360 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



This Society owns the land, and buildings thereon, upon 

 which it holds its annual fairs. It is endowed with a perma- 

 nent fund, has a good half mile track, and a large building 

 for the display of articles which require shelter, also pens for 

 the various classes of live stock. The Society has expended 

 about $7,000 in land and fixtures, and is free from debt. 



The Fair was quite successful and well managed, and the 

 articles on exhibition were in great variety and of excellent 

 quality. The fruit was very fine for so unpropitious a season 

 as the last was. In the dairy products, it excelled, as Wind- 

 ham County always does, and the display of grain and 

 vegetables, general and domestic manufactures, and farm 

 implements, was creditable. Also, in the department of do- 

 mestic animals, the exhibition exceeded what we expected to 

 find. The working oxen showed good breeding and careful 

 training, and the cows good milking qualities. Not to partic- 

 ularize further, in this line we must say that our friend Day, 

 of the Board of Agriculture, had the best pen of pigs of their 

 age we ever saw. 



The plowing match was quite a feature in itself, and was 

 sharply contested by from 12 to 15 teams. 



Some idea may be formed of the extent of the exhibition 

 by the number of entries taken from the list, and this num- 

 ber does not cover it, for a single entry often included several 

 articles or animals. In the class including cheese, butter, 

 bread, vegetables and grain, 191 entries; carriages, boots and 

 shoes, and plowing, 49 ; miscellaneous articles, painting, etc., 

 95 ; cattle, sheep, and swine, 167 ; manufactures, 140 ; horses, 

 83 ; fruit and flowers, 137. 



We were much pleased with the evident interest all classes 

 seemed to take in the Fair. Not only the manufacturer with 

 his goods, the farmer with his products, and the laborer re- 

 leased from his toil, were present, but there was a full repre- 

 sentation of their families gathered to enjoy a holiday. 



Thomas A. Mead, of Greenwich, member of the Board for 

 Fairfield County, also visited this Fair, neither of us having 

 been able to visit the Fair of the Woodstock Society, held the 

 week before. But from what we heard of the doings of that 



