each other, and no better time and place for imparting this knowledge 

 has yet been found than at the agricultural fair ; the grange meetings 

 and the alliance meetings and the farmers' institutes each have their 

 part and an important part, too, in the farmers' education, but it is 

 at the agricultural fair, where the fruit of the season's work is exhib- 

 ited, that theories are emphasized by accomplished facts and what 

 should be done appears plainer in the light of what has been done. 

 We wish the farmers would pause a moment and seriously consider 

 what they are losing when they neglect to attend these fairs or to 

 exhibit at them the products of their farms. They owe it to them- 

 selves, to their fellow-farmers and to the community to support in 

 every way an interest that is especially their own. But it is not the 

 farmers alone whose duty it is and whose pleasure it should be to 

 assist to the utmost in making the fair a success. This is an agricul- 

 tural community, and from the farmers the merchants and business 

 men must receive the support essential to their success. Everything 

 that tends to aid the farmers should receive the heartiest encourage- 

 ment from every member of the community. Now these are time- 

 worn truths, but they have the merit of truth to recommend them, 

 and they demand serious consideration at the present time. Can 

 Amherst afford to lose its agricultural fair? Can we afford to adver- 

 tise to the world that we are too poor in resources, too mean in spirit, 

 too careless of our own welfare, to support an agricultural society''' 

 Is public spirit really ' played out' in this community, and has selfish- 

 ness gained complete control? Think it over, candidly, honestly, 

 farmers, merchants, business men, college men, citizens of Amherst, 

 all, and answer it as you can and must, one way or the other, by your 

 presence at or absence from the fair." 



" The annual fair and cattle-show of the Hampshire Agricultural 

 society was a great and deserved success. For once the fates were 

 propitious, and the clouds, that for the past three weeks have 

 obscured the sun and dripped seemingly perpetual moisture alike on 

 the just and the unjust, cleared away and granted to the society two 

 days of ideal weather. But something besides weather is needed to 

 make an agricultural fair successful, and that something was sup- 

 plied in a larger measure than usual by the earnest and united efforts 

 of the officers and members of the society, and the general public as 

 well, to meet the needs of the occasion. There seemed to be a 



