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harrows, clothes-wringers, <fcc., were urged upon the attention, 

 each assuming to be more valuable than its competitor, but all 

 premising to be labor savers. 



The second day was specially devoted to the examination of 

 horses, though all the stock in pens were still retained upon the 

 grounds, so that a person could not visit them during any part 

 of the two days and find the " cattle show " absent, as is too 

 often the case. The latter is generally hurried out of the way to 

 make room for the horses. Here the horse was assigned exactly 

 his proper position, and engrossed just the attention to which he 

 is entitled and nothing more. As the premiums upon stock were 

 announced from the judges' stand, the animals to which they 

 were awarded were led up and designated, so that every visitor 

 could have an opportunity to assist his own judgment by com- 

 parison with the decisions of committees. At one o'clock a 

 large company sat down to the society's dinner, after which His 

 Excellency Gov. Andrew, with other gentlemen, addressed the 

 assembly. At my departure, I could but feel that the Plymouth 

 Society was accomplishing its mission in elevating the dignity 

 of agriculture, and increasing the number and intelligence of 

 its devotees. 



Jabez Fisher. 



BARNSTABLE. 



Having been appointed by the State Board of Agriculture a 

 delegate to attend the annual exhibition of the Barnstable 

 Agricultural Society, holden at Barnstable, on the eighth day 

 of October last, I attended to that duty, and make the follow- 

 ing report : — 



The weather on the first day, (October 8th,) was very rainy, 

 accompanied by a high wind, (disarranging the general pro- 

 gramme of the exhibition, as I was informed.) I visited the 

 grounds and hall of the society on the morning of the 9th, — 

 the storm having subsided, and, excepthig the high wind, a 

 pleasant day. 



