xliv REPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



WORCESTER SOUTH. 



In compliance with the appointment of this Board I attended the 

 eighteenth annual fair of the Worcester South Agricultural Society, 

 held at Sturbridge, September 12th and 13th, 1872. 



The weather on the first day was very favorable, and I found the 

 farmers wide-awake, with their wives, promptly at work, and mani- 

 festing a desire to make their fair a successful one. 



First came the ploughing-match, in which were engaged twelve 

 ox-teams and two horse-teams. Not getting on the ground in 

 season I witnessed but a small part of it ; but judging from what 

 I saw, there was considerable competition and the work well 

 done. 



The show of stock was not large, yet there were some excellent 

 specimens of Shorthorn heifers on the ground, and also a five-year 

 old bull, owned b}' Mr. Dwight, of Dudley', which was one of the 

 finest animals of the kind that it has ever been our good fortune 

 to see. 



Of sheep and swine there was a fine show, with some good speci- 

 mens among them. 



The show of poultry was quite small, but the quality made up 

 somewhat for the meagreness. 



The second day of the fair, devoted to the show of horses, was 

 very rainy, so much so, that after a part of the progi'amme had been 

 gone through with, it was thought best by the officers of the society 

 to postpone that part of it. So far as gone through with it was 

 commendable. 



Of the thousand-and-one articles in the hall, there was a fine 

 exhibition. Fruits of all kinds were there in abundance ; also 

 vegetables, and the various productions of the farmers and their 

 wives. 



In the ladies' department there was a full display of the productions 

 of the dairy, in lumps of golden butter and cheese that were good to 

 look at, to say the least. There was a full display of fancy articles, 

 and in all parts, I may say, wherever the ladies were concerned, 

 there was no lack of articles. 



One thing that particularlj" attracted my attention was the good 

 order that prevailed in and around the grounds throughout the 

 exhibition. 



I would here tender m}- thanks to the officers and other gentlemen 



of the society for their efforts to make my visit with them pleasant 



and agreeable. 



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