xxxiv REPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



The display of tools and implements was good, and instructive 

 to those giving them careful examination ; and we were informed 

 that the farmers hereabout have not been slow in adopting and 

 using the most improved implements in their husbandry. In the 

 upper hall were displaj'ed the butter and cheese, bread, fruit, house- 

 hold manufactures, fancy-work, drawings, paintings, flowers, and 

 everything which contributes to the comfort and refinement of the 

 farmei-'s home. The fruits were shown, or were attempted to be 

 shown, under glazed sash, raised to such an angle that no mortal 

 could distinguish their kinds, or discern their virtues or defects. An 

 attempt to display fruit under such circumstances is neither attract- 

 ive, instructive, or advisable. 



The exhibition of butter was large, and denoted, as a whole, good 

 dairy management, good cows, and good pastures, each and all 

 indispensable for the best results. Some of the butter was of 

 marked excellence, and the competition seemed spirited for the 

 prizes. 



The display of household manufactures was in a high degree 

 meritorious, and in great variety ; that of domestic carpeting, the 

 largest and best we have ever seen, indicating durability as well as 

 good taste and domestic industry. 



There were other articles of domestic industrj^ in great profusion, 

 which contributed largel}' to the exhibition. 



The show of flowers was fine, considering the lateness of the 

 season, and the hall exhibition, as a whole, was ver}^ creditable to 

 all contributors. 



We now turned our attention to the live-stock. The fat cattle 

 were well grown and well fattened, had received good care and good 

 pasture, had been handled well, and were well fitted for the shambles. 



The working oxen and steers were there in goodly numbers, were 

 well grown and matched, and appeared well trained for all purposes 

 required of oxen. 



With even a superficial examination of the dairy-stock we were 

 much pleased ; nearly all breeds and their grades were represented, 

 each owner feeling that his own stock was best adapted to his 

 circumstances. As we like all breeds, and are prejudiced against 

 none, not even the natives, we tried to appreciate the exhibition as 

 it was then and there presented, and we have seldom seen stock 

 that looked so well as a whole ; we saw but few ordinary animals, 

 and none that were poor, and many whose intelligent breeding and 

 care were creditable to the owners, who by commendable skill, and 

 by persistent efforts, contributed so largely to the interest of 

 the fair. 



The breeders who. by good foresight and care, can show a strain 



