174 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The stock were generally very fine, and the number of varie- 

 ties manifested a praiseworthy attention to improvement in this 

 important branch of agriculture. 



Most of the working teams performed the task allotted to 

 them in a manner creditable to their trainers, and as a whole 

 the working cattle were remarkably good. 



The exhibition in the hall was of a very high character in 

 all its important parts. Luscious fruits and fine vegetables 

 (many of them, however, very much overgrown,) filled the 

 tallies to the overflowing. Butter, farm implements and the 

 usual productions of idle ladies, entered in the bills as domestic 

 manufactures, met the eye on every side, and collectively made 

 a show of which the society might well be proud. 



The great success of the day, however, was not, as I think, 

 dependent so much upon the excellence of the show, as upon 

 the efficient working of all the arrangements, reflecting the 

 highest credit upon the officers of the society. Every thing 

 had a time, and every thing was performed in its time, with- 

 out the vociferations of self-important marshals or other officials. 

 No military parade or brass band was brought in to distract 

 attention from the business of the day, and another great 

 improvement was the absence of the usual public dinner of the 

 society, with its dull sentiments, and speeches yet more dull. 



The address by Hon. George S. Boutwell, of Groton, was 

 practical and judicious, and could not fail to make an impres- 

 sion in a community so evidently practical as that before which 

 it was delivered. 



As a whole, I do not hesitate to say that this exhibition met 

 my views of what such an exhibition should be, better than any 

 which I have ever attended. 



John C. Bartlett. 



WORCESTER SOUTH. 



Having been appointed a delegate, by the State Board of 

 Agriculture, to attend the annual exhibition of the Worcester 

 South Agricultural Society, holdcn at Sturbridge, on the 28th 



