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in other channels, still it is as an agricultnrist that he was 

 best known and will be longest remembered — and in closing 

 this very brief and imperfect sketch of his life, we are forced 

 more than ever to admire the man in the mnltiform relations 

 of life. He made little wealth for himself, but from our first 

 knowledge of him devoted his energies to the advantage of 

 others. In his life he was loved and honored, and in his death 

 sincerely mourned. 



REPORTS OP THE DELEGATES TO THE COUNTY 



EXHIBITIONS. 



NEW HAVEN COUNTY. 



As delegate from the Board of Agriculture to visit the Pairs 

 to be held in the County of New Haven in 1871, 1 would sub- 

 mit the following brief report : 



The Milford and Orange fair was held at Milford on the 

 27th and 28th days of September. The Woodbridge and 

 Bethany fair was held on the 28th day of September. Both 

 of the above fairs I was unable to visit in consequence of i]*'ior 

 engagements. 



The Union fair was appointed at Morse's Trotting Park, in 

 Wallingford, on the 10th and 11th days of October, which fair 

 I visited on the 10th, but owing to the 11th being rainy, it 

 was put over until a future day. 



The exhibition of Trains of Cattle was in a field near the 

 park, where there was one train of 62 pairs of oxen from the 

 East Parms, Wallingford, one train of 46 pairs from Meriden, 

 and one train of 44 pairs from Cheshire. The oxe'n were 

 most of them very good ones, and many of the pairs were 

 very heavy ; large, finely made, closely matched, mostly of the 

 deep red color for which Connecticut cattle have been noted. 

 There were also a few pairs and single fat cattle, which were 



