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Of COWS, we found nine entries. Among them, a grade Durham, 

 belonging to President Stearns ; another belonging to Mr. Williams, 

 of Sunderland, and a third to Mr. Cobb, of Amherst, intended as 

 stock animals, and showing good points for that purpose. \ 



We noticed two choice Durham heifers of Mr. Augustus Clarke 

 of Granby. If this gentleman continues to breed such animals as 

 these, he may be sure of winning prizes as often as he chooses to drive 

 them to the Fair grounds. 



As sheep raising is evidently not a favorite branch of husbandry with 

 us, it is a matter of surprise, perhaps, that there should have been any 

 on exhibition, rather than so few. We noticed some lots, which ap- 

 peared to be a mixture of the south down, with our common stock, 

 and pretty fair specimens. We believe that if the practice of sheep 

 husbandry, with reference particularly to the rearing of lambs for 

 market, should become more general, it would be found quite as profit- 

 able as the rearing of other kinds of stock. Why should it not be 

 so, when each sheep yields an annual income in fleece, and produces one 

 or two lambs, whose meat sells for more than almost any other in the 

 market ? We would by no means recommend going into the business 

 largely, but almost every farmer has more or less fodder at his dis- 

 posal, which is better consumed by sheep than by anything else. We 

 have frequently found that pastures and stubble ground mowed over, 

 will yield them much feed M'hich no other animal will touch. By a 

 little pains taking in this way, almost every farmer can collect enough 

 to winter from fifteen to twenty-five sheep, without encroaching very 

 largely on the supply for his other stock, and he will find the income 

 derived from them a very considerable item. 



We pass on to swine, and here, candor compels us to acknowledge, 

 that our highest wishes were gratified. There are swine enough in 

 this region — good ones too — and it so happened, this year, that there 

 was a general disposition to show them, a thing not at all strange by 

 the way, for if there is anything a farmer takes pride in, it is his hogs. 

 This feeling seemed to have worked itself up to an exceedingly high 

 pitch, the present season, until it found vent by this astounding rush 

 to the Fair ground. The provision made for the accommodation of 

 these dignified personages, who always boast their carriage on such oc- 

 casions, looked meagre enough, when compared with the host to be 

 provided for. And after all had been done, that generous hospitality 

 could do, many were debarred the privilege of showing their fair pro- 

 portions to the best advantage, and remained shut up in comparative 



