xxvi APPENDIX. 



HAIVIPSHIRE. 



Arriving at Amherst at three o'clock, p.m., on Mondaj', the 

 17th of September, the day preceding the fair, I improved a few 

 hours in somewhat the way in which my immediate predecessor did 

 after the fair, viz., in looking around on the Agiicultm-al College 

 grounds, without, however, his good fortune in having as escort 

 one of the professors of the college. My call on President Clark 

 in the evening was not only a source of enjoyment, but his account 

 of his work in Japan, assisted by the young men whom he took 

 out with him, and whom this college had trained, suggested 

 a wealth of thought as to what the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College had laid the foundation for doing in behalf of the wonder- 

 ful people of that countr3^ 



'By going to my assigned post thus early, I secured a full daj^'s 

 work on Tuesday, the only day on which the stock was to be 

 exhibited. Through the kindness of Mr. Southwick, superintend- 

 ent of the college farm, I was set down at the grounds at nine 

 o'clock of this first morning, and had thus an opportunitj^ to watch 

 the arranging of things within the hall, and the gathering together 

 of the animals without. The much-needed rain of the early morn- 

 ing had laid the dust, and the day was cool as well as sunny. 

 This society had not enjoyed the like for many years. The change 

 of the week had brought them the much-desired change of weather. 



The show inside of the hall was pronounced the best they had 

 ever had. Although an off-year in apples, the specimens were 

 good, and were plentiful enough to occupy nearl}^ all the space ever 

 allotted for this kind of fruit. Pears, peaches, quinces, and grapes 

 were in abundance. Roots, bulbs, grains, beans, and pease were 

 without stint. One exhibitor had a specimen of wheat like the 

 hundred bushels gi'own this year on four acres of the college farm. 

 Some of the exhibitors deserve special mention. E. J. Judd had 

 twentj'-five specimens of pears. Professor Maynard had samples 

 of grapes from the vinej^ard on the college farm like the two tons 

 raised this year. He had other fine fruit. Mr. Comins, our 

 brother-member, had sixty-six specimens of farm and garden 

 products. F. B. Paige had from his " melon vineyard " ninet3'-six 

 varieties of fruit, nuts, berries, &c., forty varieties of which were 

 apples. And our old friend W. L. Warner, whom no one has any 

 hope of excelling, had a hundred and sixty-eight varieties, seventy- 

 three of which were of beans, and nineteen of sweet corn. There 

 were cut fiowers on a large scale. There were also large collec- 

 tions of wild flowers of rare beautj'. L. "W. Goodell of Belcher- 



