126 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



den, in the hall. Of the cheese all that need be said is, that it 

 was made by the dairywomen of Barre and the surrounding 

 towns. 



The numerous articles of household manufacture and fancy 

 work were highly creditable to the ladies. 



The annual agricultural fair is pre-eminently the farmers' 

 holiday, for which he has been preparing and looking forward 

 to with great interest. And sufficient time should be taken to 

 make it in the highest degree useful to the community. But 

 how can its full benefit be realized by any one, when the time 

 for examining the various kinds of stock, attending the plough- 

 ing, drawing, and horse show — dinner, address, and reports of 

 committees, are all crowded into the brief space of time between 

 ten and three o'clock. It should be borne in mind, too, that a 

 large proportion of the most valuable members of the society 

 are nearly all the time on duty as members of committees. 

 Two days, in the opinion of your delegate, is not too much time 

 for a fair, where so good an exhibition can be made as " Worces- 

 ter West;" and the cost and trouble is too great, and the com- 

 pensation too small when confined to one. 



The address by Mr. Secretary Flint on subjects connected 

 with the dairy, was appropriate to the location and the occa- 

 sion. 



L. SWEETSER. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Owing to the inability of Mr. Field to fulfil his appointment 

 as delegate from the State Board, at his request I attended as 

 his substitute. 



The weather was exceedingly unpropitious, the heavy rolling 

 clouds early commencing to drop their moisture ; notwithstand- 

 ing which, however, there was a large gathering early in the 

 morning, of the people of Worcester North. 



The president of that society. Dr. Fisher, is one who in theo- 

 retical and practical agriculture leads, making his theoretical 

 skill subservient to his practical operations, and more than any 

 man is developing the agricultural resources of his locality. 



