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complete view of every department of the exhibition on tlie 

 grounds. The building is capacious, — 100 feet in length by 

 50 feet in width, — containing on the lower floor, a hall snitabhj 

 for the exhibition of every class of articles which may properly 

 be presented there; and on the upper floor another hall capable 

 of accommodating comfortably a thousand persons. 



The programme of the occasion was happily arranged and 

 exactly carried out, — avoiding all confusion and delay. The 

 delivery of the address in the hall was assigned for an eaily 

 hour in the afternoon of the first day, giving to all who desired, 

 an opportunity to hear it, without discomfort and witiiout 

 additional expense ; and to the attraction of a distinguished 

 and eloquent orator, was added the novelty of excellent music, 

 by the club of Old Folks. The hall was filled with earnest 

 listeners, and the appropriate and instructive address by Dr. 

 Loring, of Salem, was received witli the highest satisfaction 

 and ap})lause. The music of olden times, performed with 

 artistic skill, fell gratefully and with stirring power upon many 

 ears. 



To enumerate and describe the multifarious articles arranged 

 in the hall ; the successive exhibitions of stock upon the 

 grounds ; the ploughing, drawing and spading matches ; the 

 gymnastic exercises ; and — the crowning interest of tlie occa- 

 sion — the beautiful display of horses, with different trials of 

 their training and speed, and the healthful and graceful contest 

 of equestrianism by ladies and gentlemen ; all this is unneces- 

 sary, and would extend this rej)ort beyond appropriate limits. 

 Suffice it to say, that there was in the hall an exceedingly fine 

 display of the various products of the field, the garden, the 

 orchard and the dairy, — of female industry, taste and skill, — 

 and of various mechanic arts, which were all viewed by crowds 

 of visitors with gratification and benefit. Among the specimens 

 of mechanic art were several of great excellence and deserving- 

 special consideration — particularly mowing machines of dif- 

 ferent patents, and a cylinder })lough, which appeared to be 

 well constructed and better adapted for general use than any 

 we have seen. 



There is scarcely any thing more important to the farmer, at 

 the present day, than the improvement and better adaptation of 

 agricultural implements, and the introduction of valuable 



