KENNEBEC COUNTY SOCIETY. 



This Society now embraces two hundred and ninetj-six members, 

 thirty-four new ones having been added during the past year. Its 

 Annual Exhibition was held at Readfield Corner, on the 13th, 14th 

 and 15th days of October, 1857. 



The Secretary says : " The first and second days the weather was 

 fine, and the exhibition of neat stock was excellent — probably never 

 excelled by any county show in the State. The horse exhibition 

 was good. The show of agricultural implements was very meagre. 

 Exhibition of dairy products was superior to any we have had for 

 many years. In household manufactures, the ladies brought forth 

 their handiwork in rich profusion. 



On the third day of our exhibition we were visited by a rain 

 storm which prevented many from attending. The consequence was 

 quite a falling off in our funds from what we had anticipated. Rev. 

 C. H. Webster delivered our annual address, which is being pub- 

 lished in pamphlet form by the Androscoggin, Franklin Co., and 

 our Society. We have rented fifteen acres of land for ten years, 

 and enclosed it with a good substantial high fence, and have a trot- 

 ting course half mile in length. There has been built during the 

 year a building expressly for the use of the Society, forty by eighty 

 feet, one and a half stories high, owned by twenty-eight persons 

 who give the use of it to the Society. The apple crop within our 

 limits has been almost an eiitire failure. Other crops, particularly 

 hay and Indian corn, have been good." 



Some of the premiums on stock were awarded as follows : 



Cows AND Heifers. Durham cows, J. Wadsworth, East Liver- 

 more, first and second premiums. 



Durham heifers, J. Wadsworth, first and second premiums. 

 Yearling do., do., same. 



