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men, as a rule, appear gentlemanly ; but they have axes to. grind. 

 There is policy in war, and it. is for their interest to use the officers 

 of the society well, and to keep up a res}Drectable appearance, at 

 least, in order to meet with the greatest success. 



Mr. Thixg of Mt. Vernon. I don't object to gentlemen's pulling 

 other folks' houses down over their heads if they will put •up 

 another one just as good, or better. If they will tell us how to 

 run an agricultural fair without the horse trot, I should be willing 

 to see the horse trot abolished, but I know no other way. We 

 must have it, in order to get the money to pay our pr'emiums. 

 Before we can do anything else, we h#,ve got to go back to the 

 children, and educate them, if such a thing is possible, (I don't 

 believe it is,) so that they won't want to see a horse trot, and will 

 give more not to see one than to see one. If you can advertise 

 that a certain horse is not to trot, and the people will come and 

 pay their fifteen, twenty-five or fifty cents because there is not to 

 be a trot, you will get the money, and then you will be all right. 

 But as long as they will pay their money to see a trot, and will 

 not pay it for anything else, we are driven to it. I put it on that 

 ground solely. I have no objection, personally, to a trot. I don't 

 believe it hurts the horse. I don't believe it hurts the morals of 

 the Community. I believe it has helped the morals of that class 

 of people who are denominated " fast," for they have learned, at 

 these exhibitions, that their avocation or profession (if they please 

 to call it so) can be prosecuted in as gentlemanly and courteous a 

 manner as any other. 



Hon. RuFus Prince of Turner. I am no fast horseman, and 

 when I became one of the officers of the Androscoggin Agri- 

 cultural Society, some fifteen years since, I made up my mind that 

 I would try to do away with trots at our fairs, and run the society 

 without them ; but I became satisfied that it could not be done. 

 We must have the fast horse, or we cannot get the money. Can 

 we run a society without money ? Certainly not. I believe the 

 horse trot is a necessity, and the question- is, are our exhibitions, 

 as a whole, an advantage ? We all say they are. There is no 

 question at all but that they are an advantage to the agricultural 

 community. Now, if they are an advantage to the farmer, are 

 they conducted in the best manner they can be ? Can we conduct 

 them without the fast horse ? I am satisfied, after some fifteen 

 years' experience, that we cannot". As the last speaker has said, 

 we must have the fast horse to get the men and women in. I 



