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veiT fine three 3'ears old steers. Dennis Wilson, of Coleraine, showed 

 a pair weighing 3,300 pounds ; W. H.Hunt, of Heath, a pair weigh- 

 ing 2,940 pounds ; E. Bemont, of Buckland, a pair weighing 2,900 

 pounds ; and L. Brown, of Shelburne, a pair weighing 3,130 pounds. 

 S. Dodge & Son, of Hawley, had three very fine yoke, which would 

 do credit to any show. I might enumerate many others, but suflflce 

 it to say, that the show in this department was very fine. I noticed 

 one pair of two years old steers, entered by J. 0. Davenport, splen- 

 didly matched, and weighing 2,820 pounds. Also a pair by Dennis 

 Canedy, of Heath, that weighed 2,780. The last-mentioned pair 

 gained by pasture in four and a half months 50G pounds. 



More herds of cattle were seen than are usually exhibited. At 

 the head of these stood the herd of Shorthorns, thirty-eight in num- 

 ber, owned by G. P. and W. W. Carpenter, of Shelburne. It is 

 seldom that we see a better herd throughout. D. O. Fisk, of Shel- 

 burne, had many fine animals on the ground. S. W. Hall, of Green- 

 field, showed a fine herd of Devons, the only stock I noticed of this 

 breed, except a pair of oxen. There was quite a sprinkling of the 

 Jerseys, evidently showing that this breed is gaining favor. The 

 show of cows was not large, and no very astounding reports of large 

 quantities of milk. One cow was reported to give during the month 

 of June fort3--seven pounds of milk per day. Another forty-four 

 pounds. This is a good quantity for any cow to give, but not so 

 large as man}' I have seen reported. I must not omit to mention 

 J. S. Grinnell's black Kerries, remarkable for their size on the 

 descending scale. Also a remarkable heifer owned b}' Henry Bas- 

 set, of Charlemont, that produced four calves at one birth. Three 

 of them died. The other one on exhibition, although it was several 

 weeks old and weighed only thirty pounds, was one of the biggest 

 shows I saw. 



An interesting feature of the show was the trained oxen : and 

 what attracted my attention in particular, was a small lad with a 

 pair of steers seven months old attached to a two-wheeled vehicle, 

 on which he sat perfectly at ease and giving his orders orally or by 

 gestures, and which seemed to be obeyed as perfectl}^ as soldiers at 

 a military review. There was another pair that performed under 

 the marshalship of Albert White, of Rowe, and which showed 

 remarkaljJe intelligence. 



The exhibition of sheep was large ; I think fourteen or fifteen pens 

 were filled with them. Some of them were fine-wooled, but the 

 larger part were of the middle or coarse-wooled sheep. This shows 

 that there ai-e localities in Massachusetts where sheep are not 

 entirely discarded. The show of swine was fair, although the nura- 

 bsrs were not large. The poultry show was meagre, except in the 

 hen line, whieh was quite good. 



