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Frost of Meclfield, both beautiful animals, and giving promise 

 of marked excellence ; a sorrel colt, two years and three months 

 old, weighing 1050 pounds, owned by N, Farrington, Jr., of 

 Canton ; the gray stallion, mare, and foal of the St. Lawrence 

 and Percheron breeds, from W. T. Cook of Milton ; a colt, 

 three years old, of the Percheron breed, from Emery Hawes of 

 North Stoughton ; two excellent gray mares, one four and the 

 other two years old, belongijig to C. tfe. C. Mackintosh of 

 Needham ; a thoroughI)red Morgan, from Joseph Dix of Dor- 

 chester ; and a beautiful pair of matched carriage horses be- 

 longing to William E. Coffin of Dorchester. 



The show of Stock, though much less in amount than on 

 ;St©me previous years, was e:i,cellent, and included the fine herd 

 of Jerseys belonging to Mr. Eldridge ; bulls by Mr. Eldridge, 

 John S. Wri»ht of Brookline, Luther P^aton and J. R. Fisher 

 of Dedhara, and others ; cows from J. S. Wright of Brookline, 

 Colonel Stone of Dedham, J. N, Stevens of Hyde Park, and 

 others. 



Of Swine, -valuable contributions were macle l\y C L. Cope- 

 land and J. H. Farrington of jMilton ; C. & C. Mackintosh of 

 Needham ; Henry Goulding of Dover ; J. 8. Eldridge of Can- 

 ton, and others. 



Of Sheep, the only contribution was a fine flock of South 

 Downs from Mr. Flldridge, the President. 



Of Poultry, the show was unusually larj:ie and fine, Mr. A. H. 

 Drake of Stougliton making a splendid display, and excellent 

 contributions were made by A. W. Cheever of Wrcntham, C. H. 

 Spring of Needham, C. L. Copeland of Milton, W. C. Brad- 

 bury of Hyde Park, H. Bird of Stoughton, C. <fc C. Mackin- 

 tosh of Needham, and others. 



In the Ladies' Department there were a large number of ele- 

 gant contributions of enibroi<^lery of various kinds, hair woik, 

 and many articles for use and ornament, which attracted much 

 attention. 



Of Fruit there was a good displa}', although the loss of the con- 

 tributions of the IMessrs. Clapp of Dorchester, who have for 

 many years taken the first premium at the exhibitions of this and 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, but whose fruit was 

 almost wholly destroyed by the great hail storm of June 20th, 

 was most seriously felt. Weld Farm, from which there has 

 almost invariably been a fine display, this year failed to put in 

 ail appearance. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder contributed 115 va- 



