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ten Jerseys and two Devons. A Durham stock-cow, entered by 

 William Bard well, of Shelburne, weighed 1,G15 pounds, while her 

 youngest daughter, at her side, weighed 760 pounds. D. and H. 

 Wells exhibited 19 handsome cows, mostly Shorthorns. G. P. and 

 W. W. Carpenter, of Shelburne, are extensive raisers of stock, and 

 exhibited four handsome Shorthorns. A 1,590 pound grade Short- 

 horn, six years old, was shown by A. Kellogg, of Shelburne ; sev- 

 eral cows whose developments in the udder line were astonishing. 

 Of herds of neat-stock, there were eight entries. The exhibition of 

 working oxen was large and unusually attractive. 



The exhibition of sheep was not large, but included several flocks 

 of the choicest varieties. Of fine-wool sheep there were six entries ; 

 of middle-wool, 37 ; of long-wool, 24 ; and of sheep for stall-feeding, 

 five. The pigpens were not so well filled as on some former occa- 

 sions, nevertheless they contained some excellent specimens. The 

 show of poultry consisted of 15 entries. An attractive feature of the 

 day was the town-team from Bernardston, which consisted of a large 

 wagon loaded down with the fruit of the farm, garden and forest, 

 with a bright-eyed maiden in charge, the whole drawn by 20 yoke of 

 oxen. 



The second day was almost entirely devoted to horses. No cattle- 

 show is complete, now-a-days, without a "horse-trot"; and, with 

 this fact in view, the society offered a purse of $100, to be trotted 

 for by stallions, on the mile track at Petty's Plain. The first money 

 won was in 2.29, by "Buckland Boy," a horse of light weight, 

 young and of great promise for speed. Here farmers drive their 

 own horses. Gentlemen of Franklin, when exhibiting their steeds, 

 don't hesitate to take the ribbons and drive themselves. Although 

 a specialty is made of fine cattle, the farmers are almost equally 

 proud of their horses ; and at this time an unusually large number 

 of valuable animals, some of which lay claim to good blood, were 

 on exhibition. The saddle-horses first took the track, of which there 

 were eight entries, several of them young and promising animals. 

 The stallion show consisted of four entries, and would do credit to 

 an}" county fair in the State. Twelve breeding-mares, some of them 

 accompanied bjr their offspring, answered to the call. One of the 

 most satisfactoiy exhibitions of the day was that of two and three 

 year old geldings and mare colts. Among these, was the gelding 

 " Dashing Spray," owned by Henry Nye, of Conway. 



The hall exhibition was extensively visited, and during every 

 evening thronged with the farmers and their wives and daughters 

 from every part of the county. The society is indebted, in a great 

 degree, to Whitney L. Warner, of Sunderland, for the success of 

 this department of the fair. During the first year of his charge of 

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