446 MASS. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



8,512 pounds, (wagcm included,) for a distance of 40 rods, up 

 hill, with remarkable steadiness. 



The show of cattle in the pens, was large, and of a high 

 order. Several native cows attracted attention as presenting 

 the best points of the animal. Among them, was one belong- 

 ing to Samuel Horn, of Lowell, which was said to have yielded 

 twenty-six quarts of milk per day, during the months of June, 

 July, and August ; and another very fine cow, belonging to Al- 

 exander Wright, of Lowell, which was said to weigh 1,400 

 pounds. There were also a number of good specimens of the 

 Durham, Devon, Alderney, or Jersey, and Ayrshire breeds. One 

 yoke of fat cattle was on the ground, weighing 5,500 pounds. 



There was no display of horses, or of sheep, the society not 

 having been accustomed to offer premiums for those animals ; 

 and the show of swine, though presenting a few fine Suffolk 

 boars and breeders, was small. 



The exhibition of fowls was extensive and of the highest 

 character. There were twenty-nine competitors in this branch 

 of the show, and they offered for the prizes excellent samples, 

 both of the best of our common breeds and of all the imported 

 varieties. 



The most striking peculiarity of the occasion, was the union 

 of this agricultural festival with the exhibition of the Middle- 

 sex Horticultural Society, and with the fair of the Middlesex 

 Mechanics' Association. Hitherto, for half a century past, the 

 cattle shows of this oldest of all the county societies have been 

 held at Concord, and the occasion has been one of purely agri- 

 cultural interest. The late festival was held within the limits 

 of the great manufacturing capital of New England, and in im- 

 mediate connection with extensive and brilliant displays of the 

 products of other branches of industry. 



There was felt, however, to be no incongruity in the scene, 

 and the gratified spectator passed along from one part of the 

 exhibition to another, with only a deeper sense of the mutual 

 dependence and common interests of all departments of human 

 labor. 



The show of fruits and vegetables was, of course, left to 

 the horticultural halls, in which all that taste, skill, cultiva- 



