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FROCEEDINOS 



on the occasion of the 

 Twenty-Fifth ^nniyei\sai\y 



OF THE 



NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 



THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, September 25th and 26th, 1873. 



The 2oth Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural Society 

 was held at Readville, on Thursday and Friday, September 25th 

 and 2Gth, 1873. The weather was remarkably fine during the 

 entire two days, the number in attendance very large, and the 

 entire proceedings harmonious and highly satisfactory both to the 

 visiting public and the managers of the Fair. In many depart- 

 ments the displays were equal to any ever made by the Society, 

 and in none M-as the show of an inferior character. The following is 

 a brief recapitulation of the leading features of the Exhibition : — 



Of Horses, the most prominent exhibitor was Col Henry S. 

 Russell, proprietor of Home Farm and the President of the So- 

 ciety, among whose many fine animals there were four fine colts 

 of the famous Fearnaught stock. William T. Cook of Foxboro' 

 contributed nine animals entered in three classes and representing 

 the Morgan, Messenger, St. Lawrence, Morrill, Knox, Gray Eagle 

 and Touchstone l)reeds. 



The stock pens enclosed the largest number of thoroughbreds 

 ever brought upon the gi-ounds of the Society, comprising Jerseys, 

 Ayreshires and Holsteins, with a few crosses of Jersey and James- 

 town. William T. Cook of Foxboro', contributed twenty-five ani- 



