The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-27
CLASSY BOVINES
IN LARGE NUMBER
Cattle Show Satisfying to
Most FastidiOus
Spectators
UTILITY BREEDS
WELL REPRESENTED
Monster HOIstein Bull from State HOspi-
tai at Waterbury Weighs In at $500
-HOlsteins, Jerseys and Ayrshires
Predominant.

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All the available space for the cattle
department at the fair was occupied, and
most of the utility breeds were repre-
scented. Some were in tents as some of
the old stalls were blown down the past
summer. This department was COM
plete show in itself, and measured either
| by general appearance or breeding it was
satisfying to admirers of the best in both
| dairy and beef strains, while in size the
| individual animals varied from a big Hol-
stein-Friesan bull weighing ton and a
quarter to calves which have seen the
light but n few days.
After an absence of several years from
the Valley fair II. w. Severance of Ley
den, Mass, was back again with a herd
of II AyrshireS. Formerly Mr.. Sever
ance and his father specialized in Jer-
seys, but a few years ago a change was
made to AyrshireS, and this was the
first visit to the Valley fair with that
breed. In the string were the three-year-
old bull Weymouth Robin Hood 4th. which
won first premium at Greenfield, NictOrs
Rose Trailmaker, a senior bull calf, and
Is females
f. f. Gammell of West Bratteboro
showed a string of 10 Ayrshires headed by
the 11-year-old bull Douglas of South
TrOphy's Champion of Penhurst and seven
mich cows. Three of the cows were en-
tered in the butter test
John II. Gillette's string of Il head of
Ayrshires from Nottingham was of a
high type of conformation, with the bull
Ringmaster Braeburn Educator, three
years old, as the herd sire. Five cows.
five calves and some heifers comprised the
balance of the Gillette exhibit.
Twenty Brown Swiss made up string
sent from the Green Mountain Farm in
Saxtons River, owned by Attorney f. W.
Morrison, a Boston lawyer. and in charge
of Ernest Patnode.. who carries on the
farm. Burgdorf, aged +, and two young
bulls, six mich cows and a number of
heifers made up this herd, exhibited this
year for the first time, at Rutland and
Brattleboro.
In Jerseys the largest exhibit was made
by A. y. Dunklee K Sons of South Yer
non, proprietors of Walnut Grove Dairy
Farm. They showed - head including
the two-year-old Fancy Oxford Owl and
a younger full brother, also u mich cows
and several twO-yeaT-olds. yearlings and
calves. Dunklee K Sons have 40 JERSEYS
on their farm, making the largest Jersey
nerd In Southeastern Vermont, and they
milk regularly from % to 80 head.
Ebert Lynde Of West Guilford showed
10 head of Jerseys, including a bull two
years old. five mich cows and some Young
stock. This was the only fair he visited
this year. -Four head of Jerseys. embrac-
ing yearling bull, yearling heifer two
year-old heifer and four-year-old COW.
made up the exhibit by Austin Nichols of
West BrattlebOrO.
Judge Frank ID. L. Stowe of West
Brattleboro showed the largest string of
GuernseyS, including II head The bull
Sensation, three years old four Younger
bhiIS and a number of cows, heifers and
calves made up the herd.
Thirteen head of Guernseys were in the
herd shown by \. c. & f. S. Wright of
west BrattleborO aud included the three
year-Old Green Meadow CHALLENGER
grandson of Golden Secret, also n iunior
sire which as a senior yearling won the
grand championship last year Five aged
cows and some heifers and young stock
were in this herd.
Milking Shorth0rnS had but one exbib
ltor, Ray Rand of Saxtons River. whose
string included nine head, u bull, heifers
and calves
As usual in this locality, the Holstein-
triesian breed had larger representation
IMAM any other breed, and the largest ex
hlbit was from the estate of the late Ar
thur Il. Clapp of Brattleboro, a herd of
- head. These will be sold by auction
IN few days At the head was the bull
klng DummerstOn Anchor five wears old
Two younger bulls, seven mich cows
heIiers and calves completed the string.
hlng'S Sadie Vale Hengerveld. three
years old and weighing 1000 pounds
stood at the head of the Holstein herd of
II animals shown by Edgar r. Lowell of
Brattleboro, brought from his farm at
Brockway Mills in Rockingham. A
younger bull, two mich cows and heifers |
and calves We're shown.
Nine young Holsteins were in Arthur
l.. Miller's string from Vernon. Among |
them was the Junior yearling bull King
Alcartra MidwouId.
Two Holstein herds entered for exhibi |
ton only were from the Brattleboro Re
treat and the state insane hospital at
Waterbury. The Retreat bull. Master
piece Butter Boy, eight years old. weighed
2,230 pounds. With the exception of twoI
younger bulls the rest of the herd con-
sisted of aged cows.