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and market gardening, as more profitable in their circumstances 

 tlian tlic raising of hay, grain, and beef for market. 



In closing this report, I feel in duty bound to make mention 

 of the cordial reception and numberless attentions I received 

 from the officers and members of the society as the delegate 

 from your Board, evincing as it did the high appreciation of 

 the members of the Norfolk Society of the Board of Agricul- 

 ture. I shall ever remember with the greatest pleasure, the 

 courteous attentions and cordial hospitalities of its president, 

 the Honorable Marshall P. Wilder, and the frank, hearty " glad 

 to see you " of its farmer members. 



Levi Stockbridge. 



BRISTOL. 



The Bristol County Agricultural Society held its annual 

 fair and cattle show at Taunton on the appointed day, first of 

 October ; and, in pursuance of my appointment as delegate, I 

 attended on that day, as well as the succeeding one, and have 

 much pleasure in stating that the occasion was interesting and 

 satisfactory. The weather was propitious, and a large number 

 of persons was attracted to the enclosed grounds of the society, 

 consisting of fifty-five acres, in the suburbs of the town. 



The exhibition of the products of the farm and manufactures 

 was held in an extensive temporary building, which at no dis- 

 tant day will be replaced by a substantial edifice intended to 

 be an ornament to the town. There were six hundred and 

 seventy-five entries of farms and their products, and six hun- 

 dred and forty-five of heavy and domestic manufactures. The 

 most interesting feature of the first day was a team of fifty- 

 nine yoke of oxen from the town of Norton drawing a large 

 vehicle containing the young ladies of the Wheaton seminary 

 of that place. From the little town of Raynham a team of 

 thirty yoke of working cattle made a fine appearance. 



The display of fat cattle, cows, and calves, and bulls of 

 native grade and full-blooded animals, was numerous, and 

 good, and creditable to the breeders of Bristol County : 

 although not a strictly grazing district, those pursuits are much 



