Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-09-29


The milk of each COW is, of course, weigh |
ed daily, and the butter product is esti-
mated from the butter fat test. One of his
cows once made by the butter test of the
milk, pound of butter from 15t lbs. of
milk. This was fair ground test at Bur
lington. Twelve cows in Mr.. Drew's herd
averaged in 1898, $3.50 lbs. of milk and 319
lbs. of butter.
Guernseys.
The principal exhibit of Guernseys was
made by j. b. Palmer of Round Hill farm,
Jewett City, Conn. Mr.. Palmer is fam
GUS breeder of thoroughbred Guernsey
cattle and Leicester, Dorset and Shrop-
shire sheep. He had large herd of Guern'
seys on exhibition and took most of the
premiums offered in this class. he has
won, he says, over $1,000 in prizes in the
last three years, and has taken $3.50 prize
money this season.
His COW, Blackspot, has made II Ia
pounds of butter in seven days; Lizzie, I'd,
16 IA pounds; Kittie of Wolfrock, IL
pounds.
R. H. Briggs of the Bradley farm, Brat
tleboro, has a large herd of thoroughbred
Guernseys, though many of them have not
been registered He was given the first
prize for the best two yearold bull in the
thoroughbred class, and the first and sec
ond premiums for grade Guernsey cows.
j. w. Spaulding of West Brattleboro and
NJ. Howard of Brattleboro each exhibited
good specimens of grade Guernseys, and
other cattle shown appeared to have
mixture of Guernsey blood.
Jerseys.
The largest exhibit of thoroughbred Jer-
seys was made by II. j. Richmond of the
Guilford Springs farm, though there was
a large number of Jersey cattle exhibited,
not entered as thoroughbred. The Gull
ford farm had almost a monopoly of the
prizes of the thoroughbreds, though G. d.
Whitman of Brattleboro took the first for
his handsome two.year-old bull.
Grade Jerseys were shown by K. Hadley,
of Guilford Centre, A. A. Dunklee of
South Vernon, and others. Mr.. Hadley
and Mr.. Dunklee had each good cows and
heifers.
W. F. Richardson & Co. exhibited a
large number of beautiful Hereford oxen,
a fine yearling bull thoroughbred, cows and
heifers. The Richardson's had on the
grounds 33 head in all. Their oxen and
steers approached perfection in form. One
pair weighed $500, another 3400, one
5000, one 300, two pairs each three
years old weighed each 300. The Rich
ardsons took all the prizes for grade
Herefords. Very fine grade Hereford
oxen and steers were shown from the
Homestead farm, Walpole. One pair
weighed 1920, one pair three years old
1850, another pair same age, 1920 and one
pair 2950.
S. r. Breck of Claremont, n. H., ex-
hibited 10pairs of oxen of which six yoke
were finely proportioned, heavy weight
Herefoads, two pairs Durhams, two pairs
Devons. Some other Hereford stock was
included in Mr.. Breck's exhibit.
DevOns.
There was good show of Devons. j.
K. Clifford of Devonshire farm, Sutton,
Mass, had 16 head of thoroughbreds
There was Victor of Springfield, winner of
the junior championship at the Syracuse,
N. Y. state fair in 1896, and first at the
New England fair as a two-years-old, also
first at Rochester, N. H., and at Green
field, Mass. His dam was Jennie May,
winner of sweepstakes at Syracuse in 1898
There were shown in this herd IL cows and
heifers of noted milk and butter strains.
Jennie May, have both made notable butter
records. Minnie E. made ITO pounds OF
butter, after seven months in milk, on the
fair ground at Saco, Me. Several other
animals from this herd have taken numer-
Gus prizes at fairs. L. B. Bullock of
Guilford Centre was another exhibitor of
thoroughbred Devons and he was awarded
several premiums. Other cattle were
noticed that showed intermixture OF
Devon blood.
Dutch Belted Cattle.
F. r. Sanders of Laconia, N a., showed
six head of the Dutch Belted breed. He
has bred these cattle from selections most
noted for color, milk and butter. These,
we believe, were the only representatives
here of this kind of cattle.
Red POlIed Cattle.
G. II. Wadleigh of Tilton, n H., exhib-
tied 10 head of handsome Red Polls With
them was the two-year- old bull, John AL
den, whose dam gave 1900 pounds of milk
in one month. The beautiful bright red
color of these animals, and the absence of
horns is a recommendation. A few other
apparently Red Polled cattle were at the
fair, but we cannot distinguish them from
those whose horns have been suppressed
in calfhood.
s. R. Breck had fine Black Polled calf
from the Corbin Park, N. II.
Oxen.
The oxen were of the best quality ever
shown at the Valley Fair. This may APP
pear to be saying almost too much, but all
seem to agree that it is true The oxen in
the town teams were mostly owned by a
few expert judges of and dealers in oxen
and were therefore of better quality than
those ordinarily found. Benson & Moore's
10 yoke averaged about $500 pounds. The
heaviest pair weighed $3.50. S. R. Brock
of ClaremOnt, N. H., had 10 pair of very
heavy and handsome cattle. The town
team contest was between these exhibitors,
and the first prize of SIS was awarded to
Woodstock, Benson & Moore, and the
second to S. r. Brock, Claremont. For
the best pair of oxen G. P. Breck q Son
got the first premium of $40, and K. l.
Benson the second of S.. For trained
steers g. P. Breck g. Son were awarded
the first prize and A. A, Ingraham of Gull
ford Centre second. The competing steers
were fine animals we'll handled.
The Mortified Seminary exhibited two
pairs of heavy black Holstein oxen, and
James II. Bolton, Ashuelot, N. H., Geo.
d. Kendrick, Winchester, N. H., Fred
Morse, Williamsville, and several Others
had good oxen on exhibition. The best
five yoke awarded the $25 prize weighed
about 10000.
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