NORTH FRANKLIN SOCIETY. 9 



repaid for our efforts each year, as we see that some do appreciate 

 our endeavors. 



It has for several years past been a question of great moment 

 with us whether we might not introduce something of an outside 

 nature which would prove to be the means of securing a larger 

 attendance at our Exhibitions ; but believing our mission best 

 fulfilled if we could but create a generous rivalry among those 

 most interested in Fruits and Flowers, we have been content to 

 remain in what we believe to be our legitimate path, and leave all 

 "fancy arrangements" toothers. Although we are not disheart- 

 ened in our efforts to do good in the way marked out for us by 

 the founders of our Society, yet we must confess a certain degree 

 of humiliation, when we perceive that our Exhibitions are thinly 

 attended and our receipts small compared with those of other 

 societies, where racing and betting seem to be the order of the 

 day, and excitement is made to take the place of a rational enjoy- 

 ment of those "things of beauty" which to us are a "joy forever." 



Premiums offered, $206.50 ; premiums awarded, $129.50. 



Samuel G. Robinson, Secretary. 



NORTH FRANKLIN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The North Franklin Agricultural Society held its Nineteenth 

 Annual Show and Fair, Thursday and Friday, October 13 and 14. 

 The advertised time was the 12th and 13th: but the 12th came 

 along bringing a "wet rain," and the Show went over till the 

 "first fair day," which came the 13th. The exhibition of neat 

 stock was better than for several years, and but for the change of 

 days would have surpassed any previous Show. Some good beef 

 cattle were present, though of no particular breed. Some thirty- 

 five years ago an Englishman by name of James Rangeley, Esq., 

 from whom the town of Rangeley received its name, imported into 

 this section a number of gray or grizzly Durham cattle; these 

 have been crossed with natives and made some of the best milch 

 cows we have ever had. Many farmers have a partiality for cross- 

 ing Durham and Hereford stock for working oxen, and say they 

 find no cattle equal to them. Maj. Seward Dill of Phillips, has 

 lately introduced the Jersey stock, but with what success is not 



