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admission fees amounted to more than $1,800, and the expenses 

 were about $800, leaving a net profit of $1,000. 



This society offers premiums for the best cultivated farms, for 

 reclaimed meadows, for compost manures, (having a regard to 

 the quantity, quality and cost,) for the raising of forest trees, 

 and for experiments in feeding cattle, in addition to those usu- 

 ally offered by agricultural societies, and requires full statements 

 of the mode and cost of each experiment, before awarding the 

 premiums. This involves a necessity for considerable labor to 

 be performed by committees, and care and system on the part 

 of applicants ; but must be highly beneficial to the farmers of 

 the county, and is an example which ought to be followed by 

 every society upon which is bestowed the bounty of the- State. 



On the first day of the exhibition the several committees made 

 their examinations. Twelve teams entered for the ploughing 

 match, and did their work like good farmers. The show of 

 cattle, horses and swine was creditable to the owners and the 

 society. There was evidence that considerable attention had 

 been paid to raising blood stock with good success. 



The display of vegetables, manufactures, and fancy articles, 

 was large and good. One would suppose from the show of 

 boots and shoes that the good people of Plymouth county were 

 partial to a " good understanding." There were twenty-two 

 lots of butter, fifteen of cheese, and eighteen of bread, on exhi- 

 bition, all very good and most of the lots excellent, proving 

 conclusively that it is not necessary to go out of the old colony 

 to find good dairy women. The display of fruit was not large ; 

 but we were glad to learn that more attention was being paid 

 to its culture than formerly. 



The show, as a whole, was a successful one. It was attended 

 by a large concourse of people of both sexes, and every thing 

 passed off in an orderly and systematic manner. A large num- 

 ber of the " descendants of the Pilgrims " were brought together 

 and showed themselves worthy of their noble ancestry. On 

 the afternoon of the second day a table was spread for four 

 hundred guests, and loaded with the luxuries of the land, to 

 which the ladies and gentlemen farmers of Plymouth county 

 marched in procession, till every seat was occupied, and a large 

 number went away disappointed, for want of room. After din- 

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