256 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



A cow, grade Durham, eight years old, weighing 1,500 lbs., 

 owned by Erastus Cowles, of Hatfield, it Avas stated gave 52 lbs. 

 of milk per day, from which was made in one week in May, 

 21 lbs. 2 oz. of butter, and 12 lbs. in September. 



The exhibition of sheep was not large, and it is said that if 

 the statistics of dogs were taken, they would show numerically 

 quite too large for the well-being of this docile and useful 

 animal. 



Of swine there were few. 



We regret to say that the ploughing match was omitted in 

 the programme. 



The exhibition and trial of horses was on the second day. 

 About a hundred horses and colts were on the ground, many of 

 them good ; but as a whole, the show of horses would not com- 

 pare favorably with that of the cattle. 



The hall was well filled with the product of the dairy, bread, 

 vegetables, fruits, flowers ; specimens of mechanical skill, and 

 fancy and useful articles by the ladies. 



The address by the Hon. A. H. Bullock, was of a high order, 

 and full of instruction. But we must be allowed to say that 

 while there was a very respectable audience of farmers with 

 their families, we looked around the clmrch in vain, and at the 

 dinner table, for the men of other professions and pursuits, with 

 their wives and daughters. 



To show the depreciation in the potato crop, the president, 

 who had recently examined the early records of the society, 

 stated that there were reports of between five and six hundred, 

 and between six and seven hundred bushels raiscJd upon an 

 acre. 



L. SWEETSER. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



The Hampshire Agricultural Society held its eighth annual 

 fair at Amherst, on the 15th and 16th days of October, and it 

 was admitted by all present to have been its best. 



The first day was devoted to the exhibition of stock. Nearly 

 four hundred cattle were on the ground. Of fat oxen the 



