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ist, at the State Agricultural College. There was a good 

 attendance at all the meetings, the subjects were interest- 

 ing and those f)resent entered into the discussion quite 

 freely and drew out facts from the essayist and others that 

 were oE value to all intei-ested in the different subjects. 



REPORT OF DELEGATES TO OTHER SOCIETIES. 



By invitation the exhibitions of the Houghton Horticul- 

 tural Society at Lynn and of the Amesbury and Salisbury 

 Society held at Amesbury, beginning Sept. 24th, were 

 visited by some of your delegates. 



That at Amesbury was a complete success in every respect. 

 Each department was well represented, by the choicest prod- 

 ucts of the flower garden, vegetable garden and field culture, 

 the orchard in products of apples, pears and other fruits, 

 notable works of art, and woman's handiwork, in fine 

 needle work, rugs, mats, quilts, and also specimens of 

 bread, cake, preserves, etc., filling to overflow ihe 

 hall, and an annexed tent. The building for the exhibi- 

 tion of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and poultry, was also 

 filled with first class animals in each department. An im- 

 portant and popular feature of the Amesbury and Salisbury 

 Society Cattle Show, is the grand parade about the town, 

 which is led by mounted marshals, a band of music, followed 

 by carriages for oflicials and invited guests, then an ox- 

 team of some 20 yoke of noble oxen (such as Avould be 

 difficult to get together in any other section of the county), 

 drawing an immense, highly decorated wagon, loaded with 

 the beautiful young ladies, gayly dressed, of the Society 

 then follow business floats, with various devices advertis- 

 ing their calling. This parade attracts everybody in town, 

 and their friends from out of town, to the sti'eets, on the 

 line of march. 



The dinner served in the upper story of the exhibition 

 building, by the ladies of the Society, is another attractive 



