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that they looked to the ways of the household, in regard both to 

 ornament and use. 



Feeling my inability to do justice to the display of butter and 

 cheese, I will content myself with saying that it surpassed, both in 

 quantity and quality, anything that I have ever beheld at an exhibi- 

 tion of this kind, and, with the bread on exhibition, which re- 

 flected great credit on the wives and daughters of the farmers, was 

 more than sufficient to feed a multitude. 



I can heartily congratulate the Society on its prosperous condi- 

 tion, financially and otherwise. 



In passing around I was forcibly reminded that the members of 

 the time-honored old Berkshire Agricultural Society had been at 

 work during the past season trying to see what they could pro- 

 duce, and had brought together for exhibition the results of their 

 labors, which said, " See what I have done " ; all of which was 

 worthy of commendation, and spoke volumes in favor of the in- 

 dustry and skill of the farmers of Berkshire. 



I regret being unable to speak of the excellent address of the 

 Hon. Thomas Allen, which is, however, reported at length in the 

 Transactions of the Society. J. Ladd. 



HOOSAC VALLEY. 



The Hoosac Valley Fair was held at North Adams, on the 19tb, 

 20th and 21st of September. Though it was late on the afternoon 

 of the first day when I arrived, yet I had an opportunity to see the 

 most of the stock before it was removed from the grounds. The 

 day was cool, the sky was overcast, and a damp north-east wind, 

 sufficient to cool the ardor of any but a community of Berkshire 

 farmers, prevailed throughout the day. But regardless of the 

 weather, the attendance was large, much better than we had ex- 

 pected to see, and the exhibition, in nearly every department, we 

 were told, surpassed that of former years. 



The show of neat stock embraced excellent specimens of Dur- 

 hams, Ayrshires and Alderneys. A three-year-old Durham bull, 

 weighing 1,660 pounds, belonging to Mr. TV. S. Ford of Williams- 

 town, was nearly a perfect type of that breed. 



I was told that there had been a good exhibition of sheep during 

 the day, but regret to say that many of the pens were empty when 

 we got round to them ; yet we found some very nice bucks, both of 

 the fine and coarse wool varieties. Mr. John Leonard Cole of Wil- 



