1846.] Addison County Agricultural Fair. 333 



ADDISON COUNTY, VERMONT, AGRICULTURAL FAIR. 



Through the kindness of Messrs. William S. Goodrich and E. 

 R. Wright, the secretaries of the day, I am enabled to forward 

 you some account of this fair, which was held on the 18th Octo- 

 ber, inst. Many things were exhibited to give interest to the 

 occasion, w^ithout application for premiums. The following is a 

 list of animals entered in competition for premiums, namely, one 

 7 year old bull, two 3 year old, two 2 year old, seven 1 year old, 

 and one 6 months calf; total, 13 bulls. Twelve dairy cows, two 

 cows and calves, six 2 year old heifers, and nine yearling heifers; 

 total cows and heifers, 29, and calves 2. One pair of 7 year old 

 oxen, six 5 year old, six four year old; seven 3 year old steers, 

 and five two years old; total 50. Total horned cattle, 94. 



Besides these, not offered for premium, one pair of beautiful 

 cherry-red fat oxen exhibited by Mr. Santbrd of Cornwall, I 

 believe, and one mammoth ox, very superior for size, by Mr. 

 Barnes of Addison. 



There were exhibited for premiums, five pairs of matched hor- 

 ses, and three stallions; seventy-one breeding mares and colts, 

 four breeding mares, fourteen 3 year old colts, sixteen 2 year old, 

 thirteen 1 year old, and five sucking colts; in all of horses 107. 

 There was but a small exhibition of swine, probably from the 

 difficulty of getting them on to the ground. There was one very 

 superior boar pig 6 months old, from Bridport, exhibited by H. 

 Hamilton, for which a gratuity of one dollar was given, as he 

 was too young to come within the rules for competition. 



There were two specimens of winter wheat exhibited, one a 

 specimen of Gen. Harmon's white flint, and the other was said to 

 weigh 70 lbs. per bushel. One specimen of the muhicaule rye, of 

 very superior quality. A great number of varieties of seed corn, 

 among which I noticed a superior kind of garden corn, called the 

 calico corn, said to make flour that cannot be distinguished from 

 wheat flour, either by the eye or taste; one other variety of field 

 corn, eight-rowed, that is said to yield greatly, having five ears 

 on a stock, and very early. 



Under the head of miscellaneous articles w^ere squashes, pump- 

 kins, sugar beets, carrots, potatoes, Alabama mustard, waterme- 

 lons, specimens of cocoons, geese, fowls, hats, onions, and withal 

 Mr. J. M. Weeks' perfect apiary. Two valuable merinoes were 

 also examined by the committee of this department; making a 

 total of 55 varieties, besides many others not entered for premi- 

 ums. 



The number of sheep was not so large this year from the con- 

 sideration that the managers offered no premiums for lots of one 

 hundred ewes and lambs, as they did last yeai; so that at the last 



