WASHINGTON COUNTY SOCIETY. 



The Secretary writes — 



"This Society now embraces 568 members, IT new ones having 

 been added during the past year. 



Its 7lnnual Exhibition was held at Pembroke, on the 25th and 

 26th days of September, and brought out a good disphiy of the sub- 

 stantial products of agricultural industry. 



The Show exhibited improvement in quality rather than quantity. 

 Tiie number of entries falls a little short of last year — being only 

 4G3 this year, 475 last year. Quite a large proportion of the young 

 stock shows the Devon blood. The only thorough bred animal on 

 the ground was a young Jersey bull, owned by the Secretary ; but 

 almost all the stock is claimed to be grades of Durham, Devon, Ayr- 

 shire, &c., — probably far removed. The young horses are showing 

 the good results of the importation of Black Hawk and Messenger 

 blood, though 2:55 is the highest speed they have been able to attain. 

 The exhibition of household manufactures was mostly composed of 

 substantial articles of comfort. The dairy products, for quality, 

 cannot be beat in the State, — and of fruit, the show was very respec- 

 table, for Washington county. Good order and good humor pre- 

 vailed. The Address was by Mr. Caldwell, of East Machias. The 

 general features of the past season, or the feature, was drought, — 

 the amount of rain being only 2| inches in April, 1\ inches in May. 

 Then in the first ten days of June we had 6:} inches ; and after that, 

 only l\ inches till the last of July. The result is, a falling off of 

 the hay crop 50 per cent ; grain of good quality, but thin, and 

 small yield; straw light; turnips almost universally a failure, ex- 

 cept very late ones. 



Wii. D. Dana, Secretary.'''' 



Mr. Dana, in his statement on .Jersey bull, which received first 

 premium, says : 



" The peculiar merits of this breed consist in the richness of the 

 milk and the excellence of the butter, — this butter selling in Bos- 



