Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-28
BEAUTY AND BREEDING
IN CATTLE PENS,
MANY GOOD HERDS SHOWN
OFQUALITY AND UTILITY

MANY GOOD HERDS SHOWN
OFQUALITY AND UTILITY
stockweli a. clifford. Thomas d. Isy'or'
| m. GuiIford Spring Farm ana Ex'
| Gov.rnOr GOdeiI Of New HamPs""e
amonp the Largest Exh,bitOrs-ssver-
| NJ pnn.Amer,can winners on hand-h
Great show OF Heavy Cattle ana Fat
Oxen.
TIE Valley Fair is always sposan OF
ma 'scnttle show" and there IS no
ooubt that this department is one OF
the most, if not the most, important
Of all the exhibits. The cattle when
vera shown this year, we're fnlly
enupl in quality and breeding to any
ever seen IN Bra,tleburo, and there IS
no fear that the Valley Fair will lose
any Of its prestige on account OF the
hovine exhibit Many of last year g
oybibitors were or hard again WIN
aron ented herds, and although the
unod Farm and Briarclif JERSEYS
we're missed there were plenty TO MAKE
Woodstock and G 2 Breck 4 Sons of
Claremont, N II, We'd with each other
even more than usual IN neavy cattle,
and the rivalry between these W.
breeders gave Brattleboro one OF the
best shows of fat oxen ever seen.
With a record -.of 10 premiums car
tured at the Pan American EXposltino,
at Buffalo the herd of Devnns oWneo'
bv StorkHell & Giffori of Sutton,
Mass, was toe center of large cro"u
of admirers of this splendid prped,
The herd consisted of 10 cattle headeu
by the celebrated six years OLD buii
Victor, of Springdale. Next to MN
was bis dam, jennie May, with reg
ord of 81 pounds of milk N one DAY.
Jennie May tooA second premium al
the Pan American and the Syracuse
fair, being beaten by co" wnicn
was superior only in beef qualities
All the judges at buffalo we're nnani
nous in concediug that Stockweli "
! Clifford Devons were the finest DAIRY
hers of this breed in TIE Cnlteo
States. Among the other cattle III the
herd was Pleasant, which captured
fourth at the PanAmerican, Whlte
Brush, which captured third there,
LADY Washington, which has yearly
record OF over 700 pounds of milk anc
81 pounds of butter as two year Clio
Quiet, Sth with record OF over
1000 mounds of milk aud $50 pounds OF
butter in nine months; and yearllne
bull Victor of Devonshire out OF Lady
Alice, COW with the remaIkanlt
yearly record OF 9O38 pounds OF milf
and 453 pounds of butter.
The beautiful Normandies from tht
Forest Park stock farm OF Brandon
we're among the nest admired cattle
on the grounds and they we'll merltec
the approval which was expressed,
Most of the herd were lmportec
from France last season, although
some of the younger cattle were
raised on the Forest Park farm. The
tko bulls with this herd were TIT
three year OLD Chuck, bred by Chester
" Chapin of ('hicopee, Mass, Rnt
the two year old Kanaris, which wa:
imported 10 July, 1900. pair o
three year cid twin sisters wa
shown which weighed 1900 pounds
Aside from the Normandies the Fores
Park farm also showed four head o
Ayrshires including the yearling bul
Drews Best.
The Holsteins from the farm Q
ex. Governor Goouell of Antrim, h
were a remarkable herd and attracted
no little attenti Do from the lovers o
| this breed This exhibit is made Vi
| Of Is cattle headed by the thre
| wear old bull, Count Me- htchild
| Paul. weighing 1900 pounds. Th
| Count has been shown only once thi
| season, but last yesr took hrs
| urem ium at such shows at the Ne0
England fair and the New Hampshir
| state fair. An Interesting part o
| this exhibit were thethree- year
| old heifers which won the first
second ard third premiums at ever
fair where they were shown last year
! One of these heifers after beirl
: m,lsed seven mouths gaze an averag
flos of 30 pounds of milk which teste'
Az per cent butter fat. EX-Governo
Goodell was one Of the competitors il
the six CA butter test
Prominent among the exhibitors o
Il Guernsey was the herd of 16 hea'
). owned by j b Palmer of Jexett City
Conn. At the head of this exhibi
: was thu bull Madoc which has bee
shown at seven fairs throughout Mes
sachusetts and New Hampshire tni
: season and won over Sl87. Madoc !
$ five years old ard conceded to b
the finest Guernsey bull in New En-
GLAND. He has never been beaten i
the show ring. Next to him was tn
yearling bull Human of Hlghroc
with eight firsts to his credit. ANON
the COWS were Delias Frolic with
, weekly butter record of l71a pound
and Laurel with five irsts as record
A blue ribbon show of Shothorns wa
that by George o Taylor c
Shelburne. There we're 10 of thes
= animals and from the four fairs a
which they have been shown thi
: season they have carried away "a hrs
premiums At the head of this her
is the five years old bull Honduras,
! grandson of Gay Monarch, tn
| Worlds Fair winner. There was ais
\ shown the two years old bull, Glol
cester, Prince, which was bred /
Canada from importei stock, five COW
and thres heifers Mr. Taylor consid
ers this remarkable general rurpos
herd, one of his cows having go da
milk record with an average dali
flow of 1919 pounds that tested bf
tween 1 ard Az PER cent butter fat
George o Fisher Of Dumnersto
showed five DurhBms incluoing
:. thoroughbred yearlirg bull bred
e the Clover Lawn Stock farm IN Long
u meadow, Mass.
With record of five her
i. premiums at five consecutive fan
the IA head of Shorthorns SHE"