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At ten o'clock the several Committees on Live Stock 

 were organized, and commenced tlieir examinations. 

 Tlie pens for cattle, erected on the common, were densely 

 filled, there being an unusually large number of animals 

 on exhibition ; the quality also was in the main highly 

 satisfactory. The exhibition of Horses, Sheep, Swine 

 and Poultry was good, particularly the latter. The 

 trials of Draught Horses, Working Oxen and Steers, 

 took place as usual near the head of the common, at ten 

 and half-past ten o'clock. In these departments there 

 was a fair show of strength, training and ability for the 

 hard work of the fixrmers' teams. 



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At half past twelve o'clock a dinner was served to 

 the society and their guests by Mr. W. F. Day at the 

 Fitchburg Hotel. Immediately after the dinner a public 

 meeting was held in the Lower Town Hall, where the 

 President of the Society, Dr. Fisher, introduced the 

 Hon. George S. Boutwell as one who had risen from the 

 position of a poor boy through successive gradations of 

 Legislator and Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth, 

 to the rank of a successful Massachusetts farmer. Gov. 

 Boutwell delivered an address uDon the Necessities and 

 Duties of Agriculture , brief, suggestive and practical. 



Dr. J. C. Bartlett, of Chelmsford, delegate from the 

 Board of Agriculture was next presented, who spoke in 

 high terms of the exhibition of stock, &c., adding some 

 interesting and instructive remarks upon the general 

 subject of farming. 



C. L. Flint, Esq., Secretary of the Board, followed. 

 He urged the importance of frequent market days; 

 explained clearly the advantages which would accrue to 

 the farmer by their observance, and recommended that 



