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neat cattle, which seemed to evince a disproportionate interest 

 in behalf of the horse department of the show. 



There were present so many of the intelligent farmers of the 

 county, either of whom could have added much to the interest 

 of the occasion by a detail of the results of his experience, that 

 I regretted that the usual agricultural address, which in other 

 counties is delivered on such festivals, was omitted on this 

 occasion. I have derived so much pleasure and benefit from 

 the addresses to which in years past I have listened at our 

 county exhibitions, that I should be extremely unwilling to 

 dispense with this part of the programme at our annual 

 reunions. 



Notwithstanding all the disadvantages under which the 

 society labored, the exhibition was eminently successful, and in 

 the opinion of those well qualified to judge, by a comparison of 

 the present with the past, surpassed any ever held by the 

 society, as at present constituted, in the number and excellence 

 of the animals offered for premiums, in the variety, ingenuity 

 and skill of the mechanical implements and manufactured 

 articles exhibited. 



This is as it should be, and it must afford much gratification 

 and encouragement to the officers of the society, to know that 

 their unwearied efforts to promote the prosperity of the agri- 

 cultural interests of the heart of the Commonwealth, are 

 crowned with such success. As I was not present on the sec- 

 ond day of the show, which was, I understood, to be devoted 

 mainly to the exhibition of horses, to the trial of their speed 

 and other points which seemed to me not strictly within the 

 province of our society, and which I should fear would tend to 

 divert the attention of members from the legitimate objects of 

 that society, I am unable to furnish any account of the results 

 of that part of the exhibition. 



William Sutton. 



