290 board of agriculture. 



worcestp:r south-east. 



Your delegate attended the first fair and exhibition of the 

 Worcester South-east Society, held at Milford, on the 10th and 

 11th of October. He found the board of managers busily- 

 engaged at an early hour in arranging the tal)les in the spacious 

 town hall, covering them with specimens of all the varieties of 

 agricultural productions as well as a number of objects of 

 manufactures. 



The great feature of the exhibition was tlie display of fruit, 

 consisting of apples and pears, arranged in six hundred dishes, 

 which appeared to be of the finest and most approved kinds. 

 One grower presented fifty varieties of apples. Among the 

 roots, I noticed specimens of sugar beets and the mangold 

 wurzel, 900 and 1,300 bushels to the acre. Of cereals, there 

 were one or two samples of wheat, 31 bushels to the acre, and 

 a remarkable one of California barley, weighing Co pounds to 

 the bushel, and 40 bushels to the acre. 



Little attention is paid to the i)roducts of the dairy in that 

 section of the county, and only a few samples of butter and 

 cheese were exhibited. 



From the appearance of the country in the vicinity of Milford, 

 covered as it is with boulders and bushes, I should judge it 

 well adapted to sheep-husbandry, which I strongly recommend 

 to the farmers there as well as elsewhere in our State. 



Tlie show of swine was numerous and worthy of notice, 

 particularly those from Chester County in Pennsylvania, and 

 Columbia, in New York, which were large and compact, 

 without being coarse. 



There were no cattle, for a well known cause. Of horses, 

 there were but a few, and scarcely any Avorthy of extended 

 notice, although doubtless some were well adapted to farming 

 purposes. A few coops of Chitagong fowls, and one of 

 Bremen geese, with another of turkeys, all well grown, appeared 

 very well. 



The ladies presented many specimens of their handiwork ; 

 the pictures in worsted, attracted much attention, appearing 

 at a little distance like designs of the pencil. 



The principal manufacture of Milford, is boots, which were 

 well made and appeared capable of being "• trampled on by all 



