STOCK AND AETICLES EXHIBITED. 



The Stock Department was highly satisfactory; taken 

 as a whole it has seldom been surpassed at any previous 

 State Exhibition. The working cattle in numbers and gen- 

 eral excellence were much superior to any show except 

 that of 1854, at Keene. They included county, town and 

 single teams. Cheshire county took the lead, having ten 

 yokes of the 'best oxen on the ground, all of a color and 

 nearly of the same age. Merrimack county ranked second, 

 having an equal number of noble animals, while the town 

 teams were very numerous, and excellent. Single teams 

 surpassed, in numbers and in perfection of form, and in 

 size and symmetry, the most sanguine expectations of the 

 managers of the Fair. 



Of dairy stock, the Devon prevailed, though there were 

 some animals of the Durham, Ayrshire and mixed breeds. 

 The pure animals were very fine, aud it has been frequently 

 noticed, the young stock showed most prominently meri- 

 torious points. Among the stock of this cluss worthy of 

 notice were the Devon and native cattle of Mr. Cogswell 

 Dudley, of Pembroke. Every one almost in New Hamp- 

 shire and Massachusetts who has attended recent fairs, has 

 seen the monster cow exhibited by Mr. Shepherd of the 

 Manchester House, Manchester. She was bred by Mr. 

 Dudley, and some of the same stock includiug one of her 

 progeny, were exhibited by hiin. This latter, a heifer, bids 

 fair to excel her mother in size and obesity. Mr. Dudley's 

 lots of young Devon and native cattle were the largest, 

 aud the best on the field. The pens of native cows looked 



