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ox THE OCCASION OF THE 



Twenty-Second Anniversary 



OF THE 



NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY, Sept. 21st, 22d, and 23d, 1870. 



The twenty-second annual exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural 

 Society was held at Readville on Wednesday, Tiiursday, and 

 Friday, September 21st, 22d, and 23d, 1870. Although the 

 weather was clear and the attendance large, the Exhibition 

 was not as successful as on some former j-ears, owing to vari- 

 ous causes, the principal of which were the terrible drought, 

 whicli deterred the owners of choice stock from sending their 

 herds; the hail storm of June 20th, which devastated the fruit 

 orchards belonging to many of our largest contributors, and 

 the occurrence on the same days of the exhibitions of theMassa- 

 clmsetts Horticultural Society and the Weymouth Agricultural 

 Society, and on the two preceding days of tlie Norfolk Farm- 

 er's Chil). Notwithstanding these disadvantages, and the ex- 

 treme heat and dust, which rendered driving or walking alike 

 uncomfoi-table, the receipts were large, and the proceedings 

 highly interesting. Tlie following is a condensed sketch of the 

 leading contributions in the several departments : — 



The number of Horses on exhibition was quite large ; among 

 them were the fine stallion Golden Gate, owned by Frank Sum- 

 ner of ISIattapan ; a two and a three years old colt, of a cross 

 of the Young Morrill and Messenger breeds, belonging to C. 



