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There has not been that attention paid to the rearing of full blood 

 stock in this county which there should have been. The town of 

 Union, I believe, is an exception. They are there paying consider- 

 able attention to the laising of full blood Devon stock, but on account 

 of the storm during the exhibition, there were none present." 



Fruit. 



Besides the fruit shown by Mr. Currier, alluded to by the Secre- 

 tary, were fine lots from Thomas Simmons, Aaron Stewart, Thomas 

 Herbert, and others; also finely kept specimens of white grape 

 and Victoria currants, from John Currier, and English gooseberries, 

 by the same. The committee speak highly of samples of red cur- 

 rant wine from Thomas Herbert, of Bristol, and Mrs. Geo. Lindsay ; 

 also of wines from the black Naples currant and the raspberry, from 

 Mr. Simmons. A specimen of Avine from the Concord grape was 

 shown by Mr. Herbert. The committee encourage the production 

 of pure wines from native fruits, which may supercede the factitious 

 wines of commerce. 



Miscellaneous, 



Noticeable among these, and adding much to the exhibition, was 

 a collection of natural curiosities by Dr. Rouse ; also a reflecting 

 telescope and a gyrascope, made by Dr. E. P. Chase, of Rockland, 

 and which the committee say indicated remarkable mechanical skill. 



Crops. 



Indian Corn. First premium on one-half acre, for 38 bushels, 

 to David Starrett, of Warren ; second to David Huston, for 70 bushels 

 on one acre ; third to James S. Ingraham, Rockland, for 25 bushels 

 on one-half acre. 



Wheat. First premium to E. S Kaler, of Waldoboro', for crop 

 of 3Cr bushels to the acre. Land in grass for fifteen or twenty years, 

 broken up in the fall of 1858, and planted to corn and potatoes in 

 1859, with ten cords manure made of swamp muck, stable manure 

 and rock weed, — a yellowish loam, very rocky. Second to George 



