St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-09-06
COUNTY FAIR
In PROGRESS
Good Exhibition And Full Program
To Be Crowded Into Today And
Tomorrow
BIG CATTLE SHOW
Long Strings of Fine Oxen Shown by
w. A. Kicker and George G. Cary
Best Show Ever Made in Floral
HaH-Grangers in Contest
Good Racing Promised.

Caledonia County Fair is certainly
playing in hard luck this year. It
planned the first of its three days
exhibition as children's day, but yes
terday if a child appeared at the gates
the management had to drive him
away on account of the order Of the
state board of health forbidding the
! admission of any child under Is
years of age. So the children or their
parents were not present Then the
management arranged to have seven
carloads OF cattle that were exhibited
| at the Morrisville fair come here for
exhibition. But the threat of a freight
strike and the resulting embargo on
| freight seemed to block the way for
| the exhibitors to get their stock away
from here, and of course they did not
| come. Certainly the management is
! entitled to tell a hard luck story and
should be given a liberal patronage
today and Thursday to help them out
of their financial difficulties.
Despite all the discoura gements
there is a good exhibition of cattle on
the grounds, floral hall shelters the
best exhibit of its history. a list of
21 horses are ready to start in the five
races and the characters are ready to
produce the thrills of a hazardous
chariot race. There will be as good
an exhibition as has been prepared in
northern Vermont for any who desire
to attend
In the Cattle Sheds
George G. Cary and w. A. Kicker
are again exhibitors at the fair. Mr.
Kicker has a sstring of 10 pairs of
fancy oxen that delight the eye of
any lover of cattle. Mr.. Cary had |
four yokes Of oxen on the groundsl
yesterday morning and was looking
for another pair so he could compete |
with Mr.. Kicker for the prizes for a |
town string of five pairs
Every stall in the cattle sheds is
filled with cattle. Mr. Cary in all
has 29 head of cattle there, consisting
Of shorthorns. devons and holsteins
He has some excellent cows in all
three breeds.
William Cassidy of Goss Hollow
shows the yearling steers that he had
on the ground last year as trained
steers. Beside him is a neighbor, AL
ton Lambert, who shows a holstein
bull calf.
A J. Higgins of this town has IT
head of his famous beef cattle. pure
bred Herefords. and they make a fine
showing.
Nineteen head of Dutch Belted cat
tie are shown by Lake View Farm of
Tolland, Conn. These are the only
cattle from outside the state on the
grounds
E. A Darling of East Burke has six
head of registered Jerseys on exhibit
ton. a fine lot of cattle Of the Island
Of Jersey type.
Just beyond these cattle are IL head
Of pure bred Jerseys from the farm of
D. L. Grapes & Sons. At the head of
this herd is the four-year-old bull,
Gadley's Duke, who won the grand
sweepstakes at the Morrisville fair.
He also has some imported COWS and
makes much better showing than
last year.
Don D. Gray shows 10 Ayshires of
different ages and sexes and c. B.
Stevens has a herd of 19 Ayshires on
exhibition. Some Of them are ami {
mails he intends to exhibit at the ma
tional livestock show in Springfield, !
Mass.
William Bedoir of Goss Hollow and I
George Bedoir Of North Danville each
have some nice holstein cws that add
to the quality of the cattle show
The judging of cattle will begin this
morning and then people will know I
who are the prize exhibitors I
In Floral Hall.
The unusual feature in Floral hall f
is the contest by the different oranges L
Of this section. The oranges repre- g
sented are, Enterprise Grange, No. 16, e
Passumpsic Grange. No. 322, Concord i
Grange, No. 408, Green Mountain h
Grange, No. 1, and Wide Awake s
Grange, No. Sc. Each grange has a O
booth tastefully decorated and in it I
shows many articles illustrating the h
good housekeeping to be found in the b
modern farm homes. If you enjoy /,
beauty, fine foods and good husbandry h
be sure to visit the grange booths q
Another feature is the large pro- 8
portion of space occupied by exhibi-
tors. Years past it has appeared more c
ike hucksters' auction, but this year O
most of the room is occupied by ex- +,
hibits of quality. 4
In vegetables, E. H. Hallett. J. C. 7
Rasicot and Elmer Carr are the 1arg- 2
est exhibitors and in their section one =
IAN see the greatest variety of prod a
1cts from ST Johnsbury soil to be u
found anywhere
Arthur and Perley Pierce of DAN S
yille also show some fine specimens q
If farm crops and have some things Il
new to this section. One is Sudan Ii
grass, and another is Feterre. some e
hing like sorghum. z
County Agent Wood is in charge of 8