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generally send to market, if others are compelled to do the same, 

 but not otherwise. I can only repeat here what I said on a for- 

 mer occasion, that this is a subject in which the public feel uo 

 little interest, it being important to them not to know how fine 

 flour can be made, but who sends the best to market. It ought 

 to be legitimately inferred, that he who can make the best, really 

 does send the best to market, though it maybe that such is really 

 not the case. All I am anxious for is to have this matter placed 

 upon a proper footing. 



Of Dairy Productions the display was very respectable. There 

 were numerous samples of cheese, some of very superior quality^ 

 many that would pass for good any where, and a fevt decidedly 

 bad. Why men will send such rank specimens to an exhibition 

 of this kind passes my comprehension ; they must have wretched 

 bad taste. The samples of butter were not quite equal to those 

 of last year. The season had doubtless much to do with this. 



The display of vegetables was very mucli better than could 

 have been anticipated; indeed, I doubt whether finer potatoes, 

 cattle roots, beets, carrots, parsnips, salsify, tomatoes, onions, &c., 

 have ever been seen. Most of these, however, were grown on 

 low alluvial land, where the influence of the long continued 

 drought was not much felt ; and such a drought, we have had 

 nothing'^like it in twenty years; wells were dried up, springs 

 ceased their bubbling, running brooks were nowhere to be seen, 

 the fields changed their green robes for a Quaker drab, the forest 

 trees dropped their foliage before the time of the " sear and yel- 

 low leaf;" many fine specimens of shrubbery were killed, and all 

 nature seemed to be dying under the influence of the withering 

 drought. May we never see its like again. Under such circum- 

 stances as these the peculiar value of low, alluvial lands makes 

 itself apparent. But to proceed. In addition to the products 

 named above, I must mention particularly some enormous heads 

 of Cauliflower. These were raised at Cambridge, near Boston, 

 and were the most beautiful I ever saw. The display of Cabbage 

 was not large, but there were some flat Dutch and American 

 Bergen of great size, and as solid as a stone. The show of Pump- 

 kins and Squashes was remarkably fine. Some weiglied uut far 



