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WEST PENOBSCOT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Sixteenth Annual Cattle Show and Fair of this Societ}' was 

 held in Exeter, Sept. 27th, 28th and 29th, 18V0. The attendance 

 was large and the occasion seemed to be enjoyed equally by ex- 

 hibitors and spectators. Six hundred and thirty entries were 

 made and the several departments were well represented, some of 

 which excelled any former Show. 



Artemas S. Barton, Esq., of Dexter, exhibited his pure bred 

 Durham bull " Waterloo," now past three years old, and ranks 

 best; also his pure bred heifer " Imogone," three years old. A 

 pure bred Durham bull four years old, "Duke of Grafton," (See 

 vol. 7, page 70, A. H. book) the property of the town of Levant, 

 was on exhibition and considered a first class animal. William 

 Grinnell of Exeter, exhibited pure bred Durham bull, four years 

 old, "Monarch," (Herd book, vol. 7, page 143) girth 7 feet 5 

 inches, descended from a line of pure stock, noted for their 

 superior dairy qualities. Whole number of bulls on exhibition, 

 twenty-four, all of which did credit to the several breeds they 

 represented. 



The show of oxen and steers was creditable. One pair of steers 

 three years old, weighing 3,555 pounds, by S. A. Hamilton of 

 Garland, and the cows and heifers, (fift3^-five in number) mostly 

 of high grades, representing the Durhams, Jerseys, Dutch and 

 Herefords, were never surpassed at our former shows. The sheep 

 of grade Cotswold, South Down and Oxford Downs, wei'e very 

 good ; and swine of Chester White, Suffolk and Scotch, were well 

 represented. 



The horse department well sustained its former reputation, forty 

 horses and fifty-one colts being on the ground for exhibition, with 

 many fine stallions that have drawn the Society's first premiums 

 at previous Fairs, and now are only waiting to be excelled. 



A large entry of butter and cheese, on which the Committee re- 

 marked " That the specimens were excellent, considering the 

 severe drought we have had. Every dairy person knows it is 

 next to an impossibility to make so good butter and cheese as they 

 can in a cool season, with the feed sweet and plenty and the water 

 pure." 



