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was sustained by spirited arguments from its particular representative, 

 setting forth its peculiar merits and advantages. 



The horse department was well sustained by the character and quality 

 of the horses on exhibition. Some very fine two years old colts, bred in 

 Palmer, were noticed. 



The track was rendered attractive by the display of good action and 

 speed on the part of the several horses presented. 



At three o'clock, P. M., we Avere invited to listen to an address by 

 T. S. Gold, Esq., Secretary of the Connecticut State Board of Agricul- 

 ture. Subject — "Advantages and Disadvantages of a Farmer's Life." 

 It was full of admirable suggestions, and was eminently instructive. 



My thanks are due to the officers of the society, and many other 

 gentlemen, for kind attentions received. 



John JonxsoN, Jr. 



FRANKLIN. 



In discharge of my duty as a delegate of the Board, I visited the 

 eighteenth exhibition of the Fi-anklin County Agricultural Society, at 

 Greenfield, on the 26th and 27ih of September. 



I found the society to be the owner of a beautiful exhibition park 

 adjacent to the village, which, iu some of its aspects, has a striking 

 resemblance to the ancient Roman amphitheatre, and peculiarly adapted 

 to such an exhibition ; but which is hardly capacious enough to display 

 all the domestic animals of the county, as the rapidly growing interest 

 in agriculture and the society indicates it will be required to. 



On first entering the inclosure, it was strikingly evident that I was 

 in the company of a Avide awake and thriving agricultural people, as 

 well as that it was a gala day for the whole county. The people Avere 

 there, male and female, all on the common level of intelligent humanity, 

 all on exhibition ; to see and be seen, to teach and to learn, seemed to be 

 the order of the day. The first day, as is usual, was devoted to neat 

 stock, sheep, swine, &c., and an address by the orator gf (he dny, Dr. 

 George B. Loring. The second to horses. The exhibition of neat 

 stock was very extensive and varied. There were many specimens of 

 all the thoroughbred breeds, and all sorts of grades and crosses. There 

 Avere on the ground nine distinct herds of carefully bred and nurtured 

 animals, four of Avhich contained more than a hundred animals. In the- 

 important department of young stock, the exhibition was unrivalled in. 

 variety, number and quality, indicating that the farmers of the county 

 are making a business of rearing catlle, and that skill, intelligence and 



