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implements, domestic articles, and fruits and vegetables, to the 

 Horticultural Exliibition, and the Mechanics' Fair, the exhibi- 

 tion of til e Worcester Agricultural Society is left almost entirely 

 to the claims of horses and stock. But in these departments, 

 but more especially the latter, 1 have reason to believe, the 

 show was unrivalled by any county society in this State. Tlie 

 removal of the exhibition from tlic more central portion of the 

 city, and the organization of the other societies, which hold 

 their exhibitions near the tlironged thoroughfares of the city, 

 arc certainly unfortunate for the agricultural society, and I 

 think, will be found of no ultimate benefit to the other organi- 

 zations. The charm of much of our county exhibitions is, 

 that they contain something which attracts all tastes ; and one 

 of their greatest means of usefulness is, that by their rarity, he 

 who is called to the exhibition by his interest in one depart- 

 ment, becomes attracted and instructed by the display of another. 

 More interest in matters pertaining to agriculture, has been 

 created by the agricultural societies than in any other way. 

 But that interest is excited in the minds of those who come 

 with no well-defined object, perhaps for the mere love of seeing 

 the multitude. Divide these societies into so many depart- 

 ments, each with a separate exhibition, and you at once devote 

 each of them to the pleasure and profit of those only who are 

 already interested in that department, and are connoiseurs or 

 experts in that divisioji of labor which it encourages. Unless 

 our exhibitions have this variety of display, they are lost to the 

 people, as an instrument of culture. Few men, in our State, 

 can devote themselves to a single department of agriculture. 

 We must become not only the farmer, the stock-raiser, the 

 ploughman and the teamster, but we must attract the farmer's 

 boy, the man-servant and the maid-servant, and stranger that 

 is within our gates. All have much to learn, and each has 

 something to impart. 



The Worcester exhibition was remarkable for the quantity 

 as well as the quality of tlie stock. The whole number of 

 entries was four hundred and fifty, and exceeded those of the 

 year previous, when the exhibition was held in connection with 

 the show of the State society. 



Of the stock, much attention seemed to have been paid by the 

 exhibitors as well as the public, to the display of bulls, in 



