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Europe these rag carpets are not seen, at least not on tlie common 
track of travellers, and possibly they are an invention of om* great- 
grandmothers after they had crossed the ocean. Or it may be 
that they are found in English farm-houses off the common route. 
Besides excellent flannels and carpeting, we saw very good 
shawls, stamped table-covers, blankets, shirting and sheeting, 
towelling and table linen ; leather and morocco ; woollen stockings, 
mittens, gloves, and socks ; very neat shoes and boots, on Paris 
patterns ; embroidery, and fancy work of several kinds ; some very 
good broadcloth ; pretty plaid and striped woollen materials, for 
dresses ; handsome bed-quilts, of unusually pretty patterns, and 
well quilted, &c., &c. Altogether this was the most creditable 
part of the in-door exhibition. Every one must feel an interest 
in these fairs ; and it is to be hoped they will become more and 
more a source of improvement and advantage in everything con- 
nected with farming, gardening, dairy-work, manufacturing, me- 
chanical, and household labors. 
The butter and cheese of this county ought to be of the very 
highest quality. That of our best dairies already commands a high 
price in the large towns ; but with plenty of grass, good spring 
water in abundance, and a comparatively cool summer climate, 
there ought not to be a pound of had butter to be found here. 
Unfortunately, a great deal of a very indiff'erent kind is made 
and eaten ; and yet bad butter is almost as injurious to health 
as bad air, of which we hear so much now-a-days. At the tav- 
erns it is seldom that one meets with tolerable butter. 
Saturday, 30th. — Milder again. There are still many grass- 
hoppers thronging the fields and road-sides of warm days. The 
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