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the society, and otliers. In conclusion, the undersigned would 

 remark, that all the arrangements for the exhibition were in 

 good taste and admirably carried out. The officers of the 

 society were prompt and energetic in the discharge of their 

 duties, and particularly the chief marshal of the exhibition, Otis 

 Farnum, Esq., to wliose gentlemanly deportment, no loss than 

 his ceaseless activity in his particular sphere of duty, much of 

 the quiet and order of the exhibition is to be attributed. 



Geo. W. Hubbard. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Agreeably to the appointment by the Board, the undersigned 

 attended the thirty-eighth annual exhibition of the Hampshire, 

 Franklin and Hampden Agricultural Society, at Northampton, 

 on the seventh and eiglitli days of October, two delightful days. 



The exhibition of stock took place on the first day, upon the 

 society's ground, a beautiful, level plot, about three-fourths of 

 a mile from the centre of the village, inclosed by a substantial 

 wooden fence, within which, and around tlie margin of the 

 plot, is an evenly graded course for the exhibition of horses. 

 The plot contains sixteen acres, and was recently purchased by 

 the society at a cost of $1,000, and when properly fitted up with 

 suitable buildings, will be a most valuable acquisition. 



The pens were arranged near tlie centre of the inclosure, 

 and though not as numerous as might have been expected, they 

 were well filled with cattle, sheep and swine, which, in quality, 

 have seldom been surpassed at any exhibition in the State. 



The cattle were strongly marked with foreign blood. Tlie 

 Durham stock owned l)y tlie president of the society, Paoli 

 Lathrop, is highly creditable to that gentleman and to the 

 society. It consisted of six cows, one three years old heifer, 

 two yearling heifers, a bull six years old, weighing 2,000 

 pounds, a magnificent animal, and two calves — a bull and a 

 heifer — six months old, weigliiiig 700 pounds each ; all thorough 

 bred, of large size and excellent proportions. Elbridge Pease, 



