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Business engagements prevented my stopping the two remaining 

 days of the fair.' I have no doubt the exercises would have been 

 interesting and instructive. 



Thus, in my poor way, have I reported the doings and my observa- 

 tions of the first day of the fair. I was highly pleased with the arrange- 

 ment and working of the show. Much labor must have been done by 

 the officers and committees of the society, to have had everything go 

 on in such clocklike manner. I heartily commend the promptness 

 with which the programme of the day was carried out. Every one was 

 on time. With such facilities, good grounds, excellent accommodations 

 and faithful officers, I do not see why the annual fairs of the Bristol 

 Society will not be of great value towards developing the agricultural 

 and mechanical resources of the county, and of great practical benefit to 

 the members of the society. 



I did not have the pleasure of meeting any of the officers of the 

 Society, having no personal acquaintance with them, and not being noti- 

 fied where they might be found. I would recommend to the Board, in 

 future appointments to visit this society, that persons be selected who 

 are acquainted with its members, as it seems to me it would be more 

 agreeable to the delegate and more beneficial to the society. 



Velorous Taft. 



PLYMOUTH. 



The forty-seventh anniversary of the Plymouth Agricultural Society 

 was held at Bridgewater on the 5th and 6th of October. This exhibition 

 draws together a larger crowd of people, probably, than any county fair 

 in the State. The estimate of the number present on the last day was 

 about fifteen thousand, and there could not have been much less than that. 

 To us the numbers present appeared to be larger than those at Concord 

 on the occasion of the New England Fair, and yet the Plymouth Society 

 has now sixty acres and over in its enclosure, while that at Concord was 

 only about thirty. 



This festival, as it was, was eminently successful. The show of stock 

 was not only more extensive, but of 'a higher quality than any we 

 recollect ever to have seen there before, and yet we were told that 

 there is a great deal of good stock within five miles of Bridgewater that 

 was not exhibited. The entries of stock were no less than 116 bead; 

 and those of horses, 44; hogs, 54 ; sheep, 30. • 



Most of the blood stock was such as is well adapted to that part of 

 the State. The Ayrshire herd of Harrison Loring, of Duxbury, much, 

 if not all of it, purchased at Peters' sale last spring, was looking finely, 



