PROCEEDINGS 



ON THE OCCASION OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 



NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28, 29 and 30, 1876. 



The 28th Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural Society 

 was held at Readville, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sep- 

 tember 28th, 29th and 30th, 1876. The weather was favorable 

 during the entire Exhibition, and the attendance large. The fol- 

 lowing is a brief recapitulation of the leading features : — 



The principal contributors of horses were Col. Henry S. Russell, 

 President of the Society ; William T. Cook, of Foxboro', who 

 exhibited his splendid two-year-old colt Graphic, sired by Smug- 

 gler, and to which had just been awarded the medal of honor at 

 the Philadelphia Exposition; Francis B. Ray, of Franklin, and 

 William E. Coffin, of Dorchester. 



Of stock, the leading exhibitors were Henry L. Pierce, Canton ; 

 Henry M. Mack. Dorchester ; Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ; E. M. 

 Cary and Jason Houghton, Milton. 



Swine were exhibited by Messrs. Farrington and Davenport, of 

 Canton ; Copeland, Farrington and Sias, of Milton, and National 

 Sailors' Home, of Quincy. 



Contributions of poultry were made by A. F. Stevens, Need- 

 ham ; J. F. Mooar, E. Demeritt and E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park ; 

 Gray & Sherman, Foxboro', and others. 



The display of fruit was very fine. Of pears, Hon. Marshall 

 P. Wilder, of Dorchester, exhibited 112 varieties, and fine contri- 

 butions were made by John D. Bradlee & Co., Henry P. Kidder 

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