10 NORTH KENNEBEC SOCIETY. 



Strange as it may appear, butter and cheese are our best cash 

 products. We have more and better cows. Our farmers are 

 realizing that butter cows pay better than beef cows, and that the 

 better the breed and the better they are fed, the bigger the receipts. 

 Our fiirmipg is making slow, but steady progress. Our farmers — 

 although some of the them, "like old dogs, take hard to new 

 tricks" — are adopting new and improved modes of culture. Our 

 Farmers' Clubs find a congenial soil and are making a commenda- 

 ble growth. Our Society is now passing through the horse-irotiing 

 orfZeaZ— whether to be " purified" and made bettor, or worse, time 

 must tell, 



Samuel Wasson, Secretary. 



NORTH KENNEBEC AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Secretary's Report, 



A violent rain storm compelled the postponement of our Show 

 and Fair for one day, at short notice, and this always has a bad 

 effect upon an Exhibition ; the loss of Ticonic Bridge, by cutting 

 off all on the east side of the Kennebec river, reduced our availa- 

 ble territory one half; and these causes combined greatly .lessened 

 the attraction and the attendance at the exhibition of 1869. And 

 yet, with all these things against us, we had a fair show in most 

 departments. 



With our recent notable importations, we claim to have more 

 pure blood animals of undoubted pedigree— neat stock, horses, 

 sheep, etc, — than can be fotind within the limits of any other 

 Society in the State ; and this we think is proved by the large 

 number of premiums taken by our members at the New England 

 Fair this year. Many of these animals were present at our exhi- 

 bition this year, and the display of thorongh-bred stock was never 

 excelled on our grounds,- either in number or quality, and that is 

 saying mucli. 



Messrs. Burleigh and Shores brought their large and noble herd 

 of ITercfords, the best perhaps in New England, with " Compton 

 Lad," a regal monarch of unstained blood, at their head; Mr. L. 

 A. Dow, who tliis year stood first in his line at the New England 



