xii REPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



William T. Merrifield, of Worcester, 20 clean and beautiful Jer- 

 seys, of the two sexes, and various ages. 



O. B. Iladwen, of Worcester, 16 thoroughbred Jerseys. Good. 



Joseph Burnett, Southborough, 8 Jerseys. 



John Brooks, of Princeton, 1 excellent bull, 9 milch cows, 5 

 heifers and calves, — 15 in all, and handsome as pictures. 



Joseph Lovell, of Worcester, 1 fine 2-years-old heifer, ^ Jersey, 

 1 Durham, ^ Ayrshire, large ; also, one 1 year and three months 

 old, same grade. Very good. 



There were many grades present, and of a variety of crossings, 

 well developed animals in the main, but we cannot stop to enumer- 

 ate them. From the lunatic hospital at Worcester, there was one 

 yoke of Durham oxen, of 4,320 lbs. weight, and one pair 4-years-old 

 steers, same breed, weight, 3,650 lbs. Also, large cows, said to be 

 pure bloods, and grade Durhams, from the same place. The cattle 

 showed no indications of lunacy, but of others we write not. 



There were on the grounds some Devons also, the more as grades, 

 and, judging from what we witnessed, Worcester County must be 

 alive to the breeding and improvement iof her dairy stock, evincing 

 a laudable spirit in that direction. 



Of swine, there were two lots noticeable. One, a sow and ten 

 pigs, from the city hospital and almshouse, Worcester, -|- Mackey 

 and -|- Chester County white. Appeared well. 



Calvin Cutter had a sow and 43 of her progeny, of various ages, 

 Chester County and fine. 



Obviously, whether right or wrong, but little interest is taken in 

 pigs there. In our judgment, any good breed of swine, if regularly 

 supplied with food, a good shelter, with abundance of turf and 

 muck in the yard, to protect the solid and strain the liquid manure, 

 may be made a source of profit to the owners. 



The Poultry department contained a variety of such breeds as is 

 usual on such occasions. 



The Ames Plow Company was well represented in the Machine, 

 Tools and Implements dejiartment, by some twenty-five difierent 

 patterns of ploughs, hay-tedders, horse hay-rakes, lawn-mowers, 

 seed-sowers, &c., &c. It reminds me of a statement of Frank M. 

 Ames, of Taunton, last winter, which was this : The Ames Com- 

 pany sell $3,000,000 worth of agricultural tools, yearly. 



The ploughing match was contested by fourteen single, four 

 double, and two horse teams, and on the Society's grounds, east 

 side, and a portion of the land was very wet, exceedingly tough 

 sward, and other parts less diflicult to manage. Of course, quick 

 work under such circumstances was out of the question. The 



