Sheep Breeders Show

New Ipswich Historical Society

Marion Davis Audio-Tape Transcriptions

Sometime before her death in 1986, Marion Davis recorded her memories at the encouragement of her brother, Walter Buck. The recordings were transcribed by a secretary.

The Friends of Wapack have made these available to the Historical Society. Marion was born on February 8, 1894 in Fitchburg, MA.

Sheep Breeder Assn.

The president of the N.E. Sheepbreeders Assn. said that the people in Lyndeboro that owned a big sheep farm there (I wish i could remember their names) wanted to give a big sheep show So they contacted Mr. Robbins to see if he could arrange to get about 400 or 500 people to come to an exhibition of sheep and the way they were raising them there and so forth. Frank said, "Yes, I can get you 500 easy--and the governor also." So he went to work on it. Also they furnished lunches for all this crowd. Caterers came, and I remember they had more people than they counted on and they had to send for more food. They had beautiful barns there so the lunches were set up on the barn floor. They must have had plenty of help because things were very clean. They brought in 200 goats from Texas to clean up some pasture- land and we went over to see that. It was surprising what an amount of work they did. They were big goats, big white goats. They had trimmed gray birches and they could even get at them by jumping up and putting their front feet against them leaning them over so that others fed on that. They were sure doing a wonderful cleanup job. In the afternoon after all the people had had all the eats they could put away we had a sheep shearing exhibition. The governor had arrived so they have him the "sheephead" to shear a sheep that was partially done so he did a little more shearing on that. Later on we had that sheep pelt. That will be an interesting feature later on in my program.

Photo Archives

I suspect this photo was taken at Appleton Academy. It had fencing with granite pillars and chains. Could the woman be a teacher. What’s with the beads?

James Roger diary entry & pullet count

16th December 1912

Frosty and fair, wind westerly. David & Daniel clearing up lumber at Fox place. I went to mail in afternoon; got letters from Jessie, Hamish and Jean. Sent letter with six dollars to Roslin for the White Memorial fund. Got some tablets from Arthur Wheeler today. Pullets 4.

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