viii EEPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



Your delegate did not arrive on tlie grounds till after the plougli- 

 ing-match, but he found the ground well ploughed. Eight pairs of 

 oxen and seven pairs of horses contested for the premiums. Six 

 premiums were awarded for ploughing with oxen, and three for 

 ploughing with horses. Conspicuous among the successful compet- 

 itors in all this section of country, are the dwellers in Sutton and 

 Charlton. 



The entries of working-oxen were manj^, and there were ten suc- 

 cessful contestants. In the main, the work was done well, and with 

 but little use of the lash and less shouting. The steers were well 

 broken, and their trainers showed that they knew what strict dis- 

 cipline was. 



The fat oxen would do credit to any exhibition, showing that the 

 region had good pasturage, that grain had been grown somewhere, 

 that the oxen had found it, and that a steak from the round of these 

 fat fellows would intensely excite the salivary glands of a good 

 feeder any time between mid-day and three p. m. 



There was a fair show of thoroughbred bulls, — Durham, Ayrshire 

 and Jersey's, and premiums were awarded accordingly. There was 

 only one herd of neat-stock entered for premium, a Jersey herd, 

 entered by Rev. J. W. Mowry. To this was awarded a premium of 

 ten dollars. 



There was the best show of dairj'-cows that I ever saw at any 

 county or sub-county fair. There were thoroughbred beauties, 

 Durhams, Ayrshires and Jerseys, that were worth}' specimens of 

 these distinguished and contesting breeds ; and the milking-herds of 

 Rowland, Holland, Lane, Conant and Crawford, and the single cows 

 of Brown, Bacon, Barret and Bridges would be prima facie evidence, 

 if not absolute proof, that Barre and vicinity is a good butter and 

 cheese producing section. And then the heifers that had come, and 

 those coming, to milkhood, gave excellent promise that the}' would 

 be worth}' daughters of noble dames. 



The show of poultry was good, but I cannot stop to particularize, 

 for the time would fail me to tell of the Brahmas, the Dorkings, 

 the Leghorns, the Spanish, the Game, the Polands, the Dunghills, 



and, — 



" The old white hen with yellow legs 

 That laid her master many eggs." 



On the grounds were carriages and buggies from the manufacto- 

 ries of Loring and Stone & Son ; mowers, horse-rakes, agricult- 

 ural and many other implements, showing the active genius of the 

 inventive Yankee. 



The hall was well filled with fruits, vegetables, needle-work, 

 manufactured articles and works of art that did honor to the 



