REPORT OF THE VISITING STATE DELEGATE. 



Some twenty years ago tlie fanners of CunimiDgloii and vicinity got 

 up a neigbboihood cattle show, aiid the project met with Buch success 

 that it was repeated year after year, meeting ju the street ol the village 

 with their cattle and horses. Very soon a fair was added, using first 

 one of the churches, then the schoolhouse hall for that purpose. No 

 money premiums were given, only honorary mention being made of the 

 best. Some years since an institute was staited in coimecticn with the 

 show and fair, and held its meetings through the winter. 

 The organization, witli so crude a beginniiig, grew to such size and im- 

 portance that in 1882 they petitioned for and weie granted an incorpora- 

 tion, under the name cf the Hillside Agricultural Society. Since that 

 time they have bought nine acres of land about ihree fciuths of a mile 

 from the village, enclosed it with a substantial fence, built a one third 

 mile track and erected a building 65x86 feet, two stories in height with 

 a basement. With these conveniences the eocitly is new in good run- 

 ning order. 



In their printed program this year they advertised this as their 19th 

 show and fair, dating back to the first show held on the street, and al- 

 though the clouds looked somewhat tbrtatenicg on the morning of the 

 27th of Sept., the day proved to be propitious. The ball opened with a 

 cavalcade of oxen on the track with the exhibition of town teams, 

 Chesterfield leading with 45 yoke. The show of cattle was respectable. 

 There were several fine herds of Shorthorns and Jerseys; one herd of 35 

 Shorthorns, another of 22 head, two heids of Jerseys, 17 each, with 

 smaller lots. There were but few entries of sheep and ewine. The show 

 of horses the second day was creditable, especially that of Percheron 

 colts, which was really excellent. 



Considering the age and size of the society, t he exhibit in the two 

 rooms of the hall was remarkablj' good, and would have done credit to 

 an older and larger society. There weie 80 entries of fiuit, 59 of garden 

 vegetables, 50 of grains and seeds, 27 of butter, 17 of cheese, 21 of ma- 

 ple sugar and honey, 48 of bread, 74 of domestic manufactures, 27 of 

 spinning and knitting, 80 of embroidery and needlework, 109 of fancy 

 and miscellaneous, 23 of floweis, and 124 of the youths' depailment, 



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