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question the taste of selecting names that have come down from 

 the past immortaHzed by distinguishing qualities of character, and 

 associating them with even so useful a brute as a hog. 



The department of sheep was creditable, there being two hun- 

 dred and eighty-one specimens on exhibition. One Cotswold 

 buck, weighing two hundred and sevent^'-five pounds, was shown 

 with his progen}', each of which furnished over twentj'-five pounds 

 of wool the past year, and whose lambs averaged one hundred 

 pounds. The "Mood}' and Sankey " sheep, imported by the great 

 evangehst, attracted much attention. 



There were one hundred entries of poultry, representing the 

 most desirable kinds. 



The second day opened with a drizzling rain, at times culminat- 

 ing in hard showers, which, although very acceptable in lajing 

 dust, is one of the most unfoi'tunate accompaniments of a cattle 

 show, and interfered very much with the day's success. Never- 

 theless, there was a remarkably good show of horses ; there being 

 nearly one hundi'ed of the various kinds for personal and family 

 use exhibited, and some fift}' colts. 



The display in the hall was of a high order, both in its arrange- 

 ment, and in the variety, qualit}^, and aggregate of the several 

 departments. U'he arrangement has for man}' years been under 

 the direction of one man, whose good taste and skill were appar- 

 ent in so grouping together articles of utility and beauty as to 

 produce the most pleasing eflfect on the observer, and in so classi- 

 fying the fruits, vegetables, fancy articles, &c., as to diminish the 

 labor of the several committees. 



There were four hundred and fifty entries of fruits, seventy of 

 vegetables, two hundred and seventy-one of fanc}' articles, eighty- 

 three of domestic manufactures, fiftj'-three of bread, fifteen of 

 butter, sixty-five of fine arts, and sixty-four of flowers. 



The last day — being a benefit da}-, so called, and specially set 

 apart for the "sports of the turf" — opened clear and pleasant, 

 and, with a large crowd of people, saved the society from loss, and 

 rendered the fair, in a degree, financially — as it certainly was in 

 all other respects — a success. 



The receipts of the year from all sources have been, as per 

 Secretary's Report, $3,590.92 ; the expenditures for same time, 

 including interest on society's debt of $2,000, $3,571.73 ; lea\'ing 

 a balance to the credit of the society of $19.19. 



George M. Bakee. 

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