The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-13
STATE FAIR
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Cool1in, White River Junction L
class u. S. Cookers and Gamers
Misses Dorothy Clafiin and Margaret
Stacy; the fifth is mentioned below
Each club receives $25 as a premium
Out of these five successful clubs the
State pays the expenses of trip to
the Springfield Exposition of Massa-
chusetts as special prize to the two
clubs attaining the highest point in
excellence and the winners of these
prizes were the Handy Gamers OF
West Rutland, and the Wide Awake
Club of st. Johnsbury. But through
the courtesy of the Springfield Ex-
position the expenses of the three
other clubs will be paid so that eight
of nine clubs will go from this state
there, the Vermont State Bankers
Association and others interested in
the work contributing the funds for
the other three or four clubs ex-
pense. These additional teams are
the Sewing Club of Pittsford for
Judging, the White River Junction
Club for judging, and the Vegetable
Packing Demonstration Club of
Brandon, Gardening.
The fifth winner of the State pre-
miums was the Pittsford Rural Rush
ers Poultry Club who gave an illus
tration of killing and picking chick
en-, describing in detail the process as
they went along. The fowl was live
one and the team comprised the
butcher, Clinton Pratt, and assist
ants Francis Timber, and John Con-
way, the first two picking the feath-
ers. The demonstration began at 2
o'clock and in ten minutes the fowl
was killed and plucked, the boys all
the time explaining the process. The
Sweepstakes prize in canning went
to Miss Lucille Henderson of White
River junction who showed 88 cans
of 10 varieties.
AS the cavalcade was about to
circle the track in the afternoon,
Starter Pike announced from the
Judges Stand that committee of
three ladies, Mrs. Fred Bickford,
Mrs. George Mann and Mrs. Fred l..
Davis had been selected to award
special premium for the best banner
for both horses and cattle doing the
judging as the cavalcade passed the
Grand Stand. Later he announced
their decision as follows: For hors-
es c, c. Stillman, Cornwall, N. Y,
LIST; H. R. C Watson of Brandon I'd;
r. A. Darling, East Burke, Bird.
For cattle, Spencer Borden, Wood
stock, LIST, j. Saladine, Oxford, N. H.,
I'd, and Vt. Industrial School of
Vergennes, Sd, also announcing they
were to be known as the Junction
House Specials coming from Major
N. P. Wheeler, proprietor.
Among the cattle exhibit which
has not been previously mentioned as
the herd of the Vermont State Hos
pital of Waterbury who have five
mead of Holstein Friesian cattle led
by the big bull, King Klondike Ida
VIENNA This exhibit has taken the
Sr. Grand Champion, Jr. Grand
Champion and Grand Champion bull
prizes here and similar prizes at the
recent fair at Rutland, in fact they
have four LIST premium winners and
one I'd, r. Esthenheimer, Herdsman
at the farm is in charge.
Another in the sheep exhibit from
Great Woods Farm of Plainfield
He has recently brought 90
Shropshires from England, one of
the animals taking third prize at the
Royal exhibit in England, while at
Worcester the exhibit carried away
three first prizes.
A glance in the Machinery build
ing and sheds would indicate that
soon horses will be no longer used as
1 motive power on the farm. Not
only are there engines shown for al
most every conceivable purpose, at
tachments to put upon your tin Liz
zie to grind grain, saw wood, and do
the wash and ironing and churning
but the different tractors for plough
ing and doing farm work are sup
plemented by cultivators and lawn
mowers equipped with motor on
the machine making it only necessary
to hold the handles and guido the
machine while the motor does the
rest. Even the good old fashioned
husking bee seems to be doomed by
the looks of the corn husking ma
chinery exhibited while the milking
hired men. Here also the sugar max
ing equipments, so different from
the old kettle of olden time reminds
one of the superior excellence now
a-days of Vermont maple sugar. The
combined exhibit of these utensils
for the Monarch and Bellows Falls
evaporators and sugar tools is now
under the Vermont Farm Machine
Co., they having purchased that part
of the business of True & Blanchard
of Vermont.
The unexpected rain which flooded
the grounds and led the Commission
to call the fair off for this year pre-
vented getting all the information in
tended regarding the awards for the
State cups among the Morgan exhib7
it. The stallion "Ben Eldridge" owlt.
ed by H. A. Smalley & Co., of Nor
risville won not only great praise but
against strong competitors won rib
honc q 6 wall onJ opo+ba, M o,,oox, n y,