The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-11
STATE FAIR OPENS
EARLY ON TUESDAY
Everything Is In Place and No Depart
ment is Lagging-There Are Two
Trotting Events for the
Opening Day.

White River Junction, Sept. 1.-THE
tenth annual exhibition of the Vermont
state fair will open here tomorrow. Ev'
erything is in place for the opening day
No department is tagging With the
rising of the sun on the morrow the
gates will be thrown open to the public
with lirst-clas exhibition awaiting the
crowds of sightseeing, amusement seek
ers sure to come
The State fair commission has been
generous in its premiums and this has
brought hosts OF exhibitors in every de.
partment Track events will be strong
feature of this years event More and
faster horses have been entered in all
events and the trotting loving public viii
find that their love for the trot will be
amply satisfied.
President Estee of the State fair com
mission is giving his personal direction
TO things and with Secretary Davis Is
exerting every effort to make this event
the crownng one.
The Vermont State fair has won an
enyiable reputation as cattle show. 1t
may be stated that the cattle exhibit
to be seen this year is superior to any
previous State fair, both al to numbers
and quality OF stock The Morgan horse
display will be up to former years, with
many new exhibitors.
With good weather the attendance is
expected TO exceed that OF any previous
fair held here, and this despite the rul-
ing Of the state board of health that ad-
missions must not be granted children
under Is years of age.
The two trotting events on the open
ing day will be 2;l7 trot and 2:2S
pace.
The Judging of cattle and horses will
begin to morrow at Q o'clock
In the horse exhibit there are 225 en-
tries OF which ll6 are Morgans, IS are
draught horses, Is standard bred, ID ex-
hibition other than those OF regular
classes, 10 Welsh and ) other ponies, O
Percheron, 3 Suffolk Punch, and Bel !
gians. A big feature is over fifteen en-
tries for the state cup on single drivers. I
The strings of f. A. Darling, A. +. Phil |
lips, II. X. G. Watson, and the Eyarts I
farm with those OF H. s. Wardner are
among the Morgan exhibit with many I
new ones. Mrs. Dunbar with her stand I
ard bred string, and W. R. Brown of
Berlin \. H., with an exhibit OF saddle
Arab horses, are features in the horse
,xhibit, as well as the magnificent Per
heron stallion and mares, and Belgian
tailions and mares with foals, belong
ng TO the Balsam Stock farms of Dix
lille Notch. \. H.
The exhibit OF sheep include, Hamp.
ire Downs. Southdowns, Cheviots, Mer
nos, Shropshires, Leicesters, oxford
Downs, Cotswolds, Horned Dorsets and
the latter entry beinf
rom the farm of j. l.. Norris, jr., OF
4yndonville and the ones of that class
hown. Other exhibitors OF sheep are
), L. Compton, No Clarendon, Fillmore
arms of Bennington, J. c. S. Hamilton
'ridport. NJ. Hannah. Brownsville, Jack
on Brothers Nergennes, Long Branch I
arm of Bowdoinham, Me, the latter :
aving 81 head and showing seven dif- q
arent breeds, An event during the fair Z
ill be the sale of Southdowns at auc- t
ION OF the surplus stock on the govern {
rent farm at Middlebury, Vt. /
The swine exhibit comprises Poland
hina, Berkshire, Chester White. Jersey |
ed, and Mule Foot breeds, and are !
lown by w. H. Aldrich, Billings farms I
farms. A. P. Dunsmore, A. G..
oitt, C. A. Neal, Otis Hill farm, c. T. o
ierce. G. II. Savage. DR.. Fl. c. Tinkham, e
pway farms, S. d. Wright and F. ". :
Urban. d
Over 500 head OF cattle are shown of '
lie different breeds, and this exhibit in t
udes sixty head of oxen +