on the college grounds. There was a large display of Japanese 

 millet, both stalks and grain, of the soja bean, of French and 

 Japanese hemp and of flax. The millet and soja bean are extensively 

 grown as fodder crops on the college and experiment station grounds 

 and return a handsome profit. A novelty in vegetables is the 

 Japanese radish, which attains an enormous size and is used for 

 feeding. Specimens were shown of '•' White Southern" corn, grown 

 for ensilage, the stalks on a large field averaging over sixteen feet in 

 height. The horticultural department at the college was represented 

 by a very attractive display of fruit of exceptionally fine quality. 

 The display of grapes was especially tempting, and included some 

 fourteen varieties. None of the college exhibits are entered for 

 premiums, but they are always among the most attractive features at 

 the fair, and are a wonderfully good object lesson of what scientific 

 farming can accomplish on the " played-out farming lands of New 

 England " — to quote a Western definition. 



Wednesday was horse-show day, and was enlivened by the 

 presence of Governor Russell, who found time among his numerous 

 cattle-show engagements to spend a part of the day in Amherst. 



There was a fine exhibition of horses on the grounds Wednesday, 

 in fact the best exhibition we recollect having seen in Amherst. The 

 past few years has seen a decided impetus given to horse-breeding in 

 the Connecticut valley, and the presence of a number of large stock- 

 farms in this vicinity is manifested more and more every year in the 

 excellence of the horses exhibited at the agricultural fairs. The 

 Society adopted a wise course this year in placing the award of 

 premiums in the hands of exi)ert judges, and the result was more 

 satisfactory to owners and exhibitors. There was a large number of 

 handsome colts on exhibition, and any number of fine driving horses. 

 The above article taken from the Record is so descriptive of our 

 fair that it seemed worthy of publication in our transactions and will 

 give many who may not have been present or read the article an 

 opportunity to know what the press said about it. The present year 

 has been the most favorable for many years, as regards weather for 

 fairs and the financial condition of many societies has been greatly 

 improved, and among the number i^ included the Hampshire Agricul- 

 tural Society, the total recei|)ts being larger than those for any year 

 for twenty years and the gate receipts larger than those for the same 

 period, with one exception when an expensive attraction drew the 

 people but placed the Society deeper in debt. The oflScers this year 



