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This part of the exhibition appeared to be the most complete of 

 au}'. There was also an abundance of vegetables, and of good 

 quality. 



Of butter there were eleven entries, some of it choice. The few 

 cheeses shown were fair, though not equal to those offered at some 

 other exhibitions. 



Among the " fancy and domestic " articles were many things 

 indicating taste and skill ; though, perhaps, hardly enough to fairly 

 represent a community so favored in wealth, culture and refinement 

 as this. 



Your delegate did not stay to witness the " horse-show " on the 

 second day, taking it for granted that the Board would believe that 

 this part of the exhibition would be satisfactory to all concerned. 



In conclusion, we desire to refer to one matter which would seem 

 to be worth consideration by this society and others ; viz., the 

 limited time that animals are kept on exhibition. We noticed that 

 many were not on the grounds until after ten o'clock, and that some 

 were driven awa^' before two o'clock. The State, and public-spirited 

 persons in establishing agricultural societies, undoubtedly intended 

 not onl}^ to encourage effort by offering premiums, but to furnish 

 also a favorable and sufficient opportunity for all to make careful 

 and critical examinations and comparisons of whatever might be 

 presented. To Mr. Pynchon, and Mr. Bagg, president and secretary 

 of the societ}', and to Hon. Ilenr}- Alexander, Jr., your delegate is 

 under many obligations for courteous attention. 



A. H. Holland. 



EASTERN HAMPDEN. 



The twenty-third annual exhibition of the Eastern Hampden 

 Agricultural Society occurred on Thursday and Friday, September 

 23 and 24, two as cold mornings as were ever experienced in this 

 section so earl}- in the season, the frost being so severe in many 

 sections, that tons of grapes and bushels of peaches were entirely 

 destroj'ed. On Saturday' morning, your delegate found in his own 

 young peach-orchard of three hundred trees, what would have filled 

 over fifty crates, of worthless, frost-bitten peaches. 



Mr. A. M. Myrick, the delegate appointed, not being present, I 

 was requested by the president, Dr. Wakefield, to report to this 

 Board. 



Having taken no notes of the first day's exhibition for this 

 purpose, I am obliged to refer to the society's books for facts and 



