APPENDIX. XXXV 



heifer, in the herd of Samuel Fisk & Son, weighed 1,410 pounds, 

 and six pairs of steers from the same herd weighed in the ag- 

 gregate 15,465 pounds, and one pair, three years okl, brought down 

 the scales at 3,200 pounds. 



The herd of Mr. T. M. Stoughton, of Gill, consisted of forty full- 

 blooded Jerseys. On fourteen of his cows he had placed small 

 silver bells, so selected as to chime, and the harmonious tinkling, as 

 they grazed on the fair grounds, gave additional charms to the ex- 

 hibition. On the morning of the second day of the Fair, by invita- 

 tion of Mr. Thomas J. Field, an ex-member of the Board, we rode to 

 Mr. Stoughton's flirm to examine his herd more minutely. We 

 found the home, the farm, and the hei-d, all chiming together as har- 

 moniously as did the bells on the pretty Jerseys that were feeding 

 near by in the meadow. Could Virgil have witnessed this scene, 

 our High School students would have had one more Bucolic to 

 study. We had heard before of the poetry of a farmer's life, but 

 here Ave heard the music set to the poetry. The sight of a spacious 

 and comfortable farm house, with ample and convenient barns, and 

 forty fown-like Jerseys grazing in an adjacent meadow, are enough 

 to fill the eye of any farmer; and if in addition to this the tinkling 

 of a chime of bells is constantly sounding in his ear, he will be con- 

 vinced that farm life is not without its poetry and its music. These 

 little Jerseys give milk of the richest quality ; many of Mr. Stough- 

 ton's cows furnishing two pounds of butter daily, which commands 

 a price far in advance of the market quotations. 



Shelburne furnished for the exhibition a string of fifty-five pairs 

 of oxen and steers, and of these there were forty pairs that averaged 

 3,770 pounds to the pair, the heaviest, belonging to the brothers 

 Anderson, weighing 4,800 pounds. In the Deerfield string of thirty- 

 two pairs, all heavy and symmetrical, there was one pair owned by 

 the McClellans that weighed 4,985 pounds. These are tall figures, 

 but the cattle were both tall and broad. The whole exhibition was 

 so excellent that we are conscious we cannot do justice to it. To 

 appreciate such a fair it must be seen. We were glad to see a pure 

 cattle show attracting so much attention and enlisting so much en- 

 thusiasm and competition. It has been said and believed by some, 

 that our cattle shows must be run by horses to draw the crowd and 

 make them pay, but the grass was growing on the track of the 

 Franklin County grounds, and the cattle, not the horses, were " the 

 observed of all observers." 



Dr. J. R. Nichols, editor of " The Journal of Chemistry," gave the 

 address, which was at once scientific and practical, just such as should 

 edify and enlighten all gatherings of farmers. 



