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Veriinus Chandler for best milch cows ; Benjamin Whidden for 

 second best. 



Henry Rolfe for best three years old heifer. 



Addison Powers for best two years old heifer ; Henry Rolfe for 

 second best. 



C. P. Bean for best one year old heifer ; Sumner Whitney for 

 second best. 



C. P. Bean for best heifer calf. 



Sheep. Hiram Stevens for best buck ; Cyrus Pomroy for second 

 best. 



Six sheep were presented by Sumner Whitney. The committee 

 express much regret that there was not a greater show. The sheep 

 ■were Leicesters and grades of Leicester and South Down. 



Lacking statements on crops, (the premiums offered being too 

 small to induce many farmers to keep accurate accounts with their 

 crops.) I append an extract from a letter written by Rev. J. C. 

 Fletcher, too well known as an extensive traveler, close observer, 

 and impartial witness to need any endorsement in regard to this 

 fertile section of our State : 



"And now that I am drawing my Aroostook letters to a close, let 

 me say that my motives are of the purest kind. To the damage of 

 my own pocket, I went to the Aroostook that I might know the 

 truth of the matter, and benefit others. I know that there are many 

 families growing up, who have not money enough to go West, and 

 who are not able to sustain themselves amidst the strong competition 

 of business of every kind in the more populous States. Let such 

 think of the Aroostook. A gentleman in Oswego county, New York, 

 last year saw it stated, in about ten lines of a newspaper, that each 

 actual settler could obtain, in the fertile Aroostook, 200 acres of 

 land, at 50 cents per acre, to be paid in making one's own roads. 

 He went to bed, but did not sleep that night. He had a large 

 family of sons, and no apparent future for them. He determined to 

 write to the sheriff of Aroostook county, to know if it were true — if 

 such inducements were realities. He told his neighbors what he 

 had done. They laughed at him, and said he would never hear 



