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considered best by the judges, and the Bergen very little behind 

 it. Much has been said of the Australian wheat, but no large 

 sample has yet been exhibited at the Institute. We had a small 

 bottle of it; the grains were large and heavy, but they seemed to 

 have been picked out for show. The judges, two of whom had 

 grown it, stated that it would not yield as much per acre as either 

 the Mediterranean or the Bergen. There were several fine sam- 

 ples of rye and oats ; but, on the whole, they were much the same 

 as at former fairs. 



Mr. Giraud, as usual, was on hand with a magnificent display 

 of corn, and finer could not well be imagined. While my opi- 

 nion remains unchanged, that a few choice kinds are sufficient for 

 any one locality, I think, notwithstanding, that Mr. Giraud de- 

 serves great credit for his enterprise in growing such a great num- 

 ber of varieties. He has not only proved the capabilities of this 

 locality for growing all the known varieties of corn in the great- 

 est state of perfection, but he has made our Fair a kind of House 

 of Representatives for the whole Union. Under no other circum- 

 stances, perhaps, should we have the opportunity of comparing 

 so many varieties. Mr. Williamson exhibited a sample of corn 

 of extraordinary growth ; but it came in too late for competition. 

 There was also a remarkably fine sample of sugar corn of unusual 

 size. Altogether the display of corn was in the highest degree 

 satisfactory. 



The display of butter and cheese was much the same as at 

 former fairs, and needs no particular comment. Some samples 

 of iiuitation Swiss and Sapsago cheese, of domestic manufacture 

 were exhibited, which the maker thought might supercede the 

 imparted article, and become an important branch of domestic 

 manufacture. The judges thought the Sapsago cheese to be a 

 very fair article of its kind. The entries of butter were nume- 

 rous, but, as sometimes happens, the best sample came in too 

 late for competition. This arose, in some measure, from the fact, 

 that the day on which butter should have been entered was not 

 announced in our circular. 



Of flour and meal the falling off was remarkable, the efft- ct of 

 the stringent rule adopted by the Board of Agriculture. Here- 



