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utility to award premiums. Also quite a number of heifers 

 and heifer calves, many of which were promising animals, and 

 a very fair show of good swine, and a few sheep. 



One of the most noticeable features of the exhibition was the 

 working oxen, particularly the string of twenty-five or more 

 pairs of oxen from the town of Dunstable, almost all of which 

 were fine, large, well-matched cattle, nearly all red in color, 

 and^ere a credit to the owners, to the society, and to the town 

 from which they were driven. There is evidently a worthy 

 spirit of emulation existing among the farmers of Dunstable in 

 respect to their oxen, as they were able, not only to make the 

 fine show of working oxen, but many of the finest fat cattle 

 exhibited came from the same place. 



In the exhibition hall there was a very fine display, consist- 

 ing of a fine show of manufactured articles and needle-work, 

 tools, vegetables, a very good show of apples, many dishes of 

 pears, some of them very fine specimens," and a good display of 

 grapes. 



The exhibition drew together quite a large attendance of the 

 farmers and their families, and others interested in agriculture, 

 who were thus enabled to compare the different breeds of cattle, 

 horses, swine, and sheep ; to examine the various kinds of fruit 

 and vegetables ; to admire the flowers, the needle-work, and 

 fancy articles ; and to listen, to the interesting remarks of 

 gentlemen at the meeting of the society. Such occasions can- 

 not fail to exert a beneficial influence upon all who attend. 



I left the exhibition grounds satisfied that the Middlesex 

 North Agricultural Society is making progress and exerting a 

 good influence in the district of its location, and that the 

 bounty of the State has been judiciously expended. 



John B. Moore. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



As a delegate of this society, I attended to the tenth annual 

 exhibition of the Middlesex South Agricultural Society, on the 

 22d and 23d of September. During the first day the time was 

 mostly occupied in putting the different kinds of animals in 



