WEST WASHINGTON SOCIETY. 



This is understood to have been, at the time of holding their first 

 show in September, 1859, an unincorporated Society, and ^yho]ly a 

 voluntary association, springing up from the need felt for more active 

 exertions to promote agriculture, and being at too great distance 

 from the seat of operations of the old Society to derive much benefit 

 from it, or participate in its exhibitions. May success attend their 

 efforts. 



The Secretary writes me as follows : 



" This Society embraces 180 members. Its first Exhibition waa 

 held at Columbia on the 29th day of September. The show of neat 

 stock was not large — chiefly of grade Devon, Durham, Hereford 

 and Natives. A fine Devon bull was shown by Jesse Plummer, 

 also one of Durham and Hereford stock by John F. Pineo of Co- 

 lumbia. Some very fine stock was exhibited sired by a bull intro- 

 duced into this section by Gamaliel Pineo. The horses at the show 

 were principally of Messenger and Native blood. There were some 

 fine Leicester sheep, and also some Suffolk swine on exhibition. 

 The farmers generally feel the importance of improving their stock, 

 and of late have been actively engaged in procuring the best blood 

 the country affords for breeding stock of a better grade. The atten- 

 tion of the inhabitants of the section embraced within the limits of 

 our Society, has from the first settlement of the country been mainly 

 directed to lumbering and shipbuilding, and from that cause we are 

 perhaps the least agricultural of any people in the State, but, of 

 late, there appears to be a general awakening, and a wide-spread 

 interest is manifested in the importance of tilling the earth. Per- 

 haps a season never closed with so much preparation for farming in 

 this section as at present. 



