X EEPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



section of the State, — I remember attending an agricultural sliow, 

 holden on Barre Common, and a dinner at the Barre tavern. The 

 same sun shines in the same skies, the same streams meander 

 through the same valleys, the same hills raise their brows to be 

 laved by the same showers and kissed by the same breezes, the 

 same propensity- to get up and eat good dinners remains the same 

 among the children as with the fathers in days of yore, but all else, 

 how changed ! 



From a hamlet she has become almost a city ; her brooks are 

 made to turn a wheel for the manufacture of some gimcrack gotten 

 up b}' a progressive Yankee to turn a penny on ever}- waterfall ; 

 her fields are bronzed with yellow corn ; her hill-sides are carpeted 

 with the liveliest green ; and improvement is stamped on her 

 mansions, farm-houses, on her spacious barns, on her flocks and 

 herds, on her crops and on her productions, mechanical as well as 

 agricultural. 



Perfection only is hoped for, with a fair prospect that this may be 

 realized in the not distant future, since the ladies have just carried 

 off two of the premiums for the best reports, which goes to show 

 that where refinement, delicac}' and genius enter into the contest, 

 woman compared with man will always stand two to one. 



Horace P. Wakefield. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



The twent3'-first exhibition of the Worcester North Agricultural 

 Society was held on the Society's grounds, in Fitchburg, on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, September 24th and 25th, 1873. The weather 

 during both da^^s of the fair was lowery and threatening, which 

 evidently affected the success of the exhibition and its financial 

 returns. 



On entering the grounds, my attention Avas at once attracted by 

 Worcester Swan's pair of oxen, which weighed 7,000 pounds ; and 

 the pair of sleek cattle from Fitchburg town farm, which weighed 

 5,000 pounds. 



There was a creditable show of neat-stock on the grounds, 

 prominent among them being Messrs. Miles' and Whitman's herds. 



There were sixty pairs of oxen and steers, eighty -five Durhams, 

 and a goodly number of Devons and Jerseys. Of sheep there was 

 a fair exhibit of five entries. 



The show of swine was good ; prominent among this class was a 

 pig twenty -three months old, which weighed 1,038 pounds. 



