352 REPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



REPORTS OF DELEGATES 



APPOINTED TO VISIT THE 



AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



ESSEX. 



In accordance with the assignment of this Board, I attended the 

 fifty-first annual exhibition of the Essex Agricultural Society, at 

 Ipswich, commencing on Tuesday, September 26th. Notwithstand- 

 ing the unpromising state of the weather, a large crowd of people 

 assembled at an early hour. 



Contrary to the almost universal custom of our other agricultural 

 societies, Essex has not seen fit to purchase and fence grounds upon 

 which to hold her annual fairs, but chooses rather to hold them, 

 from year to year, throughout the principal towns of the county, 

 and by this means a lively interest for her success is kept up among 

 the members, and but little disposition to form other societies, 

 within the limits of the county, is entertained. 



Upon the grounds used for the fair, a spacious tent had been 

 erected, under which all farming tools and implements could be 

 shown, as also plenty of pens for the reception of stock. 



I walked to the hall where the annual meeting for the choice of 

 officers was in session. I could see that the utmost interest was 

 felt for the welfare of the society, by the large attendance of its 

 members at this meeting. After its adjournment, I returned to the 

 grounds in company with its president, General Sutton, and 

 examined the show of stock. The exhibition, in this department, 

 was not large, but most of the animals were of fine quality, especially 

 the herd of Jerseys of Francis Dane, and the Jerseys and Ayrshires 

 of the Messrs. Appleton. 



It affords your delegate great pleasure to say, that in numbers, 

 blood, condition and style, the show of horses and colts was the 

 finest he had ever witnessed at any county fair ; and the exhibition 

 was even more gratifying when we consider that the trotting-track, 



