xxx REPORTS OF DELEGATES. 



NORFOLK. 



At the request of Dr. Loring, he being absent at the Centennial, I 

 make this report to the Board. 



The twenty-eighth annual exhibition took place on the 28th, 29th 

 and 30th of September. The weather was pleasant on all three 

 days. The exhibition, in all its departments, was fully up to the 

 standard of former years. All the cattle-pens were filled with ani- 

 mals creditable to the Society. 



The show of swine was very superior in all respects. 



The show of horses, probably, never was excelled at any county 

 exhibition within the State. 



Fruit, vegetables and flowers were in profusion, and of a high 

 order. 



The ladies' rooms were well filled with their handiwork. There 

 were forty entries of bread and butter, and poultry in great variety. 



Shaw & Brother of West Roxbury exhibited a newly invented 

 swivel-plough that drew the attention of fanners, and received the 

 first premium on the field. 



A pair of beautiful twin heifers, Jerseys, two years old, with 

 calves by their side, from the Blue Hill Stock Farm, was admired 

 by all. 



Gentlemen : The record of this Society for twenty-eight years 

 stands to-day without a blemish. Much of the seed sown is bearing 

 fruit to the honor and interest of the community, and of the noble 

 State that has given her her fostering care. Whatever her destiny 

 may be in the future, the charge of meanness cannot be laid to her 

 door, either to her patrons or to her sister societies. Her fault, if 

 an} T , has been in bestowing too liberal awards and in her manage- 

 ment, and if any are to suffer from her misfortunes, it will not be 

 the State or the community, but individuals of the Society. 



Eliphalet Stone. 



BRISTOL 



The report of the Bristol Count}' fair last year, from the fertile 

 brain and pen of the talented delegate, was so ornate in its descrip- 

 tions and exhaustive in its delineations, that I need say but little 

 more than that the show this year was regarded as quite the peer of 

 that in several departments one of peculiar excellence, and as a 

 whole, equal to any of its predecessors. 



But for other pressing duties, I should have been upon the 



