Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-08-30
UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS
Years. Attendance Large, Races
Fast, Ball Games Good.

Years. Attendance Large, Races
Fast, Ball Games Good.
Everyone came to the Orleans County
fair this year and went away satisfied.
At least there were never so many
compliments and so few kicks. The
attendance was large, about 5000 on
Wednesday and 1000 on Thursday.
Although the day for entries, Tues
day, was extremely hot and resulted in
a slight decrease in the number of live
stock entries because of the fear of
injuring fine animals, there has not
been better showing of local animals
on the grounds for long time if ever.
The show was by local breeders, as the
premium awards will show in this
issue, and to which we direct the
attention of our reader for further
particulars regarding this feature.
The vaudeville features on the stage
were of unusually high order and drew
great applause from the audience and
drew many personal words of COM
mendation. 1t was clean and extreme
ly good. The balloon ascensions were
good and the parachute drops better
than usual, although some of the Won
derful stunts promised by the balloon
ist were not seen.
The ball games were both won by
North Troy, the one on Wednesday
from Lyndonville by score of 5 to
and that on Thursday from Irasburg
by score of to 0. The feature of
the first game was the pitching of Ray
Collins of Burlington, former famous
| southpaw from the Boston REQ Sox.
| The racing summary gives the
detail of the racing events which
were fast and in many instances went
extra heats.
There were more than a thousand
entries in floral hall this year. the
i largest number ever registered. The
| exhibit of needlework was of very fine
| quality and many remarks were heard
! from people, who have attended other
fairs, that this exhibit was the finest
ever seen in Vermont. The superin-
| tendents were at disadvantage in not
being able to display the work on
account Of space. This department is
steadily growing and by the large
number of people who visit it, seems
to be the most popular place on the
! fair ground, especially with the ladies.
| What is much needed in this Depart
ment is more space and more money to
be used for premiums.
The boys stock judging contest was
! held Wednesday, Aug. % at 10 30 a.
m. Seven boys entered this and all
did very creditabIe work. Four class
es Of stock were urged, namely, a
class Of Jersey cows. d class of Ayr
snire cows, also class of work horses,
and one of Shropshire sheep. The boys
placed the animals in each class, one,
two, three and four and gave their
reasons on placing blank supplied by
the superintendent in charge. G.. r.
Carlton, of the Vermont agricultural
extension service acted as superinten-
dent and judge and as soon as the boys
had finished class, he placed them
and gave his reasons for placing. The
prizes were awarded as follows: Floyd
Taylor, Glover, first prize of $40;
Clyde Bean of Glover, second prize of
prize of SIS and Peter Salmon, West
Glover, fourth prize of S3 Raymond
Wheelock of Mansonviile. Que, entered
. the contest and did excellent work, but
his paper had to be discarded as the
rules limited the contest to Vermont
boys.
One corner of floral hall was oc-
cupied by the exhibits of the Orleans
; County Agricultural association and
the Vermont Agricultural Extension
, service, the former being in charge of
!, Ray Deuel., county agent, and the
!, latter, C.. R. Carlton. Mr.. Deuel. had
some interesting results showing the
benefits derived from topdressing
meadows with chemicals, also some eX-
|, cellent specimens of alfalfa and silage
4 corn. He also exhibited a one horse
> sprayer for use in orchards, potato
: fields. oat fields, etc., as a good type
: for farmers to purchase. The exten-
y cIn Chn a0ll of
! charts vividly portraying the latest
suggestions in regard to feeding
stock, raising alfalfa and potatoes,
care Of poultry, etc. A series of maps
showing the work of the extension
service in Vermont during the past
three years, was also shown. A
model poultry house with roosts, nests,
etc. complete and perfect in all de-
tails, attracted much attention. Of
interest to the ladies was homemade
fireless cooker, with directions for
making same. A shadow box with a
lantern showed slides during large
part of the time and about 200 slides
on different subjects of agricultural
interest were shown.
There were an" even dozen babies
entered in the baby contest. The
judges, Drs. Prime of Barton, Ian
phear Of Orleans and Buck of Glover
awarded the $40 in gold to Stanley H. !,
fve-months-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Homer Coburn of Newport Center.
The SIS in gold was awarded to Hazel
elizabeth, five-months-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn Anderson of Glover
and the S2.5 in gold was awarded
Charles T., six-months old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis Prescott of Barton.
Premium AWARDS in full begin on
page two of this issue.
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