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date all the animals and the people who desired to inspect 

 them. The arrangement of the pens was satisfactory, a 

 long row of stalls for horses ran on the right or river side, 

 in front, a wide space for exercising them, and then a 

 parallel row of pens for cattle and a few sheep, while on a 

 ridge conveniently far enough to be unoffensive, were the 

 few enclosures for swine, a dozen in number, having some 

 very good specimens of Chester whites and more mon- 

 grels. But the swine were numerous to what the sheep 

 were, there being but three entries. My disgust at the 

 small number of sheep was however changed to sympathy 

 for the few men who own the 650 sheep in Essex County, 

 and who suffer the infliction of over 10,000 dogs, and their 

 owners of equal number, as shown by the county treas- 

 urer's books. 



Of the neat cattle there was a very good show, not great 

 in numbers, there being 57 entries, but containing some 

 good beasts, the Ayrshires of Mr. French, and the Hol- 

 steins of Mr. Russell would make a show anywhere. Some 

 very good cattle and steers were noticed, but as the details 

 of the show and the premiums have been so fully printed 

 in the city and county papers it is unnecessary for me to 

 give them in detail. 



The show of horses was uncommonly good, especially of 

 colts, there was a good deal of handsome trotting and 

 driving stock, showing high breeding, and I was pleased to 

 notice several of those very serviceable animals, Percher- 

 ons and their grades. The drawing match on a gently as- 

 cending road a short half mile from the grounds, was 

 fairly tested by ox and horse teams, little shouting, and 

 less whipping made the trial an interesting one. The 

 plowing match was sharply contested, with single and 

 double cattle teams and with horses, on the whole more 

 satisfactory to the plowmen than to the plow manufac- 

 turers. 



The show of poultry, that most important adjunct to 

 prosperity on a farm, was unwisely small, considering that 



