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Np place in the State has better facilities for trotting than Hampden 

 Park, there being a mile and half mile track. Seats, also, which will 

 accommodate three thousand persons, recently covered with gravel roofing, 

 which, we trust, will prove convenient and durable. 



Here we leave the horses and return to the neat and other stock. 



Among the notable animals on the grounds were nine Devon cows and 

 heifers and two bulls, shown by William Mattoon of Springfield. Mr. 

 Mat toon also showed a most beautiful yoke of Devon oxen. 



William R. Sessions of South Wilbraham, had eleven Shorthorns and 

 grades, among which was a pure bred bull, together with a herd of 

 young Shorthorns and grades. They were nice animals. 



H. M. Sessions had fifteen pure bred Devons, old and young, and all 

 the progeny of one heifer since 1854. Mr. Sessions, it must be allowed, 

 has been very successful, both as regards freedom from disease and in 

 raising good specimens of the breed. 



G. W. Convers of East Longmeadow, shoAved one pair of well- 

 appearing four yeai'S old Durham steers ; weight, 3,620. 



George H. Estes of Springfield, had a cow, the net profit from which 

 was in one year ninety-seven dollars and twenty-five cents, ($97.25.) 

 She gave during the time 3,176 quarts milk. 



William Birnie, of Springfield, showed thirteen Ayrshire heifers, two 

 bulls, (younn^,) two cows, and one three years old bull, all carefully and 

 skilfully bred, fine looking all. Some of the heifers, it seemed to us, 

 were the best we ever saw of that excellent breed of cattle. 



Mr. Ashley, of W"est Springfield, showed a pair of oxen 



Aveighing five thousand and eighty lbs., (5,080.) Fat truly, but how 

 long they had been in taking it on we did not learn. 



P. Stedman & Son, Chico[)ee, were on hand with a Shorthorn bull, 

 Duke of Carlisle. This animal loomed up well in a distant view, and 

 upon a closer inspection we observed many points of excellence. The 

 pedigree was given, Avhich should be the ca<e wiih all blood stock, as it 

 facilitates the labor of committees. 



The swinish tribe did not abouml extensively. 



O. H. Chapin, of Chicopee, had one litter of fair-appearing pigs, nine 

 weeks old, Cheshire and Suffolk cro-sed. 



J. C. Pease, of East Longmeadow, had a good boar, (Prince Albert,) 

 nine months old. 



Of agricultural implements, there were the Clipper, (appropriate 

 name,) Buckeye, Union and Kniffin mowing machines, the Kniffin, 

 New England and Bay State horse-rakes. Two sizes of Grant's feed- 

 cutter, and a plough by the same exhibitor. 



