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belonging to Lambert Maynard, and tbe otber to Cbarles Boyn- 

 ton, therefore not competing this year. 



There were nineteen brood mares with foals by their side, 

 and the committee report that there were no unsound ones, and 

 none unworthy of a premium, had they as many to bestow. 



There were forty-three colts entered for premium, besides 

 those entered with their dams. 



There were fifty-seven dollars offered in premiums on butter, 

 and it brought to the show thirty samples, so different in quality 

 as to working and salting, that the committee had little diffi- 

 culty in unanimously awarding all the premiums, being six. 



Of cheese there were four specimens, and not of a very supe- 

 rior quality. 



Considering the short crop of fruit this year there was a full 

 supply on exhibition. More perhaps than ou any former year. 

 There were 921 baskets and dishes, from 204 contributors. A 

 better display could not be expected in any county. 



There was a large collection of vegetables of all the varieties 

 grown in New England. Tiiis portion of the show is made up 

 as it usually is from towns in the immediate vicinity of the 

 exhibition. Seven-tenths of the lots exhibited were from New- 

 buryport, Newbury, and West Newbury. The largest number 

 of varieties exhibited by any one persou was seventy, from the 

 Derby farm, Salem. 



The display of flowers and green-house plants added much 

 to the brilliancy of the spacious hall, which was crowded with 

 the above described articles, domestic manufactures, and all 

 kinds of ornamental and useful handy-work. 



The carriages and harnesses were of high finish and appar- 

 ently durable and valuable articles. Those which obtained the 

 first premiums were from the manufactory of Nichols & Thomas, 

 West Newbury, and from Sargent, Gunnison & Co., Amosbury. 



The hall was opeu two evenings and one day, and the receipts 

 for admission, at ten cents each, amounted to $840. 



The annual address was delivered by Dr. E. G. Kelly, of 

 Newbu'ryport ; his motto " Home, and its embellishments," and 

 happy will be those who heard his well-timed and able illustra- 

 tions. 



The public dinner was under a tent where more than six 

 hundred were seated. And after partaking of a diimer suited 



