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well cured, early cut hay, is worth the same amount cut three 



weeks later and five bushels of corn meal, and this no careful 



feeder will dispute. I have gained a pair of cattle 500 pounds in 



four months on hay alone. 



H. C. B. 

 Fairfield, October 5th, 1869. 



KENNEBEC COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The old Kennebec Agricultural Society still lives and is moving 

 along in the even tenor of its ways. 



Our Annual Exhibition was a complete success. The entries 

 large and presentations full, dairy products still keeping the lead. 



We had one drawback which I find is not confined to our 

 Society, but is almost universal; that is, allowing entries of com- 

 petitors to be made at a very late hour. I have wished that the 

 Board of Agriculture would recommend to the Legislature to pass 

 a law prohibiting Secretaries of Societies who receive aid from 

 the State taking or making entries for premiums on the day of 

 Exhibition. . . 



We had less horse-racing and more agriculture, probably, than 

 any other County. Exhibition in our State last fall. Not that we 

 exclude that noble animal, but we do wish to correct the abuses. 



The crops have been quite equal to an average except the apple. 

 In some towns that crop has been nearly a failure. 



W'e had . splendid specimens of wheat presented for exhibition, 

 with statements' of yield, much larger than is reported from the 

 Western States per acre, and showing by the cost reported, that 

 our farmers can do a good business at wheat raising. 



The raising of stock for the market is bringing in much ready 

 money. No better horses, oxen, cows and sheep, are found, than 

 those raised in Kennebec county ; and our Agricultural Exhibi- 

 tions are doing much to bring them to perfection and present 

 them to the public. 



Farmers' Clubs have been formed in many of our towns, and a 

 general interest is being awakened amongst our farmers for more 

 knowledge on the subject of farming. 



David Cargill, Secretary. 



