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belonging to E. C. Dudley, of Needham, closed the exercises of 

 the day. 



In briefly reviewing the proceedings of the two days, it is 

 but just to say that in many respects it was one of the most 

 successful exhibitions ever held by the Society. Notwithstanding 

 the severe rain which fell most of the time during the exhibition, 

 in many respects the show was equal to that of any previous year. 

 In the very important departments of Plowing and Drawing there 

 were more entries than were ever made on any previous 

 year, and the work was never so well performed. The show 

 of Stock was pronounced by competent judges as equal to that of 

 any former year. The dinner, for which the Society are much 

 indebted to Col. Ehphalet Stone, Chairman of the Committee of 

 Arrangements, was excellent, and for the first time since the 

 organization of the Society, it paid for itself! 



In a pecuniary point of view the exhibition was a decided suc- 

 cess, the receipts being less than one hundred dollars behind 

 those of two years since. Had the weather been pleasant, the 

 receipts would very nearly have reached the sum of twenty-five 

 hundred dollars, the largest amount ever received being about 

 seventeen hundred dollars. This year the receipts were about 

 thirteen hundred dollars. The result has proved that those who, 

 in the early part of the season, were anxious that the exhibition 

 should be postponed, underrated the energy and public spirit of 

 the men of this County, who, even in troublous times like the 

 present, abate not one jot of hope and courage. May the next 

 year's Exhibition witness the return of peace to the country, and 

 the restoration to health of the honored President of the Society, 

 whose absence has been the source of deep and lasting regret. 



