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For the drawing match, fifteen yoke of oxen and nine of steers, six 

 pairs and eight single horses were entei'ed. This part of the exhibition, 

 though good, would have been better, had those in authority kept the 

 spectators from pressing forward on the track, and so near in some 

 instances as to interfere with the operation of the teamsters and their 

 teams. 



There were several fine pairs of horses, and some single ones that 

 showed good training and great power in taking up the heavy loads to 

 which they were attached. 



The pens for the exhibition of stock, were some little distance from 

 the trotting park, and seemed rather a side issue. The neat stock was 

 not numerous nor did it seem to excite much interest or attention, yet 

 there were some very good animals. The show of Shorthorns, number- 

 ing in all, old and young, twenty head, from the State Lunatic Asylum, 

 was very good. Almost all the different breeds were represented by 

 their sires, showing that the question, which is the most desirable, is not 

 fully settled in Bristol County. In addition to the Durham stock from 

 the asylum, Zenas B. Carpenter, of Attleborough, had a full-blood 

 Devon bull ; Thomas N. Dean, of Raynham, an Ayrshire ; and E. G. 

 Dean, of Taunton, an Alderney. Milch cows were exhibited by Charles 

 Bissett, of Berkley, B. C. Godfrey, of Taunton, and Jason White, of 

 Norton. There were also several grade heifers present, one owned by 

 Benjamin Caswell, of Taunton, two years five and a half months old, 

 which gave at that time ten quarts of milk per day. 



I noticed but few fat cattle ; but I saw two very fine pairs of steers 

 well matched, one pair four and the other two years old. I did not 

 learn the weight of the older, but the younger ones were said to weigh 

 2,400 pounds,- and sold for $200, the others for $225. Both pairs were 

 purchased by one man, and driven off -the ground the first day. Of 

 sheep, there was a creditable show. Charles T. Hazard, of Newport, 

 exhibited two Southdown bucks, and George A. Hazard, of Newport, a 

 Southdown and Leicester buck ; S. H. Peckham, of Attleborough, had 

 a very good show of sheep. Swine were scarce. I saw but four ; two 

 of these were exhibited by B. B. "Wales, of Taunton ; the pair, five 

 months old, together Aveighed four hundred and thirty-five pounds. 



Several horses and colts were exhibited. H. H. Freeman, of Norton, 

 had two large two-year-old colts ; George T. Bullock, of Taunton, two 

 fine ones; and Isaac Ainsworth, of Fall River, quite a handsome one ; 

 there were also several others of good promise. 



By way of curiosities, were two mountain goats, by Leonard L. Short, 

 of Raynham ; and an ass and her colt, by John T, Kelly, of Taunton. 

 The ass, harnessed to a small vehicle and driven by a boy, attracted 

 considerable attention. 



