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of any former year. The animals exhibited were 

 very numerous, and if the number of premiums 

 offered by the society had been greater, they 

 would have been happy to have awarded them to 

 other competitors, for many of the other pigs pos- 

 sessed great merit. They have not time to speak 

 of them all particularly, and therefore do not speci- 

 fy any. They think however, that the litter of pigs 

 offered by T. E. Payson deserve particular notice, 

 being in the opinion of the committee decidedly su- 

 perior to any of the other animals offered, and supe- 

 rior to any thing as a litter of pigs, all from the same 

 sow, that they have ever seen. 



AJl which is respectfully submitted. 

 For the committee, 



WILLIAM S. MARLAND, 

 September 30, 1840. 



ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 



The committee on domestic manufactures, having 

 attended to their duty, beg leave to Report: 



They have the pleasure of stating that the number 

 of entries in this department exceeded those of pre- 

 vious years, and that as large an amount of skill and 

 taste was manifested in their execution. The dis- 

 play of hearth rugs was numerous, and many of them 

 were of exceeding beauty. The specimens of 

 wrought lace and muslin were good, many of them 

 surpassing any of previous years in their execution. 

 The committee met with the same difficulty the pre- 

 sent, as at the last exhibition, in deciding on the 

 hearth rugs; where all were so handsome, they knew 

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