LINCOLN COUNTY SOCIETY. 



The Secretary writes: — "This Society now embraces 1,121 

 members, 159 new ones having been added during the past year. 

 Its Annual Exhibition was held at Union, on the 18th, 19th and 

 20th days of October, 1859. Although on the first day we had a 

 severe storm, the exhibition was a very good one, there being in the 

 different departments about seven hundred entries. On account of 

 the storm, the show of stock and horses was not so large as it other- 

 wise would have been ; still there was a very handsome show, being 

 about 150 entries of stock, somewhat less than there has been at 

 the two previous exhibitions. There was a very good show of Devon 

 cattle, and a large number of colts, some of which were of high 

 promise. The other departments were well filled." 



Some of the premiums were awarded as follows : 



LIVE STOCK. 



Horses. First premium on a stallion, sired by the Gleason horse, 

 to Samuel Quiggle of Union. 



Second premium on one sired by Bush Messenger in 1847, to 

 Edward Hills of Thomaston. 



First premium on breeding mare, R. H. Sayward of Union. 



Second premium to Levi Russell of Whitefield. 



The committee recommend greater attention to the breeding and 

 rearing of good horses, deeming the county behind many others in 

 the State. 



For best three years old colt, to Sumner Leach of Warren. 



For best two years old colt, to Isaac Townsend of Union. 



Bulls. First premium to William Gr. Hawes, for three years old 

 Devon bull, reared by I. Wentworth. 



Second premium on two years old, to A. B. Harding. 

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