XXX KEPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



requirements of the State, and that its success is all its founders 



could reasonably expect, I cannot doub\ I should do injustice to 



this Board and my own feelings did I no' acknowledge the universal 



respect shown them, through their delegate. Words cannot express 



my obligations to our associate and his devoted wife, for the true 



home comforts enjoyed at his fireside. 



Eliphalet Stone. 



BERKSHIRE. 



The sixty-sixth annual exhibition of the Berkshire Agricultural 

 Society was held at Pittsfield, the 5th, 6th and 7th of Octo- 

 ber. It was late in he afternoon o ' the first day when I arrived, 

 yet there was an opportunity for seeing some of the stock before it 

 was removed from the grounds, it being their custom to exhibit neat- 

 stock the first da3' only. 



The weather was cool, but the attendance was good notwithstand- 

 ing, and the exhibition was fully up to that of former years. 



There were 48 entries of pure-bred nea -s ock, consisting of 

 bulls, 14 ; bull-calves, 5 ; breeding-cows, 14 ; heifers, 8 ; and 

 other calves, 7. These consisted of Devons, Jerseys, Durhams, 

 Ayrshires and Dutch. 



Of grade animals there were 99 entries ; viz.. Fat cattle, 5 ; 

 working oxen, 15; steers, 7; dairies, 5; milch cows, 21: breed- 

 ing cows, 11 ; heifers, 18 ; calves, 7 ; herds, 10 ;— aggregating 147 

 entries of neat-stock, and numbering 256 animals. Noticeable 

 among these was the Dutch cow, be onging to the West Pittsfield 

 Shakers, which is milked three times a day. Owing to her great 

 productiveness, $1,200 has already been refused for her. 



There were 52 entries of sheep, consisting of rams, 19 ; ewes, 

 15; lambs, 11; fat sheep, 2; and 5 flocks; the whole numbering 

 230. 



Fourteen entries of swine : Boars, 4 ; sows with pigs, 10 ; num- 

 bering 80 in all. 



Of poultry there were 47 en'ries, as follows : Fowls, 35 ; ducks, 

 2 ; turkeys, 4 ; and geese, 6. 



The second day was cold and damp, which, without doubt, kept 

 many away who otherwise would have attended the exhibition of 

 horses, which was unusually fine. There were 117 entries, consist- 

 ing of matched horses, 18; single horses, 21 ; stallions and studs, 

 12 ; mares with colts, 17 ; colts, 46 ; and trotters, 3. 



