SIXTY-SEVENTH 



Annual Cattle Show and Fair. 



The Cattle Show and Fair of this Society was held 

 Sept. 27th and 28th, at Peabody. The exhibits on the 

 Show Grounds fell short in number from the previous 

 year at Newburyport, by sixty-two entries, of which 

 shortage 28 was of Agricultural Implements, 20 of Colts, 

 and 12 of Poultry. 



The quality of the stock exhibited was in most classes, 

 of the best, and with the Ploughing Match was success- 

 ful, attractive and well attended, and it is expected it 

 will be much more so another season. 



In the Town House the exhibits were shown in two 

 large halls and a large anti-room, and the displays made 

 in almost every class were the best quality of the prod- 

 ucts of the farm and garden, or of skill, taste and work- 

 manship in Domestic manufactures. The lower hall was 

 devoted almost wholly to Vegetables, which, with 22 

 less entries than the previous year, made a very attractive 

 show of excellent quality. 



The Exhibition Halls were well attended, the receipts, 

 at 20 cents admission, was 11306.36 and the committees 

 and others, admitted by free ticket, show an attendance 

 of over 7000 in the hall. 



On Wednesday, the second day of the Fair, a proces- 

 sion was former], in the forenoon soon after eleven o'clock, 

 of the officers, members and friends of the Society head- 

 ed by the 8th Regt. Band, which proceeded from in front 

 of the Town Hall to Peabody Institute, where the 

 Annual Address was delivered by William Cogswell, 

 M. D., of Bradford. Its good points have been appreci- 

 ated no doubt by the reader in the preceding pages, if he 



