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ing of another day to the show. One day is not enough. It makes the 

 whole affair too much one of " all work and no play." These fairs 

 should be pre-eminently 'the farmers' and mechanics' holiday ; but it 

 cannot be so where everything is crowded into one day. Let the show 

 of cattle and the address occupy the first day, and the horses and the 

 public dinner the second. I say public dinner, for this sitting down at 

 leisure at the same board, is one of the strongest ties of social inter- 

 course. And in order to make the influence of the hour what it should 

 be, let woman grace the festive occasion with her presence. Let me 

 assure the good people of Middlesex, if they will adopt this plan of a 

 public dinner on the afternoon of the last day of the fair, with some 

 pleasant speeches at the close, it Avill tend much to increase the interest 

 in the occasion, as well as help to strengthen the tie of brotherhood 

 which ought always to exist among the members of an agricultural 

 society. 



A third suggestion, is a greater division of labor in the management 

 of fairs. I think the society would find that the addition to the officers 

 of the society of an executive committee of five or seven, of whom the 

 president, secretary and treasurer should each count one, would give 

 greater interest to its operations, and so make it more useful. 



This committee should be composed of working men, selected from 

 different parts of the county, and it should be understood that they are 

 to use their influence in getting the farmers out with what they have to 

 show ; while on fair days each should have his department assigned 

 him, and should make it his special duty to attend to all its details. 



The Middlesex County Society has within itself every element of 

 success, both in the character of its members and in the stimulus of a 

 near market for all they can produce. Let these be brought to bear 

 upon its interests as they ought, and it will ever maintain a leading posi- 

 tion and influence among its sisters, and which would seem of right to 

 belong to her as the central society of the State. 



T. G. Huntington. 



MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



As delegate from the State Board of Agriculture, I attended the 

 tenth annual exhibition of the Middlesex North Agricultural Society, 

 held at Lowell, arriving upon the morning of the twenty -eighth of Sep- 

 tember, and found the show commenced at two o'clock the afternoon 

 previous. We were received by the worthy president, E. P. Spaulding, 

 Esq., who is a genuine live farmer, and not only that, but fully alive to 

 the interests of the society of which he is president, and working with. 



