SAGADAHOC COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Secretary's Report. 



The Sagadahoc Agricultural and Horticultural Society now em- 

 braces two hundred and eight members, seventy-five being added 

 the past year. At the annual meeting of the Society in 1862, am 

 alteration was made in the by-laws as to what should constitute 

 membership, which will explain why the number of members now 

 reported is less than in former years, having begun as it were 

 anew. And we find by the change that the members are more 

 interested in the welfare of the Society. 



Our Annual Exhibition was held upon the Society's grounds, 

 Topsham, October 13th, 14th and 15th, all of them favorable days, 

 which induced a much larger attendance than usual, especially the 

 last day. 



The show of stock was remarkably good. Of oxen and steers 

 there were fifty pairs, all well matched in shape and color, and a 

 large portion of them were very superior, showing an improvement 

 from the last exhibition ; and when we consider that the largest 

 portion of them were exhibited by the farmers of Topsham, and by 

 farmers not more than five miles from the grounds, how much 

 larger and more interesting would be the exhibition, if the farmers 

 in the towns of Brunswick, Bowdoinham, Bath, Richmond, and the 

 other towns in the Society would generally bring out their teams, 

 for we had evidence that they had good teams, from the few speci- 

 mens that the most enterprising farmers of some of the above 

 named towns exhibited. Especially worthy of mention were the 

 three yokes of steers by Mr. G. L. Berry of Georgetown, perhaps 

 the most distant farmer in the Society. Of cows and heifers thir- 

 ty-four were exhibited from the towns of Brunswick, Bowdoinham, 

 and Topsham, many of them very good animals. Farmers in this 

 vicinity are not partial to any particular distinct breed ; the larger 

 portion of those exhibited were Durham grade. Some Devon 



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