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has done more, in the past, to promote agriculture, and I know of 

 none which is more able, in the future, to advance this cause ; and 

 I have no doubt but that it will be powerful for good to the farmers 

 of that community, so long as it has such a man as General Sutton 

 for its president. 



John T. Ellsworth. 



MIDDLESEX. 



The seventy-seventh annual exhibition of the Middlesex Agricult- 

 ural Society, the oldest incorporated county society in the State, 

 took place on their ample and conveniently-located grounds, in the 

 beautiful town of Concord, on the 27th and 28th of September, 

 1871. I am at a loss to know how to report this most excellent 

 exhibition, without seeming to exaggerate its real merits. That it 

 was the best I have witnessed I am confident ; and I cannot con- 

 ceive how it could have been improved. Every department was 

 full and complete, and of the highest order of excellence, show- 

 ing that there must be good soil and thorough cultivation within 

 the bounds of the society, and fully illustrating the correctness of 

 the theory laid down in the valuable Essay on Market' Gardening, 

 presented to us by the secretary of the society, and our worthy 

 associate at our last annual meeting of this Board. But the secret 

 of this society's success, I am satisfied, lies in the energy of its 

 guiding minds, arousing into active cooperation all the available 

 forces at their command, joined with an untiring zeal on their part 

 to make each exhibition one of comfort and profit to contributors, 

 and of pleasure to all. 



The entries of cattle were large, requiring more than one hundred 

 pens to accommodate them, among which were many choice speci- 

 mens of thoroughbred and grade stock. The Ayrshires were most 

 numerous, and no one could mistake their great milking qualities. 

 The fawn-like Jerseys were well represented in quality and num- 

 bers. The Dutch were represented by the fine herd contributed 

 by Mr. Chenery and others. And Mr. Clark was there with his 

 beautiful " Swiss Bell-ringers," which were among the greatest 

 objects of attraction. Durhams and Shorthorns, and fine herds of 

 grade milking stock, that would do credit to any part of the State, 

 and the great number of splendid bulls and fine young stock, all 

 warrant the continued success of this society in the future. Fat 

 cattle and working oxen also had their representatives. 



