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whether the prominent shows of the day might not elude our grasp 

 altogether. Even the Address^ that was set down for 9 o'clock, 

 A. M., could not be vouched for at all — not even the place for its 

 delivery — at a quarter to nine, by even the Hon. President himself. 



We next entered the park, and there found the usual commotion 

 incident to the first stage of these assemblages, Avhere every man is 

 for himself, and no good spirit invoked to care for the hindmost, 

 Taking things in the order of place, we find six sheep pens, each 

 with one or more sheep, all of the large breeds with long wool, show- 

 ing more or less the type of the importation through Perley's flock, 

 at Woodstock, N. B. We next found one solitary boar pig — a grade 

 Sufiblk. (Late in the day, we saw a sow with ten pigs had been 

 brought into the park in a cart. No claim made for blood. A large 

 breed, and of good appearance.) After passing a coop of social 

 turkeys, we came to the long line of cattle pens. Passing down the 

 line, we saw a Devon bull, three years old, of fair size and good 

 points. Amos T. Holt shows a herd of sixteen head, a cross of Here- 

 ford and Shoithorn. E. R Holmes, of Oxford, showed a bull calf, 

 three-fourths Hereford, from stock of Underwood, Eayette. Several 

 pairs of oxen and steers, marked with a shade of the characteristics 

 of the leading breeds of the State, of medium size, were noticeable 

 here and there. 



While looking at the cattle, we heard in the conversation between 

 two intelligent gentlemen, the remark that this show was very 

 meagre, compared to former ones ; and that fifteen towns within 

 their limits were entirely without representation. Looking at the 

 geography of the county, and setting aside the towns embraced in 

 West Oxford Society, the above statement being true, this show was 

 drawn from no more than eleyen incorporated towns. 



The Address, announced in the programme for the day, was not 

 presented in its order. 



A business meeting of the Society was held at 10 o'clock. A 

 committee was raised to nominate officers, and during their retire- 

 ment for consultation, the Hon. John J. Perry, being called upon, 

 proceeded at considerable length to speak pertinently to the general 

 subject of agriculture. Gen. Perry had received an invitation to 

 give the Annual Address on this occasion. 



As an item of peculiar interest, a pair of yearling steers were on 



