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tion by E. 11. Burkett, has found a ready sale and is ranked among 

 the best. 



Roots and vegetables. A very good exhibit. There were 400 

 bushels potatoes per acre by M. Wentworth ; 200 bushels turnips 

 per 40 rods ; 200 bushels beets per 40 rods, both by G. H. Pay- 

 son ; squash, 133 pounds, by C. Titus; two squashes, about 50 

 pounds each, by Marcellus Metcalf. 



Ilousehold manufacture and miscellaneous departments, fully 

 satisfy the Trustees that the ladies are wide awake. The articles 

 exhibited were of the first-class; rarely equalled, never excelled. 

 In this department a very fine display of cut and pot flowers was 

 presented. The artificial wing of this department, it is said, could 

 have been as well represented as the two first, had the Secretary 

 understood by the name the value and class of the article pre- 

 sented. All such were sent to the miscellaneous committee, and 

 thus injustice has probably been done to many contributors. 



The fair of 1876 is an entire success, a,nd we need no further 

 proof that our success is mainly attributable to the practice of this 

 Society's holding its fairs alternately in the several towns within 

 its limits, thus enlisting new interests, perhaps competion, as to 

 who shall best work in the cause of agriculture. 



CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 



By Samuel Dingley, Secretary. 



I hardly know what to say of interest this year, as agricultural 

 matters run in about the same groove from year to year, except in 

 some instances — and such instances are very few — where the mod- 

 ern farmer has stepped out of the tracks of his ancestors and has 

 gone in for general improvements. We hope to see a more deter- 

 mined and continued effort among farmers to adopt broader and 

 more liberal views to secure the success belonging to this class of 

 our fellow citizens. 



The Cumberland County Agricultural Society is in a very satis- 

 factory condition ; pays its awards in full, and always has a good 

 surplus in its treasury. The Exhibition of the present year was a 

 success in all directions. Perhaps this is enough to say in relation 

 to our affairs. The amount of premiums offered was about $1,200, 

 the amount awarded about $1,000. 



