FRANKLIN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Secretary's Report. 



The leading feature of our Show this year was the sheep, which 

 were the best ever shown in this county, if not in the State. 

 Those exhibited were mostly Spanish Merinos, of which there were 

 about one hundred and fifty, mostly full bloods, with a few high 

 grades. 



There have been over one hundred full bloods brought into this 

 county within the last eighteen months ; some bucks at a cost of 

 $250, which shear twenty pounds of wool ; also ewes at the price 

 of $100 to $200, which shear from twelve to fifteen pounds, and 

 rear lambs. 



J.M. Bass of Farmington, recently bought one buck and two 

 ewes of Mr. Hammond of Vermont, at a cost of $150. Mr. Bass 

 has a flock of fifty ewes which sheared last June ten pounds each ; 

 these are two full bloods, the others are seven-eighths and fifteen- 

 sixteenths Spanish. There are many other good flocks in this 

 vicinity, among which are those of H. F. Weymouth, William Niles, 

 William Woods, J. F. Woods, J. W. Green, L. T. Green, J. Tit- 

 comb, J. C. Phillips, H. Clark, 



I think there are one thousand sheep within three miles of here 

 that will shear from six pounds to twenty pouuds next June. 



I am aware that these figures look large to some who are used 

 to keeping the long-legged coarse-wooled sheep and getting from 

 two and a half to three pounds per head ; but if they will just give 

 us a call we will soon convince them. 



These sheep are very compact in form, being short-bodied, 

 round-ribbed, short-legged, thick built, hardy constitutioned sheep, 

 well adapted to the hills of Franklin county. 



The show of oxen and steers was not so large in numbers as in 

 some former years, but what they wanted in quantity they made 

 up in quality, rarely seeing so many well matched oxen and steers 

 at our Show. 



