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seventeen cwt. of stone, and drawing- it up the same liill, and 

 afterwards with a plough on a piece of uneven ground. 



A five-year old ox, weighing 1,931 pounds, took the first 

 premium for fat cattle, and one weighing 1,871 pounds, the 

 second. Capt. Brooks, of Princeton, exhibited two fat oxen, 

 one weighing 1,890, the other 1,862 pounds. Cattle, sheep, and 

 swine in abundance were present. 



Among the manufactured articles, were broadcloths, cassi- 

 mercs, satinetts, hats, leather, &c. Nine skeins of tow yarn, 

 from thirty-three to thirty-seven skeins to the pound, spun on 

 a great wheel by a lady of Worcester, were exhibited. Mention 

 is made of nearly seven hundred pounds of cheese among a 

 great variety of other articles. 



Thirty-four years have passed. The fathers have gone away. 

 Another generation are the acting, moving spirits of the day ; 

 but the cfl&ciency, thoroughness and energy in action, which 

 appear so clearly marked in the arrangements of this first show, 

 we distinctly recognized in the doings of the present season. 

 At first view, we might overlook the great progress which the 

 thirty-four years have produced. There was the same drawing 

 and backing the two tons of stone up a hill, which we witnessed 

 so successfully executed ; and the number of animals exhibited, 

 although falling much below the present number, was truly 

 respectable. But a second thought will show the difference. 

 There were, in 1853, working cattle, four years old, almost as 

 heavy as the heaviest fat oxen of 1819. The horticultural 

 department had, in this early show, scarcely a germ of existence. 

 A department that, some years since, had become so extensive 

 that it was deemed expedient to colonize it, and the Worcester 

 County Horticultural Society, with its splendid hall and its 

 three days' exhibition, its 700 entries of pears, 229 of apples, 

 213 of other fruits, its 151 entries of vegetables, and 86 of 

 flowers, is now an independent organization, under its own 

 board of gentlemanly and efi&cient officers. Having had its birth 

 and training in the old mansion, it has, in accordance with the 

 true law of progress, gone out, and is doing a splendid business 

 on its own account. So of the results of mechanical and manu- 

 facturing labor. These have, for the most part, disappeared 

 from the agricultural show; but it is not because they have 



