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time, and may be so blended with our gatherings as to enliven and 
give rest to the more useful. 
Let us turn our attention to the exhibition before us. The horse- 
department is filled with choice specimens—some noted for speed; 
others are adapted to road-purposes particularly, and others for gen¬ 
eral purpose' 3 , while the draught-horse comes in for his full share of 
praise and honors. The progress that has been made in the im¬ 
provement of the horses of this State in the last few years is truly 
wonderful. 
CATTLE-DEPARTMENT. 
The long rows of stalls filled with the choicest cattle of the State, 
are the best evidence of the progress that has been made in this de¬ 
partment. From the diminutive Jerseys to the stately Short-Horns, 
all the different breeds have produced many animals of superior 
merit and show the progress made in breeding improved stock. 
They are convincing proofs of what can be done in stock-raising, 
and be done with far greater profit than the raising of scrub stock. 
And the farmer of to-day who fails to improve his stock, fails to 
comprehend his own interests and his surest road to success. The 
breeder who moulds and fashions our domestic animals until they 
are objects of beauty, symmetry, and usefulness is a far greater ben¬ 
efactor than the great politicians of the age. The great works of 
art are but imitations of life, while the works of the artist and 
scientific breeder are life itself in its most useful and beautiful form. 
The names of Bakewell, Booth, and Bates, will live long after the 
names of the great politicians of the day shall have been dimmed by 
the vista of future years. 
SHEEP-DEPARTMENT. 
This part of the fair is full to overflowing. Here again we see 
the handiwork of the breeder, each breed being bred for a par¬ 
ticular purpose, and how nice each is adapted to the purpose for 
which they were grown. The man who should attempt to make 
broadcloth or cassimeres, or other fine goods out of the wool of the 
Cottswold sheep would surely fail; so with the combing-wools and 
delaine-wools; each has its particular purpose. 
