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the numerous fine specimens that now belong in our State. The encourage¬ 
ment given by the Society to thorough breeding is bearing fruit already, and 
cannot fail to tell largely, in course of time, upon the improvement of horses 
in this State. 
The stalls set apart for cattle were all filled, many of them with very fine 
specimens of the several breeds. No premiums were offered on Alderneys, 
Ayershires and Herefords, Avhich, in our opinion, was a mistake. The two 
breeds first named are specially worthy of encouragement. 
The falling off in the price of wool having had the effect to cool the ardor 
of the sheepmen, the show in this department was inferior to what it has 
been for two or three years past. Still the exhibition was'not a discredit to 
the State. 
Machinery abounded, covering the slopes upon which it was displayed with 
a multitude of fine reapers, mowers, seed-drills, plows, harrows, threshers, 
fanning mills and a thousand and one other articles of great interest and 
value to the farmer and the public at large. 
Manufacturers’ Tent was also well crowded with domestic machinery and 
the products of the mechanic arts ; and Fine Arts Hall, besides being pretty 
well packed with articles appropriate, was made still more interesting by the 
ceaseless hum and whirr of some twenty to thirty sewing and knitting ma¬ 
chines. 
The specification of articles is made impossible by the number of such as 
are equally deserving of mention, as well as by the narrow limits of our space 
in this volume. 
The special daily programme was faithfully carried through and gave very 
great satisfaction. 
The equestrian display by some fourteen ladies, on Thursday, proved an at¬ 
tractive feature, as it always does. And the trials of speed by trotting, pa¬ 
cing and running horses—still an experiment with the Society—appeared to 
have at least the temporary approval of the entire multitude of twenty to 
thirty thousand people who witnessed them. It is hoped that these trials 
may be so managed as to promote the interests of industry without detri¬ 
ment to the more important interests of public morality. If they cannot, 
every true friend of the Society will vote for their utter abandonment. 
Failing to secure speakers from abroad, two or three of whom had been 
partially engaged, and up to the last day were expected, the Society was fortu¬ 
nate in being able to impress into its service several gentlemen in attend¬ 
ance upon the Fair, whose brief, pertinent and excellent addresses were well 
received by the people. Of the remarks made by Gov. Fairchild, Gen. Geo. 
B. Smith and Hon. A. J. Craig, we have not been able to procure a copy for 
publication. Of a highly appropriate and valuable extemporaneous 
speech made by Dr. P. A. Chadbourne, President of the State University, 
the following is a pretty correct report: 
