370 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The exhibition of vegetables, fruits, &c., at the hall, though 

 not very extensive, was good. The vegetables were all fine, 

 especially the display of potatoes, beets, and turnips. Of the 

 fruit, the apples were the best I have seen this year, and were 

 shown almost wholly in half-bushel baskets. The display of 

 pears and grapes, also flowers, was small, thougli many very 

 creditable specimens were on exhibition. 



Middlesex county has some good, yes, very good butter 

 makers, as was fully attested by the fifteen samples on exhi- 

 bition. Cheese making, judging from the exhibition made, 

 does not receive attention from the farmers of old Middlesex, 

 but two samples being shown. 



The department of fancy and manufactured articles was 

 well fitted and reflected much credit upon the exhibitors. 



WM. H. POND, 



Delegate to Middlesex County. 



TOLLAND COUNTY. 



As a Delegate from the State Board of Agriculture to 

 visit the Tolland County Fair for 1871, I would respectfully 

 report : 



It is a matter of regret to me that so many of the agricul- 

 tural fairs of our state were held on the same days. Wind- 

 ham, New London, and Tolland, adjoining counties, (without 

 mentioning others,) each held their annual fair the same 

 days ; thus precluding friendly visiting and interchange of 

 ideas and experience, which are as necessary to the happiness 

 and prosperity of farmers as they are to any class of men, 

 either mechanics, manufacturers, or professional men. Be- 

 ing an officer in the Windham County Society, I was delayed 

 in my visit to Tolland County, and was only present a part of 

 the last day of the fair. 



This, the nineteenth annual exhibition of Tolland County 

 Agricultural Society, was held at Hyde Park, near the flour- 

 ishing and enterprising village of Rockville, on Wednesday 



