REPORTS OF DELEGATES. 189 



HOUSATONIC. 



Agreeably to request of a member of this Board who could 

 have filled this place far better than I did, I attended the fair 

 of the Housatonic Agricultural Society, held at Great Barring- 

 ton, September 28th and 29th. The grounds of this society 

 are large and finely situated, and laid out for the purposes and 

 use of the society. The building is one hundred and fifty feet 

 long, and sixty-four or five wide, and three stories high. The 

 lower one is used for victualling shops, the second is the hall 

 for the exhibition of domestic manufactures, vegetables, pro- 

 ducts of the dairy, &c. The third is a gallery in the hall. In 

 this hall they also have their addresses. I think it is one 

 of the finest buildings in the State for the purposes for which it 

 is designed. 



The first day was devoted to the exhibition of stock. There 

 were nineteen yokes of working oxen, two yokes fat cattle, some 

 forty or fifty cows, twenty or thirty bulls, six entries of fine- 

 wool sheep, eight of coarse, seventeen of swine, two entries of 

 improved stock, Herefords and Durhams, nineteen of farm 

 horses, twenty-seven breeding mares with their foals by their 

 side. 



The working oxen were all fine. The fat cattle might be fed 

 more to a profit. Out of the forty or fifty cows there were 

 fourteen entered as dairy cows, and eleven as breeding. In 

 this division the stock was all good. The same can be said 

 of sheep and swine. Of the young stock there was not a large 

 exhibition, but of a good quality. The farm horses were good. 

 The exhibition of mares with their colts was very fine. 



I think the colts were as large an exhibition as we seldom 

 see, showing that the members of this society do not intend to 

 be dependent on the Western States for their horses. On the 

 grounds there was a team of two yokes of calves attached to a 

 cart to match, driven by two boys, eight to ten years old, which 

 attracted a good deal of attention, showing that Young America 

 is beginning in the right way. 



In the hall there was a good display of corn, vegetables, 

 and fruit, all very good, considering the cold season. 



