FRANKLIN" COUNTY SOCIETY. £91 



fail to make full and complete reports of all ''matters and things 

 that may be given them in charge." 



Our Society has now voted to permanently locate, and put up 

 suitable fences, yards, stalls and buildings. After these things shall 

 be done, if we do not make a better showing in your reports of the 

 " Transactions of Agricultural Societies," I beg the State will with- 

 hold its bounty from the "Franklin County Agricultural Society." 



Very respectfully, 

 ' Your most ob't serv't, 



A. B. Farwell. 



The report referred to above, is as follows : 



" This Society now embraces two hundred and thirty-two mem- 

 bers. Its annual exhibition was held at Farmington on the 8th and 

 9th days of October. The exhibition of animals was not equal to 

 last year, owing, probably, to the fact that the show was so far from 

 the centre of the Society. There were presented for premiums, 

 twelve pairs of draft oxen, twelve pairs of beef oxen, twenty pairs of 

 working oxen, and thirty-three pairs in town teams — total oxen, 

 seventy-seven pairs. There were presented for premiums, twenty- 

 six pairs three years old, twelve pairs two years oM, and ten pairs 

 one year old — total steers, forty-eight pairs. There were presented 

 for premiums, seven stock, and six milch cows — total cows, thirteen. 

 There were presented for premiums, thirty-three heifers. There 

 were eighteen ewes and six bucks presented, of superior blood, but 

 as no certificate accompanied them, I am unable to give you the 

 true name of any of them, or from whence they were imported. 

 There were no swine presented, as the Trustees did not encourage 

 the cultivation and jv^opagation of hogs by offering a premium. 

 There were two graded bulls that were fair, and one full blood Dur- 

 ham, yearling bull, presented by D. Macomber of Wilton, that was 

 very fine. Not much of an exhibition of horses — two "Eaton" and 

 one "Black Hawk" stallions. James F. Butler's "Eaton" stallion 

 is probably as fine a horso as there is in Maine, and as handsome a 

 horse as walks the earth. His stock cannot be too extensively in- 

 troduced. This Society is most unquestionably exerting a very 

 salutary influence upon the farmer and stock grower of our county, 

 but its influence is not half so beneficial as it would be if it would 



