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which particularly pleased j'our delegate was the different town 

 exhibits. The table of the Hatfield contribution was liberally and 

 beautifully ornamented with flowers, not thrown together in a 

 heterogeneous mass, but arranged with exquisite taste ; and the 

 whole disjDlay of individual and collective exhibit was one of which 

 any society might be gratified, as was also the exhibit of persons 

 from other places. 



The vegetable department was, perhaps, the chief feature of the 

 display in the hall. I should very much like to particularly men- 

 tion the contributions of the gentleman who exhibited one hundred 

 and sixty-five varieties, which was such positive proof of his inter- 

 est in that particular part of the fair ; but, as I am prejudiced 

 against individualizing names, the right of guessing is not with- 

 held from those interested. There were fifty -two general entries ; 

 and it certainly was a fine exhibition. 



The various entries of grain, seeds, flowers, bread, butter, 

 canned fruits, jeUies, &c., were numerous and attractive. Among 

 the mechanic art entries was the Cooley Creamery, by the Ver- 

 mont Farm-Machine Company of Bellows Falls, Vt. Very bene- 

 ficial results were claimed by its exhibitor, and apparently it is a 

 valuable invention ; but its merits could be better appreciated by 

 butter-makers than by your delegate. 



Not being very well versed in the merits of dry-goods entries, 

 neither in the piUow-shams, tidies, bead-work, and embroidered 

 skirt-patterns, &c., j^our delegate does not feel quaUfied to judge 

 of that department. He only knows there were two hundred and 

 one entries of various articles in that line ; and reasoning from 

 the oft-heard expression from fair ladies' lips, " Oh, how lovely ! " 

 he takes that expression as prima facie evidence that in this 

 department the display was beautiful, and the workmanship ex- 

 cellent. 



While looking over a description of Hadley in an old gazetteer, 

 your delegate read that "large quantities of broom -corn are 

 annually raised, and the manufacture of brooms is an important 

 branch of business." Having that sentence fresh in his mind, he 

 was rather surprised that he saw only one entry of brooms, and 

 that by Mr. Edson of Hadle}', which, together with the seed 

 shown by him, served to remind visitors of that which was once 

 an important article of industry in that ^dcinity ; and it occurred 

 to the mind of your delegate, that perhaps it might have been 

 more profitable to "the world and the rest of mankind," had 

 broom-corn continued to have been raised, instead of the tobacco- 

 plant. But, as the pm'suit of filth}- lucre is usually the incentive 

 to producers, it, perhaps, was found that "filthy" tobacco would 



