Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-26

Greenfield fair.
Twenty selected animals, typical o
their breed, were found in the 20 De
vons owned by j. w. Bemis of Nortl
Chester. Mass. At the head was tn
handsome bull, Propenso, G23S, weigh
2i00 pounds. The herd included tn
two.year-old bull, Massasoit Prince
1922, the bull calf, Hilton's Laddie
some smaller stock. MI. Bemis' Gov
with which he founded his herd is nov
II years old, and she has a record of y
quarts of milk per day and IL pound.
of butter per week for one month.
Frank Mann of Wilmington exhibit
ed II head of Shorthorns including thu
f~our-year-old bull Commodore Dewe,
sired by Kentucky Duke and a son o
Rose Bonheur. 6, a 0 with a recorC
of 10 pounds of milk and 3la pounds o.
butter in IA day. All of Mr.. Mann.
herd six of which are thoroughbreds
and the other grades, contain some OF
the blood of Roam Duke, a bull which
gave fame to Wilmington 20 or more
years ago.
Robert ". Blood of Dummerston eX-
hibited his herd of Normandies, the
nucleus of which was secured from the
Forest Park farm. The exhibit in.
cluded the three-year-old bull Prince
Bismarck. two heifers and heifer cali
besides eight grades of Normandy and
Durham blood. Mr., Blood becomes
more and more attached to the Nor
handles every year and thinks they
are unequalled as a general purpose
breed.
The Guilford Spring farm main
tanned its high standard in Jerseys. its
exhibit numbering IS thoroughbred
animals headed by the two-year-old
bull, Briarclitf Beau, This promising
youngster is a son of Jersey Beau which
was bred by John d. Rockefeller. and
his producing qualities were amply
shown in four of his get which were
included in the exhibit. The Guilford
Spring farm also showed a promising
yearling bull, St. Lambert.
The Hillside herd, belonging to E.
F. Copeland of Colrain, Mass, con
tanned % thoroughbred Holsteins head
ed by the handsome two-year-old bull,
Count Netherland Fenna. Among the
other stock were five heifers and six
cows including the prize-winning Mon
tague Maid. Mr., Co~peland's herd has
taken 20 first prizes at the Greenfield,
Charlemont and Athol fairs.
George O. Fisher. proprietor of the
Mountain View farm in Dummerston
had an exhibit of excellent shorthorns,
including the thoroughbred registered
young bull Royal Duke, a son of Hon
duras of the Taylor farm and a heifer
calf of the same strain. He also eX-
hibited "a thoroughbred COW and two
grades with milk records Of 10 and 80
pounds respectively.
Dickinson Brothers of Ashuelot. n.
H., had three yokes of heavy oxen.
weighing $500. 1900 and 1900 pounds
respectively. They were all entered in
the drawing contests, and one of the
yoke were thoroughbred Durhams. j.
H. Bolton of Ashuelot showed a pair of
tiye-year-old steers and +. p. Andrews
of Shelburne, Mass, exhibited a pair
Of steers, also.
George Dole of Shelburne, Mass,
had an exhibit of seven Shorthorns in
the six-year-old bull, Marshall
Abbottsburn, a splendid animal weigh
ing 2300 pounds. Two COWS and four
heifers were among Mr., Dole's exhibit,
of the latter. a four-year-old,
weighing 100 pounds.
c. P. Brock & Sons of Olaremont. y.
H., were on hand with one Of the larg-
est exhibits in the cattle department
including - yokes of oxen and steers,
all Shorthorns and Herefords. and a
humber of thoroughbred Shorthorns
and Ayrshires, most of whichwas young
stock.
The exhibit of the Bradley farm was
made up mostly of high grade Guern
although there were two thor
oughbred bulls, Duke of Cambridge, .
| tive-year-old, and Prince of Elgin, a
promising two-year-old.
W. D. Newton. proprietor of the
elm Shade farm in West Brattleboro.
lad an exhibit which included some
thoroughbred young HolSteins and
everal grades of the same breed.
Z. II, Akeley and 4. \. Dunklee of
'ernon made exhibits Of grade Jer-
eys which We're entered in the tests
\. \. Ingraham of Guilford showed
eyeral young grade Holsteins.
W. F. Richardson Il Co. exhibited Il
arge herd Of Herefords and Durhams.
including two thoroughbred Hereford
ulls and several yokeS of excellent
teers.
The Brattleboro Retreat had its usu-
| excellent exhibit of Holsteins and
* yoke of nice Hereford steers. None
f these was for competition.
y II R,irpG showed +wp tbprpuob-