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good, all good, and much so nearly alike in excellentce. Then 

 those of the visitors and spectators do not derive the advantage 

 they should when ploughing, drawing and the exhibition of 

 horses, all are proceeding at the same time. One can only get 

 a curious glance in passing from one to another, rather than^ 

 what one ought to have, — a thorough inspection. Certainly no 

 half-day could be better employed than in examination and 

 comparison of stock, learning one from another, the breeds, the 

 crosses, the mode of rearing, feeding, <fec., practiced by those 

 who showed the most desirable animals. 



It would also give a favorable opportunity for the sale and 

 exchange of cattle, "mis-mating" and "matching up" of 

 steers and oxen — taking the first step towards what is so desira- 

 ble to establish through the State, a system, of fairs or open mar- 

 kets, a matter which is now attracting much attention here ; and 

 in some parts of the State, Franklin county for instance, where 

 it has been discussed for three years, and will probably be estab- 

 lished within a year. The suggestion may be valueless, but I. 

 desire at least to call attention to it. 



I am under obligations to Dr. Fisher for kind attentions and, 

 for facilities of examination. 



James S. Gkennelx., of Greenfield. 



WORCESTER SOUTH. 



The 20tli of September last, the time of the- annual cattle- 

 show by the Worcester South Agricultural Society, was ushered 

 in by severe frost ; and a keen but bracing breeze from- the 

 north-west whistled merrily over the hills in the neighborhood- 

 of Sturbridge, as in the company and by the politeness of the- 

 president of the society, I was conveyed to the grounds occur 

 pied by the various departments of the exhibition. It was an 

 occasion which evidently excited a strong interest among ther 

 inhabitants of the various towns connected with the society,^, 

 and the large collection of people pouring into the town, 

 gave a life to the scene which augurs well for the future suc- 

 cess of this comparatively young society. 

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