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discretion as to symmetry and dairy qualities, I could not help 

 heaving a deep sigh and saying to myself, If they had only good 

 recorded pedigrees ! and I was also very sorry to learn that these 

 gentlemen had abandoned, in this the height of their success, the 

 use of thoroughbred bulls. If these gentlemen had used corre- 

 sponding discretion in maintaining pedigrees of their cattle, at a 

 comparatively small additional expense that they have in breeding 

 and management, the value of their herd would have. been more 

 than doubled, and their customers for them would be legion. 



The other herd, which I was also much gratified in seeing and 

 examining, was the beautiful hei'd of Alderneys belonging to Mr. 

 T. M. Stoughton, of Gill, about twenty-five in number, and each 

 one a specimen of itself. Mr. Stoughton is one of the pioneers in 

 breeding these Alderneys in the country, and he has certainly suc- 

 ceeded in producing an excellent herd. As we went around among 

 them while they were feeding on the grounds, each with a difierent- 

 sounding bell strapped about its neck, and under the light of as 

 beautiful a day as I ever saw, amid the grand views of that match- 

 less valley, my joy was complete. (If of a poetical nature I should 

 insert a few lines here.) 



I regretted not seeing the entire show of cattle the preceding 

 day, but was told that it was very good. 



The number of horses on exhibition was very large, and included 

 many good ones, and some which, I presume, the owners found, 

 in getting them near others, were not as good as they thought 

 them to be before comparing side by side. And just here 

 seems to me to be the prime object of our fairs. They enable 

 the farmer to form opinions by comparison as to the quality 

 and value of his stock and farm productions that he would not 

 otherwise have an opportunity of doing. I noticed an extra fine 

 span of biisiness horses belonging to our friend, the delegate from 

 that Society. 



The trotting in the afternoon was 'spirited and interesting, and 

 some fast time was made, the best heat being in 2.33, the excite- 

 ment of which was added to by one horse running away and 

 tipping out his driver in three consecutive heats, thereby enabling 

 some that were behind to come in first. How many times it would 

 have been repeated without breaking the driver's neck I can't say, 

 if he had not been ruled off by the judges. 



The exhibition of farm machinery was not very large nor attrac- 

 tive. 



The display of fruits and vegetables, and fruits in pai'ticular, was 



