St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-11
Big County Fair in Progress
Wonderful Exhibits of Horses and CattIe-Good Racing
Program-Aeropiane Exhibitions Base Ball
Scheduled For Friday.
Brown Swiss Cattle

Brown Swiss Cattle
The only Brown Swiss are those
from Speedwen Farms and to any
judge of cattle it would seem foolish
indeed for any ordinary exhibitor to
show against this magnificent herd.
The herd is headed by the bull
Speedwell, and includes IA head.
There are five mich cows and sever
al younger ribbon getters. The COW
Hirz is again with the herd and her
record OF 1913 pounds of butter and
/ IA, 200 pounds of milk in a year is
bound to make the doubters prick
up their ears.
Big Show of Jerseys
There is one of the largest exhib-
| its of Jerseys for years, including 13
head from the BroadvieW farm at
lGuildhall, A. A. Gray, proprietor.
The Harley Farm at Belmont send
herd of 10, including two bulls, a
yearling bull, two bull calves, four
heifer calves, two yearling heifers
and eight COWS. This herd has been
shown at Salem, Middlebury and
Rutland this year and with good sue
cess.
The Fernwood Farm at Litchfield,
Conn, is also represented by a herd
of Jerseys that is bound to be taken
seriously in the final judging. There
are II fine specimens and at Hart
ford they annexed among other
trophies the championship on a milch
herd of four COWS.
A. Rutledge of Concord has a Jer-
sey bull calf at the show.
R. H. Briggs of the Elmdale Farm
-Brattleboro is a Guernsey man
and rightly so considering the sue
cess he has had at the various shows
where his herd has been shown. His
stable is decorated with reds and
blues and as he has practically an
open field here there is no reason
why several more will not be added,
but from the looks of the herd, it
would be difficult to keep the rib
bons from him even with competi-
ton.
The Marston stock farm of Or
ford, N. H., and E. E. Gile of Fay
cite, Me-, are exhibitors of Here
fords who are showing fine herds
These are old exhibitors here and
their stables are always popular with
cattle fanciers.
Shorthorns are exhibited by
George G. Cary, whose herd has just
returned from Rutland and F. A.
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Mt. Vernon, Me. Although there is
not much competition in this class
the showing is good and bound to at
tract attention.
w. A. Kicker has 46 head of OK
en- to add to the general total of the
cattle exhibit and there are a few
pairs from the Cary farm
A Great Horse Show
It'll.
those of the larger cities with Nor
gans, coach horses, percherons,
Welsh ponies and standards all rep
resented. AS usual the Speedwell |
farms have the largest showing in
this department. They show four
coach horses which will be shown on
the track in variohs bitches, and a |
ladies' saddle horse Ell |
egant II, which will be put through |
his PAGES for the benefit of the
The II WeIch ponies
include Llwyn B1ackbird, No. so, a |
sure ribbon getter and the four
Dyfed, Mydskin, Givigan,
Towy, and Linney which are
sure to interest the children, both
old and young, when exhibited on the
track. The Speedwel1 showing also
includes six percherons, with the
famous Hyago at the head and in
the trophy room of their stables are
on exhibition 16 silver cups, % blue
ribbons, 10 reds and 2 yellows,
which leads one to think that this
exhibition will, to say the least, be
worth looking over.
George G. Cary and Fred j. Frye
of Danville also show Welch ponies.
Other County Horses
W. ]. Smith of the ingalls, farm
in Sheffield has Cecil l., 6034, four
years old, a son of Young Gen. Gift
ford, Elmer E., 6035, by Lyndon, |
and Allan H., 6527, a son of Ethan
Allen 3rd, in his stables and from
their records these pure bred Nor
gans will not be passed in the judg-
ing. Black Bess is the dam of all
three and she with Allan H. and Ce- |
Gil 1. won the silver cup at White
River Junction last year for mare
with two of her get. Allan H., also |
carried away the $25 special prize
here last year.
D. H. Smith of Stannard shows the
Morgan Gen. Stannard, 6546. He is
a two year old and a good locker,
sired by Lyndon.
Drivers are shown by z. 2. Lee of
East ST. Johnsbury, Jefferson Welch |
of East Burke, H. A. Folsom of Bar
ton, Minnie Jones of LyndonVille and \
Fred A. Lewis of Concord.
The draft horses are shown by l
William Bedard and Gilman Bros
The Gilmans have also erected a
stable on the east side of the ground
where draft horses are on sale.
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