Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-09-14

made in the household department.
In some instances work of superior
merit and worth are awarded trifl-
ing sum and articles of no particular
value or merit receive equal pre-
miums. This condition should not
exist. In the departments devoted
to live stock, farm and dairy products
the awards are made on the merit of
the animal or article and it is only
just that the same discrimination
should be made here.
In addition to the exhibits for pre-
miums in Floral Hall there were many
other things to attract attention.
Some of the local merchants took
advantage of this excellent chance to
advertise their goods by making a
beautiful display of certain lines.
Among them we noticed Mr.. G. @.
Lang, the jeweler and optician, Mrs.
s. ID Stone, millinery, Miss L. g. Col
burne, millinery, A. R. CowIes. musi-
cal instruments, @. A. Barrows, waists.
skirts, furs, etc. Bailey Music Rooms,
s.. Johnsbury, A. R Moulton, West
Derby, musical instruments. j. w.
Murkland showed good line of fur
naces. The Worcester Salt Co. was
represented by E. E. McCaffery
of Boston; Fred Whitcher made a
large showing offarming implements,
representing several different COM
panies. D. Cochran of Jericho rep
resented the Geo. D. Jarvis Co. of
Burlington. John Keir of Craftsbury
showed some sugar arches and evap-
orators, being represented by Frank
Day of Glover; the Leader Evapora-
tor Co. was represented by w. L.
Taylor of Montgomery. Taplin &
Rowell of Barton Landing made a
good exhibit of wagons. The DeLaval
Separator Go. showed dairy tools.
The Empire Cream Separator Co. was
represented by j. j. LABEL of Coven-
try, the Kreeland Omega Cream Sep
arator Co. by F. A. Green of New
bury.
HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP, AND SWINE.
AS we have already stated the ex-
of stock was the largest ever
shown on the grounds. In the horse
department. an especially large and
good showing was made of mares
with colts at side. In single drivers
only two teams appeared in the con-
test and the showing of double
drivers was smaller than usual, but
the total number of entries far ex-
celled former years. The standard of
the stock shown was higher than
usual also.
In tho cattle department an es-
pecially noticeable thing was the large
showing of oxen. In recent years
the exhibition of oxen has been very
small, but this year was an exception
as there was the largest number of
entries the writer has ever seen upon
the grounds. The showing of JERSEY
cattle was very small, much smaller
than usual. There is sufficient
amount of Jersey stock owned in this
county to make an excellent exhibit
ton if the best of it could be shown.
but those who own this stock do not
appear interested in showing the
same. This seems strange as the fair
affords every owner of high grade
stock an excellent chance to adver-
Use the same and farmers who live
within a reasonable distance should |
Jake advantage of the opportunity.
There was fair showing of other |
cattle, perhaps about the usual num-
Der, and the standard compared |
avorably with former exhibitions.
Owing to the change IN the rules by
which people were allowed to exhibit
native cattle it was expected that a
arge showing would be made but
many of the farmers apparently did
lot understand about the change and
allied to take advantage of this
opportunity to show what they are
ioing. We trust that another year
here will be large line of good
native cattle on exhibition.
In the sheep department the exhi-
'ition was much larger than usual,
md would compare very favorably
With the best exhibitions of sheep
'ver made upon the grounds Not
'nly was there a large number of
entries but the animals were good
mes and attracted the attention of
many spectators.
The showing of swine was fully as
,ood as last year, which at that time
vas a record breaker. The little
ooters were of especial interest to
he children, who flocked around to
ee them. There was time when the
Exhibition in this department. was
'ery small, but it is now on the in.