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of the assembly Avas called to brief addresses by the president of the 

 society and others. During the continuance of the fair, the Society 

 held their annual meeting ; and after electing their ofRcers, voted 

 unanimously to appropriate $200 annually for the establishment of 

 scholarships in the agricultural college. The reports of the society 

 showed that their receipts last year for entrance fees and at the hall 

 amounted to over $4,500, and that the ground rents for tents Avere 

 over $1,000. 



It w^as estimated that there were not less than eight thousand on the 

 ground the second day of the show this year, which showed the interest 

 people in that section of the State take in cattle, shows. 



I understood that on Saturday there was to be a farmers' meeting 

 for the discussion of various subjects pertaining to practical agriculture, 

 or any subject connected with the interests of the society ; but as I 

 left the evening previous, can give no account of their meeting, but 

 must rest satisfied with this hasty sketch of what I saw and heard 

 while in Bridsewater. N. S. Hubbakd. 



BARNSTABLE. 



It was my privilege as a delegate from this Board to visit the annual 

 exhibition of the Barnstable Society. It gave me the greater pleasure 

 to visit that county, and attend their fair, because it was the birthplace 

 of my parents, on both sid(is, and having a desire to compare notes with 

 the Cape farmers and observe the interest taken in agricultural pursuits 

 at the east. The days of the fair were unusually fine for the season, 

 and ever^ithing was favorable for the exhibition. At the starting point 

 I tried to keep in mind that farming is not the principal business of the 

 men of that county, therefore I must not expect too much from them in 

 their operations upon the land. The exhibition of cattle on the grounds 

 was not large, but in most instances of very good quality and of good 

 growth ; and yet a breeder of Shorthorns might have thought the stock 

 in most instances small, compared with his own. Having spent two 

 days visiting different parts of that section, I was fully prepared in my 

 own mind to witness a small exhibition of working oxen, and found but 

 four or five pairs upon the ground, where in Berkshire Couiity, oxen 

 being extensively used, we might expect a larger exhibition of that 

 cla>s. Some fine cows and bulls, mostly grades, were upon the ground, 

 and also some fine sheep and swine. 



It was not my privilege to observe the ploughing match, not having 

 been notified at what hour it would take place. Only one team entered 



