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No. 1, and the boy has got the money for them in his 

 pocket. His Bremen geese were the largest exhibited, and 

 the white Dorkings could not be beat. You know our 

 Suffolk pigs ; I had them all washed up the day before 

 the fair, and they were clean enough to go into the pork 

 barrel all alive. They were the best lot exhibited. 



&quot; There was a good deal of competition on the vege 

 tables. One man brought a hundred varieties, and an 

 other ninety-one. My carrots were hard run, and the 

 Committee declared that they were a good deal bothered 

 to know how to decide, and I guess they were so. But 

 you see my star was in the heavens that day, and my car 

 rots took the prize. That is what I call doing pretty well. 

 But it isn t a circumstance to what I shall do next year. 

 I m bound to lay myself out at the next fair.&quot; 



NO. 10. TIM BUNKER ON HORSE-RACING. 



Our cut illustrating an &quot; Orthodox Agricultural Exhibi 

 tion in 1856,&quot; appears to have touched the right cord. We 

 are glad to learn that it has met with such favor among 

 our orthodox subscribers in Hookertown and vicinity. 

 We give Mr. Bunker s letter entire. 



HOOKERTOWN, Nov. 12, 1856. 

 To the Editor of the American Agriculturist. 



I am not much used to writing letters of any kind, much 

 less letters for the papers. But I see you are reporting 

 considerable many of my sayings in your paper, and I 

 thought if you were bent upon having my notions circu 

 lated, you might as well have them direct from the foun 

 tain head, as to have them come in a round-about way. I 



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