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contained an excellent collection of fabrics, including a large assort- 

 ment of cottons and mixtures from the Mattewan Company j a su- 

 perb display of cloths, consisting of sixty-two different kinds, from the 

 Middlesex Woolen Company, Lowell ; fine carpets from the Thomp- 

 sonville Company, and from C. M. Pelton, A. Ross, and others, of 

 Poughkeepsie. There were specimens of good solid-head pins, made 

 by Mosely, Howard & Co., Poughkeepsie j and models of many use- 

 ful domestic and rural contrivances and machines. \ 



The fourth building, " FARMER'S HALL," was occupied with 

 an exhibition of flour, salt, butter, cheese, sugar, and all coarse arti- 

 cles of domestic production, as well as cooking stoves, fanning mills, 

 washing machines, &c. 



These four buildings, being in one continuous line, and open at the 

 ends, presented a vista 500 feet long, which, with the innumerable ar- 

 ticles there exhibited, and the congregated thousands constantly pass- 

 ing through, gave an extraordinary interest to the scene. 



One of the most truly magnificent objects of the kind ever seen, was 

 the " FARMER'S CAR," from Hyde Park. This vehicle, from the na- 

 ture and style of its decorations, might have been taken as the combined 

 work of the most refined votaries of the divine trio, Ceres, Pomona, and 

 Flora. The body, or frame work, was twenty-six feet in length, by ten 

 in breadth, and twenty in height, covered with a magnificent canopy 

 of evergreen festoons and wreaths, and presenting the form of a 

 sylvan temple, the walls or sides of which were nearly one entire 

 mass of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and farm productions generally, 

 some of them of extraordinary size and excellence. The inside had 

 the appearance of a bower, with rustic chairs made of the grape vine, 

 cedar and oak. These chairs were occupied by ladies and children, 

 who from this cool and agreeable shelter, quietly viewed the sur- 

 rounding scene. The car was drawn by ten yoke of superb oxen 

 from Hyde Park, to which was awarded the premium for the best ten 

 yoke from one town. The color of all was a deep red, with scarcely 

 the variation of a shade — they were well matched in shape and size, 

 and showed much Devon blood. When this splendid car, with its 

 laying colors and coat of arms, first entered the grounds, like a mo- 

 ving miniature temple, among the thousands there assembled the ef- 

 fect and interest produced was almost electric, and several distin- 

 guished persons pronounced it as decidedly superior in design and dis- 

 play, to any thing of the kind they had ever witnessed. It is no 



