50 TKANSACTIONS. 



The introduction of improved farm implements tends to emancipate 

 men from the necessity of exhausting labor. 



In view of the important interests centering in this department, 

 your committee would like to have had more funds at their disposal, 

 and to have awarded^tens where we have given units. 



STOCK. 



THEODORE G. HUNTINGTON'S REPORT. 



In looking over the various descriptions of stock that enriched the 

 Hampshire Society's Fair grounds, the thing that has struck us most 

 forcibly was the great inequality in the different departments, While 

 the show of oxen, both for the stall and for the yoke, was unequal to 

 what it has sometimes been, that of horses and swine has probably 

 never been excelled. We looked in vain for rival strings of cattle — 

 Leverett alone appearing on the ground, but with a representation 

 that did her honor. 



Of Bulls there was a fair display ; and the different breeds were 

 well represented by excellent specimens. 'The Durham Eull, " Uncle 

 Tom," owned by Mr. Augustus Clarke of Granby, was a prominent 

 object of attraction. His size and perfect symmetry of form, joined to 

 great apparent docility and fine handling, must make him a valuable 

 animal for the breeder of this justly celebrated stock. 



Then there was the two year old Ayershire owned by Mr. Luke 

 Swectser, of Amherst, Avho has lately entered the lists as a breeder 

 of this kind of stock, and whose success thus far ought to inspire our 

 more experienced farmers with a salutary fear, lest they be outdone in 

 enterprise and skill, by one who has already won his laurels in another 

 profession. This breed is for the dairy, as every one knows, and it is 

 confidently believed, that few if any animals in the country can boast 

 a more worthy ancestry, than the one in question. His ov/ner has 

 been assured that his grand dame, on the mother's side, has given the 

 almost incredible quantity of 36 quarts of milk per day. This bull is 

 one of Mr. Sweetser's herd on exhibition — most of them being young, 



