REPORTS OF DELEGATES 



APPOINTED TO VISIT THK 



AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



• ESSEX. 



The Fifty-seventh Annual Fair and Exhibition of the Esses 

 County Agricultural Society was held at the city of Lawrence on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 25 and 26, 1877. 



The fine specimens of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, and poultry, 

 were well arranged on the grounds, displaying some excellent 

 blood stock, constituting the essential element in each depart- 

 ment for improvement in breeding and keeping. At noon there 

 was an imposing cavalcade, and an interesting procession of repre- 

 sentative industries from the neighboring towns, comprising town 

 teams and elegant turnouts, interspersed with barges, with fine 

 bands from different towns, discoursing enlivening music ; the 

 whole preceded b^- the marshals of the daj-, mounted on gayl}' 

 caparisoned steeds, and the officers of the societ}' in carriages. It 

 was a ver}' popular feature of the day's entertainment, and imparted 

 a spirit of enthusiasm to the occasion. 



In the afternoon there was a trial of draught-teams, of horses 

 and oxen, required to draw up a long hill, showing skilful train- 

 ing and power. At the close of the drawing a mammoth yoke of 

 imported Dutch bulls, weighing respectively two thousand and 

 twenty-one hundred and fiftj' pounds each were tested with the 

 usual weight of two tons of earth in the wagon. Hy request thir- 

 ty-seven men mounted the load. No sensible diminution was per- 

 ceived in the pace and ease with which the}" walked up the steep 

 hill. On being stopped, the}' started again with as little effort as 

 the}' would have done on a smooth plain without any load. The 

 estimated weight of the load was seven tons. 



This was a good example of the practice of working bulls as 



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