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attentif)!!, by his style and spoed. He is of medium size, great 

 strength, and is in every respect a valuable addition to 

 the stock of tlie country. A four-year-old filly, sired also by 

 Childers, also exhibited by Dr. Loring, was worthy of the 

 attention of horse breeders. A two-year-old stallion, Bunker 

 Hill, sired by Doncaster, also exhibited by Dr. Loring, was 

 evidently a well-bred and powerful animal. A valuable St. 

 Lawrence stallion was exhibited by Mr. Boynton, of George- 

 town, and showed such speed and power as to receive special 

 attention of the committee on these animals. In addition to 

 these were Messenger horses of fine size, and evidently 

 adapted to the service of the farmer. The breeding of horses 

 has evidently received much attention from the agriculturists 

 of Essex County, who have endeavored to raise such animals as 

 will be j)rofitable to the producer. 



It is worthy of notice that this society, one of the oldest and 

 most flourishing in the State, supported by most zealous and 

 enlightened farmers, continues its practice of changing its 

 place of exhibition from year to year in order to accommodate' 

 every stction of this large county. The unity and interest of a 

 show is greatly increased by confining all its departments to a 

 single enclosure. But if the consequence of locating these 

 exhibitions within a single enclosure in some central town, 

 shall be a division of the county into several sectional societies, 

 and a loss of general interest in the parent society, it is all 

 important that the present plan of the society be continued. 

 But the advantages of holding the cattle shows within an 

 enclosure are so great that I indulge the hope that the society 

 may yet Ijc enabled to hold grounds of its own in two or three 

 parts of the county, at which its exhibitions may be held in 

 successive years. By all means let old Essex confine its efforts 

 to a siii<>le society. Let not the county interest, and the 

 brotherly feeling, which late legislation has done so much to 

 dissolve, be further abated by the incorporation of another society. 



The exhibition of fruits was especially noticeable. There 

 were eleven hundred plates devoted to fruit alone. 



An address by Rev. John L. Russell, and a dinner, closed an 

 exhibition which was remarkably successful under discouraging 

 circumstances, as the first afternoon was lost in a flood of rain, 

 and the second day was graced by a most boisterous gale. 



Charles G. Davis. 



