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Conkey, Esq., that the hall and park be named Hampshire Hall and 

 Hampshire Park. Whereupon Prof. Clark formally stated the mo- 

 tion, which was carried unanimously, and proceeded to the christ- 

 ening by sprinkling the floor with water from the Connecticut, 

 devoting the hall and grounds to the interests of farm labor, me- 

 chanic industry and sound morality, in the following words : 



" By virtue of authority conferred upon me by a special vote of the 

 Executive Committee of the Hampshire Agricultural Society ; and 

 by the unanimous consent of this assembly, composed as it is largely 

 of members of said Society, I formally set apart and solemnly de- 

 vote these grounds and this hall to the noble purposes of the Society, 

 to wit : ' The encouragement and promotion of Agriculture and the 

 Mechanic Arts ; ' and I denounce as profanation any use of them 

 which conflicts with the principles of sound morality. In perform- 

 ing the last act of this ceremony, I shall sprinkle the floor of this 

 building not with oil nor wine which have been commonly employed 

 upon similar occasions, but with the pure water of our own famous 

 New England river, the beautiful and ever bountiful Connecticut. 

 Now, therefore, I declare the name of this edifice to be ' Hamp- 

 shire Hall' ; and the name of this enclosure to be ' Hampshire Park' 

 — and may these names be preserved untarnished to remotest gener- 

 ations." 



CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR. 



The following account of the Eleventh Annual Cattle Show and 

 Fair of the Society held at Hampshire Park, October 11th and 

 12th, is compiled from the excellent report published in The Hamp- 

 shire and Franklin Express : 



The Society now possesses a fine park, as good a trotting track as 

 can be found in this part of the State, a fine hall, large enough to ac- 

 commodate the wants of the exhibitors, a fine hall above for the din- 

 ner and addresses, large enough to seat 1000 persons comfortably. 



Under such favorable auspices, the Hampshire Agricultural So- 

 ciety gave its Eleventh Annual Exhibition. Notwithstanding the 

 cold water thrown upon the enterprise by disaffected members, the 

 entire withdrawal of others, the fears of Pleuro Pneumonia among 

 large numbers of cattle raisers, in spite of all obstacles, the exhibition 

 it must be admitted, has been a complete success. 



The weather of Thursday was one great drawback and many per- 



