Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-08-29
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There were exhibits of the Empire
State, Pine Tree, Human, Perfection
and Universal mixers Green Mt. Silo
and Ensilage blower, Grimm and Yer
mont evaporators, De Laval separa-
tors, Oliver and Moline piows, Nc
Cormack corn harvesters, Starr litter
carriers, water pumps, cattle Sanctions
and a large showing of automobiles in
Guiding the Ford tractor and trucks
and new self starting Ford car, the In
ternatonal truck, the Buick, Chevrolet
Nash, and Scripps-Booth cars
The midway was alive with a dozen
hot dog counters, lemonade and pop
corn BOOTHS and more than score OF
places where the young men and old
ones tried their hand at a large variety
of games of chance and willingly parted
with their money Toy booths, fortune
tellers, Ursa, the Bear Woman, and the
Dion Freak and Wild Animal Show
were other attractions which made the
midway a miniature of Coney Island
The Inside Inn, in charge of Mrs.
Kate Mills of Battell Cottage, fed
thousands of the crowd.
Horticultural Hail. in charge Of
Frank d. Manchester of Cornwall had
a much smaller exhibit than usual but
included good specimens of most of the
varieties of farm products. Among the
notable exhibits were those OF apples,
by c. Leslie Witherell and John Sperry,
potatoes by Horace Dow, vegetables
by Fred Currier, R. w. Sturtevant, and
c. l, Spencer, honey by ]. E. Crane &
Son, F. D. Manchester, and Ordway
and Whalley of Charlotte and maple
sugar by w. E. York of Lincoln, There
were good butter exhibits by Roy
Fletcher of Salisbury, and A. L. Payne
of Bridport. The State Forestry de-
partment had an excellent exhibit of
small trees and there was also a demon
stration by the State Agricultural de-
partment of farm and orchard pests
and how to fight them.
The showing OF draft and general
purpose horses was unusually large.
Noble J. Sanford was superintendent
of this department. The show of Nor
gan horses was especially fine, among
them being a bunch from the Govern
ment Farm in Weybridge. William H.
Todd OF New York who keeps large
stud in the Fair Ground barns the year
round, had some fine animals.
Willis n. Cady in charge OF the cat
tie exhibit had many visitors in his
department where there was fine
showing of Guernseys, Ayrshires, and
Holsteins, and a smaller one of Dur
hams and Jerseys Andrew Elliott of
Gait, Ontario, who was judge of the
cattle, but who had not completed all
OF the judging up to today, said that he
had never seen a better exhibit of
Ayrshires than was shown this year.
The prize for the champion bull was
awarded to an Ayrshire from the Indus
trial School at Nergennes. Mr. Par
ker of Ferrisburg and Mr.. Jewett of
Weybridge were also Ayrshire exhibit
ors, winning a number of prizes. Mr..
Johnson OF Weybridge and the State
Hospital at Waterbury were exhibitors
of Holsteins, while the showing of
Guernseys was by Mr.. Woodbury. of
Chittenden County, Mr.. Reed of Ad-
olson, and Horace Dow of Middebury.
John James and son of Weybridge and
Robert Robbins of Cornwall were eX-
hibitors of Durhams, while Roy Palmer
of Middlebury was the only exhibitor of
a Jersey herd.
The sheep barns were not the scene
of as much activity as has been known
in the old days but there was some in
dication of a revival in this industry
with number of good exhibits under
the superintendency of E. G. Farnham
of Shoreham. The Jackson brothers of
c. L. Witherell Of Middle
bury, and Mr.. Harvey OF Bristol were
the exhibitors.
There were also exhibits of swine, and
an excellent showing in the poultry
house, the latter in charge of W. L.
Hamilton, E. B. Cornwall, president of
the Addison County Farm Bureau, was
one of the large exhibitors in this line.
The State Fish and Game depart
ment established on the grounds an
which presented a remark
ably fine exhibit of some of the game
fish of Vermont lakes and streams, in
Guiding the brook trout, the brown
trout and steel heads from the hatch
cries of Bennington and Roxbury.
Gardner j. Duncan had charge of the
dog show where the exhibitors includ-
ed E. J. Perkins, Mrs A. J. Morris, W.
NJ. Gibson, of East Middlebury, Mrs.
John Mcmahon, B. c. Parker of Fer
Arthur L. Lucia, B. c. Parker,
Of Ferrisburg, H. D. Moore of East
Ira Hamilton. Robert Steele,
and H. H. Robbins.