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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
The entries of Horned Stock, and the qualities of the ani¬ 
mals on exhibition, show an increased determination on the 
part of our farmers to go into the breeding of blooded stock, 
particularly of Durhams and Devons. The Committee regret 
to say that the show of milch cows was small, and hope another 
year moie interest in this particular will be manifested. 
We are sorry to see that the interest in the Sheep Depart¬ 
ment was not as large as the importance of this stock de¬ 
mands; for we consider no farm fully furnished, if destitute of 
a flock of sheep. 
The entries in lhe Swine Department were larger in number 
than usual, and the stock evidently superior to any former oc¬ 
casion, a fact which proves that our farmers are beginning to 
awake to the importance of this subject. 
The Poultry Department was fine, the exhibition more full 
and breeds quite numerous and good. 
The show of Grain and Vegetables exceeded that of last 
year, both in quantity and quality. The premium on Spring 
Wheat was awarded to M. K. Adland, the variety “ Fife;’’ 
amount raised, 831 bushels, upon 17 1-2 acres; a portion of it 
was estimated to yield 30 bushels to the acre. The statement 
in regard to previous cultivation of the land which accompa¬ 
nied the sample shown was as follows: In 1856 the field was 
manured with barn-yard manure and planted to corn; in 1857, 
half of it was sowed to barley, the remainder to oats; in Oc¬ 
tober last, the ground was plowed, and sowed the first of April 
last. 
The Committee of Publication think the yield upon which 
the premium was awarded on Winter Wheat and Oats very 
small, and consider the publication of the statements which ac¬ 
companied the same would not advance the science of agri¬ 
culture. 
Mr. Loomis, to whom was awarded the first premium, on 
Corn Crop, gives the following statement of the cultivation 
thereof: One acre last year planted to Chinese sugar cane, 
squash and beans. The poorer portion of the piece was light- 
