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EEPORT OF DELEGATE. 



To the Essex Agricultural Societi/'s Trustees : 



As a delegate from your Society, to visit ISocieties and 

 Clubs of like nature, holding Fairs, or Exhibitions in this 

 County, 1 would respeetlully report that the only Fair or 

 Exhibition coming to my knowledge was the 21st Annual 

 Fair of the " Amesbury and Salisbury Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society," held at Amesbury, Uct. 2d and 5d, 

 1884, at which ttty2U was ottered in premiums and gratui- 

 ties, including- -$50 for Drawing and Flowing matches, and 

 $1U for Agricultural Implements. The total attendance 

 during both days, was about IbUU, and the total expenses, 

 including awards, was estimated at |4To. 



J visited the Exhibition in Opera Hall, about noon, the 

 second day of the Fair, and found the hall well arranged, 

 and well tilled with a good quality of exhibits, some of 

 which in special departments could be classed as excellent, 

 especially in the Cereals, Potatoes in the Vegetable depart- 

 ment, certain varieties of Fruits and Flowers, and several 

 exhibits in the Art, Fancy work, and Rug departments. 

 The Exhibition in all its departments, was a credit to that, 

 or any, local society, i had in mind for comparison, one in 

 a smaller town than Amesbury, which 1 visited in a pre- 

 vious year, which was with hardly an exception by local 

 contributors, and which exceeded it in almost every depart- 

 ment, both in number of contributors and contributions, 

 equalling in quality every department except in Art and 

 Cereals, and exceeding it in the amount awarded hall ex- 

 hibitors. 



In another hall in Amesbury, the exhibit of Poultry and 

 Pigeons was small and good, and Agricultural Implements 

 were well represented. 



The " Ploughing Match," which took place the forenoon 

 of the day I visited this Fair, had six entries, and is said to 



