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ANNUAL EXHIBITION, 



AT AMHERST, OCTOBER 26, 1853 



The day was one of the finest. A warm October sun, gentle 

 breezes, and white clouds floating in the firmament, favored this 

 much-loved festiva:l. Early in the morning, the highways lead- 

 ing to the place of exhibition, were filled with carriages of all sorts, 

 hastening to the Cattle Show. A larger collection of the people of 

 Hampshire County and of adjoining towns in Franklin, gathered, 

 than at any former exhibition of this Society. The display in all its 

 departments was an improvement upon its predecessors, and Avould 

 compare favorably with any exhibition of the kind, ever held in the 

 State. 



The order of exercises, as previously arranged, was faithfully ob- 

 served. The exact magnitude and extent of the exhibition is indi- 

 cated by the list of a thousand entries, which we here publish, to- 

 gether with the residences and names of the competitors for premiums, 

 showing the breadth of territory, over which the operations of the 

 Society have rapidly extended. 



SHOW OF HORSES. 



At nine o'clock, A. m., more than one hundred horses were on the 

 ground. The number of colts was forty-eight ; draft horses in pairs, 

 thirty ; mares with colts, sixteen ; farm horses, thirteen ; and stal- 

 lions, two, of superior excellence. The entries were from the towns 

 of Amherst, Belchertown, Cummington, Granby, Easthampton, En- 

 field, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton, Pelham, Prescott, South Had- 

 ley and Williamsburgh, in Hampshire County ; and from Deerfield, 

 Leverett, Shutesbury, and Sunderland, in Franklin County. In the 

 following list of entries, the names of towns in which competitors re- 

 side, are arranged in alphabetical order. 



