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dollars, or thereabouts ; but that fact only adds additional mystery 

 to the riddle, as what sane raau could suppose a farm could be ruu 

 to any profit by a "committee of arrangements " headed even by 

 such practical and accomplished farmers as the president of the 

 society and its delegate to this Board ? Without further essaying 

 to evolve a solution of this puzzling conundrum I pass to the exhi- 

 bition of fruits, flowers, vegetables, bread, butter, honey, and fancy 

 work generally, wliich w^as gratifying to all observers, and the fav- 

 orite and most profitable fruit of the county even brought tears 

 into the eyes of the more contemplative. Apples and pears seem 

 to be specialties also in that favored region, so fine and luscious 

 were they in appearance, and their taste not breaking the promise 

 of their looks ; and Dr. ISTichols, no mean judge of fruits, was ob- 

 served noting with admiration the rich complexion of each flivored 

 variety, and drawing, possibly, favorable conclusions as to the efii- 

 cacy of some newly manipulated compounds which had been tested 

 in manuring the orchards. 



The ploughing matches in the absence of horse trots, were of 

 course well attended, and at their conclusion the crowd, like the cele- 

 brated French army,,marched down the hill, and then, headed by the 

 orator of the day and a band of music, marched up again, and into 

 the church, where an address was delivered by Hon. B. F. Butler, 

 on French husbandry — i. e. husbandry of the soil, the other being 

 rather soiled husbandry — and a very flattering tale was told on one 

 side ; the great ditterence in the wages I'eceived by the toilers on 

 that side of the water as compared with the same class here, not 

 being taken into the argument. But the crowd came to see and 

 hear the representative of tlie scali/ classes, and were not disposed 

 to criticize severely, and the hardy fishermen who inhabit near where 

 their clmmjnon pitches his tent, probably considered that those who 

 ploughed the furrows of the land earned their living as easily and 

 were as well paid as those who plough the vasty deep. 



The Dinner 



Was provided in the basement of an adjoining church, where fish, 

 meats, poultry, vegetables and fruits of all kinds, and the inevitable 

 coflee and pies, were like an army with banners ; and some 400 to 500 

 guests soon made such a clatter that all mouths were closed save to 

 receive the food entering therein, and the monotony of eating was 

 agreeably broken, after a wholesome hour not unwisely spent, by 

 the announcement that the concluding exercises would take place 

 in the church above. Thither all at the tables repaired, together 

 with numerous outsiders, and the genial president. Gen. Sutton, 



