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rods, or 1,235^3- bushels per acre, a very creditable yield. Of 

 Swedish turnips, 798 bushels per acre were reported. A return was 

 made of 347^ bushels of potatoes per acre, the manure applied being 

 plaster and hen manure, in equal parts. A corn crop of 93^§^ bushels 

 per acre was reported ; another of 89|§ ; and a crop of beans esti- 

 mated at 30|^ bushels pev acre. Much attention was manifested to 

 the cultivation of fruit, cranberries, and forest trees. 



Tlie show of cattle was large and interesting ; the collection of 

 cows and heifers especially indicating care and good judgment in 

 the breeding and feeding of this class of animals, upon which so 

 much of the agricultural prosperity of Massachusetts depends. The 

 number of working-oxen was large, and in it were found man}- valu- 

 able animals ; and the skill displayed in driving the cattle was 

 highly creditable. There was a good exhibition of stallions, and of 

 farm and familv horses and colts. Sheep, swine and poultr}' were 

 well represented, and the products of the orchard, garden and dairy 

 were abundant ; the quality being as good as a somewhat hard soil 

 and an unpropitious climate would promise. 



From the attention of the committees, the care and exactness 

 with which they conducted their examinations, and the general 

 management of affairs on the grounds, your delegate received the 

 assurance that the Plymouth County Society still exercises the good 

 influence which it has for so many years exercised over the agricult- 

 ure of this section of the State. The judicious recommendations 

 of the president, and the elaborate character of the reports, all give 

 evidence of the determination of those engaged in managing the 

 Society to retain for it the reputation it has so long enjo^'cd as one 

 of the most useful of these industrial organizations in our State. 



Geo. B. Loring. 



BARNSTABLE. 



The two days' fair of the Barnstable County Agricultural Society, 

 which was held this year, September 22 and 23. had favorable weather, 

 and was, all things considered, a success. To your delegate, fresh 

 from the mountains of Berkshire, the beautiful old seaside town of 

 Barnstable itself rivalled the attractions of the show. 



The annual meeting of the Societ}' took place, on the morning of 

 the first day, in the custom-house, being the first since the change 

 was made in the time for holding it. The report of the treasurer 

 showed that the expenditures for premiums last year were $G28, and 

 for expenses of the fair $461. Among the receipts were nearly $800 



