ANMOSCOGGIN COUXTY SOCIETY. 



This Society, embracing 561 members, held its Exhibition at 

 Lewiston, 2d to 4th, and 12th and loth October. The show was 

 a very good one, but owing to rainy weather, the animals and articles 

 shown were fewer than usual. The storm was so severe that a part 

 of the exhibition was postponed a week. 



Some of the premiums awarded were as follows : 

 For best stallion, to Nelson Strout, of Durham, for a Drew horse, 

 8 years old. 

 " second best, to L. I. Pollard, of Turner, for a Morgan 5 years 

 old. 

 best Breeding mare, to I. S. Loring, of Lewiston. 

 second best, to E. F. Pratt, of Greene. 

 " best Devon bull, to A. Burbank, Lewiston. 

 " cow, to S. R. Bearce, Lewiston. 



" heifer, to A. C. Read, Lewiston. 



best Hereford heifer, Joshua Robinson, Lewiston, 

 second best Hereford heifer, A. Burbank, Lewiston. 

 best and second best Shorthorn cow, toB. B. Rackley, Greene. 

 best Shorthorn heifer, to C. H. Nevins, Lewiston. 

 second best Shorthorn heifer, to Sewell Moody, Webster, 

 best fine wool buck, to D. M. Record, Lewiston. 



" ewes, to same, 

 best boar, to Tristram Hill, Greene, 

 best Breeding sow, to L H. Merrill, Auburn. 



From Report on Implements. 



Beholding the great display of implements now offered to the tiller 

 of the soil, our minds are thrown back to the time when Adam and 

 Eve were placed in the garden and directed to dress and till it. Not 

 one of this* vast array of the labor saving implements and tools was 



