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All the addresses were products of minds thoroughly imbued 

 with the subject of agriculture, and are noticeable both for 

 their merit and for their undilution with any other subject. 



The horses shown at this exhibition were mostly of Morgan 

 stock. A few were of the Messenger and Norman blood. The 

 Messenger and Norman stock will increase in appreciation as 

 fast as they are tested and known. The horses were generally 

 well trained for work. Some of them were also instructed by 

 professor Clark, wlio has found his recreation from study in 

 teaching them what to the lower creation is the finality of 

 science — obedience to man's will. 



Tiie horse holds second rank in nature. Pie does not war 

 against any other race of animals, ever acting only on the 

 defensive. His power of development is only limited by the 

 bounds of our experience in his management. Public senti- 

 ment, having professor Clark and men of kindred spirit to 

 develop it, will speedily correct the errors of the past, and 

 bring into subjection the temper of that class of individuals 

 whose brutal practices have hitherto brutalized the horse. 



The show of cattle, sheep and swine was considered equal to 

 that of any former year. The first premium on fatted cattle 

 was awarded to Chester Smith, on a yoke of oxen weighing 

 6,000 pounds. Of the eighteen yokes of cattle entered in the 

 drawing match, sixteen yokes were Durham and grade 

 Durham. 



In dairy stock, the herd of Ayrshires belonging to Luke 

 Sweetser, now numbering twenty or more, arrested the atten- 

 tion of all thinking men present. This is the only pure Ayr- 

 shire stock owned in the county. As soon, however, as Mr. 

 Sweetser is ready to dispose of any part of his herd, and the 

 facts attaching to this class of stock become generally known, 

 this blood will be circulated through the upland counties. 



Prejudice alone prevents the rapid infusion of new strains of 

 blood in rearing stock. It has been said that many of the 

 improved breeds which take such high rank in England and in 

 our own country wherever domesticated, would degenerate, if 

 once brought into our climate and pastures. It should be 

 remembered that they are subject to the same laws in their 

 being with what we call native stock ; and that if we fail to 

 provide necessary shelter and fail to renew the exhausted 



