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abled to express Iheir preference for a fi^vorite locality, at the 

 same time that thej entitle themselves to the privileges attendant 

 upon membership. Since the society has adopted this manner of 

 settling the location of its fair, it has been enabled to extend its 

 premium list, to increase the value and variety of its premiums, 

 to provide increased conveniences for the comfort of exhibitors 

 and the public, and thereby to make the occasion one of real in- 

 terest and importance. The number, of persons in attendance 

 upon our last fair is believed to be greater than was ever called out 

 before, on any occasion, in this county. The enclosure of our 

 exhibition grounds, and the collection of an admission fee from 

 persons not members'^of the society, is another new, and we be- 

 lieve satisfactory feature of the present policy of the society. 

 We find very few persons unwilling to pay a shilling into our 

 treasury for their admission into our grounds, while we are en- 

 abled to shut out the few persons whose intemperance and kindred 

 vices make them unpleasant companions on public occasions 

 Our enclosures are also safe deposits for animals or articles on 

 exhibition. 



Delaware county, as a grazing region, 'is in no particular behind 

 the most favored locality, and its butter competes successfully in 

 our markets with the renowned " Goshen ;'' and yet we are mor- 

 tified to record that the show of our staple product was meager 

 indeed. Very many of our dairies, delivered at tide water, have 

 brought 30 cents per lb, this season, and yet a stranger in attend- 

 ance upon our fair would hardly have guessed, from any thing he 

 saw there, that we deserved, or were proud of the reputation of 

 our dairy products. The exhibition of cattle was good. Henry 

 Bowie, Esq., of Andes, exhibited a superior Durham bull, out of 

 « Marius." S. A. & J. A. Law, of Meredith, exhibited their 

 Devon bull " Cogniac," and the show of pure bred and grade cat- 

 tle was admitted to be the best ever made in the county. Some 

 good pairs of working oxen wf^T-n on exhibition, but as a whole 

 • this feature of the exhibition \s . not what it might and should 

 have been in a county where good ox t*^ams are so numerous as 

 in this. The exhibition of horses was numerous, and the animals 

 such as are suited to our wants, rathi^r than to the fancy of sport- 

 ing men. Many of them were really beautiful animals. Sheep 



