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fence. A half-mile course has been made upon the grounds, thirty- 

 five feet wide, and with a small expenditure another season, will 

 make it one of the best tracks in the State. A reservoir twenty 

 feet deep, fourteen feet across after being stoned, and affording an 

 abundant supply of water. A flagstafi" one hundred and sixty feet 

 high has been put upon the grounds. The building of the fence, 

 race-course, stalls for the cattle, and all the expenditures upon the 

 grounds amount to fourteen hundred and twenty-three dollars. 

 And by the generous liberality of the citizens of Hancock County 

 the Society has been furnished with funds to meet this outlay, and 

 also all other expenditures of the Society the past year, which 

 reached the sum of nearly two thousand dollars." 



LIVE STOCK. 



Horses. First premium on stallion, to E. J. Durgin of North 

 Sedgwick, for a Morgan horse. 



Second, to Wm. H. Black, for a horse of the Drew stock. 



Breeding Mares. First premium to William H. Black of Ells- 

 worth. 



Second, to John Armstrong of Ellsworth. 



Bulls. First premium to Parker & Pearl of Dedham, for a 

 Short horn bull, four years old, bred by Jesse Wadsworth ; pedigree 

 in Am. Herd Book, Vol. 3, page 51. Said to be of an excellent 

 milking family. 



The others shown were chiefly or wholly grades. 



Cows. A cow entered as Hereford was shown by N. Varnum, 

 and one said to be three-fourths Galloway and one-fourth Durham 

 by Rufus W. Clement of Ellsworth. 



Swine. First premium on boar, to Thomas Smith of Surry, for 

 a Berkshire, bred in Albany, N. Y., from an imported sow and boar 

 from England. 



Sheep. First premium on buck, for a South Down, to Francis 

 Buck of Orland. Also, for South Down ewes. 



Ebenezer Clark of Hancock showed buck and lambs, a cross of 

 South Down and Cotswold, and one from Mr. Perley's flock, (Wood- 

 stock, N. B.) 



