132 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



WORCESTER WEST. 



The subscriber, by request of this Board, visited the Cattle 

 Show at Barre in September last, and would report : That 

 the society is a new one ; but in the dairy, in the exhibition 

 of butter and cheese, it could not be excelled in any county in 

 the State. The cows generally appeared to be a grade 

 of Durham and native. The lands appeared in good farming 

 order ; the fields large, clean, and well enclosed by stone walls ; 

 the barns large, and well planned. The cattle seemed to have 

 suffered by the severe drought. The working oxen were not 

 so well matched or disciplined as in some other places. 



The society is located in the most fertile part of the Com- 

 monwealth, and, with the intelligent farmers concerned in the 

 society, warrants a belief that it will soon rank with our best. 



B. V. French. 



HAMPDEN. 



The undersigned, as appointed by this Board, attended the 

 Show of the Hampden County Agricultural Society on the 27th 

 and 28th of September. 



The show of cattle was decidedly in advance of any before 

 held by that Society, so far as its former shows have been ob- 

 served by your delegate. More of the Durham blood appears 

 to have been infused ; and the cattle exhibited were generally 

 of a finer character and in better order than could reasonably 

 have been expected after the severe drought of the preceding 

 summer. 



The exhibition of fruit showed progress in that department ; 

 and the show of vegetables was such as could hardlv be ex- 



