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Our large manufacturers have often been asked to exhibit their 

 goods. So far as they have complied they deserve the thanks of 

 the Society. These articles are often injured by rough handling, 

 and as their sales are almost wholly abroad, they get little profit 

 from the exhibition, in the way of an advertisement. They deserve 

 all the reward they get, and many thanks in addition. 



Asking pardon for intruding these suggestions, we add some 

 items which ought to interest all. 



The Treasurer reports receipts amounting to between four and 

 five thousand dollars, and expenditures a little less. The amount 

 of premiums is nearly three thousand dollars — ($2974). The en- 

 entries in competition for this sum, were : On wheat 15, rye 33, 

 oats 85, meslins 13, barley 23, sweet corn 8, sowed corn 20, grass 

 23. These are in the division of Summer crops and amount to 

 220. 



In the Fall division were corn 60, buckwheat 24, beans 2, pota- 

 toes 43, carrots 5, beets 6, turnips 18, cabbage 7, gardens 16, 

 flower gardens 12, compost heaps 11, amounting to 204. 



Of farms, 26, dairies 14, apple orchards 10, pear orchards 6, 

 fruit trees 9, reclaimed lands 5. 



Of live stock, there were 14 of thorough-bred bulls, 22 cows 

 and calves, and 56 grade cows and calves. Fat cattle 4, oxen 11, 

 steers 9, herds 5, sheep 44, swine 9, poidtry 37, horses, not for 

 trotting, 106, plowing 7 ; making, out of the hall, 815, besides the 

 entries of trotting horses, and reports for premium.* 



In the hall, first division of domestic manufactures 133, second 

 division 254, flowers 43, seeds 51, vegetables 65, fruits 131, paint- 

 ings, &c. 76. Manufacturers' department 20, agricultural imple- 

 ments 33, cheese 15, butter 35, bread and biscuit 71, making in 

 the hall, 927, and in all, seventeen hundred and forty-two (1742). 



Of the $2974, paid in premiums, fields of wheat are charged 

 $20, rye 56, oats 75, meslins 9, barley 35, sowed corn 15, sweet 

 corn 12, grass 12, corn 56, beans 9, buckwheat 14, potatoes 69, 

 carrots 12, beets 12, the turnip family 24, cabbages 12, gardens 

 21, flower gardens 14, and compost heaps 18, making near $500. 

 Farms took 72, dairies 35, apple trees 18, pear trees 18, miscella- 

 neous fruit trees 18, and reclaimed lands 10 — $171. There was 

 given to the staff of life 50, for buttering it 41, for cheese to eat 

 with it 51, for flowers to ornament it 29.50, for vegetables to ac- 



*No report on " Reports and Essays " has been received. 



