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WEST PENOBSCOT SOCIETY. 



By T. p. Batchelder, Secretary. 



The Twenty-Second Annual Show of this Society, was held on 

 the Grounds of the Society in Exeter, September 26th, 27th and 

 28th, 18*ii6. The attendance was large, and the receipts very 

 satisfactory. The show in the hall was a fair average of former 

 years. Fine specimens of crops and fruits, dairy products, agri- 

 cultural implements, domestic manufactures, needle-work, fancy- 

 articles, paintings, &c., made up a very attractive exhibition. 

 The show of neat stock, horses, sheep, swine and poultry was 

 hardly up to former years, although many fine specimeas were on 

 the ground, more especially in young stock. 



The season has been uncommonly favorable for the farmers in 

 this section of the country ; fruit and all kinds of crops have been 

 very satisfactory, both as to quantity and quality, and although 

 our grain did not prove as heavy as usual, yet there seems to be 

 no lack of interest in agricultural improvements or in raising 

 stock. 



The address was given by our President, George S. Ilill, Esq., 

 and was well received. 



EAST OXFORD SOCIETY. 



By B. W. Stockwell, Secretary. 



The Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of this Society was held on 

 the Fair Grounds at Dixfield Village, September 28th, 29th and 

 30tb. The weather was very fine and warm. 



The show of neat stock was large compared with former years. 

 Some very fine stock was exhibited, and was worthy of much 

 higher premiums than the Society could give them. There were 

 eeventy-nine entries of neat stock. One pair of oxen, entered by 

 Abel Farrington of Mexico, weighed 4,200 pounds and girted 

 "7 feet 11 inches. They were well matched and handsome, and 

 took the first premium for beef cattle. One pair of calves entered 

 by Benjamin Lovejoy of Peru, were the best ever entered at a fair 

 of the East Oxford Society. The entries for steers, and matched 

 steers and matched oxen were very large ; some very nice steers 



