WORCESTER COUNTY SOCIETY. 51 



WORCESTER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The proposals for premiums offered by this society for the 

 cattle-show and exhibition held at Worcester, the 27th of Sep- 

 tember last, varied from those of former years by the omission 

 of all manufactures except those of the dairy. Early in the 

 spring, a communication was received from a committee of the 

 Worcester County Mechanics Association, stating that their 

 society proposed to have an exhibition of manufactures on the 

 day which should be appointed for the cattle-show by the Agri- 

 cultural Society, and requesting that the whole of the manufac- 

 tures might be relinquished to them. The trustees, believing 

 that the objects of both societies could better be attained by 

 concentrating rather than dividing the exhibition of manufac- 

 tured articles, oflered no premiums for any manufacture except 

 for butter and cheese. The exhibition by the Mechanics Asso- 

 ciation was not confined to the products of either this county or 

 state. It was, altogether, a very fine show, doing great credit 

 to the artisans of the country, and highly satisfactory to those 

 who exerted themselves in getting up the exhibition. 



The Worcester County Horticultural Society also had their 

 exhibition on the same day, and they were eminently success- 

 ful in making it creditable to themselves and interesting to the 

 public. 



The united attractions, offered by the exhibitions of these 

 three societies, induced a large attendance of spectators, greater 

 by thousands than had ever been witnessed here on any similar 

 occasion. 



The show of cattle, both as regards number and quality, was 

 of a higher character than at any former exhibition, — more 

 particularly in respect to fat cattle and young stock. It will be 



