xxxviii APPENDIX. 



I do not believe that any man of common capacity would wish for a 

 sheep as large as a horse, or a horse as large as an elephant. We 

 should be content with the construction within which nature has fixed 

 the type of all animal and vegetable productions. 



I trust that when we shall become better informed we shall be as 

 well qualified to judge of the most perfect magnitude for all animal and 

 vegetable productions,, as we are now to fix upon the best and most 

 perfect sizes for our horses and sheep. 



Let this board protest against allowing premiums for any monstrosities 

 either in animal or vegetable productions. 



Samuel Hartwell. 



BRISTOL. 



The Bristol County Agricultjaral Society held their forty-first annual 

 exhibition on their grounds in Taunton, commencing on Tuesday, the 

 fourth day of October, and continuing three days. Their grounds are 

 sufficiently extensive to accommodate all classes of the exhibition, and 

 ample space for the large assembly of people present on each day. 

 They have a fine track, on which the horses are exhibited and the con- 

 testants try their speed. The ploughing was in the park, for competi- 

 tion, in which there were eleven entries of oxen, tfiree of horses, and 

 four of horse and steers. The ground was well adapted to it, free of 

 stone, and the sward sufficiently strong to turn well. The work was 

 generally well done ; some of it, perfectly. All the competitors but 

 two, used the double plough. The committee had regai-d to the manner, 

 rather than the time, in which the work was accomj^lished, and although 

 it requires longer time to perform the 'same work with the double 

 plough, the better condition in which the soil is left for after cultivation 

 amply compensates, where the ground is suitable. 



The teams showed good training, and the ploughmen skill in managing 

 them and guiding the plough. 



Exhibition of town teams was next in course, of which two only were 

 present — one from Raynham composed of thirty-eight yokes of cattle, 

 the other from Taunton, consisting of thirty-six ; in each were some 

 good oxen. 



The afternoon was devoted to the horse and the drawing of oxen and 

 horses. There were two races announced by the programme for tlie 

 afternoon, open to four-year-old colts only ; the first to those owned in 

 the county, with two prizes of $8 and $5 ; the other to all four-year-old 

 colts owned in or out of the county, with a prize of $10. As usual, 

 much time was taken up in preparing for, and getting a fair start. 



