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manifested by the ladies at Fitchburg is worthy of praise and ought to 

 be emulated in other places. "We desire to express our personal obliga- 

 tions to the efficient wife of the efficient secretary, Mr. Lewis H. 

 Bradford, not only for kind hospitality, but for driving us aroiind the 

 village and into the surrounding country. We shall vote for women's 

 rights, if men can always be so pleasantly driven. 



We would suggest to the managers of the Worcester North that an 

 addition might be made to the interest and profit of their fair, if a meet- 

 ing could be held in the evening for social intercourse and agricultural 

 discussion. This has been tried in other societies with success, and we 

 trust increasing attention will be given to it throughout the State. 

 Thoughts should be sown broadcast at our fairs, and they will return 

 some thirty, some sixty and some an hundred fold. An ox may be 

 estimated by his girth and weight, but mind is the standard of the man, 

 and the development of man, and not his mere amusenient, must be the 

 object aimed at by our agricultural societies, if we would avoid the 

 criticisms of the " Springfield Republican " and the just condemnation of 

 the public. 



On the last and great day of the fair at Fitchburg, came the horse, a 

 greater crowd, the address by George E. Towne, Esq., (which was a 

 business man's view of the farmer's occupation, replete with practical 

 suggestions for a thorough and systematic management of it,) the dinner, 

 with its after speeches, and the final adjournment, leaving a replenished 

 treasury and many pleasant remembrances. 



Our thanks are due for kind attentions and hospitality shown by the 

 president and secretary, also by Messrs. Billings, Adams and many 

 others. Alexander Hyde. 



WORCESTER SOUTH-EAST. 



Your delegate, appointed to attend the exhibition of the Worcester 

 South-East Society, held at Milford, reports as follows : — 



On ray arrival in the morning of the first day, I found the ploughing, 

 which was done with oxen, had already commenced, and not under- 

 standing the locality, did not witness that part of the exhibition, but 

 heard it well spoken of. 



The park which the society occupies is a fine one, and the hall good 

 and substantial, — the grounds belonging to private individuals, the 

 buildings to the society. 



The show at first appeared somewhat thin, but before eleven o'clock 

 the stock apartments were more than full. Their heavy oxen were not 

 up to the standard, which might have been expected, judging from the 



