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The vegetables and grains werefully up to the usual display. 



We were called to dinner at about one o'clock. The large hall was 

 well filled with guests, and the table bountifully supplied with good 

 cheer. The president was again at his post, which he had been 

 prevented from honoring by a severe illness. He presided with his 

 usual grace and urbanity. 



The address of Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke was both eloquent, 

 amusing and instructive. A hymn by Mr. Sanborn was sung, and 

 the usual speeches were made and premiums awarded, when the 

 society adjourned. The society and guests departed, well pleased with 

 themselves and each other, and with cattle show day. 



H. R. Keith. 



BRISTOL. 



According to the appointment of the State Board of Agriculture, I 

 attended the fair of the Bristol Agricultural Society, held at Taunton, 

 the third, fourth and fifth of October last. Receiving no notice or invi- 

 tation from the officers of the society, and being unacquainted with the 

 duties of a delegate, this being my first experience in such matters, I 

 hardly knew what was necessary to be done, but presuming the object 

 of my appointment was to examine what was on exhibition, and to 

 report to the Board, I started for the scene of action, and on the first 

 day of the exhibition presented myself at the gate of the society's 

 grounds, and by the payment of sixty-five cents for myself and team, I 

 was admitted to the grounds where the exhibition was to be held. I 

 found a spacious field of, I should say, fifty acres, enclosed by a neat and 

 substantial board fence, with suitable pens for the stock on exhibition ; 

 large and commodious stalls or sheds for the accommodation of horses 

 belonging to the visitors ; a $ne building, with large rooms, for the exhibi- 

 tion of manufactured articles, fruits and vegetables, and a large hall, 

 suitable to have addresses or dinners in ; a large and commodious race 

 course ; an innumerable number of booths, well stocked with both solids 

 and fluids for the benefit of the inner man ; and last, but not least, large 

 and clean walks or privies for the accommodation of visitors, a necessity 

 which some of our societies would do well to imitate. Although the 

 first day of the fair, the attendance of the people was large. Every- 

 body, with their wives and children, seemed to be there, and it did one 

 good to see with what zest every one entered into the spirit of the exhi- 

 bition. They seemed to feel that it was what it professed to be, — a 

 farmer's holiday. I was much pleased with the good order that pre- 

 vailed during my entire stay. Although numerous hurdy-gurdies, — 



