Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-09-08
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1905.
CONTINUED from Page u
Sixty-First Annual Fair.

readers and need no extended elabora- |
ton. Kemp & Burpee of Syracuse, N,
Y, exhibited manure spreaders; F. A.
Farnsworth & Co., Middlebury, exhibited
plows, moving machines and wire fenc-
ing. The Worcester Kemp manure
spreader, product of the Richardson
Mfg. Co., of Worcester, Mass, and ex-
hibited by Osgood & Roundy, Randolph,
Vt, was on hand, the company showing
a car load lest there be not enough to go
around for exhibition purposes. The
spreader, however, is not designed for
exhibition purposes.
E. H. Thomas, Middlebury's veteran
carriage dealer, occupied about third of
the floor space in mechanics hall with
the most comprehensive and elaborate
display of vehicles that was ever made at
an Addison county fair. The exhibit in
cluded concords, runabouts, Surveys,
light carriages and Glens Falls buck
boards and line of work wagons, the
latter Mr.. Thomas handiwork.
HORTICULTURAL HALL.
While the exhibits of vegetables and
fruits was hardly up to the display of
last season in number the quality this
year was such as to make the exhibition
of farm products worthy of the attention
of every visitor.
Horticultural hall was thronged all of
the three days of the fair and among the
many things to attract attention was the
elaborate decorations within the build
ing. Among the noticeable exhibits
were squashes by B w. Crane of Middle
bury; w. F. Bump, Salisbury; c. A.
Ashley, Middlebury: j. O. Seeley, Mid
dlebury; pumpkins, r. r. Robbins, Corn.
wall; Loren Richards, Middlebury; pota-
toes, G.. E. Russell, East Middlebury;
Louis Goulett, Cornwall; j. f. Adams,
Cornwall. Cornwall onion raisers cap
tured the honors. Salisbury, Cornwall,
Middlebury and Vergennes split even on
grains with some excellent exhibits from
each town. L. B. Foote of Cornwall
took first prize on eitrons and second
money went to Mrs. H. w. Sprague of
Bristol. Some excellent tomatoes were
shown by James Hawker, E. &. Hunt,
Henry G. James, G. d. Bump of Middle
bury, L. B. Foote and Louis Goulett,
Cornwall. F. H. Warner, Middlebury
and R. R. Robbins of Cornwall took the
ribbons on stock beets. A trace of ever
green corn shown by Henry G. James,
Middlebury, took first and G.. S. Church
of Cornwall second.
or seed cucumbers there were all colors
and kinds, G. H. Lane of Cornwall carry
ing off first money. A small display of
peppers by Henry G. James was truly
entitled to the blue ribbon awarded them
H. NJ. Balm of Bristol took the first color
ribbon on maple products with decid-
eddy unique display of sugar and syrup;
second premium went to VIM. York of
Lincoln. The exhibit of cheese was
small. The blue ribbon went to Farm.
ham of Shoreham. T. j. McMurtry
Cornwall took a first on tub butter
Other entry tickets in this department
not bearing exhibitors names we are un
able to state who won premiums.
j. E. Crane & Son, Middlebury, made
large display of comb and extracted
honey which easily won the blue ribbon
To attempt to enumerate the various
exhibits of small fruits would be useless
While the quality was doubtless not W
10 that of last year the exhibits were
large and in apples particularly so. Mrs