IL pair of Devons, belonging
to S. Fl. Peck. Mr. Peck was offered
$3.50 for them, but refused to sell them
On the ground was Caterer Sheldon
Fox, besides an auctioneer, who made
things lively, cracking his stale jokes
selling whips, etc. American.