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Witliout a proper combination of these two great objects, 

 and, without in some good degree, securing both, a society nyist 

 fail of accomplishing its great designs. To this point, more 

 than to any other, in our intercourse with difiercnt societies for 

 the last two years, have we given thought and attention ; and 

 in our mind, there is no one which has stronger claims on the 

 attention of the Board. 



Altliough we may have extended this report to an unwar- 

 ranted length, we must be permitted to add, that a most cor- 

 dial reception was given us by the Worcester Society, and that 

 nothing was omitted on the part of its officers, which could 

 facilitate our purpose, or contribute to our comfort or pleas- 

 ure. We extend the same acknowledgments to the gentlemanly 

 officers of the Horticultural Society, and tender, personally, 

 and in behalf of the Board, to all, expressions of correspond- 

 ing gratitude and kind remembrance. 



S. Reed. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN SOCIETY. 



The annual exhibition of the Hampshire, Franklin and 

 Hampden Society took place at Northampton, on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, the 11th and 12th of October. The weather was 

 favorable, and all circumstances seemed to conspire to make 

 the occasion an agreeable and profitable one. The morning of 

 the first day was bright, with a cool and bracing air, so that the 

 men of the hill-country and of the valleys, with their pleasant 

 wives and daughters, came out with hearty good will to join 

 the happy festival. I was fortunate in being on the ground early 

 in the morning to see the cattle, horses, sheep, and swine, in 

 single groups as well as collectively. 



My attention — after the stock had generally come upon the 

 ground — was first directed to the swine. The collection was 

 not numerous, but there were several lots of fine propor- 



