84 MIDDLESEX SOCIETY. 



MIDDLESEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Fifty-eighth Annual Festival of the yeomanry of 

 Middlesex was held at Concord, on Wednesday, October 6th. 

 The day was favorable, and everything conspired to render 

 the occasion attractive and successful. The exhibition in all 

 its departments, was the largest and finest which the society, 

 (the oldest county society in the Commonwealth,) has ever 

 made ; and in some of them it has never been surpassed in 

 the State, or perhaps in the country. 



The various exercises were such as to occupy fully, and 

 even to crowd the hours which a single day could furnish ; but 

 the arrangements were so carefully made, and so exactly exe- 

 cuted, that everything was accomplished without confusion or 

 delay. Much trouble frequently arises at cattle shows, as on 

 other public occasions, from want of punctuality — an hour 

 lost in the morning, or even a half hour, cannot be recovered 

 through the entire day. — Much credit is due to the chief mar- 

 shal, Col. W. E. Faulkner, of Acton, for his thoroughness 

 and efficiency in this particular. So far as it depended upon 

 him, everything took place at the time appointed for it, and 

 was seasonably arranged and provided for. The entries of 

 stock, and of fruit, vegetables, and manufactured articles, were 

 made on the day previous in a much greater proportion than 

 in former years ; which gave more time for their arrangement, 

 and relieved the officers of the society from much unnecessary 

 and uncomfortable pressure. By the thoughtfulness and good 

 sense of the contributors, some part of the advantages, of tak- 

 ing two days for the exhibition, were thus secured ; and it is 

 to be hoped that the rules of the society may effectually pro- 

 vide a like security hereafter. 



