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CONTENTS.

Page.

Address, by Charles L. Flint, 5

Report of the President and Secretary, . 19

" on Grape Vineries, 20

" on Herds of Milch Cows, 22

" on Horses, 24

" on Working Oxen and Steers, 27

" on Bulls, 27

" on Cows, 28

" on Heifers, 28

" on Sheep, .... 29

" on Swine, 29

" on Poultry, 29

" on Plowing, 30

" on Fruit, 31

" on Flowers, 33

" on Bread, .35

" on Dairy, 35

" on Vegetables, 35

« on Carriages, . . . . : 36

" on Straw, 3q

" on Grain, Roots, Mixed Crops, &c., 37

" on Ladies' Work, 38

" on Birds and Insects, 39

" on Agricultural Implements, &c., 39

Recapitulation of Premiums, 42

Report of the Treasurer, 44

Proceedings on the Nineteenth Anniversary, 45

Officers of the Society, 49

Names of Members, 53

ADDRESS.

By CHARLES L. FLINT,

Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture.

SOME DEFECTS OF NEW ENGLAND FARMING.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen.

A few weeks ago there appeared, in one of our local country
papers, an article under the head of The Farm and the
Family, in which the writer after quoting from the last annual
Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture,
goes on to show that farming does not pay. The writer of
this article is unknown to me, nor do I know to whom I am
indebted for the favor of a copy ; but it came to me with the
request endorsed upon the margin, please reply in some public
manner.

As this article contains a good deal of sound common sense,
is not very long, and especially as I propose to make it the
basis of my remarks upon the present occasion, I trust I shall
be pardoned for reading it to you. The article is as follows : —

The Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture com-
mences his report, for the past year, with the following significant words :
" The price of farm labor has increased about sixty per cent, since the
outbreak of the rebellion, while the cost of living has advanced to a much
larger extent ; but the prices of farm produce, though considerably
higher than they were five years ago, have not, probably, been enhanced
in the same ratio."

There is abundant truth in this statement. "Wool brings fifty cents
a pound, and shoddy cloth $2 or more a yard. A pound of butter will not
buy so much sugar as it used to, and with cows at $100 per head, and
labor and cost of living 60 per cent, higher, it costs one-half more to

make the butter. Farmers' help, including the " cost of board," act-
ually costs double what it used to, which is right enough, the laborer
being worthy of his hire, but when the farm produce is to be sold, it is
found that its price is not " enhanced in the same ratio." Farmers do
not get enough for their productions. There is not a craft, trade, or
profession, followed with the same diligence and earnestness that the
farmer shows, which does not pay better than farming. It is a question
often asked, why do our young men forsake the " noble art of farming "
to seek the cities, embrace trades, and speculations ? The answer is
easily and forever made — because almost every other pursuit on earth
PAYS better. We hear of multitudes of men who began life with
nothing, and by following manufactures, or trades, or professions, or by
taking fortunate advantage of the necessities of the times, died mag-
nificent millionaires ; but how often do we hear of a farmer, beginning
life the same way, or with even what is called a good start, making any
such opulent demise ? The whims of the world pay better than its
necessities. The introduction of machinery, in farm operations, though
of much help, has not accomplished the desired result of making the_
farmer independent enough to dictate to the world the price of its every
day necessities. He creates no prices. If neighbor Smith takes his
butter and eggs to the store, he takes what the dealer chooses to give
in store pay at prices the dealer chooses to ask. Farmer Smith was a
cipher when he fetched his eggs and went home with his sugar and $2
a pound bohea. Farming is something more than selling eggs and
carrying home store pay, but the same parallel of marked dependence
runs, more or less, through all its transactions, not excepting the social.
It is a kind imposture to talk of the noble art of farming, its attendant
advantages and independence, but the able Secretary of Agriculture
casts its fortunes in much more moderate language. It is also certain
imposture to accept the tabular statements that many men make of the
extraordinary profits arising from the cultivation of. certain favorite
fields to which they have devoted their attention for years while the
rest of the farm was " running down," as any evidence of the profits of
farming. As if a man should fatten one pig out of a dozen, and trot
him forth at the farmers' fair as evidence of his management while
the rest of the brood were shrieking hungry clamors at home. In this
" earliest blest of heaven " avocation, let's have farm profits, not field.
That men make some money farming is granted, but it is an established
fact among financial critics that no man can borrow money to buy a
farm and live long enough to pay interest and principal. Farmers
who have got rich in this New England by sheer culture, are, like the
calls of the cherubim, exceeding few and far between. The cutting off

of valuable woodlands is not farming but an effort in the lumber busi-
ness. Let's call things by their right names.

In some transient hour of despondency, when life's labors seem not
to have been blest with all the triumphs rhetorically supposed to attach
themselves to the " ennobling art of agriculture," men have called
out, — " Does it pay to be a farmer?" and the gentler sex have tearfully
asked, " Does it pay to be a farmer's wife ? " and the Secretary of the
Board of Agriculture, in this State, substantially answers, no. Farmers
do not get enough for their productions.

And now I shall have something to say with regard to the
first question, " Does it pay to be a farmer ? " and my remarks
might be arranged, perhaps, under the general subject of
Some of the Defects of New England Agriculture ; in the
course of which, if any one is inclined to the opinion that it
does not pay, 1 think I shall be able to show the reason why,
and perhaps to suggest a remedy.

And here let me begin by saying that we, as a body of
farmers, are too scattering or diffusive in our labor ; that is,
we aim at doing too many things, and spread our energies over
too much ground, instead of concentrating our thoughts, our
skill, and our means upon some special line of effort, some
particular crop, or some leading branch of farming.

Go round through our quiet and beautiful rural districts
and study the character and inclinations of the farming pop-
ulation, and you will find that, in a vast number of instances,
the man, the farmer, wants to own the next farm. There is
a hankering for more land, rather than a desire to cultivate
the home farm ivelly and to bring it to the highest degree of
productiveness. Perhaps we come naturally by this character-
istic, for you know that our fathers were a bold, pushing and
adventurous race of men, — the choice spirits from all parts of
Europe — and you recollect that Walter Scott says of a Scotch-
man, that the moment he gets his head above water he aims
for land.

But this, although I regard it as, in some respects, an
unfortunate trait of the New England character, is not exactly
the fault to which I refer. You will find, generally, that the
farmer makes his calculations to do a little of everything
instead of making a specialty of anything. He will have a

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little patch of corn, an acre or two of potatoes, a few roots,
perhaps two or three cows and a horse, all of which is very
well in its way ; but you will discover no one central, leading
idea, no one crop, no one branch of farming which seems to
excite the mind and thought to special activity, no one product
on which to rely for the money income of the farm ; and so
you will find, at the end of the year, that both ends will
hardly meet, — buckle and strap won't quite come together ; or,
if they do, there will be nothing to spare.

Now I am not inclined to advocate the cultivation of one
crop or another to the exclusion of all others, for that would
be absurd ; be like putting all the eggs in one basket. I would
go farther, and say that I would have the farmer raise even a
greater variety of miscellaneous crops for the supply of his
own family. There is no reason why a much larger assort-
ment of garden vegetables for home consumption should not
be produced upon every farm. It would promote the comfort,
the health and the economy of the household, and need
interfere but little with the general operations of the farm.
But so far as the management of the farm is concerned, I wish
simply to insist upon the adoption of some line of effort as a
specialty, whether it be the culture of fruit, the culture of
corn or grass, the breeding of stock, the keeping of sheep or of
poultry. I would leave the particular object of pursuit to be
governed by circumstances, such as the location and character
of the farm. I would study its special fitness for one thing or
another.

Some farms, you know, are admirably adapted to the raising
of fruit. Some have a warm, southern exposure, with a light,
warm soil adapted to the grape, where vineyards would return
a profitable yield. Some have facilities for the raising of
cranberries, and it is a pity not to take advantage of them.
Some are remarkably well adapted to the raising of poultry ;
retired, and free from disturbance. Some are especially suited
for grass, and the raising of stock would seem to be a leading
pursuit, and so on. The idea is to study and take advantage
of the peculiar capacities of each farm ; and of ten farms taken
at random, in this town or in this county, scarcely any two
would present the same characteristics.

Let me offer you one or two illustrations. A friend of mine
in Fitchburg has two or three acres of Concord grapes. He
raises poultry, too, and he had forty-six hundred eggs from an
average of twenty-six hens, from the first of January of last
year to the last of December ; but grapes and small fruits are
his special hobby. Year before last, from less than an acre
then in bearing which he tended himself, he sold very nearly
eighteen hundred dollars' worth of grapes. But if he had
frittered away his time on forty different crops, and now and
then run into town with a dozen of eggs, or a peck of turnips,
or a bushel of pease, or a few ears of green corn, or a string of
onions, or a box of butter, or a few other little lots of garden
truck, do you suppose he would have realized seventeen or
eighteen hundred dollars from less than an acre of vineyard ?
It is only a few months since I visited that vineyard in com-
pany with two or three gentlemen, and on leaving, one of them
remarked, " There, I 'd rather own that two acres of vineyard,
than the be§t farm in Worcester County." And he was right.
Why ? Because with less cost of machinery and management,
less wear and tear, it would pay a far larger percentage ot
income than the best farm in Worcester County, and hence as
an investment, as a- matter of dollars and cents, it was more
desirable.

Again, I know a man in the Connecticut Valley who bought
his place, built a large tobacco shed and made some other
improvements, and paid for the whole by the single crop of
tobacco of the first year. But he gave his mind and attention
to it, and didn't try to cultivate much corn or many potatoes.
And again, I have a friend in Duxbury who began to reclaim
one of the hardest looking bush swamps that I ever saw, and
set out cranberries, now four years ago. The cost per acre of
cutting the bushes and the brakes, grubbing up the hassocks
and the tangled roots of trees and high blueberry bushes,
paring and levelling the surface, carting on sand and setting
out the vines, exceeded four hundred dollars. Last year was
the third of the experiment and the first crop of any extent;
and on about an acre then in bearing, the crop yielded between
seven and eight hundred dollars net income. This year I
visited the plantation, and it promises far better than the last ;
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and if he doesn't get nearly a thousand dollars for his cran-
berries I shall be very much surprised.

I have another friend, who owns a large cranberry yard in
the town of Franklin, Mass. It has cost him on an average
more than five hundred dollars an acre, some of it nearly a
thousand dollars an acre to set, because he had everything to
contend with. It was an old overgrown swamp, almost inac-
cessible. He now has about twenty acres in full bearing, and
when I was there, the other day, he pointed to one meadow of
about twelve acres, and said : " There, I am offered twenty
thousand dollars for that meadow, not over fourteen acres at
the outside."

" Why don't you take it ? " said I.

" Take it ! why, it pays me the interest on over fifty thou-
sand dollars, and has done for several years. I can't afford to
sell it for twenty thousand ! "

And at the time of my visit, instead of wishing to sell any
part of his extensive plantation, he had three or four Irishmen
in the mud and water half up to their knees, extending the
area of his vines, at an enormous cost per acre.

I mention these instances not to recommend every farmer to
go and do likewise, that is, to run into grapes or cranberries or
tobacco, but simply to show the importance of studying and
taking advantage of the natural capacities of the farm. If it
is specially adapted to grapes, you may cultivate them ; if it is
more particularly adapted to the dairy, make a specialty of
that ; if you have meadows that offer a prospect of success
with cranberries, you will do well to consider whether they
wouldn't pay better than any other one thing. But whatever
you undertake, do it thoroughly and well.

You have good soil over a considerable part of Norfolk
County ; land that is capable of almost anything by proper
treatment ; but if I should ask any farmer within the sound of
my voice whether he doesn't think his farm is capable of a far
greater development than he has yet been able to bring to bear
upon it, 1 presume the answer would be unanimously in the
affirmative.

But here the difficulty in the way is partly the same as that
to which I have alluded, — the ownership of too much land, or
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amount of working capital in hand. As to the question of
large or small farms, I have nothing to do with it here, any-
further than to say, that tlie size of the farm should depend
very much on the capital the owner has to work it with. If he
has no spare capital, except his own time and the labor of his
own liands, a very small farm will be more profitable than a
large one, because he will concentrate his labor on a few acres,
bring them to a higher degree of productiveness and profit, and
save the expense incident to a large tract of land, which is
necessarily comparatively unproductive.

A man who has little more than his own hands, who has not
the ready means to hire extensively and the capacity to direct
hired labor so as to get the greatest return for it, will make far
more by concentrating his time and his fertilizing materials
upon five acres than he would to spread them over a hundred.
He can cultivate and manure and manage three to five acres well;
if he attempts much more, a part of it must be neglected, and
its returns will be small compared with what they should be.
Isn't that so ? Does not every day's observation prove it to be
so ? Do not the illustrations of concentrated labor which 1
have already given prove it to be so ? And if those are not suf-
ficient, let me allude to one or two others.

There was a mechanic in the town of Haverhill, a carpenter,
who found that his health was suffering in consequence of his
close application to that kind of work, and he went and bought
a little place in the outskirts of the town and began to raise
vegetables for the market. It was but a few acres, scarcely
enough to be called even a little farm. He cultivated well, of
course, and manured very highly, keeping an exact account of
all his operations. It is needless to say that he made money,
more, by a large per cent, tlian he had made by his trade, and
he was able to show how he did it. It was by stuffing in the
manure, by deep and constant tillage, by an absolute freedom
from weeds and waste places, by making the most that he knew
how of every foot of land that he gave his attention to.

Now, the fact is, farmers do not, as a general thing, do as
well as they know how. Why ? Because, in a vast majority
of cases, they can't. They have so much land, all of which
demands more or less of their attention, that they are compelled
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done ; and so they go on, year after year, scattering their ener-
gies instead of concentrating them, a constant walking illus-
tration of the homely old maxim, that " a rolling stone gathers
no moss."

But for another instance of the same kind. There was a
man in Marblehead who cultivated every year about fourteen
acres of onions. He made a business of it, devoted his time,
his thought and his energy to that crop as a specialty, raising,
on an average, about five hundred bushels per acre. He kept
the run of the crop in other sections, so as to be able to judge
of the price and how to take advantage of the market. Nearly
every year, when the crop was in a condition to admit of his
leaving, he would visit Wethersfield, or other sections where
the crop was largely cultivated, to learn the probable extent of
the yield. If it was likely to be large, he could hurry his crop
to market before it became glutted with onions ; if it was
likely to be small, he could hold over till spring, or till the
supply was exhausted, and then command his own price. With
six to eight thousand bushels, you see, he could afford to do
this, and he made a heap of money by it, while if he had only
a few hundred bushels, raised as a small part of a great mis-
cellaneous farm crop, it wouldn't pay.

This same farmer made another specialty of squashes. He
built a squash room, with shelves arranged along the sides for
receiving squashes to ripen up, and a heating apparatus by
which he could regulate the temperature. Nearly every day,
after the squashes were stored there, he would pass through
this room, examining each one to see if any were beginning
to decay, and if they were, such specimens were hurried off
to market. The room being adapted expressly to preserve
squashes, the owner could keep them till the supply in the
market was exhausted, and then command his own price, and
so he made money on this crop. And this is so generally. If
a man makes a specialty of something, concentrates his thought
upon it, studies it till he is complete master of that one thing,
he does it better and makes more of it than if his attention
and his time are too much divided.

Now the lesson which these illustrations ought to impress
upon us is, that good farming requires the condensation or
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work upon a limited area, upon a small surface. It advances
by the application of thought and mind, and not by hard work
alone. It contrives new methods and applies greater attention
and completeness of treatment than the system which diffuses
the work over a large area or a great variety of miscellaneous
crops.

Take the matter of drainage, for instance, the most essential
improvement of modern agriculture. If you have a farm of
two or three hundred acres, how much of it could you expect
to do with only two or three hands ? A large part of it must
remain a cold, wet soil, perhaps, to yield what it will, while
you are left to a few fields and compelled to abandon the
remainder. But if you can get a larger profit from these few
fields than from the whole farm under its former management,
isn't it better to concentrate the work upon them ?

Just look at the profits of this system of concentrated labor,
as compared with that which diffuses the work over a large
area ! If you find, as you do in individual cases, that the
yield of an acre has been a thousand dollars, you can readily
understand that the rate of profit on the capital invested and
the labor may amount to a hundred per cent., or even greater
than that, but if you find that these returns come from a hun-
dred acres, or even forty, you know in an instant, that the rate
of profit can scarcely exceed six, or at most, ten per cent.

Tiiere is many a hard-working farmer, who is up early and
down late, who seems to be trying to do his best, and yet he
doesn't seem to get ahead in the world. The neighbors would
suppose he ought to be forehanded. They say it's too bad that
a man who is willing to work so shouldn't make more headway.
The trouble is, he has adopted a wrong method and is more
ambitious of a large than of a good farm, and so he will always
be rowing up stream.

But leaving this subject, which I have pursued at greater
length than I had intended, because I am satisfied from exten-
sive observation, that it is the point on which so many farmers
make their fatal mistake, and so fail to derive that satisfaction
which always attends success, let me pass for a moment to the
consideration of one or two others.

And another prominent and serious defect in our New
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impossible to reach, is the want, in very many cases, of direct
intercourse and trade between the producer and the consumer.
The middle men stand between to pocket the profits. The
farmer does not get his fair proportion of the money that the
consumer has to pay, while the consumer is obliged to pay a
larger relative price for every article as a profit to the middle
man. I know, for instance, of a milk company that monopo-
lizes the dairy product for miles around, paying the farmer
about thirty-five cents a "can" of ten quarts, or three and a
half cents a quart for milk, and taking it to Boston where the
cream is sold to the confectioners at a high price, and the
balance, consisting largely of water, sold to the unfortunate
consumers at eight and nine cents a quart. It is an evil that
affects a large class of th-e community, affects the town as well
as the country resident, the purchaser as well as the original
seller, and I am sure if the farmer could devise any plan by
which to avoid it, there would be plenty to lend a helping
hand. I do not mean to suggest that every farmer can go into
the milk business and become a retailer. It would be a
dangerous experiment, for it is extremely difficult — next to
impossible — to become a milk-man in Boston and remain
honest. An honest man will soon be run off the track unless
he has capital enough to back him. It reminds me of what an
old friend of mine stated at a meeting of the trustees of the
Essex Agricultural Society. Some one advocated very strenu-
ously that the society should encourage the trials of speed of
horses, on the ground that it would give to the horse trot the
advantage of some character and respectability. Make it, in a
word, a good, honest, downright orthodox trot. Mr. John W.
Proctor rose and said in his quaint way, " I have always
noticed in the course of my long life of observation, that when
respectable men begin to attend a horse race, they soon cease
to be respectable." He sat down, and that ended the
discussion.

Well now it is very much so with the attempts of an honest
milk-dealer. He begins with a determination to sell only
pure milk ; but the combination is too strong for him ; it will
undersell him, the best he can do, and it can do it. The
whole system of marketing needs to be changed, and only a
radical change can effect the object.

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If you go to Philadelphia or Charleston, you will find a
market system which meets this difficulty ; gives the producer
an opportunity to bargain directly with the consumer and take
his fair share of the profits on what he has raised. I had the
privilege only three or four years ago of visiting almost all the
large markets in Europe, and there I found everywhere, that
no proud monopoly came in to assert its claims on what merely
passed through its hands ; tliat the poor farmer as well as the
rich, the one who had toiled little as well as the one who had
toiled much, could come into market and sell to the consumer,
saving a part of the three or four commissions which here vex
and annoy the public. Will the time never come when this
system can be adopted here ?

In an address recently delivered at Providence, that indomit-
able soldier and Christian patriot, Maj. Gen. Howard, spoke
eloquently of Educated Labor as the great necessity of our
times. Now it would be perhaps ungracious to intimate that
farm labor in New England is not as educated and intelligent
as that in any other portion of the civilized world. Certainly
it ought to be, with our boasted system of common schools.
But somehow or other, the practical results, when compared
with those obtained in England and Scotland, do not seem to
justify such a conclusion. Farming in England is not only
intelligent, but we know it is profitable, for the tenant farmer
even can and does afford to pay from five to twenty-five dollars
per acre annual rent, and necessity compels him to bring the
highest degree of intelligence to bear upon his farming opera-
tions. If we admit, therefore, that it does not pay to be a
farmer here, it seems to me we admit the want of greater
intelligence in the management and the development of our
lands, for certainly the same intelligence ought to pay better
here than in England, on account of the numerous markets by
which we are surrounded, and which are so easily accessible,
and the lower cost which the ownership of land involves.

But if we admit, for the sake of argument, that farm labor
is not as intelligent as it ought to be, and class this as another
of the defects of New England farming, we may, perhaps,
fairly except ourselves, for certainly the members of an agri-
cultural society are better posted and probably more intelligent

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in their practical farm management, than the mass of men who
affect not to believe in any such effort at improvement.

You, therefore, as members of this society, have duties to
perform, duties to the Commonwealth, duties to yourselves,
duties to the community ; and the first thing for you to do is
to see to it that the common school system in operation in your
several localities is carried up to its highest perfection ; to insist,
so far as your personal influence may go, upon its liberal sup-
port in the several towns ; to insist upon your full and fair
share of the noble bounty which the Commonwealth has set
apart for the schools.

There is another thing yon can do. An agricultural college
is about to be opened under the fostering care of the National
and State governments. It is for the interest of every com-
munity that those who may have the advantages of an educa-
tion there should return and settle in its midst. Let your
society found one or more scholarships to aid such young men
as would be glad to go, but have not the means. Fifty dollars
a year will pay a lad's tuition and room rent in that college,
and let me tell you, that small as that sum may seem to many a
gentleman that I see before me, it is a large and generous sum to
many a lad who is struggling with noble aspirations and a
manly will against the current of circumstances to get an
education of a practical character and to enhance his means of
usefulness to the public.

If you ask me how it should be done, I should say, either set
apart such a sum as will yield about fi[fty dollars a year, or let
wealthy and public-spirited men of means contribute the
amount annually, to be awarded through the society to such
deserving young men, farmers' sons, if they choose, as would
certify that it is their intention to return to locate upon farms
in the district where the society having such scholarship within
its gift is situated. There would be an advantage in having
the scholarships permanent and not dependent upon the
annual action of any board of officers every year ; and if it
should be determined to set apart the requisite amount received
from the bounty of the Commonwealth annually for a term of
years, I doubt if it could be better applied.

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At the last annual meeting of the State Board of Agricul-
ture it was unanimously,

Resolved, That this Board recommend to each agricultural society
receiving The bounty of the State, to establish at least one scholarship
in the Massachusetts Agricultural College, either by a fund, or by stated
appropriation from year to year, to be granted to some young man resid-
ing within the limits of said society. And that in the selection of can-
didates, preference should be given to such as propose to devote them-
selves to agricultural pursuits within the limits of said society.

If this proposition should be adopted by every chartered society
in the State, it would send to the college twenty-five or thirty
young men who would appreciate the advantages which the
institution would afford, and who, after taking the regular
course, would return to develop the farm resources in all parts
of the State.

If we did not learn the best modes of farming when we were
young, it was because there were then no facilities for doing so.
We did the best we could and used the light we had. But now
when we have those facilities, let us not say to our children,
" We did so and so and you may go and do likewise ! "

No ! rather let us tell them to study and comprehend the age
in which they live, tell them they are expected to do better
than their fathers did, if they can, and to imitate them only
when they can no longer improve upon them. Tell them to
educate themselves for farming as a profession. Tell them the
world will instinctively award its honors, its dignities and its
power, not merely to those who are educated for the law, for
divinity, for medicine, for the school, or for the counting-room,
but to those who are educated for their occupation. Tell them
the professions, technically so-called, have hitherto exerted an
almost unbounded influence on mankind, only because they
have done so large a part of the thinking for the world, have
brought so large a share of intellect to bear on the progress of
the race. For these reasons the world has bowed in reverence
to their superiority of intellect, and has given a prominence,
not to law, medicine or divinity, but to that intellectual culture
which gives to life its grace, its harmony, its beauty and its
strength ; and which they may acquire, as well as others. Tell

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them that science, stooping from its prond flight among the
clouds and the stars, has shed its genial light around them.
Tell them to seek knowledge everywhere, to study nature, and
though to learn all her laws and observe all her miracles may
seem as hopeless as to gather up all the pebbles on the* shore of
the sea, yet, in the enlargement and elevation of mind which
it will insure, every object will be clothed with the perfection
and beauty wliich it had when it came from the hand of God !
Tell them, that so long as farmers think that nothing is
wanting but bone and muscle, strength of sinew and power of
endurance, so long will farming languish and be forced by
farmers themselves to take its place among the mere mechanical
employments, when it might and ought to be elevated and
dignified as worthy of the- highest intelligence as opening the
field on which human genius has some of its grandest triumphs
to achieve !

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture : —

Sir, — The Report of the Transactions of the Norfolk
Agricultural Society for the year 1867, is herewith submitted.

Whilst the ordinary operations of the Society during the
year have been entirely successful, it gives us great satifaction
to be able to state that the debt of the Society has been entirely
liquidated, and that the prospect of increased success and
usefulness in the future was never more promising.

For a more specific statement of the operations of the
Society for the past year, we refer to the subjoined Reports of
the several Committees.

MARSHALL P. WILDER, President.

HENRY 0. HILDRETH, Secretary.

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

GRAPE VINERIES.

The cultivation of the foreign grape was once thought to be
the nice point in horticultural practice, but the success which
has attended its cultivation where it has received the practical
judgment and care which is necessary in the culture of any
plant requiring, as this does with us, an artificial climate, has
dispelled the mystery which was thought to attend its culture.
Experience has proved that no crop is more sure, and that
there is no luxury more within the means of the classes in
moderate circumstances than this; and the time will come
when the cheap cold vinery will be considered indispensable
to every good family garden. In the line of the small fruits,
the grape fills a larger space in the season than either the
strawberry, raspberry, currant or blackberry, lasting, with
proper management, from the first of September until winter,
and it is the universal favorite of the whole season.

The vineries of Charles B. Shaw, Thomas Barrows, and
Ira Cleveland, Esqr's, all of Dedham, were entered for our
inspection. These houses have been under the general super-
vision of Mr. Robert Watt, of West Roxbury, from their first
start, and they attest his superior skill in their management.
The house of Mr. Shaw was built in 1851, and is consequently
sixteen years old. The remarkable success attending this
house, it never having failed to produce a full crop of well
ripened fruit, induces us to present to the society Mr. Watt's
own account of its management.

" The house is sixty feet long and twenty feet wide ; the
borders all on the outside, twenty feet wide and three feet deep
in its whole length, and composted of top-spit of pasture
manure one-quarter, and three tons of bone thoroughly mixed.
There are nineteen vines of the following varieties : Ham-
burghs, (the Black, Victoria, and No. 16,) Chasselas of Foun-
tainbleau and Zinfandale. Two years old wlien planted, small
but finely rooted ; the first season they made a growth of
about twenty feet. In the fall they were cut back to three
eyes ; the second year they made fine canes, reaching the top
of the rafter. At the fall pruning they were cut back to about

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six feet. The third year they bore from eight to ten bunches
each, of good, well ripened fruit. Succeeding years, at the
fall pruning, they were allowed three or four feet of the new
wood until they reached the top of the rafters. Since coming
into full bearing, they have yielded more than six hundred
pounds yearly of well ripened fruit."

They are grown on the " spur system," which Mr. Watt
considers the best. They give entire satisfaction, and show no
signs of deterioration.

This house is built in accordance with the old English
system, with heavy sliding sashes, and in the most thorough
and costly manner, the vinery itself costing about $1,000.
The yearly expense for labor is about 125. The continued
success of this vinery, no doubt, is owing to the faithfulness
of Daniel Murry, who has had charge of its ventilation from
the beginning, and for which he is entitled to much credit.

The grape house of Mr. Barrows has been built six years.
It is forty feet long by sixteen wide ; the border, nineteen feet
wide and three feet deep, of the same materials as the former.
It is built without sashes, the glass being set into the rafters.
Air is given at the top, the same as raising a skylight, which is
considered much better than the sliding sash. It cost, with
shed attached, about 1600. It has thirteen vines, viz. : Ham-
burghs, (Black, Victoria, No. 16,) and Wilmot's Black Hamburgh
and White Frontignac. The Wilmots are not considered worthy
of cultivation when there are so many superior kinds to be
had. The yearly cost of keeping this house is about $20. It
has proved an entire success.

Mr. Cleveland's house was started in the spring of 1863.
It is on the same plan as that of Mr. Barrows, and cost about
$500. Its border, however, is on the inside, to give chance
for extra vines on the back wall. It has twenty-two vines ;
eleven on the rafters and eleven on the back wall. The
varieties are Black, Victoria and Golden Hamburghs, Royal
Muscadine, White Frontignac, and White Toke. The crop
this year is most extraordinary.

Mr. Watt would not recommend an inside border for a cold
grapery under any consideration. It is a great extra cost to
keep it watered, and requires much additional care with no
corresponding advantage in its results.

Your Committee regret that they have no house to present
constructed on a cheaper scale, as they are of the opinion that
houses may be built at a cost of about ten dollars per foot that
would answer the purpose, and thus bring this great luxury
within the means of the million ; as they believe there is no
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management, and none that will stand so much maltreatment
and yet give fair returns.

The Committee are unanimous in the award of the first
premium of $i to Charles B. Shaw, and the second of $3 to
Ira Cleveland.

For the Committee,

ELIPHALET STONE.

Dedham, Dec. 1, 1867.

HEEDS OF MILCH COWS.

The Committee are sorry to report that with four premiums
at their disposal, of the value of over -$50, the first being
the " Wilder Cup," there was but one entry made. Mr. J. W.
Gay, of West Dedham, entered his fine herd of fifteen cows, as
follows : One native, from N. H. ; one grade Devon, from Ver-
mont ; one native, raised in Dedham ; one Ayrshire grade, also
raised in Dedham. The remaining eleven were all raised in
Dedham, and arc pure or high grade Jamestowns, varying from
three to eight years old. Like most of the cows owned by
regular milk farmers, these were part dry, and others nearly
so, the herd giving from two to eighteen quarts each per day.
According to Mr. Gay's statement, their feed has been rather
short — pasture with one peck of brewers' grains per day, and
after-feed in its season. He feeds for profit rather than for
fancy ; is not a breeder and has no stock for sale ; but he has
drawn together such a herd of cows, for use, as it would be
very difficult to match.

As this herd was so largely made up of Jamestowns, and so
few farmers know precisely what Jamestown means, when
applied to stock, the Committee felt it a duty to gather what
information they might in relation to the history of this breed,
hoping the Society would see the importance of making a
record of the facts in its Transactions. This seemed the more
important as it is understood that this Society has acknowledged
the Jamestown as a distinct breed.

In looking over the back volumes of the Norfolk Transactions
we have found but one allusion to the Jamestown stock. Mr,
Sanford Howard, in an essay on Cattle Breeding, published in
the volume for 1859, says : " The Suffolk breed is without horns.
It was formally somewhat noted for dairy properties, but it is
not extensively kept at the present time. It is not absolutely
known that any of this breed have ever been imported into
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were formally quite common here, bear more resemblance to
the Suffolk than to any other breed. They certainly have no
claim to the title of Galloway, which is sometimes applied to
them, being different in color, (the Galloways are almost
invariably black,) shape and characteristics. Near the close
of the last century Joseph Russell, Esq., of Boston, imported
from England several hornless cattle, which the late Col.
Jacques, who was well acquainted with them, believed to be of
the yuflblk breed. They were kept in Chelsea, and some of
the descendants of the herd are now in the possession of Ben-
jamin Shurtleff, Esq., of North Chelsea. A cow was also
brought to this country from Ireland, several years since, in the
ship Jamestown, and hence was called '' the Jamestown Cow,"
which closely resembled the Suffolk I have seen in England.
A bull from this cow by a Jersey bull has been kept in Dedham
several years, and has left a progeny which in general appears
to possess superior dairy properties."

In preparing this Report your Committee are under obliga-
tions to Dr. Wight and Col. Stone of Dedham for most of the
history of the Jamestown stock.

In answer to inquiries. Col. Stone writes, Nov. 12th, 1867, to
the Committee on Herds, as follows : —

"Sir: — I Lave, at this moment, received from Dr. Eben Wight, the
account of the stock of cattle known, in this vicinity, as the Jamestown.
It is a cross between two thoroughbreeds — the Suffolk, (no horned)
on the part of the female, and the Jersey on the part of the male.

" In 1847, Capt R. B. Forbes, as commander of the U. S. ship
Jamestown, went to Ireland with a cargo of provisions for her starving
inhabitants. On his return, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, wishing to
confer some favor on the commander, made him a present of a fine
Suffolk heifer, which proved to be one of the deepest milkers, giving
in her flow, twenty-six quarts beer measure of the richest milk. She
was a remarkably fine specimen of this superior stock, which stands
high and and prominent for the dairy in that country.

" Every one knows with what alacrity Capt. Forbes undertook this
voyage of mercy, and on his return, he disposed of the cow and gave
the proceeds to the Irish Charity Fund. John Marland, of Andover,
Mass., was the purchaser, and when he disposed of his farm she passed
into the hands of .John D. Bates, of Swampscott, Mass., and afterwards
into the hands of Mr. Osborne, of Danvers, Mass.

"We are not aware that she ever had but one heifer calf. This one
was owned by Mr. Wallace Thaxter, of Boston, and proved a superior
dairy cow. Several of her bull calves were raised in this vicinity ; one
that I have seen, by Benjamin Shurtleff, Esq., of Chelsea, Mass.
Nearly all her progeny were without horns, showing the remarkable
strength of the Suffolk strain.

'•In 1854, this remarkable cow dropped a bull calf, which was
secured by Dr. Wight, and brought to this town, and raised by Thomas
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mother to this country. He proved himself as remarkable in his
progeny as that of his kind on his mother's side ; his sire was Beverly,
a thoroughbred Jersey, out of Flora by the ' First Prize Bull ' at the
Royal Agricultural Show in Jersey. Flora, the mother of Beverly,
was imported by Mr. Motley, and proved one of the most remarkable of
that celebrated stock, having made sixteen pounds of butter a week."

Col. Stone says in conclusion : —

" I have but little to add to this account, which I think is entirely
correct. You know the strong prejudice I hold in favor of this stock,
and you have seen some good specimens of the same. They hold
qualities which I consider very valuable in a dairy stock. They are
very gentle, I never having known a vicious animal, unless they were
too strongly crossed with the Jersey. When ' Jamestown ' was five
years old, a four year old boy could manage him in safety ; he was
worked in harness and perfectly handy. They are perfectly hardy,
good feeders, and hold out ia their milk remarkably, which I consider
the great recommendation. I know of several that give milk the year
round."

Your Committee are glad to learn that Col. Stone is endeav-
oring to preserve and perpetuate in its purity as far as possible
this remarkable Jamestown stock.

Your Committee award to Jeremiah W. Gay, of West
Dedham, for his superior herd of Milch Cows, the first premium
of the " Wilder Cup."

For the Committee,

A. W. CHEEVER.
Wrentham, Nov. 1, 1867.

HORSES.

The following brief Report is respectfully submitted : —

Class A. — Roadsters.

Under the various divisions of this Class only thirteen entries
were made.

Stallions. — One entry, and that for exhibition of the " Kelber
Stallion," owned by Luther Thayer, of Brighton. The Com-
mittee desire to make " honorable mention " of this horse,
and congratulate Mr. Thayer on the possession of so fine an
animal, being, in their opinion, a very valuable one.

Brood Mares. — Only two entries. 1st premium of 17 to
Isaac Ellis, of Walpole. 2d premium of 15 to Chester Clark,
of Stoughton.

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CoUs and Fillies. — Best two years old. 1st premium of $5 to
A. W. Barber, of Jamaica Plain. 2d premium of $3 to
Messrs. C. & C. Mackintosh, of Needliam.

One year old — 2d premium of $2 to Chester Clark, of
Stoughton.

Pairs in Harness. — Two entries, and those of a superior
order. 1st premium of $10 to H. Bowers, of Ncedham.
2d premium of $7 to Albert Tirrell, of Weymouth.

Harness Horses. — Five entries.

1st premium of $8 to J. H. Beegan, of Brookline.

2d premium of $6 to C. F. Harrington, of West Roxbury.

3d premium of $1 to J. W. Wason, of West Roxbury.

For the Committee,

A. B. BALCH.

Class B. — Horses of all Work.

Seven entries in this Class.

Brood Mares. — 1st premium of $7 to S. G. Williams, of
Needham.

Colts and Fillies. — Two years old. 1st premium of $5 to W.
E. Coffin, of Dorchester. 2d premium of $3 to Oliver Deane,
of Canton.

One year old — 1st premium of $5 to C. & C. Mackintosh, of
Needham. 2d premium of $3 to Oliver Deane, of Canton.

Horses in Harness. — 1st premium of $6 to Warren Cobb, of
fciharon. 2d premium of f 1 to Conlan &, Finn, of Dedham.

For the Committee,

ALFRED W. WHITCOMB.

Class C. — Family Horses.

CoUs and Fillies. — 3 years old. 1st premium of $5 to H.
Goulding, of Dover.

Two years old — 1st premium of $3 to C. Spaulding, of Canton.

One year old — 1st premium of $3 to Thomas Beless, of
Needham.

Carriage Horses — Pairs. — 1st premium of SIO to C. E.
Morse, of Dedham, for pair of " Creams."

2d premium of ■'&7 to Charles F. Harrington, of West Rox-
bury, for pair of " Sorrels."

Bugg;y and Chaise Horses. — 1st premium of $8 to A. S.
Brown, of Jamaica Plain.

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2d premium of $6 to J. D. Bradlee, of Milton.

3d premium of $4 to Cliarles A. Howland, of Quincy.

Saddle Horses. — 1st premium of |6 to B. F. Hebard, of
Dorchester.

Ponies. — 1st premium of $6 to C. W. Hebard of Dorchester.

For the Committee,

JOHN M. HARRIS.

Class D. — Draught or Team Horses.

The Committee on Draft Horses have attended to their duties
and report five entries, all of which did their work well, and it
was with difficulty that we could decide to which to award the
premiums. Their only regret was that there were not premi-
ums enough to offer, so that they could give one to each of the
competitors.

We award the 1st premium of $1 to H. & A. Blackman of
Needham. 2d, of $5 to Luther Eaton of Dedham. We also
recommend a Diploma to M. McNamara of Dover, and a
gratuity of $3 to W. F. Lynch of Dedham.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

SILAS G. WILLIAMS,
JOSIAH H. CARTER,
ALLEN COLBURN,

Committee.

Races.

Entries made to compete for the several Purses offered.

$125 — Twenty-five for second best — open to all horses —
Thomas Kennon, Jr., Dorchester, s. m. " Lady Kennon " —
Charles Record, Weymouth, b. g. Emperor — Daniel Bigely,
Cambridge, b. m. Lady Bartlett.

Lady Kennon won the 1st $100 in two straight heats, 2.48| ;
Emperor second, $25. Time of the second heat was lost in the
confusion of a " smash up."

$50 Purse — open to all horses owned in the County that have
never made better than 2m. 50s. recorded time. C. D. Leckie,
Roxbury b. m. " Kitty Blanchard "— P. Frost, Jr., Medfield, r.
ra. " Norfolk Maid "—Thomas Kennon, Dorchester, s. m. " Lady
Kennon" — Charles Record, Weymouth, "Bay Gelding" —
Richard Holmes, Roxbury, s. g. " Forest Boy "—J. B. Kendall,
Milton, b. g. .

" Forest Boy " won the purse in two straight heats. Time
2.56i, 2.491.

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$30 Purse — open to all horses owned in the County. Owners
to drive. C. D. Leckie, Roxbury, " Kittie Blanchard " — C. E.
Snow, Medfield, b. m. " Lady Nelson " — Aldcn Bartlett, Jamaica
Plain, b. ra. " Fanchon."

Kittie Blanchard was withdrawn. Fanchon won the purse
in two straight heats. Time 2.57, 2.51.

$30 Running Purse — L. Elwes, West Roxbury, b. s. " Leather
Lungs " — M. T. Downey, Boston, buckskin g. " Major Mahan."
Leather Lungs was withdrawn, and Major Mahan run against
time — 2.06.

For the Committee,

WILLIAM R. MANN.

WORKING OXEN AND STEERS.

The Committee on Working Oxen, report that the number
of entries was three, and they award to George 0. Farrington,
of Dedhara, the first premium of $6.

To Sullivan & McGill, of Dover, the second premium of $L

To William Fales, of Dedham, the third premium of $2.

For Steers, they award to A. L. Smith, of Dover, for his
Devon twin steers, three years old, bred and raised by himself,
the first premium of $4. They also, in conformity with the
rules of the Society, award him an additional sum of twei:ty
per cent. The several teams managed the load very well,
except in backing, and although they did better in that respect
than last year, the Committee think there is still room for
improvement.

For the Committee,

ELIJAH TUCKER.

Milton, Sept. 20, 1867.

BULLS.

Jerseys. — To S. J. Capen, of Dorchester, 1st premium, $5.
M. S. Scudder, of Needham, 2d premium, $8.

Ayrshire. — Henry M. Mack, of Dorchester, 1st premium of
$5. J. W. Gay, of Dedham, 2d premium, $3.

Dutch. — Charles Bird, of Walpole, 1st premium, $5.

Grade. — William Fales, of Dedham, 1st premium, $5. Ed-
ward Sumner, of Dedham, 2d premium, $2.

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Bulls under one year. — A. F. Stevens, of Needham, 1st pre-
mium, 13. M. S. Scudder, of Needham, 2d premium, $2.

A. S. DRAKE, Chairman.
Sharon, Sept. 20, 1867.

COWS.

Milch Coivs. — For best cow, with written statement of quan-
tity. First premium of $8 to Samuel J. Capen, of Dorchester.
Second premium of $6 to John Turner, of Needham.

Jerseys. — 1st premium of $5 to M. S. Scudder, of Grantville.
2d premium of $4 to 0. T. Wilder, of Needham. 3d premium
of $3 to J. W. Wattles, of Canton.

Durham. — 1st premium of $5 to John Cawley, of Dedham.

Ayrshire. — 1st premium of |5 to S. P. Mack, of Dorchester.
2d premium of 14 to S. J. Capen, of Dorchester. 3d premium
of $3 to S. J. Capen, of Dorchester.

Grade. — 1st premium of $5 to John Cawley, of Dedham.
2d premium of -14 to J. W. Wattles, of Canton. 3d premium
of |3 to Francis Alden, of Dedham.

Heifers in Milk. — 1st premium of |6 to M. S. Scudder, of
Grantville. 2d premium of 14 to J. W. Wattles, of Canton.

Col. Stone and Edward S. Rand, Jr., of Dedham, exhibited
very fine animals, but not for premium.

JEREMIAH W. GAY, Chairman.
Dedham, Sept. 20, 1867.

HEIFERS.

The Committee on Heifers award the following premiums : —

For Foreign Slock under three years and aver two — 1st pre-
mium to J. W. Wattles, of Canton, $3. 2d premium to M. S.
Scudder, of Needham, |2. 3d premium to H. A. Whittemore,
of West Roxbury, $1.

For Grade or Native Stock under three years and over livo. —
1st premium to S. J. Capen, of Dorchester, $3. 2d premium
to J. W. Wattles, of Canton, |2.

For the best Heifer of any stock. — 1st premium to Charles
Bird, of Walpole, ^2. 2d premium to Humphrey Smith, of
West Roxbury, $h

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For the best Heifer Calf. — 1st premium to M. S. Scurlder, of
Needhara, $2. 2d premium to A. P. Stevens, of Nocdham, $1.
To S. J. Capen, of Dorchester, a gratuity of -11.

FoxBOROUGH, Sept. 20, 18G7.

JAMES CAPEN, Chairman.

SHEEP.

The Committee on Sheep regret to be obliged to report that
there were but five entered, all of which belonged to John
McCrackin, of Wellesley ; they were all Southdown and of
excellent quality, viz. : One ram, two sheep and two lambs. For
the ram they award the 1st premium of |5. They would also
have been pleased had the number been larger to have awarded
a premium to both the sheep and the lambs, but as the number
was so small, they can only award them a diploma.

TRUMAN CLARKE, Chairman.
Walpole, Sept. 20, 1867.

SWINE.

Boars. — 1st premium of $6, to John Revere, of Canton, for
Improved Essex. 2d premium of $4, to J. W. Wattles, of
Canton.

Fat Ho<j;-s. — 1st premium of $6, to Thomas Beless, of Need-
ham, for Chester White. 2d premium of -14, to Thomas Beless,
of Needham, for Chester White.

The two pigs contributed by J. W. Wattles, of Canton, of
the Essex breed, were fine animals, and the Committee recom-
mend a gratuity of two dollars.

The three pigs contributed by Chester Clark, of Stoughton,
breed Chester White, were not entitled to a premium, there
not being a sufficient number, but the Committee recommend
a gratuity of two dollars.

SOLOMON FLAGG, Chairman.

Needham, Sept. 20, 1867.

POULTRY.

Gray Shanghai. — 1st premium to J. H. Farrington, Milton,

$2.

Broion Shanghai. — 2d premium to J. H. Farrington, Milton,
$1.

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Dorking. — 1st premium to Eben Wight, Dedham, 82.

Black Spanish. — 1st premium to Frank Fisher, South Ded-
liam, 12.

Mountain Geese. — 1st premium to A.F. Stevens, Wellesley,

m.

White Swan Geese. — 2d premium to Frank Fisher, South
Dedham, 82.

Aylesbury Ducks. — 1st premium to Solomon Flagg, Welles-
ley, $3. 2d to J. R. Engley, Dedham, 82.

Tumbler Pigeons. — 2d premium to Boyd & Alden, Dedham,
81.

Bantams. — 1st premium to Frank Baldwin, 82.

The Committee would particularly mention the following,
for which no premiums were offered :

Very fine coop of Brahma by E. P. Burgess, Dedham ; fine
coop of Brahma by Eben Wight, Dedham ; fine coop of White
Leghorn, by J. Cobb, Dedham ; very fine coop of White Leg-
liorn, by J. H. Farrington, Milton.

The Committee recommend a diploma to Edward P. Bur-
gess, of Dedham, for his very fine coop, which, in their judg-
ment, was not excelled by any on the ground.

FRANCIS ALDEN, Chairman.

Dedham, Sept. 20, 1867.

PLOWING.

Double Ox Teams.— George 0. Farrington, Dedham, 1st
premium of 810. Ames subsoil plow. No. 85.

Sullivan & McGill, Dover, 1st premium of 810. Improved
Eagle plow. No. 50.

William Fales, Dedham, 2d premium of 88. Ames plow,

No. 155.

Charles Bird, Walpole, 3d premium of $6. Morse plow. No.

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"^" NATHAN LONGFELLOW, Chairman.

Needham, Sept. 20, 1867.

Double Horse Teams. — Luther Eaton, Dedham, with subsoil
plow, 1st premium of 810.

C. G. Upham, Needham, with common plow, 1st premium of
Whittemore & Belcher plow. No. 4.

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W. F. Lynch <fe Co., Dedham, 2d premium of $8. Eagle
plow, No. 20.

H. & A. Blackmail, Needham, 3d premium of $6. Prouty
<fe Mears plow, No. 155.

HENRY GOULDING, Chairman.

Dover, Sept. 20, 1867.

Single Horse Teams. — Aaron D.Weld, West Roxbury, 1st
premium of $6. Lyon plow, No. 25.

Patrick Wall, Dover, 2d premium of $4. Whittemorc k
Belcher, No. 4, Doe plow.

W. F. Lynch, Dedham, with double Michigan plow. 1st
premium of f 6.

Dover, Sept. 20, 18G7.

B. N. SAWIN, Chairman.

FRUIT.

The Committee on Fruits have to report, that the contribu-
tions of Fruits were both in quantity and quality equal if not
in advance of those of any previous exhibition, the liberal
space allotted to this department of the Fair being fully appro-
priated by the contributors ; and yet but a moiety of the fruit-
growers of our county appear at our annual fair as competitors
for the many and liberal prizes which are offered by the Society.
What excuse can they make for, such neglect ? It does seem
as if the contributions of neighbors and friends must, if silently
yet with earnestness, plead with the delinquents to forsake their
further neglect of privilege and duty ; and in this connection
the Committee cannot permit this opportunity to pass without
an expression of grateful thanks to the president of the Society,
who year after year has, by his princely contributions, made us
conscious of the presence of an exhibit of such private lavish-
ment of time, talent and wealth, and who has set us such an
example to follow, if haply we might reach the mark.

The Committee awarded the following premiums, and recom-
mend the giving of the following gratuities : —

Apples. — For the best collection of 12 varieties, 1st to F. &
L. Clapp, Dorchester, $12; 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th, not awarded.
Baldwin — F. & L. Clapp, 1st prize, $2 ; 2d prize to Albert
Crosby, West Roxbury, $1. R. I. GreeningT— F. & L. Clapp,
Dorchester, $2 ; W. F. Harrod, West Roxbury, $1. Graven-
stein — F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, $2 ; 2d not awarded.
Hubbardston Nonsuch — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2 ; F.
& L. Clapp, Dorchester, $1. Roxbury Russet — W. F. Harrod,

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West Roxbury, 1st and 2d prize, $3. Porter— F. & L.
Clapp, Dorchester, $2 ; A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, $1. Williams
— C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d not awarded. Tolman
Sweet — F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, $2 ; 2d not awarded.
Hubbardston Nonsuch — C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, gra-
tuity, II. Gloria Mundi— William Chatfield & G. F. Curtis,
Dedliam, gratuities, II each.

Pears.: — For the best collection of 20 varieties, 1st to F. <fe
L. Clapp, of Dorchester, 115; Walker & Co., Roxbury, $8.
For the best collection of 10 varieties, to Charles F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, $8 ; Albert Crosby, West Roxbury, |6 ; 3d
prize not awarded. Clapp's Favorite — F. & L. Clapp, Dor-
chester, $2. Bartlett — F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, 12 ;
Joseph Parker, Roxbury, $1. Beurre d'Anjou — J. H. Carter,
Dorchester, 12 ; J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, $1. Urbaniste —
Benjamin Mann, Roxbury, $2 ; J. H. Carter, Dorchester, $1.
Merriam — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2 ; J. W. Page, do.,
$1. Louise Bonne d' Jersey — A. S. Brown, Jamaica Plain, 12 ;
J. W. Page, do., II. Vicar of Winkfield— C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, |2 ; Benjamin Mann, Roxbury, |1. Duchesse
d'Angouleme — A. S. Brown, Jamaica Plain, |2 ; J. W. Page,
do., |1. Seckel — Theodore Lyman, Brookline, |2 ; A. S.
Brown, Jamaica Plain, 11. Swan's Orange — not awarded.
Sheldon — Walker & Co., Roxbury, |2 ; 2d not awarded.
Beurre Bosc — J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, |2 ; 2d not awarded.
Doyenne Boussock — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 12 ; Walker
& Co., Roxbury, |L Beurre Clairgeau — Walker & Co., Rox-
bury, $2 ; J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, II. De Tongres — Ben-
jamin Mann, Roxbury, |2 ; Walker & Co., |1.

Gratuities — De Tongres — J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, |1.
Flemish Beauty — A. D. Weld, West Roxbury, $1. Beurre
Diel — A. K. Teele, Milton, II ; A. S. Brown, Jamaica Plain,
II. Winter Nelis— J. W. Page, $1 ; Theodore Lyman, Brook-
line, 11 ; C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, Benjamin Mann, Liox-
bury, II. Bartlett— Warren Cobb, Sharon, |1 ; C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, |1 ; Samuel Mackintosh, Roxbury, |1 ; Benja-
min Mann, Roxbury, |1. Louise Bonne d' Jersey — Samuel
Mackintosh, Roxbury, |1. Swan's Orange — J. H. Carter, Dor-
chester, II. Lawrence — Samuel Mackintosh, Roxbury^ |1.
Louise Bonne — C. and C. Mackintosh, Needham, |1.

Peaches. — George Hewins, Dedham, 12.

Plums. — Colonel Theodore Lyman, Brookline, |2.

Ft^s.— Walker & Co., Roxbury, |1.

Native Grapes. — For the best collection, J. B. Weatherbec,
Jamaica Plain, 14 ; C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, |3 ; 3d not

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awarded. Diana — J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, -12 ; 2d not
awarded. Concord — Warren Cobb, Sbaron, 1st and 2d, $3.
Delaware— N. B. White, South Dedham, -12 ; 2d not awarded.
Rogers' Hybrids— N. B. White, South Dedham, 1st and 2d, $3.
Allen's Hybrid— N. B. White, South Dedham, $2 ; 2d not
awarded. lona — N. B. White, South Dedham, 2d, $1.

Quinces. — W. I. Stuart, Fairraount, 1st, $2.

Cranberries. — C. and C. Mackintosh, Needham, 1st, $3 ;
Nathan Longfellow, 2d, $2.

Basket of Fruit. — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $5.

For the Committee,

E. C. R. WALKER, Chairman.

RoxBURY, September 20, 1867.

FLOWERS.

" Were the bripjht flowers only made to tell
A warning tale of bloom, — that must decay?
Not such the lesson the Great Teacher drew
From flowers, the living jewels of the sod:
For men he taught, with wisdom deep and true,
To read in them the mercy of our God."

The show of flowers did not come up to our usual standard
of excellence. The offerings were comparatively few, chiefly
of the common garden kinds, now become familiar. None the
less valuable, however, on that account. They may even be
more precious than others, because they remind us of beloved
homes and friends, of scenes of youthful pleasures, and bring
back memories dear to our hearts, like the " music of old-
remembered chimes." They are old friends, between whom
and us there are tender associations.'

There were some exceptions. The double Zinnias, for which
special prizes were offered, were very satisfactory. But the
chief attraction was the collection of Gladiolas from the garden
of Mr. George Craft, of Brookline. For variety of forms and
delicacy of colors these flowers were unsurpassed. We may
particulary mention the seedlings named Freedman, Le Poussin,
and DeMorney. These were eminently beautiful, and attracted
deserved attention.

The falling off from the experience of former years is not in
the raising of flowers, but in the exhibition of them at our
Fair. The numerous conservatories in this vicinity bear wit-
ness to a growing taste for flowers, immense quantities of
which are sold as ornaments to the person, the parlor, and the

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church ; for festive and funeral occasions — in times of gladness
and of grief. In almost every family, also, vre find an undi-
minished interest in their cultivation. If, as has been said,
they flourish well only in the gardens of those who love them,
they must have many devoted friends within the limits of
this Society, whose homes are made more attractive by their
presence.

The endless variety of graceful forms, the gorgeous beauty,
and the delicate tints of flowers are independent of utility —
merely for ornament, and for the delight which that imparts.
Nature abounds with objects that are beautiful, either for their
own sake, because they " enjoy the air they breathe," or for the
gratification of our taste. To us they are " living preachers,
each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book," discoursing of the
Divine wisdom and love. When, like Eve, we make our flow-
ers " our earliest visitation and our last at even, and breed
them up with tender hand," we connect them with our
thoughts of Him who makes the lilies his care, " whose breath
perfumes them, and whose pencil paints."

We would respectfully urge upon the members of this Society,
and upon others interested in its prosperity, that at future
fairs they should furnish liberal contributions from their gar-
dens and conservatories. They will gratify thousands of
visitors, and cause our j festival to be happily remembered.

The Committee award the following premiums : —

Zinnias. — 1st premium, $2, Mrs. George Vos^, Milton. 2d,
Mrs. S. N. Stewart, Fairmount.

Gladiolas. — 1st premium, George Craft, Brookline, $4.
Best collection of new seedling Gladiolas, George Craft,
Brookline, $3.
Best single specimen of Gladiolus, George Craft, $1.

Cut Floivers. — 1st premium, Mrs. S. M. Stewart. 2d, Mrs.
George Vose, |3. 3d, George Craft, |2. Miss Lizzie Watt,
gratuity, $1.

Basket of Flowers. — Mrs. S. M. Stewart, gratuity, $2 ;
Charles Mackintosh, Needhara, gratuity, $1 ; Mrs. S. S. Bemis,
gratuity, f 1.

Bouquets. — Mrs. S. S. Bemis, 3d premium, $2 ; Miss J. W.
Wattles, Canton, diploma.

Fuschia. — Mrs. Mary G. Mackintosh, Needham, gratuity, $1.

~ For the Committee,

ROBERT WATT, Chairman.

West Roxbuey, September 20, 1867.

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BREAD.

Wheat. — Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, Medfield, 1st premium,
$3. Mrs. John N. Smith, Walpole, 2d premium, $2.

Unbolted Wheat. — Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, Medfield, 1st
premium, of $3. Mrs. Susan Graham, Canton, 2d premium, of

$2.

Wheat and Indian. — Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, Medfield, 1st
premium, of $3. Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham, 2d pre-
mium, of $2.

Rye and Indian.— Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, Medfield, 1st
premium, of $3. Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham, 2d pre-
mium, of $2.

Honey. — John W. Richardson, Medway, 1st premium.

HENRY GREW, Chairman.
Dorchester, Sept. 20, 1867.

DAIRY.

Butter. — 201b. lots — A. W. Cheever, Wrentham, 1st premium,
!|10 ; Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham, 2d premium, $8 ;
Mrs. Ruel Ware, of Needham, 3d premium, $5.

12 lb. lots — 1st premium to Mrs. Lucius Clapp, Stoughton,
$5 ; 2d premium to Mrs. John Turner, Needham, $B.

Cheese. — 40 lbs — 2d premium to Henry Bird, Stoughton, $3.

The butter offered was all of a superior quality, and the Com-
mittee found it difficult to determine between that to which
they have awarded the first and second premiums for 20 lbs.

There was but one lot of cheese offered, and the Committee
did not think it quite equal to the best which has been offered
in past years.

M. M. FISHER, Chairman.

Medway, Sept. 20, 1867.

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VEGETABLES.

For the best collection and variety of Vegetables the Com-
mittee award the following premiums : —

1st, to John Sias, of Milton, $10 ; 2d, to C. G. Upham,
Needham, $5 ; 3d, Nathaniel Smith, Dedliam, $1 ; 4th, John
W. Richardson, Medway, f3 ; 5th, C. <fe C. Mcintosh, Needham,

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%2 ; 6th, Thomas Barrows, Dedham, $1 ; Geo. W. Houghton,
Dedham, for squashes, $1 ; J, W. Richardson, Medway, for
best half bushel of Gleason potatoes, $1 ; C. <fe C. Mcintosh,
Needham, for best sweet corn, $1 ; Patrick Cain, West Roxbury,
for four squashes, $1 ; Caleb "Ward, Dedham, for squashes and
tomatoes, 50c. ; Daniel Atwood, Foxborough, for cucumbers,
50c. ; E. W. Whittemore, West Roxbury, for squash, 50c.

Potatoes. — For the best collection and variety, to John Sias,
Milton, 13 ; 2d, to J. W. Richardson, Medway, $2.

D. S. MESERYE, Chairman,

West Roxbury, Sept. 20, 1867.

CARRIAGES. •

The Committee on Carriages beg leave to report that there
were several specimens exhibited of a fair character, among
which were —

Cushman & Baker, of Medfield, one Brownell family wagon,
for which the Committee award a premium of $o.

Sidney E. Morse, of South Dedham, entered a well-arranged
open buggy, and also a durable family wagon, for which we
award $4 for the buggy, and -$3 for the fai^ily wagon.

John E. Ackerman, of East Walpole, exhibited a good beach
wagon, which was mostly built by his own hands; the Com-
mittee feel as if the mechanism of Mr. Ackerman should be
acknowledged, and would grant him a gratuity of $2 and the
Society's diploma.

SANFORD CARROLL, Chairman.

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Dedham, Sept. 20, 1867.

STRAW.

The Committee on Straw Goods report that only two lots of
Straw Braid were contributed, and one of those in quantity
less than 100 yards.

They have awarded to Samuel Gilbert, of Walpole, the 1st
premium of $5, for the best specimen of not less than 100
yards of domestic straw braid.

JOHN A. TURNER, Chairman.

Medfield, Sept. 20, 18G7.

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GRAIN, ROOTS, MIXED CROPS AND SEEDS.

Your Committee liad reason to expect at the outset an
arduous task in performing tlie duties assigned them. Eight
of the staple crops of New England were to pass in review
before us ; wc were to be judges of the cultivation of the soil,
the selection of seed, the process of depositing the seed in the
earth, the watchful care bestowed upon it, the quantity and
quality of manure used, and last, though not least, the manner
of harvesting the crops, and ascertaining the product. Then
there were mixed crops committed to our charge ; these, as
might have been expected, were to be entered from every
section of the county, and had they been, your Committee
would have been obliged to spend months in examining these
mixed crops, — a heavy tax on actual farmers.

Again, a pleasant duty was assigned us, namely, to judge on
seeds. We have as many varieties of corn as there are towns
in the county, and probably mafly more, and perhaps to all of
them premiums have been awarded heretofore. A nice matter
this, but then we had to prepare ourselves for it.

There were the root tribes, and it was necessary to scrutinize
with a jealous eye the seeds that were to be scattered over the
land far and near; good seed would be the mainspring to a
fortune, whilst bad seed would ruin a man. The grasses, too,
needed a life-time experience to do them justice. Your Com-
mittee were aware of all the difficulties, and the great respon-
sibility resting upon them, but dutifully accepted the trust.

After all this preparation, your Committee desired to be
called upon to examine a large number of cornfields, and
peruse statements of raising grain and mixed crops, and
especially would they have delighted in beholding specimens of
all the seeds of which it was our duty to judge. But to the
result: one field of corn was entered in due time, but being
on land not sufficiently drained, — for seasons like the past, — it
was a failure, and was virtually withdrawn by the gentlemanly
proprietor after an examination by the Committee. One other
field was entered, but our rules were not complied with, and
though it had merit, we were obliged to withhold the premium.

At the show, there were exhibited two strings of seed corn,
and one peck each of wheat and rye. These constituted the
sum total of what we had to judge on.

There were offered in our department, twenty-seven pre-
miums,— eleven in books, and sixteen money premiums,
amounting to sixty-five dollars ; but all we could allow was
four premiums, amounting to five dollars. We ask, why this
backwardness in entering for premiums? We answer, that we
do not offer a sufficient sum for the articles included in grain

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crops. Next to grass, if not equal to it, should be the corn
crop ; a crop that goes a great way to support both man and
beast ; a crop upon which we spend five or ten dollars in
premiums, whilst the horse has nearly three hundred expended
on him. We earnestly recommend a liberal offer of premiums
for articles in this department, and a seasonable notice of t!ie
offer of premiums.

We award the following premiums : —

To John Sias, of Milton, for his seed corn called the
" Merriam Cross," -f 2 ; John Sias, of Milton, for his seed corn
called the " Webster Corn," |1 ; to C. E. C. Breck, of Milton,
.for wheat, $1 ; to C. G. Upham, of Needham, for rye, 11.

For the Committee,

ROBERT MANSFIELD.

Wellesley, Oct. 15, 1867.

LADIES' WORK.

In this department more than fifty articles were presented
for exhibition, most of them worthy ^ notice, either for their
utility, or for the industry and skill displayed in their manu-
facture. The following premiums were awarded : —

Miss Abby Kingsbury, of Needham, fifteen years old, for a
hair wreath, a diploma; Miss Nettie Farrar, Jamaica Plain,
wax flowers, $1 ; Miss Sarah Hills, North Wrentham, tidy, 50
cents; Miss Julia Ellis, Medfield, embroidered chair, $1, and
the Society's diploma ; Sarah Ellis, Medfield, sofa pillow, 50
cents ; Irene Hills, North Wrentham, infant's skirt, 50 cents ;
Lois Beless, Needham, hearth rug, 50 cents ; Mrs. William Ful-
ler, South Dedham, millinery goods, a diploma ; Charlotte
Bates, Dedham, silk bed quilt, f 1 ; Lucia S. Bliss, Jamaica
Plain, for very beautiful paintings, $2, and a diploma ; Mrs.
Van Brunt, Dedham, table cloth in crochet, a diploma ; Mary
E. Fisher, Medfield, skeleton leaves and dried flowers, 11, and
a diploma ; Mrs. F. F. Favor, Dedham, bead work and dried
flowers, a diploma; Mrs. Wentworth, Dover, bedspread, $1,
and a diploma ; Alice Metcalf, Franklin, velvet bed quilt, a
diploma ; Miss A. L. White, East Randolph, wrought skirt, 50
cents ; Mary Emerson, West Dedham, oil paintings and moss
work, $1, and a diploma ; Miss I. W. Boyd, Rockville, tatting
collar, 50 cents ; Mrs. Marden, Charles River Village, woollen
socks, $1; Mrs. A. S. Drake, Sharon, knitted socks, diploma;
Alice Richards, Dover, tatting collar and crocheted mats, 75
cents ; Mrs. David Blanchard, East Randolph, braided mat, 50

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cents ; Jennie Hill, Cliarles River Village, infant's sack and
hood, 50 cents ; Jennie Richards, Dover, card board cross, 50
cents; Mrs. William Greene, Dover, yarn rug, 50 cents; Mrs.
A. M. Sumner, Foxborough, tidies, 50 cents ; Fannie Brown,
Jamaica Plain, wax flowers, 50 cents ; Mr. A. D. Cunningham,
Dedham, shell frames, $1 ; Mary Sewall, Medfield, beautiful
embroidered articles, $i ; Alice Sewall, Medfield, worsted
embroidery, |1 ; Maggie M'AUister, Dedham, twelve years old,
neatly made needle-book, 50 cents ; Jane S. Small, Dedham,
for elegant specimens of hand sewing, which were much
admired, |3, and the Society's diploma ; Rachel Pond, Frank-
lin, braided mats, $1 ; Mrs. Nancy Mash, Sbaron, seventy-three
years old, bed quilts, $1 ; Mrs. S. M. Stuart, Fairmount, beautiful
paintings, $2, and the Society's diploma ; Mrs. Robert Mans-
field, Needham, hearth rug, 50 cents ; Mrs. Mary Kingsbury,
Needhara, hearth rug, 50 cents ; Mrs. Robert Roberts,
Medfield, beautiful affghan, wax flowers and embroidered chair,
$2, and a diploma ; Ellen Parker, Medfield, tatting collar, 50
cents ; Lucretia Townsend, Medfield, muslin embroideries, $1,
and a diploma ; Susie Blackmore, Dedham, worsted and cro-
chet work, 50 cents ; Mrs. Eliphalet Stone, Dedham, silk bed
quilt and wax flowers, the Society's diploma.

For the Committee,

LUCY A. CALDER, Chairman.
Dedham, September 20, 1867.

BIRDS AND INSECTS.

The Committee award the following premiums : —

A. D. Cunningham, Dedham, for fine collection of Preserved

Insects, Harris's Treatise. Arthur Miller, Dedham, for fine

collection of Stuffed Birds, a diploma.

CARLOS SLAFTER, Chairman.
Dedham, September 20, 1867.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND NEW

INVENTIONS.

The show of articles in this department was better than usual,
and we awarded the following premiums, viz. : —

To Parker, Gannett & Osgood, of Boston, for largest and
best collection of Agricultural Implements, 1st premium, $12.

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To Ames Plow Company, of Boston, for second best collec-
tion of Agricultural Implements, 2d premium, $Q.

To Morse Plow Company, of Boston, for convex mould-board
plows, diploma and gratuity of -15.

To Parker, Gannett & Osgood, of Boston, for root-cutter and
improved buckeye mowing machine, gratuity of $5.

To W. E. Barrett & Co., of Providence, R. I., for conical
mould-board plows and horse hoe, diploma.

To Kniffen Mowing Machine Company, of Worcester, for the
Kniffen mower, diploma.

To the Union Vise Company, of Boston, for farmer's vise,
diploma.

To William Furbush, of Boston, for bread mixing and knead-
ing machine, diploma.

To George Coolidge, of Dedham, for Baker's universal win-
dow screen, diploma.

To Smith & Drake, of- Stoughton, for improved carpet fas-
tener, diploma.

To Joseph Hall, (colored,) of Jamaica Plain, for miniature
model of engine and tender, a gratuity of $5.

To Cyrus Tewksbury, for Novelty sewing machine, diploma.

The following articles were also exhibited and deemed worthy
of special notice, viz. : —

Burdick's national fodder cutter, by Frederick Leland, of
Sherburne.

Horse hay fork, by George F. Shaw, of West Roxbury.

Needle gun and table games, by Eben W. Keys, of Charleston.

Patent artificial fertilizer, by H. E. Pond, of Franklin.

This last-named article was brought to our notice as a new
invention. We understand it is composed chiefly of pond mud
or meadow muck, which being mixed and chemically combined
with other ingredients, forms a very cheap and powerful
manure.

We think Mr. Pond deserves much credit for his efforts in
this direction, and hope that when the merits of his invention
are fully and practically tested, it will prove an efficient and
economical fertilizer. The results of its chemical analysis are
appended to this Report. Full particulars may be obtained of
H. E. Pond, of Franklin, Mass., or Asa Wade, 16 Commercial
Street, Boston.

Respectfully submitted.

For the Committee,

S. W. RICHARDSON,

Chairman.
Franklin, Nov. 27, 1867.

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Office of S. Dana Hayes, State Assayer and Chemist,

20 State Street,
Boston, 27th Sept., 1867.

Results of Analysis. A sample of " Nitro Phosphated Fertilizer"
received from H. E. Pond, Esq., of Franklin, has been analyzed, with
the following results :

o

One hundred parts contain —

Moisture, 13.30

Organic matter, humas, &c., (dry,) ...... 34.40

Bone Phosphate of Lime, ....... 12.80

(Soluble Phosphate of Lime, 4y^.)

Sulphuric Acid, ......... 4.40

Sulphate of Lime, 19.80

Salts of Potash and Soda, . . . . . . .11.10

Sand, 4.20

100.

The organic matter yields 2 /^j per cent, of Ammonia. The salts con-
sist of 2^^ per cent. Nitrate of Potash; 4^^^ per cent. Nitrate of Soda,
and 4^^ per cent. Common Salt. Rain water will dissolve 4^^ per cent,
of the Bone Phosphate of Lime.

I am surprised to find so many valuable ingredients in a fertilizer of
this kind. It will be an excellent addition for any soil, but is especially
adapted to tobacco raising.

S. DANA HAYES,

State Assayer of Massachusetts.

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RECAPITULATION OF PREMIUMS

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

FOR 1867.

HORSES

C. F. Harrington,
Henry Bowers,
C. E. Morse,
C. & C. Mcintosh, .
J. H. Beegan,

A. S. Brown,
Isaac Ellis, .
Chester Clark,
Albert Tirrell,
S. G. Williams,
H. & A. Blackman,
Oliver Deane,
Warren Cobb,
John D. Bradlee,

B. F. Hebard,

C. W. Hebard,
A. W. Barber,

• W. E. Coffin,
H. Goulding,
Luther Eaton,
J. W. Wason,
Conlan & Finn,
Charles A. Howland,
C. Spaulding,
Thomas Beless,
W. F. Lynch,

BULLS.

S. J. Capen, .
M. S. Scudder,
Henry M. Mack,
Charles Bird,
William Fales,
J. W. Gay, .
Edward Sumner,
A. F. Stevens,

$13 00
10 00
10 00

8 00

8 00

8 00

7

7

7

7

7

6

00
00
00
00
00
00

6 00
6 00

00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00

00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00

COWS.

J. W. Gay, .
S. J. Capen, .
M. S. Scudder,
J. W. Wattles,
John Cawley,
John Turner,
H. M. Mack,
C. T. Wilder,
Francis Alden,

HEIFERS.

J. W. Wattles, .
M. S. Scudder,
S. J. Capen,
Charles Bird,
H. A. Whittemore,
Humphrey Smith, .
A. F. Stevens,

SHEEP.
John McCracken,

SWINE.

Thomas Beless,
John Revere,
J. W. Wattles,
Chester Clarke,

POULTRY.

Frank Fisher,
J. H. Farrington,
A. F. Stevens,
Solomon Flagg,
Eben Wight,

t25 00
15 00
11
11

00
00

10 00

6
5
4
3

00
00
00
00

$5 00

00
00
00
00
00
00

15 00

$10 00
6 00
6 00
2 00

U 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
2 00

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J. R. Kngley,
Frank Baldwin,
Boyd & Alden,

PLOWING.

Goo. O. Farrington,
Luther Eaton,
C. G. Upham,
Sullivan & McGill
"William Fales,
W. F. Lynch & Co
W. F. Lynch,
Charles Bird,
H. & A. Blackman
A. D. Weld, .
Patrick Wall,

J2 00
2 00
1 00

^\0 00
10 00
10 00
10 00

00
00
00
00
00

6 00
4 00

WORKING OXEN AND STEERS.

Geo. O. Farrington,
Sullivan & McGill,
A- L. Smiih,
William Fales,

FRUIT.

F. & L. Clapp,
C. F. Curtis, .
Walker & Co.,
J. W. Page, .
N. B. White,
Albert Crosby,
Benjamin Mann,
A. S. Brown.
C. & C. Mcintosh,
Theodore Lyman,
W. F. Harrod, .
J. H. Carter,
Warren Cobb,
J. B. Wetherbee, .
Samuel Mcintosh, .
George Hewins, .
W. I. Stuart,
Nathan Longfellow,
A. F. Stevens,

■ William Chatfield,

G. F. Curtis,
Joseph Parker,
A. D. Weld, .
A. K. Teele, •

FLOWERS.

Geo. Craft, .
Mrs. S. N. Stuart,
Mrs. George Vose,
^Irs. S. S. Bemis, .
Miss Lizzie Watt,
Mrs. Ciiarles Mcintosh,
Mrs. Mary G. Mcintosh,

$6 00
4 00
4 80
2 00

$42 00

28

00

15

00

11

00

8

00

7

00

7

00

6

00

5

00

5

00

4

00

4

00

4 00

4

00

3

00

2

00

2

00

2 00

1

00

1

00

1

00

1

00

1

00

1

00

00
00
00
00
00
00
00

m 00

3 00

BREAD.

Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, . $12 00

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, . 4 00

Mrs. John N. Smith, . . 2 00

Mrs. Susan Graham, . . 2 00

DAIRY.

A. W. Cheever, . . . $10 00

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, . 8 00

Mrs. Ruel Ware, . . . 5 00

Mrs. Lucius Clapp, . . 5 00

Mrs. John Turner, . . 3 00

Henry Bird, . . . . 3 00

COLD VINERIES.

Charles B. Shaw, .
Ira Cleveland,

VEGETABLES.

John Sias, .

John W. Richardson, .

C. G. Upham,

Nathaniel Smith, .

C. & C. Mcintosh,

Thomas Barrows, .

Geo W. Houghton,

Patrick Cain,

Caleb Ward,

Daniel Atwood,

E. W. Whittemore,

SEEDS.

John Sias, ....
C. E. C. Breck, .
C. G. Upham,

STRAW.

Samuel Gilbert, .

NEW INVENTIONS.

Parker, Gannett and Osgood,
Joseph Hull,

$13 00
6 00
5
4
3
1
1
1

00
00
00
00
00
00
50
50
50

$3 00
1 00
1 00

$5 00

55 00
5 00

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS

Parker, Gannett and Osgood, $12 00
Ames Plow Company, . . 6 00
Morse Plow Company, . . 5 00

LADIES' WORK.
(See pages 34 and 35,) . . $31 25

$816 55

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TEEASURER'S REPORT.

C. C. Churchill, Treasurer, in account with the Norfolk Agricultural

Society.

To balance, November 30, 1866, ....
Cash received from new members,
" " from Commonwealth, .

" " from net proceeds of Exhibition '67,
" " for rent of land, ....

$1,838 32

Dr.

$304 03

353 00

600 00

531 29

50 00

Contra
Cash pjiid incidental expenses, .
" premiums,

" salary of Recording Secretary,
" " of Treasurer, .
" interest, ....
in Treasury, ....

Cr.

$588 40

918 50

50 00

50 00

9 21

222 21

$1,838 32

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.

Dedham, November 30, 1867.

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PKOCEEDII^GS

ON THE OCCASION OF THE

NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY

OF THB

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

Thursday and Friday, September 19 & 90, 1867.

The Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricul-
tural Society was held in Dedham on Tliursday and Friday,
September 19 and 20, 1867. The weather throughout the
exhibition was fine, and the number of persons in attendance
was consequently very large.

Thursday, the first day, was devoted, as usual, to the recep-
tion and examination of contributions. In the Horse depart-
ment there were thirty-eight entries, the principal bloods being
Morgan and Black Hawk. Of Stock there were a large num-
ber of entries, among which were very fine Jerseys by Edward
S. Rand, Jr., Dedham ; M. S. Scudder, Grantville ; J. W.
Wattles, Canton. Fine Stock were also shown by E. Stone
and J. W. Gay, Dedham, and Henry Goulding, Dover. The
show of Swine was small in extent, but of excellent quality.
The display of Poultry was very good ; Eben Wight and E.
P. Burgess, of Dedham, making the best show, the fowls of
the latter being generally regarded as equal to any ever exhib-
ited on the Society's grounds.

In the Hall, the display of Fruit was one of the best, if not
the very best, ever made by the Society. Of pears there were
three hundred plates. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester, F.
& L Clapp, of Dorchester, Walker & Co, of Roxbury, and A.
D. Weld, West Roxbury, contributed the largest number of
varieties. The plates of apples numbered seventy, embracing
several excellent specimens of this fruit. F. & L. Clapp, of

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Dorchester, A. F. Stevens, of Wellesley, Albert Crosby, of West
Roxbury, and William Chatfield, of Dedham, were the chief
exhibitors. The supply of grapes was not large, and few for-
eign varieties were seen. N. B. White, of South Dedham, had
the largest display of natives, but Warren Cobb, of Sharon, J.
B. Wetherbee, of Jamaica Plain, Timothy Phelps, of Dedham.,
and J. W. Page, of Jamaica Plain exhibited fine varieties.
Mr. J. W. Page also showed some Dorchester seedling black-
berries. George E. Leonard, of Foxborough, had a stand on
exhibition, from which depended six very large bunches of Ham-
burg grapes and one bunch of grizzly Frontignac and one of
white Frontignac grapes. There were only two plates of peaches
contributed ; those were by N. B. Wilmarth, of South Walpole,
and George Hewins, of Dedham. Some fine plums were seen
from the estate of Colonel Lyman, of Brooiiline, and Walker &
Co. exhibited some Turkey figs of out-door culture.

The Floral display was not as large as in some previous years,
though in the department of Cut Flowers, fine contributions
were presented by George Craft, of Brookline, Mrs. Geo. Vose,
of Milton, Mrs. S. M. Stuart, of Fairmount, and others.

The display of useful and ornamental articles at the ladies'
table was by far the best that has been offered for years, and
attracted much attention.

Of Vegetables the leading contributors were John Sias,
Milton ; C. G. Upham, Needham ; John W. Richardson,
Medway ; and Nathaniel Smitii, Dedham.

The display of Agricultural Lnplements was the largest ever
made by the Society, including contributions from Messrs. Par-
ker, Gannett & Osgood, Ames Plow Company, Morse Plow-
Company, and others. Carriages fi'om the manufactories of
Messrs. Cushman, Baker & Co., Medfield, and Sydney E. Morse,
South Dedham, attracted much attention.

The plowing match took place at two o'clock, P. M., on the
land of Dr. J. H. Harrington, on the "Island." There were
thirteen entries, divided as follows: — five double teams, four
double ox teams, and four single horse teams. Each team was
required to plow at least one-eighth of an acre, and notwith-
standing the stony character of the land, the work was done
in a very satisfactory manner, by most of the teams. At the
conclusion of the plowing match there was a trial of teams in

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drawing and backing a load of stone weighing three thousand
pounds. There were six entries, principally two horse teams,
and their task was performed in a highly satisfactory manner.

At two o'clock, a match game of base ball took place on the
grounds, between the Chemung Club, of Stoughton, and the
Mechanics Club, of East Weymouth, which resulted in the
victory of the Chemung Club, by a score of 37, to 22 for the
Mechanics.

On Friday morning the first exercise was the exhibition of
horses on the track, which was witnessed by a very large con-
course of visitors, the fine span, owned by Mr. Wm. B. Coffin,
of Dorchester, attracting much attention. At twelve o'clock,
M., a procession was formed on the grounds, under the direction
of Col. John W. Thomas, sheriff of the county and chief mar-
shal of the day, assisted by his aids, Messrs. Thos. Decatur, of
West Roxbury, and Hiram Gay and John R. Gay, of Stough-
ton. Preceded by the Bates Cornet Band, of Dedham, which
furnished excellent music during the day, the procession
marched to the upper hall, where, after a blessing had been
invoked by Rev. Theron Brown, of Canton, the company par-
took of an excellent collation, which had been prepared by
Mr. George E. Morse, of Dedham, under the direction of the
Committee of Arrangements. After an agreeable time spent in
satisfying the inner man, the President made a brief prelimi-
nary address. After thanking an overruling Providence for the
preservation of his life, and permitting him to again appear as
their presiding officer, he at once adverted to the business of
the Society, stating that during the past year it had been
enabled to pay off its debts ; that the mortgage had been dis-
charged, and the Society was now clear of debt. After pass-
ing a beautiful eulogy upon agriculture and the men engaged
in it, he took his seat, and after music from the band, intro-
duced Charles L. Flint, Esq., Secretary of the State Board of
Agriculture, who delivered the Annual Address, which may be
found on pages 5-19.

The Address, which was one of the best ever delivered before
the Society, was listened to with undivided attention by the
large audience, and at the close was loudly applauded.

The following original hymn, written for the occasion
by Rev. Tlieron Brown, of Canton, was then sung by the audi-

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ence, to the tune of Old Hundred, under the excellent choris-
tership of Samuel B. Noyes, Esq., of Canton, the band playing
the accompaniment.

0, glorious God! whose goodness seals
The annual promise of our fields ;
Our hearts' thanksgiving rises free
Round this full table, spread by Thee.

Thy love that paints, to worship's eye,
The starry gardens of the sky,
Touched the wild soil our fathers chose.
And made it bloom with Freedom's rose.

Now, flushing every golden mile,
Our harvests give Thee back Thy smile;
And breathe sweet homage, night and morn,
From breezy breadths of waving corn.

Smile yet, great Father ! Still command
Thy blessing on our cherished land;
And bid our children long increase.
To sow and reap its sheaves of peace.

Letters were read from ex-Governor Andrew, Rev. Dr.
Thompson and Gen. Wm. S. King, explaining their inability to
meet their appointments to the Society, after which Edward L.
Pierce, of Milton was introduced and spoke at some length
upon the worth of agricultural societies and the ennobling tone
that education gives to agricultural pursuits. Other addresses
were made by Rev. Theron Brown and Rev. Frederic Hinckley,
of Dorchester, after which the company adjourned to the horse
track, where the races closed the exercises of the Fair.

The exhibition, though not in all respects equal to those of
one or two previous years, was fully up to the average, and in
point of pecuniary profit, the receipts were much larger than
at any previous show except the last. Good order prevailed
during the two days, for which the Society are much indebted
to the efficient direction of Deputy Sheriff Wm. H. Warren, of
Randolph, who acted as chief of police.

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1867.

President.

MARSHALL P. WILDER, of Dorchester.

Vice-President*.

AMOS A. LAWRENCE, o/^rooiZine.

OTIS CAHY, of Foxborough.

JOHN GARDNER, of Dedhatn.

STEPHEN W. RICHARDSON, of Franklin.

ELIJAH TUCKER, of Milton.

HENRY GREW, of Dorchester.

Corresponding; and Recordlngr Secretary.

HENRY O. HILDRETH, of Dedham.

Xreasnrer.

CHAUNCY C. CHURCHILL, of Dedham.

Executive Committee.

MARSHALL P. WILDER, of Dorchester.
CHEEVER NEWHALL, of Dorchester.
H. HOLLIS HUNNEWELL, of Needham.
AARON D. WELD, of West Roxhury.
JOSEPH H. BILLINGS, of West Roxhury.
FRANCIS P. DENNY, of Brookline.
WILLIAM R. MANN, of Sharon.
TRUMAN CLARKE, of Walpole.
CHARLES BRECK, of Milton.

Finance Committee and Auditors.

IRA CLEVELAND, of Dedham.
CHARLES HAMANT, of MedfieU.
EDWARD S. RAND, Jr., of Dedham.
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ASA PICKERING.

ALVAH MORRISON.
JOHN B. ARNOLD.

Board of Trnstees.

BELLINGHAM.

GEORGE H. CROOKS.

BRAINTREE.

CALEB STETSON.
JOSEPH A. ARNOLD.

BROOKLINE.

MARSHALL STEARNS. FRANCIS P. DENNY.

GEORGE CRAFT. THOMAS PARSONS.

ELLIS TUCKER.
JAMES T. SUMNER.

CANTON.

CHARLES H. FRENCH.
OLIVER S. CHAPMAN.

COHASSET.

WILLIAM B. JOHNSON. ABRAHAM H. TOWER.

SOLOMON J. BEAL. JOHN Q. A. LOTHROP.

LUTHER EATON.
ELIPHALET STONE.

DEDHAM.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
ALLEN COLBURN.

DORCHESTER.

NATHANIEL CRANE. JOHN H. ROBINSON.

FREDERICK CLAPP. WILLIAM E. COFFIN.

JOSIAH H. CARTER. AXEL DEARBORN.

HENRY GOULDING.
A. L. SMITH.

DOVER.

EPHRAIM WILSON.
B. N. SAWIN.

FOXBOROUGH.

JAMES E. CARPENTER. ERASTUS P. CARPENTER

JAMES CAPEN. FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS.

WILLIAM METCALF,
WALTER H. FISHER.

FRANKLIN. •

E. L. METCALF.

JOHN W. RICHARDSON.

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MEDFIELD.

CHARLES C. SEWALL. ELIJAH THAYER.

ALBERT B. BALCH. ANDREW BIGELOW.

MEDWAT.

WILLARD p. CLARK. WILLIAM DANIELS.

RICHARD RICHARDSON. MILTON M. FISHER.

MILTON.

SAMUEL COOK. ALBERT K. TEELE.

JOHN SIAS. JOHN W. BROOKS.

NEEDHAM.

NATHAN LONGFELLOW. WILLIAM PIERCE.
BENJAMIN G. KIMBALL. WILLIAM T. G. MORTON.

QUINCY.

JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON. CHARLES A. SPEAR.
LEMUEL BILLINGS. JACOB F. EATON.

RANDOLPH.

ROYAL W. TURNER. WILLIAM PORTER.

J. WHITE BELCHER. A. C. CHANDLER.

ROXBURT.

JOHN S. SLEEPER. HORATIO HARRIS.

JOSEPH L. BRIGHAM. RICHARD HOLMES.

JAMES RITCHIE. E. C. R. WALKER.

SHARON.

WILLIAM R. MANN. LEWIS W. MORSE.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE. WARREN COBB.

STOUGHTON.

LUCIUS CLAPP. HIRAM GAY.

HENRY BIRD. ELISHA C. MONK.

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EDWIN WILSON.
WILLARD LEWIS.

WALPOLE.

JOHN N. SMITH.
EDMUND W. CLAP.

WEST ROXBURT.

CHARLES A. HEWINS. C. G. MACKINTOSH.

EBENEZER W. TOLMAN. ANDREW T. MESSERVE.

ALBERT TIRRELL.
JOHN W. LOUD,

WEYMOUTH.

JAMES HUMPHREY.
ERASTUS NASH.

WRENTHAM.

JOEL H. ROBINSON. ALFRED BARNARD.

EDMUND T. EVERETT. GARDNER H. STARKEY.

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NAMES OF MEMBERS.

BELLINGHAM.

Chilson, Paul,* 1860.
Crooks, George A.
Pickering, Asa [3]

BRAINTREE.

Arnold, John B.
Arnold, Joseph A.
Blake, Joseph H. D.
Bowditch, Ebenezer C.
Bradford, E. S.,* 1866.
Chace, George
Dow, Charles H.
Dyer, Isaac
Dyer, Joseph
Fogg, Charles M.,* 1854.
French, George G.
French, Charles,* 1861.
French, Jonathan
Hollingsworth, E. A.
Hollis, Caleb
Hollis, David N.
Hollis, John A.
Hollis, Josiah
Howard, J. G.
Ludden, Miss Carrie F.
Ludden, Joseph T.,* '62.
Lock, W. F.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Warren
Morrison, Alva
Niles, Daniel H.
Penninian, Ezra,* 1866.
Perkins, Oliver
Potter, Edward
Rand, William T.
Randall, Apollos,* 1863
Stetson, Amos W.
Stoddard, A. A.
Stetson, Caleb
Thayer, Ebenezer C
Thayer, Hezekiah,* '54.
Thayer, Sylvanus
Vinton, Thomas B.
Wainwright, Peter
Wainwright, Wm. L.

Wales, George

Wild, Hiram

Willis, G. W.,* 1852.

[43]
BROOKLINE.

Amory, James S.
Amory, William
Appleton, William, Jr.
Babcock, George
Bartlett, James
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, Jos. H.
Bird, Jesse,* 1856.
Blake, George Baty
Blaney, Henry
Bramhall, William
Brown, Joseph T.
Churchill, Wm.,* 1857.
Craft, Miss Emeline H.
Craft, Charles,* 1864.
Craft, George
Craft, Samuel,* 1856.
Corey, Elijah
Corey, Timothy
Dane, John,* 1854.
Dane, John H.
Denny, Francis P.
Ferris, Mortimer C.
Fisher, Francis
Frazar, Amherst A.
Griggs, George
Griogs, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas B.
Henshaw, Sam'l,* 1863.
Hill, M. F.
Howe, Frank E.
Howe, James Murray
Howe, John
Jameson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.
Lawrence, Amos A.
Lyman, Tlieodore
Parker, Edward G.
Parker, M. D ,* 1863.
Parsons, Thomas
Sampson, George R.

Shaw, G. Rowland,* '66.
Stearns, Charles, Jr.
Stearns, Marshall
Thayer, John E.,* 1857.
Trowbridge, John H.
Turner, John N.,* 1864.
White, Henry K.
Williams, Moses B. [49]

CANTON.

Abbott, Ezra
Ames, Frank M.
Billings, Uriah
Billings, William
Bray, Edgar W.
Brewster, Ezra S.
Capen, Ezekiel
Capen, Samuel,* 1863.
Chapman, Oliver S.
Crane, Albert
Deane, Francis W.
Deane, Oliver
Downes, George,* 1861.
Downes, George E.
Draper, Thomas
Dunbar, Elijah
Dunbar, James
Dunbar, Nathaniel
Dunbar, William,* 1867.
Eager, Edward R.
Eld^idge, John S.
Endicott, John,* 1855.
Endicott, Charles
Everett, Leonard,* 1852.
Fenno, Jesse
French, Charles H.
French, Thomas,* 1862.
j Fuller, Daniel
I Guild, Horace
I Hall, John
j Howard, Lucius
Huntoon, Benj .* 1864.
I Huntoon, Mrs. Benjamin
Kinsley, Lyman
I Kollock, Jeremiah
I Lincoln, Frederic W.

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Lord, William P.
Mansfield, William
Mcintosh, Adam
Mcintosh, Roser S.
McKendry, William
Messinger, Vernon A.
Messinger, Virgil J.
Morse, William
Shepard, James S.
Spare, Elijah
Spaulding, Corodon
Stetson, Joseph
Sumner, James T.
Sumner, George F.
Tilt, Benjamin B.
Tucker, Edmund
Tucker, Ellis
Tucker, Jedediah
Tucker, Nathaniel, Jr.
Tucker, Phineas
Tucker, William
Ward, Samuel G.
Wentworth, Edwin
Wentworth, Nathaniel
White, Elisha,* 1865.
White, Nathaniel S.
Wood, Rufus C. [63]

COHASSET.

Beal, Solomon J.
Beal, Mrs. S. J.
Doane, James C.
Johnson, William B.
Sohier, William D.
Souther, Laban,* 1860.
Tower, Abraham H. [7]

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamin H.
Alden, Abner
Alden, Francis
Alden, George,* 1862.
Alden, Leonard •
Alden, Samuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William, 2d
Babcock, Samuel B.
Bacon, Silas I).
Bailey, Benjamin H.
Baker, David A.
Baker, Joel M.
Baker, Obed
Baker, Timothy
Baker, William
Balch, Benj. W.,* 1858.
Barrows, Edward
Bfirrows, Thomas
Bates, Martin

Bean, Albion,* 1860.
Bestwick, Frederick L.
Bickner, Samuel R.
Bosworth, Isaac C.,* '66.
Boyden, Addison
Boyden, Benjamin
Brooks, Edward C.
Bryant, Austin,* 1851.
BuUard, Elijah
Bullard, John,* 1852.
Bullard, Lewis
Bullard, William
Bullard, William, 2d
Burgess, Ebenezer
Burgess, Ebenezer P.
Burgess, Edward P.
Capen, Charles J.
Capen, Oliver,* 1865.
Carroll, Sanford
Cawley, John
Chase, James M.,* 1860.
Chickering, Horatio
Churchill, Chauncy C.
Clapp, Edward
Clapp, Nathaniel
Clark, Joseph W.
Clarke, Horatio
Clarke, Mrs. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Cobb, Jonathan H.
Coburn, Mrs. Chas., Jr.
Colburn, Allen
Colburn, Nath'l,* 1853.
Colburn, Waldo
Conners, Barney
Coolidge, George
Cormerais, Henry
Cox, John, Jr.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
Crane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos H.
Grossman, Charles B.
Gushing, Henry W.
Curtis, George F.
Damrell, Wm. S.,* 1860.
Daniell, Ellery C.
Davenport, George
Day, Joseph
Day, Lewis
Deane, John,* 1861
Dixon, Rufus E.
Doggett, John,* 1857.
Donahoe, Patrick
Downing, James
Drayton, John,* 1856.
Duff, John
Dunbar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, John

Eaton, John Ellis,* 1854.
Eaton, Luther
Edson,Mrs. E.G.,* 1860.
Ellis, Calvin F.
Ellis, Charles
Ellis, Colbufn,* 1864.
Ellis, George,* 1855.
Ellis, Merrill D.
Ellis, Oliver
Endicott, Augustus B.
Everett, George
Everett, Mrs. Hepzibah
Fairbanks, Wm.,* 1863.
Fales, William
Farrington, Chas.,* 1859.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, Jas.,* 1864.
Farrington, Mrs. James
Farrington, Jesse,* 1857.
Farrington, Jesse
Farrington, John B.
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,* 1863.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* 1863.
Fisher, Amory
Fisher, Eben'r S.,* 1867.
Fisher, Freeman,* 1860.
Fisher, James R.
Fisher, Joseph
Fisher, Joshua
Fisher, Thomas,
Fleming, Douglas
Fogg, David S.
Foord, Enos,* 1861.
French, Abram
French, Charles
French, George M.
Fuller, George
Gardner, John
Gay, Ebenezer F.
Gay, Mrs. Hannah S.
Gay, Jeremiah W.
Gav, Lusher,* 1855.
Gay, Mrs. A. M.,* 1866.
Gay, Wm. King,* 1859.
Gleason, Daniel
Gould, George
Green, Elisha
Guild, Calvin
Guild, Francis
Guild, Henry
Harnden, Harvey,*1863.
Hartshorn, Richard D.
Henek, John B.
Hewes, Hannah E.
Hildreth, Henry O.
Holmes, Edw. B ,* 1865.
Houghton, William A.

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Howe, Elijah, Jr.
Howe, Francis,* 1860.
Howe, Josiah U.,* 1867.
Hoy le, Mark C.
Inches, Martin B.
Jackson, Marcus B.
Johnson, Edwin,* 1856.
Keyes, Ebenczer W.
Keyes, Edw. L.,* 1859.
Kingsbury, Lewis H.
Kingsbury, Closes
Lamson, Alvan,* 1864.
Lynch, Mrs. A.
Lynch, Wm. F.
McLane, James
Mann, Henry A.
Mann, Herman,* 1851.
Mann, Samuel C.,* 1861.
Mann, Wm. H.,* 1864.
Marden, Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, Martin,* 1865.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin
Mason, William
Mason, Wm. II.,* 1861.
Matthews, Nathan
Mercer, Miss Mary
Metcalf, George E.
Mitchell, Francis N.
Morgan, John
Morse, Curtis G.
Morse, John,* 1861.
Morse, John L.
Morse, Otis

Motley, Thomas,* 1864.
Murray, Daniel
Neal, A. B.
Noyes, Nathaniel
Norris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion, Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamin A.
Page, Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C.
Paul, Mrs. Ebenezer
Phelps, Timothy
Phillips, Nathan
Phillips, Mrs. P. M.
Quincy, Edmund
Rand, Edward S.
Rand, Edward S., Jr.
Robley, Robert C.
Rice, John P.
Richards, Abiathar
Richards, E M.,* 1865.
Richards, Henry White
Richards, J. F.,* 1852.
Richards, Lewis A.
Richards, Mason,* 1866.

Richards, Reuben,* 1855.
Richards, William B.
Rodman, Alfred,* 1853.
Russell, Charles
Russell, Ira

Sampson, E. W.,* 1867.
Scanlan, David
Scott, Joel,* 1858.
Shaw, Charles B.
Sherman, Charles B.
Sherwin, Thomas
Slafter, Carlos
Small, Miss Jane S.
Smith, Edwin
Smith, Henry
Smith, Lyman
Smith, Nathaniel,*
Smith, Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Zebina,* 1864.
Spear, Henry F.
Stimson, Jeremy
Stone, Eliphalet
Sumner, Mirick P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah R.
Sumner, Wm. R.,*1860.
Sutton, Enoch,* 1853.
Taft, Ezra W.
Thomas, John W.
Thompson, Rob't,* 1854.
Tower, William B.
Tubbs, Benj. H.,* 1854.
Van Brunt, G. J.,* 1863.
Vose, George H.
Wakefield, Thomas L.
Wales, Sam'l Jr.,* 1860.
Washburn, Alex. C.
Waters, Joseph W.
AVeatherbee, Comfort
Weatherbee, Jabez
Weatherbee, Jesse
Weatherbee, John E.
Webb, Moses E.
Webb, Seth, Jr.,* 1862.
Welch, Stephen
Weld, Joseph R.
Welcome, Jacob H.
White, John,* 1852.
White, N. B.
Whiting, Hezekiah
Whiting, Horace
Whiting, INIargaret M.
Whiting, Moses
Whiting, William
Whitney, S. S ,* 1855.
Wight, Danforth P.
Wight, Ebenezer
Williams, G. W.,* 1861.
Wilson, John F ,* 1853.

Wilson, Reuben S.
Winslow, Alfred N.
VVinslow, George
Wood, Mrs. Amos
Woo.ls, Wm. G.,* 1863.
Worthington, E. [262]

DORCHESTER.

Abbott, William E.
Adams, Benjamin W.
Atherton, Samuel
Austin, William R.
Bachi, Ignatius C.,*1859.
Bacon, Charles H.
Baker, Edmund J.
Baker, Walter,* 1852.
Baldwin, Enoch,* 1860.
Barnes, Parker
Barry, Michael 0.,*1858.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Billings, Lemuel
Bispham, Eleazer J,
Blanchard, Charles F.
Bradlee, James B.
Bradsteet, Samuel
Bramhall, Cornelius
Breck, Henry, Jr.
Brewer, Darius,* 1854.
Briggs, Franklin
Brooks, Noah,* 1852.
Brooks, Williams B.
Brown, Augustus
Browne, George M.
Capen, Aaron D.
Capen, Samuel J.
Capen, Thomas W.
Carlton, Mary A.
Carlton, Martha G.
Carruth, Charles
Carruth, Nathan
Carter, Josiah H.
Childs, Nathaniel R.
Churchill, Asaph
Clapp, Amasa
Clapp, Edward B.
Clapp, Frederick
Clapp, Frederick A.
Clapp, Lemuel, 2d.
Clapp, James H.
Clapp, John P.
Clapp, Richard,* 1862.
Clapp, Thaddeus,* 1861.
Clapp, William,* 1859.
Clapp, William C
Cleveland, S. H.,* 1856.
Cobb, Moses G.
Codman, John
Codman, Robert

56

Copenhagen, A.W.,*'66.
Crane, Nathaniel
Curtis, Ebcnezer
Cushing, Abel,* 1866.
Cushing, Benjamin
Davis, Barnabas
Dearborn, Axel
Denny, Daniel
Denny, Daniel, Jr.
Doody, Dennis
Dorr, James
Downer, Samuel
Flynn, Thomas
Follansbee, Isaac W.
Foster, William H.
Fowler, M. Field
French, Benj. V.,* 1860.
French, Mrs. B. V.
Gardner, Henry J.
Gilbert, Samuel, Jr.
Gerry, Charles F.
Gleason, Moses,* 1856.
Gleason, Roswell
Gleason, Sarall,* 1854.
Grew, Henry
Groom, Thomas
Hall, Oliver
Plall, Samuel
Hammond, Horatio
Harding, AVilliam
Harding, Mrs. Wm.
Hardy, Alpheus
Harris, Benj W.
Hartshorn, Lewis E.
Hathaway, Nicholas
Haven, John A.
Haynes, Edward, Jr.
Hebbard, B. F.
Hewins, John C.
Hickey, Timothy
Hickey, William
Holbrook, Nathan
Holmes, Ebenezer
Hooper, Franklin Henry
Hooper, Robert C.
Hooper, Robert C, Jr.
Houghton, George A.
Howe, Charles
Humphrey, Henry
Hunt, Charles
Igoe, Patrick
Jacobs, Benjamin
Jones, Nahum
King, Edward,* 1866.
King, Franklin
Lee, James, Jr.
Leonard, Joseph
Liversidge, S.,* 1852.
Liversidge, Thomas

Mack, Henry M.
Mack, S. P ,* 1866.
McAuliffe, Daniel
Marshall, Wm.,* 1867.
May, John J.
Means, James H.
Mears, John
Mears, John, Jr.
Miller, Erasmus D.
Minot, John,* 1861.
Moseley, Fiavel
Murphy, Timothy
Nazro, John G.
Newhall, Cheever
Newhall, John M.
Nott, Gordon H.
Payson, Thomas
Payson, Mrs. Thomas
Perrin, Augustus W.
Peters, Henry H.
Pierce, Chas. B.,* 1857.
Pierce, Henry L.
Pierce, Jesse,* 1856.
Pierce, Lewis
Pierce, Robert
Pierce, William,* 1853.
Pierce, Wm. B.,* 1858.
Pierce, William P.
Pope, Alexander
Pope, William, Jr.
Pratt, Laban
Preston, Edward
Preston, John,* 1856.
Preston, John
Prince, William G.
Prout)', Lorenzo
Rice, George Woods
Richardson, George
Richardson, William H.
Rldeout, Asa
Robie, John
Robinson, Mrs. D. A.
Robinson, Eli W.
Robinson, John H.
Robinson, Stephen A.
Ruggles, Edward H. R.
Safford, Nathaniel F.
Scudder, Horace,* 1851.
Snell, Stephen D.
Southworth, Consider A.
Spear, Daniel
Spear, Luther
Spoon er, John P.
Sumner, Clement
Swan, B.
Swan, James
Temple, Hannanlah
Temple, William F.
Thatcher, Wm. T.

Thayer, Benjamin W.
Thompson, Joshua P.
Tileston, Edmund P.
Tileston, Samuel
Tolman, Eben'r,* 1863.
Tolman, William
Train, Enoch
Tremlett, Thomas,* 1858.
Trull, John H.
Trull, Mrs. J. H.
Trull, John W.
Tuttle, Joseph
Upham, James H.
Vinson, Thomas M.
Vose, B. C.
Vose, Robert
Vose, Robert, Jr.
Washburn, Allen J.
Webster, Charles W.
Welch, John H.
Welch, Mrs. J. H.
Whipple, John L.
Wilder, Marshall P.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.,* '54.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.
Williams, S. B.,* 1854.
Withlngton, Wm. C.
Whitten, Chas. V.
Woodman, James
Worthington, Wm.,* '57.
Wortbington, Wm. F.
Wright, Edmund
Wright, Mrs. Edmund
Wright, Otis,* '65. [203]

DOVER.

Adams, John
Allen, Jared
Allen, Timothy
Bacon, Aaron
Bacon, Mary S.
Baker, Jabez
Barden, Calvin
Battelle, John
Battelle, John E.
Battelle, Mary D.
Battelle, Rachael A.
Battelle, Ralph
Beatie, Thomas
Bigelow, Calvin A.
Bigelow, Mrs. C. A.
Bigelow, Mrs. Abraham
Bigelow, William A.
Bliss, Linus
Bliss, Mrs Linus
Chickering, Daniel
Chickering, George E.
Chickering, Otis
Chickering, Samuel

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Cleveland, William
Dunn, Theodore
Fearing, Perez L.
Gannett, William W-
Gay, Francis G.
Goulding, H. Emeline
Goukling, Henry
Goulding, Henry E.
Howe, Albion K.
Howe, Eliza M.
Jones, Hiram W.
Jones, Alice J.
Jones, I. L.
Jones, Lucy

Lyman, Miss Frances L.
Mann, Mrs. Adeline B.
Mann, Daniel,* 1859.
Mann, Daniel F.
Mann, Elbridge L.
Mann, Hollis
Mann, S. J. B.
Marden, ISIrs. Mary
McGill, Thomas
Newell, Benjamin
Newell, Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Miss Betsey E.
Newell, Jesse
Newell, Josiah B.
Perry, Elijah
Perry, Mrs. Mehitable
Richards, Calvin
Richards, Mrs. Calvin
Richards, Jennie A.
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers, Wilbor J.
Sanger, Ralph,* 1860.
Sawm, Benjamin N.
Sawin, Frank W.
Sawin, Mary A.
Shumway, Amos W.
Shumway, Amos W., Jr.
Shumway, Hannah
Shumway, John W.
Shumway, Sarah G.
Smith, Abner L.
Smith, Charles H,
Smith, Mary W.
Tisdale, William
Upham, Martha F.
Upham, Walter W.
Wall, Patrick
Wilson, Ephraim
Wilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, Miss N. D. [78]

FOXBOROUGH.
Aldrich, IL D.,* 1854.
Belcher, Lewis W.

Burr, Simeon
Capen, James
Carpenter, Daniels
Carpenter, Erastus P.
Carpenter, James E.
Carpenter, Oliver
Carv, Otis
Cobb, Elias G.
Dickerman, Lemuel
Dixon, Sarah 0.
Fisher, Albert
Foster, James W.
Guild, Freedom,* 1862.
Hersey, David
Hodges, Alfred
Kerr, Robert W.,* 1867.
Kingsbury, Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. S.
Leonard, James F.
Leonard, Samuel B.
Leonard, Sanford
Merrick, John M.
Pettee, David
Pettee, Joseph G.
Pettee, Simon E.
Shepard, J. M.,* 1866.
Sherman, Job
Smith, Silas
Sumner, Mrs. A. M.
Sumner, Charles C.
Torrey, Martin,* 1861.
AViiliams, Francis D.
VVyman, David [35]

FRANKLIN.

Adams, Albert
Adams, Peter
Adams, Ward,* 1865.
Atwood, Mrs. Ruth,* '62.
Baker, David P.
Bullard, Piam
Chapman, Elisha P.
Daniels, Adams
Daniels, Albert E.
Daniels, Charles F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeWitt, Archibald,* '59.
DeVVitt, Mrs. Mary A.,*

1865.
Fisher, Herman C.
Fisher, Maxcy,* 1865.
Fisher, Walter H.
Fisher, Mrs. Walter H.
Fisher, AValter M.
Green, Henry M.
Green, Martin
Harding, Lewis
Hills, Theron C.,* 1862.
Knapp, Alfred

Metcalf, Alfred G.
Metcalf, Alfred H.
Metcalf, Erasmus B.
Metcalf, Erastus L.
Metcalf, Whiting
Metcalf, William
Miller, John W.
Miller, Philip W.,* 1860.
Morse, George W.
Morse, Joseph
Nason, George W.
Ray, Francis B.
Ray, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.
Ray, James P.
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Stephen W.
Rockwood, E ,* 1864.
Rockwood, Nathan
Sargeant, A. D.
Scott, Saul B.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
Wadsworth, George M.
Wadsworth, Joseph H.
Wales, Otis, Jr.
Whiting, Joseph
Whiting, Joseph M,
Whiting, Wm. E. [51]

MEDFIELD.

Abell, Wm. F.
Abell, Mrs. Wm. F.
Adams, George F.
Allen, Noah
Allen, William C.
Baker, Joseph H.
Baker, Mrs. Joseph H.
Balch, Albert
Battell, Ralph A.
Barney, Thomas L.
Barney, Mrs. Thomas L.
Bigelow, .\nelrew
Bullard, John E.
Carson, Joseph
Chenery, William
Cheney, Nathaniel H.
Cheney, Seth
Crane, George
Curtis, Daniel D.
Curti.-i, Mrs. Daniel D.
Curtis, Irving
Cusliman, Jacob R.
Cushman, Mrs. Jacob R-
Davis, George
Davis, Mrs. George
Ellis, Caleb
Ellis, Francis D.
Ellis (Joorge W.
Ellis, John

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Ellis, Samuel
Fisher, Hinsdale
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sarah H.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, Mrs. Isaac
Hamant, Miss Alice E.
Hamant, Mrs. N. Anna
Han:iant, Miss Abby
Hamant, Mrs Eliza M. C.
Hamant, Caleb S.
Hamant, Charles
Hamant, Mrs. Charles
Hamant, Daniels, Jr.
Hamant, Daniel D.
Harding, Alfred
Harding, Nathan
Hartshorn, Joseph,* '66.
Hartshorn, Warren
Hewins, William P.
Hewins, Mrs. William P.
Jones, John P.
Janes, Walter,* 1867.
.Morse, Eliakim
Morse, Joel
Morse, Miss Lucy
Parker, A. B.
Parker, Mrs. A. B.
Partridge, Mrs E. A.
Partridge, Henry, Jr.
Richardson, Simeon
Roberts, Mrs. Helen M.
Roberts, Robert
Salisbury, Wm.,* 1857.
Sewall, Charles C.
Sewall, Mrs. Charles C.
Sewall, Edward U.
Sewall, Miss Elizabeth S.
Shumway, Benjamin F.
Smith, George M.
Stedman, Cyrus,* 1865.
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A.,* 1803.
Turner, J. Addison
Wetherell, Harlus W.
Wheeler, Emory
Willard, Gibson [80]

MEDWAY.

Adams, Edward
Adams, Elisha
Adams, Lyman
Adams, Wyman
Barber, George,* 1851.
Barber, Thomas

Boyd, William B.
Bullard, John, Jr.
Cary, Gilman
Carey, William H.
Clark, James P.,* 1865.
Clark, James W.
Clark, Mrs. James W.
Clark, Maria F.
Clark, Willard P.
Crosby, George,* 1859.
Daniels, James Willard
Daniels, Paul
Daniels, Mrs. Paul
Daniels, William
Ellis, James H.
Fisher, Milton M.
Fuller, Asa M. B.
Harding, Theodore
Henderson, William
Hurd, Julius C.
Ide, Jacob
Kingsbury, Gilbert
Lovell, Asahel P.
Lovell, Zachariah
Lovering, Warren
Mann, James
Mason, Horatio
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalf, Luther
Morse, Asa D.
Partridge, Clark
Partridge, George
Richardson, Elisha F.
Richardson, Jeremiah D.
Richardson, Joseph L.
Richardson, Moses
Richardson, Richard
Slocumb, C* 1861.
Stevens, Daniel G.
Walker, John S.
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler, Abijah R. [48]

MILTON.
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Amory, Francis
Arnold, John, Jr.,*
Babcock, Josiah,* 1863.
Babcock, Lemuel W.
Babcock, Samuel
Baldwin, Edward
Beal, Jonathan
Blake, A. P.
Brudbury, C. C.
Bradlee, John D.
Breck, Chai'les
Breck, Charles E. C
Brooks, John W.

Bunton, Jesse
, Bush, James P.
Churchill, Jos. McKean
Cook, Samuel
Copeland, Charles L.
Copeland, Lewis
Cornell, "Walter
Cunningham, C. Loring
Cunningham, Francis,*

1867.
Curtis, Daniel T.
Davenport, Edwin
Davenport, Mrs. Ellen M.
Davenport, Lewis
Davenport, Nathaniel T.
Davis, William H.
Dow, John R.
Dudley, Benjamin F.
Emerson, Joshua
Fenno, Rufus P.
Ferry, George S.
Ferry, William M.
Forbes, John M.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Gannett, Samuel
Garrett, George E.
Hall, George W.
Higgins, David
Hinckley, Thomas H.
Hobson, Miss Martha J.
Houghton, Jason W.,*

1867.
Hunt, Charles E.
Hunt, George
Kendall, J. B.
Kent, George W.
Kinsman, Adolphus
Pierce, Edward L.
Pope, Ebenezer,* 185.3.
Raymond, George
Richards, Reuben A.
Bobbins, James M.
Rodgers, O. T.,* 1859.
Rogers, H., Jr.,* 1855.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Rowe, Joseph,* 1856.
Ruggles, Philemon
Sias, Eliphalet
Sias, John

Sigourney, Henry H. W.
Slone, Charles,* 1859.
Stuart, William I.
Stuart, Mrs. Sarah M,
Thayer, Jason
Thompson, Geo.,* 1857
Todd, Robert M.
Tucker, David W.
Tucker, Elijah
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah

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Tucker, Stillman L.

fucker, Timothy,* 1861.
wombly, Josiah F.
Turner, R. W.
Vose, George
Vose, Mrs. George
Vose, J. W.
Wolcott, J. Huntington
Webster, Joseph R.
West, Henry
White, Benjamin [83]

NEEDHAM.

Alden, Otis
Avery, Jonathan
Ayling, Isaac
Beless, Thomas
Bemis, Mrs. S. S.
Bowers, Henry
Blackman, Henry
Blackman, Augustus
Buck, Charles
Buck, Miss F. P. H.,* '55.
Buck, Miss Mary M.
Bullen, Ichabod,* 1858.
Cooper, Samuel
Daniell, George K.
Darling, George F.
Dewing, Warren
Eaton, George E.
Eayrs, William C.
Emmons, Chas. P.,* '67.
Flagg, Solomon
Flagg, Wm.,* 1861.
Gardner, Elbridge
Goss, Daniel J.
Gray, James
Harmon, Charles H.
Harmon, Cyrus
Harris, John,* 1858.
Harris, John M.
Harvey, Stephen F.
Holland, John
HoUis, Elisha P.
Howland, George
Hubbard, G. G.,* 1856.
Hunnewell, Horatio H.
Hunting, Israel
Kimball, Benjamin G.
Kimball, Mrs. Betsey G,
Kimball, Daniel,* 1862.
Kingsbury, Lemuel
Kingsbury, Lauren
Kingsbury, Thos.,* 1859
Kingsbury, William A.
Knapp. A. P.
Longfellow, Geo J.
Longfellow, Nathan
Longfellow, Wilbei: F.

Longfellow, Fannie E.
Lovewell, Charles B.
Lyon, Mrs. Julia A.
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
Mansfield, Charles H.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Robert
Mansfield, Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, William
McCrackin, John
Mcintosh, Mrs. H. P.
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mills, John
Mills, Matthias
Morton, Otis, Jr.
Morton, William T. G.
Newell, Artemas
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes, Josiah
Peabody, Ezekiel
Phillips, Freeman

Pierce, William

Pierce, William, Jr.

Pierce, Mrs. Harriet

Revere, George

Robinson, Henry

Sawyer, John

Sawyer, Otis,* 1855.

Scudder, Marshall S.

Seagrave, Saul S.

Shaw, George W.,* '52.

Shaw, John W.

Snelling, NathanierG.

Stedman, Francis

Stedman, Mrs. F. F.

Stedman, William M.

Stevens, A. F.

Stone, David

Stone, Henry L.

Sumner, Lewis

Sumner, Samuel B.

Turner, Mrs. John %

Upham, Cvrus G.

Ware, De.xter,* 1851.

Ware, Reuben

Ware, Althea

Ware, Ruel
I Ware, William S.

Washburn, G. W.
[ Webber, Aaron D.
i Welles, John
j Whitaker, Edgar K.

White, George
I Wilder, C. T.
I Williams, Silas G.
I Wood, Henry [104]

QUINCY.

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John Q.
Adams, Ebenezer
Bartlett, Ibrahim,* 1853.
Bass, Josiah
Bass, Lewis
Baxter, Daniel
Baxter, Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. George
Baxter, George L.
Beale, Geo. W.,* 1851.
Beals, Nathaniel H.
Billings, Lemuel
Brackett, Lemuel
Brigham, Josiah,* 1867.
Carr, John J.
Curtis, Noah,* 1856.
Eaton, Jacob F.
Emmons, Nathaniel H.
Fellows, Ensign S.
Frederick, Eleazer
French, Washington M.
Glover, H. N.,* 1863.
Green, John A,* 1861.
Greenleaf, Daniel
Greenleaf, Thos.,* 1854.
Horton, Lloyd G.
Miller, Charles E.
Morton, William S.
Munroe, Israel W.
Newuomb, James
Newcomb, John B.
Quincy, Josiah,* 1864.
Quincy, J. P.
Richards, L.,* 1852.
Robertson, Joseph W.
Rodgers, Clift
Savil, John
Spear, Charles A.
Stetson, James A.
Thayer, G. F.,* 1864.
Torrey, William
Turner, Edward
Walker, William
White, Nathaniel,* 1867.
Willard, Solomon,* 1861.
Williams, Francis [47]

RANDOLPH.

Alden, Ebenezer
Alden, Horatio B.
Belcher, Allen A.
Belcher, J. White
Buck, Nathan,* 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Christopher M.
Gushing, Abner L.
Holbrook, Caleb S.

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Holbrook, Elisha
Jordan, John T.,* 1865.
Leeds, Joseph,* 1858.
Maguire, James
Maguire, James F.
Mann, Ephraim,* 1863.
Mann, Seth, 2d
Niles, Jacob
Snow, Zenas,* 1857.
Stevens, Richard.
Tower, Isaac,* 1866.
Turner, Royal W.
Turner, Seth
Wales, A polios
Wales, Ephraim,* 1855.
Wales, John, 2d
Wales, Jonathan,* 1862.
Whitcomb, Alired W.
White, Adoniram
White, Jairus
White, Jonathan [30]

ROXBURY.

Adams, Thomas
Andrews, Alfred A.
Appleton, Charles T.
Bacon, William, Jr.
Bartlett, Henry,* 1860.
Blake, S. Parkman
Bowditch, Azell
Bowditch, Azell C.
Bray, Charles F.
Brigham, Joseph L.
Brown, Andrew J.
Bryant, Charles W.
Bufford, John H.
Chadwick, Joseph H.
Chandler, John G.
Clarke, John J.
Codman, Ilenrv,* 1853.
Copeland, B. F'.,* 1863.
Copeland, Chas.,* 1853.
Copeland, Franklin
Cotting, Benjamin E.
Crawshaw, Joseph
Crosby, Benjamin H.
Davis, Giliuan
Dearborn, H. A. S.,* '51.
Ellis, Charles,* 1860.
Ellis, Charles M.
Eustis, William
Fisher, Warren
Fiske. Georiie A.
Ford, Seth il.,* 1863.
Francis, Eben'r,* 1858.
French, Jonathan
French, Mrs. J.
Fuller, H. Weld
Fussell, John

Gardner, Francis
Gray, Henry D.
Guild, Frederick
Guild, Henry
Guild, James
Ham, Joseph
Harris, Horatio
Hendee, Charles J.
Hewes, John M.
Hewins, Whiting,* 1855.
Hickling, Charles
Huckins, James
Huckins, James W.
Hustin, William R.
Keene, James
Kidder, Frederic
King, William S.
Kingsbury, William B.
Kittredge, Alvah
Lee,* William Raymond
Lemist, Edwin
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, Franklin H.
Lewis, Samuel S.
Lowell, John A.
Mann, Benjamin
Mathes, Albert R.
McBurney, Charles
Mcintosh, William H.
Merrill, John J.
Monroe, George H.
Oakley, Frank F.,* 1865.
Paine, Joseph P.
Parker, Augustus
Parker, George J.
Pickering, Henry W.
Pike, Charles S.
Putnam, Allen
Rich, Napthali D.
Ritchie, James
Robinson, J. P.,* 1863.
Ropes, Joseph S.
Sargent, Epes
Shed, Henry P.
Simmons, D. A.,* 1860.
Skinner, Elias
Sleeper, John S.
Stevens, Amos
Stone, Ehenezer W.
Sturgis, Jomes
Thacher, Thomas, Jr.
Thwing, Supply C.
Tohnan, J.imes
Trescott, Elijah, Jr.
Tucker, Daniel
Vinson, Cornelius M.
Walker, E. C. R.
Walker, Samuel,* 1860.
Ware, Leonard

Way, Samuel A.
Weston, Lycurgus B. ^
Whiting, Wm. (Montrose

Avenue)
Williams, A. D.,* 1863.
Williams, Aaron D., Jr.
Williams, David W.
Williams, Mrs D. W.
Williams, Dudley
Williams, G. Foster
Williams, G. 11.,* 1862.
Williams, S.,* 1852.
Williams, Thomas B.
Wilson, Granville W.
Winslow, Edward
Wiswall, Samuel
Wolcott, John W. [Ill]

SHARON.
Blackman, E. H.
BuUard, Benjamin
Clark, Edwin R.
Cobb, Warren
Cobb, Mrs. Warren
Cobb, Miss Ella M.
Drake, Asahel S.
Drake, Mrs Asahel S.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, Georsie W.
Hewins, Elijah,* 1857.
Hewins, Lemuel D.
Johnson, Lucas
Johnson, Otis
Lothrop, Howard A.
Mann, George R.
Mann, Mrs. George R.
Mann, William R.
Mann, Mrs. William R.
Mann, Miss M Ella
Mann, Miss E Mary
Mann, George H.
Morse, Harvey
Morse, Lewis W.
Morse, Mrs. I^ewis W.
Morse, Edward L.
Randall, Macey, Jr.
Sanger, John M.
Smith, Lewis
Turner, Calvin
Warren, Charles H. [31]

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atherton, J imes
Atherton, William
Belcher, Orin
Belcher, Wm. S.,* 1862.
Bird, Henry
Capen, Samuel

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Clapp, Lucius
Clapp, Mrs. Lucius
Clark, Chester
Curtis, Samuel W.
Drake, Philip IL
Gay, Cyrus H.
Gay, Hiram
Gay, John M.
Gay, Lemuel,* 1866.
Gay, Mace
Gay, Nathaniel
Goldthwait, Daniel A.
Hill, James
Hodges, Leonard
Hodges, Samuel W.
Hodges, Mrs. S. W.
Kimball, Henry C.
Littlefield, Charles
Porter, Luther '
Porter, Robert
Porter, Robert, Jr.
Porter, Uriah C.
Porter, Theron M.
Porter, John M.
Southworth, Amasa
Southworth, Asahel
Sumner, Francis C.
Swan, Elisha
Talbot, Newton
Thayer, S Lysander
Tucker, Wales
Wales, Nathaniel [39]

WALPOLE.
Allen, Jeremiah
Allen, Lewis
Bacon, Samuel W.
Bacon, William
Bird, Charles
Bird, Francis W.
Boyden, Horatio
Clap, Edmund W.
Clap, Geo. R.
Clap, Samuel G.
Clap, Warren
Clarke, Mrs. Betsey M.
Clarke, Henry S.
Clarke, Truman
Con ant, George
Cram, Jerome B.
Ellis, Isaac
Ellis, James
Ellis, Jo-seph,* 1851.
Fuller, James R.
Gilbert, Samuel
Gould, John A.,* 1861.
Gray, H. Fannie
Gray, Smith
Gray, Mrs. Smith

Gray, William H.
Guild, Charles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshorn, George
Hawes, Joseph,* 1849.
Hyde, George B.
Lewis, Willard
Mann, John
Mann, Lowell
Neale, Benjamin
Page, William A.
Pierce, Shndrach S.
Plimpton, C. G.,* 1864.
Plimpton, H. M.
Policy, Edmund
Scott, James G.
Shepard, E.
Smith, John N.
Smith, Mrs. John N.
Smith, Metcalf
Stone, Ebenezer
Thompson, Edwin
Wilmarth, Naaman B.
Wilmarth, Elizabeth F.
Wilson, Edwin
Wilson, Mrs. Edwin [51]

WEST ROXBURY.
Allen, Stephen M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. R.
Arnold, Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, A^'illiam Percy
Bacon, Daniel C.,* 1856.
Bacon, Francis E.
Bacon, William B.
Bailey, Luther C.
Balch, George H.
Balch, Joseph,* 1849.
Balch, Joseph W.
Banfield, Everett C.
Barber, A. D.
Bartlett, Alden
Billings, Joseph H.
Billings, Mrs. Joseph H.
Billings, Miss Jennie
Billings, Miss Mary
Blake, John J.
Blake, William
Blackman, George
Bliss, Geo. N.
Bliss, Mrs. Lucius S.
Bond, George William
Bowditch, J. LigersoU
Bradford, S. D ,* 1865.
Bradish, Levi J.
Brewer, Charles

Brewer, Otis
Brown, A. S.
Brown, Benjamin
Browne, Horace E.
Butlers, J. A. C.,* 1856.
Cabot, Stephen
Cary, Isaac H.
Cass, Aaron
Cass, Francis W.
Cass, Henry W.
Crosby, Albert
Comins, Linus B.
Cowing, Walter H.
Curtis, Joseph H.
Curtis, George S.
Curtis, Charles F.
Dabney, Chas. W., Jr.
Davis, Francis,* 1865.
Decatur, Thomas
Dexter, Anson
Dixwell, John J.
Draper, Abijah W.
Dudley, Henry
Dudley, Ephraim M.
Eldridge, Oliver
Emmons, John A.
Enslin, William
Evans, William
Farrar, J. Hamilton
Farrington, Ebenezer T.
Gilbert, Luther
Gooding, George
Gould, Joseph D.
Greenough, David S.
Hall, Alfred B.
Hall, David P.
Hall, Joseph
Hall, William D.
Harod, Wm. F.
Head, Charles D.
Head, Francis C.
Henchman, Nath'l H.
Hewins, Charles A.
Howland, J. T.
Hunt, Harrison G.
Keith, William,* 1859.
Lamb, Reuben A.,* 1858.
Lawrie, Andrew B.
Low, John J.
Mackintosh, Charles G.
Mackintosh, J. S.
Manning, Charles
March, A. S.,* 1854.
March, Andrew S.
Mcintosh, William
Meserve, Andrew T.
Meserve, Isaac H.
Minot, George R.
Morse, Charles

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Morse, Robert M.
Motley, Miss A. Lathrop
Motley, Charles D.
Motley, Thomas
Motley, Mrs. Thos.
Motley, Thomas L.
North, George G.
Orange, Thomas
Page, Joseph W.
Page, Kilby

Palmer, WilHam,* 1860.
Parker, S. Winchester
Parkinson, John,* 1866.
Pearce, John
Pratt, John C.
Prichard, Jeremiah
Prichard, Vila
Prichard, Gilman
Richards, Edward
Richmond, Thomas T.
Robeson, William R.
Rodman, Samuel W.
Russell, Geo. R.,* 1856.
Sampson, Charles,* 1859.
Seaverns, Thomas W.
Shaw, Francis G.
Shaw, J. J.
Shaw, Quincy A.
Smith, Alvin
Slocumb, William H.
Smith, Humphrey
Smith, Joseph M.
Smith, Lorenzo
Smith, Melancthon
Spaulding, Solomon R.
Spooner, Wm. H , Jr.
Stevens, S. W.
Sturgis, Russell
Slurtevant, Benj. F.
Swett, Samuel W.
Taft, Reed

Taylor, H. B ,* 1861.
Ticknor, Wm. D.,* 1864.
Tolman, Ebonezer W.
Townsend, David
Tufts, James,* 1859.
Watt, Robert
Watt, Lizzie
W"att, Marion J.
Weld, Aaron D.

Weld, Mrs. A. D.
Weld, Aaron D., Jr.
Weld, Miss A. K.
Weld, Francis M.
Weld, J. Gardner
Weld, Richard H.
Weld, Stephen M.,* '67.
Westcott, Stephen
Wheeler, Warren R.
Whytal, Thomas G.
Whytal, Mrs. Thos. G.
Williams, B. P.,* 1856.
Williams, George H.
Williams, Henry H.
Williams, Moses
Williams, Moses B.
Williams, N. D.,* 1852.
Willson, Edmund B.
Wing, B. F.
Witherbee, John B.
Wo.odman, Geo. F.
Woodward, Chauncey
Woodbury, Joseph P.
Worley, B. W.
Young, Calvin
York, John [166]

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel
Burrill, Ansel
Fifield, Noah,* 1867.
Howe, Appleton
Humphrey, Ebenezer
Humphrey, L.,* 1857.
Hunt, A. N.,* 1864.
Hunt, Elias
Jones, James
Kingsbury, F. A.,*^1860.
Loud, Joseph, Jr.
Loud, John W.
Nash, Abner P.
Nash, Erastus
Nash, Stephen W.
Porter, Thomas B.
Richards, Elias
Shaw, Nathaniel,* 1860.
Shaw, Theron V.
Tirrell, Albert
Tirrell, James,* 1865.
Tirrell, Wilson

White, James

White, Thomas [24]

WRENTHAM.

Aldrich, Artemas
Atwood, Shadrach
Barnard, Alfred
Blakesly, Hubbard
Cheever, Alonzo W.
Cheever, Mrs. Eliza R.
Cheever, Otis G.
Clap, Harvey E.,* 1863.
Clay, Nehemlah
Cowell, William W.
Dupee, Erastus
Everett, Edmund T.
Everett, Melatiah,* 1858.
Faxon, Francis G.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr.
Fisher, Hiram B.
Fisher, Silas P.,* 1865.
Ford, J. T.
Ford, Peter
Fuller, Chauncy G.
Gassett, Henry, Jr.
Grant, George
Grant, Robert P.
Grant, Whiting
Hawes, Benj.,* 1867.
Holbrook, George E.
Ide, Edwin S.
Jepson, William A.
Larkin, Lyman B.
Mann, Howard
Parker, Ebenezer B.
Pond, Handel,* 1867.
Pond, Jabez E.
Pond, Lucas
Pond, Mrs. Lucas
Proctor, Thomas
Robinson, Joel H.
Sayles, Caleb W.,* 1863.
Starkey, Gardner H.
Stone, Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Trowbridge, Henry
Ware, Asa
White, James A.
Wiggin, James S. [45]

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MEMBERS RESIDING OUT OF THE COUNTY.

Balch, Wesley P., Boston.
Copeland, R. McCIeary, Boston.
De Reynoso, Bernard
Edmands, J. Wiley, Newton.
Ellis, David, Cambridge.
Goddard, Thomas, Boston.
Gould, George, Newton.

Hollis, John W., Newton.
Minot, George W., Boston.
Slade, Robert, Boston.
Smith, George W., Boston.
Tappan, Lewis W., Boston.
Wells. B. T., Boston.
Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge.

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Members admitted, 1,653

Members deceased,* 241

LIST OF PKEMIUMS,

Rules anfl Replalions anl List of Comilllees,

FOR THX

NINETEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION,

ON

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 and 18, 1868.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY

1867-8.

President.
Hon. MARSHALL P. WH.DER,

Dorchester.

Vice-Pi'esidents.

Hon. Amos A. Lawrence, .... Brookline.

Hon. Otis Gary, Foxborough.

John Gardner, Dedham.

Stephen W. Richardson, .... Franklin.

Elijah Tucker, Milton.

Henry Grew, Dorchester.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary.

Henry O. Hildreth,

Dedham.

Treasurer.

Chauncy C. Churchill,

Dedham.

Executive Committee.
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester; Cheever Newhall, of
Dorchester ; H. Hollis Hunnewell, of Needham ; Aaron D. Weld, of
West Roxbury; Joseph H. Billings, of West Roxbury; Francis P.
Denny, of Brookline ; William R. Mann, of Sharon ; Hon. Truman
Clarke, of Walpole ; Charles Breck, of Milton.

Finance Committee and Auditors.
Ira Cleveland, of Dedham ; Charles Hamant, of Medfield;
Edward S. Rand, Jr., of Dedham.

Supervisory Committee.
The President and Secretary, ex officiis ; Francis P. Denny, of
Brookline; Charles C. Sewall, of Medfield ; Otis Cary, of Foxborough ;
A. W. Cheever, of Wrentham ; Erastus L Metcalf, of Franklin ; B.
G. Kimball, of Needham ; Henry Grew, of Dorchester ; Charles Breck,
of Milton; B. N. Sawin, of Dover; Robert Watt, of West Roxbury;
Lucius Clapp, of Stoughton ; Josiah P. Quincy, of Quincy.

Committee of Arrangements.
Eliphalet Stone, of Dedham ; Francis Marsh, of Dedham; Charles
Hamant, of Medfield; C. C. Churchill, of Dedham; Nathaniel Smith,
of Dedham.

NORFOLK AGlilCULTURAL SOCIETY.

^ttk^ Htttl ^tt^rxUixom,

It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles
grown or manufactured in the County, unless otherwise specified
in the premium list. Essays and Agricultural Implements
being excepted from this rule, will be open to general compe-
tition.

]^^ Committees are prohibited from awarding- gratuities^
other than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list.

M^^ No object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless
it possesses points of superiority ; and the Committees are pro-
hibited from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles
or objects are not deemed worthy.

Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a
premium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a mem-
ber of the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or
upwards, shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five
dollars or two dollars, respectively, and may thereafter become
a member.

All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium

— herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must
be on the ground at or before 12 o'clock on Thursday, the first
day of the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals
will not be allowed to be removed from the pens before 3 o'clock
on Friday, the second day, and all other articles not until 5
o'clock.

The same animal (except working oxen and draught horses,)
or article, shall not be allowed to compete for more than one
premium. And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties
shall not be included in different collections of the same exhibi-
tor, competing for premium.

In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the
County living remote from the Society's grounds in Dedham, a
sum — not exceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for
compensation of travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine
and sheep, as have been brouglit or driven more than five miles

— reckoning the distance from whence they came to the place
of exhibition — ■ and receive no premium. Only one travel will
be allowed to the same person. Payment will be made at the

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rate of ten cents per mile, for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight
cents per mile, for each bull, cow, heifer, or yearling ; ten cents
per mile, for each boar, sow or litter of weaned pigs ; and eight
cents for each flock of sheep. But no such payment shall be
made for any animal, or animals, which, in the judgment of the
Committee appointed to manage them, are not of a superior
character and worthy of exhibition, or have not been entered in
accordance with the rules and regulations of the Society.

The animals, while on the ground, will be fed at the expense
of the Society.

No person serving on any of the Committees shall have a
vote in any case, when he shall be personally interested as a
competitor.

After the objects for exhibition are arranged, they will be
under the exclusive charge of the Superintendents, and cannot
be removed ivithout their consent.

All other Entries for premiums must be made in writing, and
shall be placed in the hands of the Recording Secretary, on or
before the 15th of November.

Premiums awarded, and not called for on or before the last
Wednesday in March following, will be considered as given to
tlie Society, in aid of its fundl^.

The Trustees have carefully revised and approved of the fol-
lowing list of premiums. The respective Committees, appointed
to award the same, are required to enforce a strict conformity
to all the rules in relation to Entries and Certificates.

In the appointment of Committees.^ the Trustees will seek for
the most judicious and skilful individuals in the various towns
in the County, to aivard the premiums ; but should they fail to
secure the aid of the ablest and most experienced men in the
above capacity, they will rely upon the forbearance which, they
believe, will be generously extended towards sincere and
unwearied efforts.

As it will become the duty of the Society to make to the
Legislature an exact report of its doings, the Trustees deem it
of the highest importance that earnest and persevering efforts
be made by the citizens of every town in the County, to bring
out the results of their skill and industry.

MARSHALL P. WILDER, PresidenL
Henuy 0. HiLDRETH, Secretary.

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LIST OF

PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR THE YEAR 1868.

[Successful Competitors may receive their Premiums in Plate or Money, at their Option.]

FARMS.

EXPERIMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARMS.

Supervisory Committee. — The President and Secretary, ex officiis ; Francis P. Denny,
Brookline; Charles C. Sewall,Medfield; Otis Gary, Foxborough; A. W. Cheever, Wren-
tham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; B. G. Kimball, Needham; Henry Grew, Dorchester;
Charles Breck, Milton; B. N. Sawin, Dover; Robert Watt, West Roxbury; Lucius Clapp,
Stoughton; Josiah P. Quincy, Quincy.

For the best managed Farm, taking into view the condition of the
buildings, fences and orchards, the ;juUivation of the lands, the care and
management of the stock, the quantity, quality and preservation of the
crops, the expenses incurred and the improvements made during the
year, with a detailed statement of the whole, to be rendered on or before
November loth, $25 ; second best, $20.

Competitors must give notice of their intention to the Secretary, on
or before June 15th. Farms entered for premium will be viewed by
the Supervisory Committee, as they shall deem expedient, between
June 20th and September 20th. Any farm offered for inspection, with-
out being entered for a premium, will be viewed and reported by the
Committee, if seasonable application be made to the Chairman.

PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Committee. — Henry Grew, Dorchester; H. W. Jones, Dover; Erastus L. Metcalf,
Franklin; Edmund W. Clap, Walpole; Charles E. C. Breck, Milton.

Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands. — For the best experi-
ment in reclaiming wet meadow or swamp lands, by drainage or other-
wise, on not less than one-half acre, with statement in detail of the pre-
vious condition and produce of the land, the method and expense of
the experiment, and the produce at the present time, $8 ; second
best, $4.

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Under-Draining Land. — For the best experiment in under-drain-
ing land, not less than forty square rods, regard being had to the char-
acter of the soil and subsoil, the method, extent, expense and result of
the experiment, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best, French's Drainage.

Old Pasture and Unimproved Lands. — For the best conducted
experiment in renovating and improving old pasture lands and lands
hitherto lying waste, on not less than one acre, with or without plowing,
with a statement of the previous condition of the land, and of the
method, expense and result of the experiment, $8 ; second best, $5 ;
third best, Flint's Dairy.

TURNING IN CROPS AS MANURE.

Committee. — Aaron D. Weld, West Eoxbury; Calvin Richards, Dover; S. W. Richard-
son, Franklin; A. T. Meserve, West Roxbury; Francis P. Denny, Brookline; C. C
Sewall, Medlield; A. AY. Cheever, Wrentham.

For the most satisfactory experiment of turning in crops as a manure,
either green or dry, on not less than one-half acre of land, a detailed
account of the whole process, expense and result to be given in writ-
ing, $6.

EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOIL PLOWING.

For the best experiment, on not less than one acre of land, of the
effect of subsoil plowing, to be determined by the difference in the value
of crops, raised on equal portions of equally manured land, of like qual-
ity, one-half of which having been subsoil plowed, and the other half
plowed in the usual manner, — statements of the depth of plowing in
each instance, together with all the particulars of culture, required, $8 ;
second best, Burr's Vegetables.

FEEDING AND FATTENING STOCK.

Comparative Value op Crops as Food for Cattle. — For the
best experiment upon a stock of cattle, not less than four in number, to
ascertain the relative value of the different kinds of fodder used, with a
statement in detail of the quantity and quality of the same, as compared
with English hay, the experiment to be made in the three winter months,
$12 ; second best, Stephens' Farmer's Guide.

Feeding op Milch Cows. — For the best experiment in the feed-
ing of milch cows, by soiling, stall-feeding or pasturing, with a detailed
statement of the comparative advantages of either method, regard being
had to the saving of manure, comfort of the animals and produce of the
dairy, $12 ; second best, $8 ; third best, Flint's Dairy.

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cattle,
with a statement in detail of the process, expense and result, $5 ; second
best, Flint's Grasses.

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Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine, with
a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second best, Flint's
Dairy.

HAY.

For the largest quantity and best quality of English hay per acre
produced on any farm in the County, regard being had to the character
of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and making, $5 ; second
best, Flint's Treatise on Grasses.

CRANBERRY VINES.

For the best experiment in transplanting Cranberry Vines, or in
growing them from seed, on not less than one-eighth of an acre, which
shall be in the most flourishing and productive state, on the 10th of
September, $6 ; second best, $3 ; third best, Eastwood's Cranberry
Culture.

Competitors will be required to give an exact statement of the pro-
Cess, expense and result of the experiment.

GRAm AISTD ROOT CROPS.

GRAIN CROPS.

Committee. — William C. Hyde, Brookline; Robert Mansfield, Needhara; John N.
Smith, Walpole; Francis Marsh, Dedham; Hiram W. Jones, Dover.

For the best experiment in raising Wheat, a premium of $10 ; second
best, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Rye, Oats or Barley, each, a
premium of $10 ; second best, each, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of $10 ;
second best, Flint's Diary.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, Millet or Buckwheat,
each, Bridgeraan's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Samples of each kind of Grain, not less than a half bushel, properly
labelled, must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of the crop to
be ascertained by weight, as follows: — Corn and Rye, b% pounds each
to the bushel ; Barley and Buckwheat, 48 pounds each ; Oats, 32
pounds ; Wheat 60 pounds.

ROOT CROPS.

For the best experiment in raising Potatoes, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

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For the best experimont in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots, Parsnips^
Mangold Wiirtzel, or Euta-Baga, each, Burr's Vegetables ; second best,
each, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, Burr's Vegetables ; second
be?t, McMahon's American Gardener.

• For the best experiment in raising Flat Turnips, Buit's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

Samples of Roots, not less than one bushel, properly labelled, must
be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of the crops, which must be
on not less than one-quarter of an acre, shall be ascertained by the
weight of the Roots — freed from dirt and without tops — as follows : —
Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangold Wurtzel and Ruta-Bagas, 60 pounds ;
Carrots, 55 pounds ; Onions and Flat Turnips, 50 pounds ; Parsnips, 45
pounds to the bushel.

Experiments will be viewed by the Committee between July 1st and
Sw-ptember 20th.

Claimants for premiums must render to the Chairman of the Com-
mittee, on or before November 15th, a written statement of the char-
acter and previous condition of the land, its present value, and the taxes
upon it ; the kind, quality and value of manure used ; the quantity and
.cost of seed sown ; the labor and expense of cultivating and harvesting
the crop ; and the quantity, quality and value of the crop. In awarding
premiums, regard will be had to all these circumstances, and to the area
of the ground in cultivation.

VEGETABLES.

Committee. — D. S. Meserve, West Roxburj'; James T. Ford, Wrenthain; A. L. Smith,
Dover; John W. Richardson, Franklin; William Griggs, Brookline.

For the best experiment in raising Squashes — one-half dozen of each
variety to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; second best,
Thomas' Rural Affairs,

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages — not less than six heads
to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; second best, Thomas'
Rural Affairs.

MIXED CROPS.

Committee. — William C. Hyde, Brookline; Robert Mansfield, Needham; Francis Marsh,
Dedham; Hiram W. Jones, Dover; John N. Smith, Walpole.

For the best experiment in cultivating mixed crops of Grain and

Vegetables, in alternate portions, or of different roots, in alternate rows,

Harris' Treatise on Insects ; second best, Burr's Vegetables ; third best,

French's Drainage. The experiment must be made on not less than

half an acre of land, and a detailed statement of the mode of culture,

expense and product must be rendered on or before November 15th.

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PLOWIN^G MATCH.

Committee. — Willard P. Clarke, Medwaj'; Nathan Longfellow, Needham ; Robert
Porter, Jr., Stoughton; Charles L. Copeland, Milton; Ephraim Wilson, Dover.

Double Ox Teams. With Sod and Subsoil Plow. For best per-
formance in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre, eight
inches in depth, $10; second best, $8; third best, $6.

With any other Plow. Same conditions. Best, $10 ; second best,
$8 ; third best, $6..

Committee. — Henry Goulding, Dover; John E. Weatherbee, Dedham; Joel Morse,
Medfield; William Pierce, Needham; E. W. Tolman, West Roxbury.

Double Horse Teams. With Sod and Subsoil Plow. Same con-
dition?. Best $10; second best, $8 ; third best, $6.

With any other Plow. Same conditions. Best, $10; second best,
$8 ; third best, $6.

Committee. — B. N. Sawin, Dover; Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline; Joel H. Kobinson,
Wrentham; Caleb S. Hamant, Medfield; Nathan Phillips, Dedham.

Single Ox Teams. With any Plow. For the best performance
in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre, six inches in
depth, within an hour, $6 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.

Committee. — A. T. Meserve, West Roxbury; John Eaton, Dedham; Lewis W. Morse,
Sharon; Josiah H. Carter, Dorchester; Benjamin F. White, Milton.

Single Horse Teams. Same conditions. Best, $6 ; second best,
$4 ; third best, $2.

Note. — A Double Team will consist of two yokes of oxen, with or with-
out a driver; or a team of one yoke of oxen and a horse, with or without a
driver. Single Team, one yoke of oxen or one pair of horses, without a
driver. Each competitor must own his team and plow, and enter the same in
his own name. Plows must be held and teams driven by their owners, or by
persons statedly in their employ. Notice to compete must be given to the
Secretary on or before the Wednesday previous to the Exhibition. In award-
ing premiums, one hour will be allowed for the performance of the work,'
regard being had to the width and depth of the furrow slice, and the evenness,
ease and quiet with which the work is performed.

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TREE CULTURE.
FRUIT TREES.

Committee. — A. K. Teele, Milton ; Geo. Craft, Brookline ; Chcever Newhall, Dorchester;
Robert Watt, West Koxbury ; liicbard Richardson, Med way.

Apple Orchard. For the best Apple Orchard, of not less than
fj^y trees, which shall have been .set out at least five years, and which
shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 1868, $8; second
best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Pear Trees. For the best engrafted or budded standard Pear
Trees, set out at least five years, and which shall be in the most thriving
condition in the autumn of 18G8, not less than twentrj-five trees, $8 ;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

For the best engrafted or budded Pear Trees on Quince root?, with
game conditions, and not less than ffty trees, $8 ; second best, Down-
ing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Peach Orchards. For the best Peach Orchard, of not less than
ffty trees, which shall be in the most thrifty bearing condition in the
autumn of 1868, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than fifty trees, grown from pits
planted since 1860 on the spot where the trees stand, which shall be in
the best condition in 1868, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and
Fruit Trees.

Seedling Apples or Pears. For the best variety of new Seed-
ling Apples or Pears, of decidedly superior quality, one dozen specimens
to be exhibited, together with a history of the origin of the tree, a
description of the growth, and its bearing character, $8 ; second best,
Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Peaches. For the best variety of Seedling Peaches of
decidedly superior quality, and worthy of general cultivation — one dozen
specimens to be exhibited two years in succession — together with a his-
tory of its origin, a description of its growth, and the bearing character
of the tree, $5 ; second best, Barry's Fruit Garden.

Note. — Notice of intention to compete to be given to the Secretary on or
before September 1.

FOREST TREES.

Committee. — Edward S. Rand, Jr., Dedham; John M. Merrick, Foxborough; Francis
Parkman, West Roxbury; George Craft, Brookline; Eliphalet Stone, Dedham.

For the best plantation of Forest Tree*, of either of the following
varieties, namely : "White Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch, White A.-h,
or Walnut, Scotch Larch, Norway Spruce, Pitch, White and Norway-
Pine, or other varieties, not less than three years old,, and not less than

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one thousand trees, — entries to be made to the Secretary previous to
June 10th, — a premium of $15.

For the best plantation, containing not less than five hundred trees,
Emerson's Shrubs and Trees of Massachusetts.

Ornamental Planting. To any individual or society, regard
being had to the number of persons associated, for the largest number
and best growth of ornamental trees, not less than fifty, which shall
have been planted in a public square or on the roadside at least two
years — first premium, $10 ; second do., Emerson's Shrubs and Trees of
Massachusetts.

HEDGES.

For the best Live Hedge Fence, not less than five hundred feet in
length, $5 ; second best. Warder's Hedges.

For the best Evergreen Hedge, of Hemlock or Norway Spruce, not
less than four hundred feet in length, $5 ; second best, Warder's Hedges.
Premiums to be awarded in 1870.

HOKTICULTUEE.

FLOWERS.

Committee. — John M. Merrick, Jr., Walpole; Mrs. Ward, Canton; Mrs. George F.
Fisher, Dedham; A. K. Teele, Milton; Robert Watt, West Roxbury; George Craft,
Brookline.

For the best collection of Cut Flowers, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best,
$2. For the best and most tastefully arranged baskets of flowers, not
less than four, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2. For the best and
most tastefully arranged bouquets, not less than four, $4 ; second, $3 ;
third, $2. For the best collection of named gladiolus in spikes, $4 ;
second best, $3 ; third best, $2. For the best collection of new seed-
lings in spikes, $3 ; second best, $2. For the best new seedlings, $1.
For the best collection of Japan lilies, $3 ; second best, $2. For the
best new seedling, $1. For the best collection of dahlias, $2; second
best, $1, For the best new seedling, $1. For the best collection of
double zinnias, $2 ; second best, $1.

A statement in writing of the sorts contributed, and the contributor's
name, will be required.

Gratuities, in publications, to the amount of $10, may be aw^arded at
the discretion of the Committee.

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FRUITS.

Committee. — E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury; Geo. Davenport, Dedham; Cheever Newhall,
Dorchester; Royal W. Turner, Randolph; George Vose, Milton; Robert Watt, West
Roxbury ; Charles F. Curtis, AVest Roxbury.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of Apples, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $12 ; second do., Harris' Treatise ;
third do., $4 ; fourth do., $3 ; fifth do., Barry's Fruit Garden.

For the best collection of five varieties of Apples, twelve specimens
of each variety — first premium, $G ; second do., $4.

For the best collection of twenty varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $15 ; second do., $8.

For the best collection of ten varieties of Pears, twelve specimens of
each variety — first premium, $8 ; second do , $6 ; third do., $4.

For the best collection of five varieties of Pears, twelve specimens of
each variety — first premium, $6 ; second do., $4.

For the best collection of Peaches, not less than twelve specimens of
each variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2 ; third do.. Cole's Fruit
Book.

For the best collection of Plums, not less than twelve specimens of
each variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., Thomas' Rural Affairs.

Apples. For the best collection of the following varieties, not less
than twelve specimens of each : — Baldwin — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Rhode Island Greening — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Gravenstein — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Hubbardston None-
such— first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Roxbury Russet — first pre-
mium, $2 , second do., $1. Porter — first premium, $2 ; second do, $1.
Tolman Sweet — first premium, $2 ; second do, $1. For any other
variety — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

Pears. For the best collection of the following varieties, not less
than twelve s||pcimens of each : — Clapp's Favorite — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Bartlett — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre
d'Anjou — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Urbaniste — first premium,
$2; second do., $1. Merriam — first premium, $2; second do., $1.
Louise Bonne d'Jersey — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Vicar of
Winkfield — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Duchesse de Angouleme
— first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Seckle — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Onondaga — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Shel-
don— first premium, $2 ;. second do., $1. Beurre Bosc — first premium,
$2; second do., $1. Doyenne Boussouck — first premium, $2; second
do., $1. Beurre Clairgeau — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Law-
rence— first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. "Winter Nelis — first pre-
mium, $2; second do., $1. Beurre Langlier — first premium, $2;
second do., $1. Buffum-^first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Marie

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Louise — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Dana's Ilovey — first pre-
mium, $2 ; second do., $1. For any other variety — first premium, $2 ;
seqond do., $1.

Grapes. For the best collection of Foreign Grapes — first premium,
$4 ; second do., $3.

For the best four bunches of the following varieties, four bunches of
each variety: — Black Hamburg — first premium, $2; second do., $1.
Wilmot's No. 16 — first premium, $2; second do., $1, Victoria — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. For the best four bunches of any white
variety, $2.

For a new variety of Native or Seedling Grape, equal or superior to
the Isabella, ripening in this County in the open air, by the middle of
Septemher, prolific and suitable for the table, first premium, $20 ; second
do., $10.

For the best collection of Native Grapes — first premium, $4 ; second
do., $3 ; third do., $2. Delaware — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Diana — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Kogers' Hybrids — first pre-
mium, $2 ; second do., $1. Allen's Hybrid — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Concord — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Any other
variety — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

Quinces. For the best collection of Quinces, not less than a peck,
$2.

Cranberries. For the best collection of Cranherries, not less than
four quarts, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, Eastwood's Cranberry
Culture.

No exhibitor taking a premium for collections, shall compete with the
same varieties in the class for single dishes.

COLD VINERIES.

Committee. — Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; John Pearce, West Roxbur^ Edward S. Eand,
Jr., Dedham.

For the best crop, and the most economically kept Cold Vinery, not
less than thirty feet, first premium, $4 ; second best, $3.

GAEDEN.

Committee. — D. S. Meserve, West Roxbiiry; James T. Ford, Wrentham; A. L. Smith,
Dover; John W. Richardson, Franklin; William Griggs, Brookline.

For the best Vegetable Garden, regard being had to the variety,
excellence and quantity of the products thereof, and the mode and
expense of cultivation. Burr's Vegetables ; second best, Bridgerlian's
Young Gardener's Assistant.

Entries must be made before the 10th of June, and an exact state-
ment rendered before the first of November.

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GARDEN VEGETABLES.

For the best collection and variety of Garden Vegetables, regard
being had to the quantity as well as quality exhibited, $10 ; second best,
$5 ; third best, $4 ; fourth best, $3 ; fifth best, $2 ; sixth best, $1. Ten
dollars may also be awarded, at the discretion of the Committee.

Potatoes. For the best new variety of Seedling Potatoes, superior
to any kind now in cultivation, a premium of $10.

For the largest and best collection of Potatoes, not less than a peck
of each variety, a premium of $3 ; second best, $2.

VEGETABLES.

For one-half bushel best Table Potatoes, $1 ; second best, fifty cents.
For one-half bushel best Turnips, $1 ; second best, fifty cents. For
one-half bushel best Carrots, $1 ; second best, fifty cents. For one-half
bushel best Beets, $1 ; second best, fifty cents. For one-half bushel,
best Tomatoes, $1 ; second best, fifty cents. For two quarts best Lima
Beans, $1 ; second best, fifty cents. For one-half bushel best Onions,
$1 ; second best, fifty cents. For four best Cabbages, $1 ; second best,
fifty cents. For four best heads Cauliflower, $1 ; second best, fifty
cents. For four best Pumpkins, $1 ; second best, fifty cents. For four
best Winter Squashes, $1 ; second best, fifty cents. For twelve ears
best Sweet Corn, $1 ; second best, fifty cfents.

. SEEDS.

Committee. — AYilliam C. Hyde, Brookline ; Robert Mansfield, Needliam ; Francis Marsh,
Dedham; Hiram W. Jones, Dover; John N. Smith, Walpole.

For the best sample of ears of Seed Corn, not less than forty in num-
ber— first premium, $2; second do., $1.

For the best collection of Onion, Carrot, Beet, Parsnip and Ruta-
Baga Seeds — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best ten pounds of Timothy, Redtop and Clover Seed, $1.

For the best sample, one peck each, of Wheat, Rye, Bailey and
Oats, $L

ANIMALS.

All animals to be entered in the name of the owner, who must have
had them in his possession, at least six months before tiie Exhibition.

All animals, entered in accordance with the rules and.regulations, will
be fed, during the Exhibition, at the expense of the Society.

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For any animal worthy of the first premium, having received a
similar one at any previous Exhibition, a diploma, certifying the rank
of such animal at the present Exhibition, shall be awarded instead of a
premium.

A diploma may also be awarded, at the discretion of the several
Committees, for any animal, worthy of exhibition, from without the
limits of the Society.

CATTLE.

Committee. — Asahel S. Drake, Sharon; Samuel J. Capen, Dorchester; Nathaniel S.
White, Canton; Amos W. Shumway, Dover; Hiram Caldwell, Needham.

Bulls. For the best Bull, one year old and upwards, of either
Jersey, Durham, Devon, Ayrshire, Hereford, Kerry, or other foreign
stock — in each class, $5 ; second best, $3.

For the best Grade or Native Bull, $3 ; second best, $2.

For the best Bull Calf, under one year old, foreign or native stock,
$3 ; second best, $2.

Committee. — Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham; Francis D. Denny, Brookline; Willard A.
Humphrey, Brookline; A. W. Cheever, Wrentham; Charles A. Spear, Quincy ; Caleb
Ellis, Medfield.

Cows. For the best Cow, three years old or upwards, foreign stock,
of either class, each, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $3.

Grade, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $3.

Milch Cows. Three years old and upwards. For the best Milch
Cow, without regard to breed, each, $8;. second best, $6 ; third best,
$4 ; fourth best, $2.

For the best Milch Heifer, less than three years old, without regard
to breed, each, $6 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.

A written statement of the quantity and quality of Milk and But-
ter, and of the manner of feeding the animals in the last two classes
shall be required. If no butter is made, the statement must give the
quantity and weight of the milk, the quality of the last calf, and the
time when it was dropped.

Herds of Milch Cows. For the best herd of Milch Cows — not

less than six — kept on any farm in the County, and exhibited at the

Show, regard being had to the breed, age and milking properties, with

a written statement thereof, first premium, the Wilder Cup of the value

of $25; second premium, $12; third premium, $8; fourth premium,

$€.

Note. — No competitor for the premiunas offered for herds shall be allowed
to offer the same animals for any premium of a different class.

Committee. — Elijah Tucker. Milton; Luther Eaton, Dedham; B. G. Kimball, Needham;
C. L. Copeland, Milton; William Harding, Dorchester.

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Heifkrs. For the best Heifer, two years old and under three, for-
eign stock, of either class, each $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, $1.

Grade or Native, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, $1.

For the best Ileifer, one year old, of any stock, $2 ; second best, $1.

For the best Heifer Calf, under one year old, of any stock, $2 ;
second best, $1.

Committee. — James Capen, Foxborough ; Robert Porter, Stoiighton ; Henry M. Mack,
Dorcliester; George E. Chickering, Dover; John Battelle, Dover.

Working Oxen. For the best yoke, four years old and upwards,
$6 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.

ToAVN Teams. For the largest and best team, of not less than ten
yokes of Oxen or Steers, from any city or town in the County, first
premium, $12; second best, $8.

Steers. For the best yoke, well-broken, three years old and under
four, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2.

For the best yoke, well-broken, two years old and under three, $3 ;
second best, $2.

Note. — For Oxen or Steers, and also for Herds of Milch Cows, bred and
raised by the exhibitor, twenty per cent, additional. In testing the strength,
docility and training of Working Oxen, the load shall not be less than 2,500
pounds for oxen of five years old and upwards ; and not less than 2,000 pounds
for oxen under five years old. In testing the character of Steers, as the Com-
mittee may direct, special regard wiU be paid to their docility and proper
training.

Comme«ee. — Hiram W. Jone9,.Dover; James Ellis, Walpole; Charles Breck, Milton;
Wm. P. Hewins, Medfield; Daniel W. Stevens, Medway.

Fat Cattle. For the best beef animal fattened by the exhibitor,

within the County, regard being had to the manner and expense of

feeding — of which a written statement will be required — first premium,

$8 ; second do., $6.

SWINE.

Committee. — John Sias, Milton ; Amory Fisher, Dedham ; Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline ;
William C. Allen, Medlield; Whiting Grant, Wrentham.

For the largest and best collection of Swine — not less than six hogs
in number — first premium, $15 ; second do., $10 ; third do., $7.

Boars. For the best Boai", not less than six months old, $6 ; second
best, $4.

Sows. For the best Sow, not less than six months old, $6 ; second
best. $4.

Weaned Pigs. For the best litter, not less than four in number
and not more than six months old, $6 ; second best, $4.
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Fat Hogs. For the' best Fat Hog, regard being had to breed, age
and feeding, $10; second best, $6.

Note. — No competitor for the larftest collection of swine will be allowed
to offer the same for any premium of a different class.

SHEEP.

Committee. — Tmmaa Clarke, Walpole; Joseph II. Billings, WestRoxbury; Theodore
Harding, Med way.

For the largest and best lot of Sheep — not less than six in number —
$10 ; second best, $8.

For the best lot of Lambs — not less than six in number — bred by
the exhibitor, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best Ram — Cotswold, Leicester, Oxford Down, or South-
down — not less than one year old, $5 ; second best, $3.

POULTET.

Committee. — John W. Eichardson, Franklin ; Francis P. Denny, Brookline; Charles
E. C. Breck, Milton.

For the best collection of not less than six Fowls, either Bramah,
Shanghai, Black Spanish, Dorking, Poland, Bolton Gray, Guinea, Ban-
lam, or any other variety, each, $5 ; second best, $3.

TcRKEYS. For the best collection — not less than six — $5 ; second
best, $3.

Geese. For the best collection — not less than six — $5; second
best, $3.

Ducks. For the best collection — not less than six — $5 ; second best,
$3.

Pigeons. For the best collection — not less than six — S2; second

best, $1.

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Note. — Poultry must be entered on the first day of the Exhibition before
12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

nOESES.

William R. Mann, Sharon, General Chairman.

In awarding the premium on Roadsters, the general gootl qualities —
such as style, action, constitution and enduring properties — as well as
speed of the animals, will receive special consideration.

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In testing the speed of horses, each animal — four years old and over
— will be required to draw a carriage Aveighing, with driver included,
not less than 350 pounds.

It is understood that horses which have heretofore been classed under
the head of *' Thoroughbred and part Thoroughbred," may compete as
Roadsters, or in any other class.

Colts and Fillies will compete in separate classes, as heretofore, the
premiums being the same for either sex.

No Stallion will be entitled to a premium without a guarantee of his
remaining for service in the County six months.

In testing the strength, docility, and training of Draught or Team
Horses, the load shall not be less than 2,500 pounds for a single horse,
and 3,500 pounds for a pair of horses.

Every entry for premium must be made before 12 o'clock of the first
day of the Exhibition, and the Stock must be present the second day on
or before 9 o'clock, A. M.

It must be distinctly understood that premiums will not be awarded
to any animal that does not, in the opinion of the Committee, possess
decided merit and a sound constitution.

Class A. — Roadsters.

CoTwmt'^ee.—Eichard Holmes, Roxbury; Albert B. Balch, Medfield; Henry S. Clarke,
Walpole; Oliver Deane, Canton ; Henry Jones, Stoughton.

1st Division. — StaUio7is.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of . $10 00
2d best « " " « .7 00

2d Division.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " . 5 00

3 c? Division. — Colts and Fillies.
For the best 4 years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old,
2d best " ,
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best «

Ath Division. — Pairs in Harness. _
For the best pair of Roadsters, a premium of
2d best " «

$5 00

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3

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hth Division. — Harness Horses.

For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of . . . . $8 00

2d best' " « « .... 6 00

3d best « « « .... 4 00

4th best « « « .... 2 00

Class B. — Horses of all Work.

Committee. — Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph; Alden Bartlett, WestRoxbury; Erastus
P. Carpenter, Foxborough ; Samuel Cook, Milton ; Francis B. Ray, Franklin.

\st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of . $10 00
2d best « « « « . 7 00

2c? Division. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " . « « « . 5 00

3c? Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old, a premium of $5 00

2d best " « . '

best 3 years old, "

2d best " «

best 2 years old, "

2d best « «

best 1 year old, "

2d best « «

4ih Division. — Pairs in Harness.
For the best, a premium of .

2d best « ...

bth Division. — Horses in Harness.
For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of
2d best " " «

3

00

5

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Class C. — Family Horses.

Committee. — Albert Tirrell, Weymouth; John M. Harris, Needham; George R. Mann,
Sharon; Benjamin Newell, Dover; Henry Trowbridge, Wrentham; Truman Clarke,
Walpole.

\st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of . $10 00
2d best « " « « . 7 00

2c? Division. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side,
2d best " " "

3c? Division. — Colts and Fillies.
For the best 4 years old, a premium of $5 00

$7 00
5 00

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For tl»e 2d best 4 years old, a premium of
best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 years old,
^ 2d best «

best 1 year old,
2d best "
4th Division. — Carriage Horses 15 to 16 hands high.
For the best pair of Carriage Horses, a premium of
2d best « " *

5th Division. — Buggy or Chaise Horses.
For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of
2d best « " " "

3d best " « " "

(^fh Division. — Saddle Horses.
For the best Saddle Horse, a premium of

2d best « « « . .

3d best « « « . .

1th Division. — Ponies.
For the best matched Ponies, a premium of .

2d best " « « . .

best single Pony "

2d best « « " . .

Class D. — Draught or Team Horses

CommiUee.— Silas G. "Williams, Needham; Josiah H.Carter, Dorchester; Allen Col-
burn, Dedham; James H. Ellis, Med way.

1st Division. — Single Draught or Team Horses.
For the best Draught Horse, a premium of . . . . $7 00
2d best " " " .... 5 00

2c? Division. — Pairs of Draught or Team Horses.
, For the best pair of Draught or Team Horses, a premium of . $7 00
2d best " " " " " . 5 00

. 5 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 2 00

. 3 00

. 2 00

. $10 00

. 7 00

. $8 00

. 6 00

. 4 00

. $6 00

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. . . 3 00

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DAIRY.

BUTTER.

CowiTOz^ee.— Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton; Milton IM. Fisher,
Medway; Isaac Fiske, Medfield; Mrs. B. N. Sawin, Dover; Mrs. S. J. Capen, Dorchester.

For the best produce of Butter, on any farm within the County, for

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four months, from the 20th of May to the 20th of September, — a sam-
ple of not less than twenty pounds to be exhibited, — quantity as well as
quality to be taken into view, with a statement of the number of cows,
and a full account of the manner of feeding them, and the general man-
agement of the milk and butter — first premium, $10 ; second do., $8 ;
third do., $5 ; fourth do., $4.

Note. — It will be seen that these premiums are offered for the best produce
on the Farms, and not simply for the best specimens exhibited. Competitors
will therefore be required to keep an account, and render a statement of the
entire produce within the time^entioned. Each lot must be numbered, but
not marked ; any public, or kirown mark, must be completely concealed, nor
must the competitors be present at the examination.

For the best box of Butter, — ^not less than 12 pounds, — first premium,
$5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's Treatise on Dairy Farming.

I^' NoTE.^ — Butter must he presented only on the morning of the
second day before 9 o^cloch. ■

Cheese. For the best lot of Cheese, — not less than forty pounds, —
with a written statement of the whole process of making — first premium,
$5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's Treatise on Dairy Farming.

BEEAD.

Commitlee. — Edmund Quincy, Dedham ; Calvin Richards, Dover; Samuel W. Curtis,
Stoughton; Mrs. Benjamin Newell, Dover; Mrs. William Harding, Dorchester; Mrs.
Eliphalet Stone, Dedham.

For the best loaf of Wheat and Indian, of not less than two pounds
weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf made of Unbolted Wheat, which has been grown in
the County, of not less than two pounds weight — first premium, $3 ;
second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Rye and Indian, of not less than four pounds
weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Wheat Bread, of not less than two pounds weight
— first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best specimens of each or any of the aforementioned kinds of
bread, made by any young woman under eighteen years of age, an
additional premium of twenty-five per cent.

The bread presented for premium must be made on the first day of
the pjxhibiiion, by some member of a family, in whose name the entry
shall be made, and to whom the premium shall be awarded. The bread
shall be made without the use of saleratus or other alkaline substance,
and made in the family, and be presented only on the second day of the

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Exhibition, he/ore 0 o'clock in the morning. A written statement of the
process of making the bread must accompany each entry, but no name
or mark shall be put on the loaves, except the number of the entry ia
the Committee's book.

The names of contributors sliall not be known to the Committee, and
no person shall serve on the same if any member of his family shall be
a competitor.

" HONEY.

For the best specimen of Honey in the comb, not less than six pounds,
Longstrath on the Honey Bee ; second best, $1.

MANUFACTUEES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee. — John Sias, Milton; A. T. Meserve, West Roxbury; Edmund T. Everett,
Wrenttiam ; Charles E. C. Breck, Milton ; Luther Eaton, Dedhara.

For the largest and best collection, $12 ; second, $6.

For any new or improved Plow, which on trial shall be found best
adapted for the thorough pulverization 6f old plowed land, a premium
of $6.

New Inventions. For any new invention of decided superiority
and u«cfulne?3 to the farmer, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of
the Committee.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

Committee. — Mrs. David A. Baker, Dedham; Mrs. Benjamin Huntoon, Canton; Miss
Abby F. Hayes, Dorchester; Miss Lucy Calder, Dedham ; Mrs. John M. Harris, Needham.

Fancy Articles — including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shellwork,
Millinery, Drawings, Paintings, &c.

For such articles in this department as may be deemed worthy, a
sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars^ shall be appropriated, to be paid
in premiums or gratuities, proportioned to the cost; and value of the
article, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — It should be understood that in this department of Ladies' work —
while other things will receive due consideration — the premiums are intended
80LKLY FOR NKWLY MADE articles which are really useful or particularly
beautiful. For well-made garments of any kind; lor stocking knitting of
wool, cotton, or silk; or bonnet and cap making; for all articles for children's
wear, well made or tastefully embroidered ; for neat and thorough mending,
patching and darning ; for drawing, designing, or painting in oil or water
colors ; tor models in plaster, wood, or marble, &c.

Any article well and tastefully wrought, oflfered by children under twelve
years of age, will receive particular attention.

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Committee.— -A. S. Harding, Medway ; J. A. Turner, Medfield; Charles C. Sumner,
Foxborough.

Manufactures op Straw. For the best specimen of Straw Bon-
nets, wholly of domestic manufacture, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best specimen of Straw Braid, of domestic straw, not less
than 100 yards, $5 ; second best, $3.

Committee. — Naaman B. Wilmarth, Walpole ; Luther Metcalf, Medway ; Ezra W.
Taft, Dedham; Charles H. French, Canton; Francis B. Ray, Franklin.

Manufactures of Cloth, Flannels, Hosiery, &c. Cotton
Cloth. For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any description, not
less than twenty-eight yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the
discretion of the Committee.

Woollen Cloth. For the best specimen of Woollen Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity,
at the discretion of the Committee.

Cotton and Woollen Mixed. For the best specimen of Cotton and
Woollen Cloth of any description, not less than twenty yards in quan-
tity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Flannels. For the best specimen of Flannel, not less than twenty
yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

For the best specimen of Cotton Flannel, not less than twenty yards
in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

For the best pair of Woollen Blankets, a premium or gratuity, at the
discretion of the Committee.

Hosiery, ^c. For the best specimen of Woollen Hose, a premium

of $1.

For the best specimen of Woollen Half Hose, a premium of 50 cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Hose, a premium of 50 cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Half Hose, a premium of 25 cents.

For the best specimen of Worsted Hose, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Worsted Half Hose, a premium of 50 cents

For the best specimen of Sewing Silk, not less than one pound, a pre-
mium of $2.

For the best specimen of Knitting Yarn, not less than one pound, a
premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Spool Thread, not less than one pound, a
premium of $1.

For the best Fleece of Wool, a premium of $1.

For the best dozen seamless Grain Bags, a premium of $1.

For the beat specimen of neat and thorough mending, patching or
darning of garments, hose, «&c., a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of covered bonnet wire, $3.

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Counterpanes. For the best counterpane — regard being had to
quality and expense of materials — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

Carpetings Rugs and Floor Cloth.
For the best " Common " Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting,
do. do. " Fine " do. do. do.

do. do. " Superfine " do. do. do.

do. do. " Common," " Fine," or " Superfine " Ingrain 3-ply
Carpeting.
For the best Brussels Floor Carpeting.
do. do. Tapestry do. do.
do. do. Velvet Carpeting.
For each of these descriptions of Carpeting, a premium or the Society's
diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Ingrain 3-ply Carpeting will be judged by the comparative merits
of pieces of similar weight ; or disregarding weight, by the quality of color,
the taste of shading, and evenness in spinning and weaving. •

For the best piece of Stair Carpeting, the Society's diploma.
For the best Hearth Rug, the Society's diploma.
For the best specimen of painted Floor Cloth, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Any articles in either of the foregoing departments, which shall
have been manufactured in the family of the person presenting it, will re-
ceive the particular consideration of the Committee, and, if worthy, a suitable
premium.

Committee, — Frank M. Ames, Canton; Alexander Dickson, West Roxbury; Curtis G.
Morse, Dedham.

Glass, Earthen, Stone, and Wooden Ware. For the finest
collections and best specimens of articles in each of these departments,
a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brass, Copper, Tin, Iron, and Britannia Ware. For the finest
collections and best specimens of articles in each of these departments, a
premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cabinet Work. For the best specimen of Cabinet Work, a pre-
mium or the Society's diploma.

Iron Fencing, Gates and Posts. For the best specimen of each

— regard being had to cost and utility, as well as ornament — a premium
or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Stoves. For the best Farmer's Cauldron Stove ;
do. , do. Cooking do.

do. do. Parlor do.

— a premium of $2 each.

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Horse and Ox Shoes. For the best set of Horse and Ox Shoes,
a premium of $1.

For the best specimens of Horse Shoes, /or meadow lands, a premium

of $1.

Committee. — Joseph Day, Dedham; Samuel Atherton, Dorchester ; BeDJamin F. White
Weymouth ; John Mann, Walpole ; E. C. Monk, Stoughton.

India Kubber Goods. For the finest collection of India Rubber
goods, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brushes, Combs, Hats, Caps, and Gloves. For the finest col-
lection and best specimens of each of these articles, a premium or gratu-
ity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Leather and Articles Manufactured Therefrom.

For the best specimen of Thick Boots, a premium of,

Calfskin
Thin Boots, other

than Calfskin,
Kipskin.
Thick Brogans,
Fine Brogans,
Ladies' Boots,

For the best specimen of Upper or Sole Leather, or Morocco, a pre-
mium or gratuity, each at the discretion of the Committee.
For the best single Carriage Harness ;
do. do. double do.

do. do. Cart Harness — a premium or gratuity, each, at the dis-
cretion of the Committee.

For the best Riding Bridle, a premium of . . . . $1 00
do. do. do. Saddle, do. .... 2 00

do. do. Carriage or Cart Whip, a premium of, . .1 00

Carriages, Wagons, Carts, &c.

Committee. — Sanford Carroll, Dedham; Jacob F. Eaton, Quincy; Thomas L. Barney,
Medfield.

For the best specimen of Family Carriages, for one horse or for two

horses ;

For the best Covered Wagon ;

do. do. Open do.

do, do. Farm do.

do. do. do. Cart ;

For the best Farm Wheelbarrow — either a premium or gratuity, at

the discretion of the Committee.

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Commiltec. — George Vose, Milton ; George W. Low, Needham ; Theodore Dunn, Dover.

Jellies, Preserves, Pickles and Ketchups. For the finest
collection and best specimen of each, made of articles of domestic
growth, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Native Wines, Cordials, &c. For the best specimens of Wines
from cultivated wild grapes, not less than two bottles to be exhibited,
$2 ; second best, $1.

For the best specimen of Wine or Cordial from currants, blackberries,
raspberries, or elderberries, not less than two bottles to be exhibited,
each, $1.

Note. — It is to be understood that all articles presented for premium, in
each of the foregoing departments, except Agricultural Implements, shall
have been manufactured or produced within the County, and by the person
presenting them. Also, that in every case, the Examining Committee shall
have the right to substitute the Society's diploma for a premium or gratuity,
or to give it where no premium or gratuity has been offered, at their discretion.

All discretionary premiums or gratuities shall be proportioned to the actual
value and utility of the articles.

Articles in either of the above departments, contributed to the Exhibition
by persons not resident in the County, shall receive suitable attention from
the Committee, and, if worthy, be awarded the Society's diploma.

MISOELLAI^EOUS.

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Committee. — E. A. Samuels, Milton; Carlos Slafter, Dedham; A. W. Cheever, Wren-
tham.

For the largest and best collections of Birds and Insects found within
the County, beneficial or injurious to vegetation, properly arranged and
classified, to be exhibited on the Society's tables, at the next annual fair,
one copy of Harris's Treatise on Insects.

AGRICULTURAL LABORERS.

For a certificate — signed by his employer, and countersigned by any
two of the Trustees residing nearest to the applicant — of the superior
qualifications of any man or youth, in the employment of any member
of the Society for a period next preceding, of not less than two years,
attesting the industry, integrity, respectful demeanor and' general good
babits, during the time, of the bearer of such certificate, a premium of
Membership of the Society and a diploma. >

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AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS.

Committee. — Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester; Charles C. Sewall, Medfield ; Henry 0.
Hildreth, Dedham ; Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; Albert K. Teele, Milton.

For the best Report of Committees which recommend the award of
premiums. First premium, $8 ; second, $6 ; third, $4.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as sources
of profit, of the various grasses, or cereal, fruit or vegetable crops, a
premium of $10.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as sources
of profit, of the breeding and raising of the different classes of farm
stock, a premium of $10.

For the best Essay on the fattening of cattle, swine or sheep, detailing
the process and expense of the same, a premium of $10.

Forest Trees. For the best Essay on the raising and cultivation
of Forest Trees, a premium of $10.

Insects. For the best Essay on the destruction of Insects injurious
to vegetation, such as CurcuKo, Borer, Canker- Worm, Caterpillar, Gut-
Worm, Squash-Bug, Striped-Bug, Rose-Bug, S^c, ^c.,a. premium of $10.

Preservation of Winter Fruit. For the best Essay on the
preservation of Apples and other "Winter Fruils, $10.

Preservation of Vegetables. For the best Essay on the pres-
ervation of Vegetables, a premium of $10.

Agricultural Education. • For the best Essay on Agricultural
Education, a premium of $10.

Farm Accounts. For the best Essay on a system of Farm
Accounts, a premium of $10.

For the best Essay on Domestic

For the best Essay on Fences for Farms, uniting economy, strength,
and appearance, a premium of $10.

For the best Essay on the extermination of Weeds and Plants
destructive to crops, a premium of $10.

For the best Essay on the preservation and application of Liquid
Manure, a premium of $10.

For the best Essay on the introduction of new Fruits or of new
articles of Field Culture, a premium of $10.

For the best Essay on the value and application of Phosphate of
Lime, or any fertilizer of the soil, a premium of $10.

For the best Essay on Bees and Structure of Hives, with particular
reference to feeding Bees, and guarding against the spoliation of the
Bee Moth, a premium of $10.

For the best plan for a Barn and Barnyard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfort of the Cattle, the ease and convenience

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of tending them, and the making and preserving the Manure, a premium
of $10.

These premiums will not be awarded unless the Essays offered shall
in the judgment of the Committee appointed to decide upon them, be
deemed worthy of an award, without reference to their comparative
merit.

FARM BUILDINGS.

For the best planned house and out-buildings — regard being had to
the cost and economy of labor — the house to be warm, well-lighted
and ventilated, with a cellar protected from frost and vermin, and the
whole not to cost over $1,800 — to be examined by the Supervisory
Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said Committee.

TRANSACTIONS

OF TUB

NoEFOLK Agricultural Society,

FOB

18 6 8.

Published by the Society.

WEIGHT & POTTER,
PRINTERS,

No. 79 Milk Stbebt,
(Corner of Federal.)

CONTENTS.

Page.

Address, by Rev. James W. Thompson, D.D., 5

Report of the President and Secretary, 17

Essay, by E. A. Samuels, 18

Report on Fruit Trees, 37

" on Dairy, 42

" on Horses, 44

" on Bulls, 48

" on Cows, 48

" on Heifers, 49

" on Sheep, 50

" on Swine, 50

'* on Poultry, 51

on Working Oxen, 51

on Fat Cattle, 52

" on Plowing, 52

" on Fruit, 52

" on Flowers, 54

" on Bread, 55

" on Vegetables, 55

" on Seeds, 56

" on Leather Work, 56

" on Carriages, 56

" on Manufacturers of Wood and Iron, 57

« on Ladies' Work, 57

" on Pictures, 58

" on Agricultural Implements, 58

Recapitulation of Premiums, 60

Report of the Treasurer, 62

Proceedings on the Twentieth Anniversary, 63

Officers of the Society, 68

Names of Members, 72

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ADDRESS.

By Key. JAMES W. THOMPSON, D.D.

OF Jamaica Plain.

Mr. President^ Gentlemen of the Society and Fellow Citizens.

The illustrious master of Athenian eloquence — as you have
been often told — pronounced the first, second and third requi-
sites in the orator to be " action, action, action." I hope you
believe it ; and am happy to think that when I laid down my
knife and fork, I had truly and well and to your entire satisfac-
tion illustrated those essential qualities.

But if you should not be inclined to accept this ancient
authority, you surely will riot repudiate that of your own Society.
Your distinguished President has stated the conditions required
in your orator for the present year to be these three : 1. That
he shall not be a farmer. 2. That he shall say nothing about
farming. 3. That he shall take no time to say it in. The
embarrassment naturally arising from these limitations of time
and subject is somewhat relieved by the success of many of my
predecessors ; yet I fear that the field of these know-nothings
has been pretty thoroughly reaped. No doubt the valuable
information has been communicated by some of them that
the great Latin poet, Yirgilius Maro, celebrated in immortal
verse the methods, pleasures and rewards of good .farming.
Doubtless, the maxim of the great Roman farmer, Cato,
" Feed well," has been so often brought to your attention, that
the practice has become a law of your life. I should not be
surprised if the agricultural proclivities of Cincinnatus had
been spoken of in your hearing ; though, if I am rightly in-
formed, the honor of his example has been materially reduced
by the German historian, Nicbuhr. You may not have heard,

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however, the tradition they have at the West, tliat this illus-
trious Roman, instead of returning to his farm and plough, like
our immortal Washington, after finishing his public services,
emigrated to the banks of the Ohio, gave his attention to im-
proving the breeds of swine, and founded the city which bears
his name ! As the last resource of despairing genius I had
husbanded for this occasion the " two blades of grass where one
grew before ; " but on looking over the learned address of our
President at your first anniversary, I find that he disdained to
use it as being even then quite hackneyed, but expressed the
idea more elegantly thus : " The man who discovers a process
whereby a bog, a sandy plain, or a gravelly hill, may be made a
fruitful field or garden, is as truly a benefactor of his race, as a
Columbus, a Newton, a Franklin or a Fulton ! " Isn't that
putting it rather strong, Mr. President ? I could go as far as
to say of that man that he is " some pumpkins ! " and, judging
by the specimens we have seen to-day, that is a pretty large
measure of praise. But as to his being quite up to some of
those names, I think there may be room for an honest difference
of opinion !

But it is time that we turn to more serious reflections ; for
while, by precedent and usage, especially in the Old World, the
Farmer's Fair is a season for sport and jollity, in which young
and old give themselves up to ludicrous pranks and all kinds of
fun, it is also intended to subserve other and graver uses. It
is a season as you, Mr. President, have so well said, when " we
meet to interchange salutations, to promote industry, invention
and improvement, not in agriculture alone, but in all the use-
ful and ornamental arts of which she is the common mother ; "
a day " when workingmen assemble to work, to exhibit the
results of their labor, to explain the processes of their manufac-
ture or growth, to teach and to be taught how the greatest
amount and the best quality of the various productions of the
soil and the arts can be realized from the least labor and ex-
pense, and in the shortest space of time." Can there be an
occasion, then, of more varied and weighty interest, or that
touches the life and well-being of society at more points ?
Whatever lighter forms of speech it may permit as a relief to its
more sober thought, through its necessary relations it gathers
into itself all the elements of the most dignified and instructive

discourse. It lays its hand on the grandest and most beneficent
objects with which the intelligence of man converses, and draws
for its uses from sea and vapor, wind and cloud, Pleiades
and Orion, and the glorious luminary which bears health and
healing on its wing as well to plant and animal as to man. It
assembles in its splendid panorama the genius and the cunning
of all useful and ornamental arts. It plays familiarly with the
results of the most subtle scientific investigation and appro-
priates them at its pleasure to the melioration and enlargement
of its own domain. It smites, as with an enchanter's wand,
the rock whence flowed the inspired pastorals of David, and tlie
idyls of Theocritus and Virgil, and lo ! it gushes again in the
sweet song of Burns, in the magnificent melody of "Wordsworth,
and inspires our own Bryant to sing for a celebration like this :

" The proud throne shall crumble,
The diadem shall wane,
The tribes of earth shall humble
The pride of those who reign ;
And war shall lay his pomp away, —
The fame that heroes cherish,
The glory earned in deadly fray
Shall fade, decay and perish.
Honor waits o'er all the earth,
Through endless generations,
The art that calls her harvests forth,
And feeds the expectant nations."

And, finally, it summons religion from her calm and holy
retreats, to kindle her altars to the praise of Him " who giveth
rain from heaven and fruitful seasons and crowneth the year
with his goodness."

The vocation of the farmer, therefore, is not exceeded in
importance by any other. The cultivation of the earth is the
noblest calling of man. But not every man who uses farming
tools is a farmer. Not all digging, ploughing, planting, har-
vesting is farming. The real farmer is one who understands
his art. The only proper farming is labor on the soil under
the guidance of a mind well-instructed in all knowledge per-
taining to the soil. Farming is education applied to agricul-
tural production. Its best analogies are found in the walks of
the most liberal culture. It is the art of medicine and surgery

applied to the treatment of exhausted or diseased soils. It is
the administration of justice between acre and acre, seeing to it
from year to year that of one no more be required, and of
another no less than its due share of production. It is a gospel
of love to hill and plain, feeding hungry, clothing naked, giving
drink to thirsty fields, causing " the solitary place to be glad
and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose." Farming
possesses the sovereignty of the earth, having dominion " over
all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ;" over the
springing fountains and the brooks that run sparkling like
threads of silver among the hills ; over fields and meadows in
their variegated garb of grasses and grains, green and russet
and scarlet and gold ; over gardens and orchards with their
manifold beauty and luxuriance ; over all trees constituting, in
branch and leaf and blossom and endless variety of form and
color, the most enchanting growth with which the Creator has
embellished the earthly home of his human offspring ; over
every landscape on which it swings the axe or the scythe, drives
the plough or thrusts the spade, makes a fence or erects a
building ; inasmuch as it may adorn or disfigure it, make it a
thing of beauty or an eyesore, at its pleasure.

I know of no other calling which has a power so large, a
jurisdiction so comprehensive ; no other to which it belongs as
a natural right to modify the physical conditions of the earth's
surface, and even to effect important changes by the clearing
or the preservation of forests, by lowering hills and exalting
valleys, in those climatic influences on which the health, vigor,
and prosperity of a community in so great a degree depend.
So I have said that the vocation of the farmer is not exceeded
in importance. " When tillage begins," said Daniel Webster,
*' other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of
human civilization."

From this comes the corollary that no other vocation de-
mands a more thorough training and furnishing in all depart-
ments of natural science and history. The farmer should be
educated for his calling as the merchant, lawyer, physician,
minister. I care not how this education is obtained, — whether
from books, from oral instruction, from examples, or from
intelligent painstaking experiment. I only insist that it is of
the first consequence — demanded as a condition of the best

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success no less than for the honor of the calling. And besides
the learning belonging to the farmer's special pursuit, embrac-
ing several of the sciences, as geology, botany, chemistry,
meteorology, and what will one day be regarded as of equal
importance, the natural history of birds and insects in their
relation to each other and to vegetable production, — besides
this, there is no conceivable reason why the curriculum of the
farmer's education should not include all that taste and refine-
ment, those graceful accomplishments, that elegant culture,
which are found in the highest grade of civilization. Farmers
owe it to themselves to make their calling, already so elevated
and influential, still more honorable and enviable by exhibiting
in it these additional attractions.

Let the esprit de corps which this occasion so happily illus-
trates embrace not merely the utilities of their pursuit, but the
embellishments as well. Let it be extended to the architecture
of their houses and barns, and the sites chosen for them ; to
their inclosures and the modes of fencing ; to the planting of
trees, and the cautious selection of those that are to be
removed ; in short, to everything that may adorn the home-
stead and render it agreeable and attractive to the most culti-
vated taste. A wood-pile, though a glorious thing in its place,
is anything but an ornament before the front door ; and of all
deformities in the homestead, I know of none more execrable
than a barn with its stall-windows opening on the road, and the
house directly opposite. And of all heinous offences of which
the farmer can be guilty, I know of none of deeper dye than
that of the deliberate murder of a fine elm, oak, walnut, or
chesnut, growing where nature planted it, though it should be
in the front yard or in the centre of a corn-field ; — a crime of
wliicli many of us, at some period of our lives, have been the
unhappy witnesses. The influence which things of this sort,
that may be classed as embellishments, exert upon our happi-
ness and character has never been sufficiently regarded. Tiie
style of the house you live in, — it is John Ware who says so,
in substance, — its situation, convenience, facilities for move-
ment and for work, the way it faces, the shade about it, the
scenery beheld from its doors and windows, are all unconscious
educators and directors, not of our outward life but that which
is deeper within ; and it is these that we carry the memory,
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and, if they are as they should be, the veneration and love of,
through all vicissitudes and wanderings, from childhood to old
age ; and they linger in thought and affection till life closes
here to open in the blessed Hereafter.

The right education of the farmer has reference, then, both
to utility and to embellishment, the latter being scarcely less
important than the former. " I persuade myself," wrote John
Ray, the English naturalist, almost two hundred years ago,
" that the bountiful and gracious Author of man's being and
faculties and all things else, delights in the beauty of his crea-
tion, and is well pleased with the industry of man in adorning
the earth with pleasant villages and country-houses, with regu-
lar gardens, and orchards, and plantations of all sorts of
shrubs, and herbs, and fruits."

Attention to the general subject of agricultural education is
of comparatively recent date. It is not fifty, probably not more
than twenty years since any considerable interest had been
awakened in it in this country ; although toward the close of
the eighteenth and in the first quarter of the present century,
several seminaries for agricultural education had been estab-
lished in Germany, Switzerland, France and Great Britain. But
within the last twenty years, owing very much, no doubt, to
the development of the science of chemistry which, with each
new discovery, has brought to light some new truth applicable
to practical husbandry, the question of providing for the specific
education of young men intending to be farmers has taken a
deep hold on the public mind of several of the States of the
Union. It has enlisted the interest of many of our ablest and
most eminent citizens. And, Mr. President, I shall be com-
municating no secret to you when I say, that no where in this
broad land was the question of furnishing such education agi-
tated earlier, or with more ability, pertinacity and effect, than
here in the county of Norfolk ! And upon this point as a mat-
ter of history, you will pardon me if I dwell a little.

It is within the memory of not a few present, that in 1848,
when our farmers met here in Dedham to organize this Society,
that subject was made the prominent point in the address of the
orator and the speeches which followed it. Never was there
assembled on this continent for a similar purpose a congress
composed of more able and renowned men than most of

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those who took part in the proceedings of that day. There was
Weuster, great in the practical learning of the farm as in the
matchless eloquence of the forum and the Senate. There was
JosiAii QuiNCY, that grand old patrician, the noblest Roman
that America has yet given to mankind and to immortality, at
the top of his powers and of his fame. There was the calm,
thoughtful, dignified Everett, with his immense erudition and
his unrivalled elocution. There was Horace Mann, the first of
educators, delighting in nothing so much as to see the rural
population assuming its proper social rank and claiming the
academic advantages which of right belong to it. There were
Governors Lincoln, Briggs, Hill of New Hampshire, all emi-
nent men and distinguished agriculturists ; and in the midst of
these first citizens of the Republic sat, occupying the chair as
to-day, our urbane, learned and accomplished President, Mar-
shall P. Wilder !

The address and discussions of that day awakened a profound
interest in this and other States. In the following session of
the Massachusetts Legislature, if I mistake not, a bill was in-
troduced to establish an Agricultural College in this Common-
wealth. If I were to mention the name of the member who
introduced it, I am afraid there might be a dangerous rush of
blood to the head of the Chair ! This bill, so says the news-
paper, passed the Senate without a dissenting vote, but was lost
in the House of Representatives. A motion was subsequently
made for a Commission to report " on the importance and
influence of Agricultural Schools." A gentleman now present
who has requested me not to mention his name, and I won't, —
(but I have succeeded in ferreting out the facts) — was placed
at the head of that commission. The late President Hitchcock,
of Amherst, was also a member of it, and being then in Europe,
at the instance of the chairman and under a guarantee from
him of all expenses, at once commenced his duties, and as the
result gave an account of 353 schools, large and small, of this
character. For the purpose of sustaining these efforts, a com-
mittee, of which the gentleman whose name I have not men-
tioned was chairman, was appointed by this Society with power
to call a general meeting of Agricultural Societies at the State
House, " the object of which should be to concert measures for
their mutual advantage and for the promotion of the cause of

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agricullural education.''^ Mark how at every step Norfolk takes
the lead I This convention was held in March, 1851, and the
gentleman whose name I have not mentioned was made its presid-
ing officer ! It was attended by about 200 delegates of societies,
and other prominent agriculturists, and resulted in the forma-
tion of the " Massachusetts Board of Agriculture " of which
the aforesaid unnamed gentleman was the first and the only
president till it became a department of State with the governor
for its head. In 1856, having failed to secure the college so
long labored for, an act of incorporation was obtained for the
" Massachusetts School of Agriculture," of which I leave you
to guess who was made the president ! This organization con-
tinued to prosecute its d.esign of an agricultural institution of
education, secured subscriptions to the amount of $25,000
towards it, had a farm and buildings granted to it by the city
of Springfield, but was arrested in its proceedings wlien the
large grant of land was made by Congress to the several States
for the purposes of agricultural education ; and then joined
with the Commonwealth to establish that noble monument of
Norfolk County forethought, persistency and enthusiasm, " The
Agricultural College at Amherst." And now, whatever may
be said one way or the other about your exhibitions here, is it
not honor enough for the Norfolk Society that from its brain
sprang the project of establishing the " Massachusetts State
Board of Agriculture " and " The Massachusetts Agricultural
College?" and it might be added also, the "United States
Agricultural Society," of which for six years the gentleman who
requested me not to mention his name was president? Who
was it that was said to be " as truly a benefactor as Columbus
or Newton, or Franklin or Fulton?" No matter. I say that
the man from whose brain these various organizations, all hav-
ing one beneficent end, sprang, is a greater benefactor to man-
kind than — I 'do not wish to be extravagant — than a great many
other folks ?

It would be inexcusable in me if I failed in this connection
to mention with due honor the first Commencement of our
Agricultural College a few weeks ago, at which I had the great
satisfaction to be present. It was a busy, rainy, dirty, sun-
shiny, charming day ; with everything in the landscape to please
the eye, and everything in the exercises to gratify the mind.

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Like Mount Zion, the college is beautiful for situation, and its
government and instruction, as far as they could be judged by
the examinations and exhibitions, gave promise that the high-
raised expectations of its friends would be fully realized.
Farmers of Norfolk ! let this institntion, the offspring of your
brain, be cherished by your affection and nurtured by your
assiduous support. Make it a point to keep your own homes
represented in it by your sons. And make it another point to
disinherit any son who, having received its advantages and
graduated with its honors, declines to give head and hand to the
business of farming. This is the great danger to be guarded
against, — that our young men having completed a course at the
Agricultural College will turn their attention to something else
that promises to be easier, possibly more lucrative, and which
some soft-handed dolt regards as more respectable. I ask for
the vigilance of the friends of an improving agriculture at this
point. I ask that the college itself carefully enjoin upon the
young men the duty, and set before them, also, the privilege
and distinction of continuing in the fellowship of intelligent
and educated farmers, and devoting their energies of body and
mind to their noble pursuit.

It is noble ; and in the springing and growing crop, in the
sheeted bloom of its orchards and gardens, — cherry, pear,
plum, peach, and apple, rolling their waves and billows of
blossoms over the hill-sides and down through the levels, like
the gorgeous blossoming of the clouds at sunset, a perfect king-
dom of glory, — it is not only noble but most inspiriting and
health-giving. Moreover, I am well assured, it is handsomely
remunerative ; and with us Yankees that is the prime con-
sideration. If the profits of farming bear any proportion to
the cost of its products in the market, I should be in favor of
paying the national debt by a solid levy on the farming inter-
est ! To many it is a mystery why prices rule so high. The
thing is easily explained. It is owing to the high price of
labor. And that ? — is owing to labor-saving machines ! for you
see — this is the way they make it clear to me — the more labor
you can dispense with in carrying on a farm the dearer it
becomes, and we have to put prices up accordingly! Tliis is
the metaphysics of the subject. Perhaps you understand it.

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Farmers cannot complain. They must laugh inwardly,
though they look very sober, when they pull the wool over our
eyes and really make us believe it " don't pay." I know what
is said about middle-men ; but drive your own wagon to the
farmer's door to buy a barrel of potatoes or a firkin of butter —
how is it then ? It is a serious thing to us outsiders and con-
sumers— the high price of everything. It is a particularly
serious thing to my profession ; for it affects the question of
marriage. It makes marriage, which surely ought to be a
pleasant contemplation, altogether formidable, and keeps many
an unhappy creature in the horrible estate of bachelorhood.
The evil is felt in all classes, from highest to lowest. A Scotch
country girl left her place fully determined to put a matrimo-
nial period to the doubts and sighs of her stalwart admirer ;
but being rather cautious, and having read of high markets,
she called on a civil functionary in whom she had full confi-
dence, to ask his advice. The question she put was, " whether
markets were likely to rise or fall ? " " For," she said in a
whisper, " Allck and me intendit to gang thegither at this
time, but I canna mak up my mind to with the meal at twa
shillings and threepence a peck. Alick, I see, would risk it at
twa shillings ; but, faith, I'll no try it aboon anghleen pence ! "
So it appears that the clergy are big sufferers from high prices !

There is one important branch of agriculture to which I
have made no allusion. I mean the improving of the breeds
of animals. Great attention has been given to this branch by
your Society, with the best results. A Norfolk farmer has not
accomplished the object of his ambition till his stock, be it large
or small, be it horses or cattle or sheep or swine, or all together,
is the best for his particular habitat he can possibly secure. A
poor or even mediocre animal will be superseded by him as
soon as he can make the exchange. And I know of no greater
advantage of a Fair than the opportunity it affords for com-
paring stock, and the emulations thus awakened. While no
part of agriculture is more interesting than this, is it not
astonishing that the treatment which is due from man to these
" poor relations," as some one facetiously calls them — only I
believe they were monkeys! — has received so little attention ?
that the idea of humanity to these useful creatures — although
the practice of it is enjoined in the Book of books, and in the

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East it is a high point of religion — that this idea, I say, should
have waited through all the ages of Occidental civilization till
a very recent period for distinct recognition, either in the
public sentiment or the laws of the land ? One would have
supposed that the generous instincts of the human heart, or, if
not these, the more powerful persuasions of self-interest would
have availed for their protection from brutal treatment. But
since these were to so- great an extent ineffectual, I congratulate
you, farmers of Norfolk ! — as the event of the year — on the
incorporation by our Legislature of the " Society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty to Animals," and in the name of those
dumb creatures who cannot remonstrate for themselves against
the injustice and inhumanity they so often suffer, at the hands
of unreasonable and barbarous men, I bespeak for that society
your active and vigilant co-operation, being well convinced that
the object for which it labors is demanded both by the religion
of the Son of God and by the civilization of this age.

There is still another point to which I cannot forbear to
advert. I mean the foul stigma which has been removed from
farm-labor by emancipation. If nine-tenths of the manual labor
of Massachusetts were done in the penitentiaries, no men who
had any regard for their reputation would do the other tenth.
It would be deemed disgraceful. Emancipation has removed
the badge of infamy from the labor of the Southern States and
thereby given it the chance to spring at once into a position of
respectability and honor, its rightful estate everywhere beneath
the sun. The agriculture of the country cannot fail to derive
immense advantage from this act. There has never been any
farming at the South ; extensive planting, but no farming.
Agriculture has never been practised as an improvable art,
much less as one of the noblest of sciences. A general aspect
of unthrift, looseness, slovenliness, is everywhere the inevitable
consequence. Now all this is to be changed. Vast tracts of
exhausted lands are to be restored to fertility by scientific pro-
cesses learned in our Northern schools of agriculture, while
extensive regions, highly productive, easy of access, and very
cheap, will be opened to the skilled labor and exuberant enter-
prise and capital of the Northern section of the country. Here
are, at the lowest calculation, a million of farm-laborers released
from bondage, turned into freemen, with the fresh inspirations

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of freedom burning in their souls, with ambition to rise, to
make an honest place and home for themselves in the great
brotherhood of Christianized humanity, glad to be instructed in
all new methods of agricultural economy, ready to welcome all
the science you can give them and to turn it to the best account.
Their new status will create a demand for all that is known
and the best that can be done in this department of human
industry. Teachers in the art of farming, as soon as there is
peace and the workingmen are secure in their rights, will be
needed there and amply compensated, as they are now needed,
and for a long time will continue to be, in the more common
forms of education. It is the interest of the farmer of the
North to improve and elevate the labor of the South ; for in
so doing he adds dignity to his own calling and contributes to
the glory and prosperity of his blood-saved country.

Looking over the stormy conflicts that have carried such des-
olation in their march, the great captain of the age issues the
glorious order, " Let us have peace ! " Yes, let us have peace
— let us have freedom — let us have general education — let us
have the pure, simple, elevating, ennobling morality of the gos-
pel of Christ. And then the farmer of America, with his
industry, with his skill, with his thrift, with his enterprise, and
with his boundless domain, may safely challenge the competi-
tion of the world. Let us have these, and the garlanded Genius
of Agriculture shall summon her sons to come from the stub-
born fields of the North and the soft savannas of the South,
from the banks of our magnificent rivers, and from every
mountain, plain and valley, filling the vast spaces between the
two great oceans, and unite in a grand shout of gratulation and
anthem of praise, which shall proclaim paradise restored over
this mighty continent.

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture : —

Sir, — We herewith submit the Report of the Transactions of
the Norfolk Agricultural Society for the year 1868.

The ordinary operations of the Society during the year have
been conducted with gratifying success, and the future affords
promise of abundant returns for the work which has been done
within the past few years.

For a more specific statement of the operations of the
Society for the past year, we refer to the subjoined Reports of
the several Committees.

MARSHALL P. WILDER, President.

HENRY 0. HILDRETH, Secretary.

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ESSAY.

THE PESTS OF THE FARM.

By Edwakd a. Samuels.

A topic comprehending so wide a field as the one designated
above might fill volumes and still be far from exhausted ; for a
very large proportion of the mammals, some of the birds and
myriads of the insects are continually at work, through their
whole lives, against the labors of the tiller of the soil. To
describe of these even the species peculiar to our own State,
the manner in, and the extent to, which they are noxious, would
require a space entirely beyond the necessary limits of the pres-
ent sketch. But there are some species whose characteristics
and habits have distinguished them as being especially noxious,
and to a discussion of these I will confine myself. It is not to
be noticed in the lives of those animals, usually regarded as
pests, that some share of their operations are beneficial, so that
the amount of injury they inflict more than balances the good
they render. That some of the mammals and birds are bene-
ficial by destroying noxious insects is well known ; but that
their predatory habits and wholesale destruction of small bene-
ficial mammals and birds more than neutralize the benefits that
they do, is also well known. An animal, then, to be noxious,
must, in plain language, do more harm than good ; and to be

beneficial, the reverse.

]\Iammals.

Among our mammals, the first group which attracts our
attention is that which comprehends the rats and mice, called
the Muridcc, and of these animals the common brown Norway
rat and field mice are, economically speaking, the most impor-
tant. The former of these is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest
of all pests. The brown rat does not appear to be indigenous
to this country, but was undoubtedly introduced from Europe
in the ships of the early settlers. Its history seems to be
imperfectly known, some naturalists believing that it came

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originally from the East Indies, others, from the West ; many
assert that it came from Norway, while others maintain that it
was common in England before the Norwegians even heard of
it. Farther, other authorities state that this species came from
Persia and the southern regions of Asia, and that the fact is
rendered sufficiently evident from the testimony of Pallas and
Cuvier. Pallas describes the migratory nature of these rats,
and states that in the autumn of 1729 they arrived at Astrachan,
in Russia, in such incredible numbers that nothing could be
done to oppose them. They came from the western deserts,
and even the waves of the Volga did not arrest their progress.
Pennant states that this rat was first seen in England about
1728, and in Paris still later. Whatever the early history of
this animal may be, it is a fact that the brown rat was not
known in this country until it w^as settled by Europeans, and,
even now, it is unknown in the West beyond the limits of civil-
ization, upon which it seems to be an attendant, accompanying
it in its marches, establishing itself with it, and living on it.
The habits of the common rat are well known ; he is coura-
geous, sometimes even ferocious, cunning to a proverb, destruc-
tive, mischievous and filthy. Its food is almost anything
edible ; in fact, he may be called truly omnivorous.

A writer uses the following language in describing the habits
of this species : —

"Its food consists of almost every kind of animal and vefietable substances
eaten by other animals. In granaries and corn-yards it is extremely destruc-
tive, connnitting its depredations at leisure in the heart of the stacks, where it
frequently produces its young, and whence it cannot be expelled until they
are taken down, when the quantity of corn destroyed is sometimes found to
be enormous. In houses it feeds on bread, meats, vegetables, in short, almost
everything edible that it can gain access to." The rat is also " very destruc-
tive to chickens, rabbits, young pigeons, ducks, and various other animals.
Eggs are also a favorite article of food, and are sought with great eagerness."

Among the enemies of the rat, the weasel, skunk, fox, cat,
hawks and owls are perhaps the most active ; but almost every
living creature regards it as its enemy, and if sufficiently pow-
erful, attempts its destruction, and contrary to the canine
maxim that " dog will not eat dog," the rat even preys on his
fellows and destroys at every opportunity the young of his own
species. In fact, with its innumerable enemies this animal
would soon be exterminated were it not for its astonishing
fecundity. Rodwell, in writing of this, says, in calculating the
increase from one pair, that "the result is 651,050 rats in three
years ; it appears a thing almost incredible ; yet it is an arith-
metical fact." It is proper to observe that in this calculation
he averages the litters at eight in each case, — a very fair aver-
age, as they have been known to have twenty-three at a birth,

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and less than eight is the exception instead of the rule. He
allows half of each litter to be females, while, in fact, there are
considerably more females than males in every litter. There-
fore, taking these things into consideration, the result he arrives
at is certainly not above the actual number that might spring
from one pair in three years, were it not for its many enemies,
which, of course, tend to keep its numbers diminished to a cer-
tain extent, although not, unfortunately, to the desirable limits.

Many plans have been devised for the destruction of this
pest, the most successful of which have proved by poison. The
following are some of the recipes which have been found effi-
cacious, several of which I included in an article on our mam-
mals, published in the United States Report on Agriculture for
1863, to which I would refer for further facts regarding this
animal and others to be treated of in this paper. Mix two
ounces of carbonate of barytes with one pound of suet or tallow,
and place portions of the mixture within tlie holes and about
the haunts of the rats. It is greedily eaten, produces great
thirst, and death ensues after drinking. This is a very effectual
poison, because it is both odorless and tasteless. To one ounce
of finely powdered arsenic add one ounce of lard, mix into a
paste with meal and place it as above. It will be found effec-
tive. Make a paste of one ounce of flour, one half gill of water,
one drachm of phosphorus ; or, two ounces of lard, half a
drachm of phosphorus, and one ounce of flour ; or, one ounce
of flour, two ounces of powdered cheese crumbs, and one-half a
drachm of phosphorus ; add to each of these mixtures a few
drops of oil of rhodium and spread on thin pieces of bread, like
butter.

Recently a new plan of destruction has been devised by Mr.
Tegetmeier, the well-known writer on poultry. He describes,
in a late number of the London Field, his plan of operations,
as follows : —

" At the commencement of this season I Lad a number of very choice and
valuable pigeons in a large loft situated over a coach-house and stable. The
flooring was very old, and numerous rat-holes communicated ■with the space
under the flooring and above the ceiling of the stabling below. Attracted by
the corn, the rats came and took possession of this space. My choicest birds
were eaten alive by these most carnivorous of the rodentia. I had tried
poison, traps, &c., with only partial benefit, and I had serious thoughts of sell-
ing off my stock of Columbidse. At last, after deep cogitation, I determined
to try a chemical remedy, namely, chlorine, a gas so potent and destructive to
animal life that I knew that, if I could apply it advantageously, it must neces-
sarily prove effectual. Fortunately it is much heavier than atmospheric air,
so there was every probability of its flowing down the holes if it once entered
into them. I therefore took a Florence oil flask, adapted a piece of glass
tubing to its mouth by means of a perforated cork, and to the glass added a
short length of India-rubber tubing. In the flask I put an ounce of manganese
and an equal weight of common salt, poured on a wine-glass of water, and
then added gradually an equal quantity of strong oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid.)

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The cork and tubes beinpr adjusted, the apparatus was ready for action. A
spirit-lamp applied to the flask liberated a stream of chlorine, a gas which, if
breathed, except when diluted with many times its bulk of air, is absolutely
irrespirable. All the rat's holes havinti; been covered over, one after another
was opened, the India-rubber tul)e introduced, and a stream of chlorine
directed down each. The space between the floor and ceiling must have been
filled with a mixture of chlorine and air that no animal could have breathed
and lived. Since that time I have seen no rats. Old and young have alike
disappeared. Should a stray adventurer make his appearance, I shall repeat
my inexpensive remedy, and am now congratulating myself on having, for the
present at least, extirpated the enemy."

Included in the Mttridfc, and constituting a very large sub-
family, are the Arvicolince, the field-mice, and in many locali-
ties their depredations have established them as serious pests.
In the Massachusetts Agricultural Report for 1861 I gave a
full account of their haliits, and also in the United States Agri-
cultural Report for 1863, to which I would refer for interesting
facts concerning them. The field-mice are particularly injuri-
ous to plantations of young fruit-trees in winter, gnawing the
bark off the stems at the height of the snow, leaving a wound
which sometimes completely encircles the wood, which of course
is fatal to the life of the tree. They are also destructive in the
grain-fields, and in granaries, and when introduced, in hay,
from the field into the barn, are very mischievous, gnawing the
fodder and cutting it into fragments, and impregnating the
whole mow with their peculiar odor. There are several spe-
cies of field-mice in this State, included in different genera,
the most mischievous of which are the short-tailed field-mice
Arvicola. These animals are easily recognized by their short,
thick body ; short tail, usually less than half the length of the
body ; and short, strong limbs. All the species of this group
burrow in the earth, or beneath the roots of a shrub or tussock
of grass. Tiiey all feed upon grasses, bulbous roots, seeds and
grain ; they do not hibernate, but are active through the win-
ter, seeking their food through the deepest snows.

These short-tailed field-mice can hardly be seen without being
recognized, their peculiar form and habits giving them charac-
teristics not to be confounded with any other animals, except,
perhaps, the shrew-moles, which have forms somewhat similar
to those of the mice, but they have more diminutive eyes ; their
ears are hidden in the adjacent fur, and their heads are. thinner
and more pointed. Care should be taken in destroying the
mice not to include in the general slaughter these shrews, for
they, with the moles, are eminently beneficial, their food con-
sisting of insects and larvae. If the teeth of both shrews and
moles be examined they will prove that vegetable food could
not form part of the animals' diet, for they are very small and
fine, and the strong, sharp, chisel-shaped incisors which all the

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rodents or gnawing animals possess are wanting, their place
being supplied by fine teeth incapable of severing any but
insect food. There are in our papers, frequently, articles in
which appear long descriptions of the depredations of the
moles, and full directions are given for their destruction. Now
when it is taken in consideration that these animals are incapa-
ble of devouring vegetable food, — and even if they were not,
they could not digest it, — these articles, to say the least, are
unnecessary and mischievous.

Like the other mice, the ArvicoUncc are very prolific, and
their ravages would be much greater than they are now were
their numbers not kept reduced by numerous enemies. As
they are chiefly nocturnal in their habits, they are destroyed by
the owls and nocturnal mammals, — skunk, weasels, etc. Snakes
also prey upon them, and the reptilian form is well adapted to
following the mice in their burrows. Foxes also kill great
numbers, and they are favorite food with domestic cats. But
notwithstanding their many foes they are so numerous in many
localities that the damage they inflict is often quite serious, and
they are regarded as unqualified pests.

There have been many traps devised for their destruction.
The following, although I have described it before, is worthy of
notice here ; it has been tested and proved efficacious, and my
description has been copied into many of the agricultural papers
of the country: Dig in the earth, at the beginning of cold
weather, in localities where these mice abound, short trenches
from two to four feet in width at the bottom, and considerably
narrower at the top, and about four feet in depth, the ends
inclined at the same angle as the sides. The walls of these
trenches, after becoming frozen, are impassable to mice that
have fallen in, as they will have in great numbers. In these
trenches many hundreds may be killed in a single season. The
poisons which I recommended above are also effective when
scattered about their haunts. If the mice are in barns, a very
good plan is to scatter, where they may have ready access
to it, quantities of fresh-slacked lime. The mice, and, indeed,
rats will pass over it but once, and will leave the neighborhood
of it, in preference to frequenting passages where it is present.
This remedy of course can only be available under a roof. In
the gardens and nurseries it is well to avoid all chance of hav-
ing these pests in them, by removing, before the snow falls, all
rubbish, such as brushwood, straw, weeds and other litter, for
these but furnish comfortable homes for vermin of all descrip-
tions. Have no piles of strawy manure about, and, above all,
remove all piles of stones that may have accumulated. It is
noticed that the depredations of mice in orchards are compara-
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cleaned tip as described above, and the reverse when it is
neglected.

Woodchucks in Massachusetts arc now in too many localities
one of the most mischievous of pests. The habits of the ani-
mal, its forays into the pea-patch, the clover field, where, in
eating and making paths, it docs in a short time as much dam-
age as would a much larger animal, and its wliolesale destruc-
tion of young beans and green corn, are well known.

The numbers of this species have increased to a surprising
extent within a few years ; this fact may be accounted for in
two ways. First, tlie war collected from all the rural popula-
tion the sportsmen and gunners ; young men who once or twice
a week, with gun in hand, passed many hours in the woods and
fields. Of course, to these hunters many a careless woodchuck
fell victims, and the destruction was nearly sufficient to keep
the vermin in check. While the war was in progress the ani-
mals were nearly unmolested, and they increased very rapidly.
This fact has been noticed in connection with many of our
different species of gam.c, and my attention has been called to
it on several occasions.

Again, the numbers of dogs throughout the State, in conse-
quence of the enforcement of the laws enacted for the encour-
agement of sheep husbandry, and the requirements of the law
that owners of all dogs shall pay for each animal a certain
license or fine, have decreased to a very noticeable extent ; and
neighborhoods which could have boasted of dozens of curs a
few years since, can now show but a very few. The reduction
of the numbers of these natural enemies to the woodchuck has,
as before remarked, had its effect, and of late years the animal
has become a decided nuisance.

As the woodchuck does not lay up a store of food for the
winter, it hibernates, or rather its hibernation is natural, not the
effect of not saving a winter's food. The moutli of its burrow
is closed at the approach of winter, and the animal becomes
torpid. The burrow is formed with a chamber raised and with
several passages leading to it, and usually is beneath a rock, or
a stone wall. In spring, and while the animal is active, it is
caught in steel traps which are placed in the mouth of its
burrow and covered with loose earth. Recourse is also had to
poisoning, and stifling in the burrows has also been practised,
although generally with poor success, unless all the exits and
entrances are discovered and closed. The best mode of de-
stroying the animal that we know of, is to place a quantity of
gunpowder, enclosed in a paper bag, in the burrow, attach a
fuse or slow match to it, close the burrow with earth, which
should be tamped hard, and ignite the fuse ; the explosion is
fatal to the woodchuck, and the whole family, often, is extermi-
nated.

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The skunk is also regarded in most localities as a nuisance
and a pest. "We have, we confess, been undecided as to
whether the amount of evil it does more than balances the
benefits that it renders, and have often advocated its protec-
tion. The amount of benefits received is not always appre-
ciated or even recognized ; the evil done one is always appar-
ent. We know that the skunk destroys great numbers of field-
mice, and is always active in pursuit of the insects which
abound in our cultivated fields. But we also know that it
devours without hesitation every young bird and egg that it
can find ; and, taking into account the amount of good each
one of its victims might have done, we fear we must deny the
animal the benefit of a doubt concerning its value. In suc-
ceeding pages, as the benefits which a single bird may render
in one season appear, the destruction of it cannot b^lt be
deprecated, and an animal whose whole life is mostly devoted
to the slaughter of such friends can be regarded only as an
enemy.

However, the well-known peculiarity of the skunk will
always render it an object of disgust and hatred to the com-
munity ; and if volumes were written in its defence, and
advancing its real or supposed good qualities, the popular
prejudice would prevail, and the destruction of the animal
would, as it is now, be secured on every occasion. The skunk
is generally nocturnal, rarely venturing abroad during the day-
time, but remaining quiet in his burrow in a ledge of rocks or
beneath a stone wall, or perhaps in the burrow of a woodchuck,
the owner having fallen a victim to the skunk's appetite. At
early evening he comes forth, and begins his wanderings. If
met by a man or dog he faces the intruder and offers battle
usually with such success that he is unmolested ; no man,
unless armed with a gun, being hardy enough to attack the
beast, provided as it is with one of the most powerful weapons
in nature. The fluid which the skunk ejects, instead of being
the urine of the animal, as many people suppose, is a secretion
held in glands on the under side of the tail, near the body.
When this liquid is thrown at an object, the tail is of necessity
laid flat on the back ; the secretion is of a yellowish color, and
is, as most people are aware, of the most intensely disgusting
odor ; it has the property of blistering the skin on which it
strikes, and if reaching the eyes of animals it is liable to pro-
duce blindness. The skunk breeds but once in the year, bring-
ing forth from three to seven young in April or May ; the
young animals live with tlie parents until they are able to pro-
vide for themselves, when they are generally driven from the
burrow, although they sometimes pass the winter with them.

Trapping this animal is a work of no difficulty, the skunk
having the utmost indifference for all snares and pitfalls. We

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have seen one walk deliberately into a trap, rather than go out
of liis way six inches, and the trouble is, not to find a traj), but
to find the best one for the peculiarities of the animal. Steel-
traps set at the mouth of the burrow or in the fields which the
animals frequent are sometimes employed ; tliey are baited, as
should be all snares for the skunk, with dead mice, or birds or
pieces of meat. The objection to steel-traps is that in them
the animal is as offensive as ever, and must be killed before it
can be removed.

A writer on the habits of the skunk says : —

" In summer, these animals can be taken in great numbers by the follow-
ing method : Find a place where they travel from their holes to a hen-coop
or through a corn-field. Make a path for them by treading down the grass,
and set up sticks along on each side to guide them more surely. Set traps at
intervals, and strew pieces of meat or dead mice before and behind each trap.
A whole family of skunks will walk down this path, the old ones heading the
procession ; and as one after another is caught, those behind will climb over
and pass on, till all are'taken. I have caught in this way two old ones, and
eight young, in a single evening. They seldom discharge when first caught.
I have found a trap made by a sapling bent down to a figure four catch, and
baited with a dead bird, or a fowl's oilal successful, but the best of all, in my
judgment, is a large box-trap set in the animal's path or before his burrow.
This trap closes completely, and when the skunk is caught in it, he remains
quiet without discharging. The trap still closed, should then be immersed in
water until the animal is drowned, when he should be removed, and the trap
set for further duty."

The squirrels have in many localities, in consequence of tbeir
great numbers and depredations been regarded as pests, and
we confess that in too many instances some of the species have
well earned the title ; but all should not be condemned because
of the mischief done by the few, and full allowance should be
made for the benefits which all the varieties render in some
way. We have, in New England, several species, and their
habits and characteristics are well marked. The largest of
these species is the common gray squirrel, and it is very gener-
ally distributed throughout the Atlantic States ; with its con-
geners, the fox-squirrel and black squirrel, it is well-known.
Its food consists almost entirely of nuts ; and it is to this fact
that the multiplication of our forest trees is very largely
indebted ; for its habit of burying the different nuts as a pro-
vision against the necessities of winter, covering them to the
depth of two inches or more, in the rich forest-mould, secures
for them the most certain germination. This squirrel is a very
liberal provider for its future wants ; and all who are conver-
sant with its habits know how busy it is in burying these nuts,
from the time of their early ripening, until the ground is
covered with snow.

Now these nuts are not placed in one deposit, or two, or half-
a-dozen ; for accident might destroy such caches ; or they

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might be placed by heavy falls of snow or thick formations of
ice beyond the reach of the depositor, who would then be left
without food through the most inclement season of the year.
No ; by an exercise of the highest instinct, if not actual
reason, they are buried each by itself in every available spot in
the woods, whether on the hill-side, or beneath a fallen and
rotten trunk of a tree, or on the edge of a swamp, — anywhere,
that it may be found when occasion calls for it. And all know
how this little animal goes through the woods in the heavy
snow, digging down to its buried treasure with almost unerring
precision. We have said it is a liberal provider ; and what is
the proportion of the nuts it eats, of the whole number it
deposits ? Not one-fourth ; and as it instinctively buries only
those nuts that are perfectly sound, without insect stings, or
germs of rot, of course, all that are left buried, sprout and
spring from the ground,- miniatures of the parent tree. It is
well known that only a very small proportion of those nuts
that are left on the surface of the ground, exposed to the action
of the elements, ever mature and sprout ; they rot and shrivel,
or become the food and burrowing-place of noxious insects ;
and it can be very readily seen that it is on the labors of the
arboreal squirrels that an extension of the growth of our forest-
trees depends. It is not alone in the confines of the woods
that the nuts are buried ; but all along their borders, some-
times rods away from them, in the open fields and pastures, do
these active animals make their deposits ; and people who live
in the prairie countries, in which are belts of oaks and chest-
nuts, often find the young of these trees growing at a consider-
able distance from tlie parent grove, and attribute their pres-
ence to the action of high winds that had blown the nuts to
that distance.

In many sections the gray squirrel is destructive in the fields
of Indian corn, especially when such fields are situated near its
haunts ; but, generally speaking, we have no hesitation in say-
ing that it is far more valuable on the farm, than noxious.

The little red squirrel is another of our little quadrupeds
that is distributed almost entirely throughout our continent.
Like the gray squirrel, it makes its home in the woods, and is,
in some localities, very abundant. In the pine and hemlock
forests of the North it is, probably, the most common of all the
mammals, every little grove of these trees having one or more
families. It feeds principally on various nuts and seeds, and
in localities where the various pines abound, together with the
oaks and chestnuts ; it is especially valuable in securing a con-
tinuance of the latter, and even an introduction of them into
the forests of the pines and hemlocks. For, preferring the dark
shades of these evergreens for its home, it naturally eats its
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different phenomena of nature have doubtless noticed, that,
when a patch of pine woods is cut off, a growth of oak, liickory
and chestnut ahnost invariably springs up ; that is, if such trees
are growing anywhere within the distance of half a mile from
them. This new growth may almost always be attributed to
the red squirrel, who had buried the nuts from which it grew,
for its winter food. In sections where the various pines are
growing, their seeds furnish the principal food of this squirrel ;
and I have often found, in my northern wanderings, large piles
of the cones and coverings of the seeds at some favorite feeding-
place of this species.

It is not alone in planting nuts that this squirrel is valuable ;
for, as it is not afraid to approach the gardens and orchards of
its human neighbors, the choice apples and pears and cherries
which it sometimes seizes and carries off to its forest home, to
be eaten in leisure there, often produce, from the seeds the lit-
tle robber drops, a fine seedling that is oftentimes fully worth
propagating. I have often found, in our woods, trees that had
been undoubtedly planted by these squirrels, which were bear-
ing fruit as choice as that growing on trees in the carefully
tended garden and orchard from which they originally came.

Unfortunately for it, the red squirrel has another taste that
has brought it into disrepute. It is especially fond of young
birds and eggs, and the number that it destroys through the
season is not inconsiderable ; this fact, together with its preda-
tory excursions in the garden and nursery, have given it, in
some sections, a prominent position as a nuisance, and its
destruction is secured at every opportunity ; but, in more
i-etired localities, it is usually spared by the farmer, who
regards it as a funny, jovial fellow, full of good nature and
pleasant companionship.

The striped squirrel, or chipmunk, is probably the best known
and least popular of all our squirrels, and in most localities is
really a nuisance. It prefers an Open to a wooded country,
and usually takes up its home in or beneath a stone wall, or
pile of rocks in a field or pasture. Early in the spring, as soon
as the rays of the sun have penetrated to its subterranean home,
it makes its appearance; and, as soon as the first corn is planted,
it begins its depredations. It follows the rows of newly-sprouted
seed, and digging with wonderful sagacity into each hill, finds
the grains, and, cutting out and eating the germs, leaves the
remainder on the earth to become food for crows or other birds.
Later, when the strawberries and other small fruits are ripened,
it takes no small share of these delicacies ; and when the grains
are fit for harvesting, the amount this little thief carries off is
sometimes astonishing. In addition to these articles of diet,
the chipmunk secures great quantities of nuts ; and lazy people
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digging into it with shovel and pick, the stores that had been
laid up for future needs are discovered.

In the winter, unlike the other species, this squirrel partially
hibernates, sleeping most of the time in its burrow until warm
weather comes. It would be unbearably abundant in cultivated
districts did it not have enemies in all the birds and beasts of
prey and the various snakes. Its pretty form, active habits and
confiding disposition insure its tolerance in some localities, but
generally it is regarded as a nuisance, and is killed at every
opportunity.

As a means of destroying the squirrels, the gun is proved the
most efficacious ; they are also poisoned with corn which has
been soaked in strychnine, and may be readily caught in box-
traps and pitfalls. Numbers fall victims to domestic cats, and
were the latter not destructive to small birds their employment
would be advisable. We know a person who owns fifteen or
twenty cats which are permitted to run in the fields about the
house ; not a squirrel, rat or mouse can be found on the prem-
ises ; neither, unfortunately, can any of the small birds, and the
utility of these cats is therefore most questionable, to say the
least.

Rabbits, in some localities, are very troublesome, and their
visits to patches of young pea-vines and tender vegetables are
numerous and unwelcome. I have known of instances of large
areas of early peas being eaten down to the ground when they
were situated in the neighborhood of swampy woods, the home
of the rabbits, and nurserymen often complain of the ravages
committed in plantations of young fruit-trees, the rabbits eating
the bark entirely off around each tree. Animals trapped so
easily as these, however, should never be permitted to have the
range of the garden and nursery, and negligence in killing
them should be repaid by their devastations. The ordinary
box-traps, baited with a sweet apple, are always successful with
them, and if these are not available, the common spring-up
snare will be found sufficient. There are several modes of
making this last-mentioned snare ; the best that I have ever
tried is made as follows : —

In swamps or young woods where rabbits frequent, select
a sapling which is straight and of a diameter of from an inch
and a half to two inches at the ground ; trim the small limbs
and twigs off to a height of about eight feet and cut off the
stem at that point ; prepare a slip-noose on a strong cord thirty
inches in length, and affix one end of the cord on the upper
end of the sapling ; eight inches from this end tie a thin piece
of wood an inch in length and a quarter of an inch in thickness
to the cord ; this is called the button. Select a forked stick,
cut it to the length of a foot and drive it into the ground
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ground ; observe care in having the sides of the fork point in
the same direction with the bent sapling; pass the button
through the fork, and, keeping the noose from passing through
with it, adjust the button in a perpendicular position, tiie upper
end resting against the side of the fork above, the lower end
pressing against a piece of wood six inches in length, a quarter
of an inch wide and an eighth of an inch thick, called the
spindle, which is passed between the extreme lower end of the
button and the fork. Open the noose and extend it before and
around the spindle and keep it raised from the ground to the
lieight of an inch or more, by thrusting into the ground within
the noose a circle of pieces of small sticks. The snare is now
ready to set, which is simply done by affixing to the end of the
spindle, within the noose, a small sweet apple or portion of a
larger one. It will be seen that the animal, in order to touch
the apple, must pass its head into the noose ; the moment the
bait is touched the spindle drops, the button of course flies out,
the noose is drawn tightly around the rabbit's neck, and it is
instantly strangled. A little practice will enable one to set this
snare in about the time it takes to write a description of it, and
it excels anything that can be prepared for the capture of
rabbits.

The other mammals, not heretofore mentioned, found in New
England, are either beneficial or neutral in value on the farm.
The weasels, minks, &c., are open to the same praises and
objections with the skunk ; the bats are beneficial ; the foxes,
raccoons, bears and cats are both beneficial and injurious, prob-
ably leaning more to the latter quality ; and the ruminantia,
including the moose and deer, are now so far from being
numerous, and their habits leading them to forests, that any
damage inflicted by them must be very inconsiderable.

Birds.

"We now pass to the very large and interesting class, the
birds. If we should say that none of these are really pests,
that all should be protected and encouraged on the farm, and
thus dismiss them, we would, perhaps, in this general average,
do justice to both birds and man ; but there are a few species
whose lives have placed them prominently before us, and about
whom there is already much controversy, which we cannot
pass by without devoting to them a small portion of our atten-
tion.

Probably the most important of these is the robin, and cer-
tainly none has been the subject of more discussion. At the
outset I am willing to acknowledge that to small fruit-growers,
generally the robin is a pest and a nuisance ; that it spares
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these persons it is all that their anger and disappointment have
painted it ; but the interests of fruit-growers are small compar-
atively with those of farmers generally, and the whole life and
labor of the robin should be considered before it is condemned.
In an article on the economy of food of some of our birds, which
appeared in the Report of the United States Department of
Agriculture for 1867, 1 devoted considerable space to the robin,
and from the facts which I brought forward I will glean the
most important. From memoranda of the contents of the
stomachs of these birds, taken in different localities and in
different times, I found that through the months of January
and February the robin is beneficial, (taking units to represent
the relative qualities,) 21 units, by destroying noxious insects ;
injurious 4^ units, by devouring beneficial insects ; and neutral
33| units, its food consisting, in this proportion, of seeds and
berries. In March, it is beneficial 12|, injurious 1|-, and
neutral 17 units, feeding as before on injurious and beneficial
insects and larvee, but principally on seeds of uncultivated
trees and shrubs. Through April, May and June, I find that
for the reasons above mentioned it is beneficial 52 units, inju-
rious 8 units, and neutral 31 units. In July, it is less benefi-
cial than injurious, the food indicating that it is beneficial 9,
injurious 18, and neutral 4 units. Through the balance of the
year the food exhibits the greatest variety, but the most liberal
margin will allow the bird to be 48 units beneficial, 28 units
injurious, and 76 units neutral. In a general summary of the
above brief analysis, wo find that the robin is beneficial on the
farm 142 units, injurious 60 units, and neutral about 163 units.
From this we cannot but see that to the farmer, at least, the
robin is far from being a pest, and that it is worthy of protec-
tion.

Did my space permit, I could give many pages from the
writings of various authors in support of this conclusion, but
such would be unnecessary. It is true as many pages could
be produced of complaints made by different fruit-growers,
against the bird, but they would advance no facts new to us.
Against the statement that is so often made, that earth-worms
constitute the principal portion of this bird's diet, when fruit
is not accessible, the simple fact appears that these worms are,
during the greater part of the season, so far below the surface
of the earth, because of the dryness of the soil, that they could
not be reached, I do not pretend to say that they are not often
eaten in great numbers, but I have no hesitation in pronounc-
ing a very large proportion of the worms which the bird is
seen to capture, to be cutworms and other noxious larvas, which
fact I have proved on a very great many occasions.

Tiiere are a number of our other birds which have come
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destriictivo habits. The most important of these have been
treated of in the article mentioned above, to which I would
again refer the reader.

Insects.

The extent to which this class is mischievous on the farm is
very great. It has been estimated that, in one season in the
New England States, the amount, in the various crops de-
stroyed, would reach millions of dollars ; and when we take
into consideration the variety of ways in which many of our
insects arc injurious, the different trees and plants and fruits
which they attack, sometimes destroy, the estimate is not
imreasonablc. In fact, every variety of vegetable growth has
its insect enemies, sometimes is assailed by a number of species
at once, and almost eternal vigilance is necessary for the suc-
cessful cultivation of nearly all our crops. Fortunately the
Creator has provided numerous assistants for man in the work
of protection, and most of the birds, many of the mammals, as
we have already found, and whole families of the insects, are
continually at war against the noxious ones.

Did my limits permit I would designate a few of the most
valuable carnivorous insects, and show how and to what extent
they are beneficial, but with a brief general recommendation
for the dragon flies, which are carnivorous, feeding almost
entirely upon noxious insects ; for the tiger beetles, (those
active beetles which frequent sandy plains and roads, and
when forced to take flight alight after passing a short distance
and turn to face the intruder,) which destroy great numbers of
small lepidoptera and larvaa ; and for the ichneumon flies which
lay their eggs in the bodies of lepidopterous and other larvce,
the grubs of which when hatched devour the caterpillar that
incloses them ; I will pass to the most prominent of our noxious
insects.

Of the species which attack our various fruit-trees, none of
late years have proved more destructive than the canker-worm.
This worm is the larva of the canker-worm moth, the male
only of which species is furnished with wings. The history of
this insect is now pretty well known ; but for the information
of tb.ose who have had no opportunities of observing its habits
I will present the account given by Dr. Harris: —

" It was formerly supposed that the canker-worm moths came out of the
ground only in the spring. It is now known that many of them rise in the
autumn and in the early part of winter. In mild and open winters, I have
seen them in every month from October to March. They begin to make their
appearance after the first hard frosts in the autumn, usually towards the end
of October, and they continue to come forth in greater or smaller numbers,
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begun. Their general time of rising is in the spring, beginning about the
middle of March, but sometimes before and sometimes after this time ; and
they continue to come forth for the space of about three weeks. It has been
observed that there are more females than males among those that appear in
the autumn and winter, and that the males are most abundant in the spring.
The sluggish females instinctively make their way towards the nearest trees,
and creep slowly up their trunks. In a few days afterwards they are followed
by their winged and active males, which flutter about and accompany them
in their ascent, during which the insects pair. Soon after this the females
lay their eggs upon the branches of the trees, placing them on their ends,
close together in rows, forming clusters of from sixty to one hundred eggs or
more, which is the number usually laid by each female. The eggs are glued
to each other and to the bark, by a grayish varnish, which is impervious to
water. The eggs are usually hatched between the first and the middle of
May, or about the time that the red currant is in blossom, and the young
leaves of the apple-tree begin to start from the bud and grow. The little
canker-worms, upon making their escape from the eggs, gather upon the ten-
der leaves, and, on the recurrence of cold and wet weather, creep for shelter
into the bosom of the bud, or into the flowers, when the latter appear.

" It should be stated that, where these insects prevail, they are most abundant
on apple and elm trees; but that cherry, plum and lime trees, and some other
cultivated and native trees, as well as many shrubs, often suffer severely from
their voracity. The leaves first attacked will be found pierced with small
holes ; these become larger and more irregular when the canker-worms
increase in size, and at last the latter eat nearly all the pulpy parts of the
leaves, leaving little more than the midrib and veins. When fully grown and
well fed the caterpillars measure nearly or quite one inch in length. They
leave off eating when about four weeks old, and begin to quit the trees ;
some creep down by the trunk, but great numbers let themselves down by
their threads from the branches, their instincts prompting them to get to the
ground by the most direct and easiest course. After reaching the ground
they immediately burrow in the earth to the depth of from two to six inches,
unless prevented by weakness or the nature of the soil. In the ground they
make little cavities or cells by turning round repeatedly and fastening the
loose grains of earth about them with a few silken threads. Within twenty-
four hours afterwards they are changed to chrysalids in their cells."

In the chrysalis form they remain until they appear above
the surface of the earth as moths, when ascending the trees
they deposit their eggs and die, their progeny replacing them
in their numbers and devastations. Dr. Harris farther con-
tinues : —

" As the females are destitute of wings, they are not able to wander far
from the trees upon which they have lived in the caterpillar state. Canker-
worms are therefore naturally confined to a very limited space, from which
they spread year after year. Accident, however, will often carry them far
from their native haunts, and in this way, probably, they have extended to
places remote from each other. Where they have Ijecome established, and
have been neglected, their ravages are often very great. In the earlj'- part
of the season the canker-worms do not attract much attention ; but it is in
June, when they become extremely voracious, that the mischief they have
done is rendered apparent, when we have before us the melancholy sight of
the foliage of our fruit-trees and of our noble elms reduced to withei'ed and
lifeless shreds, and whole orchards looking as if they had been suddenly
scorched with fire."

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As tlic eggs are deposited on llic trees only after tlie female
lias ascended, the manifest remedy and protection is to prevent
the female from crawling np the trunk. For this purpose
almost numherless things liave been invented, some of wliich
have been in a measure successful, none more so than the strip
of tar painted on the trunk of the tree while the females are
active.

There have been various methods tried of applying this tar,
the most efficacious of which being simply to tack around the
tree a strip of thick brown paper about fifteen inches in width,
and over this to paint a thick coating of a mixture of tar and
grease two or three times in twenty-four hours, or at least once
during the day, and once in the evening, during which latter
time the females swarm up the trees in the greatest numbers.
It is essential that the tar be applied in a liquid form and suffi-
cient grease should be mixed with it to give it the requisite
thinness. The female moths on endeavoring to pass over the
tar are arrested, and hundreds, sometimes thousands, are
caught on one tree in a single night. I am acquainted with a
gentleman, owner of a large orchard in Middlesex County, who
keeps one or two men employed through every night during
the season of the ascent of the female moths, in applying the
tar, and he assures me that if he were not careful thus to keep
them in check during the night, that they would completely
overrun his trees.

After the moths have obtained access to the trees and laid
their eggs, there is very great difficulty in ciiecking their
ravages. Mr. Marshall S. Rice, of Newton, gives his experi-
ence and method of overcoming these pests, as follows : —

" Before the foliage was much eaten, and when the worms were about two-
thirds grown, on a warm still day, I took a cane-pole about twenty feet Ions,
and went into my orchard to see what could be done. I took my stand a
little way from a tree, and beginning with the top limbs on that side, I shook
and jarred them thoroughly ; and most of the worms from those limbs let
themselves down on their own rope, some to lodge on the under branches,
others to hang in the air near the ground ; then I sliook the next tier of limbs
in the same way; and so continued till the whole side of the tree had been
thoroughly shaken, and the worms in great numbers hung in the air under
the lower limbs; then by horizontal strokes with my pole, under the limbs,
and as near them as possible, I let down all the culprits which were within
my reach. I then went through the same operation on the other side of the
tree. I went to the second and third tree and did the same. Perhaps 1 was
half an hour doing the three trees. Now I had got a large portion of the
worms to the ground, but not knowing what they would do with themselves, I
went to the first tree operated upon to e.\amine ; and I found the creatures
determined not to be foiled by this mode of attack; all, from every direction,
were scampering toward the tree and some of them crawling up its trunk. I
concluded if I had failed to catch the grubs I could arrest the worms with tar.
1 directed my man to get some tar and warm it, and bring it as soon as possi-
ble ; he did so, and perhaps in fifteen minutes he had it there. I brushed
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down the worms, some of which had got as hijh as my head upon tlie trunk
of the tree, and he put a belt of tar around each tree. For a while I watched
their movements, and found they all knew which way to crawl to find the
tree; and after reaching it, rushed upward till all were stuck fast to the tree;
and they formed quite a band around each tree. I concluded, as farmers
often say, that in my mode of attack, [ had got the cart before the horse, and
that I would change my plan somewhat. I therefore sent my man forward
with the tar, and I followed with my pole, in the way above described. The
result was, I went over forty large apple-trees twice, using fifteen tninntes
each time on each tree; and although not every worm was destroyed, almost
all were ; so nearly so, that I saw but little of their depredations after the
second attack.

" The best time to do this work is on a still, warm day, after the dew has dis-
appeared ; then they more readily drop upon their thread when the limbs are
jarred, than they will on a windy or cool day, or when the trees are wet. If
I failed last fall, or if I do this spring, to catch the grubs as they run up, I
mean not to fail in bringing down Ihe worms after they show themselves upon
the trees. By the above plan, I think we may be sure of every worm that we
can get upon the ground, for they will persevere until they are stuck f;ist in
the tar. There are now but few hoinesteads in Newton where there are more
than forty large apple-trees upon them. Who, with that number, would
sooner lose his fruit and be obliged to see his trees disfigured and injured by
these worms, than to be at the expense of two days' work upon them V"

Another very injurious larva is the caterpillar of the apple-
tree moth. Its habits are too well known to require a descrip-
tion here. Of the numerous devices planned for tlie destruc-
tion of this pest, none have proved more efficacious than simply
removing, with the hand the nest and its inmates at early
morning, and crushing the caterpillars beneath the foot. All
washes have proved ineffectual, and the brnsh is not always
successful ; pick off every individual, and clean off the nests ;
and in early spring scrape off the loose bark and moss, and burn
it, and it will be found that the apple-tree caterpillar can be
easily suppressed. The apple-tree borer is also well known as
being very destructive, and when its ravages are rinchecked the
life of the tree is endangered. The presence of one of these
grubs may readily be determined on finding on the ground
close to the trunk of the tree a little pile of the castings of the
insect, which greatly reseml)le fine saw-dust ; above this dust
will be seen the mouth of the burrow, running into the wood
of the trunk. The best method of killing the grub is to thrust
a sharpened, flexible wire into the burrow until the insect is
impaled. In many cases, if the bark and wood around the hole
be cut away with a knife, the borer will be exposed to view,
when it may be destroyed. It is important that all the holes
be thus probed, and that every boiler be killed. The following
paragraph from the " Fruit Culturist" gives further directions
for the suppression of this pest : —

" Dig out thoroughly and destroy every worm that can be found, with a
jackknife, chisel and knitting-needle ; then, in the earliest possible time in the
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whale-oil soap or n;as tar, partially dried, 12 or 15 inches wide, from the roots
up, and loosely tied top and bottom with bass mattin^;. This will require
about twenty minutes to a tree, and will last one season."

The codling moth is also well known, its larva boring
■unsightly holes through the apple in different directions, caus-
ing the fruit to drop to the ground, and rendering it unmar-
ketable. There is no method of preventing the deposit of the
eggs by the parent moths, but there are means by which their
numbers may be greatly diminished. Fires built around the
orchard in the evenings of the latter part of June and early in
July will attract and destroy the moths in numbers ; and all
the windfall fruit or other apples lying on the ground should be
gathered at once and fed to the hogs. This practice, if followed
up, will very greatly tend to keep these insects in subjection.

Among the insects attacking young vegetation, a very gener-
ally known species is the striped cucumber-beetle, (often called
the striped bug.) Various remedies have been tried against
their devastations, but I believe nothing, except a protection
for the young vines or other plants attacked, by a gauze or
millinet screen, has proved effectual, although a solution of one
pound of whale-oil soap to four gallons of water, scattered
plentifully over the plants from time to time, has been quite
successful. Particular care should be taken to apply this after
a rain storm, ^nd it is essential that the under surfaces of the
leaves be well moistened with it. Lime, plaster of paris, wood
ashes, pepper, <fec., have been recommended, but the above
seem to be the only ones that can be at all relied on.

Cut-worms are also a serious pest in many localities. As
they live, during their larva form, beneath the surface of the
ground during the daytime, their presence is rarely detected
until a large number of young and thrifty plants have been
severed by their sharp jaws. There are several remedies rec-
ommended against them. It is said that a handful of oil-meal
in a hill of corn will keep the worms employed until the plants
are grown too tough for the insect's attacks. I cannot recom-
mend it from personal knowledge, but should say it is worth
the trial, as it can do no harm if it does no good, the meal
being valuable as a fertilizer. Flour of sulphur scattered on
each hill is also well spoken of, as is an occasional application
of whale-oil soapsuds, lime, and wood ashes.

The aim of the farmer should be to destroy the worms, rather
than prevent their ravages; for this we have proved the follow-
ing the most reliable plan : Wet the earth on each hill, and
thrust down into it, to the depth of two or three inches, a smooth
round stick, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, and turn it
around several times until the hole made in the ground is on
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on each hill there are five or six of these holes. The cut-
worms in their perigrinations will fall into these traps and can
be easily caught and killed. It is a good plan to place around
the hills in scattered places in the field a number of old shin-
gles ; the cut-worms will hide beneath them from the daylight,
and can thus be captured.

The ravages of the currant-worm are now much complained
of. The remedy most recommended is to scatter from an
ordinary drcdging-box plentifully over the bushes, from time
to time, the dust of the white hellebore, which can be pur-
chased at any druggist's at a low price.

There are many other species, indeed whole families, who are
pronounced by all as being unqualified pests. For checks to
the ravages of these I can offer only general suggestions. In
orchards the dead grass and rubbish beneath the trees should
be removed, and, if practicable, the ground should be ploughed
in early autumn. The dead bark should always be removed
from the trees, for beneath it the parent insect finds a most
acceptable place for the deposit of its eggs. Butterflies and
moths should on all occasions be destroyed, and the nests of
caterpillars, whether found on cultivated trees or wild ones by
the roadside, should always be removed. If care is exercised
in these matters, and protection is given to useful birds, a very
large proportion of the annual loss by insects will be saved.

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

FRUIT TREES.

On invitation of David Shaw, Esq., of Foxboroiigh, received
through the Secretary, Sept. 7, the Committee proceeded to
Foxboroiigh, Sept. 14, for the purpose of examining the apple
orchard of Mr. Shaw, entei*ed for the Society's premium.

At Foxborough the Committee were joined by Hon. Otis
Cary and Rev. J. M. Merrick, citizens of the town, who very
courteously devoted the entire day to their entertainment,
pointing out the orchards, graperies, hedges, and other matters
of interest in agriculture and horticulture everywhere visible
in this beautiful and thriving town. They were also favored
with the presence of the Secretary and one of the Vice-Presi-
dents of the Society, and later in the day were joined by other
citizens.

An hour was spent in the examination of the Union Straw
Works. This establishment is vast in greatness and perfect in
detail. It is the life of the activities of Foxborough and vicin-
ity. One cannot but wonder at the system, order and neatness
in every department, even where the roughest work is done.
Another striking feature is the unmistakable intelligence of the
employees. The whole establishment, from the threshold to
the topmost room, bears the impress of one controlling mind,
bent on accomplishing its work in the best manner and by the
most approved means, with an eye ever upon the comfort and
welfare of the operators.

The Committee also visited the farm of Erastus P. Carpenter,
the principal manager of the Straw Works, coming more
directly in the line of their duty ; this they found managed in
the same way. They can only speak of a field of eight acres,
reclaimed, by tile drainage, from a worthless quagmire, and
yielding three tons of the best hay to the acre, besides a heavy
aftercrop. The barn and stable are perfect, as far as skill and
care and money can make perfect; filled with the most approved
stock and managed in the most approved manner.

The apple orchard of Mr. Shaw embraces about one hundred
trees, occupying two acres of land. The trees were obtained
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better adapted to his grounds and exposure than those raised
in a more southern locality. Fifty of them, divided equally
between Baldwins, Greenings and Russets, the portion espe-
cially entered for premium, were set out sixteen years ago,
twenty feet apart. Great care was taken in planting. The
ground was deeply ploughed, and has been kept under cultiva-
tion every year, cropped with potatoes and corn, until the trees
became too large to admit of crops. Barn-yard manure has
been used with the crops at the rate of 3^ cords per acre. Of
late he has used a wheelbarrow of manure to a tree in the fall,
and the same in the spring, well spaded in. Mr. Shaw has
washed his trees with soft soap about the first of July and at
the same time has examined them for borers; these, when
found, he cuts out and destroys with the knife and the wire,
unless too deep to be reached, in which case he drives a nail
into the opening and fills-it closely with hard soap ; this, in his
judgment, excludes the air and kills the grub. Mr. Shaw feels
confident that he finds two varieties of borers, one that girdles
and one that penetrates.

The way canker worms are dealt with is as follows : a pan is
adjusted upon a long pole, in which brimstone and live coals
are placed ; the worms coming within reach of this fumigation
are destroyed.

The Committee found the orchard of Mr. Shaw in a vigorous
and thrifty condition ; the fruit was abundant, large and fair ;
some of the trees, more particularly the Baldwins, were bend-
ing under the load of fruit. The pruning was not severe, only
the interlacing branches being cut off. The trees occupied the
whole ground, so as to render it difficult, in some cases, to pass
around them. When ten years old, these fifty trees yielded
seventy-five barrels of fruit, and since that time they have never
returned the owner a sum less than $150 annually, with the
exception of last year. The Committee were unanimous in
adjudging this a well-managed orchard, reflecting much credit
upon the skill and industry of the enterprising owner.

Before leaving the premises of Mr. Shaw, all the gentlemen
present were invited to partake of a collation prepared for their
entertainment, where the fruits of skill and industry, both
without and within doors, were abundantly tested, and proved
to the taste, what they appeared to the eye, excellent and
refreshing.

The Committee, on invitation, next visited the orchard of
Henry Comey, Esq. This contains about thirty-five trees on
one-third of an acre, standing twenty-two feet apart. Besides
the common varieties, there are trees of the Gillyflower and
Blue Pearmain, with beautiful and perfect fruit. This orchard
is surrounded by a close fence, and is used as a hen yard ; by
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kept open and mellow ; and doubtless many grubs and insects
injurious to the fruit are destroyed.

]\Ir. Comey has found great benefit from the moderate use of
coal ashes as a top-dressing; finding the fruit of a certain tree
larger and fairer than on other trees of the same variety, he
attributed it to the coal ashes that happened to be deposited
there; following the hint, he spread these ashes thinly under
other trees, and obtained fruit equally large and fair. From
the known ingredients of these ashes we think the action in
this case must have been chiefly mechanical. But such exper-
iments are worth the trial.

The trees of Mr. Comey have been well cared for. The fruit
is large, smooth and highly colored, and the product doubtless
surpasses that of the same number of trees in the orchard of
Mr. Shaw. The rules of the Society at the time of the visit
did not allow the Committee to award a premium to an orchard
of less than fifty trees. Since that time the rule has been mod-
ified so as to embrace orchards of twenty-five trees ; this will
bring into competition a large number of orchards in the
county which we hope may be entered for premium the coming
year.

The Committee also visited the orchards of Messrs. A. R.
Aldrich and C. W. Lane. These both range along with that of
Mr. Comey. They have the same number of trees and the
same conditions of soil and culture, and nearly the same varie-
ties of fruit and the same fulness and excellency of products.
In each of these orchards was found the very excellent arrange-
ment of niaking the hens the cultivators of the soil and the
destroyers of insects. The smooth and perfect fruit on all these
trees of every variety bore testimony to the benefit of the
humble cultivators.

Among the trees of L. Pond, Esq., the Committee saw in
perfection Hunt's Russet, which is said to be a better bearer
than the Roxbury Russet. It is very fair and handsome, will
keep into April and commands a great price in market. This
variety is in high repute in Dan vers and vicinity, and is being
largely cultivated.

The cold grapery of George E. Leonard, Esq., and his apple
orchard next received the attention of the Committee. The
culture of the grape by Mr. Leonard seems to be a perfect suc-
cess. He succeeds in obtaining an abundant crop and in
ripening it so early as to secure the highest prices. His apple
orchard presents the same appearance as the smaller ones
already described.

After these pleasant duties, occupying several hours, the
Committee, on the invitation of Hon. Mr. Cary, devoted an
hour to dinner, and under charge of the same gentleman, vis-
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of public interest, and then bid adieu to this enterprising town
and its polite and enterprising citizens.

The Committee append a few thoughts suggested by their
observations at Foxborough and elsewhere, and by discussions
arising among themselves.

Form of Pruning-. — In our climate the apple-tree should not
be pruned in the saucer, or wine-glass form. Such a form
exposes the naked limbs and bark to the direct and severe rays
of our bright and powerful sun. This form is well suited to a
humid climate, where the sun is less powerful, and is for long
periods shut out by clouds and fogs. The balloon or umbrella
form is best suited to our locality. The branches should not
materially cross or interlace, but while they exclude the direct
and more powerful rays of the sun from the bark, they should
be so thinned out as to admit its hght and warmth to every
part of the tree.

Time of Pruning-. — Here opinions vary. "We say, between
the fall of the leaf and its germination. This is the time of
leisure. It is the most favorable time to judge of the shape of
the tree — to see just what needs to be removed. If necessary
to cut off large branches, the scar should be covered with a
solution of linseed oil and yellow ochre ; this, without doing
injury, will keep the wound fresh and prevent cracking, which
is the only evil effect of winter pruning.

Scraping. — This should be done, if at all, gently, so as not
to tear or bruise the bark. Many trees, of tender bark, like
the Sweet Bough, Porter, &c., may bo seriously injured by
severe scraping. Follow nature as nearly as possible..

Washes. — Nothing should be used which tends to tighten or
bind tlie bark. A solution of soft soap or whale-oil soap can
do no harm.

Distance of Planting. — Thirty feet apart is the least distance
for apple-trees ; then tliey will cover the whole ground. Forty
feet is the common distance for orchards, and fifty feet if the
land is to be used for grass or grain. In all the orchards exam-
ined at Foxborough the trees stand from twenty to twenty-five
feet apart ; already, when but sixteen years old, they cover the
whole ground and begin to stretch into each other.

Burers. — The gentlemen at Foxborough have generally
adopted the plan of plugging the holes of tlie borer with pine
plugs, or with hard soap. Others have used successfully coal
ashes heaped around the trunk of the tree, a few inches above
the surface. The only safe course is the knife, the gouge and
the wire — with these the tree can be kept clean, provided the
borer works where it can be reached.

L. W. Babcock, Esq., of Milton, for many years has kept a
large orchard free from the borer in the following manner : —
Learning that the borer enters the tree just at its junction

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with the soil, lie raises the soil around the tree from four to six
inches above the natural surface, and leaves it thus raised
through the year. In June he removes the little mound from
around the tree, and has all the work of the borer six inches
above the ground, where he can easily work. With the knife
and wire, guided by the exuding sap, the work of extermination
is rapid and sure. After the operation, the soil is raised
around the tree as before, and is left for the October work,
when it is again removed, the examination made, and the soil
returned. In this way, with perseverance, every orchard in
the country can be saved from the ravages of the borer.

Varieties. — Success in the apple orchard depends in no small
degree upon the variety chosen. In selecting the Baldwin,
Greening and Russet, for New England, one cannot mistake ;
after this the way is not quite so clear.

A member of this Committee, Cheever Newhall, Esq., of
Dorchester, when sixty years of age, set out an orchard of
forty trees, about twenty of the Williams, and twenty of the
Gravenstein. This autumn the fruit of the above orchard, now
twenty years old, sold for about -1500.

The Gravenstein begins to ripen early in September, and
continues through October. The fruit should not be picked ;
it is in the best condition for market when it falls from the
tree. The custom is to cover the ground with salt hay or litter
to protect the fruit, and pick the apples from the ground as
they fall from day to day. The duration of the fruit is thus
prolonged for a period of ten weeks.

The Committee have the honor to present the following list
for general cultivation, prepared for them by the President of
the Norfolk Agricultural Society, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder : —

List of Apples for General Cultivation.

Summer. — Red Astrachan, August ; Williams, August ; Sweet
Bough, August.

Aulumn. — Gravenstein, September and November; Porter,
September and October ; Hubbardston Nonsuch, November and
December.

Winter. — Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet ;
Tompkins Co. King — fine, large, red winter, promises to be very
valuable as a market fruit.

Sweet. — Lyman Sweet, large yellow, late autumn, into win-
ter ; Ladies' Sweet, keeping into June.

The Committee award the following premiums: —
To David l^haw, of Foxborough, for his apple orchard, the
first premium of $S. To llenry Comey, A. R. Aldrich, C. W.

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Lane, and Geo. E. Leonard, all of Foxborough, for tlieir apple
orchards, each the Society's diploma.

A. K. TEELE, Chairman
Milton, Dec. 22, 1868.

D AIE Y.

The Committee on Dairy make the following report : —

Butler. — 110 for the best 20 pounds to A. W. Cheever,
Wrentham ; $S for the 2d best to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow,
Needham.

85 for the best 12 pounds to Mrs. John Turner, Needham ;
$3 for 2d best to Mrs. A. Lynch, Dedham ; Flint's Treatise on
Dairy, for 3d best, to James R. Fisher, Dedham.

J. W. GAY, Chairman.

Statement of A. W. Cheever.

To the Committee on the Dairy of the Norfolk County Massachusetts Agricul-
tural Society.

This lot of butter, No, 7, is part of one week's churning. The milk is
strained about two inches deep, into tin pans, and set in a room on the ground
floor. This room is furnished with movable racks for the milk to rest on, and
is used for nothing but milk and cream. The cream is usually taken off every
morning and kept in a large tin pail that will hold about five gallons. It has
a close-fitting cover and is hung in the well to cool the cream, whenever it is
desirable. The well is under a roof, and is furnished with pulleys, so that
forty or fifty pounds of cream or butter may be lowered or raised with ease,
and remain suspended at any depth desired. The cream is well stirred when
more is added, and is churned but once a week, except in extreme warm
weather.

Churning is always done with the cream at a known temperature, varying
from 60" to 64°, according to the outside temperature. Churn about an hour
in Davis' self-adjusting churn. When the butter begins to "gather," pour in
a few quarts of cool milk or water to thin the buttermilk and aid its running
off. When it is drawn off, put in more cold water to cool and harden the
butter and clear off the remaining buttermilk. If the cream contains little
flakes of sour milk that have, by heat or age, become separated from the
whey and formed cheese, and known as " white specks in butter," I know of
no way of getting them off from the butter as easily as to thoroughly rinse in
cold water several times. It must be done before the butter is gathered into
a solid mass. If the sour milk contained in cream is thin and tender, as it is
in its first stages of souring, it will all leave the butter readily in the butter-
milk, but when it has separated from its whey and become cheese or curd, it
can only be removed by picking out the specks by hand, while working, or
washing off in water while the butter is in little crumbs in the churn.

After the butter has been sufficiently cooled and worked in the churn, it is
taken on to a maple board, shaped like a fan, four inches wide at one end
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at tlie sides put on with screws. At the narrow end, a three-inch strip is
screwed on across the sidc.^, and forms a cap, under which a movahle white-
oak lever is held down at its small end. This lever is the same h!n;;t!i of the
board on which it is worked, exclusive of the handle, which is turned at the
lar"c end. The face of the lever is about two inches wide at the small, and
three at the wide end.

After the worker is scalded and cooled in cold water and fastened firmly in
a common sink, with the narrow end about four inches the lowest, the butter
is taken from the churn with a ladle and placed under the lever, at the rate
of ten pounds at a time. It is then repeatedly pi-essed and turned till the
moisture, (it can hardly be called buttermilk,) is thoroughly removed.

Salt is then worked in with the lever, at the rate of about three-fourths of
an ounce to the pound of butter, which is as much salt as my customeis will
allow. More would be required if it were added while the milk remained in
the butter, as much of it would run off with the buttermilk, while working.

If the salt could be worked into every particle of the butter at this time, it
might be now ready to stamp for market and deliver to the customers. But
as salted butter is yellower than fresh, unless the salt is actually distributed
perfectly even through the whole mass, it will, after standing a few hours, show,
on being cut, a streaked, spotted or marbled appearance, — coarse or fine, —
according as it was worked much or little after being salted.

In warm weather I prefer to hang the butter in the well to cool a few hours
before putting it through the mould ; again working it evenly at this time, on
the worker.

This season, until July 1, my butter was sold at fifty-five cents per pound ;
in July at fifty cents ; and the last three weeks at sixty cents, delivered to the
customers.

During the four months' trial I have had eight cows. One was sold for beef
June 22; one heifer, three years old, dried off July 15; one cow came in
August 1. Have now six in milk. Two are in their prime, one of them, the
one that came in August 1 ; the other four are all young. Two calved in
August of last year ; the other two calved at two years old or under, last spring.
The two old cows gave at this time about twenty-two quarts per day ; the
other four only about eighteen ; or forty quarts per day in all. One quart
and a pint per day are sold ; also all the night's milk one day in each week is
skimmed at twelve hours old. Have made, in the time between May 15 and
September 16, inclusive, 512 pounds, besides what has been used in the
family.

The feed is now mostl}' corn fodder, cut up green and fed in the stall.
Some dry hay is given, also three pints of corn meal per day. The cows were
turned to pasture about June 1, and had two feedings of hay each day. The
pasture has yielded very little feed since August 10, when the corn was ready
for them. The cows have run out from six to eight hours per day. The
remainder of the time they have been in the stalls, where a large amount of
manure has been secured for future crops.

The corn fodder has been about half southern white, the other half a large
sweet. I prefer the sweet for the following reasons : it is better liked by the
cows; it will bear thinner planting, and is consequently more leafy and does
not lodge as much in rainy or windy weather. Land is well manured and
furrowed, then the corn dropped by hand thin enough to bear some ears. It
is covered with the rear teeth of F. F. Holbrook's horse-hoe turned outward.
All the hoeing may be done with this implement, except perhaps the first
planting, as that grows slower, and the weeds might get a start with the corn.

Respectfully,

A. W. CHEEVER.

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HORSES.

The following brief report on Horses is respectfully sub-
mitted : —

The Society and public were highly gratified and pleased by
the kindness and liberality of Colonel H. S. Russell, of West
Roxbury, iu exhibiting his splendid stud of thoroughbred stal-
lions and brood mares, on the morning of the last day of the
fair. It is seldom an opportunity occurs whereby so many of a
celebrated blood stock can be seen at a county fair, and Colonel
Russell has reason to feel proud, in the possession of so many
valuable horses. First in order was his Robert Bonner, by
Rydyk's Hambletonian, (half brother to Dexter,) 8 years old,
and weighing 1,100 lbs. Beacon, 3 years old, by Volunteer, a
splendid bay. Sunshine, 1 year old, by Mambrino Prince, who
is half brother to Lady Thorne. Bonnie, a 2 year old filly, by
Mambrino Prince. Minnie, sorrel mare, 6 years old, by Rin-
gold ; colt 7 weeks old, by Draco. Fanny Prewitt, bay mare,
7 years old, by Ericsson ; colt 5 months old. Norfolk Belle,
bay mare, half sister to Lady Thorne, colt by imported Bonnie
Scotland. For the several horses and mares the Committee
would recommend the award of the Society's Diplomas, and
the thanks of the Society to Colonel Russell, for his generous
contribution.

Class A. — Roadsters.

Under the several divisions of this class, sixteen entries were
made.

Brood Mares. — Awards : 1st premium of $7 to Joseph Dix
of Dorchester, for his Morgan mare and Morrill colt. 2d pre-
mium of $5 to George W. Long of Roxbury, for mare and
Hambletonian colt.

Colts and Fillies. — 3 years old, seven entries. 1st premium
of $5 to W. E. Coffin of Dorchester, for his 3 year old Black
Hawk and Messenger filly Mattie, 1,045 lbs. 2d premium of
$3 to C. & C. Mcintosh of Needham, for their sorrel Columbus
colt.

Two years old — 1st premium to C. Clark of Stoughton, for
his Ethan Allen filly.

One year old — 1st premium of $3 to Worthington Sanborn
of Medfield. 2d premium of $2 to C. Clark of Stoughton.

Diploma to Corodon Spaulding of Canton, for his Zack Allen,
3 years old roan filly.

Pairs in Harness. — 1st premium of $10 to Joseph Dix of
Dorchester, for pair brown Morgan mares.

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Horses in Harness. — 1st premium of $8 to George Park of
Walpole, for his Hambletonian mare.

2d premium of l'6 to Richard Holmes of Roxbury, for his
Hiram Drew.

3d premium of 14 to S. A. Wheeler of Medfield, for his
Southron Thoroughbred.

Society's diploma to B. H. Beegan of Brookline, for his Draco
Mare.

For the Committee,

A. B. BALCH.
HENKY S. CLARK.

Class B. — Horses of All Work.

Brood Mares. — 1st premium of $7 to S. B. Scott of Frank-
lin, Morgan mare and Percheron colt by Conqueror. 2d pre-
mium of 85 to C. Farrington, Jr., of Canton, mare and Per-
cheron colt.

Mr. J. Stearne of Newton entered for exhibition a fine brood
mare with a Percheron colt, which would have been taken fur-
ther notice of had they appeared the second day.

Colls and Fillies. — Four years old — 1st premium of $5 to
Henry Goulding of Dover, bay gelding.

Two years old — 1st premium of $3 to C. & C. Mcintosh of
Needham, gray Percheron mare. 2d premium of $2 to Oliver
Deane of Canton, bay Ethan Allen colt.

One year old — 1st premium of $'3 to S. B. Scott of Franklin,
Percheron filly by Conqueror.

The Committee would call the attention of the public to the
benefit derived from the introduction of the Percheron stock
by the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, and the acceptance
of it by our people to improve this class of horses. Almost
every entry was from this improved stock of breeders.

Pairs in Harness. — 2d premium of |5 to S. E. Morse of
South Dedham, for pair of creams.

Horses in Harness. — 1st premium of $6 to G. H. Tileston
of Randolph, for his Hiram Drew mare.

2d premium of |i4 to E. W. Allen of Foxborough, for his
roan Morgan.

For the Committee,

A. W. WHITCOMB.
F. B. RAY.

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Class C. — Fabiily Horses.

Colts and Fillies. — Three years old. 1st premium of $5 to
Oliver Deane, of Canton, bay Morgan filly. 2d premium of |3
to J. H. Farrington, Milton, bay thorouglibred filly.

One year old. — 1st premium of $3 to S. G. Williams, Need-
ham, Percheron filly.

Carriage Horses — Pairs. — 1st premium of $10 to Thomas
Payson, of Dorchester, for his pair of grays.

2d premium of $7 to Geo. H. Richards, West Roxbury, pair
of bays.

Society's Diploma to L. B. Jones, of Dorchester, for his Mor-
gans, Tom and Jerry.

Society's Diploma to Joseph Day, of Dedham, for his Morgan
mares.

Bvggy and Chaise Horses. — 1st premium of $8 to John S.
Fogg^ of South Weymouth, for his St. Lawrence, (splendid
animal.)

2d premium of 86 to Mrs. B. F. Brown, of Dorchester, for
lier white Morgan.

8d premium of |1 to George G. North, of West Roxbury, for
his bay Morgan.

Diploma to C. A. Mackintosh, of West Roxbury, for his
brown Morgan.

Saddle Horses. — Society's Diploma to Richard Holmes, of
Boston Highlands, for his blood bay Troubadour.

Matched Ponies— 2d premium of $4 to C. F. Ellis, of Ded-
ham, for his pair of chestnut ponies.

For the Committee,

GEO. R. MANN.
BENJ. NEWELL.
HENRY TROWBRIDGE.

Class D. — Draught and Team Horses.

Single Horses. — 1st premium of $1 to James McLane, of
Dedham, for his brown mare, 1,260 pounds.

2d premium of $5 to Patrick McNamara, of Dover, for his
bay gelding.

Pairs. — 2d premium of |5 to Patrick McNamara, of Dover,
for liis pair of bays.

In behalf of the Committee,

SILAS G. WILLIAMS.

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The Committee desire to thank the several contributors to
the different classes for their efforts to keep up the credit of the
Society in this department, and we can truly say that the show
of horses as a whole, has been an improvement.

Races.
$125 Purse — 125 for second best. — Tliere were four entries :
Geo. P. Floyd, Quincy, named s. m. " Carrie " — I. Pompellia,
Medford, named b. g. "Emperor" — D. W. Beckler, Roxl)ury,
named br. m. " Fanchon " — Daniel Bigley, Cambridge, ch. m.
"Fannie." "Emperor" withdrew, and the purse was con-
tended for by the three remaining. Time 2.47-3, 2.53-3.
"Fanchon," 1, 1; "Fannie," 2, 3; "Carrie," 3, 2. " Fan-
chon" won in two straight heats, $100. "Carrie" won the
second purse, $25.

150 Purse — Five entries : A. W. Nash, Weymouth, named
cli. g. " Weymouth Boy" — Chas. T. Derry, Sharon, named bk.
m. " Sharon Girl " — Chas. Record, Weymouth, named b. g. no
name — Jona. R. Gay, Stoughton, named b. g. no name — D.
W. Beckler, Roxbury, named br. m. " Alice." The " Sharon
Girl" was ruled out, the owner not being willing to drive.
The " Weymouth Boy " withdrew. Time, 2.50, 2.55. Record,
1,1; Gay, 2, 2 ; Beckler, 3, withdrew on the 2d heat.

$30 Purse — Seven entries: Frank Charles, West Roxbury,
named s. g. " Moonlight " — Oliver Deanc, Canton, named bk.
s. "Young Cloud" — A. W. Nash, Weymouth, named ch. g.
"Weymouth Boy" — Richard Holmes, Boston Highlands,
named s. g. " Highland Chief" — L. Congdon, Jamaica Plain,
named b. ra. "Lady Allen" — Henry Jones, Stougiiton, named
g. m. " Lady Messenger " — J. S. Burton, Jr., Dorchester,
named br. g. " Dick." Tiiere being so many entries for this
purse, they were divided by lot into two classes, and trotted
against time. " Highland Chief," 1,1; " Lady Allen," 2, 2 ;
"Young Cloud," 3, 3. Time, 2.51^, 2.56. "Weymouth
Boy," 1, 1 ; " Lady Messenger," 2, 2 ; " Moonlight," 3, with-
drew. Time, 2.45, 3.41-1, 2.50. " Dick " did not appear. The
" Weymouth Boy " was declared the winning horse.

$30 Running Purse — Tliree entries were made : E. A.
Wheeler, of Medfield, named b. g. " Thoroughbred " — Richard
Holmes, Roxbury, named b. s. "Troubadour" — A. B. Emmons,
Quincy, named b. g. " Mischief." " Troubadour" won in two
straight heats. Time, 2.07, 2.05-|-.

The foregoing races were closely contested and came off
without accident or delay, much to the satisfaction of the
Committee.

WM. R. MANN, General Chairman.

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BULLS.

The Committee on Bulls having attended to their duty, sub-
mit the following report : —

Ayrshire. — 1st premium of $5 to Peter Butler, of Quincy,
for two year old " Chief Justice." 2d premium of $3 to H.
W. Tilton, of Walpole, " Nigel."

Jersey. — 1st premium of $5 to J. P. Hamlin, Needham, four-
teen months old " Tom." 2d premium of $3 to B. Fisher,
Dedham, two years old.

Durham. — 2d premium of $3 to A. F. Stevens, of Wellesley,
"Duke of Wellington."

Grade. — 1st premium of 15 to Charles T. Derry, of Sharon,
fifteen months old. 2d premium of $3 to town of Dedham,
"John."

Bull- Calves. — 1st premium of $3 to R. W. Ames & Son, of
Roxbury, for bull-calf " Romeo," ten months old. 2d premium
of 12 to Mrs. Morton, of Wellesley, for bull-calf " Peter,"
four months old. We also award a gratuity of $2 to the same
for bull-calf " Ajax," eight months old.

The Committee also award to John S, Eldridge, of Canton,
for his bull " Prince Albert," the Society's Diploma, he having
received the first premium two years ago.

A. S. DRAKE,
N. S. WHITE,
A. W. SHUMWAY,

Committee.

COWS.

The Committee on Cows make the following report : — Whole
number of entries, 36.

Tliey award the following premiums : For the best cow,
three years old or upwards, foreign stock, to E. S. Rand, Jr.,
of Dedham, $5 for his Jersey. For the second best to R. W.
Ames & Son, of Needham. A fine promising Jersey cow that
took a premium last year, was shown by John Cawley, of
Dedham.

For the best Ayrshire to H. W. Tilton, of Walpole, 15 for
Queen 4th. 2d best to Peter Butler, of Quincy, $i. 3d best
to H. W. Tilton, for Maggie, $2. There was also a fine Ayr-
shire cow shown by H. W. Mack, of Dorchester, that had taken
a first premium.

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For the best Grade to Edward Crane, of Dorchester, $5.
2d best to William Chickeriiig, of Dcdham, $4.

Heifers in Milk. — For the best heifer without regard to
breed, to J. Cronan, |6, for Grade. For 2d best to H. A.
Hall, $4. 3d best to Andrew Cronan, $2.

To H. W. Tilton, for Ayrshire heifer, 2d premium of $4.

To R. W. Ames & Son, for best Jersey heifer, $5. Thomas
Hennessey, of West Roxbury, 2d best, |4.

A fine cow entered by Dennis Zingiebeld, Needham, a gra-
tuity of 13.

Herds of Cows. — Whole number of entries, four. To Henry
Grew, of Hyde Park, your Committee award the 1st premium
of the Wilder Cup, |25. 2d to J. S. Eldridge, of Canton, $12.
3d to Luther Eaton, of Dedham, $8. 4th, to H. R. Richard-
son, of Brookline, $6.

The Committee also make honorable mention of very fine
Jersey cows exhibited by Colonel M. P. Wilder, Colonel
Eliphalet Stone, and others.

For the Committee,

J. W. GAY.

HEIFEES.

The Committee on Heifers report that the exhibition of Jer-
sey stock was superior to that exhibited on any former occa-
sion ; and after a careful examination of the different breeds,
they were unanimous in awarding the following premiums : —

On Foreign Stock two years old and under three. — Jerseys.
— To John S. Eldridge, of Canton, 1st and 2d premiums of |3
and %2. Charles Bird, of Walpole, 3d premium of |1.

For Ayrshire and Jamestown the only competitor was Peter
Butler, of Quincy, to whom is awarded the 1st and 2d premi-
ums for each class, viz. : Ayrshire, the 1st and 2d premiums of
$3 and $2 ; Jamestown, 1st and 2d premiums of |3 and $2.

Grade. — To Joshua Fisher, of West Dedham, 1st premiuin
of $3. Andrew Connor, of Dedham, 2d premium of $2.

Heifers between one and two years old, of any breed. — To
John S. Eldridge, of Canton, the 1st premium of $2. P. O'Neil,
of West Roxbury, 2d premium of $1.

Heifer Calves under one year old. — To John S. Eldridge, of
Canton, 1st premium of $2. A. F. Stevens, of Needham, 2d
premium of ^1.
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In addition to the above, H. W. Tilton, of Walpole, and
others, exhibited some very fine heifers under three years old,
but being in milk, the Committee thought they came under the
head of milch cows, and consequently did not attempt to decide
on their merits.

It is quite gratifying to the Chairman to be able to say that
every member of the Committee was present and took part in
the examination of the stock offered for premium.

For the Committee,

ELIJAH TUCKER.

-SHEEP.

The Committee on Sheep would respectfully report, that
there were but seven sheep entered, all Southdown, raised
and entered by John McCracken of Wellesley, which, although
few in number, were all of superior quality.

The Committee award to John McCracken, for his South-
down ram, the 1st premium of $5. For his lot of Southdown
sheep, being the largest and best lot, the 1st premium of $10.

The Committee regret that of the many fine sheep in the
county, there were so few presented at the show, but they
cannot but express the hope that another year Mr. McCracken
may have many competitors.

TRUMAN CLARK, Chairman.

SWINE.

The Committee on Swine make the following awards : —
There were but few entries in this department. Mr. John
Sias of Milton entered a very fine boar of the Chester "White
breed, to which we award the 1st premium of |6. To H. W.
Tilton of Walpole, the 2d premium of $4, for a Chester boar.

For weaned pigs, we award to C. & C. Mcintosh of Need-
ham, for four fine specimens of the Chester White, 5 months
old, the 1st premium of $6. To John S. Eldridge of Canton,
for five pigs, 4 months old, the 2d premium of 14.

AMORY FISHER, Chairman.

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POULTRY.

Report of Committee on Poultry. "Whole number of en-
tries, 28.

Brahma Foivls. — 1st premium of $5 to A. W. Cheever of
Wrentham. 2d premium of $3 to James H. Drayton of Ded-
ham.

Dorkings. — 1st premium of $5 to J. P. Clark of Wellesley.

Seabright Bantams. — 1st premium of $5 to Frank Baldwin
of Dover.

Bvff Shanghai. — 1st premium of $5 to C. L. Copeland of
Milton.

Dominique. — 2d premium of $3 to Frank Baldwin.

Houdan. — 2d premium of $3 to J. P. Clark.

To H. W. Tilton, Society's Diploma for imported fowls — 8
White Dorkings and 3 Silver-pencilled Hamburgs.

G. A. Long, Roxbury, gratuity of |1 for Golden Poland
fowls. Patrick Horagon, gratuity of $2.

Geese. — 1st premium of $5 to Henry M. Mack of Dorchester.

Pigeons^ Faritails. — 1st premium of $2 to P. Horagan.

Fancy Pigeons. — Gratuity of 50 cents to E. Kerigan, Ded-
ham.

FRANCIS P. DENNY, Chairinan.

WORKING OXElSr.

The Committee on Working Oxen make the following report :
— Whole number of entries, five yokes.

Tliey award the following premiums : — 1st premium of |6 to
William Fales, of Dedham. 2d premium of $4 to John S.
Eldridge, of Canton. 3d premium of $2 not awarded.

There were several yokes of oxen entered for " Exhibition
only," by John S. Eldridge, Esq., of Canton. Also one by
Henry M. Mack, of Dorchester, all of which were well worthy
of mention.

For the Committee,

HENRY M. MACK.

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FAT CATTLE.

The Committee award the following premiums : — 1st pre-
mium of $8, and 2d premium of $6, to Luther Eaton, of
Dedham.

For the Committee,

CHARLES BRECK.

PLOWING.

Double Ox Teams. — To George 0. Farrington, Dedham, 1st
premium of 810. Flow used, Ames & Co., Michigan, No. 85.

Thomas McGill, Dover, 1st premium of |10. Plow, Eagle
Improved, No. 50.

William Fales, Dedham, 2d premium of $8. Plow, Ames &
Co., No. 155.

For the Committee,

NATHAN LONGFELLOW.

Double Horse Teams. — The Committee on Plowing with
Double Horse Teams make the following report : — Whole num-
ber of entries, five.

They award the following premiums : — 1st premium of $10
to Patrick McNamara, Dover. Michisjan plow, Whittemore,
Belcher & Co., No. 20.

2d premium of $8 to C. G. Upham, Needham. Whittemore,
Belcher & Co., No. 20.

3d premium of $6 to Blackman Brothers, Needham. Ames
Plow Co., No. 84.

HENRY GOULDING, Chairman.

Single Horse Teams. — 1st premium of $6 to E. B. Otis, of -
Dover, with Whittemore & Belcher's No. 4, Doe plow.

2d premium of $4 to Wm. F. Lynch, of Dedham, with Prouty
& Mears' plow, from Amos Plow Co.

A. T. MESSERVB, Chairman.

FRUIT

Pears. — For the best collection of twenty varieties, 1st pre-
mium, F. &. L. Clapp, Dorchester, $15 ; 2d premium. Walker
& Co., Boston Highlands, $8. For the best collection of ten
varieties, 1st premium, Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, |8;

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2d premium, A. D. Weld, West Roxbury, $6. For the best
collection of five varieties, 1st premium, George S. Curtis,
West Roxbury, $6 ; 2d premium not awarded. For the best
collection of the following varieties : — Clapp's Favorite — 1st
premium, F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, |2 ; 2d premium not
awarded. Bartlett — 1st premium, Samuel Mackintosh, Boston
Highlands, $2 ; 2d premium, Joseph Parker, Boston Highlands,
$1. Beurre d'Anjou — 1st premium, George S. Curtis, West
Roxbury, $2 ; 2d premium not awarded. Merriam — 1st pre-
mium, Joseph Parker, Boston Highlands, $2 ; 2d premium,
Samuel Mackintosh, Boston Highlands, $1. Louise Bonne
d' Jersey — 1st premium, Chas. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2 ;
2d premium, George S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $1. Vicar of
Winklield — 1st premium, C. G, Hill, |2 ; 2d premium, George
S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $1. Duchesse — 1st premium, George
S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d premium, Benjamin Mann, M.
D,, Roxbury, $1. Seckle — 1st premium, C. F. Curtis, Jamaica
Plain, $2; 2d premium, Samuel Mackintosh, $1. Onondaga —
1st premium, Cliarles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, |2 ; 2d pre-
mium not awarded. Sheldon — 1st premium. Dr. B. F. Wing,
Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d premium, Samuel Mackintosh, Boston
Highlands, $1. Beurre Bosc — 1st premium, Samuel Mackin-
tosh, Boston Highlands, $2 ; 2d premium, J. W. Page, Jamaica
Plain, $1. Urbaniste — 1st premium, Benjamin Mann, M. D.,
Boston Highlands, $2; 2d premium not awarded. Doyenne
Boussock — 1st premium, C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d
premium not awarded. Beurre Clairgeau — 1st premium, J.
W. Page, Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d premium, C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, $1. Lawrence — 1st premium, J. W. Page,
Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d premium, Samuel Mackintosh, Boston
Highlands, $1. Winter Nelis — 1st premium, Benjamin Mann,
M. D., Boston Highlands, -$2 ; 2d premium, Samuel Mackin-
tosh, Boston Highlands, ^1. Beurre Langlier — 1st premium,
C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, <f 2 ; 2d premium not awarded.
Buffum — 1st premium, J. G. Whitney, West Roxbury, $2 ; 2d
premium not awarded. Marie Louise — 1st premium, Dr. B.
F. Wing, Jamaica Plain, $2; 2d premium, Timothy Smith,
Dedham, $1. Dana's Hovey — 1st premium. Dr. B. F. Wing,
Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d premium not awarded. De Tongres —
1st premium, Benjamin Mann, M. D., Boston Highlands, |2 ;
2d premium not awarded.

Apples. — For the best collection of 12 varieties, 1st premium,
F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, -|12 ; 2d premium, A. D. Weld, West
Roxbury, Harris's Treatise ; 3d premium, C. & C. Mcintosh,
Needliam, ^4 ; 4th premium, A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, $3 ; 5th
premium, Henry Goulding, Dover, Barry's Fruit Garden. For
the best collection of 5 varieties, 1st premium, J. G. Whitney,

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West "Roxbury, $6 ; 2d premium, A. Tilden, "West Roxburj,
$4. For the best collection of the following varieties : Bald-
win— 1st premium, G. H. Richards, West Roxbury, $2 ; 2d
premium, J. W. Clark, Dedham, f 1. R. I. Greening — 1st pre-
mium, F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, |2 ; 2d premium, A. F. Ste-
vens, Wellesley, <fl. Gravenstein — 1st premium, F. & L.
Clapp, Dorchester, $2 ; 2d premium, William P. Burgess, Ded-
ham, $1. Hubbardston Nonsuch — 1st premium, C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d premium, G. H. Richards, West Rox-
bury, $1. Roxbury Russet — 1st premium, A. F. Stevens,
Wellesley, $2 ; 2d premium, F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, $1.
Porter — 1st premium, Joseph W. Clark, Dedham, $2; 2d pre-
mium, Joseph Parker, Boston Highlands, $1. Tolman Sweet —
1st premium, George S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2 ; 2d pre-
mium, F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, $1. Williams' Favorite — 1st
premium, Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, $2. Twenty Ounce
Pippin — 1st premium, H. L. Williams, Dedham, $2.

Peaches. — For the best collection, 1st premium, Simeon Rich-
ardson, Medfield, $3 ; 2d premium, Richard Holmes, West
Roxbury, $2 ; 8d premium, Warren Cobb, Sharon, Cole's Fruit
Book.

Plums. — For the best collection, 1st premium. Colonel Theo-
dore Lyman, Brookline, $'d ; 2d premium, not awarded.

Grapes. — For the best four bunches of Black Hamburg, 1st
premium, J. G. Whitney, West Roxbury, |2 ; 2d premium,
Chester I. Reed, Dedham, $1. For the best four bunches of
any white variety, 1st premium, Joseph W. Clark, Dedham,
f 2 ; 2d premium not awarded. For the best collection of Na-
tive Grapes, 1st premium, J. B. Wetherbee, Jamaica Plain, $1 ;
2d premium, J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, |3 ; 3d premium, N.
B. White, Sharon, $2. Concord — 1st premium, Warren Cobb,
Sharon, $2; 2d premium, A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, $1.

Cranberries. — For the best collection, C. & C. Mcintosh,
Ncedham, |3 ; 2d premium, Nathan Longfellow, Needham,$2 ;
3d premium, A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, Eastwood's Cranberry
Culture.

For the Committee,

E. C. R. WALKER, Chairman.

FLO WEKS.

Cut Floivers. — 1st premium of $1 to Mrs. George Yose,
Milton. 2d premium of $3 to Mrs. S. M. Stewart, Hyde Park.
3d premium of $2 to Mr. J. A. Tilden, West Roxbury.

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Bouquets. — 3d premium of $2 to Mrs. George W. C. Wash-
biirne, Needliam.

Gladiolas. — 1st premium of |4 to Mr. George Craft, Brook-
line.

For best collection of seedling Gladiolas, 1st premium of $3
to Mr. George Craft, Brookline.

For best new Seedling, named " Lieut. Stearns," Mr. George
Craft, Brookline, $1.

DaJilias. — 1st premium of $2 to Mr. Macy Randall, Sharon.
For Pompon Dahlias, $1 to Mr. Macy Randall, Sharon.

Zinnias. — 1st premium of $2 to Mrs. George Yose, Milton.
2d premium of $1 to Rev. S. B. Babcock, Dedham.

Respectfully submitted for the Committee,

A. K. TEELE.

BREAD.

The Committee on Bread award tlie following premiums : —

For the best loaf of Wheat and Indian bread. — 1st premium
of $3 to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham. No second pre-
mium awarded.

Best loaf of bread from Unbolted Wheat. — No first premium
awarded. 2d premium of $2 to Mrs. Thomas Payson, Dor-
chester.

Best loaf of Rye and Indian bread. — No first premium
awarded. 2d premium of $2 to Mrs. Charles Mackintosh,
Needham.

Best loaf of Wheat bread. — 1st premium of |3 to Mrs.
George D. Everett, Dover. 2d premium of $2 to Mrs. Thomas
Payson, Dorchester.

In behalf of Committee,

R. W. TURNER.

VEGETABLES.

The Committee on Vegetables make the following report : —

For the largest and best collection of vegetables, 1st premium
to C. G. Upham of Needham, $10; 2d, 0. & C. Mcintosh of
Needham, 15 ; 3d, Abel F. Stevens of Wellesley, $4 ; 4th,
Francis W. Draper of West Dedham, $3 ; 5th and 6th not
awarded.

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Potatoes. — 1st premium to Henry 0. Hildreth of Dedliam,
$3 ; 2d, John Sias of Milton, $2 ; C. G. Upham of Needliam,
for collection potatoes, $1 ; A. F. Stevens of Wellesley, for col-
lection potatoes, $1 ; A. Kinsman of Milton, for collection pota-
toes, $1 ; Norton Brothers of Dorchester, for early Rose pota-
toes, $1 ; J. N. Smith of South Walpole, for two varieties of
new seedling potatoes, f 1 and diploma.

J. N. Smith of South Walpole, for four pumpkins, $1. C.
F. Curtis of West Roxbury, for four squashes, $1. C. Clark of
Stoughton, for tomatoes, |1. G. H. Richards of West Rox-
bury, for onions, 50 cents.

For the Committee,

D. S. MESERVE, Chairman.

SEEDS.

The Committee on Seeds report as follows : —

40 ears seed corn, eight-rowed yellow improved, to Abel F.
Stevens of Wellesley, $2. 40 ears of twelve-rowed yellow, to
Cyrus G. Upham of Needham, $1.

For the Committee,

ROBERT MANSFIELD.

LEATHER WORK.

The Committee make the following report : — A

For the best Men's Calf Boots, Messrs. Fogg, Houghton &
Co., Weymouth, a premium of $3 and diploma.

For the Committee,

JOHN MANN.

CARRIAGES.

The Committee on Carriages, &c., award the following pre-
miums : —

To George A. Flagg, Dedham, for fine specimen of Grocer's
Wagon, a premium of $3.

To S. E. Morse, Dedham, for an Express Wagon, a premium
of |'2.

For the Committee,

THOMAS KNAPP, Chairman.

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MANUFACTURERS OF WOOD AND IRON.

The Committee award the following premiums : —

To Pratt & Wentwortli, Roxbury, for their Peerless Cooking
Stove, the Committee recommend the highest premium that
the Society can award, and refer the matter to the Executive
Committee. (The Executive Committee subsequently awarded
a Silver Medal to Messrs. Pratt & Wentworth.)

To Simeon Richardson, Medfield, for Wooden Ware, 12,
Eben S. AVhittier, Milton, window screen and mosquito bar,
diploma. James Parker, Dedham, for specimens of brooms, 75
cents. Julien Benoit, Dedham, for specimens of brooms, 50
cents. John B. Fisher, Dedliara, for specimens of brushes, 50
cents.

For the Committee,

OTIS GARY.

LADIES' WORK.

In this department the Committee award the following
premiums : —

To Nettie Farrar, Jamaica Plain, for wax flowers, a diploma ;
Hattie A. Tisdale, Sharon, crocheted spread,^!; Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, Wellesley, for silk bed quilt, a diploma ; for woollen
rugs, $1 ; Mrs. Harrison, Dedham, for a very neatly made bed
quilt, SI. 50 and diploma ; Mrs. James Farrington, Dedham,
for woollen hose, 50 cents; Miss Mary Page, Jamaica Plain,
for bead basket, 50 cents ; Mrs. Demaine, Dedham, for bed
quilt, 50 cents; Mary C. Alden, Randolph, for nicely made
floor mats, $1 and a diploma ; Mrs. G. D. Everett, Dover, for
beautiful tidies, $1 ; Mary M. Page, Jamaica Plain, for basket
made of beads, 50 cents ; Miss Jennie Hill, Dover, child's
affghan, 50 cents; Mrs. Marden, Dover, woollen socks and
boots, $1 ; Miss Mary Sewall, Medfield, for worsted embroidery,
a diploma ; Miss F. L. Williams, Foxborough, for an elegant
affghan, $1 and a diploma; Miss D. B. Mitchell, Ablngton, for
crocheted work, 75 cents ; Mrs. P. M. Phillips, South Dedham,
for painting, a diploma; Mrs. Leon A. Priest, Walpole, for
worsted work, |1 ; Miss A. E. Mills, Needham, for affghan, a
diploma ; Miss Sarah Turner, Roxbury, for oil painting, a
diploma ; Mrs. Hattie Barrows, South Dedham, for a very
handsome knitted bed quilt, $1 and a diploma ; Miss Flora
Dixon, Jamaica Plain, for wax flowers, a diploma; Miss Emma
Robinson, Jamaica Plain, for wax cross, $1 and a diploma;
Mrs. A. 0. Sinclair, South Canton, for agricultural wreath, a

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diploma ; Miss Mary Fisher, Medfield, for wax cross, |1 ; Miss
Emma F. Talbot, South Dedhara, for very pretty tatting collars,
$1 ; Mrs. Thomas Decatur, Jamaica Plain, for beautiful bead
work and wax cross, |1 and a diploma; Mrs. Raynes, Hyde
Park, for elegant specimens of worsted work, including a beau-
tiful picture representing the signing of the Declaration of
Independence, $3 ; Mrs. Raynes, Hyde Park, for oil painting,
a diploma; Mrs. Mary Holbrook, East Randolph, 83 years old,
for beautiful netted tidies, |1 and a diploma ; Mary E. McAllis-
ter, Dedham, for crocheted tidy, 50 cents ; Mrs. S. M. Stuart,
Hyde Park, for paintings, |2 and a diploma ; Mrs. S. S. Spear,
South Weymouth, for affghan, |1 and a diploma ; Mrs. G. D.
Everett, Dover, for elegant wax flowers, 11 and a diploma ;
Mrs. P. H. Lancaster, for an agricultural wreath that was
much admired, a diploma.

We examined with much interest elegant specimens of needle-
work, the product of a Wheeler & Wilson machine. The arti-
cles were not entered for premium, but as samples of what
could be accomplished in the hands of a skilful operator, and
excited the admiration , of all who observed them. We can
cheerfully recommend a " Wheeler & Wilson " to the consid-
eratiou of those about to purchase a sewing machine.

For the Committee,

L. A. CALDER.

PICTURES.

Mr. Prang, of Boston, exhibited a fine collection of his beau-
tiful Chromo Lithographs, which attracted much attention, and
were universally admired. The Committee award him the
highest premium which it is in their power to bestow — the
Society's diploma.

For the Committee,

H. 0. HILDRETH.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND NEW

INVENTIONS.

The Committee were highly gratified with the fine display of
the above mentioned articles, which they consider much better
than usual, and which added very much to the value of the
exhibition.

The fine collection presented by the well-known firm of Par-
ker, Gannett & Osgood, to whom the Society owe much for the

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interest which they have long manifested in our shows, by their
large collection of useful articles for the farmer, well entitles
them to the first premium.

Tlic firm of F. F. Holbrook & Small had a very fine collec-
tion of Plows, which all farmers would do well to examine
before purchasing, many of them possessing qualities which
entitle tliera to consideration, by being well adapted to the
various kinds of work which the farmer has to do. To tliem
we award the 2d premium. The same firm also exhibited
Harrington's Combined Seed Sower and Hand Cultivator, which
as far as your Committee could judge without actual trial,
appeared to bo a valuable addition to the farmer's wants, and
for which the Committee cheerfully award a diploma.

The Ames Plow Company presented three valuable articles :
the American Hay Tedder, Burt's Rake, and the Perry Mower.
With rakes and mowers almost every one has his favorites, each
person usually preferring the one which he has ; but with the
hay tedder, in the opinion of the Committee, tliere can liardly
bo a question of its superiority and of its importance to every
farmer who has any quantity of hay to make, especially in
seasons like the past, when help was scarce and higli, and sun-
shine at a much higher premium. And for this very useful
article, which every farmer must soon have, we award a
diploma, and would cheerfully give more were it at our dis-
posal.

The Kniffin Mower and Rake, exhibited by Mr. Leeland, are
valuable implements. The Committee were much pleased with
the rake, which appeared to them to possess some valuable
points, and to be entitled to a diploma.

The Patent Window Screen and Mosquito Bar, by Reuben S.
Whittier of Milton, is simple, cheap and effectual for the uses
which its name implies, and if known would soon come into
general use. We award a diploma.

Very neat specimens of kegs and tubs and whip-stocks were
presented by Mr. Simeon Richardson, of Medfield. Persons
in want of such articles would do well to call upon Mr. Rich-
ardson, as his prices seem low when the neatness of his work
is considered.

Pond's Fertilizer, from the analysis and report of last year's
Committee, would seem to be worthy of more general trial than
it has yet had by farmers, and as the price of rights is now
reduced to 15, it is hoped that the farmers will avail themselves
of it so that another season we may have some reliable proof of
its value, if any it has, more than many worthless compounds
with which farmers are so often humbugged.

For the Committee,

JOHN SIAS, Chairman.

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RECAPITULATION OF PREMIUMS

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

FOR 1868.

HORSES

Joseph Dix, .
S. B. Scott, .
Thomas Pay son, .
Patrick McManus,
George Park,
John S. Fogg,
OHver Deane,
George H. Richards,
James McLane, .
C. & C. Mcintosh,
Richard Holmes, .
G. H. Tileston, .
Mrs. B. F. Brown,
William E. Coffin,
George W. Long, .
Chester Clark,
C Farrington, Jr.,
Henry Goulding, .
S. E. Morse, .
S. A. Wheeler, .
E. W. Allen,
George G. North, .
C. F. Ellis, .
W. Sanborn,
J. H. Farrington, .
S. G. Williams, .

BULLS

Peter Butler,
J. P. Hamlin,
Charles T. Derry,
Mrs. Morton,
H. W. Tilton,
E. Fisher,
A. F. Stevens,
Town of Dedham,
R. W. Ames & Son,

COWS.

Henry Grew,
John S. Eldridge, .
H. W. Tilton,

. m 00

. 10 00

. 10 00

. -10 00

. 8 00

. 8 00

. 7 00

. 7 00

. 7 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 4 00

. 4 00

. 4 00

. 4 00

. 3 00

, 3 00

. 3 00

SWINE.

. $5 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 4 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

John Sias,
C. & C. Mcintosh,
H. W. Tilton,
John S. Eldridge, .

POULTRY.

$25 00
12 00
11 00

J. P. Clarke,
Frank Baldwin,
A. W. Cheever,
C. L. Copeland,
Henry M. Mack,
Patrick Horagan,
James H. Drayton
G. A. Long, .
E. Kerrigan,.

R. W. Ames & Son, .

-19 00

Luther Eaton,

8 00

H. R. Richardson,

6 00

J. Cronan, .

6 00

E. S. Rand, Jr., .

5 00

Edward Crane,

5 00

Peter Butler,

4 00

William Chickering,

4 00

H. A. Ball, . . .

4 00

Thomas Hennessey,

. 4 00

Dennis ZIngiebeld,

3 00

Andrew Cronan, .

. 2 00

HEIFERS.

Peter Butler,

. $10 00

John S. Eldridge, .

. 9 0'.

Joshua Fisher,

. 3 00

Andrew Connor, .

. 2 00

Charles Bird,

. 1 00

P. O'Neill, .

. 1 00

A. F. Stevens,

. 1 00

SHEEP.

John McCracken, .

. ^15 00

$6 00
6 00
4 00
4 00

$8 00
8 00

00
00
00
00
00
00
50

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PLOWING.

George O. Farrlngton,
Thomas McGill, .
Patrick jMcNamara,
"William Fales,
C. G. Upham,
Blackman Brothers,
E. B. Otis, .
AVilliam F. Lynch,

WORKING OXEN

William Fales,
John S. Eldridge, .

FRUIT.

F. & L. Clapp, .
Charles F. Curtis, .
George S. Curtis, .
J. G. Whitney, .
Samuel Mackintosh,
Walker & Co., .
J. W. Page, .
Benjamin Mann, .
C. & C. Mcintosh,

A. D. Weld, .

B. F. Wing, .
A. F. Stevens,
J. W. Clark, .
Joseph Parker,
A. Tilden,

J. B. Wetherbee, .

G. H. Richards,
Simeon Richardson,
Theodore Lyman, .

C. G. Hill, .
H. L. Williams,
Richard Holmes, .
N. B. White,
Warren Cobb,
Nathan Longfellow,
Timothy Smith,
William P. Burgess,
Chester I. Reed, .

FLOWERS.

George Craft,

Mrs. George Vose,

Mrs. S. M. Stuart,

^lacy Randall,

J. A. Tilden,

Mrs. G. W. C. Washburn,

S. B. Babcock,

110 00
10 00
10 00
8 00
8 00
6 00
G 00
4 00

$6 00
4 00

FAT CATTLE.

Luther Eaton, . . . $14 00

$35 00

23 00

14 00

10 00

9 00

8 00

8 00

7
7
6
6
6
5
4
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2

2

2
2

i

1
1

00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00

$8 00

00
00
00
00
00
00

BREAD.

Mrs. Thomas Payson, .
Mrs. Nathan Longfellow,
Mrs. George D. Everett,
Mrs. Charles Mackintosh,

DAIRY.
A. W. Cheever, .
Mrs. Nathan Longfellow,
Mrs. John Turner,
Mrs. A. Lynch,

VEGETABLES.

C. G. Upham,
C. & C. Mcintosh,
A. F. Stevens,

F. W. Draper,
Henry O. Hildreth,
John Sias,
J. N. Smith, .
A. Kinsman, .
Norton Brothers, .
C. F. Curtis, . ...
C. Clark, .

G. II. Richards, .

SEEDS.

A. F. Stevens,
C. G. Upham,

LEATHER WORK.

Fogg, Houghton & Co., . f3 00

. U 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 2 00

. $10 00

. 8 00

. 5 00

. 3 00

. $11 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 2 00

. 2 00

. 1 00

. 1 00

. 1 00

. 1 00

50

. $2 00

. 1 00

CARRIAGES.

FJ
S. E. Morse, .

George A. Flagg, .

$3 00
2 00

MANUFACTURE OF WOOD
AND IRON.

Simeon Richardson, . . $2 00

James Parker, ... 75

Julian Benoit, ... 50

John B. Fisher, ... 50

AGRICULTURAL BIPLEMENTS

Parker, Gannett & Osgood, . $12 00
Holbrook, Small & Co., . 6 00

Fruit Trees, . . . . $8 00

LADIES' WORK.

(See pages 57, 58,) . . $25 25

$837 00

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TEEASUHER'S REPORT.

C. C. Churchill, Treasurer, in account with the Norfolk Agricultural

Society.

Dr.

To balance, November 30, 1867, $222 21

Cash received from new meiiibers, .... 105 00
« " from Commonwealth, . . .600 00
" " from net proceeds of Exhibition, 1868, 947 50

" «' from rent of land, . . . . 50 00

1,924 71

Contra. Cr.

Cash paid incidental expenses, $583 40

*' premiums, " . . 568 75

" salary Recording Secretary, . . . . 50 00

" " Treasurer, 50 00

" interest, 10 50

in Treasury, 662 06

1,924 71

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.
Dedham, Nov. 30, 1868.

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P E O O E E D I Il^T G S

ON THE OCCASION OF THE

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

Thursday and Friday, September 17 & 18, 186S.

The Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricul-
tural Society was held in Dedham on Thursday and Friday,
September 17 and 18, 1868. The following is a brief synopsis
of the two days' proceedings.

Thursday, the first day of the Exhibition, was devoted as
usual to the reception and examination of contributions. Prom-
inent in the Horse department were the beautiful animals of
Col. Russell, of West Roxbury, which attracted much attention.
There were also several fine pairs of horses entered by John S.
Fogg, of Weymouth, Joseph Day, of Dedham, George H.
Richards, of West Roxbury, and others. The show of stock was
very far in advance of any exhibition ever made by the Society,
there being nearly two hundred animals in the pens, the quality
of many of them being of the highest order. Prominent among
the entries in this department, were the fine herds of John S.
Eldridge, of Canton, Peter Butler, of Quincy, H. W. Tilton, of
Walpole, Henry Grew, of Hyde Park, Henry S. Richardson, of
Brookline, and Luther Eaton, of Dedham. Very fine animals
were also exhibited by R. W. Ames & Son, Roxbury, Edward
S. Rand, Jr., and William Chickering, Dedham, Edward Crane,
Dorchester, and others. Of Swine, the show was small, Mr.
John Sias, of Milton exhibiting a splendid Boar of the Chester
breed. A good exhibition of Poultry was made by several con-
tributors.

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111 the Hall, tlie show of Fruit was of unusual excellence.
President Wilder exhibited more than one hundred varieties of
pears, which were not entered for premium, and fine displays of
the same fruit were made by Walker & Co., Roxbury, F. & L.
Clapp, Dorchester, A. D. Weld, West Roxbury, C. F. Curtis
and George S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, Ariel Low and Samuel
Mackintosh, Roxbury, and others. The leading contributors of
apples were F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, A. D. Weld and George
H. Richards, West Roxbury, A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, S.
E. Morse, South Dedham, Henry Goulding, Dover, C. & C.
Mcintosh, Needham, and others. Good displays of grapes were
made by Judge Reed, J. W. Clark, Eliphalet Stone, A. B.
White, Dedham, and others.

The Floral display was- very fine, beautiful contributions to
that department having been made by Mrs. S. M. Stuart, Hyde
Park, George Craft, Brookline, Edward S. Rand, Jr., Dedham,
Mrs. George Vose, Milton, and others.

The display of useful and ornamental articles at the ladies'
table, though not as large as on some previous years, was cred-
itable to the several contributors. The attractions of this de-
partment were greatly increased by the beautiful paintings of
Mrs. S. M. Stuart of Hyde Park, and by a collection of the
beautiful Chromo Lithographs of Mr. Prang, which were much
admired.

Of Vegetables, the leading contributors were C. G. Upham
and C. & C. Mcintosh, Needham, Francis W. Draper, West
Dedham, John Sias, Milton, A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, and
others.

The display of Agricultural Implements was large, Parker,
Gannett & Osgood, of Boston, making a very fine show of their
extensive stock, and contributions were also made by the Ames
Plow Company, Boston ; fine specimens of carriage work were
presented by George A. Flagg and S. E. Morse, Dedham.

Among other manufactured articles contributed to the Exhi-
bition, the famous Peerless Cooking Stove of Pratt & Went-
worth, Roxbury, was the most prominent. This splendid speci-
men of American manufacture took the first grand prize at the
late World's Fair, and wherever it has been exhibited it has
borne off the palm from all otlier competitors. The Wheeler
& Wilson, and Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machines, both in

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active operation, attracted much attention, the special merit of
the machines being well displayed by their accomplished opera-
tors. A fine case of calf boots from the manufactory of Fogg,
Houghton & Co. of Weymouth, was much admired.

The Plowing Match took place at 2 o'clock, P. M., on the
land of Mr. Sheriff on East Street. There were five double
horse teams (four of which were with Michigan plows,) three
double ox teams, and two single horse teams. The work was
well done.

On Friday morning the first exercise was the exhibition of
horses on the track, which was witnessed by a large concourse
of spectators. At 12 o'clock, M., a procession was formed on
the grounds, under the direction of Col. John W. Thomas,
sheriff of the county and chief marshal of the day, assisted by
his aids, Messrs. R. C. Wood of Canton, Charles G. Mackintosh
of West Roxbury, Hiram Gay of Stoughton, Washington M.
French of Qiiincy, Wm. T. Thacher of Hyde Park and Lorenzo
Smith of West Roxbury. Preceded by the Union Cornet
Band of South Dedham, which furnished admirable music for
the day, the procession marched to the upper hall, where, after
a blessing had been invoked by Rev. George Hill of South Ded-
ham, the company partook of an excellent collation, prepared
by Mr. George E. Morse of Dedham, under the direction of the
committee of arrangements. Dinner having been finished, the
President made a brief introductory and congratulatory address,
after which he introduced to the audience as the orator of the
occasion. Rev. James W. Thompson, D. D., of Jamaica Plain,
who gave an admirable address upon topics connected with
agricultural pursuits, and which may be found on pages 5-16,
of this volume.

The following selected hymn was then sung by the audience
to the tune of Saint Marlines :

Fountain of life, and God of love !

How rich Thy bounties are !
The rolling seasons, as they move,

Proclaim Thy constant care.

When in the bosom of the earth

The sower hid the grain,
Thy goodness marked its secret birth,

And sent the early rain.

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«

The Spring's sweet influence Lord was Thine,

Its mild, refreshing showers ;
Thou gav'st the ripening suns to shine,

And summer's golden hours.

Thy quickening life, forever near,

Matured the swelling grain ;
The bounteous harvest crowns the year,
/ And plenty fills the plain.

With thankful hearts we trace Thy way

Through all our smiling vales :
Thou by whose love, nor night nor day.

Seed-time nor harvest, fails !

Appropriate and felicitous speeches in response to sentiments
were then made by Mr. Hubbard of Brimfield, the delegate
from the State Board of Agriculture, President Clarke of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, President Hyde of the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Rev. Messrs. Thompson
and Hill, the orator and chaplain of the day, and Mr. Witherell
of the " Boston Cultivator," after which the exercises at the
table were closed and the company adjourned to the horse-
track, when the trotting for purses took place as follows : —

The first race of the afternoon was for trotting horses, for a
purse of $125, best two in three, to harness. The following
were entered : By D. W. Beckler of Roxbury, br. m. Panchon ;
by Daniel Bigley of Cambridge, ch. m. Fannie ; by Geo. P. Floyd
of Quincy, s. m. Carrie. Fanchon won the first heat easily in
2.47| ; Fannie won the second. On the second heat Fanchon
came in first in 2.53| ; Carrie, second. Fanchon, therefore,
took the $100 prize and Carrie the $25 prize.

The second race was for a purse of $50, best two in three, to
harness. The following entered: By J. R. Gay of Stoughton,
b. g. No name ; by D. W. Beckler of Roxbury, b. m. Alice ; by
Charles Record of Weymouth, b. g. No name. The Weymouth
horse won the race in two straight heats, in 2.50 ; 2.55. Alice
was withdrawn on the second heat.

The third race was for running horses for a purse of $30,
best two in three to saddle. The following were entered : By
Richard Holmes of Roxbury, b. g. Troubadour ; by A. B. Em-
mons of Quincy, b. g. Mischief; by E. A. Wheeler of Medfield,
b. g. Thoroughbred. The race was characterized by that anima-

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tion and exhilaration already described, and though well con-
tested was handsomely won by Troubadour in two straight heats
in 2.07, 2.05|, Thoroughbred being second in both heats. The
light weight of the rider of the winning horse was somewhat in
his favor, but the animal displayed excellent training and bot-
tom throughout. The rider was Edward Albert Kennedy of
Medford, a lad of fifteen, and it is but fair to say that he dis-
played fine horsemanship as well as self-possession in his Jehu-
like whirl " around the circle."

The races closed the exercises of the day.

We believe that it is generally conceded that this, the twen-
tieth exhibition of the Society, was the best ever held in the
county. The show of stock was not only much the largest ever
made on the grounds, but the animals were of unusual excel-
lence. The net proceeds were nearly equal to those of any
previous year. Good order prevailed throughout the entire
exhibition, and the police details were most efficiently carried
out under the direction of Deputy-Sheriff William H. Warren of
Randolph, the chief of police for the occasion.

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ffxtjers 0f tlje S0tui}T,
1868.

President.

]V1ARSHALL P. WILDER, of Dorchester.

Vice-President*.

AMOS A. LAWRENCE, of BrooUine.

OTIS GARY, of Foxhorough.

JOHN GARDNER, of Dedham.

STEPHEN W. RICHARDSON, of Franklin.

ELIJAH TUCKER, of Milton.

HENRY GREW, of Dorchester.

Correspondiner and Recording Secretary.

HENRY O. HILDRETH, of Dedham.

Treasurer.

CHAUNCY C. CHURCHILL, of Dedham.

Execntiire Committee.

MARSHALL P. WILDER, of Dorchester.
CHEEVER NEWHALL, of Dorchester.
H. HOLLIS HUNNEWELL, of Needham.
AARON D. WELD, of West Roxbury.
JOSEPH H. BILLINGS, of West Roxbury.
FRANCIS P. DENNY, of BrooUine.
WILLIAM R. MANN, of Sharon.
TRUMAN CLARKE, of Walpole.
CHARLES BRECK, of mito?i.

Finance Committee and Auditors.

IRA CLEVELAND, of Dedham.
CHARLES HAMANT, of Medfield.
EDWARD S. RAND, Jr., of Dedham.

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Board of Xrustecs.

BELLINGHAM,

ASA PICKERING. GEORGE II. CROOKS.

BRAINTREE.

ALVAII MORRISON. CALEB STETSON.

JOHN B. ARNOLD. JOSEPH A. ARNOLD.

BROOKLINE.

MARSHALL STEARNS. GEORGE CRAFT.

TH0IiL4.S PARSONS. WILLIAM J. HYDE.

CANTON".

ELLIS TUCIvER. CHARLES H. FRENCH.

JAMES T. SUMNER. OLIVER S. CHAPMAN.

COHASSET.

WILLIAM B. JOHNSON. ABRAHAM H. TOWER.
SOLOMON J. BEAL. JOHN Q. A. LOTHROP.

DEDHAM.

LUTHER EATON. JEREMIAH W. GAY.

ALLEN COLBURN. AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

DORCHESTER.

FREDERICK CLAPP. JOSIAH H. CARTER.

JOHN H. ROBINSON. WILLIAM E. COFFIN.

AXEL DEARBORN. AARON D. CAPEN.

DOVER.

HENRY GOULDING. EPHRAIM WILSON.

A. L. SMITH. B. N. SAWIN.

rOXBOROITGH.

JAJ^IES CAPEN, ERASTUS P. CARPENTER.

FRANCIS D. WILLIAJ^IS. JOHN M. MERRICK.

FRANKLIN.

WILLIAM METCALF. ERASTUS L. METCALF.

WALTER H. FISHER. JOHN W. RICHARDSON.

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MEDFIELD.

CHARLES C. SEWALL. ELIJAH THAYER.

ALBERT B. BALCH. WILLIAM Q. FISHER.

MEDWAY.

WILLARD P. CLARK. WILLIAM DANIELS.

RICHARD RICHARDSON^. MILTON M. FISHER.

MILTON.

SAMUEL COOK, ALBERT K. TEELE.

JOHN SIAS. JOHN. W. BROOKS.

NEEDHAM.

NATHAN LONGFELLOW. WILLIAM PIERCE.
BENJAMIN G. KIMBALL. WILLIAM T. G. MORTON,

QUINCT.

JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON. CHARLES A. SPEAR.
LEMUEL BILLINGS. JACOB F. EATON.

RANDOLPH.

ROYAL W. TURNER. WILLIAM PORTER.

J. WHITE BELCHER. ALFRED W. WHITCOMB.

EOXBURY.

JOHN S. SLEEPER. RICHARD HOLMES.

JAMES RITCHIE. E. C. R. WALKER.

HORATIO HARRIS. THOMAS DECATUR.

SHARON.

WILLIAM R. MANN. LEWIS W. MORSE.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE. WARREN COBB.

STOUGHTON.

LUCIUS CLAPP. HIRAM GAY.

HENRY BIRD. ELISHA C. MONK.

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WALPOLE,

WILLARD LEWIS. JOHN N. SMITH.

EDMUND W. CLAP. CHARLES IIARTSIIORK

WEST ROXBURY.

CHARLES A. IIEWINS. C. G. MACKINTOSH.

EI3ENEZER W. TOLMAN. ANDREW T. MESSERVE.

WEYMOUTH.

ALBERT TIRRELL. JAMES HUMPHREY.

JOHN W. LOUD. ERASTUS NASH.

WRENTHAM.

JOEL H. ROBINSON. ALFRED BARNARD.

EDMUND T. EVERETT. GARDNER H. STARKET.

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NAMES OF MEMBERS.

BELLINGHAM.

Chilson, Paul,* 1860.
Crooks, George A.
Pickering, Asa [3]

BRAINTREE.

Arnold, John B.
Arnold, Joseph A.
Blake, Joseph H.D.,* '68
Bowditch, Ebenezer C.
Bradford, E. S.,* 1866
Chace, George
Dow, Charles H.
Dyer, Isaac
Dyer, Joseph
Fogg, Charles M.,* 1854.
French, George G.
French, Charles,* 1861.
French, Jonathan
HoUingsworth, E. A.
Hollis, Caleb
Hollis, David N.
Hollis, John A.
Hollis, Josiah
Howard. J. G.
Ludden, Miss Carrie F.
Ludden, Joseph T.,* '62.
Lock, W. F.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Warren
Morrison, Alva
Niles, Daniel H.
Penniman, Ezra,* 1866.
Perkins, Oliver
Potter, Edward
Rand, William T.
Randall, ApoUos,* 1863.
Stetson, Amos W.
Stoddard, A. A.
Stetson, Caleb
Thayer, Ebenezer C.
Thayer, Hezekiah,* '54.
Thayer, Sylvanus
Vinton, Thomas B.
Wain Wright, Peter
Wainwright, William L.

Wales, George

Wild, Hiram

Willis, G. W.,* 1852.

[43]

BROOKLINE.

Amory, James S.
Amoi-y, William
Appleton, William, Jr.
Babcock, George
Bartlett, James
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, Jos. H.
Bird, Jesse,* 1856.
Blake, George Baty
Blaney, Henry
Bramhall, William
Brown, Joseph T.
Churchill, Wm.,* 1857.
Craft, Miss Emeline H.
Craft, Charles,* 1864.
Craft, George
Craft, Samuel,* 1856.
Corey, Elijah
Corey, Timothy
Dane, John,* 1854.
Dane, John H.
Denny, Francis P.
Ferris, Mortimer C.
Fisher, Francis
Frazar, Amherst A.
Griggs, George
Griggs, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas B.
Henshaw, Sam'l,* 1863.
Hill, M. F.
Howe, Frank E.
Howe, James Murray
Howe, John
Jameson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.
Lawrence, Amos A.
Lyman, Theodore
Parker, Edward G.,* '68.
Parker, M. D ,* 1863.
Parsons, Thomas
Sampson, George R.

Shaw, G. Rowland,* 66
Stearns, Charles, Jr.
Stearns, Marshall
Thayer, John E.,* 1857.
Trowbridge, John H.
Turner, John N.,* 1864.
White, Henry K.
Williams, Moses B. [49]

CANTON.

Abbott, Ezra
Ames, Frank M.
Billings, Uriah
Billings, William
Bray, Edgar W.
Brewster, Ezra S.
Capen, Ezekiel
Capen, Samuel,* 1863.
Chapman, Oliver S.
Crane, Albert
Deane, Francis W.
Deane, Oliver
Downes, George,* 1861.
Downes, George E.
Draper, Thomas
Dunbar, Elijah
Dunbar, James
Dunbar, Nathaniel
Dunbar, William,* 1867.
Eager, Edward R.
Eldridge, John S.
Endicott, John,* 1855.
Endlcott, Charles
Everett, Leonard,* 1852.
Fenno, Jesse
French, Charles H.
French, Thomas,* 1862.
Fuller, Daniel
Guild, Horace
Hall, John
Howard, Lucius
Huntoon, Benj.,* 1864.
Huntoon, Mrs. Benjamin
Kinsley, Lyman
KoUock, Jeremiah
Lincoln, Frederic W.

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Lord, William P.
Mansfield, William
Mcintosh, Adam
Mcintosh, Kon:er S.
McKendry, William
Messinger, Vernon A.
Messingcr, Virgil J.
Morse, William
Shepai-d, James S.
Spare, Elijah
Spaulding, Corodon
Stetson, Joseph
Sumner, James T.
Sumner, George F.
Tilt, Benjamin B.
Tucker, Edmund
Tucker, Ellis
Tucker, Jedediah
Tucker, Nathaniel, Jr.
Tucker, Phineas
Tucker, William,* 18G8.
Ward, Samuel G.
Wentworth, Edwin
Wentworth, Nathaniel
White, Elisha,* 1865.
White, Nathaniel S.
Wood, Rufus C. [63]

COHASSET.

Beal, Solomon J.
Beal, Mrs. S. J.
Doane, James C.
Johnson, William B.
Sohier, William D.,* '68.
Souther, Laban,* 1860.
Tower, Abraham H. [7]

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamin H.
Alden, Abner
Alden, Francis
Alden, George,* 1862.
Alden, Leonard
Alden, Samuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William, 2d
Babcock, Samuel B.
Bacon, Silas D.
Bailej', Benjamin H.
Baker, David A.
Baker, Joel M.
Baker, Obed,* 1863.
Baker, Timothy
Baker, William
Balch, Benj W.,* 1858.
Barrows, Edward
Barrows, Thomas
Bates, Martin

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Bean, Albion,* 1860.
Bestwick, Frederick L.
Bickner, Samuel 11.
Bosworth, Isaac C ,* '66.
Boyden, Addison
Boyden, Benjamin
Brooks, P^dward C.
Bryant, Austin,* 1851,
BuUard, Elijah
Bullard, John,* 1862.
BuUard, Lewis
Bullard, William
Bullard, William, 2d
Burgess, Ebenezer
Burgess, Ebenezer P.
Burgess, Edward P.
Capen, Charles J.
Capen, Oliver,* 1865.
Carroll, Sanford
Cawley, John
Chase, James M.,* 1860.
Chickering, Horatio
Churchill, Chauncy C.
Clapp, Edward
Clapp, Nathaniel
Clark, Joseph W.
Clarke, Horatio
Clarke, Mrs. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Cobb, Jonathan H.
Coburn, Mrs. Chas., Jr.
Colburn, Allen
Colburn, Nath'l,* 1853.
Colburn, Waldo
Connors, Barney
Coolidge, George
Comerais, Henry
Cox, John, Jr.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
Crane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos H.
Grossman, Charles B.
Gushing, Henry W.
Curtis, George F.
Damrell, Wm. S.,* 1860.
Daniell, EUery C.
Davenport, George
Day, Joseph
Day, Lewis
Deane, John,* 1864.
Dixon, Rufus E.
Doggett, John,* 1857.
Donahoe, Patrick
Downing, James
Drayton, John,* 1856.
Duff, John
Dunbar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, John

Eaton,John Ellis,* 1854.
Eaton, Luther
Edson, Mrs. E.G.,* 1860.
Ellis, Calvin F.
Ellis, Charles
Ellis, Colburn,* 1864.
Ellis, George,* 1855.
Ellis, Merrill D.
Ellis, Oliver
Ely, F. D.

Endicott, Augustus B.
Everett, George
Everett, Mrs. Hepzibah
Fairbanks, Wm.,* 1863.
Fales, William
Farrington, Chas.,* 1859.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, Jas.,* 1864.
Farrington, Mrs. James
Farrington, Jesse,* 1857.
Farrington, Jesse
Farrington, John B.
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,* 1863.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* 1863.
Fisher, Amory
Fisher, Eben'r S.,* 1867.
Fisher, Freeman,* 1860.
Fisher, James R.
Fisher, Joseph
Fisher, Joshua
Fisher, Thomas
Fleming, Douglas
Fogg, David S.
Foord, Enos,* 1861.
French, Abram
French, Charles
French, George M.
Fuller, George
Gardner, John
Gay, Ebenezer F.
Gay, Mrs. Hannah S.
Gay, Jeremiah W.,
Gay, Lusher,* 1855.
Gay, Mrs. A. M.,* 1866.
Gay, Wm. King,* 1859.
Gleason, Daniel
Gould, George
Green, Elisha
Guild, Calvin
Guild, Francis
Guild, Henry
Harnden, Harvey,*1863.
Hartshorn, Richard D.
Henck, John B.
Hewes, Hannah E.
Ilildreth, Henry O.
Holmes, Edw. B.,* 1865.

74

Houghton, William A.
Howe, Elijah, Jr.
Howe, Francis,* 1860.
Howe, Josiah D.,* 1867.
Hoyle, Mark C.
Inches, Martin B.
Jackson, Marcus B.
Johnson, Edwin* 1856.
Keyes, Ebenezer W.
Keyes, Edw. L.,* 1859.
Kingsbury, Lewis H.
Kingsbury, Moses
Lamson, Alvan,* 1864.
Lynch, Mrs. A.
Lynch, William F.
McLane, James
Mann, Henry A.
Mann, Herman,* 1851.
Mann, Samuel C.,* 1864.
Mann, Wm. H ,* 1864.
Marden, Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, Martin,* 1865.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin,* '69.
Mason, William
Mason, Wm. H.,* 1861.
Matthews, Nathan
Mercer, Miss Mary
Metcalf, George E.
Mitchell, Francis N.
Morgan, John
Morse, Albert
Morse, Curtis G.
Morse, John,* 1861.
Morse, John L.
Morse, Otis

Motley, Thomas,* 1864.
Murray, Daniel
Neal, A. B.
Noyes, Nathaniel
Noi'ris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion, Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamin A.
Page, Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C.
Paul, Mrs. Ebenezer
Pettee, James,* 1868.
Phelps, Timothy
Phillips, Nathan
Phillips, Mrs. P. M.
Quincy, Edmund
Rand, Edward S.
Kand, Edward S , Jr.
Kobley, Robert C.
Rice, John P.
Richards, Abiathar
Richards, E. M.,* 1865.
Richards, Henry White

Richards, J. F.,* 1852.
Richards, Lewis A.
Richards, Mason,* 1866.
Richards, Reuben,* 1855.
Richards, William B.
Rodman, Alfred,* 1853.
Russell, Charles
Russell, Ira

Sampson, E. W.,* 1867.
Scanlan, David
Scott, Joel,* 1858.
Shaw, Charles B.
Sherman, Charles B.
Sherwin, Thomas
Slafter, Carlos
Small, Miss Jane S.
Smith, Edwin
Smith, Henry
Smith, Lyman
Smith, Nathaniel,*
Smith, Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Zebina,* 1864.
Spear, Henry F.
Stimson, Jeremy
Stone, Eliphalet
Sumner, Mirick P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah R.
Sumner, Wm. R.,*1860.
Sutton, Enoch,* 1853.
Taft, Ezra W.
Thomas, John W.
Thompson, Rob't,* 1854.
Tower, William B.
Tubbs, Benj. II.,* 1854.
Van Brunt, G.J.,* 1863.
Vose, George II.
Wakefield, Thomas L.
Whales, Sam'l, Jr.,* 1860.
Washburn, Alex. C.
Waters, Joseph W.
Weatherbee, Comfort
Weatherbee, Jabez
Weatherbee, Jesse
Weatherbee, John E.
Webb, Moses E.
Webb, Seth, Jr.,* 1862.
Welch, Stephen
Weld, Joseph R.
Welcome, Jacob H.
White, John,* 1852
White, N. B.
Whiting, Hezekiah
W^hiting, Horace
Whiting, Margaret M.
Whiting, Moses
Whiting, William
Whitney, S. S ,* 1855.
Wight, Danforth P.

Wight, Ebenezer
Williams, G. W.,* 1861.
Wilson, John F.,* 1853.
Wilson, Reuben S.
Winslow, Alfred N.
Winslow, George
Wood, Mrs. Amos
Woods, Wm. G.,* 1863.
Worthington, E. [265]

DORCHESTER.

Abbott, William E.
Adams, Benjamin W.
Atherton, Samuel
Austin, William R.
Bachi, Ignatius C.,* 1859.
Bacon, Charles H.
Baker, Edmund J.
Baker, Walter,* 1852.
Baldwin, Enoch,* 1860.
Barnes, Parker
Barry, Michael 0.,*1858.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Billings, Lemuel
Bispham, Eieazer J.
Blanchard, Charles F.
Bradlee, James B.
Bradstreet, Samuel
Bramhall, Cornelius
Breck, Henry, Jr.
Brewer, Darius,* 1854.
Briggs, Franklin
Brooks, Noah,* 1852.
Brooks, Williams B.
Brown, Augustus
Browne, George M.
Capen, Aaron D.
Capen, Samuel J.
Capen, Thomas W.
Carlton, Mary A.
Carlton, Martha G.
Carruth, Charles
Carruth, Nathan
Carter, Josiah H.
Carter, Elizabeth E.
Carter, Lizzie S.
Childs, Nathaniel R.
Churchill, Asaph
Clapp, Amasa
Clapp, Edward B.
Clapp, Frederick
Clapp, Frederick A.
Clapp, Lemuel, 2d,
Clapp, James H.
Clapp, John P.
Clapp, Richard,* 1862.
Clapp, Thaddeus,* 1861.

75

Clapp, William,* 1839.
Clapp, William C.
Cleveland, S. II.,* 1856.
Cobb, Moses G.
Codman, John
Codman, Robert
Copenhagen, A. W.,* '66.
Crane, Nathaniel
Curtis, Ebenezer
Cushing, Abel,* 1866.
Cushing, Benjamin
Davis, Barnabas
Dearborn, Axel
Denny, Daniel
Denny, Daniel, Jr.
Doody, Dennis
Dorr, James
Downer, Samuel
Flynn, Thomas
Follansbee, Isaac W.
Foster, William H.
Fowler, M. Field
French, Benj. V.,* 1860.
French, Mrs. B. V.
Gardner, Henry J.
Gilbert, Samuel, Jr.
Gerry, Charles F.
Gleason, Moses,* 1856.
Gleason, Roswell
Gleason, Sarall,* 1854.
Grew, Henry
Groom, Thomas
Hall, Oliver
Hall, Samuel
Hammond, Horatio
Harding, William
Harding, Mrs. Wm.
Hardy, Alpheus
Harris, Benjamin W.
Hartshorn, Lewis E.
Hathaway, Nicholas
Haven, John A.
Haynes, Edward, Jr.
Hebard, B. F.
Hebard, C. F.
Hewins, John C.
Hickey, Timothy
Hickey, William
Holbrook, Nathan
Holmes, Ebenezer,
Hooper, Franklin Henry
Hooper, Robert C.
Hooper, Robert C, Jr.
Houghton, George A.
Howe, Charles
Humphrey, Henry
Hunt, Charles
Igoe, Patrick
Jacobs, Benjamin

Jones, Nahum
King, Edward,* 1866.
King, Franklin
Lee, James, Jr.
Leonard, Joseph
Liversidge, S ,* 1852.
Liversidge, Thomas
Mack, Henry M.
Mack, S. P.,* 1866
McAulifTe, Daniel
Marshall, Wm.,* 1867.
May, John J.
Means, James H.
Mears, John
Mears, John, Jr.
Miller, Erasmus D.
Minot, John,* 1861.
Moseley, Flavel
Murphy, Timothy
Nazro, John G.
Newhall, Cheever
Newhall, John M.
Nott, Gordon H.
Payson, Thomas
Payson, Mrs. Thomas
Perrin, Augustus W.
Peters, Henry H.
Pierce, Chas. B.,* 1857.
Pierce, Henry L.
Pierce, Jesse,* 1856.
Pierce, Lewis
Pierce, Robert
Pierce, William,* 1853.
Pierce, Wm. B.,* 1858.
Pierce, William P.
Pope, Alexander
Pope, William, Jr.
Pratt, Laban
Preston, Edward
Preston, John,* 1856.
Preston, John
Prince, William G.
Prouty, Lorenzo
Rice, George Woods
Richardson, George
Richardson, William H.
Rideout, Asa
Robie, John
Robinson, Mrs D. A.
Robinson, Eli W.
Robinson, John H.
Robinson, Stephen A.
Ruggles, Edward H. R.
Saffbrd, Nathaniel F.
Scudder, Horace,* 1851.
Shaw, Theron V.
Smith, Henry
Snell, Stephen D.
Southworth, Consider A.

Spear, Daniel
Spear, Luther
Spooner, John P.
Sunmer, Clement
Swan, B.
Swan, James
Temple, Ilannaniah
Temple, William F.
Thatcher, William T.
Thayer, Benjamin W.
Thompson, Joshua P.
Tileston, Edmund P.
Tiieston, Samuel
Tolman, Eben'r,* 1863.
Tolman, William
Train, Enoch,* 1868.
Tremlett, Tliomas,*1858.
Trull, John H.
Trull, Mrs. J. H.
Trull, John W.
Tuttle, Joseph
Upham, James H.
Vinson, Thomas M.
Vose, B. C.
Vose, Robert
Vose, Robert, Jr.
Washburn, Allen J.
Webster, Charles W.
Welch, John II.
Welch, Mrs. J. H.
Whipple, John L.
Wilder, Marshall P.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.,* '54.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.
Williams, S. B.,* 1854.
Withington, Wm. C.
Whitten, Charles V.
Woodman, James
Worthington, Wm.,* '57.
Worthington, Wm. F.
Wright, Edmund
Wright, Mrs. Edmund
Wright, Otis,* '65. [208]

DOVER.

Adams, Adna J.
Adams, John
Allen, Jared
Allen, Timothy
Bacon, Aaron
Bacon, Mary S.
Baldwin, Frank
Baker, Jabez
Barden, Calvin
Battelle, John
Batteile, Mrs. John
Battelle, John E.
Battelle, Mary D.

76

Battelle, Rachael A.
Battelle, Ralph
Beatie, Thomas
Bigelow, Calvin
Bigelow, Charles A.
BIgelow,Mrs. Hannah T
Bigelow, Mrs. Abraham
Bigelow, William A.
Bliss, Linus
Bliss, Mrs. Linus
Chickering, Daniel
Chickering, George E.
Chickering, Otis
Chickering, Samuel
Cleveland, William
Dunn, Theodore
Everett, George D.
Fearing, Perez L.
Gannett, William W.
Gay, Francis G.
Goulding, H. Emeline
Goulding, Henry
Goulding, Henry E.
Howe, Albion K.
Howe, Eliza M.
Jones, Hiram W.
Jones, Alice J.
Jones, I. L.
Jones, Lucy

Lyman, Miss Frances L.
Mann, Mrs. Adeline B.
Mann, Daniel,* 1859.
Mann, Daniel F.
Mann, Elbridge L.
Mann, Hollis
Mann, S. J. B.
Marden, Mrs. Mary
McGill, Thomas_
Newell, Benjamin
Newell, Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Miss Betsey E.
Newell, Jesse
Newell, Josiah B.
Otis, E. B.
Perry, Elijah
Perry, Mrs. Mehitable
Eichards, Calvin
Richards, Mrs. Calvin
Richards, Jennie A.
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers, Wilbor J.
Sano;er, Ralph,* 1860.
Sawm, Benjamin N.
Sawin, Frank W.
Sawin, Mary A.
Sawin, Mary J.
Shumway, Amos W.
Shumway, Amos W., Jr

Shumway, Hannah
Shumway, John W.
Shumway, Sarah G.
Sias, Samuel
Smith, Abner L.
Smith, Charies H.
Smith, Mary W.
Tisdale, William
Upham, Martha F.
Upham, Walter W.
Wall, Patrick
Wilson, Ephraim
Wilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, E. Henry
Wilson, Miss N. D. [88]

FOXBOROUGH.

Aldrich, H. D* 1854.
Belcher, Lewis W.
Burr, Simeon
Capen, James
Carpenter, Daniels
Carpenter, Erastus P.
Carpenter, James E.
Carpenter, Oliver
Cary, Otis
Cobb, Elias G.
Dickerman, Lemuel
Dixon, Sarah O.
Fisher, Albert
Foster, James W.
Guild, Freedom,* 1862.
Hersey, David
Hodges, Alfred
Kerr, Robert W.,* 1867.
Kingsbury, Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. S.
Leonard, James F.

Leonard, Samuel B.

Leonard, Sanford

Merrick, John M.

Pettee, David

Pettee, Joseph G.

Pettee, Simeon E.

Shepard, J. M.,* 1866.

Sherman, Job

Smith, Silas

Sumner, Mrs. A. M.

Sumner, Charles C.

Torrey, Martin,* 1861.

Williams, Francis D.

Wyman, David [35]

FRANKLIN.

Adams, Albert
Adams, Peter
Adams, Ward,* 1865.
Atwood, Mrs. Ruth,* '62.

Baker, David P.
BuUard, Piam
Chapman, Elisha P.
Daniels, Adams
Daniels, Albert E.
Daniels, Charles F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeWitt, Archibald,* '59.
DeWitt, Mrs. Mary A.,*

1865.
Fisher, Herman C.
Fisher, Maxcy,* 1865.
Fisher, Walter H.
Fisher, Mrs. Walter H.
Fisher, Walter M.
Green, Henry M.
Green, Martin
Harding, Lewis
Hills, Theron C.,* 1862.
Knapp, Alfred
Metcalf, Alfred G.
Metcalf, Alfred H.
Metcalf, Erasmus B.
Metcalf, Erastus L.
Metcalf, Whiting
Metcalf, William
Miller, John W.
Miller, Philip W.,* 1S60.
Morse, George W.
Morse, Joseph
Nason, George W.,* '68.
Pond, Henry E.
Ray, Francis B.
Ray, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.
Ray, James P.
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Stephen W.
Rockwood, E.,* 1864.
Rock wood, Nathan
Sargeant, A. D.
Scott, Saul B.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
Wadsworth, George M.
Wadsworth, Joseph H.
Wales, Otis, Jr.
Whiting, Joseph
Whiting, Joseph M.
Whiting, Wm. E. [52]

MEDFIELD.

Abell, Wm. F.
Abell, Mrs. Wm. F.
Adams, George F.
Allen, Noah
Allen, William C.
Baker, Joseph H.
Baker, Mrs. Joseph H.

77

Baloh, Albert
Battcll, Ralph A.
Barney, Thomas L.
Barney, Mrs. Thomas L.
Bigelow, Andrew
Bullard, John E.
Carson, Joseph
Chenery, William
Cheney, Nathaniel H.
Cheney, Seth
Crane, George
Curtis, Daniel D.
Curtis, Mrs. Daniel D.
Curtis, Irving
Cushman, Jacob 11.
Cushman, Mrs. Jacob R.
Davis, George
Davis, Mrs. George
Ellis, Caleb
Ellis, Francis D.
Ellis, George W.
Ellis, John
Ellis, Samuel
Fisher, Hinsdale
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sarah H.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, Mrs. Isaac
Frost, Phineas, Jr.
Hamant, Miss Alice E.
Hamant, Mrs. N. Anna
Hamant, Miss Abby
Hamant, Mrs. Eliza M.C.
Hamant, Caleb S.
Hamant, Charles
Hamant, Mrs. Charles
Hamant, Daniels, Jr.
Hamant, Daniel D.
Harding, Alfred
Harding, Nathan
Hartshorn, Joseph,* '66.
Hartshorn, Warren
Hewins, William P.
Hewins, Mrs. William P.
Jones, John P.
Janes, Walter,* 1867.
Morse, Eliakim
Morse, Joel
Morse, Miss Lucy
Parker, A. B.
Parker, Mrs. A. B.
Partridge, Mrs. E. A.
Partridge, Henry, Jr.
Richardson, Simeon
Roberts, Mrs. Helen M.
Roberts, Robert

Salisbury, Wm.,* 1857.
Sewall, Charles C.
Sewall, Mrs. Charles C.
Sewall, Edward U.
Sewall, Miss Elizabeth S.
Shumway, Benjamin F.
Smith, George M.
Stedman, Cyrus,* 1865.
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A.,* 1863.
Turner, J. Addison
Wetherell, Harlus W.
Wheeler, Emory
Willard, Gibson [81]

MED WAY.

Adams, Edward
Adams, Elisha
Adams, Lyman
Adams, Wyman
Barber, George,* 1851.
Barber, Thomas
Boyd, William B.
Bullard, John, Jr.
Cary, Gilman
Carey, William H.
Clark, James P.,* 1865.
Clark, James W.
Clark, Mrs. James W.
Clark, Maria F.
Clark, Willard P.
Crosby, George,* 1859.
Daniels, James Willard
Daniels, Paul
Daniels, Mrs. Paul
Daniels, William
Ellis, James H.
Fisher, Milton M.
Fuller, Asa M. B.
Harding, Theodore
Henderson, William
Hurd, Julius C.
Ide, Jacob
Kingsbury, Gilbert
Lovell, Asahel P.
Lovell, Zachariah
Lovering, Warren
Mann, James
Mason, Horatio,* 1868.
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalf, Luther
Morse, Asa D.
Partridge, Clark
Partridge, George
Richardson, Elisha F.
Richardson, Jeremiah D.
Richardson, Joseph L.

Richardson, Moses
Richardson, Richard
Slocumb, C* 1861.
Stevens, Daniel G.
Walker, John S.
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler, Abijah R. [48]

MILTON.

Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Amory, Francis
Arnold, John, Jr.,*
Babcock, Josiah,* 1863.
Babcock, Lemuel W.
Babcock, Samuel
Baldwin, Edward
Beal, Jonathan
Blake, A. P.
Bradbury, C. C.
Bradlee, John D.
Breck, Charles
Breck, Charles E. C.
Brooks, John W.
Bunton, Jesse
Bush, James P.
Churchill, Jos. McKean
Cook, Samuel
Copeland, Charles L.
Copeland, Lewis
Cornell, Walter
Cunningham, C. Loring
Cunningham, Francis,*

1867.
Curtis, Daniel T.
Davenport, Edwin
Davenport, Mrs.Ellen M.
Davenport, Lewis
Davenport, Nathaniel T.
Davis, William H.
Dow, John R.
Dudley, Benjamin F.
Emerson, Joshua
Fenno, Rufus P.
Ferry, George S.
Ferry, William M.
Forbes, John M.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Gannett, Samuel
Garrett, George E.
Hall, George W.
Higgins, David
Hinckley, Thomas H.
Hobson, Miss Martha J.
Houghton, Jason W.,*

1867.
Hunt, Charles E.
Hunt, George

78

Kendall, J. B.
Kent, George W.
Kinsman, Adolphus
Pierce, Edward L.
Pope, Ebenezer,* 1853,
Raymond, George
Richards, Reuben A.
Robbins, James M.
Rodgers, O. T.,* 1859.
Rogers, H., Jr.,* 1855.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Rowe, Joseph,* 1856.
Ruggles, Philemon
Sias, Eliphalet
Sias, John

Sigourney, Henry H. W.
Slone, Charles,* 1859.
Stuart, William I.
Stuart, Mrs. Sarah M.
Teele, Albert K.
Thayer, Jason
Thompson, Geo.,* 1857.
Todd, Robert M.
Tucker, David VV.
Tucker, Elijah
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah
Tucker, Stiilman L.
Tucker, Timothy,* 1864.
Twombly, Josiah F.
Turner, R. W.
Vose, George
Vose, Mrs. George
Vose, J. VV.
Wolcott, J. Huntington
AVebster, Joseph R.
West, Henry
White, Benjamin [84]

NEEDHAM.

Alden, Otis
Avery, Jonathan
Ayling, Isaac
Beless, Thomas
Bemis, Mrs. S. S.
Bowers, Henry
Blackraan, Henry
Blackman, Augustus
Buck, Charles
Buck, Miss F. P. H.,* '55.
Buck, Miss Mary M.
Bullen, Ichabod,* 1858.
Clark, Joseph P.
Cooper, Samuel
Daniell, George K.
Darling, George F.
Dewing, Warren
Eaton, George E.
Eayrs, William C.

Emmons, Chas P.,* '67.
Flagg, Solomon
Flagg, Wm.,* 1861.
Gardner, Elbridgc
Goss, Daniel J.
Gray, James
Harmon, Charles H.
Harmon, Cyrus
Harris, John,* 1858.
Harris, John M.
Harvey, Stephen F.
Holland, John
HoUis, Elisha P.
Howland, George
Hubbard, G G.* 1856.
Hunnewell, Horatio H.
Hunting, Israel
Kimball, Benjamin G.
Kimball, Mrs. Betsey G.
Kimball, Daniel,* 1862.
Kingsbury, Lemuel
Kingsbury, Lauren
Kingsbury, Thos.,* 1859.
Kingsbury, William A.
Knapp, A. P.
Longfellow, George J.
Longfellow, Nathan
Longfellow, Mrs. Nathan
Longfellow, Wilber F.
Longfellow, Fannie E.
Lovewell, Charles B.
Lyon, Mrs. Julia A.
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
Mansfield, Charles H.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Robert
Mansfield, Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, William
McCrackin, John
Mcintosh, Mrs. H. P.
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mills, John
Mills, Matthias
Morton, Otis, Jr.
Morton, W.T.G.,* 1868.
Newell, Artemas
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes, Josiah
Peabody, Ezekiel
Phillips, Freeman
Pierce, William
Pierce, William, Jr.
Pierce, Mrs. Harriet
Revere, George
Robinson, Henry
Sawyer, John
Sawyer, Otis,* 1855.

Scudder, Marshall S. '
Seagrave, Saul S.
Shaw, George W.,* '52.
Shaw, John W.
Snelling, Nathaniel G.
Stedman, Francis
Stedman, Mrs. F. F.
Stedman, William M.
Stevens, A. F.
Stone, David
Stone, Henry L.
Sumner, Lewis
Sumner, Samuel B.
Turner, John
Turner, Mrs. John
Upham, Cyrus G.
Ware, Dexter,* 1851.
Ware, Reuben
Ware, Althea
Ware, Ruel
Ware, William S.
Washburn, G. W.
Webber, Aaron D.
Welles, John
Whitaker, Edgar K.
AVhite, George
Wilder, C. T.
Williams, Silas G.
Wood, Henry [107]

QUINCY.

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John Q.
Adams, Ebenezer
Bartlett, Ibrahim,* 1853.
Bass, Josiah
Bass, Lewis
Baxter, Daniel
Baxter, Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. George
Baxter, George L.
Beale, Geo. W.,* 1851.
Beals, Nathaniel H.
Billings, Lemuel
Brackett, Lemuel
Brigham, Josiah,* 1867.
Carr, John J.
Curtis, Noah,* 1856.
Eaton, Jacob F.
Emmons, Nathaniel H.
Fellows, Ensign S.
Frederick, Eleazer
French, Washington M.
Glover, H. N.,* 1863.
Green, John A.,* 1861.
Greenleaf, Daniel
Greenleaf, Thos. * 1854.

79

Horton, Lloyd G,
Miller, Charles E.
Morton, William S.
Munroe, Israel W.
Newcoinb, James
Newcomb, John B.
Quincy, Josiah,* 1861.
Quincy, J. P.
Richards, L ,* 1852.
Robertson, Joseph W.
Rodders, Clift
Savii, John

Spear, Chas. A.,* 1868.
Stetson, James A,
Thayer, G. F.,* 1864.
Torrey, William
Turner, Edward
Walker, William
White, Nathaniel,* 1867.
Willard, Solomon,* 1861.
Williams, Francis [48]

RANDOLPH.

Alden, Ebenezer
Alden, Horatio B.
Belcher, Allen A.
Belcher, J. White
Buck, Nathan,* 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Christopher M.
Gushing, Abner L.
Holbrook, Caleb S.
Holbrook, Elisha
Jordan, John T.,* 1865.
Leeds, Joseph,* 1858.
Maguire, James
Maguire, James F.
Mann, Ephraim,* 1863.
Mann, Seth, 2d
Niles, Jacob
Snow, Zenas,* 1857.
Stevens, Richard
Tower, Isaac,* 1866.
Turner, Royal W.
Turner, Seth
Wales, A polios
Wales, Ephraim,* 1855.
Wales, John, 2d
Wales, Jonathan.* 1862.
Whitcomb, Alfred W.
White, Adoniram
White, Jairus
White, Jonathan [30]

ROXBURY.

Adams, Thomas,* 1869.
Ames, R. W.
Andrews, Alfred A.

Appleton, Charles T,
Bacon, William, Jr.
Bartlett, Henry,* 1860.
Blake, S. Parkman
Bowditch, Azell

Bowditch, Azell C.
Bray, Charles F.

Brigham, Joseph L.

Brown, Andrew J.

Bryant, Charles W.

Buffbrd, John H.

Chadwick, Joseph II.

Chandler, John G.

Clarke, John J.

Codman, Henry,* 1853.

Copeland, B. F.,* 1863.

Copeland, Chas.,* 1853.

Copeland, Franklin

Cotting, Benjamin E.

Crawsliaw, Joseph

Crosby, Benjamin H.

Davis, Gilman

Dearborn, H. A. S ,* '51,

Ellis, Charles,* 1860.

Ellis, Charles M.

Eustis, William

Fisher, Warren

Fiske, George A.,

Ford, Seth H.,* 1863,

Francis, Eben'r,* 1858.

French, Jonathan

French, Mrs. J ,

Fuller, H. Weld

Fussell, John

Gardner, Francis

Gray, Henry D.

Guild, Frederick

Guild, Henry

Guild, James

Ham, Joseph
Harris, Horatio
Hendee, Charles J.
Hewes, John M.
Hewins, Whiting,* 1855.
Hickling, Charles
Huckins, James,* 1868.
Huckins, James W.
Hustin, William R,
Keene, James
Kidder, Frederic
King, William S,
Kingsbury, William S.
Kittredge, Alvah
Lee, William Raymond
Lemist, Edwin
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, Franklin H.
Lewis, Samuel S.
Lowell, John A.

Mackintosh, Samuel
Mann, Benjamin
Mathes, Albert R.
McBurney, Charles
Mcintosh, William H.
Merrill, John J,
Monroe, George H.
Oakley, Frank E.,* '65.
Paine, Joseph P.
Parker, Augustus
Parker, George J.
Pickering, Henry W.
Pike, Charles S.
Putnam, Allen
Rich, Napthali D.
Rice, George W.
Ritchie, James
Robinson, J. P.,* 1863.
Ropes, Joseph S.,
Sargent, Epes
Shed, Henry P.
Simmons, D. A.,* 1860.
Skinner, Elias
Sleeper, John S.
Stevens, Amos
Stone, Ebenezer W.
Sturgis, James
Thacher, Thomas, Jr.
Thwing, Supply C.
Tolman, James,* 1868.
Trescott, Elijah, Jr.
Tucker, Daniel
Vinson, Cornelius M.
Walker, E. C. R.
Walker, Samuel,* 1860.
Ware, Leonard
Way, Samuel A.
Weston, Lycurgus B.
Whiting, VVm. (Montrose

Avenue)
Williams, A. D.,* 1863.
Williams, Aaron D., Jr.
Williams, David W.
Williams, Mrs. D. W.
Williams, Dudley
Williams, G. Foster
Williams, G. H ,* 1862.
Williams, S.,* 1852.
Williams, Thomas B.
Wilson, Granville W.
Winslow, Edward
Wiswall, Samuel
Wolcott, John W. [114]

SHARON.

Blackman, E. H.
BuUard, Benjamin
Clark, Edwin R.,* 1868.

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Cobb, Warren
Cobb, Mrs. Warren
Cobb, Miss Ella M.
Drake, Asahel S.
Drake, Mrs. Asahel S.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, Georjre W.
Hewins, Elijah,* 1857.
Hewins, Lemuel D.,* '68.
Johnson, Lucas
Johnson, Otis
Lothrop, Howard A.
Mann, George R.
Mann, Mrs. George R.
Mann, William R.
Mann, Mrs. William R.
Mann, Miss M. Ella
Mann, Miss E. Mary
Mann, George H.
Morse, Harvey
Morse, Lewis W.
Morse, Mrs. Lewis W.
Morse, Edward L.
Randall, Macey, Jr.
Sanger, John M.
Smith, Lewis
Turner, Calvin
Warren, Chas. H. [31]

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atherton, James
Atherton, William
Belcher, Orin
Belcher, Wm. S.,* 1862.
Bird, Henry
Capen, Samuel
Clapp, Lucius
Clapp, Mrs. Lucius
Clark, Chester
Curtis, Samuel W. .
Drake, Philip H.
Gay, Cyrus H.
Gay, Hiram
Gay, John M.
Gay, Lemuel,* 1866.
Gay, Mace
Gay, Nathaniel
Goldthwait, Daniel A.
Hill, James
Hodges, Leonard
Hodges, Samuel W.
Hodges, Mrs. S. W.
Kimball, Henry C.
Liittlefieid, Charles
(Porter, Luther
Porter, Robert
Porter, Robert, Jr.

Porter, Uriah C.
Porter, Theron M.
Porter, John M.
Southworth, Amasa
Southworth, Asahel
Sumner, Francis C.
Swan, Elisha
Talbot, Newton
Thayer, S.. Lysander
Tucker, Wales
Wales, Nathaniel [39]

WALPOLE.

Allen, Jeremiah
Allen, Lewis
Bacon, Samuel W.
Bacon, William
Bird, Charles
Bird, Francis W.
Boyden, Horatio
Clap, Edmund W.
Clap, Geo. R.
Clap, Samuel G.
Clap, Warren
Clarke, Mrs. Betsey M.
Clarke, Henry S.
Clarke, Truman
Conant, George
Cram, Jerome B.
Ellis, Isaac
Ellis, James
Ellis, Joseph,* 1851.
Fuller, James R.
Gilbert, Samuel
Gould, John A ,* 1861.
Gray, H. Fannie
Gray, Smith
Gray, Mrs. Smith
Gray, William H.
Guild, Charles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshorn, George
Hawes, Joseph,* 1849.
Hyde, George B.
Lewis, Willard
Mann, John
Mann, Lowell
Neale, Benjamin
Page, William A.
Pierce, Shadrach S.
Plimpton, C. G ,* 186i.
Plimpton, H. M.
Polley, Edmund
Scott, James G.
Shepard, E.
Smith, John N.
Smith, Mrs. John N.
Smith, Metcalf

Stone, Ebenezer
Thompson, Edwin
Wilmarth, Naaman B.
Wilmarth, Elizabeth F.
Wilson, Edwin
Wilson, Mrs. Edwin [51]

WEST ROXBURY.

Allen, Stephen M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. R.
Arnold, Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, William Percy
Bacon, Daniel C.,* 1856.
Bacon, Francis E.
Bacon, William B.
Bailey, Luther C.
Balch, George H.
Balch, Joseph,* 1849.
Balch, Joseph W.
Banfield, Everett C.
Barber, A. D.
Bartlett, Alden
Billings, Joseph H.
Billings, Mrs. Joseph H.
Billings, Miss Jennie
Billings, Miss Mary
Blake, John J.
Blake, William
Blackman, George
Bliss, George N.
Bliss, Mrs. Lucius S.
Bolles, Matthew
Bond, George William
Bowditch, J. Ingersoll
Bradford, S. D.,* 1865.
Bradish, Levi J.
Brewer, Charles
Brewer, Otis
Brown, A. S.
Brown, Benjamin
Browne, Horace E.
Butters, J. A. C.,* 1856.
Cabot, Stephen
Cary, Isaac H.
Cass, Aaron
Cass, Francis W.
Cass, Henry W.
Cronin, Jeremiah
Crosby, Albert
Crosby, Miss Fannie H.
Crosby, Miss Irene M.
Crosby, Miss Minnie R.
Comins, Linus B.
Cowing, Walter H.
Curtis, Joseph H.

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Curtis, George S.
Curtis, Charles F.
Dabney, Chas. W., Jr.,
Davis, Francis,* 1865.
Decatur, Thomas
Dexter, Anson
Dixwell, John J.
Draper, Abijah W.
Dudley, Henry
Dudley, Ephraim M.
Eldridge, Oliver
Emmons, John A.
Enslin, William
Evans, William
Farrar, J. Hamilton
Farrington, Ebenezer T.
Gilbert, Luther
Gooding, George
Gould, Joseph D.
Greenough, David S.
Hall, Alfred B.
Hall, David P.
Hall, Joseph
Hall, William D
Harod, William F.
Head, Charles D.
Head, Francis C.
Henchman, Nath'l H.
Hewins, Charles A.
Howland, J. T.
Hunt, Harrison G.
Keith, William,* 1859.
Lamb, Reuben A.,*1858.
Lawrie, Andrew B.
Low, John J.
Mackintosh, Charles G.
Mackintosh, J. S.
Manning, Charles
March, A. S.,* 1854.
March, Andrew S.
Mcintosh, William
Meserve, Andrew T.
Meserve, Isaac H.
Minot, George R.
Morse, Charles
Morse, Robert M.
Motley, Miss A. Lathrop
Motley, Charles D.
Motley, Thomas
Motley, Mrs. Thomas
Motley, Thomas L.
North, George G.
Orange, Thomas
Page, Joseph W.
Page, Kilby

Palmer, William,* 1860.
Parker, S. Winchester
Parkinson, John,* 1866.
Pearce, John

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Pratt, John C.
Prichard, Jeremiah
Prichard, Vila
Prichard, Oilman
Richards, Edward
Richmond, Thomas T.
Robeson, William R.
Rodman, Samuel W.
Russell, Geo R.,* 1866.
Sampson, Charles,*1859.
Seaverns, Thomas W.
Shaw, Francis G.
Shaw, J. J.
Shaw, Quincy A.
Smith, Alvin
Slocumb, William H.
Smith, Humphrey
Smith, Joseph M.
Smith, Lorenzo
Smith, Melancthon
Spaulding, Solomon R.
Spooner, Wm. H., Jr.
Stevens, S. W.
Sturgis, Russell
Sturtevant, Benj. F.
Swett, Samuel W.
Taft, Reed
Taylor, H. B.,* 1861.
Ticknor, Wm. D* 1864.
Tolman, Ebenezer W.
Tolman, Lucius A.
Townsend, David
Tufts, James,* 1859.
Watt, Robert
Watt, Lizzie
Watt, Marion J.
Weld, Aaron D.
Weld, Mrs. A. D.
Weld, Aaron D., Jr.
Weld, Miss A. K.
Weld, Francis M.
Weld, J. Gardner
Weld, Richard H.
Weld, Stephen M.,* '67.
Westcott, Stephen
Wheeler, Warren R.
Whytal, Thomas G.
Whytal, Mrs. Thos. G.
Williams, B. P.,* 1856.
Williams, George H.
Williams, Henry H.
Williams, Moses
Williams, Moses B.
Williams, N. D.,* 1852.
Willson, Edmund B.
Wing, B. F.
Witherbee, John B.
Woodman, George F.
Woodward, Chauncey

Woodbury, Joseph P.
Worley, B. W.
Young, Calvin
York, John [172]

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel
Burrill, Ansel
Fi6eld, Noah,* 1867.
Howe, Appleton
Humphrey, Ebenezer
Humphrey, L.,* 1857.
Hunt, A. N.,* 1864.
Hunt, Elias
Jones, James
Kingsbury, F. A.,* 1860.
Loud, Joseph, Jr.
Loud, John W.
Nash, Abner P.
Nash, Erastus
Nash, Stephen W.
Porter, Thomas B.
Richards, Elias
Shaw, Nathaniel,* 1860.
Tirrell, Albert
Tirrell, James,* 1865.
Tirrell, Wilson
White, James
White, Thomas [23]

WRENTHAM.

Aldrich, Artemas
Atwood, Shadrach
Barnard, Alfred
Blakesley, Hubbard
Cheever, Alonzo W.
Cheever, Mrs. Eliza R.
Cheever, Otis G.
Clap, Harvey E.,* 1863.
Clay, Nehemiah
Cowell, William W.
Dupee, Erastus
Everett, Edmund T.
Everett, Mrs. E. T.
Everett, Melatiah,*1858.
Faxon, Francis G.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr.
Fisher, Hiram B.
Fisher, Silas P.,* 1865.
Ford, J. T.
Ford, Peter
Fuller, Chauncy G.
Gassett, Henry, Jr.
Grant, George
Grant, Robert P.
Grant, Whiting
Hawes, Benj.,* 1867.

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Holbrook, George E.
Ide, Edwin S.
Jepson, William A.
Larkin, Lyman B.
Mann, Howard
Parker, Ebenezer B.
Pond, Handel,* 1867.

Pond, Jabez E.
Pond, Lucas
Pond, Mrs. Lucas
Proctor, Thomas
Robinson, Joel H.
Sayles, Caleb W.,* 1863.
Starkey, Gardner H.

Stone, Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Trowbridge, Henry
Ware, Asa
White, James A.
Wiggin, James S. [46]

MEMBERS RESIDING OUT OF THE COUNTY.

Allen, George E., Newton.
Allen, Joseph A., Newton.
Allen, Nathaniel T., Newton.
Balch, Wesley P., Boston.
Copeland, R. McCleary, Boston.
De Reynoso, Bernard.
Edmands, J. Wiley, Newton.
Ellis, David, Cambridge.
Goddard, Thomas, Boston.

Gould, George, Newton.
Hollis, John W., Newton.
Minot, George W., Boston.
Slade, Robert, Boston.
Smith, George W., Boston.
Tappan, Lewis W., Boston.
Wells, B. T., Boston.
Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge.

[17]

Members admitted, 1,704

Members deceased,* 260

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

FOR

18 6 9.

(PnhlishecL hy tTie Society.

WRIGHT & POTTER,

PKINTERS,

No. 79 Milk Street,
(Cor. of Federal.)

CONTENTS.

I'AGE.

Address, by Dr. George B. Loring, 5

Eeport of the President and Secretar\% 17

on Horses, 18

on Bulls, 23

on Cows, 23

on Heifers, 24

on Swine, 24

on Poultry, . . ' 24

on Working Oxen, 25

on Plowing, 25

on Fruits, 25

on Flowers, 20

on Vegetables, . 27

on Dairy, 28

on Bread, 28

on Seeds, 29

on Manufactures, 29

on Ladies' "Work, 30

on Agricultural Implements, &c., 31

Recapitulation of Premiums, 33

Eeport of the Treasurer, 35

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, 36

Change of Location, 42

Proceeedings on the Twenty-First Anniversary, 45

Officers of the Society, 54

Names of Members, . . . . . 57

Constitution, 09

ADDRESS.

By Dr. GEORGE B. LORING,
OF Salem.

0-ENTLEMEN : —

I could not resist the temptation to accept, even at tlie
eleventh hour, the invitation to address your Society. The
associations which gather around the spot which you have
chosen for your exhibition, give a peculiar, half sad, half joy-
ous interest to this occasion. It seems like a dream, I know,
but it was on this plain that war planted his standard scarcely
an infant's day ago ; the foot-print of the soldier is still im-
printed on this sod ; the bugle-call of the mustering armies
has hardly died away among these hills ; the voice of the great
war governor of Massachusetts still sounds in our ears, inspir-
ing and encouraging the hosts who mustered here to the
glorious service ; the tedious toil of the camp is just over ; the
parting word spoken here is not yet forgotten, nor the last
look, nor are the tears of wives and children whose sorrow
and darkness and desolation began here ; the brave and gallant
sons who went forth from hence to die, stand before us here in
all their pride of strength and life, full of hope and courage
and confidence ; once more we have come up to the camp at
Readville. But it is a camp no longer. We find here upon
this historic ground, where one chapter of the great struggle
was written, all the repose and prosperity and happiness and
peace which the contest secured. We see here the fruits of the
victory. The sword has been beaten into the plowshare.
And we have met here to rejoice in our success ; to learn of each
other ; to encourage the smiles already breaking through the

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tears ; to encourage the great industry which we represent, and
to receive new assurance that a bountiful Providence still
" maketh his sun to shine on the evil and the good, and send-
eth his rain on the just and on the unjust."

My friends, the genius destined to preside over this spot, in
war and in peace, in the present and future, as has been in the
past, is the spirit of conflict. Eight years ago, in obedience to
the great occasion just then rising before the loyal American
people, it became a part of my duty, in a public address to the
farmers of this Commonwealth, to appeal to all their highest
sentiments of courage and patriotism, to their industry and
economy and wisdom, to sustain them as worthy citizens of
this republic. That was the spirit of that hom\

" For myself," I said, " I would have Massachusetts devote
herself to those products which are best adapted to her soil and
climate, diligently, skilfully and successfully. I would have
her so strengthen herself, both by her internal economy and
industry, and by all her civil relations, that no jealousies nor
rivalries can interfere with her progress. I feel that she is"
entitled to her share of the markets of this continent, and that
as she values the welfare of her people, she must secure the
raw material for her manufactures, without being exposed to
dangerous and destructive foreign competition. Her citizens
are entitled to their proportion of the golden opportunities for
future acquisitions to that republic of which she forms a part,
and she would be recreant did she not rally to maintain that
title. Beneath the flag of the Union, her commerce has freely
traversed these western seas ; shall she resign that freedom
now ? The history of the country is her history ; the protec-
tion of the Constitution and the blessings of the Union are
hers. And from her every hallowed battle-field, the blood of
her fathers cries to her from the ground, to send forth her sons
in defence of that republic in whose cause they fell. May the
work of constitutional freedom begun at Lexington and Con-
cord and Bunker Hill, be yet perfected on this continent. And
while the sons of Massachusetts go forth to defend that gov-
ernment which is based on equal rights to all, may we, who,
less favored, and reluctant remain behind, cherish her institu-
tions, and guard her interests, and beautify her soil for the
glory and honor of her future peace and prosperity."

" May wc, then, as a pcoi)lc, rise to the magnitude of the
contest, and bear ourselves with courage, and wisdom, and
patience, and endurance, and liberality, initil the cause of the
republic shall prevail, and the glory of our nation shall be
restored. And when God in his mercy shall have established
peace within our gates and joy within our palaces, may the sen-
timent of loyalty which to-day exists everywhere, in spite of all
trial and all oppression, break forth in triumph, for the com-
mencement of a new and more glorious career of freedom on
this continent."

This was the Readville of the war. And here are recorded
the appeal, the manly response, and the result. The " new and
more glorious career of freedom on this continent," is already
begun. And it remains for us to enter upon the conflicts of
peace, with the same wisdom, and courage, and patience, and
confidence, which animated us in a severer strife ; and the same
shall be our reward.

To-day it is the Farmer's Conflict, which we are to con-
sider— a more peaceful and less imposing struggle, but hardly
less difficult and important. This is no new service, for you
who are interested in the agriculture of Norfolk County, and in
the welfare of this Society. For many years, under the guid-
ance and encouragement of your former President, who brought
rare intelligence and untiring zeal to the work, you have stood
foremost in every endeavor to advance and elevate the condition
of agriculture. As you were reminded last year by Colonel Wil-
der, then retiring from his long and honorable serAdces, to make
way for a successor who has already begun to emulate his devo-
tion to the cause, you have had an opportunity to witness the best
processes of agriculture, and to listen to the soundest precepts,
impressed upon you by the leading minds of the day. Others
may forget, but I know you will not, that long and delightful
lesson in horticulture and pomology, which Marshall P. Wilder
has taught you here on his own acres, and which has so gone
down into the hearts of our ])eople, that their gardens, and
greenhouses, and lawns, and artificial landscapes, and accurate
fruit cultiu'e, are almost unrivalled in Ijeauty and utility. How,
from year to year, have you been urged to the best practice, and
to an understanding of the Ijest science, to the employment of
skilful hands and wise heads, in the pursuit of your calling.

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Nearly twenty years ago, your excellent and intelligent neigh-
bor, George R. Russell, told you that " excellence in agricul-
ture is neither the result of closet-study, nor of assiduous labor ;
it can be effected only by a union of both ; " your record shows
that you have not forgotten it. In 1852, William S. King an-
nounced to you that " the object of agricultural education is
to make practical farmers ; " and this Commonwealth now be-
lieves it. In 1855, Rev. J. M. Merrick impressed the duty and
value of education upon your minds and said, " Let the farmer
consider that his first duty is self-culture." In 1857, Rev. Alvan
Lamson, of blessed memory, declared to you, " that the labor
attended with the best results is intelligent labor ; that what
may be called an agricultural literature, embodying scientific
principles and their application, facts and experiments, success
and failure — what has been attempted and what accomplished
— will in different ways be turned to account, guiding, aiding,
stimulating, inspiring hope and courage." In 1858, John S.
Eldridge, whom many of you, I think, will recognize, and to
whom we are all so much indebted to-day, said in concise and
pointed phrase : — " Man was created to labor. * * Labor should
be hopeful. * * All labor should be intelligent. * * All labor
should be well directed. * * In the United States all labor is
respectable. * * Idleness then is disgrace ; " and he has been
diligent in a practical application of these wise maxims from
that day to this, as you can testify. In 1860, George S. Hillard,
in an address full of beauty and good sense, went to the root
of the whole matter, when he gave this sound advice : — " Let
the young man who has resolved to be a farmer, also resolve to
•stay at home." In 1862, Judge Thomas appealed also to our
young men to believe in the farm ; and he told them, " If a
young man has higher, nobler aims in life, the development and
culture of mind and heart, what better school is there than the
culture of the earth ? I mean, of course, the culture of the
earth in the light and with the eye of science." In 1863, Rev.
George Putnam, who surveys society with as keen an eye as
any man now living, encouraged you by saying : — " Farmers, as
a class are as rich as any other class. * * And the great agri-
cultural masses are not found to be the peril but the stay and
strength of a nation." And so Agassiz discoursed early to you
of the " helps of science to agriculture," and Felton cheered

your minds with his warm and genial culture ; and the venera-
ble Josiali Quincy taught you the soiling of cattle ; and Josiah
Quincy, Jr., told you how much better off you are than the
farmers of Europe ; and Sanford Howard discussed elaborately
the principles of plowing ; and James Freeman Clarke en-
couraged you to renewed toil ; and Rev. J. W. Thompson pre-
sented his new-made observations of agricultural enterprise ;
and George S. Boutwell presented the power and duty of the
nation ; and N. P. Banks enlarged upon the glory of the State.
Do you wonder, then, that a committee, appointed to explore and
report upon the agriculture of Norfolk County, should have said,
after all the efforts which have been made here : — " This Com-
mittee learned much more than they imparted from their inter-
course with the cultivators of the soil, who showed unques-
tionable proofs of increased reading, reflection and careful
experimenting ; who could explain the facts and the philosophy
of growing crops, raising cattle, and the application of manures " ?

You may learn from this hasty review what this Society has
done towards rousing the agricultural intellect of Norfolk
County to a full understanding of the obstacles which the
farmer is obliged to meet, and of the best means by which he
is to overcome them. In the practical affairs of the farm your
record is a highly honorable one ; and in specific crops, in the
cultivation of fruit, small and large, in the feeding of choicer
animals, and in the introduction of the best breeds of cattle,
horses and swine, I doubt if your county is excelled by any
other in the Commonwealth. The performance of this work
has not been at all times easy, and while I congratulate you
upon the weapons which have been furnished the farmer for
his conflict here, by this Society, in its teaching and example, I
would call your attention to some of the difficulties which lie
in your path, and which render the business of farming one of
the most intricate.

The day of instinctive, traditional agriculture and spontane-
ous crops has gone by, with us at least. We look back with
astonishment upon the time, when, unaided by science, the
practical mind of man seized hold of the most successful
methods and accomplished the highest results. What do we
not owe to the past generations of the working farmers ? It is
they who have discovered that remarkable system of drainage
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by which the hard and imyiekling bed of clay becomes, through
the agency of a simple circulatory tube, as obedient to the hand
of the cultivator as the warmest and most fertile loams. They
have brought out of wild and useless classes of plants, the
nutritious grains and luxuriant fruits which nourish and delight.
They have seized and tamed the species of animals adapted
to their wants, and have produced every variety of breed whi61i
diversity of soil and climate and market may require. The
heavy Shorthorn makes haste to repay them for his food by a
rapid production of beef. The hardy and patient Ayrshire
devotes all her faculties to an abundant supply for your dairy.
The clumsy draught horse learns readily the duty which has
been imposed upon his phlegmatic family. The racer and the
roadster are ever alert in the service to which you have specially
assigned them. You have learned the capacity of your lands,
and understand what fertilizers they require, as well as you
know the food which will best nourish your domestic animals.
You have discovered how to subdue nature, and go forth to the
tirst step of the process with axe upon your shoulder, as con-
fident of the result of the contest as if the blooming fields were
already before you. Out of this number of practical men came
Cavour, who in the intervals of his public life was the most
successful farmer of modern Italy ; and Meclii, whose practical
operations as recorded have become one of the text-books of
farming ; and Marshall, who learned to manage his own lands,
and who declared that " attendance and attention will make any
man a farmer ; " and John Johnston, who has taught us all how
to raise wheat on drained lands ; and Parmentier, who was
obliged to turn farmer before he could overcome popular preju-
dice and introduce the potato into France. From among their
numbers have come the clear-sighted, quick-witted workers,
who have made immediate application of every good suggestion,
and have brought agriculture to a high standard. To them
belongs especially that class, who, having acquired their knowl-
edge, reproduce it in some useful foi^m for the practical benefit
of mankind ; that class whose minds are not so burdened with
theories, that when the moment for action comes, they lose
sight of tlie very object for which their theories were constructed.
It is to such as these that we owe the early construction of
our social and civil fabric, and the existence and early pros-

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perity of our country. They wore thriving farmers, and with
the exception of a limited commerce, they held in their hands
all the resources of our country. They carried our country
through the revolutionary war, — " the embattled farmers," as
the poet calls them. Year after year they toiled on, clad in
their household manufactures, laboring on the soil with their
own hands, by prudence and economy constantly increasing
their own wealth and developing the wealth of the republic
which they had founded. They led lives of usefulness, and
left behind them on every hill-side and in every valley in our
State, the broad and thrifty farms which even now bear witness
to their sagacity in selecting land, and their skill in cultivating
it. They had neither agricultural school nor society, nor news-
paper to guide them ; and were they alive to-day, they might
well inquire why all tins intellectual effort is put forth to
accomplish what they accomplished simply by obedience to the
natural laws of earth and sky.

Now, if we have what they had not, they had what we have
not. Their soil was as fresh and fertile as the vegetable
and mineral accumulations of centuries could make it. They
required but little manure. Their staple crops of corn,
potatoes, grass and small grain were abundant, in favorable
seasons. A record carefully kept in Essex County shows that
in the early part of this century, there were raised to the acre,
28 bushels of wheat, 117 bushels of corn, 52 bushels of barley,
518 bushels of common potatoes, 900 bushels of carrots, 1,034
bushels of mangel-wurzel, 688 bushels of swedes, 783 bush-
els of beets, 654 bushels of onions ; thirty tons of hay grew on
six acres, and the yearly average of forty acres was, for many
years, more than 120 tons. Their pastures were luxuriant ;
and the abundance of sweet grass enabled them to feed with
consideraljle profit, animals whose excessive carcasses rendered
a liberal supply of food imperatively necessary. Their wants
were few and simple, their labor was cheap, their markets were
seldom overstocked ; and they followed the advice of Dr. Put-
nam in our day, and resolved " to stay at home," because they
had no convenient and rapid means of getting away. They
had but little book-farming, and that little was of such a
description that it secured their contempt rather than their

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respect or admiration. Their conflict was comparatively light,
and their victory comparatively easy.

Now, however, new difficulties beset our path — difficulties
which must be met by systematic and methodized farming in
order that they may be overcome. The soil of the older States,
and already too much of the soil of the newer ones, has become
exhausted by constant cropping. The natural productions of
the earth are diminished ; and crops which grew luxuriantly
;with easy cultivation a century ago, now require the most care-
ful husbandry and a judicious application of manures. An
acre of land in Massachusetts to-day, will probably absorb in
cultivation for most crops, five times as much money, in labor,
cost of manure, cost of seed and interest on capital, as it would
fifty years ago. The business of fertilizing has become a most
important one. The difficulty experienced in obtaining barn-
yard manure, the cost of transporting so bulky a material, and
the labor required in handling it, are now serious obstacles in
the way of using this manure at all — obstacles which our ances-
tors hardly considered. And all the chemical ingenuity of
man is employed in finding a substitute.

The cost of food for cattle, and the deterioration of our pas-
tures, combine to rend,er the business of cattle-feeding one in
which the wisest calculations must be made, and the most
skilful selection of animals, if we hope for any reward. It
would be impossible to reap any profit from the misshapen ani-
mals of the last century, fed in barns when hay and grain
command the present market value, or on pastures whose
herbage has been reduced in quantity and perhaps in quality by
long feeding. It has been found necessary, therefore, to create
animals adapted to the rapid production of beef in order that a
pound of meat might be obtained with the lowest possible con-
sumption of food. Modern skill has accomplished this, and it
has also provided us with an animal for our dairies, capable of
furnishing large returns in milk for the amount of food con-
sumed, and capable also of providing for herself easily and
rapidly on a short pasture.

The demands of the markets have materially changed
within the lifetime of many now before me. Within a few
miles of our cities and large towns, the market-garden is the
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obliged to adopt a system of rapid husbandry unknown in this
State not many years ago. Early potato crops, vegeta])les
grown under glass, and the early products of the garden, forced
into almost premature existence, now take the place once occu-
pied by corn, and grain, and hay, in the list of what the farmer
sells. In order to meet this requirement of the market he
must exercise a kind of skill wholly unnecessary in the pro-
duction of the staples of trade.

The raising of fruit, too, was once as simple as the planting
of a forest-tree. In order to obtain an abundant supply it was
only necessary to plant trees — and wait with patience a few
years. The apple was at times a drug in the market ; peaches
were allowed to decay on the ground where they fell from the
overladen trees ; plums were easily raised in abundance ; all
with but little care and at little cost. But now the earth is
encumbered with "barren trees, decayed and dead;" the
curculio destroys the plum ; the yellows extirpates the peach ;
the caterpillar, and canker-worm, and burrowing maggot, and
cere-worm blight the apple in every stage of its growth, and
ingenuity and science are exhausting themselves in endeavor-
ing to ascertain the surest and most economical way of destroy-
ing the pests.

It is the careful and economical application of fertilizers and
labor to the soil for special crops, provided for a local market,
the selection of animals adapted to the land on which they
are to be fed, and an effectual and inexpensive war upon the
destroying insect tribes, that occupy the attention of the suc-
cessful farmer of our day. Add to these the cost of labor and
the expenses of subsistence, and you can easily understand
that his work is by no means easy.

To enable the farmer to meet and overcome these obstacles,
we appeal now to science and invention. Agricultural educa-
tion has become one of the most important questions of our day
— how it shall be conducted, and in what it shall consist. An
accurate knowledge of the best systems of husbandry, an under-
standing of the structure, habits, health and diseases of animals,
a capacity to analyze and apply manures, skill in the manipula-
tion of soils, an intelligent comprehension of what lands to
drain, and what to avoid, are deemed now to be the object of an
agricultural education, and indispensable to successful agricul-

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ture. The plastic, receptive, and inquiring mind also, which is
created, or should be, l\y careful mental culture, the mind ready
to give and receive, quick to forget all prejudices, and throw
over all unfounded notions, has a great work to perform in
elevating agriculture to its proper standard, as a useful and
])rofitable employment. Industrious, ingenious and open-
minded farmers are what the times demand, and what societies
and clubs and colleges create.

To enlighten the agricultural mind, therefore, and strengthen
the agricultural hand, we appeal to our educators and inventors
— and we do not appeal in vain. The zeal with which agricul-
tural investigation is pursued, and the increasing desire for
knowledge manifested everywhere, indicate not only a thorough
understanding of the magnitude of the conflict, but a determi-
nation also to be victorious in the strife. And this incessant
and untiring invention of machinery — what does it all mean,
but that the old weapons are unfit for the toil, and have become
powerless amidst the difficulties and trials of the present age.
As it is, the ingenuity of man exhausts itself for us. The wheel,
the pulley, the lever, centrifugal and centripetal forces, every
corner and angle are brought into the construction of machin-
ery to aid us in subduing a hard and obdurate soil, and in
gathering in our crops. In nothing is the profound interest of
man in the great art which feeds and clothes him made more
manifest, than in his constant endeavors to strengthen the hands
of those engaged in it. If you would estimate the true value of
all this effort, strike down for a season your societies and clubs,
close the doors of your schools and colleges, lay aside the inven-
tions of labor-saving machinery, and returning to the scythe,
the hand-rake, the flail, and the wooden plow, call upon the
East to gather its crops, and upon the West to send its seas of
grain to market, and see what answer you would get to the call.
So earnest do I consider the demand for agricultural education
in the i)opular mind, that I have no fear for the success of all
institutions devoted to this purpose. And I cannot doubt that
the application of machinery to the cultivation of the soil, will
one day become as accurate and effective as it now is to manu-
factures and the mechanic arts. I would have agriculture a
triumph of skill. Man cannot control the elements, I know :
the drought will wither his tender plant, the floods will drown

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it, the frosts will nip it. But relying on the great promise that
seed-time and harvest shall not fail, he can exert all his powers
to succeed in that conflict to which he was doomed, when the
decree went forth that in the sweat of his face should he eat
bread.

In presenting this view of the agricultural effort of the present
as compared with the past, I find myself suddenly arrested and
called back to the tastes and traditions of the long line of hardy,
industrious and prosperous farmers from whom we sprung. We
must enter upon our new career, but we may not forget the laws
by which they subdued the earth, and which have gone into our
test-books of farming. We should not forget their modes of
cultivation, by which they raised extraordinary crops, nor their
attempts to improve the animals upon their farms. And we
should remember that it was they whose strength civilized these
hills, in whose hands the material prosperity of our State rested
half a century ago, whose ample abodes still remain in our vil-
lages and along our roadsides, whose social position was won
by solid merit, who constituted that intelligent rural population
from whom the merchants, and lawyers, and divines, and states-
men of our day have sprung, and whose homes are still waiting
a return of that w^ealth and intelligence which long ago deserted
them. In our busy and restless and ambitious life we have
poured om- best powers of mind and body into our cities and
towns, and exhausted them in the forum, or in the hard toil of
the inventive arts. We have forgotten too much the old rural
homes — those broad fields, those overshadowing trees, that sub-
stantial New England dwelling, whose very presence even now
tells of the staunch and reliable virtues of those who have long
since gone to their rest. We should know that the charm of
life is not in our cities and large towns. Neither our moral nor
our religious, nor our physical natures can be developed with
that beauty of proportion of which man is capable, so long as
we prefer the feverish excitement of the busy concourse of men,
to the healthy and refining influences of a cultivated rural life.
There are charms in the increasing current of life which flows
through the farm and the market-place. There is a fascination,
as Mr. Choate once said to me, " in the newspaper and the post-
office," above the quiet of a country life. But when we remem-
ber the annoyances which meet us at every corner, the petty

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strifes of men, the struggles and distresses, the efforts and dis-
appointments, shall we not sigh for the rural respectability of
our ancestors, and exclaim with Cicero, "■ There at my Lauren-
tium, I hear nothing that I repent to have heard, say nothing
that I repent to have said; no hopes delude, and no fears
molest me. Welcome, then, life of integrity and virtue." We
must learn to love the land, to love it as our fathers loved it, to
love it as the people of old loved it, whose great men enjoyed
their favorite retreats, and listened many a returning spring to
the nightingales that tenanted the dark ivy, and greeted the
narcissus, ancient coronal of mighty goddesses, as it burst in
beauty under the dews of heaven. When from our New Eng-
land cities, which have received their life-blood from the coun-
try, there flows back a current of wealth and intelligence to
beautify our towns and cultivate our fields, we shall make our
land still more the fit abode of a free and intelligent people.

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY.

To Ike Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture : —

Sir, — We herewith submit the Report of the Transactions
of the Norfolk Agricultural Society for the year 1869.

Since our last Report, the Society has removed its location
from the narrow and necessarily restricted quarters at Dedham,
to new and spacious grounds at Readville, where ample accom-
modation is now afforded for the proper display of all depart-
ments of our Annual Exhibition. The grounds are beautifully
located in the valley of tile Neponset, in close proximity to two
important lines of railway, and near the industrial centre of
the county. There can be no doubt that the change of location
will prove highly advantageous to the interests of the Society.

For a specific statement of the operations of the Society for
the past year, we refer to the subjoined Reports of the several
Committees.

JOHN S. ELDRIDGE, President.
HENRY 0. HILDRETH, Secretary.

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REPORTS OP COMMITTEES.

HORSES.

The Committees of the several classes into which this depart-
ment is divided, have reported to me as follows : —

Class A. — Roadsters.

The Committee report nineteen entries for premiums.

1,9^ Division, Stallions. — Only one entry was made, and that one
your Committee did not consider worthy of a premium.

Id Division, Brood Mares. — There were eight brood mares with
foals at their side, on the ground, sent by Col. Henry S. Russell, of
"West Roxbury, from his celebrated stock, but were not at hand in
time to be entered on the books for premiums ; and for some cause
the man having them in charge did not take them out for exhibition
in the grand cavalcade formed on the track, much to the disap-
pointment of all concerned. Late in the day the Committee were
able to examine them, and were so well pleased with their appear-
ance, that they recommend and award the Society's Diploma, and
express the hope that Col. Russell will continue to favor the Society
at their annual exhibitions.

3(1 Division, Colts and Fillies. — Best four years old, 1st premium
of $5 to William E. Coffin, Savin Hill, Dorchester, for black mare
" Mattie." 2d premium, of |3, to Charles E. Stone, Stoughton, for
bay mare " Brandywine."

Best three years old, 1st premium of |5, to E. U, Sewall, Med-
field, for bay stallion " Columbus."

Best two years old, 1st premium of |3, to Isaac Ellis, Walpole,
black Morgan mare. 2d premium of $2, to W. Sanborn, Medfield,
for bay mare " New England."

Best one year old, 1st premium of $3, to Jason Ellis, Dedham,
for bay Morgan stallion.

A^th Division, Pairs in Harness. — One pair was entered by J. S.
Fogg, Esq., of Weymouth, which were of a superior order,- and
showed speed, much to the satisfaction of all present ; but being
entered for exhibition only, the Committee would award him the
Society's Diploma.

^th Division, Horses in Harness. — 1st premium of $8, to John
Ingraham, East Stoughton, bay Morgan mare. 2d premium of |6,

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to F. B. Riiy, Franklin, buy mare " Lady Chilclers." 8(1 premium
of 14, to F. B. Ray, Franklin, black horse "Abdallah." 4th pre-
mium of $2, to W. E. Coffin, Savhi Hill, Dorchester, l)ay Morgan.
Tlie Committee very much regret that Hon. John S, Eldridge's
colts wei'c not entered in season for them to award him a i)remium
as they deserved, and would reconnnend a diploma for his fourteen
months' sorrel thorough})red stallion.

For the Committee.

A. B. BALCH.

Class B. — Horses of All Work.

Under the several divisions of this class eighteen entries were
made.

1st Division — Stallions. — There were no entries.

2d Division — Brood Mares. — 1st premium of 17 to Emery
Hawes of North Stoughton, for his Messenger mare and Kelber colt.

2d premium of |5 to Calvin Richards of Dover, for his Morgan
mare and Columbus colt.

3(? Division — Colts and Fillies. — Four years old. 1st premium
of 15 to C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, for their grey Percheron
filly.

Three years old. 1st premium of |5 to William H. Baker, Dor-
chester, for his chestnut Arabian and Norman stallion " Omar
Pasha."

'2d premium of |3 to Emery Hawes of North Stoughton, for his
black Percheron gelding.

Two years old. 1st premium of $3 to N. Farrington, Jr., Can-
ton, for his sorrel Percheron and Logan stallion.

One year old. 1st premium of |3 to Hon. John S. Eldridge, for
his bay thoroughbred colt,

2d premium of $2 to Hon. John S. Eldridge, sorrel thoroughbi'ed
filly.

Society's diploma to Samuel Page, South Dedham, for his sorrel
three-year-old colt.

Society's diploma to E. Batchelder of Dover, for his bay New
England filly, two years old.

Society's diploma to Henry Gouldiug, Dover, for his Gray Con-
queror filly, two years old.

\th Divisio7i — Pairs in Harness. — 1st premium of $7 to Henry
Vose, Milton, for his pair of blacks, Morgan and Black Hawk.
2d premium not awarded.

bth Division — Horses in Harness. — 1st premium of $6 to Henry
Trowbridge, North Wrentham, for his brown Hambletonian, seven
years old.

2d premium of |4 to Hon. John S. Eldridge, Canton, for his
black Morgan mare, four years old.

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3d premium of |3 to Daniel Hannasy, Dedliam, for his bayliorse,
six years old.

The Committee would call attention to the great improvement
in this class of horses. Among those worthy of special notice were
the Percheron colts of C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham ; N. Farring-
ton, Jr., Canton; J. Stearne, Newton; Emery Hawes, Stonghton ;
the Arabian and Norman stallion, " Omar Pasha," of William H.
Baker, Dorchester, and the thoroughbred colts of Hon. John S.
Eldridge, Canton.

For the Committee,

JOHN D. BRADLEE.
J. AUSTIN ROGERS.

Class C. — Family Hokses.

The Committee report twenty-four entries in this class.

1st Division — Urood Mares. — 1st premium of $7 to John Daven-
port, Jr., Canton, gray mare and colt.

2d Division — Colts and Fillies. — Best two years old. 2d
premium of |2 to Chester Clark, Stoughton, black Morgan,
"Ethan Allen."

Best one year old. 1st premium of $3 to C. & C. Mackintosh,
Needham, Percheron mare.

2d premium of |2 to Edward Rooney, Dedham, sorrel mai'e.

^d Divisioti — Pairs in Harness. — 1st premium of |10 to L. B.
Jones, Dorchester, pair black Morgan horses.

2d premium of |7 to C. Clark, Stoughton, pair roan mares.

4</i Division — Buggy or Chaise Horses. — 1st premium of $8 to
Almon Perry, Roxbury, black mare, five years old.

2d premium of $6 to S. E. Morse, South Dedham, Gray Messen-
ger, seven years old.

3d premium of |4 to A. Papineau, West Roxbury, bay mare, five
years old.

1th Division — Ponies. — Best j^air matched ponies. 1st premium
of $6 to C. F. Ellis, Dedliam, chestnut Canadians.

2d premium of $4 to C. W. Hebard, Dorchester, Sable Island,
black and white.

For the Committee,

JOHN M. HARRIS.

Class D. — Draught or Team Horses.

The Committee report ten entries in this class.

1st Division — Single Draught Horses. — 1st premium of |7 to
Owen Naun, Roxbury, Pennsylvania gray mare, 1,810 lbs., five years
old.

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Id Division — Pairs of Draught Horses. — 1st premium of $7 to
Liitlier Eaton, Dedliam, bay Morgans, 2,350 lbs., seven years old.

2(1 premium of 15 to Thomas Hartney, Dedham, bay Morgans,
2,300 lbs., six years old.

Society's dii)loma to "Walter Baker & Co., Dorchester, for their
sorrel and chestnut horses, 2,600 lbs., seven and eight years.

Messrs. Baker & Co. had on the grounds two pairs, harnessed to
their heavy wagon, making a s|)lendid team, worthy of the fame of
those noted manufacturers. Mr. Naun had a mate for his Pennsyl-
vania mare, weighing 1,625 lbs., making a pair to delight the eyes of
the lover of that class of horses.

For the Committee,

S. G. WILLIAMS.

H. S. CLARK, Asst. Chairman.

Trotting Horses.

Report of the trial for the several purses offered by the Norfolk
Agricultural Society, at Readvillc, during the days of the Annual
Fair, September 23d and 24th, A. D. 1869.

For the one hundred and fifty dollar purse, divided, viz. : first,
$75 ; second, $50 ; third, $25. Horses to be owned in the county,
and have never trotted better than 2.45. Two entries.

A. W. Nash, of Weymouth, en. s. g. " Weymouth Boy," .22111
Richard Holmes, of Roxbarv, en. s. g. " John Roraer," .112 2 2

Time, 2.51, 2.51^, 2.4% 2.53^, 3.03.

Alden Bartlett, Jamaica Plain,
James Shaw, Rouse's Point, N. Y.,
Joseph E. Hall, Dorchester,

Judges.

For the fifty dollar purse, divided, viz. : first, $25 ; second, f 15 ;
third, $10. Open to gentlemen's driving horses, that have never
trotted for money, and never known to have trotted better than
three minutes. Owners to drive. Eight entries.

W. L. White, of Mansfield, en. blk. m. " Fannie," . .12 2 11
Lewis Wight, of Needham, en. b. g. " Phil Sheridan," .21142

Isaac Farwell, of Needham, en. s. m. " Gentle Nellie," .56533
John E White, of iMilton, en. b. g. " Drew," . . .33324
H. Beckwith, of Jamaica Plain, en. b. m. " Gipsey," . .454*
Jefferson Pratt, of Dorchester, en. g. g. " Jeff," . • .64*
William E. Coffin, of Dorchester, en. b. g. " Scotchman," ,87*
Eugene Batchelder, of Dover, en. br. m. " Nettie," . . 7 *
Time, 2.52, 2.54, 2.48f , 3.04^, 3.03^.

Alden Bartlett,
James Shaw,
Jos. E. Hall,

Judges.

For the seventy-five dollar purse, — double teams, — divided, viz.:
first, $50; second, $25. Owned in the county by one man sixty
days at least before the Fair. Two entries.

B. F Brown, of Dorchester, en. br. g. " Shawmut" and mate, .12 1
R. Holmes, of Roxbury, en. s. g. " Tombolin " and mate, . .21

Time, 3.091, 3.08J, 3.12.

* Withdrew.

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Owing to the lateness of the day, it was agreed upon between
parties on best two in three.

William E. Coffin, Dorchester,
Erasmus D. Miller, M. D., Dorchester,
John E. White, Milton,

Judges.

One hundred dollar purse, divided, viz. : first, |50 ; second, $30 ;
third, $20. Horses to be owned in the county, who have never
trotted for money. Owners to drive. Three entries.

Jolm E. White, of Milton, b. g. " Drew," 2 2 2

Daniel Bigley, of Riverside, g. m. No name, Ill

Charles Record, of Weymoth, b. g. No name, . . . .333
Time, 2.59^, 2.58J, 2.55.

Alden Bartlett, Jamaica Plain,
Jos. E. Hall, Dorchester,
William Barnard, Boston,

Judges.

Three hundred dollar purse, divided, viz. : first, $175; second,
$75 ; third, $50. Open to all horses, subject to the Society's rules.
Five entries.

Burnham Royce, of Boston, s. g. " La Have," . . . .444

Charles I. AVillis, of Boston, r. g. " Vermont Boy," . . .55*

W. H. Briggs, of Taunton, b. g. " Bay Beauty," . . . .282

Charles Record, of Weymouth, b. g. " Emperor," . . . .111

Daniel Bigley, of Riverside, ch. m. " Fannie," . . . .323
Time, 2.391, 2.38|, 2.41^.

After unsuccessful scoring on the first and second heats, they
were started on a line.

John S. Fogg, Weymouth,
J. Freeman Ellis, Stoughton,
William Porter, Randolph,

Judges.

Thirty dollar purse, — running match, — divided, viz. : first, $20 ;
second, $10. Open to all horses. Six entries.

Wisner Park, of Readville, en. s. s. " Thoroughbred," . Did not appear.
P. McNamara, of Dover, en. br. g. " Gen. McClellan," . 3 4 f
A. B. Emmons, of Quincy, en. ch. m. " Grasshopjier," . Did not appear.
Charles Mills, of Milton, en. b. m. " Irene," . . . 1 1 1
J. W. Hanlon, of Boston Highlands, en. b. g. No name, .4 3 f
Richard Holmes, of Boston Highlands, en. b. s. " Trouba-
dour," 222

Time, 2.06^, 2.15|.

J. Freeman Ellis, of Stoughton,
Jos. E. Hall, of Dorchester,
John S. Eldridge, Jr., of Canton,

Judges.

The celebrated trotting horse "Garibaldi" was driven over the
course by W. H. Briggs, of Taunton, to gratify the si^ectators, and
showed his paces at 1.18, half mile.

Mr. T. M. Downing, of Boston, came on to the ground with a
pair of fine running , mares, too late to enter for the purses ofiTered.
He kindly permitted them to run over the track, and they were much

* Withdrew. t Ruled out; abusive whipping.

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admired for their graceful and agile luovenicnts. It is hoped that
Mr. D. will not forget to come in season next year.

In the name of the Society I thank the several Committees on
Horses, the Judges of the several trials of speed, tlie Assistant-
Chairman, Henry S. Clarke, and Augustus P. Calder, Assistant-
Superintendent of Horses, for the faithful and efficient manner in
which they performed their duties. To them is due the credit of
the success that has attended tlie departments under their charge.

WILLIAM R. MANN, Ge^ieral Chairman.

Note. — I would recommend that the Society hereafter deal as liberally as
they can with the Committee on Horses. Their duties are laborious, and the
preparatory work takes largely of their time and means. They have thus far
cheerfully performed their work for no compensation or favor, paying tlieir
way the same as the inactive members, and performing the duties assigned
them for the interest they felt in the success of tlie Society. It may be well
to re<luce the Committee to twelve in number, three to each class, and give
each a larger field of operation.

BULLS.

1st premium of 15, to Horatio Boyden, South Walpole, for Jer-
sey, three years old.

2d premium of |3, to H. M. Mack, Dorchester, for Jersey, two
years seven months old.

2d premium of |3, to J. W. Gay, Dedham, for Ayrshire.

1st premium of $5, to J. W. Wattles, Canton, for Brittany bull,
fifteen months old.

1st premium of $5, to A. W.Cheever, Wrentham, for James-
town, two years one month old.

2d premium of |3, to William F. Longfellow, Needham, for
grade bull, fourteen months old.

A. S. DRAKE, Chairman.

COWS.

Jersey — John S. Eldridge, Canton, 1st premium of $5.

J. S. Wright, Brookline, for best heifer in milk, $4.

Grade — C. L. Copeland, Milton, 1st premium, $5.

J. H, Farrington, Milton, 2d premium, $4.

John S. Swett, Dedham, 3d premium, |3.

Herds of milch cows — John S. Eldridge, Canton, 1st premium,
the Wilder cup.

H. M. Mack, Dorchester, 2d premium, $12.

Luther Eaton, Dedham, 3d premium, |8.

J. W. GAY
JACOB F. EATON",
Committee.

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HEIFERS.

The Committee on Heifers report that nearly all of those offered
for premium were of the Jersey breed, a large proportion of which
were contributed by John S. Eldridge, of Canton. The Committee
were unanimous in awarding the following premiums : —

Jerseys — 1st and 2d premiums of |8 and $2, to John S. Eldridge,
of Canton.

To T. H. O'Neil, of West Roxbury, the 3d premium of |1.

Jamestown — to J. R. Fisher, of South Dedham, the 2d pre-
mium of |2.

Grade — To B. Bisbee, of North Stoughton, the 2d premium of $2.
For the Committee,

ELIJAH TUCKER.

SWINE.

Largest and best collection of swine, six in number, 1st premium,
115, to J. H. Farrington, Milton.

Weaned pigs, 1st premium, |6, to J. H. Farrington, Milton.
Best boar — 1st premium of $6, to C. L. Copeland, Milton.
2d premium of |4 to J. H. Farrington, Milton.
Best sows — 1st premium of $6, to John Sias, Milton.
2d premium of 14, to C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham.

J. W. GAY,
AMORY FISHER,
. THOMAS B. GRIGGS,

Committee.

POULTRY.

The Committee on Poultry not being present to examine, and
award the premiums, the undersigned were appointed to examine
the entries, and report thereon. They made the following
awards : —

1st premium of 15 to A. W. Cheever, Wrentham, for collection
of pure Brahma fowls, seventeen in number.

2d premium of |3, to C. L. Copeland, Milton, for Cochins.

1st premium of |5, to John S. Eldridge, Canton, for fine Mus-
covy ducks.

Very fine displays of poultiy were made by E. H. Drake,
Stoughton ; E. B. Reynolds, Boston Highlands ; J. II. Farrington,
Milton ; and others.

NATHANIEL SMITH,
FRANCIS MARSH,

Committee.

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WORKING OXEN.

1st premium of $6, to Luther Eaton, Dedham.

2<I i)remiiirii of $4, to George O. Farrington, Dedham.

3d premium of |2, to WilUam Fales, Dedham.

For the Committee,

HENRY M. MACK.

PLOWING.

Double Ox Teams. — George O. Farrington, Dedham, with Hol-
brook's National Prize Plow, 1st premium, |10.

William Fales, Dedham, with Eagle No. 20, Ames Plow Co.,
1st premium, $10.

AARON D. CAPEN, Chairman.

Double Horse Teams. — Blackman Brothers, Needham, with Ames
Plow Co.'s No. 84, 1st premium, $10.

Luther Eaton, Dedham, with E. F. Holbrook & Small's No. 68,
2d premium, $8.

Patrick McNamara, Dover, with Whittemore & Belcher's Eagle
No. 20, 3d premium, $6.

HENRY GOULDING, Chairman.

Single Ox Teams. — The Committee report that in this Depart-
ment there was but one entry, and that was not made within the
rules of the Society ; but in consideration of the excellent manner
in which the work was done, they unanimously recommend the
award of a gratuity of $2 to Luther Eaton, of Dedham. The Plow
used was the Telegraph No. 2, contributed by the Ames Plow Co.,
of Boston.

B. N. SAWIN, Chairman.

Single Horse Teams. — Daniel A. Lynch, Dedham, mth Prouty &
Mears' Plow, 1st premium, $6.

Cyrus G. Upham, Needham, with No. 4 Doe Plow, 2d premium,
$4.

Manning, Glover & Co., "Walpole, with Hurlburt's Plow, 3d
premium, $2.

A. T. MESERVE, Chairman.

FRUITS.

Apples. — Abel F. Stevens, Wellcsley, best collection of five vari-
eties, Ist premium, 86. Rhode Island Greening, .2d premium, 81.
Golden Sweet, 1st premium, $2. Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain,

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Hubbarclston Nonesuch, 1st premium, $2. J. Hamilton Farrar, Ja-
maica Plain, Roxbury Russet, 1st premium, $2.

JRears. — Walker & Co., Boston Highlands, best collection of
twenty varieties, 1st premium, $15. Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica
Plain, best collection of ten varieties, 1st premium, $8. Louise
Bonne de Jersey, 1st premium, |2. Vicar of Winkfield, 1st prem-
ium, $2. Seckel, 1st premium, |2. Beurre Langlier, 1st premium,
$2. J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, best collection of five varieties, 1st
premium, 16. Louise Bonue de Jersey, 2d premium, $1. Duchesse
d'Angouleme, 2d premium, |1. Beurre Bosc, 1st premium, $2.
Winter Nelis, 2d premium, |1. Benjamin Mann, M. D., Boston
Highlands, Bartlett, 1st premium,- $2. Urbaniste, 1st premium, $2.
Duchesse d'Angouleme, 1st premium, $2. Beurre Diel, 1st premium,
|2. G. H. Williams, Jamaica Plain, Bartlett, 2d premium, $1.
Beurre d'Anjou, 1st premium, $2. B. F. Wing, M. D., Jamaica
Plain, Urbaniste, 2d premium, |1. Onondaga, 1st premium, $2.
Winter Nelis, 1st premium, |2. Dana's Hovey, 2d premium, $1.
Andrews, 1st premium, $2. J. .Hamilton Farrar, Jamaica Plain,
Merriam, 1st premium, |2. Dana's Hovey, 1st premium, |2. John
F. Cowell, Wrentham, Vicar of Winkfield, 2d premium, $1. War-
ren Cobb, Sharon, Seckel, 2d premium, $1. J. G. Whitney, West
Roxbury, Buffum, 1st j^remium, |2.

Peaches. — Francis W. Bird, East Walpole, 1st premium, $3;
T. Maccarty, Jamaica Plain, 2d, |2; Warren Cobb, Sharon, 3d,
Cole's Fruit Book.

Grapes. — R. W. Turner, Randolph, best collection of foreign
graj^es, 1st premium, |4; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park, Black
Hamburg, 1st premium, |2 ; Victoria, 1st premium, $2 ; White, 1st
premium, $2; Hierouimas Popp, Jamaica Plain, best collection of
Native grapes, 1st premium, $4 ; Concord, 1st premium, |2 ; J. W.
Page, Jamaica Plain, 2d best collection of Natives, $3 ; Benjamin
F. Radford, Hyde Park, 3d best collection of Natives, |2 ; C. F.
Curtis, Jamaica Plain, Delaware, 1st premium, |2 ; Diana, 1st pre-
mium, $2 ; Allen's Hybrid, 1st premium, $2 ; Walker & Co., Boston
Highlands, Rogers' Hybrids, 1st premium, $2; lona, 1st premium,
$2 ; Hartford Prolific, 1st premium, $2 ; Delaware, 2d premium, $1 ;
Abel F. Stevens, Wellesley, Concord, 2d premium, |1.

Gratuities. — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, basket of fruit, $5 ;
William J. Stuart, Hyde Park, quinces, |1 ; Walker & Co., Boston
Highlands, figs, |1.

E. C. R. WALKER, Chairman.

FLOWERS

Cut Flowers. — 3d premium of $2, to Mrs. William J. Stuart,
Hyde Park.

Flower Baskets. — 3d premium of $2, to Mrs. Charles H. Mer-
riam, Milton.

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Named Gladiolus in Spikes. — 1st prcniium of $4, to George
Craft, Brookline.

For the best collection of Neio Seedlings in S2nkes. — 1st premium
of $3, to George Ci-aft, Brookline.

Best JVeio Seedling. — 1st, to George Craft, Brookline.

Double' Zinnias. — '2d premium of 11, to Mrs. William J. Stuart,
Hyde Park.

A fine collection of Japan Lilies, and Gladiolas were contributed
by Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester — Cut Flowers and Zinnias
by Mrs. George Vose, Milton.

Flower Basket and Cut Flowers from Mrs. Charles Mackintosh,
Needham. Cut Flowers by Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, and
Bouquets from Mrs. Cyrus Upham, Needham, but were entered too
late for premiums.

Your Committee recommend the following gratuities :

Floral Wreath.— %l, to Mrs. Charles H. Merriam, Milton.

Bouquets. — $1, to Mrs. Cyrus Upham, Needham.

Out Flowers and Zinnias. — 15, to Mrs. George Vose, Milton.

Cut Flowers. — $1, to Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain.

Flowers and Self Watering Flower Pot. — $1, and the Society's
Diploma, to Benjamin W. Putnam, Jamaica Plain.

For the Committee,

GEORGE CRAFT.

VEGETABLES.

Number of entries 20. The following premiums were awarded :

Largest and best collection of vegetables. — 1st premium of $15, to
C. and C. Mackintosh, Needham ; 2d j^remium of |10, to John Sias,
Milton ; 3d premium of |5, to Cyrus G. Upham, Needham.

Largest and best collection of Potatoes. — 1st premium of |6, to
C. G. Upham, Needham; 2d premium of |3, to Abel F. Stevens,
Wellesley.

Largest and best collection of Squashes. — 1st premium of $4, to
James Dorr, Dorchester ; 2d j^remium of |3, to A. P. Calder, Dor-
chester.

Best half bushel of Potatoes. — 1st premium of $2, to C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of $1, to H. Bird & Sons, Stoughton.

Best half bushel of Turnips. — 1st premium of $2, to Abel F.
Stevens, of Wellesley.

Best half bushel of Carrots. — 1st premium of $2, to James Dorr,
Dorchester.

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Best Jialf bushel of Beets. — 1st premium of $2, to James Dorr,
Dorcliester.

Best half bushel of Tomatoes. — 1st premium of |2, to R. T.
Lombard, Needham.

Best half bushel of Onions. — 1st premium of |2, to A. P. Calder,
Dorchester; 2d premium of |1, to E. P. Crane, Dedham.

Four best heads of Drumhead Cabbage. — 1st premium of |2, to
Allen Colburn, Dedham; 2d premium of $1, to A. P. Calder, Dor-
chester.

Four best Savoy Cabbage. — 1st premium of |2, to Allen Colburn,
Dedham; 2d premium of |1, to A. P. Calder, Dorchester.

Four best Caulifloioers. — 1st premium of $2, to A. P. Calder,
Dorchester.

Four best Marrow Squashes. — 1st premium of $2, to C. E. C.
Breck, Milton.

Twelve best ears of Sweet Corn. — 1st pi-emium of $2, to A. Kins-
man, Milton ; 2d premium of $1, to Alien Colburn, Dedham.

For Garnet Chili Potatoes. — Premium of |1, to C. E. Folsom.

For the Committee,

D. S. MESERVE, Chairman.

DAIRY.

The Committee on Butter report that only two of their number
were present — Messrs. Grew and .Clapp — Hon. Otis Cary being
appointed by the Chairman as a substitute. The Committee award
the 1st premium of $10 to A. W. Cheever, of Wrentham ; and the
2d premium of $8 to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, of Needham, for
boxes containing twenty pounds each.

For a box of twelve pounds of butter, — the only one presented
to the Committee, — the 2d premium of $3, to Mrs. John Turner, of
Needham.

For the Committee,

HENRY GREW.

BREAD.

Wheat Bread. — 1st premium of 13, to Mrs. G. D. Everett, Dover.
2d premium of |2, to Miss W. A. Bradlee, Milton.

Unbolted Wheat. — Premium of |3, to Miss Mary A. Sewall,
Medfield.

Wheat and Indian. — 1st premium of |3, to Mrs. G. D. Everett,
Dover. 2d premium of $2, to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham.

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Rye and Indian. — 1st »]ircininm of $3, to Miss Maiy A. Sewall,
Medtield. 2cl of $2, to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needhani.

JRyc and Flour. — Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, of Needham, a
diploma.

For the Committee,

J. WHITE BELCHER.

SEEDS

Cyrus G. TJpham, of Needham, for best sample of seed corn, $2.

A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 2d best, |1.

C. E. C. Breck, of Milton, for one peck of wheat, $1.

C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, one peck of rye, 11.

ROBERT MANSFIELD, Chairman.

MANUFACTURERS OF FURNITURE, CAR-
RIAGES, HARNESSES, &c.

The Committee found a good display of furniture from the man-
ufiictorics of Messrs. Hutchinson Brothers and M. W. Cain, of
Dorchester, and Oliver Glover, of Milton, and have awarded them
premiums as below.

A. B. Marston & Co., of Campello, exhibited two parlor organs
and one melodeon, of fine tone and finish, and your Committee
would have awarded them a large premium, but being out of the
county, the rules of the Society do not allow anything more than a
diploma.

J. E. Carpenter & Co., Boston, exhibited " New England im-
proved spring bed bottom."

W. H. Davenport, Dedham, showed a collection of walking
canes, very neatly made from native woods of difierent varieties.

Manuel &> Drake, Dedham, exhibited expanding spring bed bot-
tom, and spiral spring slat bottom.

Robert Clark, Jamaica Plain, an apprentice, exhibited several
styles of horseshoes, which showed superior workmanship, and we
award him a diploma.

J. C. Williams & Co., Jamaica Plain, showed two harnesses for
express wagon and buggy, both very neatly finished.

George W. Clapp, Milton, exhibited a superior made carryall
harness.

G. W. Bryant & Co., North Bridgewater, exhibited a costly col-
lection of tablets and gravestones, some of which were very elab-
orate, and all showing superior workmanship, and your Committee
regret that the rules of the Society would not allow the awarding
of a larger premium.

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Sidney E. Morse, South Declham, exhibited a covered wagon,
also a butcher wagon, which, for neatness and convenience, could
hardly be excelled. His work is known throughout the county.

N. B. & A. J. Whittier, Hyde Park, exhibited a covered buggy
worthy of that enterprising young town, and we regret that the
funds of the Society do not permit a larger premium.

We award the following premiums : —

Carriages. — To N. B. & A. J. Whittier, Hyde Park, for top
buggy, $3.

To Sidney E. Morse, South Dedham, for covered wagon, $2;
butcher Avagon, |3.

Furniture. — Tp Manly W. Cain, Dorchester, for marble and
wood top tables and work tables, |4 and a diploma.

Hutchinson Brothers, Dorchester, for extension tables, parlor
desks and hat trees, |4 and a diploma.

Oliver Glover, Milton, secretary, $2 and diploma.

A. B. Marston & Co., Campello, for parlor organs and melodeons,
a diploma.

J. E. Carpenter & Co., Boston, for IST. E. improved bed bottom,
diploma.

Manuel & Drake, Dedham, for spring bed bottoms, |2.

Marble Work.— To George W. Bryant & Co., North Bridge-
water, for tablets and gravestones, diploma.

Horseshoes. — To Robert Clark, Jamaica Plain, for horseshoes,
diploma.'

Harnesses. — George W. Clapp, Milton, for carryall harness, $2.
J. C. Williams, Jamaica Plain, for buggy and express har-
nesses, |3.

For the Committee,

CHARLES E. C. BRECK.

LADIES' WORK.

To Mrs. E. M. Middleton, Sharon, toilet cushion, diploma, and
flannel skirt, 75 cents ; Mrs. S. A. Ruggles, cone card basket and ,
frame, $1 ; Anna M. Pratt, Hyde Park, tatting collar, 50 cents ;
Lydia Bragdon, pictures and frame, diploma ; Miss W. A. Bradlee,
Milton, delaine quilt, containing fifteen hundred pieces, $2; Mrs.
Schwartz, Dedham, knitted quilt, $3 ; Sarah B. Grover, East Wal-
pole, one pair stockings, very nice, %\ ; Miss Gardner, wax wreath
in frame, $1 ; Miss Alice A. Sewall, Medfield, ottoman cover, |1 ;
Mrs. George E. Morse, Dedham, infant's blanket, $1 ; Mrs. James
Farrington, Dedham, socks and stockings, |1 ; Mrs. C. H. Merriam,
worsted work, 50 cents, Honfleur painting, 50 cents, Mezzotints,
diploma; Miss Nellie Thomas, Dedham, very handsome carriage
blanket, |3 ; Emma Severance, aged 8 years, crotchet edging, 50

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oonts ; Mrs. C. F. Sins, Dover, hooked rng, rliploma ; Mrs. 1. W.
Thayer, oil paintings, |3, crochet tidy, diploma; Miss Alice Policy,
East "Walpole, two breakfast shawls, $1 ; J. E. Sturdy, tack-holder
and carj)et-stretcher, diploma ; G. E. Paine, patent solder, diploma ;
N. Farrington, Jr., coon-skin robe, |1 ; J. B. Johnston, ] tainting,
$1 ; Miss Gilson, Hyde Park, very nice wax pond lilies, $2, other
flowers, $1 ; Miss Nettie Farrar, Jamaica Plain, wax flowers, 11.50;
Mrs. Leon A. Priest, "Walpole, toilet cushion and mats, very nice
and handsome, 11.50, sofa })illows, diploma ; Mrs. J. H. Farrar,
Jamaica Plain, worsted work, 75 cents ; Mrs. Isaac Ellis, South
Dedham, needle work, 75 cents; Hannah Welch, South Walpole,
hair work, $2, worsted mat, diploma ; Mrs. J. F. J. Mayo, Need-
ham, sofa pilloAvs, $1 ; Miss M. E. Boyden, Hyde Park, crochet
tidy, 50 cents ; Lizzie M. Drake, Sharon, 11 years of age, crochet
tidy, 50 cents ; Mrs. Martha Tucker, Dover, 95 years of age, calico
quilt, II ; Mary Mai'den, Dover, two pairs socks, 50 cents ; Samuel
Sias, Dover, infont's shoes, $1 ; Mrs. J. Pratt, Neponset, affghan, $1.
The Committee recommend a gratuity to Mrs. C. F. Sias, of
Dover, for hooked rug, and make favorable mention of the Pen and
Ink sketches (particularly of the portrait of John Brown) exhibited
by Bryant & Stratton's Business College.

Mrs. J. H. FARRAR,
Mrs. J. M. HARRIS,
Mrs. CHAS. H. LELAND,

Committee.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND NEW IN-
VENTIONS.

The department of Agricultural Implements was well filled with
articles of great usefulness, including several of improved construc-
tion and more convenient operation than had been heretofore
obtained.

We regard this depai'tment as of great importance, and exhibitors
in it as deserving substantial encouragement. They not only add
to the magnitude and variety of the show, but to the means of
agricultural progress and improvement. They aflbrd to examiners
good opportunity to ascertain the comparative merits of articles of
difierent construction, and to select such as are best adapted to
particular uses. Improved implements and machinery have prob-
ably done more than anything else to advance the progress of agri-
culture during the last half century ; and it is by like means that
this progress is to be continued.

It is true, as has been said, that the contributor of any valuable
article docs, in this way, make it more known to the community,
and thereby reaps an advantage which he might not have otherwise
obtained. But the advantage thus obtained does not absolve the
Society from obligation to remunerate the efforts made for its bene-
fit and in behalf of the general cause of agricultural improvement.

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We regret, therefore, that no greater inducements are presented to
inventors, manufacturers and sellers, to make a full exhibition of
implements and machines at our Annual Cattle Show. And we
recommend that the premiums to be hereafter offered in this
department be more numerous and of greater value.

We also recommend that arrangements be made in future by
which the operation of imjjlements and machinery may be, as far
as practicable, observed upon the grounds. Were it once widely
known that such arrangements were made for the exhibition and
trial of new and improved implements and machinery at each An-
nual Show it would attract the attention of a large class of culti-
vators, eager to see and to avail themselves of any actual improve-
ment in articles for which they have continual use.

To Parker & Gannett, of Boston, for the largest collection of va-
rious articles, among which were several of improved form and
use, we award the first premium, of twelve dollars.

To Holbrook & Small, of Boston, for a smaller collection of
articles of like excellence, we award the second premium, of six
dollars.

These being the only premiums offered by the Society, and the
award of gratuities being left to our discretion, we feel justified, by
a regard to the interests of the Society and to the good will of
those who may be hereafter disposed to contribute to its Annual
Show, in awarding the following gratuities : —

To the Ames Plow Company, of Boston, for exhibition of the
American Hay Tedder and Burt's Horse-Rake, a gratuity of three
dollars.

To James Gould, of Boston, for exhibition and trial of a Grass
Renovator, a gratuity of three dollars.

To J. R. Fisher, of South Dedham, for exhibition and trial .of
Clement's Horse-Hoe, a gratuity of three dollars.

To W. B. Wickes, of Sharon, for Plant-Protectors, a gratuity of
fifty cents.

To Shamrock & Cooper, of Hyde Park, for new and improved
Furnace, Parlor and Cooking Stove, the Society's Diploma.

To T. B. Fairbanks & Co., of Boston, for various Scales and Bal-
ances, the Society's Diploma.

For the Committee,

CHAS. C. SEWALL.

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RECAPITULATION OF PREMIUMS

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGKICULTURAL SOCIETY,

For

1809.

HORSES.

'

A. W. Cheever, .

$5 00

Cli.irlfs T?oeord, .
Daniol Bi<iley, .
llicliiinl Holmes, .

^195 00

100 00

85 00

H. M. Mack,

J. W. Gay, . . . .

AVilliam F. Longfellow,

3 00
3 00
3 00

A. W N;isli,

75 00

W. II. Bi-iggs, .

75 00

COWS.

B. F. Brown,

50 00

Jolin E. Wliite, .

30 60

H. M. Mack,

S!12 00

W. L. Wliite,

25 00

Luther Eaton,

8 00

Charles Mills,

20 00

John S. Eldridge,

5 00

Lewis Wie;ht,

15 00

C. L. Copeland, .

5 00

Isaac Far well.

10 00

J. S. Wright, .

4 00

F. B Ray

Emery Ilawes, .

10 00

J. H. Farrington,

4 00

10 00

John S. Swett, .

3 00

L. B. Jones,

10 00

John S. Eldridge,

9 00

HEIFERS.

C. Clark, . . .

9 00

John Inaraham, .

8 00

John S. Eldridge,

!|5 00

C. & C.'Maekintosb, .

8 00

J. R. Fisher,

2 00

Alnion Perrv,

8 00

B. Bisbee

2 00

Williant E. Coffin,

7 00

T. H. O'Neill, .

1 00

Henry Vose,

7 00

John Davenport, Jr., .
Owen Naun,

7 00
7 00

SWINE.

Luther Eaton,

7 00

J. H. Farrington,

$25 00

Henry Trowbridge, .

6 00

C. L. Copeland, .

6 00

S. E. "Morse,

6 00

John Sias, . .

6 00

C F. Ellis, .

6 00

C. & C. Mackintosh, .

4 00

E. U. Sewall, .

5 00

Calvin Richards, .

5 00

William II. Baker, .

5 00

POULTRY.

Thomas Ilartney,

5 00

A. W. Cheever, .

$5 00

A. Papineau,

4 00

John S. Eldridge,
C. L. Copeland, .

5 00

C. W^ Hebard, .
Charles E. Stone,

4 00
3 00

3 00

Isaac Ellis, .

3 00

Jason Ellis, .

3 00

PLOWING.

N. Farrington, Jr.,

T~V * ITT

3 00

G. O. Farrinston,

. SIO 00

JJaniel Hannasy, .
W. Sanborn,
Edward Rooney, .

, 3 00
2 00
2 00

William Fale"s, .
Blackman Brothers,
Luther Eaton,

. 10 00
. 10 00
. 10 00

BULLS.

Patrick McNamara,
Daniel A. Lvnch,

6 00
6 00

Horatio Boyden, .

. 15 00

C. G. Upham, .

4 00

J. W. Wattles, .

5 00

Manning, Glover & Co.,

2 00

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WORKING OXEN.

Lather Eaton,
George O. Farrington
William Fales,

FRUIT,

Charles F. Curtis,
Walker & Co.,
J. W. Page,
Abel F. Stevens,
Benjamin Mann,
B. F. Wing,
William J. Stuar
J. H. Farrar,
Hieronemas Popp
R. W. Turner,

F. W. Bird,

G. H. Williams,
J. G. Whitney,
T. McCarty,
B. F. Radford,
John F. Covvell,
Warren Cobb,

FLOWERS.

George Crafts,
Mrs. George Vose,
Mrs, W. J. Stuart,
Mrs. Charles H. Merriam,
Mrs. Cyrus Upham,
Charles F. Curtis,

B. W. Putnam, .

VEGETABLES.

C. & C. Mackintosh,
C. G. Upham,
John Si as, .
A. P. Calder,
James Dorr,
Abel F. Stevens, ,
Allen Colburn,
C. F. Curtis,
R. T. Lombard,
C. E. C. Breck,

$6 00
4 00
2 00

$29 00

23 00

14 00

10 00

8 00

8 00

7

00

6

00

6

00

4

00

3

00

3

00

2

00

2

00

2

00

1

00

1

00

$8 00

00
00
00
00
00
00

$15 00
11 00
10 00
9 00
8 00
5 00
5 00
2 00
2 00
2 00

A. Kinsman, . . . $2 00

H Bird & Sons, . . . 1 00

E. P. Crane, . . . 1 00

C. E. Folsom, . . . 1 00

DAIRY.

A. W. Cheever, . . . $10 00

Mrs. N. Longfellow, . . 8 00

Mrs. John Turner, . . 3 00

BREAD.

Mrs. George D. Everett, . $6 00

Miss Mary A. Sewall, . . 6 00

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, . 4 00

Miss W. A. Bradlee, . . 2 00

SEEDS.

C. G. Upham, . . . $2 00

A. F. Stevens, . . . 1 00

C. E. C. Breck, . . . 1 00

C. & C. Mackintosh, . . 1 00

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS

Parker & Gannett,

Holbrook & Small,

Ames Plow Company,

James Gould,

J. R. Fisher,

W. B. Wicks, .

MANUFACTURES

S. E. Morse,
M. W. Cain,
Hutchinson Brothers, .
N. B. cSc A. J. Whittier,
J. C. Williams, .
Oliver Glover,
Manuel & Drake,
George W. Clapp,

$12 00
6 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
50

00-

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

LADIES' WORK.

(See pages, 30, 31,) . . $37 75

$1,410 25

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TREASURER'S REPORT.

C. C. Churchill, Treasurer, in account loith the Norfolk Agricultural

Society.

Dr.

To balance, November 30, 18G8, $662 06

cash from new raenibers, 1,005 00

" from Commonwealth, 600 00

" net proceeds of Exhibition, 1869, . . . 2,520 50

$4,787 56

Contra.

Cash paid incidental expenses,

" premiums, ....
" salary Recording Secretary,
" salary Treasurer, .
" interest, ....
in Treasury, ....

Cr.

S2,976 18

1,071 00

100 00

50 00

30 00

560 38

1,787 56

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.

Dedham, Nov. 30, 1869.

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PROOEEDIN&S

AT THE

ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

At Dedham, March 31, 1869.

The Annual Meeting of the Society was held at the Phoenix
House, in Dedham, on Wednesday, March 31st, 1869. The
meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock by the President,
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, who, on taking the chair, made the
following address : —

Gentlemen of the Norfolk Agricultural Society : —

The time has come when, in conformity with a fixed determina-
tion expressed at our last exhibition, and under a deliberate con-
viction of duty, both to you and myself, I now lay down the robes
of office with which you have clothed me for the last twenty years.
From the organization of this Society, and during this long period,
you have honored me Avith your confidence as president of this
institution, an oftice which I shall ever appreciate as among the
most honorable of any that has ever been conferred on me. I have
several times expressed my desire to resign the oftice, but have
yielded to your judgment, that my services were important to the
success of the Society, and have dischai-ged the duties of the chair
according to my best ability. For some years the Society labored
under the incumbrance of a heavy debt. That lias been cancelled,
and the exigency no longer exists. My resignation at this time
cannot be prejudicial to the interests of the association. Nor
would I disguise the fact that my health has been seriously impaired
by numerous official duties.

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Tlie Society is now recognized as among the most prosperous in
the State, and has* attained a standing and reputation that will
insure its perpetuity and usefulness for the future. And here a
word as to the influence and history of the Society. Although our
county is not as favorably situated for agricultural purposes as some
others in the Commonwealth, the Norfolk Society, on its establish-
ment, soon became a prominent and progressive institution. It
was the first to purchase lands, erect a hall and take fees for admis-
sion to the gates. It was first to admit ladies to the rights of mem-
bership, and to a participation in the festivities of the annual feast.
From the Norfolk Society emanated the idea of establishing the
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, now a department of the gov-
ernment, and now working harmoniously with all the other societies.
Here, too, originated the first general efibrts in behalf of the cause
of agricultural education, which have culminated in the establish-
ment of that promising institution, the Massachusetts Agricultural
College ; and here, also, if I might be permitted to make the record,
was conceived the project of the United States Agricultural Society,
which, until the late conflict, was exerting a happy influence on the
agricultural and political interests of the country.

And now, in rendering an account of my stewardship, permit
me, for the j^urposes of history, though oft recorded, to allude
again to the auspicious inauguration of the Society. Who that
witnessed that memorable occasion will not ever delight to treas-
ure up its pleasant reminiscences. Here, assembled around our
festive board, were Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, Horace
Mann, Charles Francis Adams, Josiah Quincy, senior and junior,
Robert C. Winthrop, Governors Lincoln, Briggs, Hill and Reed,
and other distinguished men who had come up to honor and en-
courage us by their presence. If the Society has not accomplished
all that may have been anticipated, it has done much to improve
our agriculture, horticulture and mechanical interests. Our annual
exhibitions have awakened enterprise, stimulated competition ^
developed our industrial resources, improved the products of the
soil, and promoted a closer alliance and a more cordial intercourse
between the good people of our county. And now, as we are
about to remove from the old homestead to a more central location
and more extensive grounds, I feel that you need a man of more
vigor, energy and enterprise than myself at your head.

But while I bid adieu to ofticial position, I beg to be recognized
as a firm supporter and faithful member of the institution. To
every member of the Society I tender ray grateful acknowledg-
ments for the courtesy, confidence and respect tendered to me dur-

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ing the long period of my service. Especially would I render my
sincere thanks to my official associates for their hearty cooperation
and assistance in the discharge of duty, and to the Secretary, Mr.
Henry O. Hildreth, with Avhom I have been more intimately asso-
ciated, my heartfelt obligations for numerous acts of attention and
assistance. And I beg to assure you of my sincere desire for the
happiness of all, and for the prosperity, perpetuity and usefulness
of the Society. In the language of my address twenty years ago,
" May the latter end of this Society be as glorious as its commence-
ment was ausj^icious, and may our neighbors say of us as was said
in the mother country of an English agricultural society, ' Look at
Norfolk!'"

And now gentlemen, farewell ! Farewell to the honors which
you have conferred on me for so many years. And when a man of
threescore and ten bids farewell to official life, it must be a long
farewell ! But wherever you may go, wherever you may be, my
heart will still be with you, and my blessing will ever follow the
Norfolk Agricultural Society.

On motion, a Committee of seven, consisting of the following
gentlemen, was appointed by the Chair, to report a list of officers
for the ensuing year: — F. P. Denny, Brookline ; E. C. R. Wal-
ker, Roxbury ; A. W. Whitcomb, Randolph ; J. D. Bradlee,
Milton; A. L. Smith, Dover; A. B. Balch, Medfield; H. O.
Hildreth, Dedham. The Committee, after deliberation, reported
the following list of officers, which was unanimously adopted
by the meeting : —

President — Hon. John S. Eldridge, of Canton.

Honorary President — Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents — Hon. Amos A. Lawrence, Brookline ; Hon.
Otis Cary, Foxborough; Stephen W. Richardson,. Franklin ;
Elijah Tucker, Milton ; Henry Grew, Hyde Park ; Eliphalet
Stone, Dedham.

Corresponding mid Recording Secretary — Henry O. Hildreth,
Dedham.

Treasurer — Chauncey C. Churchill, Dedham.

Executive Committee — William R. Mann, Sharon; Aaron D.
Weld, West Roxbury ; Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; Truman
Clarke, Walpole ; Charles Breck, Milton ; Alfred W. Whit-
comb, Randolph ; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury ; A. B. Balch, Med-
field ; William E. Coffin, Dorchester.

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Finance Committee and Auditors — Ira Cleveland, Dedhani ;
Charles Hamant, Medfiekl ; E. S. Rand, Jr., Dedham.

On takiiio; the chair, Mr. Eldridge made a brief but felicitous
speech, in which he expressed his heartfelt thanks for the honor
thus conferred upon him by the Society, and said that in look-
ing back over the past history of the Society, he found that his
first entrance into public life, in the county of Norfolk, was
through the late President of the Society, who introduced him
as the orator at one of the anniversaries. He expressed
his deep pleasure that so able a counsellor as Colonel Wilder was
still to remain in the management of the Society, for wherever
the name of American agriculture was known and spoken of,
the name of Wilder was connected with it. He was glad to
learn that the Society was in a prosperous condition, and he
would devote his best endeavors to its future success.

At the conclusion of Mr. Eldridge's address, Mr. Wilder
spoke of the new era on which the Society had entered. He
believed the spirit of the first year was again in the Society,
and would make it as prominent and conspicuous in its future
years as it was in its commencement. The new President was
a man of large means, and his heart was as large as his wealth ;
from his election he augured the greatest possible success to the
Society, and hoped that it would continue to be in the future, as
it was in the past, one of the most distinguished in the State.

The following Resolutions, offered by the Rev. C. C. Sewall,
of Medfiekl, were unanimously adopted by a rising vote : —

Wher'eas, We, the members of the Norfolk Agricultural Society,
are deeply impressed with the conviction that, for the life and vigor,
the reputation and usefulness of this Society, Ave have been mainly
indebted to the wisdom and generosity, the executive ability and
indomitable perseverance of its presiding officer, from the date of
its organization ; and, whereas^ the time has now come, when, yield-
ing to the claims of his age, his health, and his personal freedom
from exliausting cares and labors, Ave must kindl)'^ accept his ])rof-
fered resignation of the office, and the honor of the President of
this Society:

Therefore, Resolved, That, in accepting the resignation of our
highly esteemed, efficient and distinguished presiding officer, Ave cor-
dially extend to him our grateful acknoAAdedgments for his long and

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invaluable services, — preserving, as they have done, the life and
vigor of the Society, and elevating it to its distinguished place
among its kindred institutions in the Commonwealth and country ;
and the assurance that his name and memory will ever be cherished
by us with a profound sensibility of his personal excellence in every
department of life, — of his eminent ability and usefulness in pro-
moting the arts of Horticulture and Agriculture ; and, in particular,
of his services and noble beneftictions to the Norfolk Agricultural
Society:

Resolved^ That, with the hope and earnest desire that his health
may be perfectly restored, and his life of usefulness prolonged, for
the benefit of all those public institutions and private relations with
which he is connected, we especially hope and desire that we may
still have the benefit of his presence, sympathy and counsel in fu-
ture transactions of this Society : ,

Therefore^ Resolved^ That our late President, the Hon. Marshall
P. Wilder, be, and he is hereby unanimously constituted the first
Honorary President of the Norfolk Agricultural Society.

Mr. Wilder made S, brief and feeling response to these Reso-
lutions.

A committee, consisting of Messrs. C. C. Churchill of Ded-
ham, Bradlee of Milton, Denny of Brookline, Bartlett of West
Eoxbury, Balch of Medfield, was appointed by the Chair to re-
port a committee of nine, whose duty it should be to prepare
the new grounds at Readville for the use and occupancy of the
Society. The Committee reported the following list : Hon.
John S. Eldridge, Canton ; William R. Mann, Sharon ; Alden
Bartlett, West Roxbury ; John D. Bradlee, Milton ; A. B. En-
dicott, Dedham ; Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph ; Richard
Holmes, Roxbury ; Henry Grew, Hyde Park, and C. C. Churchill,
Dedham. The report was amended by adding the names of E.
L. Metcalf, Franklin ; Charles Hamant, Medfield ; John W.
Thomas, Dedham ; and Thomas Decatur, West Roxbury ; and
then adopted.

The Committee were instructed to advertise for proposals in
at least two Boston papers, and in the county papers, the con-
tracts to be given respectively to the lowest responsible bidders.

Voted to adopt and make record of the report of the com-
mittee appointed to make sale and transfer of the property of
the Society, and to purchase new grounds and secure the neces-

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sary deeds therefor, and to discharge said committee from the
duty imposed upon them.

A committee of one from each town in the county was
chosen to solicit new members.

The Society then proceeded to the choice of a Board of
Trustees, and at 1 o'clock, P. M., the meeting dissolved. The
attendance was very large, and the proceedings throughout
were entirely harmonious. Although deep regret was expressed
at the determination of Mr. Wilder to retire from the office of
President, yet the assurance that the condition of his health
absolutely required cessation from labor, made it imperative
upon the Society to accept the resignation of their beloved and
honored head. The cordial and hearty manner in which the
retiring President welcomed Mr. Eldridge to the chair, which
had been so ably and honorably filled for many years, and the
peculiarly felicitous speech in which the latter gentleman ac-
cepted the position, furnished a most happy augury of the
future success and prosperity of an association dear to the people
of Old Norfolk.

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CHANGE OF LOCATION.

As the removal of the grounds from Dedham to Readville
marks a new era in the history of the Society, the following
brief statement of the proceedings in reference thereto is here-
with given.

At the regular autumnal meeting of the Trustees, held Nov.
19th, 1<^67, the Secretary offered a proposition for the selection
of a committee for the purpose of making all necessary in-
quiries with reference to a change of location of the Society's
grounds, the committee to report either at the annual meeting
in March, or if necessary, to a meeting specially called for the
purpose. After remarks by the mover, and by several gentle-
men, all in favor of the proposition, the vote was unanimously
adopted, and the following gentlemen were constituted the
committee : — Marshal P. Wilder, Dorchester ; William R.
Mann, Sharon ; Otis Gary, Foxborough ; Axel Dearborn, Boston ;
Joseph H. Billings, West Roxbury ; Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ;
Albert Tirrell, • Weymouth ; Henry 0. Hildreth, Dedham ;
Augustus B. Endicott, Dedham ; Chauncey C. Churchill, Ded-
ham ; John D. Bradlee, Milton.

At the annual meeting of the Society, held March 25th, 1868,
the committee was further enlarged by the addition of Erastus
L. Metcalf of Franklin, and Thomas Decatur of West Roxbury,
and the committee were authorized to make such purchases, on
such terms, and at such prices, as they might deem for the best
interests of the Society, and if, in their judgment deemed ex-
pedient, to make sale of the real estate and buildings of the
Society, upon such terms as they might deem best.

In pursuance of the authority thus given, the committee sold
the real estate and buildings in Dedham, to Edward S. Rand, Jr.,
Esq., and purchased of Hon. John S. Eldridge and Henry N.
Farwell, twenty-eight and one-half acres of land and twenty-
two of the barrack buildings, on what was known as the Camp
Ground, at Readville.

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Under the supervision of the committee a])pointcd at the
annual meeting in March, the land was enclosed with a sub-
stantial fence, averaging nine feet in height, and the twenty-two
buildings were arranged to suit the requirements of the Society
for the exhibition of fruits, flowers, horticultural, agricultural
and dairy products, ladies' work, implements, stabling, cattle-
stalls, etc. Several of the buildings were fitted with box-stalls
for horses, of which there are eighty in all. Buildings were
prepared for ticket offices, reception room, secretary's room, re-
porters' room, judges' room, cooking room, superintendent's
apartments, and for other purposes — each detail of management
and exhibition having its separate room fitted up in appropriate
fashion. These are all on the northern side of the square.
Southerly is an ample area, which will be devoted to such gen-
eral purposes as necessity may demand. Within this space
there are four wells of excellent water, with pumps and water-
ing troughs for animals ; and immediately outside the gate, at
the northeast corner of the grounds, is a living spring of the
purest water fit to supply the wants of thousands. At the
opposite corner — but separated from the grounds by the Provi-
dence Railroad — is Readville Pond, containing a large body of
water. At the northwest corner there are eighty-eight pens
erected, viz., sixty-three for cattle, eighteen for sheep, and seven
for hogs, and near them is a building wdiere an assistant secre-
tary will supply labels for the various descriptions of stock on
exhibition.

Extending from east to west, in its greatest length, and on
the south end of the ground, is the half mile trotting course,
fenced inside and outside with post and rail and graded to a
level — at the southeast corner to a height of two to five feet.
Like all egg-shaped courses it has its disadvantages in the rather
sharp turnings at the two ends, but the curves have been made
as wide as possible, and for all needful purposes of the Society
it will be found satisfactory. At the northwest curve is situated
the judges' stand, which will accommodate eight persons, and
which is elevated ten feet above the level of the track. Outside
the course, and facing the stands at an angle, a stand has been
erected which will seat a thousand persons, and from which a
perfect view of the whole track can be had.

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Ttie enclosing of the grounds and the carpenter work, fitting
up the buildings, &c., was done in a substantial manner by Mr.
John J. Shaw, of West Roxbury. Tiie laying out of the
grounds, and of the horse track, was done under the direction
of Mr. William A. Garbett, of Roxbury, and the track was con-
structed by Kennedy & McLane, of Dedham, to the satisfaction
of the committee.

The grounds were informally opened to the public on Thurs-
day afternoon, September 16th, when the large number of gen-
tlemen present expressed great pleasure at the satisfactory
condition in which they found the grounds and track.

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PROCEEDINGS

ON THE OCCASION OF THE

TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY

OF THE

NORFOLK AGP.ICULTURAL SOCIETY,

Thursday and Friday, September 23 and 24, 1869.

The Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricul-
tural Society took place on the new grounds at Rcadville, on
Thursday and Friday, September 23d and 24th, 1869. The
weather throughout was very fine, and the Exhibition proved
one of the best ever held by the Society. Owing to the unprec-
edented loss of fruit by the great storm of the 8th inst., the
display in that department, especially of apples, was meagre,
and the want of familiarity witli the new grounds and the
arrangements, doubtless prevented the presentation of a large
amount of stock, which may hereafter be counted on to fill the
pens to overflowing. But whatever were the deficiencies of the
Exlubition of this year, it has been demonstrated to the satis-
faction of the most doubtful-minded, that the Society have now
a location in which they can successfully compete with any sim-
ilar association in the State. A new era in the history and
prosperity of the Society has been most successfully inaugu-
rated, and the future is full of hope and promise.

Thursday, the first day of the Exhibition, was devoted, as
usual, to the reception and examination of contributions. Of
Horses, the leading contributors were Col. Henry S. Russell, of
West Roxbury ; William E. Coffin, of Savin Hill, Dorchester ;

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Francis B, Ray, Franklin ; John S. Eldridge, Canton ; E. U.
Sewall, Medfield ; Isaac Ellis, Walpole ; C. F. Ellis, Dedham,
and others. Of Stock, Hon. John S. Eldridge, Canton, exhib-
ited a fine herd of Jerseys, thirty in number ; H. M. Mack,
Dorchester, a beautiful herd of seven Jerseys ; J. W. Wattles,
of Canton, a Brittany bull, fifteen months old ; C. L. Copeland,
Milton, a fine three-years-old heifer, with a pair of twin heifer
calves, seven weeks old. Among other fine animals, were those
of Eben Wright, Brookline ; J. R. Fisher, South Dedham ; and
Mrs. Dr. Morton, Wellesley. Noticeable among the bulls, was
the magnificent two-and-one-half-years-old imported Jersey,
" Jack Horner," exhibited by H. M. Mack, Dorchester ; the
splendid two-years-old Jamestown of A. W. Cheever, Wren-
tham ; the Alderneys of Mr. Eldridge; and the Ayrshires of
J. W. Gay, of Dedham. The list of swine embraced thirty-
three in number, the most conspicuous of which was a sow of
the Mackay breed, now four years of age, which has been the
motlier of one hundred and three pigs, and belonging to Mr.
Jolm Sias, Milton. Other fine animals were exhibited by Mr.
Eldridge, C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, and others. In the
collection of fowls, were a lot of seventeen splendid Brahmas
from A. W. Cheever, Wrentham ; a choice lot of Leghorn,
Brahma and Shanghae, from J. H. Farrington, Milton ; Domi-
niques from A. H. Drake, Stoughton ; and fine buff imported
Cochins from C. L. Copeland, Milton.

In the ladies' department, the display was less than on some
former years. The most beautiful contribution was an afghan,
about six feet square, upon which was worked the raised figure
of a horse, elegantly done, by Miss Nellie Thomas, of Dedham.

Of Fruit, there was a good display, though the contributions
of apples from Messrs. Clapp, of Dorchester, which have made
this department famous, were entirely wanting, their crop hav-
ing been blown off in the severe gale of the 8th inst. Hon.
Marshall P. Wilder contributed one hundred and eight varieties
of pears, and fine displays were made by Walker & Co., and
Dr. Mann, Boston Highlands ; C. F. Curtis, J. W. Page, G. H.
Williams and Dr. B. F. Wing, of Jamaica Plain. Of grapes,
the show was very fine, there being seventy plates, the leading
contributors of which were R. W. Turner, Randolph ; W. J.
Stuart, Hyde Park ; Walker & Co., Boston Highlands ; C. F.

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Curtis, Jamaica Plain. Mr. Hicroiiimas Popp, of Jamaica
Plain, made a beautiful display of Native, Rogers' Hybrid and
Concord grapes, which attracted much attention. Hon. P. W.
Bird, of Walpole, offered some very fine peaches. A. D. Capen,
of Dorchester, presented a fine specimen of the cele])rated
Sparluiwk apple, grown upon his farm, the scion of which was
obtained from the original Sparhawk tree in Walpole, N. H.
In the centre of one of the tables, a large basket of fruit was
tastefully arranged by C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain. A most
interesting feature in this department was a large box of Cali-
fornia fruit, presented by Mr. George E. Morse, of Dedham, in
behalf of Mr. P. D. Atherton, a native of Dedham, and brother
of Mrs. Morse. The fruit was grown at Valparaiso Park, Sac-
ramento, and consisted of monstrous specimens of Benrre
Clairg-eau, Dnchesse (V Angouleme^ Beurre Diel, and White
Doyenne pears, and Minister and Fall Pippin apples. The fruit
of such monstrous size was raised from scions sent to Mr. Ath-
erton by Colonel Wilder three years ago. The trees had received
no water since last April. The fruit was tested by the officers
of the Society and the Fruit Committee, in accordance with the
request of Mr. Atherton, under direction of Messrs. Wilder and
Walker, and it was formally decided that the pears were of re-
markable beauty, but picked too early, and were dry and want-
ing in juice. The Beurre Bosc, however, was declared to be
first rate ; and the White Doyenne was decided to Tbe the old
St. Michael restored to its pristine beauty and flavor.

The Floral department was less attractive than usual, although
fine displays were made by George Craft', Brookline, Mrs. W.
J. Stuart, Hyde Park, Mrs. George Vose, Milton, and others.
The vegetaljle department was filled to its utmost capacity by
contributions rarely equalled in any county. Among the more
extensive exhibitions were those of Messrs. C. & C. Mackntosh,
of Needham, and John Sias, of Milton. A. F. Stevens, of
Wellesley, displayed thirty-five varieties. To demonstrate the
fact that sweet potatoes can be grown successfully within our
State, Mr. S. G. Beal, of Quincy, and Jackson Belcher, of Ran-
dolph, each showed one lot. In Mr. Stevens' lot of vegetables
was a Golden Carolina squash, which has attained a remarkable
size. The seeds of this quality of squash were found in Charles-
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him brought home, where they were planted on Long Island,
N. Y., where the first one of the kind in this section of the
country was raised. From this Mr. Stevens procured his seed,
and now takes pride in raising some of the largest species of
this squash on his own grounds. Augustus P. Calder, of Dor-
chester, made a very fine display, among which were some of
the finest cauliflowers and cabbages ever shown. C. G. Upham,
of Needham, had a large show of potatoes, eighteen varieties,
and some thirty-four other varieties of vegetables ; James Dorr,
of Dorchester, also had a large display. Among the notables
were the lady-finger potatoes of Elijah Tucker, of Milton, raised
sixty years without change of seed.

Of Agricultural Implements, Parker & Gannett, of Boston,
made a very large and excellent display, and there were contri-
butions from many others. S. E. Morse, South Dedham, offered
two superior wagons. In the department of manufactures, there
were many articles offered which we have no space to notice.
The show of Bread and of Dairy products, though excellent in
quality, was inferior in extent to that of many preceding years.

The Plowing Match took place on the grounds outside the
enclosure on Thursday morning, at 10| o'clock. Twelve teams
entered, and the work seemed to be well done. After the
plowing, a drawing match occurred, for which the single-horse
teams of Ljuther Eaton, of Dedham, T. Hastings, P. McNamara
and E. Gary, of Dover, were entered, together with the ox-
teams of Luther Eaton, George 0. Farrington and William
Fales, of Dedham.

The proceedings of the first day ended in races, three in
number, on the track. The first was for a prize of -$50, to be
divided as follows : First, |25 ; second, $15 ; third, $10 ; open
to gentlemen's driving horses that had never trotted for money,
and had never made a mile better than three minutes ; owners
to drive. For this race there were seven entries, the first prize
to be for the best three heats in five. After an exciting race, it
was gained by Fannie, owned by W. L. White, of Mansfield ;
the second by Phil. Sheridan, owned by Lewis Wright, of Need-
ham ; and the third by Gentle Nelly, belonging to Isaac Far-
well, of Needham. The second race was for a purse of $175,
for which there were two entries — Weymouth Boy, driven by
A. W. Marsh, and John Romer, driven by Richard Holmes ;

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which was won by Wcymonth Boy. The third was a double-
team race for a purse of 175, between B. F. Brown's Shawmut
and mate, of Dorchester, and Richard Hohiies's Tom Bowlin
and mate, of Boston Highlands ; which was won ]jy Captain
Holmes's team in 3.081, 3.12.

On Friday, the first exercise was the cavalcade upon the
track, which was led by the chief marshal, and preceded by
the Canton brass band, which played a beautiful quickstep, —
" The Norfolk March," composed for the occasion by the accom-
plished leader, E. A. Samuels, and dedicated to the Society.

At 12 o'clock, a procession was formed under the direction of
Lieut. Thomas Decatur, of the Roxbury Horse Guards, chief
marshal of the day, which marched to the tent, where an ele-
gant collation had been prepared by Thomas D. Cook, of Boston
Highlands. After prayer had been offered by Rev. George M.
Folsom, of Dediiam, the company were invited by the President
to partake of the repast. At the conclusion of the dinner, the
President made the following brief and appropriate address of
welcome : —

Gentle^^ien : — It is needless for me to assure you again that I
feel very sincerely the honor which you have so kindly bestowed
upon me by calling me to preside over this Society.

I do so with great difiidence, for I know full well, and you Avill
not forget, the pecnUar fitness of my predecessor for the position
which lie so ably filled, and all its duties he so faithfully discharged
for so many years, and how difficult it will be to make his place
good. But I will strive to serve you to the best of my ability, and
by your concurrent aid and su23port, I am confident that we can
make this organization — what its early founders intended it should
be — an active and efficient suj^porter (in the highest, and best, and
broadest sense,) of good farming, good farms and good farmers ; in
fact, to do all it can do to educate the men who till the earth to
do so intelligently; to give their true rank and j^osition among
their fellows, of whatever calling, and to endow this form of labor
with all the rights and immunities of every other form of labor.
This cultivation of tlie earth stands in importance not one whit
behind any other Avork ; and the man or woman whose brow is
bronzed by the sun of these open fields, is the peer of any man in
our midst. The idea of this society is, and should be, first and
foremost, to dignify this form of labor and stand loyal to its gran-
deur— there, then, is the place for groAvth of good farms, the best

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of the farmers — and the first offering. The real thing to be exhib-
ited here is the best farmer in the country. He can be raised here.
This county has raised good and great presidents ; great orators ;
foreign ministers, and good ones, too; great jurists; the greatest of
educators. Why not the best of farmers ? This done, all else will
follow. The farms will be the best, and all the products thereof
will stand superlative.

But I will not detain you longer on this idea. By united zeal
and effort, we can develop the Society into a valuable auxiliary to
the elevation of the homeliest forms of industry, and the lowliest
laborer into the kindliest object of good wishes, and over him
invoke the benedictions of a divine power and presence.

In welcoming you, then, to this your annual festival, allow me to
express the sentiment of Rip Van Winkle — The good health of the
farmers and the families of the grand old County of Norfolk.

The President then introduced Dr. George B. Loring, who
gave the Annual Address, which our readers will find on page 5
of this volume. It was an eloquent and appropriate discourse,
and was listened to with the closest attention to the close.

The following original hymn, written by Rev. C. C. Sewall,
of Medfield, was then sung by the audience, to the tune of
" America," under the choristership of Samuel B. Noyes, of Can-
ton, and accompanied by the Band.

Dark were the days, wheu here
Brave men, from far and near,

Encamped around ;
Kindred and home resigned.
Leaving sweet ties behind,
With loyal, fearless mind,

They trod this ground.

And forth from hence they went,
With this their high intent.

Though death were nigh ;
To save their Country's life,
From treason mad and rife ;
Or, falling in the strife,

To bravely die.

Those fearful days are o'er,
The battle -shout no more

Is heard around ;
The useful arts of peace,

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Whose triumphs never cease,
And time will but increase,
Shall hence abound.

All that we see, to-day,
The beautiful display

To us revealed,
Assurance, Lord ! from Thee,
To grateful hearts shall be.
That peaceful Industry

Her fruits shall yield.

Lord ! bless, we supplicate.
All that is dedicate

To Husbandry ;
Let blast nor wrong despoil
Eewards of honest toil ;
Grant tillers of the soil

Prosperity !

Let peace and happiness,
Sure fruit of righteousness,

Our Country bless ;
Her rulers just men be.
Keeping integrity ;
And, fearing only Thee,

Crowned with success.

The President then announced the following toast : —

Massachusetts :

The far-famed State, whose scanty, grudging soil
Rich harvests yields to busy, skilful toil ;
Where civic rule, large trusts, and honored name.
Freemen bestow on him of well-earned fame ; —

Governor Claflin.

In the absence of any representative of the State, the Presi-
dent called upon Dr. Loring, who made a graceful and admira-
ble speech of five minutes, which was most heartily cheered.

The second toast called forth great applause, and was re-
sponded to in an eminently appropriate speech by Col Wilder.
It was this : —

" The Hon. Marshall P. Wilder— ^hose name is known and honored
wherever horticulture and agriculture are known and honored; preemi-
nently distinguished as the first and only President of the American

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Pomological Society, whose twelfth biennial session has just been held;
preeminently worthy of our esteem and grateful remembrance as the first
President, the constant friend, and liberal benefactor of the Norfolk Agri-
cultural Society."

A toast to the ladies closed the dinner-table speeches and
sentiments.

While the speeches were being made in the tent, Niagara
Engine Company, of Dedham, accompanied by the Metropolitan
Band of Boston, arrived on the gronnds with their guests, Ken-
nebec No. 1, of Bath, Me. Both companies made a fine ap-
pearance, and their presence added much to the pleasure of the
occasion.

At three o'clock the races commenced, but as the full and
complete report of the accomplished and indefatigable Chair-
man of the Committee on Horses, William R. Mann, Esq., of
Sharon, is given in his report, we shall attempt no further re-
port, save the statement that the new track gave great satisfac-
tion.

Although the crowd in attendance was very much larger than
at any former show of the Society, — the number of vehicles ex-
ceeding seven hundred, — no serious accident occurred to mar
the pleasure of the day. The difficult and responsible duties of
Chief Marshal were admirably performed by Lieut. Thomas De-
catur, of Jamaica Plain, who was assisted by the following aids :
Col. H. A. Darling, Hyde Park, 1st, and John Newcomb, Jr.,
of Boxbury, 2d Assistant ; and by Messrs. C. A. Young, Dor-
chester ; William Melius, Roxbury ; Horace D. Mack, Dorches-
ter ; J. W. Hanlon and Charles E. Fenner, Roxbury.

The Police force of State Constabulary, under the direction
of Capt. A. J. Garey, consisting of Benj. P. Eldridge, Isaac
Porter, Sylvester T. Bailey, William R. Clapp, of Norfolk Coun-
ty; and S. M. Copeland, William E. Hough, William J. Synett,
and John A. Daley, of Suffolk County, assisted by a detachment
of the police of Hyde Park, so well performed their duty, that
the best of order prevailed during the entire Exhibition, only
two arrests having been made, and that for drunkenness in a
mild form.

The performances of the Canton Brass Band gave great sat-
isfaction, and reflected much credit upon that young and flour-

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ishing organization, which is composed in every respect of most
excellent material.

In closing tliis brief Report, we should be doing great injustice
did we not allude to the excellent manner in which the great
work of preparing the Exhiljition was performed by the Com-
mittee of Arrangements, Messrs. A. B. Endicott, C. C. Churchill,
and Nathaniel Smith, of Dedham ; William R. Mann, Sharon ;
Thomas Decatur, Chas. F. Curtis, West Roxbury ; Augustus P.
Calder, Dorchester ; and A. P. Blake and William J. Stuart,
Hyde Park. Owing to the short time left between the purchase
of the new grounds and the holding of the Exhibition, a great
deal of hard and unremitting work was done in the space of a
few weeks, and with the best results. Mention should also be
made of the excellent service rendered by Capt. Richard Holmes
of Roxbury, who in connection with Messrs. Mann & Decatur,
were the Committee charged with the preparation of the grounds.

The gross receipts of the Fair were about $4,300, being about
$1,200 in excess of the receipts at any previous Exhibition.

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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY,

18 6 9.

President ;

JOHN S. ELDKIDGE,

Honorary President !
MARSHALL P. WILDER,'

of Canton.

of Dorchester.

Vioe-Presidents ;

AMOS A. LAWRENCE, of BrooMine.

OTIS GARY, ^ . . of Foxborough.

STEPHEN W. RICHARDSON, . ' . . of Franklin.

ELIJAH TUCKER, of Hilton.

HENRY GREW, of Hyde Park.

ELIPHALET STONE, of Dedham.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary ;

HENRY O. HILDRETH, of Dedham.

Treasurer i
CHAUNCY C. CHURCHILL, .

of Dedham.

Executive Committee !

WILLIAM R. MANN, of Sharon.

AARON D. WELD, . . . . . . of West Boxhury.

FRANCIS P. DENNY, of Brookline.

TRUMAN CLARKE, of Walpole.

CHARLES BRECK, .• «•/ Milton.

ALFRED W. WHITCOMB, . . . • of Bandolph.

E. C. R. WALKER, of Boxhury.

ALBERT B. BALCH, of Medfield.

WILLIAM E. COFFIN, of Dorchester.

Finance Committee and Auditors ;

IRA CLEVELAND, of Dedham.

CHARLES HAMANT, of Medjield.

EDWARD S. RAND, Jr., of Dedham.

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ASA PICIiERING.

Board of Tnistees :

BELLINGUAM.

GEORGE H. CROOKS.

ALVAH MORRISON.
JOHN B. ARNOLD.

BRAINTEEE.

CALEB STETSON.
JOSEPH A. ARNOLD.

BROOKLINE.

MARSHALL STEARNS. GEORGE CRAFT.

THOMAS PARSONS. WILLIAM J. HYDE.

ELLIS TUCKER.
JAMES T. SUMNER.

CAKTON.

CHARLES H. FRENCH.
OLIVER S. CHAPMAN.

COHAS8ET.
WILLIAM B. JOHNSON. ABRAHAIVi H. TOWER.

SOLOMON J. BEAL. JOHN Q. A. LOTHROP.

LUTHER EATON.
ALLEN COLBURN.

DEDHAM.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

FREDERICK CLAPP.
JOHN H. ROBINSON.
AXEL DEARBORN.

DORCHESTER.

JOSIAH H. CARTER.
AARON D. CAPEN.
AUGUSTUS P. CALDER.

HENRY GOULDING.
A. L. SMITH.

DOVER.

EPHRAIM WILSON.
B. N. SAWIN.

JAMES CAPEN.
FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS

FOXBOROXJGH.

ERASTUS p. CARPENTER,
DAVID SHAW.

FRANKLIN.

WALTER H. FISHER. JOHN W. RICHARDSON.

ERASTUS L. METCALF. HIRAM W. JONES.

HYDE PARK.

ALPHEUS p. BLAItE. BENJAMIN F. RADFORD.

WILLIAM J. STUART. WILLIAM T. THATCHER.

MEDFIELD.

CHARLES C. SEW ALL. WILLIAM Q. FISHER.

ELIJAH THAYER. A. B. PARIvER.

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MEDWAY.

WILLAED P. CLAEK.
EICHAED EICHAEDSON.

WILLIAM DANIELS.
MILTON M. FISHEK.

MILTON.

SAMUEL COOK.
JOHN SIAS.

ALBEET K. TELLE.
JOHN W. BEOOKS.

NEEDHAM.

NATHAN LONGFELLOW. WILLIAM PIEECE.

BENJAMIN G. KIMBALL. ABEL F. STEVENS.

QUINCY.

JOSEPH W. EOBEETSON.
LEMUEL BILLINGS.

JACOB F. EATON.
CHAELES MAESH.

EOYAL W. TUENEE.
J. WHITE BELCHEE.

RANDOLPH.

WILLIAM POETEE.
EPHEAIM MANN.

JAMES EITCHIE.
HOEATIO HAEEIS.
EICHAED HOLMES.

KOXBURY.

E. C. E. WALKEE.
THOMAS DECATUE.
EOLAND WOETHINGTON.

ASAHEL S. DEAKE.
LEWIS W. MOESE.

SHARON.

WAEEEN COBB.
GEOEGE W. GAY.

LUCIUS CLAPP.
HENEY BIED.

STOUGHTON.

HIEAM GAY.
ELISHA C. MONK.

WILLAED LEWIS.
EDMUND W. CLAP.

WALPOLE.

JOHN N. SMITH.
EDMUND POLLEY.

WEST ROXBURY.

CHAELES A. HEWINS. C. G. MACKINTOSH.

EBENEZEE W. TOLMAN. ANDEEW T. MESSEEVE.

ALBEET TIEEELL.
JOHN W. LOUD.

WEYMOUTH.

JAMES HUMPHEEY.
EEASTUS NASH.

JOEL H. EOBINSON.
EDMUND T. EVEEETT.

WRENTHAM.

ALFEED BAENAED.
GAEDNEE H. STAEKEY.

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NAMES OF MEMBERS.

BELLINGIIAM.

Chilson, Paul * 1860.
Crooks, George A.
Pickering, Asa,* '69. [3]

BRAINTREE.

Arnold, John B.
Arnold, Joseph A.
Blake, Joseph H.D.,* '68.
Bowditch, Ebenezer C.
Bradford, E. S.,* 1866.
Chace, George
Dow, Charles H.
Dyer, Isaac
Dyer, Joseph
Fogg, Charles M.,* 1854.
French, George G.
French, Charles,* 1861.
French, Jonathan
HoUingsworth, E. A.
HoUis, Caleb
Hollis, David N.
HoUis, John A.
Hollis, Josiah
Howard, J. G.
Ludden, Miss Carrie F.
Ludden, Joseph T.,* '62.
Locke, W. F.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Warren
Morrison, Alva
Niles, Daniel H.
Penniman, Ezra,* 1866.
Perkins, Oliver
Potter, Edward
Rand, William T.
Randall, Apollos,* 1863.
Stetson, Amos W.
Stetson, Caleb
Stoddard, A. A.
Thayer, Ebenezer C.
Thayer, Hezekiah,* '54.
Thayer, Sylvanus
Vinton, Thomas B.
Wainwright, Peter
Wainwright, William L.

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Wales, George

Wild, Hiram

Willis, G. W.,* '52. [43]

BROOKLINE.

Araory, James S.
Amory, William
Appleton, William, Jr.
Babcock, George
Bartlett, James
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, Jos. H.
Bird, Jesse,* 1856.
Blake, George Baty
Blaney, Henry
Bi-amhall, William
Brown, Joseph T.
Churchill, Wra.,* 18.57.
Craft, Miss Emeline H.
Craft, Charles,* 1864.
Craft, George
Craft, Samuel,* 1856.
Corey, Elijah
Corey, Timothy
Dane, John,* 1854.
Dane, John H.
Denny, Francis P.
Ferris, Mortimer C.
Fisher, Francis
Frazar, Amherst A.
Griggs, George
Griggs, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas B.
Henshaw, Sam'l,* 1863.
Hill, M. F.
Howe, Frank E.
Howe, James Murray
Howe, John
Jameson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.
Lawrence, Amos A.
Lyman, Theodore
Parker, Edward G.,* '68.
Parker, M. D ,* 1863.
Parsons, Thomas
Sampson, George R.

Shaw, G. Howland,* '66.
Stearns, Charles, Jr.
Stearns, Marshall
Thayer, John E.,* 1857.
Trowbridge, John H.
Turner, John N.,* 1864.
White, Henry K.
Williams, Moses B. [49]

CANTON.

Abbott, Ezra
Ames, Frank M.
Billings, Uriah
Billings, William
Bray, Edgar W.
Brewster, Ezra S.
Capen, Ezekiel
Capen, Samuel,* 1863.
Chapman, Oliver S.
Crane, Albert
Cushman, Charles F.
Dean 6, Francis W.
Deane, Oliver
Downes, George,* 1861.
Downes, George E.
Draper, Thomas
Dunbar, Elijah
Dunbar, James
Dunbar, Nathaniel
Dunbar, William,* 1867.
Eager, Edward R.
Eldridge, John S.
Eldridge, John S., Jr.
Endicott, John,* 1855.
Endicott, Charles
Everett, J. Mason
Everett, Leonard,* 1852.
Farrington, Nath'l, Jr.
Fenno, Jesse
French, Charles H.
French, Thomas,* 1862.
Fuller, Daniel
Guild, Horace
Hall, John
Howai'd, Lucius
Huntoon, Benj.,* 1864.

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Huntoon, Mrs. Benjamin
Kinsley, Lyman
KoUock, Jeremiah
Lincoln, Frederic W.
Lord, William P.
Mansfield, William
Mcintosh, Adam
Mcintosh, Roo;er S.
McKendry, William
Messinger, Vernon A.
Messinger, Virgil J.
Morse, William
Noyes, Samuel B.
Revere, Joseph
Shepard, James S.
Spare, Elijah
Spaulding, Corodon
Stetson, Joseph
Sumner, James T.
Sumner, George F.
Tilt, Benjamin B.
Tucker, Edmund
Tucker, Ellis
Tucker, Jedediah
Tucker, Nathaniel, Jr.
Tucker, Phineas
Tucker, William,* 1868.
Ward, Samuel G.
Wentworth, Edwin
Wentworth, Nathaniel
White, Elisha,* 1865.
White, Nathaniel S.
Wood, Rufus C. [69.]

COHASSET.

Beal, Solomon J.
Beal, Mrs. S. J.
Doane, James C.
Johnson, William B.
Sohier, William D.,* '68.
Souther, Laban,* 1860.
Tower, Abraham H. [7]

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamin H.
Alden, Abner
Alden, Francis
Alden, George,* 1862.
Alden, Leonard
Alden, Samuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William, 2d
Babcock, Samuel B.
Bacon, Silas D.
Bailey, Benjamin H.
Baker, David A.
Baker, Joel M.
Baker, Obed,* 1868.

Baker, Timothy
Baker, William
Balch, Benj. W.,* 1858.
Barrows, Edward
Barrows, Thomas
Bates, Martin,* 1869.
Bean, Albion,* 1860.
Bestwick, Frederick L.
Bickner, Samuel R.
Bosworth, Isaac C,* '66.
Boyden, Addison
Boyden, Benjamin
Brooks, Edward C.
Bryant, Austin,* 1851.
Bullard, Elijah
Bullard, John,* 1862.
Bullard, Lewis
Bullard, William
Burgess, Ebenezer
BurgeSs, Ebenezer P.
Burgess, Edwai-d P.
Capen, Charles J.
Capen, Oliver,* 1865.
Ctarroll, Sanfbrd
Cawley, John
Chase, James M.,* 1860.
Chickering, Horatio
Chickering, Monroe
Churchill, Chauncy C.
Clapp, Edward
Clajjp, Nathaniel
Clark, Joseph W.
Clarke, Horatio
Clarke, Mrs. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Cobb, Jonathan H.
Coburn, Mrs. Chas., Jr.
Colburn, Allen
Colburn, Nath'l,* 1853.
Colburn, Waldo
Comerais, Henry
Connors, Barney
Coolidge, George
Cox, John, Jr.
Crane, E. B.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
Crane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos H.
Ci'ossman, Charles B.
Curtis, George F.
Cushing, Henry W.
Damrell, Wm. S.,* 1860.
Daniell, Ellery C.
Davenport, George
Day, Joseph
Day, Lewis
Dean, James
Deane, John * 1864.

Dixon, Rufus E.
Doggett, John,* 1857.
Donahoe, Patrick
Drayton, John,* 1856.
Duff, John
Dunbar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, John
Eaton, John Ellis,* 1854.
Eaton, Luther
Eaton, Luther A.
Edson, Mrs. E.G.,* 1860.
Ellis, Calvin F.
Ellis, Charles
Ellis, Colburn,* 1864.
Ellis, George,* 1855.
Ellis, Jason
Ellis, Merrill D.
Ellis, Oliver
Ely, F. D.

Endicott, Augustus B.
Everett, George
Everett, Mrs. Hepzibah
Fairbanks, Wm.,* 1863.
Fales, William
Farrington, Chas.,* 1859.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, Jas.,* 1864.
Farrington, Mrs. James
Farrington, Jesse,* 1857.
Farrington, Jesse
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,* 1863.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* 1863.
Fisher, Amory
Fisher, Eben'rS.,* 1867.
Fisher, Freeman,* 1860.
Fisher, James R.
Fisher, Joseph
Fisher, Joshua
Fisher, Thomas
Fleming, Douglas
Fogg, David S.
Foord, Enos,* 1861.
Foord, James
French, Abram
French, Charles
French, George M.
Fuller, George,* 1869.
Gardner, John
Gay, Ebenezer F.
Gay, Mrs. Hannah S.
Gay, Jeremiah W.
Gay, Lusher,* 1855.
Gay, Mrs. A. M ,* 1866.
Gay, Wm. King,* 1859.
Gleason, Daniel
Gould, George
Green, Elisha

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Guild, Calvin
Guild, Francis
Guild, Henry
Gunnison, George D.
Harnden, Harvey, *1803.
Hartshorn, Caleb W.
Hartshorn, Louis E.
Hartshorn, Richard D.
Henck, John B
Hewes, Hannah E.
Hildreth, Henry O.
Holmes, Edw. B.,* 1865.
Houghton, William A.
Howe, Elijah, Jr.
Howe, Francis,* 1860.
Howe, Josiah !).,* 1867.
Hoyle, Mark C.
Jackson, Marcus B.
Johnson, Edwin,* 1856.
Keyes, Ebenezer W.
Keyes, Edw. L.* 1859.
Kingsbury, Lewis H.
Kingsbury, Moses
Lamson, Alvan,* 186i.
Luce, D. W.
Lynch, Mrs. A.,* 1869.
Lynch, Daniel A.
Lynch, Wm. F.,* 1869.
McLane, James
Mann, Henry A.
Mann, Herman,* 1851.
Mann, Samuel C.,* 1864.
Mann, Wm. H.,* 1864.
Marden, Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, Martin,* 1865.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin,* '69.
Mason, William
Mason, Wm. H.,* 1861.
Mercer, Miss Mary
Metcalf George E.
Mitchell, Francis N.
Morgan, John
Morrill, Heni-ietta W.
Morse, Albert
Morse, Curtis G.
Morse, John,* 1861.
Morse, John L.
Morse, Otis

Motley, Thomas,* 1864.
Murray, Daniel
Neal, A. B.
Noyes, Nathaniel
Norris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion, Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamin A.
Page, Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C

Paul, Mrs. Ebenezer
Pettee, James,* 1868.
Phelps, Timothy
Phillips, Nathan
Phillips, Mrs. P. M.
Quincy, Edmund
Rand, Edward S., Jr.
Robley, Robert C.
Rice, John P.
Rice, William R.
Richards, Abiathar
Richards, E. M.,* 1865.
Richards, Henry White
Richards, J. F.,* 1852.
Richards, Lewis A.
Richards, Mason,* 1866.
Richards, Reuben,*1855.
Richards, William B.
Rodman, Alfred,* 1853.
Rodman, Alfred
Rodman, Mrs. Alfred
Rooney, Francis
Russell, Charles
Russell, L-a

Sampson, E. W.,* 1867.
Scanlan, David
Schwartz, Mrs. Joanna
Scott, Joel,* 1858.
Shaw. Charles B.,* 1869.
Sheriff, John L.
Sherman, Charles B.
Sherwin, Thomas,* 1869.
Slafter, Carlos
Small, Miss Jane S.
Smith, Edwin
Smith, Henry
Smith, Lyman
Smith, Nathaniel*
Smith, Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Zebina,* 1864.
Spear, Henry F.
Stimson, Jeremy,* 1869.
Stone, Eliphalet
Sumner, Mirick P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah R.
Sumner, Wm.R.,* 1860.
Sutton,. Enoch,* 1853.
Taft, Ezra W.
Talbot, Josiah W.
Thayer, J. H. B.
Thomas, John W.
Thompson, Rob't,* 1854.
Tower, William B.
Trefry, James
Tubbs, Benj. H.,* 18.54.
Van Brunt, G. J.,* 1863.
Vose, George H.
Wakefield, Thomas L.

Wales, Sam'l, Jr.,* 1860.
Washburn, Alex. C
Waters, Joseph W.
Weatherbee, Comfort
Weatherbee, Jabez
Weatherbee, Jesse
Weatherbee, John E.
Webb, Moses E.
Webb, Seth, Jr.,* 1862.
Welch, Stephen
Weld, Joseph R.
Welcome, Jacob H.
White, John,* 1852.
White, N. B.
White, Walter
Whiting, Hezekiah
Whiting, Horace
Whiting, ]\Iargaret M.
Whiting, Moses
Whiting, William
Whitney, S. S.,* 1855.
Wight, Danforth P.
Wight, Ebenezer
Williams, G. W.,* 1861.
Wilson, John F.,* 1853.
Wilson, Reuben S.
Winslow, Alfred N.
Winslow, George
Withington, Warren
Wood, Mrs. Amos
Woods, Wm. G.,* 1863.
Worthington, E. [285]

DORCHESTER.

Abbott, William E.
Adams, Benjamin W.
Atherton, Samuel
Austin, William R.
Bachi, Ignatius C.,* 1859.
Bacon, Charles H.
Baker, Edmund J.
Baker, Walter,* 1852.
Baldwin, Enoch,* I860.
Barnes, Parker
Barry,Michael O.,* 1858.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Billings, Lenmel
Bispham, Eleazer J.
Blanchard, Charles F.
Bradlee, James B.
Bradstreet, Samuel
Bramhall, Cornelius
Breck, Henry, Jr.
Brewer, Darius,* 1854.
Briggs, Franklin
Brooks, Noah,* 18.52.
Brooks, Williams B.

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Brown, Augustus
Browne, George M.
Burt, George L.
Capen, Aaron D.
Capen, Samuel J.
Capen, Thomas W.
Calder, Augustus P.
Campbell, Thomas
Carlton, Mary A.
Carlton, Martha G.
Carruth, Charles
Carruth, Nathan
Carter, Josiah H.
Carter, Elizabeth E.
Carter, Lizzie S.
Childs, Nathaniel R.
Churchill, AsajDh
Clapp, Amasa
Clapp, Edward B.
Clapp, Frederick
Clapp, Frederick A.
Clapp, Lemuel, 2d.
Clai^p, James H.
ClBpp, John P.
Clapp, Richard,* 1862.
Clapp, Thaddeus,* 186L
Clapp, William,* 1859.
Clapp, William C.
Cleveland, S. H.,* 1856.
Cobb, Moses G.

Cod

man

John

Codman, Robert
Conant, R. B.
Copenhagen, A.W.,* '66.
Curtis, Ebenezer
Gushing, Abel,* 1866.
Gushing, Benjamin
Davis, Barnabas
Dearborn, Axel
Denny, Daniel
Denny, Daniel, Jr.
Doody, Dennis
Dorr, James
Downer, Samuel
Flynn, Thomas
Follansbee, Isaac W.
Foster, William H.

Fowler, M. Field

French, Ben]. V.,* 1860.

French, Mrs. B. V.

Gardner, Henry J.

Gilbert, Samuel, Jr.

Gleason, Moses,* 1856.

Gleason, Roswell

Gleason, Sarall,* 1854.

Groom, Thomas

Hall, Joseph

Hall, Oliver

Hall, Samuel

Hammond, Horatio
Harding, William
Harding, Mrs. Wm.
Hardy, Alpheus
Harris, Benjamin W.
Hartshorn, Lewis E.
Hathaway, Nicholas
Haven, John A.
Haynes, Edward, Jr.
Haynes, George A.
Hebard, B. F.
Hebard, C. F.
Hewins, John C.
Hickey, Timothy
Hickey, William
Holbrook, Nathan
Holmes, Ebenezer
Hooper, Franklin Henry
Hooper, Rob'tC.,* 1869.
Hooper,' Robert C, Jr.
Houghton, George A.
Howe, Charles,* 1869.
Howe. James T.
Humphrey, Henry
Hunt, Charles
Igoe, Patrick
Jacobs, Benjamin
Jones, Nahum
King, Edward,* 1866.
King, Franklin
Lee, James, Jr.

Leonard, Joseph

Lewis, Edwin J.

Liversidge, S.,* 1852.

Liversidge, Thomas

Mack, Henry M.

Mack, Mrs. H. M.

Mack, S. P.,* 1866.

McAuliife, Daniel

Marshall, Wm.,* 1867.

May, John J.

Means, James H.

Mears, John

Mears, John, Jr.

Miller, Erasmus D.

Minot, John,* 1861.

Mitchell, Simeon

Moseley, Flavel

Mumford, Thomas J.

Munroe, WiUiam

]\Iurphy, Timothy

Nazro, John G.

Newhall, Cheever

Newhall, John M.,* '69,

Pay son, Thomas

Payson, Mrs. Thomas

Perrin, Augustus W.

Peters, Henry H.

Peterselia, Franz

Pierce, Chas. B.,* 1857.
Pierce, Henry L.
Pierce, Jesse,* 1856.
Pierce, Lewis
Pierce, Robert
Pierce, William,* 185:3.
Pierce, Wm. B.,* 1858.
Pierce, William P.
Pope, Alexander
Pope, William
Pratt, Laban
Preston, Edward
Preston, John,* 1856.
Preston, John
Prince, William G.
Prouty, Lorenzo
Richardson, George
Richardson, William H.
Rideout, Asa
Robie, John
Robinson, Mrs. D. A.

Robinson, Eli W.

Robinson, John H.

Robinson, Stephen A.

Ruggles, Edward H. R.

Scudder, Horace,* 185L

Shaw, Theron V.

Smith, Henry

Snell, Stephen D.

Southworth, A. C.

Spear, Daniel

Spear, Joshua, Jr,

Spear, Luther

Spooner, John P.

Stephenson, Charles E.

Sumner, Clement

Swan, B.

Swan, James

Temple, Hannaniab

Temple, Thomas F.

Temple, William F.

Thayer, Benjamin W.

Thompson, Joshua P.

Thurlow, Rufus

Tileston, Edmund P.

Tileston, F. L.

Tileston, Samuel

Tolman, Eben'r,* 1863.

Tolman, William

Train, Enoch,* 1868.

Tremlett, Thomas,* '58.

Trull, John H.

Trull, Mrs. J. H.

Trull, John W.

Tuttle, Joseph

Upham, James H.

Vinson, Thomas M.

Vose, Robert
Vose, Robert, Jr.

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Washburn, Allen J.
Webster, Charles W.
AVelch, John H.
Welch, Mrs. J. H.
AVliipple, John L.
Wilder, Marshall P.
Wilder, ]\Irs. M. P.,* '54.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.
Williams, S. B.,* 1854.
Willis, C. J.
Withington, Wm. C.
AVliitten, Charles V.
Woodman, James
Worthington, Wm.,* '57.
Worthington, Wm. F.
Wright, Edmund
AVright, Mrs. Edmund.
Wright, Otis,* '65. [219]

DOVER.

Adams, Adna J.
Adams, John
Allen, Jared
Allen, Timothy
Bacon, Aaron
Bacon, Mary S.
Baldwin, Frank
Baker, Jabez
Barden, Calvin
Battelle, John
Battelle, Mrs. John
Battelle, John E.
Battelle, Mary D.
Battelle, Rachael A.
Battelle, Ralph
Beatie, Thomas
Bigelow, Calvin
Bigelow, Charles A.
Bigelow, Mrs. Hannah T.
Bigelow, Mrs. Abraham
BigeloAv, William A.
Bliss, Linus
Bliss, Mrs. Linus
Chickering, Daniel
Chickering, George E.
Chickering, Otis
Chickering, Samuel
Cleveland, William
Dunn, Theodore
Everett, George D.
Fearing, Perez L.
Gannett, William W.
Gay, Francis G.
Goulding, H. Emeline
Goulding, Henry
Goulding, Henry E.
Howe, Albion K.
Howe, Eliza M.

Jones, Alice J.
Jones, I. L.
Jones, Lucy

Lyman, Miss Frances L.
Mann, Mrs. Adeline B.
Mann, Daniel,* 1859.
Mann, Daniel F.
Mann, Elbridge L.
Mann, Hollis
Mann, S. J. B.
Marden, Mrs. Mary
McGill, Thomas
McNamara, Patrick
Newell, Benjamin
Newell, Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Miss Betsey E.
Newell, Jesse
Newell, Josiah B.
Otis, E. B.
Perry, Elijah
Perry, Mrs. Mehitable
Richards, Calvin
Richards, IMrs. Calvin
Richards, Jennie A.
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers, Wilbor J.
Sanger, Ralph,* 1860.
Sawin, Benjamin N.
Sawin, Frank W.
Sawin, Mary A.
Sawin, Mary J.
Shumway, Amos W.
Sliumway, Amos W., Jr.
Shumway, Hannah
Shumway, John W.
Shumwav, Sarah G.
Sias, Samuel
Smith, Abner L.
Smith, Charles H.
Smith, Mary W.
Sullivan, Daniel
Tisdale, W^illiam
Upham, Martha F.
Upham, Walter W.
Wall, Patrick _
Wilson, Ephraim
Wilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, E. Henry
Wilson, Miss N. D. [88]

FOXBOROUGH.

Aldrich, H. D.,* 18.54.
Belcher, Lewis W.
Burr, Simeon
Capen, James
Carpenter, Daniels
Carpenter, Erastus P.

Carpenter, James E.
Carpenter, Oliver
Cary, Otis
Cobb, Elias G.
Dickerman, Lemuel
Dixon, Sarah O.
Fisher, Albert
Foster, James W.
Guild, Freedom,* 1862.
Hersey, David
Hodges, Alfred
Kerr, Robert W ,* 1867.
Kingsbury, Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. S.
Leonard, James F.
Leonard, Samuel B.
Leonard, Sanford
Merrick, John M.
Pettee, David
Pettee, Joseph G.
Pettee, Simeon E.
Shepard, J. M.,* 1866.
Sherman, Job
Smith, Silas
Sumner, Mrs. A. M.
Sumner, Charles C
Torrey, Martin,* 1861.
Williams, Francis D.
Wyman, David [35]

FRANKLIN.

Adams, Albert
Adams, Peter
Adams, Ward,* 1865.
Atwood, Mrs. Ruth,* '62..
Baker, David P.
Bullard, Piam
Chapman, Elisha P.
Daniels, Adams
Daniels, Albert E.
Daniels, Charles F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeWitt, Archibald,* '59.
DeWitt, Mrs. Mary A.,*

1865.
Fisher, Herman C.
Fisher, Maxcy,* 1865.
Fisher, Walter H.
Fisher, Mrs. Walter H.
Fisher, Walter M.
Green, Henry M.
Green, Martin
Harding, Lewis
Hills, Theron C.,* 1862.
Jones, Hiram W.
Knapp, Alfred
Metcalf, Alfred G.
Metcalf, Alfred H.

62

Metcalf, Erasmus B.
Metcalf, Erastus L.
Metcalf, Whiting
Metcalf, William
Miller, John W.
Miller, Philip W.,* 1860.
Morse, George W.
Morse, Joseph
Nason, George W.,*

1868.
Pond, Henry E.
Ray, Francis B.
Ray, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.
Ray, James P.
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Stephen W.
Rockwood, E.,* 1864.
Rockwood, Nathan
Sargeant, A. D,
Scott, Saul B.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
Wadsworth, George M.
Wadsworth, Joseph H.
Wales, Otis, Jr.
Whiting, Joseph
Whiting, Joseph M.
Whiting, Wm. E. [53]

HYDE PARK.

Adams, Henry C.
Adams, C. Henry
Adams, Henry S.
Allen, Zenas
Blake, A. P.
Blakie, Robert
Blazo, W. A.
Bissett, Henry F.
Beattie, John
Binney, WiUiam A.
Bradbury, C. C.
Brainard, A. H.
Bragg, William M.
Bryant, H. J.
Bullard, William
Coleman, E. J.
Crane, Nathaniel
Darling, H. A.
Dolan, Thomas
Davis, Enoch P.
Davis, David L.
Dow, J. E.
Downing, Alfred,
Downing, James
Evans, Thomas C.
Everett, W. S.
Easton, F. A.
Farnsworth, C. L.

Farrington, John B.
Fiske, H. C.
Gerrv, Charles F.
Getciiell, R. C.
Gilson, John
Gilson, Violettie L.
Gould, J. B.
Grew, Henry
Hamlin, J. G.
Hardy, B. H.
Haskell, B. B.
Hebard, Nathaniel
Horton, E. G.
Kendrick, H. C.
Lougee, R. W.
Lawson, J. D.
Leach, B. F.
Leach, Mrs. L. A.
McAvoy, J. D.
Macomber, E. H.
Norris, R. N.
Nott, Gordon H.
Nott, Roxanna
Nott, L. B.
Nott, Margaret
Nott, Maggie G.
O'Connell, Daniel
Patterson, James
Parrott, George B.
Pratt, James
Perkins, E. G.
Park, Wisner
Pierce, C. H.
Pierce, George •

Putnam, Sidney
Raynes, J. J.
Raynes, Mrs. E. H.
Rich, H. A.
Radford, B. F.
Rich, D. B.
Ranlett, D. D.
Russell, A. L.
Spring, Charles
Sprague, R. T.
Sharock, George
Stark, C. C.
Stuart, William J.
Stuart, Mrs. W. J.
Sherman, George E.
Sanford, O. S.
Sumner, Clarissa,* 1869.
Straw, L. H.
Thatcher, William T.
Thaine, T. G.
Thompson, B. F.
Tower, Isaac N.
Turner, C. R.
Turner, R. W.
Vose, John

Vose, B. C.
Weeman, William E.
Wright, Richard
Whittier, A. R.
Williams, J. D.
Williams, John M.
Williams, R.
Willis, John M.
White, Charles A., Jr.
White, E. P.
Whicher, M. L. [98]

MEDFIELD.

Abell, Wm. F.
Abell, Mrs. Wm. F.
Adams, George F.
Allen, Noah
Allen, William C.
Baker, Joseph H.
Baker, Mrs. Joseph H.
Balch, Albert
Battell, Ralph A.
Barney, Thomas L.
Barney, Mrs. Thomas L.
Bigelovv, Andrew
Bullard, John E.
Carson, Joseph
Chenery, William
Cheney, Nathaniel H.
Cheney, Seth
Crane, George
Curtis, Daniel D.
Curtis, Mrs. Daniel D.
Curtis, Irving
Cushman, Jacob R.
Cushman, Mrs. Jacob R.
Davis, George
Davis, Mrs. George
Ellis, Caleb
Ellis, Francis D.
Ellis, George W.
Ellis, John
EUis, Samuel
Fisher, Hinsdale,* 1869.
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sarah H.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, Mrs. Isaac
Frost, Phineas, Jr.
Hamant, Miss Alice E.
Hamant, Mrs. N. Anna
Hamant, Miss Abby
Hamant, Mrs. Eliza M.C
Hamant, Caleb S.
Hamant, Charles

63

Hamant, ]\Trs. Chai-les
Haniant, Daniels, Jr.
Ilainant, Daniel D.
Harding, Alfred
Harding, Nathan
Hartshorn, Joseph,* 'OG.
Hartshorn, AVarrcn
Hewins, William P.
Hewins, Mrs. William P.
Jones, John P.
Janes, Walter,* 1867.
Morse, Eliakim
Morse, Joel
Morse, Miss Lucy
Parker, A. B.
Parker, Mrs. A. B.
Partridge, Mrs. E. A.
Partridge, Henry, Jr.
Richardson, Simeon
Roberts, Mrs. Helen M.
Roberts, Robert
Salisbmy, Wm.,* 1857.
Sewall, Charles C.
Sewall, Mrs. Charles C.
Sewall, Edward U.
Sewall, Miss Elizabeth S.
Shumway, Benjamin F.
Smith, George M.
Stedman, Cyrus,* 1865.
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A.,* 1863.
Turner, J. Addison
Wetherell, Harlus W.
Wheeler, Emoiy
WiUard, Gibson [81]

]\IEDWAY.

Adams, Edward
Adams, Elisha
Adams, Lyman
Adams, Wvman
Barber, George,* 1851.
Barber, Thomas
Boyd, William B.
Bullard, John, Jr.
Gary, Gilman
Carey, William H.
Clark, James P.,* 1865.
Clark, James W.
Clark, Mrs. James W.
Clark, Maria F.
Clark, Willard P.
Crosby, George,* 1859.
Daniels, James Willard
Daniels, Paul
Daniels, Mrs. Paul
Daniels, William

Ellis, James H.
Fisher, Milton M.
Fuller, Asa M. B.
Harding, Theodore
Henderson, William
Plurd, Julius C.
Ide, Jacob
Kingsbury, Gilbert
Lovell, Asahel P.
Lovell, Zachariah
Lovei'ing, Warren
Mann, James
Mason, Horatio,* 1868.
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalf, Luther
Morse, Asa D.
Partridge, Clark
Partridge, George
Richardson, Elisha F.
Richardson, Jeremiah D.
Richardson, Joseph L.
Richardson, Moses
Richardson, Richard
Slocumb, C* 1861.
Stevens, Daniel G.
Walker, John S
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler, Abijah R. [48]

MILTON.

Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Amory, Francis
Arnold, John, Jr.*
Babcock, Josiah,* 1863.
Babcock, Lemuel W.
Babcock, Samuel
Baldwin, Edward
Beal, Jonathan
Beck, Gideon
Blanc hard, J. W.
Bradlee, John D.
Bradlee, J. W.
Bradlee, Miss W. A.
Breck, Charles
Breck, Charles E. C.
Bronsdon, Charles
Brooks, John W.
Bunton, Jesse
Burt, John
Burt, Sumner
Bush, James P.
Churchill, Jos. McKean
Chapman, R. L.
Clapp, G. W.
Cook, Samuel
Copeland, Charles L.
Copeland, Lewis

Cornell, Walter
Crehore, John A.
Crowd, George
Cunningham, C. Loring
Cunningham, Francis,*

1867.
Curtis, Daniel T.
Davenport, Edwin
Davenport, Mrs. Ellen M.
Davenport, Lewis
Davenport, Lyman
Davenport, Nathaniel T.
Davis, William H.
Dow, John R.
Dudley, Benjamin F.
Emerson, Joshua
Everett, George
Farrington, Henry J.
Fenno, Ruf'us P.
Feny, George S.
Ferry, William M.
Forbes, John M.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Foster, William H.
Foster, William L,
Gannett, George K.
Gannett,- Samuel
Garrett, George E.
Greene, George W.
Hall, George W.
Higgins, David
Hinckley, Thomas H.
Hobson, A. R.
Hobson, Miss Martha J.
HoUingsworth, Z.
Hollis, Thomas
Holmes, C. C.
Houghton, E. W.
Houghton, Jason W.,*

1867.
Hunt, Charles E.
Hunt, George
Kendall, J. B.
Kent, George W.
Kinsman, Adolphus
Lothrop, T. K.
Myers, John
Parker, C. H.
Peabody, O. W.
Pierce, Dean
Pierce, Edward L.
Pope, Ebenezer,* 1853.
Raymond, George
Richards, Reuben A.
Robbins, James M.
Rodgers, O. T.,* 1859.
Rogers, H., Jr.,* 1855.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Rowe, Joseph,* 1856.

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Ruggles, E. T.
Ruggles, Philemon
Eussell, Henry S.
Safford, N. F.
Senter, L. W.
Sias, Eliphalet
Sias, John

Sigourney, Henry H. W.
Slone, Charles * 1859.
Teele, Albert K.
Thayer, Jason
Thayer, J. B.
Thompson, Geo.,* 1857.
Todd, Robert M.
Towne, A. J.
Tucker, David W.
Tucker, Elijah
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah
Tucker, Stillman L.
Tucker, Timothy,* 1864.
Twombly, Joslah F.
Vose, George
Vose, Mrs. George
Vose, Henry
Vose, Frances E.
Vose, J. W.
Walker, J. K.
Webb, Josiah
Webster, Joseph R.
West, Henry
White, Benjamin
White, F. B.
White, John E.
Wolcott, J. Huntington
[119]

NEEDHAM.

Alden, Otis
Avery, Jonathan
Ayling, Isaac
Beless, Thomas
Bemis, Mrs. S. S.
Bowers, Henry
Blackman, Henry
Blackman, Augustus
Buck, Charles
Buck, Miss F. P. H.*

1855.
Buck, Miss Mary M.
Bullen, Ichabod,* 1858.
Clark, Joseph P.
Cooper, Samuel
Daniell, George K.
Darling, George F.
Dewing, Charles H.
Dewing, Warren
Eaton, George E.
Eayrs, William C.

Emmons, Chas. P.,* '67.
Flagg, Solomon
Flagg, Wm.,* 1861.
Gardner, Elbridge
Goss, Daniel J.
Gray, James
Harmon, Chai'les H.
Harmon, Cyrus
Harris, John,* 1858.
Harris, John M.
Harvey, Stephen F.
Holland, John
Hollis, Elisha P.
Howland, George
Hubbard, G. G.* 1856.
Hunnewell, Horatio H.
Hunting, Israel
Kimball, Benjamin G.
Kimball, Mrs. Betsey G.
Kimball, Daniel,* 1862.
Kingsbury, Lemuel
Kingsbury, Lauren
Kingsbury, Thos.,* 1859.
Kingsbury, William A.
Knapp, A. P.
Longfellow, George J.
Lon fellow, Mary L.
Longfellow, Nathan
Longfellow, Mrs. Nathan
Longfellow, Wilber F.
Longfellow, Fannie E.
Lovewell, Charles B.
Low, George W.
Lyon, Mrs. Julia A.
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
Mansfield, Charles H.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Robert
Mansfield, Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, William
McCrackin, John
McCrackin, Robert
Mcintosh, Mrs. F. E.
Mcintosh, Mrs. H. P.
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mills, John
Mills, Matthias
Morton, Otis, Jr.
Morton, W. T.G.,* 1868.
Newell, Artemas
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes, Josiah
Peabody, Ezekiel
Phillips, Freeman
Pierce, William
Pierce, William, Jr.
Pierce, Mi's. Harriet

Revere, George
Robinson, Henry
Sawyer, John
Sawyer, Otis,* 1855.
Scudder, Marshall S.
Seagrave, Saul S.
Shaw, George W.,* '52.
Shaw, John W.
Snelling, Nathaniel G.
Stedman, Francis
Stedman, Mrs. F. F.
Stedman, William M.
Stevens, A. F.
Stone, David
Stone, Henry L.
Sumner, Lewis
Sumner, Samuel B.
Tucker, E. H.
Turner, John
Turner, Mrs. John
Upham, Cyrus G.
Ware, Dexter,* 1851.
Ware, Reuben
Ware, Althea
Ware, Ruel
Ware, William S.
Washburn, G. W.
Webber, Aaron D.
Welles, John
Whitaker, Edgar K.
White, George
Wilder, C. T.
Williams, Silas G.
Wood, Henry
Wright, Lewis [114]

QUINCY.

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John Q.
Adams, Ebenezer
Bartlett, Ibrahim,* 1853.
Bass, Josiah
Bass, Lewis
Baxter, Daniel
Baxter, Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. George
Baxter, George L.
Beale, Geo. W.,* 1851.
Beals, Nathaniel H.
Billings, Lemuel
Brackett, Lemuel
Brigham, Josiah,* 1867.
Carr, John J.
Curtis, Noah,* 1856.
Eaton, Jacob F.
Emmons, Nathaniel H.
Fellows, Ensign S.

65

Frederick, Eleazer
French, Washington M.
Glover, H. N.,* 1863.
Green, John A.,* 1861.
Greenleaf, Daniel
Greenleaf,Thos.,*1854.
Ilowland, C. A.
Horton, JAoyd G.
Marsh, Charles
Miller, Charles E.
IVIorton, William S.
Munroe, Israel W.
Newcomb, James
Newcomb, John B.
Quincy, Josiah,* 1864.
Quincy, J. P.
Richards, L.,* 1852.
Robertson, Joseph W.
Rodgers, Clift
Savil, John
Southworth, C. A.
Spear, Chas. A.,* 1868.
Stetson, James A.
Thayer, G. F.,* 1864.
Torrey, William
Turner, Edward
Walker, William
■^^^lite,«Nathaniel,* 1867.
Willard, Solomon,*1861.
Williams, Francis [51]

RANDOLPH.

Alden, Ebenezer
Alden, Horatio B.
Belcher, Allen A.
Belcher, J. White
Buck, Nathan,* 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Christopher M.
Cushing, Abner L.
Holbrook, Caleb S.
Holbrook, Elisha
Jordan, John T.,* 1865.
Leeds, Joseph,* 1858.
Maguire, James
Maguire, James F.
Mann, Ephraim,* 1863.
Mann, Seth, 2d
Niles, Jacob
Snow, Zenas,* 1857.
Stevens, Richard
Tower, Isaac,* 1866.
Turner, Royal AV.
Turner, Seth
Wales, ApoUos
Wales, Ephraim,* 1855.
Wales, John, 2d
Wales, Jonathan,* 1862.

Whitcomb, Alfred W.
White, Adoniram
White, Jairus
White, Jonathan [30]

ROXBURY.

Adams, Thomas,* 1869.
Ames, R. W.
Andrews, Alfred A.
Appleton, Charles T.
Bacon, William
Bartlett, Henry,* 1860.
Blake, S. Parkman
Bowditch, Azell
Bowditch, Azell C.
Bray, Charles F.
Brigham, Joseph L.
Brown, Andrew J.
Bryant, Charles W.
Bufford, John H.
Chadwick, Joseph H.
Chandler, John G.
Clarke, John J.
Codman, Henry,* 1853.
Copeland, B. F.,* 1863.
Copeland, Chas.,* 1853.
Copeland, Franklin
Cotting, Benjamin E.
Crawshaw, Joseph
Crosby, Benjamin H.
Davis, Gilman
Dearborn, H. A. S.,* '51.
Ellis, Charles,* 1860.
Ellis, Charles M.
Eustis, William
Fisher, Warren
Fiske, George A.
Ford, Seth H.,* 1863.
Francis, Eben'r,* 1858.
French, Jonathan
French, Mrs. J.
Fuller, H. Weld
Fussell, John
Gardner, Francis
Gray, Henry D.
Guild, Frederick
Guild, Henry
Guild, James
Ham, Joseph
Harris, Horatio
Hendee, Charles J.
Hewes, John M.
Hewins, Whiting,* 1855.
Hickling, Charles
Holmes, Richard
Huckins, James,* 1868.
Huckins, James W.
Hustin, William R,

Keene, James

Kidder, Frederic

King, William S.

Kingsbury, William S.

Kittredge, Alvah

Lee, William Raymond

Lemist, Edwin

Lewis, Daniel

Lewis, Franklin H.

Lewis, Samuel S.

Lowell, John A.

Mackintosh, Samuel

Mann, Benjamin

Mathes, Albert R.

McBurney, Charles

Mcintosh, William H.

Merrill, John J.

Monroe, George H.

Oakley, Frank E.,* '65.

Paine, Joseph P.

Parker, Augustus

Parker, George J.

Perry, Almon

Pickering, Henry W.

Pike, Charles S.

Putnam, Allen

Rich, Napthali D.

Rice, George W.

Ritchie, James

Robinson, J. P.,* 1863.

Ropes, Joseph S.

Sargent, Epes

Shed, Henry P.

Simmons, D. A.,* 1860.

Skinner, Elias

Sleeper, John S.

Stevens, Amos

Stone, Ebenezer W.

Sturgis, James

Thacher, Thomas, Jr.,*
1869.

Thwing, Supply C.

Tolman, James,* 1868.

Trescott, Elijah, Jr.

Tucker, Daniel

Vinson, Cornelius M.

Walker, E. C. R.

Walker, Samuel,* 1860.

Ware, Leonard

Way, Samuel A-

Weston, Lycurgus B.

Whiting, William (Mon-
trose Avenue.)

Williams, A. D.,* 1863.

Williams, Aaron D., Jr.

Williams, David W.

Williams, Mrs. D. W.

Williams, Dudley

Williams, G. Foster

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Williams, G. H. * 1862.
Williams, S.,* 1852.
Williams, Thomas B.
Wilson, Granville W.
Winslow, Edward
Wiswall, Samuel
Wolcott, John W.
Worthington, Roland

[117j

SHARON.

Blackman, E. H.
BuUard, Benjamin
Clark, Edwin R,,* 1868.
Cobb, Warren
Cobb, Mrs. Warren
Cobb, Miss Ella M.
Cobb, Lizzie M. ^
Drake, Asahel S.
Drake, Mrs. Asahel S.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, George W.
Gay, Mrs. ^G. W.
Geissler, J. N.
Geissler, Mrs. J. N.
Hewins, Elijah,* 1857.
Hewins, Lemuel D.,*'68.
Howard, George F.
Howard, Mrs. G. F.
Hixon, A. G.
Hixon, Mrs. A. G.
Hixon, Charles O.
Hixon, Mrs. C. O.
Johnson, Lucas
Johnson, Otis
Lothrop, Howard A.
Mann, George R.
Mann, Mrs. George R.
Mann, William R.
Mann, Mrs. William R.
Mann, Miss M. Ella
Mann, Miss E. Mary
Mann, George H.
Morse, Edward L.
Morse, Miss E. G.
Morse, Harvey
Morse, Leprellette
Morse, Lewis W.
Morse, Mrs. Lewis W.
Pettee, D. W^ebster
Pettee, Mrs. D. W.
Randall, Macey, Jr.
Sanger, John M.
Smith, Lewis
Turner, Calvin
Turner, Julia C.
Warren, Charles H.
Weld, H. O.

Wicks, William B.
Winship, Charles
Winship, Mrs. Charles
[50]

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atherton, James
Atherton, William
Belcher, Orin
Belcher, Wm. S.,* 1862.
Bird, Henry
Capen, Samuel
Clapp, Lucius
Clapp, Mrs. Lucius
Clark, Chester
Curtis, Samuel W.
Drake, Philip H.
Ellis, J. Freeman
Gay, Cyrus H,
Gay, Hiram
Gay, John M.
Gay, Lemuel,* 1866.
Gay, Mace
Gay, Nathaniel
Goldthwait, Daniel A.
Hawes, Emery
Hill, James
Hodges, Leonard
Hodges, Samuel W.
Hodges, Mrs. S. W.
Jones, Henry
Kimball, Henry C.
Littlefield, Charles
Paul, Samuel
Porter, Luther
Porter, Robert
Porter, Robert, Jr.
Porter, Uriah C.
Porter, Theron M.
Porter, John M.
Southworth, Amasa
Southworth, Asahel
Sumner, Francis C.
Swan, Elisha
Talbot, George
Talbot, Newton
Thayer, S. Lysander
Tucker, Wales
Wales, Nathaniel [44]

WALPOLE.

Allen, Jeremiah

Allen, Lewis

Bacon, Sam'lW.,* 1869.

Bacon, William

Bird, Charles

Bird, Francis W.

Boyden, Horatio
Clap, Edmund W.
Clap, Geo. R.
Clap, Samuel G.
Clap, Warren
Clarke, Mrs. Betsey M.
Clarke, Henry S.
Clarke, Mrs. H. S.
Clarke, Truman
Conant, George
Cram, Jerome B.
Ellis, Isaac
Ellis, James
Ellis, Joseph,* 1851.
Fuller, James R.
Gilbert, Samuel
Gould, John A.,* 1861.
Gray, H. Fannie
Gray, Smith,* 1869.
Gray, Mrs. Smith
Gray, William H.
Guild, Charles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshorn, George
Hawes, Joseph,* 1849.
Hyde, George B.
Lewis, Willard
Mann, John
Mann, Lowell
Neale, Benjamin
Page, William A.
Pierce, Shadrach S.
Plimpton, C. G.,* 1864.
Plimpton, H. M.
Policy, Edmund
Scott, James G.
Shejiard, E.
Smith, John N.
Smith, Mrs. John N.
Smith, Metcalf
Stone, Ebenezer,* 1869.
Thomjison, Edwin
Wilmarth, Naaman B.
Wilmarth, Elizabeth F.
Wilson, Edwin
Wilson, Mrs. Edwin [52]

WEST ROXBURY.

Allen, Stephen M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. R. ,
Arnold, Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, William Percy
Bacon, Daniel C.,* 1856.
Bacon, Francis E.
Bacon, William B.

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Bailey, Luther C.
Balch, George II.
Baloh, Joseph,* 1849.
Baleh, Joseph W.
Ban field, Everett C.
Barber, A. D.
Bartlett, Alden
Bcckwith, Henry
Billings, Joseph H.
Billings, Mrs. Joseph H.
Billings, Miss Jennie
Billings, Miss Mary
Blake, John J.
Blake, William
Blaekman, George
Bliss, George N.
Bliss, Mrs. Lucius S.
Bolles, Matthew
Bond, George William
Bowditch, J. Ingersoll
Bradford, S. D.,* 1865.
Bradish, Levi J.
Brewer, Charles
Brewer, Otis
Brown, A. S.
Brown, Benjamin
Browne, Horace E.
Bruce, N. T.
Butters, J. A. C* 1856.

Cabot, Stephen

Cary, Isaac H.

Cass, Aaron

Cass, Francis W.

Cass, Henry W.

Cronin, Jeremiah

Crosby, Albert

Crosby, Miss Fannie H.

Crosby, Miss Irene M.

Crosby, Miss Minnie R.

Comins, Linus B.

Cowing, Walter H.

Curtis, Joseph H.

Cm'tis, George S.

Curtis, Charles F.

Dabney, Chas. W., Jr.

Davis, Francis,* 1865.

Decatur, Thomas

Dexter, Anson

Dixwell, John J.

Draper, Abijah W.

Dudley, Henry

Dudley, Ephraim M.

Eldridge, Oliver

Emmons, John A.

Enslin, William

Evans, William

Farrar, J. Hamilton

Farrington, Ebenezer T

Gilbert, Luther

Gooding, George
Gould, Josepli D.
Greenough, David S.
Hall, Alfred B.
Hall, David P.
Hall, Joseph
Hall, William D.
Ilarod, William F.
Head, Charles D.
Head, Francis C.
Henchman, Nath'l H.
Hewins, Charles A.
Ililborn, S. D.
Howland, J. T.
Hunt, Harrison G.
Keith, William,* 1859.
Lamb, Reuben A.,*1858.
Lawrie, Andrew B.
Low, John J.
Lyman, Mrs. Thomas
Mackintosh, Charles G.
Mackintosh, J. S.
Manning, Charles,*'69.
March, A. S.,* 1854.
March, Andi-ew S.
aiclntosh, William
Meserve, Andrew T.
Meserve, Isaac H.
]\Iinot, George R.
Morse, Charles
Morse, Robert M.
Motley, Miss A. Lothrop
Motley, Charles D.
Motley, Thomas
INIotley, Mrs. Thomas
INIotley, Thomas L.
North, George G.
Orange, Thomas
Page, Joseph W.
Page, Kilby,* 1869.
Palmer, William,* 1860.
Pajiineau, Antoine
Papineau, Alfred
Parker, S. Winchester
Parkinson, John,* 1866.
Pearce, John
Popp, Hieronemas
Pratt, John C.
Prescott, Nathan B.
Prescott, Mrs. M. B.
Prichard, Jeremiah
Prichard, Vila
Prichard, Gilman
Richards, Edward
Richards, Geo. H.
Richards, Mrs. G. H.
Richmond, Thomas T.
Robeson, William R.
Rodman, Samuel W.

Russell, Geo. R.,* 1866.
Sampson, Charles,*! 859.
Seaverns, Thomas W.
Shaw, Francis G.
Shaw, J. J.
Shaw, Quincy A.
Smith, Alvin
Slocumb, William H.
Smith, Humphrey
Smith, Joseph M.
Smith, Lorenzo
Smith, Melancthon
Spauldin^, Solomon R.
Spooner, Wm. H., Jr.
Stevens, S. W.
Sturgis, Russell
Sturtevant, Benj. F.
Swett, Samuel W.
Taft, Reed
Taylor, H. B.,* 1861.
Ticknor,Wm. D.,* 1864.
Tilden, Geo. A.
Tolman, Ebenezer W.
Tolman, Lucius A.
Townsend, David
Tufts, James,* 1859.
Watt, Robert
Watt, Lizzie
Watt, Marion J.
Webster, John L.
AVeld, Aaron D.
Weld, ]\Irs. A. D.
Weld, Aaron D., Jr.
Weld, Miss A. K.
Weld, Francis M.
Weld, J. Gardner
Weld, Nathaniel
Weld, Mrs. Mary P.
Weld, Richard H.
Weld, Stephen M.,* '67.
Wentworth, Jacob
Westcott, Stephen
Wheeler, Warren R.
AVhitney, J. G.
Whitney, Mre. J. G.
Whitney, Miss N. B.
Whytal, Thomas G.
Whytal, Mrs. Thos. G.
Williams, B. P.,* 1856.
Williams, George H.
Williams, Heni'y H.
Williams, Moses
AVilliams, Moses B.
Williams, N. D.,* 1852.
Williams, Thomas B.
Williams, Joseph W.
Willson, Edmund B.
Wing, B. F.
Witherbee, John B.

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Woodman, George F.
Woodward, Chauncey
Woodbury, Joseph P.
Worley, B. W.
Young, Calvin
York, John [193]

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel
Burrill, Ansel
Fifield, Noah,* 1867.
Howe, Appleton
Humphrey, Ebenezer
Humphrey, L ,* 1857.
Hunt, A. N.,* 1864.
Hunt, EHas
Jones, James
Kingsbury, F. A.,* 1860.
Loud, Joseph, Jr.
Loud, John W.
Nash, Abner P.
Nash, Erastus
Nash, Stephen W.
Porter, Thomas B.
Richards, Elias
Shaw, Nathaniel,* 1860.

Tirrell, Albert
Tirrell, James,* 1865.
Tirrell, Wilson
White, James
White, Thomas [23]

WRENTHAM.

Aldrich, Artemas
Atwood, Shadrach
Barnard, Alfred
Blakesley, Hubbard
Cheever, Alonzo W.
Cheever, Mrs. Eliza R.
Cheever, Otis G.
Clap, Harvey E.,* 1863.
Clay, Nehemiah
Cowell, William W.
Dupee, Erastus
Everett, Edmund T.
Everett, Mrs. E. T.
Everett, Melatiah,*1858.
Faxon, Francis G.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr.,* '69.
Fisher, Hiram B.
Fisher, Silas P.,* 1865.
Ford, J. T.

Ford, Peter
Fuller, Chauncy G.
Gassett, Henry, Jr.
Grant, George
Grant, Robert P.
Grant, Whiting
Hawes, Benj.,* 1867.
Holbrook, George E.
Ide, Edwin S.
Jepson, William A.
Larkin, Lyman B.
Mann, Howard
Parker, Ebenezer B.
Pond, Handel,* 1867.
Pond, Jabez E.
Pond, Lucas
Pond, Mrs. Lucas
Proctor, Thomas
Robinson, Joel H.
Sayles, Caleb W.,* 1863.
Starkey, Gardner H.
Stone, Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Trowbridge, Henry
Ware, Asa
White, James A.
Wiggin, James S. [46]

MEMBERS RESIDING OUT OF THE COUNTY.

Allen, George E., Newton.
Allen, Joseph A., Newton.
Allen, Nathaniel T., Newton.
Balch, Wesley P., Boston.
Callendar, Benjamin, Boston.
Copeland, R. McCleary, Boston.
Dennie, E. M., Boston.
De Reynoso, Bernard.
Donahoe, Patrick, Boston.
Edmands, J. Wiley, Newton.
Ellis, David, Cambridge.
Garbett, W. A., Boston.
Goddard, Thomas, Boston.
Gould, James, Boston.
Gould, George, Newton.
HoUis, John W., Newton.
Inches, Martin B., Boston.
Loring, A. K., Boston.

Matthews, Nathan, Boston.
Messenger, G. W., Boston.
Minot, George W., Boston.
Norton, R. R., Boston.
Potter, Silas, Boston.
Quinn, John, Boston.
Rand, Edward S., Boston.
Rogers, J. A., Boston.
Roswell, Mary Ann, Boston.
Slade, Robert, Boston.
Smith, George W., Boston.
Stearne, John, Newton.
Tappan, Lewis W., Boston.
Vinal, Otis, Boston.
Wainwright, H. C, Boston.
Wells, B. T., Boston.
Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge.

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Members admitted, 1,952

Members deceased,* 278

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CONSTITUTION

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTUHAL SOCIETY.

Adopted February 7, 1849.

PREAMBLE,

Impressed with the importance of the advantages to be derived
by associated effort in carrying forward successfully every great en-
terprise having for its object the improvement of the community,
the Farmers, Horticulturists and Manufacturers of the County of
Norfolk have resolved to establish a society, and to be governed by
the following

CONSTITUTION:

Article I. — The association shall be known by the name of
" The Norfolk Agricultural Society."

Art. 2. — There shall be a President, six Vice-Presidents, a Re-
cording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, and Execu-
tive and Finance Committees, who shall be Trustees ex officio.
Besides these, four additional Trustees shall be chosen from each
town in the county, excepting the city of Roxbury, which shall be
entitled to eight, and the town of Dorchester, which shall be en-
titled to six. All officers enumei-ated in this article shall continue
in office until others are elected in their stead.

Art. III. — All officers of the Society shall hereafter be chosen by
ballot. The election shall be determined by a majority of votes.

Art. IV. — The names of persons to be balloted for at the an-
nual election shall be contained on one ballot ; and the offices for
which they are respectively nominated shall be distinctly designated.

Art. V. — There shall be two stated meetings of the Society
annually, viz., on the last Wednesday in March and on the last
Wednesday in September ; the same to be held at ten o'clock in
the forenoon, at such place as the Trustees shall appoint, of which
they shall give notice, in two of the Boston newspapers and in the
county papers, at least three weeks previous to the meeting.

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Art. VI. — There shall be, after the year 1849, an annual choice
of officers, viz., at the stated meetings in March. In the choice of
officers thirteen members shall make a quorum ; in the transaction
of other business seven may make a quorum.

. Art. VII. — If at any meeting of the Society, or of the Trustees,
the President and Vice-Presidents shall be absent, the members
present may appoint one from limong them to preside at such
meeting.

Aet. VIII. — The President, or, in case of his absence, either of
the Vice-Presidents, with the advice of the Trustees, may call a
special meeting of the Society ; or whenever written application,
with reasons assigned therefor, shall be made by any twelve mem-
bers of the Society to the President and Trustees, they shall call
such meeting.

Aet. IX. — The meeting of the Trustees shall be held at such
time and place as they shall from time to time agree upon ; and
seven of them, including the presiding member, shall make a quo-
rum for doing business.

Aet. X. — The Executive Committee shall recommend such
measures as they shall judgei necessary and expedient; and, in
conjunction with the Trustees, shall regulate all the concerns of
the Society during the intervals of its meetings; propose such
objects of improvement to the attention of the public, appoint such
committees, pul)lish such communications, and offer such premiums
in such form and value as they shall think proper, provided the
premiums offered do not exceed the funds of the Society; and shall
lay before the Society, at each of its meetings, a statement of their
proceedings and of the communications made to them.

Aet. XI. — No transfer by the Treasurer of any stock, evidence
of debt or security, shall be deemed valid unless made by the order
of the Finance Committee,

Aet. XII. — Any person, by paying into the treasury the sum of
five dollars and signing the rules adopted by the Society, shall be
entitled to all the privileges of membership.

Aet. XIII. — The Recording Secretary shall take minutes of all
the votes and proceedings of the Society and of the Trustees, and
enter them in separate books ; and shall record all such communi-
cations as the Trustees may direct.

Aet, XIV. — The Corresponding Secretary shall write all letters
relating to the business of the Society, and answer all letters to the
Society, as the Trustees shall direct.

Aet. XV. — The Treasurer shall receive all moneys due or payable
to the Society, and all donations that may be made to it, for which

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he shall give duplicate receipts — one of which shall be lodged with
the Recording Secretary — and make a fair record .thereof; and
from time to time pay out such moneys as he shall have orders to
from the Trustees ; and shall, annually, and whenever thereto re-
quired, render a fair account of all his receipts and payments to the
Society, or a Committee thereof.

Art. XVI. — A Committee shall be chosen annually to audit the
Treasurer's accounts, — viz., at the September meeting, — and to re-
port thereon at the next March meeting ; and the same being
accepted, shall be entered by the Recording Secretary on his books.

Art. XVII. — In case of the death, resignation, incapacity or
removal out of the county of either of the Secretaries or the Treas-
urer, the Trustees shall take charge of the official books, paj^ers and
effects belonging to the office that may be vacated, and give re-
ceipts for the same ; which books, papers, &c., they may deliver to
some person whom they may ap2:)oint to fill the office until the next
meeting of the Society, at which time there shall be a choice.

Art. XVIII. — A Committee shall be appointed, from time to
time, severally to solicit and receive subscriptions for raising a fund
to encourage the objects for which the Society has been founded, —
the improvement of the Agriculture, the Horticulture and the Man-
ufactures of the county, — the same to be sacredly appropriated to
these objects only.

Art. XIX. — All donations made to the Society shall be perma-
nently invested, the income only to be aj^plied to premiums and
gratuities, unless specially directed otherwise by the donor.

ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS.

At the annual meeting held March 31, 1852, the town of West
Roxbury having been set off from the city of Roxbury, it was —

Voted, That hereafter Roxbury shall have six Trustees and
West Roxbury four Trustees.

At the annual meeting held March 30, 1853, it was —
Voted, That the Constitution be so amended that the Auditors

now reqiiired to be chosen in September, be chosen at the annual

meetino- in March.

o

At the annual meeting held March 28, 1866, the following amend-
ment to the Constitution was unanimously adopted : —

No amendment of this Constitution shall be made except by a
two-thirds vote of the members present at any annual meeting, of
the Society, nor except it has been proposed at the preceding
annual meeting.

LIST OF PREMIUMS,

%nU^ mn\ ^fflulatl0tt^ mA '§Ht ot (^ommliUt^,

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

FOR THB

Twenty- First Anmtal Exkibitio7t^

TO BE HOLDEN AT

READVILLE,

Oir THURSDAY and FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 and 21, 1869.

BO STON:

WRIGHT & POTTER, PRINTERS, 79 MILK STREET.
(Corner op Federal Street.)

1869.

g^^ The Trustees invite the Agriculturists, Mechanics, Manufacturers,
Horticulturists, and Ladies of the County, to join their endeavors to
render the Exhibition worthy of the patronage of the Commonwealth,
and creditable to themselves.

OFFICERS OP THE SOCIETY . . 18G8-9.

President.
Hon. JOHN S. ELDEIDGE, .

Honorary President.
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER, .

Canton.

Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents.
Hon. Amos A. Lawrence,
Hon. Otis Gary,
Stephen W. Richardson,
Elijah Tucker, .
Henry Grew,
Eopri^vLET Stone,

Brookline.

Foxborough.

Fraiikliu.

Milton.

Hyde Park.

Declham.

Corresponding and Eecording Secretary.
Henry 0. Hildreth^ Declham.

Treasurer.

Chauncy C. Churchill,

Dedham.

Executive Committee.
"William R. Mann, of Sharon; Aaron D. Weld, of West Roxbury;,
Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; Tubman Clarke, Walpolc ; Charles
Breck, Milton; Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph; E. C. R. Walker,
Roxbury ; A. B. B.\xch, Medlield ; William E. Coffin, Dorchester.

Finance Committee and Auditors.

Ira Cleat5land, of Dedham ; Ch.uiles ILuiAjfT, of Mcdflcld ; Edward
S. R.VND, Jr., of Dedham.

Supervisory Committee.

The President and Secretary, ex officiis ; Francis P. Denny, of
Brookline ; Charles C. Sewall, of Medfield ; Otis Cary, of Foxborough ;
A. W. Cheever, of Wrentham; Erastus L. Metcalf, of Franklin; B. G.
Kdiball, of Needham ; Henry Grew, of Hyde Park ; Charles Breck, of
Milton; B. N. Sawin, of Dover ; Robert Watt, of West Roxbury ; Lucius
Clapp, of Stoughton ; Josl\h P. Quincy, of Quincy.

Committee of Arrangements.

Augustus B. Endicott, Chauncy C. Churchill, Nathaniel S^hth,
Henry O. IIildreth, of Dedham; Charles H.oiant, of Medfield; Wil-
liam R. Mann, of Sharon ; Thomas Decatuj{, Charles F. Curtis, of West
Roxbury ; A. P. Cvldeu, of Dorchester ; A. P. BL.uiE, William J. Stuart,
Hyde Park.

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

^ukjs m& ^e0ul»ti0tt^.

It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles
grown or manufactured in the County, unless otlierwise specified
in the premium list. Essays and Agricultural Implenuents being
excepted from this rule, will be open to general competition.

1^" Committees are prohibited from, awarding gratuities, other
than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list.

^^ JSTo object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it
possesses points of superiority ; and the Committees are prohibited
from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles or objects
are not deemed loorthy.

Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a pre-
mium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a member of
the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upwards, shall
receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two dollars,
respectively, and may thereafter become a member.

All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium —
herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — miist be on the
ground at or before 12 o'clock on Thursday, the first day of the
Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals will not be .
allowed to be removed from the pens before 3 o'clock on Friday,
the second day, and all other articles not until 5 o'clock.

The same animal (except working oxen and draught horses,) or
article, shall not be allowed to compete for more than one premium.
And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties shall not be
included in diiFerent collections of the same exhibitor, competing
for premium.

In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the
County living remote from the Society's grounds, a sum — not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for compensation of
travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine and sheep, as
have been brought or driven more than five miles — reckoning the

distance from whence they came to the place of exliibitlon — and
receive no premium. Only one travel will be allowed to the same
person. Papnent will be made at the rate of ten cents per mile,
for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight cents per mile, for each bull,
cow, heifer, or yearling ; ten cents per mile, for each boar, sow or
litter of weaned pigs ; and eight cents for each flock of shcei). But
no such payment shall be made for any animal or animals, which,
in the judgment of the Committee appointed to manage them, are
not of a superior character and worthy of exhibition, or have not
been entered in accordance with the rules and regulations of the
Society.

Tlie animals, while on the ground, will be fed at the expense of
the Society.

No person serving on any of the Committees shall have a vote
in any case, when he shall be personally interested as a competitor.

After the objects for exhibition are arranged, they will be under
the exclusive charge of the Superintendents, and cannot be removed
without their consent.

All other Entries for premiums must be made in writing, and
shall be placed in the hands of the Recording Secretary, on or
before the 15th of November.

Premiums awarded and not called for on or before tlie last Wed-
nesday in March following, will be considered as given to the
Society, in aid of its funds.

The Trustees have carefully revised and approved of the folloAV-
ing list of premmms. The respective Committees, appointed to
award the same, are required to enforce a strict conformity to all
the rules in relation to Entries and Certificates.

In the appointment of Committees, the Trustees will seek for
the most judicious and skilful individuals in the various towns in
the County, to award the premiums / but should they fail to secure
the aid of the ablest and most experienced men in the above
capacity, they will rely upon the forbearance which, they believe,
will be generously extended towards sincere and unwearied efforts.

As it will become the duty of the Society to make to the Legis-
lature an exact report of its doings, the Trustees deem it of the
highest importance that earnest and persevering efforts be made by
the citizens of every town in the County, to bring out the results
of their skill and industiy.

JOHN S. ELDRIDGE, President.

Henry 0. Hildreth, Secretary.

LIST

OF

PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR THE YEAR 1869,

[Successful Competitors may receive their Premiums in Plate or Money, at their Option.]

Superintendents at Exhibition.

Horses. — "William R. Mann, Sharon ; Assistant, Henry S. Clark, Wal-
pole.

Cattle. — Nathaniel Sjhth, Declham.

Sheep, Swine and Poultry.— 3. W. Page, West Roxbury.

Fruit. — Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury.

Flowers. — Robert Watt, West Roxbury.

Vegetables.— AsTtRKyf T. Meserve, West Roxbury.

Manufactures, Carriages, Agricultural Implements, <&c. — William Ames,
Declham.

Plowing and Draining. — Luther Eaton, Dedham.

Lacfies' Work. — Mrs. Thomas Decatur, West Roxbury.

TAEMS.

EXPERIMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

MANAGEMENT AND IMPHOVEMENT OF FARMS.

Supervisory Committee. — The President and Secretary, ex officiis ; Francis P. Denny,
Broolvline; Charles C. Sewall, Medfield; Otis Cary, Foxborough; A. VV. Cheever, Wren-
tham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; B. G. Kimball, Needham; Henry Grew, Hyde
Tark; Charles Breck, Milton; B. N.Sawin, Dover; Robert Watt, West Roxbuiy ; Lucius
Clapp, Stoughton ; Josiah P. Quincy, Quincy.

For the best managed Farm, taking into view the condition of
the buildings, fences and orchards, the cultivation of the lands, the
care and management of the stock, the quantity, quality and pres-
ervation of the crops, the expenses incurred arid the improvements

made during the year, with a detailed statement of the whole, to
be rendered on or before November 15th, $25 ; second best, $20.

Competitors must give notice of their intention to the Secretary,
on or before June 15th, Farms entered for premium will be viewed
by the Supervisory Committee, as they shall deem expedient, be-
tween June 20th and September 20th. Any farm offered for inspec-
tion, Avitliout being entered for a jiremium, will be viewed and
reported by the Committee, if seasonable application be made to
the Chairman.

PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Committee. — Henry Grew, Dorchester; H. W. Jones, Franklin; Edmund W. Clap,
TTalpole; Charles E. C. Breck, Milton.

IjrPKOviNG Meadow and Swasip Laistds. — For the best experi-
ment in reclaiming wet meadow or swamp lands, by drainage or
otherwise, on not less than one-half acre, with statement in detail
of the previous condition and produce of the land, the method and
expense of the experiment, and the produce at the present time,
$8 ; second best, |4.

TJnder-Dratxing Land. — For the best experiment in under-
draining land, not less than forty square rods, regard being had to
the character of the soil and subsoil, the method, extent, expense
and result of the experiment, $10; second best, $5; third best,
French's Drainage.

Old Pasture and Unimproved Lands. — For the best con-
ducted experiment in renovating and improving old pasture lands
and lands hitherto lying Avaste, on not less than- one acre, with or
without plowing, with a statement of the previous condition of
the land, and of the method, expense and result of the experiment,
$8 ; second best, $5 ; thii-d best, Flint's Dairy.

TURNING IN CROPS AS IMANURE.

Committee. — Aaron D. Weld, West Eoxbury ; Calvin Richards, Dover; S. W. Eichard-
son, Franklin.

For the most satisfactory experiment of turning in crops as a
manure, either green or dry, on not less than one-half acre of land^
a detailed account of the whole process, expense and residt to be
given in writing, $6.

EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOIL PLOWING.
For the best experiment, on not less than one acre of land, of
the effect of subsoil plowing, to be determined by the difference in
the value of crops, raised on equal portions of equally manured

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land, of like quality, one-half of which having been subsoil plowed,
and the other half plowed in the usual manner, — statements of the
depth of plowing in each instance, together with all the particulars
of culture, required, $8 ; second best, Burr's Vegetables.

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FEEDING AND FATTENING STOCK.

Committee.— A. W. Cheever, ■VVrenthain ; John Sias, Milton ; A. T. Meserve, "West
Eoxbury.

Comparative Value or Crops as Food for Cattle. — For the
best experiment upon a stock of cattle, not less than four in num-
ber, to ascertain the relative value of the different kinds of fodder
used, with a statement in detail of the quantity and quality of the
same, as compared with English hay, the experiment to be made in
the three winter months, $12; second best, Stephens' Farmer's
Guide.

Feeding of Milch Cows. — For the best experiment in the
feeding of milch cows, by soiling, stall-feeding or pasturing, with a
detailed statement of the comparative advantages of either method,
regard being had to the saving of manure, comfort of the animals
and produce of the dairy, $12 ; second best, $8 ; third best, Flint's
Dairy.

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cat-
tle, with a statement in detail of the process, expense and result,
$5 ; second best, Flint's Grasses.

Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine,
with a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second
best, Flint's Dairy.

HAY.

Committee. — Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin ; Ellis Tucker, Canton ; Francis D. Williams,
Foxborough.

For the largest quantity and best quality of English hay per

acre produced on any farm in the County, regard being had to the

character of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and making,

$5 ; second best, Flint's Treatise on Grasses.

CRANBERRY VINES.

For the best experiment in transplanting Cranberry Vines, or in
growing them from seed, on not less than one-eighth of an acre,
which shall be in the most flourishing and productive state, on the
10th of September, |6; second best, |3; thu*d best, Eastwood's
Cranberry Culture.

Competitors will be required to give an exact statement of the
process, expense and result of the experiment.

GRAIIT A'NJ) EOOT CROrS.
GRAIN CROPS.

Committee. — "William J. Ilydc, Brookline; Robert Mansfield, Needliam; John N.
Smith, AValpole; Francis Mar;*!), Dedham; George E. Chickering, Dover.

For the best experiment in raising Wheat, a premium of $]
second best, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Hye, Oats or Harley^ each, a
l^rcmium of |10 ; second best, each, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of
$10 ; second best, Flint's Dairy.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, Millet or DucJc-
icheat, each, Bridgeman's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Samples of each kind of Grain, not less than a half bushel,
properly labelled, must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of
the crop to be ascertained by weight, as follows : — Corn and Rye,
56 pounds each to the bushel; Barley and Buckwheat, 48 pounds
each ; Oats, 32 pounds ; Wheat 60 pounds.

ROOT CROPS.

For the best experiment in raising Potatoes, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots, Pars-
nips, Mangold Wurtzel, or JRuta-Baga, each. Burr's Vegetables;
second best, each, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Flat Turnips, Burr's Vegeta-
bles ; second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

Samples of Roots, not less than one bushel, properly labelled,
must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of the crops, which
must be on not less than one-quarter of an acre, shall be ascertained
by the weight of the Roots — freed from dirt and without tops — as
follows: — Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangold Wurtzel and Ruta-
Bagas, 60 pounds ; Carrots, 55 pounds ; Onions and Flat Turnips,
50 pounds ; Parsnips, 45 pounds to the bushel. •

Experiments Avill be viewed by the Committee between July 1st
and September 20th.

Claimants for premiums must render to the Chairman of the
Committee, on or before November 15th, a written statement of
the character and previous condition of the land, its present value,

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and tlie taxes upon it ; the kind, quality and value of manure used ;
the quantity and cost of seed sown ; the labor and expense of culti-
vating and harvesting the crop ; and the quantity, quality and value
of the crop. In awarding premiums, regard will be had to all these
circumstances, and to the area of the ground in cultivation.

VEGETABLES.

Committee.— D. S. Meserve, "West Roxbury; James T. Ford, "Wrentham; A. L. Smith,
Dover ; John W. Richardson, Franlilin ; William Griggs, Brookline.

For the best experiment in raising Squashes — one-half dozen of
each vai-iety to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables;
second best, Thomas' Rural Affaii-s.

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages — not less than six
heads to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; second
best, Thomas' Rural Affairs.

MIXED CROPS.

Committtee. — William J. Hyde, Brookline; Robert Mansfield, Needham; Fi-ancis
Marsh, Dedham; George E. Chickering, Dover; John N. Smith, Walpole.

For the best experiment in cultivating mixed crops of Grain and
Vegetables, in alternate portions, or of different roots, in alternate
rows, Harris' Treatise on Insects ; second best. Burr's Vegetables ;
third best, French's Drainage. The experiment must be made on
not less than half an acre of land, and a detailed statement of the
mode of culture, expense and product must be rendered on or
before November 15th.

PLOWIISTG MATCH.

Ccmmittee. — Aaron D. Capen, Dorchester; Nathan Longfellow, Needham; Robert
Porter, Jr., Stoughton ; Charles L. Copeland, Milton ; Ephraim Wilson, Dover.

Double Ox Teams. With Sod and Subsoil Plow. For best
performance in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre,
eight inches in depth, |10 ; second best, 18 ; third best, $6.

With any other Plow. Same conditions. Best, |10 ; second
best, $8 ; third best, 16.

Committee. — Henry Goulding, Dover; John E. Weatherbee, Dedham; Joel Morse,
Medfield ; William Pierce, Needham ; E. W. Tolman, West Roxbury.

Double Horse Teams. With Sod and Subsoil Plow. Same
conditions. Best, $10 ; second best, $8 ; thu-d best, $6.

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With any other PlotJC. Same conditions. Best, $10 j second
best, $8 ; third best, |6.

Committee. — B. N. Sawin, Dover; Thomas B. Orifcgs, Brookline; Joel II. Robinson,
"Wrcntham; Caleb S. Ilamant, Medlk-ld; Nathan Phillips, Dedham.

Single Ox Teams. With any Plow. For the best perform-
ance in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre, six
inches in depth, within an hour, $6 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.

Committee. — A. T. Meserve, West Roxbury; John Eaton, Dedham; Lewis W. Morse,
Sharon; Josiah H. Carter, Dorchester; Benjamin F. White, Milton.

SixGLE HoESE Teams. Same conditions. Best, $6; second
best, $4 ; third best, 12.

Note. — A Doitble Team will consist of two yokes of oxen with or
without a driver ; or a team of one yoke of oxen and a horse, with or with-
out a driver. Single Team, one yoke of oxen or one pair of horses with-
out a driver. Each competitor must own his team and plow, and
enter the same in his own name. Plows must be held and teams driven by
their owners, or by persons statedly in their employ. Notice to compete
must be given to the Secretary on or before the Wednesday previous to
the Exhibition. In awarding premiums, one hour will be allowed for the
performance of the work, regard being had to the width and depth of the
furrow slice, and the evenness, ease and quiet with which the work is
performed.

TEEE OULTUEE.
FKUIT TREES.

Committee. — A. K. Teele, Milton; Geo. Craft, Brookline; Cheever Newhall, Dorchester;
Robert Watt, West Roxbury ; Richard Richardson, Medway.

Apple Okchakd. For the best Apple Orchard, of not less than
Jifty trees., which shall have been set out at least five years, and
which shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 1869, |8;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Pe.vr Trees. For the best engrafted or budded standard Pear
Trees, set out at least five years, and which shall be in the most
thriving condition in the autumn of 1869, not less than tioenty-five
trees, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

For the best engrafted or budded Pear Trees on Quince roots,
with same conditions, and not less than ^^i5y trees, $8j second besty
Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

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Peach Orchards. For the best Peach Orchard, of not less than
twenty-Jive trees, which shall be in the most thrifty bearing condi-
tion in the autumn of 1869, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and
Fruit Trees.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than Jlfty trees, grown from
pits planted since 1861 on the spot where the trees stand, which
shall be in the best condition in 1869, $8 ; second best, Downing's
Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Apples or Pears. For the best variety of neio Seed-
ling Ajyples or Pears, of decidedly superior quality, one dozen
specimens to be exhibited, together with a history of the origin of
the tree, a description of the growth, and its bearing character, |8 ;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Peaches. For the best variety of Seedling Peaches
of decidedly superior quality, and worthy of general cultivation —
one dozen specimens to be exhibited two years in succession —
together with a history of its origin, a description of its growth,
and the bearing character of the tree, $5 ; second best, Barry's
Fruit Garden.

Note. — Notice of intention to compete to be given to the Secretary on
or before September 1.

FOREST TREES.

Committee.— 'EAvfarA S. Eancl,- Jr., Dedham; John M. Merrick, Foxborough; Francis
Parkman, West Roxbury ; George Craft, Brookline; Eliphalet Stone, Dedham.

For the best plantation of Forest Trees, of either of the follow-
ing varieties, namely: White Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch,
"White Ash, or Walnut, Scotch Larch, Norway Spruce, Pitch, White
and Norway Pine, or other varieties, not less than three years old,
and not less than one thousand trees, — entries to be made to the
Secretary previous to June 10th, — a premium of |15.

For the best plantation, containing not less than five hundred
trees, Emerson's Shrubs and Trees of Massachusetts.

Ornamental Planting. To any individual or society, regard
being had to the number of persons associated, for the larger num-
ber and best growth of ornamental trees, not less than fifty, which
shall have been planted in a public square or on the roadside at
least two years — first premium, $10; second do., Emerson's Shrubs
and Trees of Massachusetts.

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HEDGES.

For the best Live Hedge Fence^ not less than five hundred feet
in longtli, $5 ; second best, Warder's Hedges.

For the best Evergreen Hedge, of Hemlock or Norway Spruce,
not less than four hundred feet in length, $5 ; second best, Warder's
Hedges. Premiums to be awarded in 1870.

HOBTIOULTURE.

[Rule. — All flowers, fruits and vegetables are to be grown by, and
entered in the name of, the contributor.]

FLOWERS.

Committee. — John M. Merrick, .Jr., Walpole; A. K. Teele, Milton; Robert Watt, West
Roxbury; George Craft, Brookline; Miss Eiizabetli S. Sewall, Medfield.

For the best collection of Cut Flowers, $4 ; second best, |3 ;
third best, $2. For the best and most tastefully arranged baskets
of flowers, not less than four, |4 ; second best, |3 ; third best, $2.
For the best and most tastefully arranged bouquets, not less than
four, 84 ; second, |3 ; third, $2, For the best collection of named
gladiolus in spikes, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2. For the
best collection of new seedlings in spikes, |3 ; second best, $2.
For the best new seedlings, |1. For the best collection of Japan
lilies, $3 ; second best, $2, For the best new seedling, $1. For
the best collection of dahlias, $2 ; second best, $1. For the best
new seedling, $1. For the best collection of double zinnias, |2 ;
second best, $1.

A statement in writing of the sorts contributed, and the con-
tributor's name, will be required.

Gratuities, in publications, to the amount of |10, may be awarded
at the discretion of the Committee.

FRUITS.

Committee.—^. C. R. Walker, Roxbury; Geo. Davenport, Dedham; Cheever Newhall,
Dorchester; Henry Grew, Hyde Tark; George Vose, Milton; Robert Watt, West Rox-
bury; Cliarles F. Curtis, West Roxburj'.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of Ajyj^^es, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $12 ; second do., Harris'
Treatise; third do., $4; fourth do., $3 j fifth do., Barry's Fruit
Garden.

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For the best collection of five Varieties of Apples, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, |6 ; second do., |4.

For the best collection of twenty varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $15 ; second do., $12.

For the best collection of ten varieties of Pears, twelve specimens
of each variety — first premium, $8 ; second do., $6 ; third do., $4.

For the best collection of five varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first jDremium, $6 ; second do., $4 ; third do.,
$2.

For the best collection of Peaches, not less than twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first iDremium, $3 ; second do., $2 ; third do.,
Cole's Fruit Book.

For the best collection oi Plums, not less than twelve specimens
of each variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., Thomas' Rural
Afiairs.

Apples. For the best collection of the following varieties, not
less than twelve specimens of each : — Baldwin — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Rhode Island Greening — first premium, $2; sec-
ond do., $1. Gravenstein — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Hubbardston Nonesuch — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Rox-
bury Russet — first premium, |2 ; second do., $1. Porter — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Tolman Sweet — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. For any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second
do., II.

Pears. For the best collection of the following varieties, not
less than twelve specimens of each : — Clapp's Favorite — first pre-
mium, $2 ; second do., $1. Bartlett — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Beurre d'Anjou — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Ur-
baniste — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Merriam — first pre-
mium, $2 ; second do., $1. Louise Bonne d'Jersey — first premium,
$2 ; second do., $1. Vicar of "Winkfield — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Duchesse de Angouleme — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Seckle — first jiremium, $2 ; second do., $1. Onondaga —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Sheldon — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Beurre Bosc — first jiremium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Doyenne Boussouck — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre
Clairgeau — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Lawrence — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. "Winter Nelis — first i^remium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Beurre Langlier — first premium, $2 ; second do.,
$1. Bufiiim — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Marie Louise —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Dana's Hovey — first premium,
|2 ; second do., 11. Paradise d'Automne — ^first premium, $2 ; sec-

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ond do., $1. For any other vai-iety — first premium, $2 ; second
do., II.

Grapes. For the best collection of Foreign Grapes — first pre-
mium, 14 ; second do., 13.

For the best four bundles of the following varieties, four bunches
of each Aariety : — Black Hamburg — first })remium, 12 ; second do.,
%\. Wilmot's No. 16 — first premium, $2; second do., |1. Victoria
— first premium, |2 ; second do., 11. For the best four bunches of
any white variety, $2.

For a new variety of JSFative or Seedling Grape^ equal or superior
to the Isabella, ri])ening in this County in the open air, by the
middle of September^ prolific and suitable for the table, first pre-
mium, 120 ; second do., $10.

For the best collection of Native Grapes — first premium, $4 ;
second do., 13 ; third do., $2. Delaware — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Diana — first premium, |2 ; second do., $1. Rogers'
Hybrids — first premium, |2 ; second do., $1. Allen's Hj brid — first
premium, |2 ; second do., $1. Concord — first premium, |2 ; second
do., II. Any other variety — first premium, |2 ; second do., $1.

Quinces. For the best collection of Quinces, not less than a
peck, |2.

Cranberries. For the best collection of Cranberries, not less
than four quarts, |3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, Eastwood's
Cranberry Culture.

No exhibitor taking a premium for collections, shall compete with
the same varieties in the class for single dishes.

COLD VINERIES.

Committee. — Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; John Pearce, West Eoxbury; Edward S. Eand,
Jr., Dedham.

For the best crojD, and the most economically kept Cold Vinery,
not less than thirty feet, first premium, |4 ; second best, |3.

GARDEN.

Committee. — D. S. Meserve, West Eoxbury; Ebenezer P. Crane, Dedham; A. L. Smith,
Dover; John W. Richartlson, lu-anklin; William Griggs, Brookliue.

For the best Vegetable Garden, regard being had to the vari-
ety, excellence and quantity of the products thereof, and the mode
and expense of cultivation. Burr's Vegetables; second best. Bridge-
man's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Entries must be made before the 10th of June, and an exact
statement rendered before the first of November.

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VEGETABLES.
Class 1.

For the best and largest collection of Vegetables exhibited, $15 ;
second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

For the best and largest collection of Potatoes, not less than one
peck of each variety, |6 ; second best, $3.

For the best and largest collection of Winter Squashes, not less
than four of each variety, $4 ; second best, $3.

For the best new variety of Seedling Potatoes, superior to any
•kind now in cultivation, a premium of $10.

Class 2.

For one-half bushel best Table Potatoes, $2; second best, $1.
For one-half bushel best Turnips, $2 ; second best, $1.
For one-half bushel best .Carrots, $2 ; second best, $1.
For one-half bushel best Beets, $2 ; second best, $1.
For one-half bushel best Tomatoes, $2 ; second best, $1.
For one-half bushel best Onions, $2 ; second best, $1.
For one-half bushel best Parsnips, $2 ; second best, $1.
For one-half bushel best Salsify, $2; second best, $1.
For two quarts best Lima Beans, $2 ; second best, $1.
For four best Late Drumhead Cabbages, $2 ; second best, $1.
For four best Green Globe Savoys, $2 ; second best, $1.
For four best Cauliflowers, |2 ; second best, $1.
For twelve best heads of Celery, |2 ; second best, $1.
For four best Marrow Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1.
For four best Canada Crookneck Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1.
For four best Pumpkins, $2 ; second best, $1.
"For four best Musk-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.
For four best Water-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.
For twelve ears best Sweet Corn, $2 ; second best, $1.
No exhibitor in class 1, shall compete in class 2 with the same
varieties.

SEEDS.

Committee. — William J. Hyde, Brookline; Robert Mansfield, Needham; Francis Marsh,
Dedham ; Hiram W. Jones, Dover ; John N. Smith, Walpole.

For the best sample of ears of Seed Corn, not less than forty in
number — first premium, $2 ; second do., |1.

For the best collection of Onion, Carrot, Beet, Parsnip and Ruta-
Baga Seeds — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best ten pounds of Timothy, Redtop and Clover Seed, $1.

For the best sample, one peck each, of Wheat, Rye, Barley and
Oats, $1.

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ANIMALS.

All animals to be entered in the name of the owner, who must
have had them in his possession at least six months before the
Exhibition.

All animals, entered in accordance with the rules and regulations,
will be fed, during the Exhibition, at the expense of the Society.

For any animal worthy of the first premium, having received a
similar one at any previous Exhibition, a diploma, certifying the
rank of such animal at the present Exhibition, shall be awarded
instead of a premium.

A diploma may also be awarded, at the discretion of the several
Committees, for any animal, worthy of exhibition, from without the
limits of the Society.

CATTLE.

Committee. — Asahel S. Drake, Sharon; Samuel J. Capen, Dorchester; Nathaniel S.
White, Canton; Amos W. Shumway, Dover; Hiram Caldwell, Needham.

Bulls. For the best Bull, one year old and upwards, of either
Jersey, Durham, Devon, Ayrshire, Hereford, Kerry, or other foreign
stock — in each class, |5 ; second best, 13.

For the best Grade or Native Bull, |3 ; second best, $2.

For the best Bull Calf, under one year old, foreign or native
stock, $3 ; second best, $2.

Committee. — .Jeremiah "W. Gay, Dedham ; Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; A. W. Cheever,
Wrentham; Jacob F. Eaton, Quincy; Caleb Ellis, Medfield; Aaron Bacon, Dover.

Cows. For the best Cow, three years old or upAvards, foreign
stock, of either class, each, $5 ; second best, |4 ; third best, $3.

Grade, $5 ; second best, |4 ; thii'd best, $3.

Milch Cows. Three years old and upwards. For the best
Milch Cow, without regard to breed, each, $8 ; second best, $6 ;
third best, $4 ; fourth best, |2.

For the best Milch Heifer, less than three years old, S4 ; second
best, 12.

Herds of Milch Cows. For the best herd of Milch Cows — not
less than six — kept on any farm in the County, and exhibited at
the Show, regard being had to the breed, age and milking proper-
ties, first premium, the Wilder Cup of the value of $25 ; second
premium, $12 ; third premium, $8 ; fourth premium, $6.

NoTK. — No competitor for the premiums offered for herds shall be allowed
to offer the same auimals for any premium of a different class.

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Committee. — Elijah Tucker, Milton; Luther Eaton, Dedham; B. G. Kimball, Needham;
Joseph W. Robertson, Quincy ; William Harding, Dorchester.

Heifers. For the best Heifer, two years old and under three,
foreign stock, of either class, each $3; second best, $2; third
best, 11.

Grade or Native, $3 ; second best, |2 ; third best, |1.

For the best Heifer, one year old, of any stock, |2 ; second
best, $1.

For the best Heifer Calf, under one year old, of any stock, $2 ;
second best, f 1.

Committee. — James Capen, Foxborongh; Robert Porter, Stoughton; Henrj'- M. Mack,
Dorchester; John Battelle, Dover; William Q. Fisher, Medfield.

"Working Oxen. For the best yoke, four years old and upwards,
$6 ; second best, |4 ; third. best, ^2.

Town Teams. For the largest and best team, of not less than
ten yokes of Oxen or Steers, from any city or town in the County,
first premium, |12 ; second best, $8.

Steers. For the best yoke, well-broken, three years old and
under four, $4 ; second best, |3 ; third best, $2.

For the best yoke, well-broken, two years old and under three,
$3 ; second best, |2.

Note. — For Oxen or Steers, and also for Herds of Milch Cows, bred and
raised by the exhibitor, twenty per cent, additional. In testing the strength,
docility and training of Working Oxen, the load shall not be less than 2,500
pounds for oxen of Ave years old and upwards ; and not less than 2,000
pounds for oxen under five years old. In testing the character of Steers,
as the Committee may direct, special regard will be paid to their docility
and proper training.

Committee. — Francis B. Ray, Franklin; James Ellis, Walpole; Charles Breck, Milton;
William P. Hewins, Medtield ; Daniel W. Stevens, Medway.

Fat Cattle. For the best beef animal fattened by the exhib-
itor, within the County, regard being had to the manner and
expense of feeding — of which a written statement will be required
— first premium, $8 ; second do., |6.

SWINE.

Committee. — Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham; Amory Fisher, Dedham; Thomas B. Griggs,
Brookline; William C. Allen, Medfield; Whiting Grant, Wrentham.

For the largest and best collection of Swine — not less than six
hogs in number — first premium, |15 ; second do., |10 ; third do., $7.

Boars. For the best Boar, not less than six months old, $6 ;
second best, |4.

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Sows. For the best Sow, not less than six months old, $6
second best, $4.

Weaned Pigs. For the best litter, not less than four in number
and not more than six months old, $6 ; second best, |4.

Fat Hogs. For the best Fat Hog, regard being had to breed,
age and feeding, $10 ; second best, $6.

Note. — No competitor for the largest collection of swine will be allowed
to offer the same for any premium of a diffei*ent class.

SPIEEP.

Committee. — Tnunan Clarke, Walpole; Joseph H. Billings, West Roxbury; Theodore
Harding, IMedway.

For the largest and best lot of Sheei^ — not less than six in num-
ber— 110 ; second best, |8.

For the best lot of Lambs — not less than six in number — bred by
the exhibitor, $8 ; second best, |5.

For the best Ram — Cotswold, Leicester, Oxford Down, or South-
down— not less than one year old, $5 ; second best, $3.

POULTRY.

Committee. — John W. Richardson, Franlilin ; Nathan Harding, Medfield ; Charles E. C.
Breck, Milton.

For the best collection of not less than six Fowls, either Bramab,
Shanghai, Black Spanish, Dorking, Poland, Bolton Gray, Guinea,
Bantam, or any other variety, each, |5 ; second best, $3.

Turkeys. For the best collection — not less than six — $5 ; second
best, 13.

Geese. For the best collection — not less than six — 15 ; second
best, 13.

Ducks. For the best collection — not less than six — 15 ; second
best, $3.

PiGEOxs. For the best collection — not less than six — $2 ; second
best, $1.

Note. — Poultry must be entered on the first day of the Exhibition before
12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

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HORSES.

William R. Mann, Sharon, General Chairman.

In awarding the premium on Roadsters, the general good quali-
ties— such as style, action, constitution and enduring proj^erties —
as well as speed of the animals, will receive special consideration.

In testing the speed of horses, each animal — four years old and
over — will be required to draw a carriage weighing, with driver
included, not less than 350 pounds.

It is understood that horses which have heretofore been classed
under the head of " Thoroughbred and part Thoroughbred," may
compete as Roadsters, or in any other class.

Colts and Fillies will compete in separate classes, as heretofore,
the premiums being the same for either sex.

No Stallion will be entitled to a premium without a guarantee of
his remaining for service in the County six months.

In testing the strength, docility, and training of Draught or Team
Horses, the load shall not be less than 2,500 pounds for a single
horse, and 3,500 pounds for a pair of horses.

Every entry for premium must be made before 12 o'clock of the
first day of the Exhibition, and the Stock must be present the
second day on or before 9 o'clock, A. M.

It must be distinctly understood that premiums will not be
awarded to any animal that does not, in the opinion of the Com-
mittee, possess decided merit and a sound constitution.

Class A. — Roadstees.

Committee. — Albert B. Balch, Medfield; Oliver Deane, Canton; Henry Jones, Stough-
ton ; Francis B. Kay, Franklin ; Henry Trowbridge, Wrentham ; A. W. Whitcomb, Ran-
dolph.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " " « . 7 00

2f? Division.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " « " " . 5 00

3f? Division, — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old, a premium of . . . . $5 00

2d best « " .... 3 00

best 3 years old, " . . . . 5 00

2d best " " .... 3 00

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3f? Division. — Colts and Fillies — Concludecl
For the best 2 years old, a premium of

2d best " « • .

best 1 year old, "

2d best " "

Ath Division. — Pairs in Harness.
For the best pair of Roadsters, a premium of
2d best

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hth Division. — Harness Horses.
For the best Gelding or Marc, a premium of
2d best "

3d best «
4th best "

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. $3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

. 110 00

. ' 7 00

. $8 00

6 00

4 00

2 00

Class B. — Horses of all Work.

Committee. — Francis D. Williams, Foxborough ; H. W. Tilton, Walpole ; Charles A.
Howland, Quincy ; J. A. Eogers, Roxbury ; John D. Bracllee, Milton.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best « " « " . 7 00

2r? Division. — Drood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " « « " . 5 00

^d Division. — Colts and Fillies.
For the best 4 years old, a j^remium of
2d best " "

best 3 years old, "

2d best "
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best "

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((

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Ath Division. — Pairs in Harness.
For the best, a premium of . . .
2d best " ...

hth Division. — Horses in Harness.
For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of
2d best " " «

$5 00

3

00

5

00

3

00

3

00

2

00

3

00

2

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$7 00

5

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$6 00

4

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Class C. — Fasitlt Horses.

Committee. — Albert Tirrell, Weymouth ; John M. Harris, Needham ; George E. Mann,
Sharon ; A. P. Calder, Dorchester ; B. F.' Bradford, Hyde Park ; Thomas Decatur, Ja-
maica Plain.

1st Division. — /Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best « " " « .7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with Foal at her side, a premium of |7 00

. 5 00

2d best

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Zd Division. — Colts and Fillies.
For the best 4 years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best «

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4iA Division. — Carriage Horses 15 to 16 hands liigh.
For the best pair of Carriage Horses, a premium of .
2d best "

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bill Division. — Buggy or Chaise Horses.
For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of
2d best « " « "

3d best « « « «

Qth Division. — Saddle Horses.
For the best Saddle Horse, a premium of .
2d best «
3d best "

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1th Division. — Ponies.
For the best matched Ponies, a premium of
2d best «
best single Pony,
2d best «

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$5 00

((

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3 00

5 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

$10 00

7 00

$8 00

6 00

4 00

$6 00

4 00

3 00

$6 00

4 00

3 00

2 00

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Class D. — Dkaugiit ok Team Horses.

Committee. — Silas G. Williams, Needliam; A. B. Endicott, Dedliam; James H. Ellis,
Medway ; Calvin Richards, Dover.

1st Division. — Single Draught or Team Horses.
For the best Draught Horse, a premium of . . . $7 00

2d best » " " ... 5 00

Id Division. — Pairs of Draught or Team Horses.

For the best pair of Draught or Team Horses, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " « " « . 5 00

DAIRY.

BUTTER.

Committee. — Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton; Milton M. Fisher,
Medway ; Isaac Fiske, Medfield ; Mrs. B. N. Sawin, Dover ; Mrs. Robert'Roberts, Medfield.

For the best produce of Butter, on any farm within the County,
for four months, from the 20th of May to the 20th of September, —
a sample of not less than twenty pounds to be exhibited, — quantity
as well as quality to be taken into view, — first premium, $10;
second do., $8 ; third do., $5 ; fourth do., $4.

Note. — It will be seen that these premiums are offered for the best prod-
uce on the Farms, and not simply for the best specimens exhibited. Each
lot must be numbered, but not marlied ; any public, or known mark, must
be completely concealed, nor must the competitors be present at the ex-
amination.

For the best box of Butter, — not less than 12 pounds, — first pre-
mium, $5 ; second do., |3 ; third do., Flint's Treatise on Dairy
Fanning.

g^" Note. — Butter must he presented only on the morning of the second
day before 9 o'clock.

Cheese. For the best lot of Cheese, — not less than forty
pounds, — first premium, $5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's Trea-
tise on Dairy Farming.

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BREAD.

Committee. — Edmund Quincy, Dedliam; Calvin Richards, Dover; J. White Belcher,
Randolph;' Mrs. Benjamin Newell, Dover; Mrs. William Harding, Dorchester; Mrs.
Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ; Mrs. W. W. Gannett, Cambridge.

For the best loaf of "Wheat and Indian, of not less than two
pounds weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf made of Unbolted "Wheat, which has been
grown in the County, of not less than two pounds weight — first
premium, $3; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Rye and Indian, of not less than four pounds
weight — first premium, |3 ; second do., |2.

For the best loaf of "Wheat Bread, of not less than two pounds
weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best specimens of each or any of the aforementioned
kinds of bread, made by any young woman under eighteen years of
age, an additional premium of twenty-five per cent.

The bread presented for premium must be made on the first day
of the Exhibition, by some member of a family, in whose name the
entry shall be made, and to whom the premium shall be awarded.
The bread shall be made without the use of saleratus or other alka-
line substance, and made in the family, and be presented onlj/ on
the second day of the Exhibition., before 9 o'clock in the morning.
No name or mark shall be put on the loaves, except the number of
the entry in the Committee's book.

The names of contributors shall not be known to the Committee,
and no person sliall serve on the same if any member of his family
shall be a competitor.

HONEY.

For the best specimen of Honey in the comb, not less than six
pounds, Longstrath on the Honey Bee ; second best, |1.

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MAKUFAOTUEES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee. — Charles C. Sewall, Medfield; John Sias, Milton; A. T. Meserve, West
Roxbury; Edmund T. Everett, Wrentham; Charles E. C. Breck, Milton; Luther Eaton,
Dedham.

For the largest and best collection, $12 ; second, $6.

For any new or improved Plow, which on trial shall be found
best adapted for the thorough pulverization of old plowed land, a
premium of $6.

New Inventions. For any new invention of decided superiority
and usefulness to the farmer, a premium or gi-atuity, at the discre-
tion of the Committee.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

Committee. — Mrs. Thomas Decatur, West Roxburj'^; Mrs. Samuel B. Noyes, Canton;
Miss Abby F. Hayes, Dorchester; Miss Lucy Calder, Dedham; Mrs. John M. Harris,
Needham ; Mrs. Charles H. Lealand, Dedham.

Fancy Articles — including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shell-
work, Millinery, Drawings, Paintings, &c.

For such articles in this department as may he deemed worthy,
a sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars shall be approj^riated, to
be paid in premiums or gratuities, proportioned to the cost and
value of the article, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — It should be understood that in this department of Ladies' work —
while other things will receive due consideration — the premiums are in-
tended SOLELY FOR NEWLY MADE articles which are really useful or par-
ticularly beautiful. For well-made garments of any kind; for stocking
knitting of wool, cotton, or silk ; or bonnet and cap making ; for all articles
for children's wear, well made or tastefully embroidered; for neat and
thorough mending, patching and darning ; for drawing, designing, or paint-
ing in oil or water colors ; for models in plaster, wood, or marble, &c.

Any article well and tastefully wrought, offered by children under twelve
years of age, will receive particular attention.

Committee. — A. S. Harding, Medway; J. A. Turner, Medfield; Charles C Sumner,
Foxborough.

Manufactuees op Straw. For the best specimen of Straw
JBon?ietSy wholly df domestic manufacture, $8 ; second best, 85.

For the best specimen of Straio Braid., of domestic straw, not
less than 100 yards, 65 ; second best, $3.
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Committee. — Charles H. French, Canton; Naaman B. Wilmarth, "Walpole; Luther
Metcalf", Medway ; Ezra W. Taft, Dedham ; Francis B. Ray, Franklin.

Manufactures of Cloth, Flannels, Hosiery, &c. Cotton
Cloth. For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any description,
not less than twenty-eight yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity,
at the discretion of the Committee.

Woollen Cloth. For the best specimen of Woollen Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty yards in quantity, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cotton and Woollen Mixed. For the best specimen of Cotton
and Woollen Cloth of any description, not less than twenty yards
in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Flannels. For the best specimen of Flannel, not less than
twenty yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion
of the Committee.

For the best specimen of Cotton Flannel, not less than twenty
yards in quantity, a pi-emium or gratuity, at the discretion of the
Committee.

For the best pair of Woollen Blankets, a premium or gratuity, at
the discretion of the Committee.

Hosiery., <&c. For the best specimen of Woollen Hose, a pre-
mium of $1.

For the best specimen of Woollen Half Hose, a premium of
50 cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Hose, a premium of 50 cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Half Hose, a premium of
25 cents.

For the best specimen of Worsted Hose, a premium of 11.

For the best specimen of Worsted Half Hose, a premium of
50 cents.

For the best specimen of Sewing Silk, not less than one pound,
a premium of $2.

For the best specimen of Knitting Yarn, not less than one pound,
a premium of |1.

For the best specimen of Spool Thread, not less than one pound,
a premium of $1.

For the best Fleece of Wool, a premium of $1.

For the best dozen seamless Grain Bags, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of neat and thorough mending, patching
or darning of garments, hose, &c., a premium of |1.

For the best specimen of covered bonnet wire, |3.

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Counterpanes. For the best counterpane — regard being had
to quality and expense of materials — first premium, |3 ; second do.,

$2.

Carpeting s, Rugs and Floor Cloth.

For the best " Common " Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting.
u u « Fine " " " "

« " "Superfine" « " «

" " " Common," " Fine," or " Superfine " Ingrain 3-ply

Carpeting.

For the best Brussels Floor Carpeting.

« « Tapestry " "

" " Velvet Carpeting.

For each of these descriptions of Carpeting, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Ingrain 3-ply Carpeting will be judged by the comparative
merits of pieces of similar weight ; oi- disregarding weight, by the quality
of color, the taste of shading, and evenness in spinning and weaving.

For the best piece of Stair Carpeting, the Society's diploma.
For the best Hearth Rug, the Society's diploma.
For the best specimen of painted Floor Cloth, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Any articles in either of the foregoing departments, which shall
have been manufactured in the family of the person presenting it, will
receive the particular consideration of the Committee, and, if Avorthy, a
suitable premium.

Committee. — Frank M. Ames, Canton; Alexander Dickson, West Koxbory; Curtis G.
Morse, Dedham.

Glass, Stone, Earthen, and Wooden Ware. For the finest
collections and best specimens of articles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brass, Copper, Tin, Iron, and Britannia Ware. For the
finest collections and best specimens of articles in each of these
departments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the
Committee.

Cablnet Work. For the best specimen of Cabinet Work, a
premium or the Society's diploma.

Iron Fencing, Gates and Posts. For the best specimen of
each — regard being had to cost and utility, as well as ornament — a
premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

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Stoves. For the best Farmer's Cauldron Stove ;
" « « ■ Cooking "

" « « Parlor "

— a premium of |2 each.

Horse and Ox Shoes. For the best set of Horse and Ox
Shoes, a premium of $1.

For the best specimens of Horse Shoes, for meadow lands, a
premium of $1.

Committee. — Joseph Day, Dedham; Samuel Atherton, Dorchester; Benjamin F. White,
Weymouth ; John Mann, Walpole ; E. C. Monk, Stoughton.

India Rubber Goods. For the finest collection of India Rub-
ber goods, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Brushes, Combs, Hats,- Caps, and Gloves. For the finest
collection and best specimens of each of these articles, a premium
or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Leather and Articles Manueactured Therefrom.

For the best specimen of Thick Boots, a premium of
« Calfskin, "

« Thin Boots, other

than Calfskin, "
« Kipskin, . «

« Thick Brogans, «

" Fine Brogans, "

« Ladies' Boots, "

For the best specimen of Uj^per or Sole Leather, or Morocco, a
premium or gratuity, each at the discretion of the Committee.
For the best single Carriage Harness ;
" " double " "

" " Cart Harness — a premium or gratuity, each, at the
discretion of the Committee.

For the best Riding Bridle, a premium of . . . $1 00
« " « Saddle, « ... 2 00

" " Carriage or Cart Whip, a premium of . 1 00

Carriages, "Wagons, Carts, &c.

Committee. — Sanford Carroll, Dedham; John Hall, Canton; Thomas L. Barney,
Medtield.

For the best specimen of Family Carriages, for one horse or for
two horses :

(C

cc

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12 00

3 00

2 (30

2 00

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1 00

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For the best Covered wagon ;
« " Open "

« « Farm "

« « « Cart;

" " " Wheelbarrow — either a premium or gratu-

ity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Committee. — George Vose, Milton; George W. Low, Needham; Theodore Dunn,
Dover ; George Crane, Medfield.

Jellies, Preserves, Pickles and Ketchups. For the finest
collection and best specimen of each, made of articles of domestic
growth, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Native Wines, Cordials, &c. For the best specimens of Wines
from American grapes, not less than two bottles to be exhibited,
$2 ; second best, 1.

For the best specimen of Wine or Cordial from currants, black-
bemes, raspberries, or elderberries, not less than two bottles to be
exhibited, each, |1.

Note. — It is to be understood that all articles presented for premium, in
each of the foregoing departments, except Agricultural Implements, shall
have been manufactured or produced within the Couutj^, aud by the person
presenting them. Also, that in every case, the Examining Committee shall
have the right to substitute the Society's diploma for a premium or gratuity,
or to give it where no premium or gratuity has been offered, at their dis-
cretion.

All discretionary premiums or gratuities shall be proportioned to the
actual value and utility of the articles.

Articles in either of the above departments, contributed to the Exhibition
by persons not resident in the County, shall receive suitable attention from
the Committee, and, if worthy, be awarded the Society's diploma.

MISCELLANEOUS.
CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Committee. — E. A. Samuels, Canton ; Carlos Slafter, Dedham ; A. W. Cheever, "Wren-
tham.

For the largest and best collections of Birds and Insects found
within the County, beneficial or injurious to vegetation, properly
arranged and classified, to be exhibited on the Society's tables, at
the next annual fair, one copy of Harris's Treatise on Insects.

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AGRICULTURAL LABORERS.

For a certificate — signed by his employer, and countersigned by
any two of the Trustees residing nearest to the applicant — of the
superior qiialifications of any man or youth, in the employment of
any member of the Society for a period next preceding, of not less
than two years, attesting the industry, integrity, respectful demeanor
and general good habits, during the time, of the bearer of such
certificate, a premium of Membershij) of the Society and a diploma.

AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS.

Committee. — Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester; Charles C. Sewall, Medfield; Henry O.
Hildreth, Dedham; Francis P. Denny, Brookline; Albert K. Teele, Milton.

For the best Report of Committees which recommend the award
of premiums. First premium, $8 ; second, |6 ; third, $4.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the various grasses, or cereal, fruit or vegetable
crops, a pi-emium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the breeding and raising of the different classes
of farm stock, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the fattening of cattle, swine or sheep,
detailing the j)rocess and expense of the same, a premium not ex-
ceeding 125.

Forest Trees. For the best Essay on the raising and cultiva-
tion of Forest Trees, a premium not exceeding $25.

Insects. For the best Essay on the destruction of Insects in-
jurious to vegetation, such as Curculio., JBorer., Canker- Worm^
Caterpillar^ Cut- TForm, ^qnash-Huff, Striped-J^ug^ Iiose-J3ug,
c&c, c&c, a premium not exceeding $25.

Preservation of Winter Fruit. For the best Essay on the
preservation of Apples and other Winter Fruits, a premium not
exceeding $25.

Preservation of Vegetables. For the best Essay on the
preservation of Vegetables, a i)remium not exceeding $25.

Agricultural Education. For the best Essay on Agricultural
Education, a premium not exceeding $25.

Farm Accounts. For the best Essay on a system of Fann
Accounts, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Domestic Poultry, a premium not exceed-
ing $25.

For the best Essay on Fences for Farms, uniting economy,
strength, and appearance, a premium not exceeding $25.

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For the best Essay on tlie extermination of "Weeds and Plants
destructive to crops, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the preservation and application of Liquid
Manure, a premium not exceeding |25.

For the best Essay on the introduction of new Fruits or of new
articles of Field Culture, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the value and application of Phosphate of
Lime, or any fertilizer of the soil, a premium not exceeding |25.

For the best Essay on Bees and Structure of Hives, with par-
ticular reference to feeding Bees, and guarding against the spolia-
tion of the Bee Moth, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best plan for a Barn and Barnyard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfort of the Cattle, the ease and con-
venience of tending them, and the making and preserving the
Manure, a premium not exceeding $25.

These premiums will not be awarded unless the Essays offered
shall, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to decide \x})on
them, be deemed worthy of an award, without reference to their
comparative merit.

FARM BUILDINGS.

For the best planned house and out-buildings — regard being had
to the cost and economy of labor — the house to be warm, well-
lighted and ventilated, with a cellar protected from frost and ver-
min and the whole not to cost over $1,800 — to be examined by the
Supervisory Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said Com-
mittee.

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NTENTS,

PAGK

Address, by Hou. Marshall P. Wilder, 5

Report of the President aud Secretary 27

on Horses, 28

on Ploughing, . '. 30

on Working Oxen, 31

on Bulls, 31

on Cows, 31

on Heifers, . . . . • 31

on Swine, 32

on Sheep, . • . . " 32

on Poultry, 32

on Fruits, 34

on Flowers, 36

on Vegetables, . . . .37

on Bread, 38

on Dairy, 38

on Seeds, 38

on Carriages, Wagons, &c., 39

on Leather, &c 39

on Agricultural Implements, &c., 39

on Ladies' Work, . . .40

on Bag aud Foot Races, 41

Recapitulation of Premium?, . . . ' . . . • .43

Report of the Treasurer, 46

Proceedings on the Twenty-Second Anniversary, . . . .47

Oiricers of the Society, 60

Names of Members, 63

A.DDI^ESS.

By Hon. Marshall P. Wilder,.
noNORAiiY President of the Noufolk Agricultural Society.

California, — A Comparative View of her Climate, Resources, and

Progress, with Observations made in a Recent Tour to

the Pacific Coast.

California is a wonder ! wonderful alike for the vvald-
ness and grandness of her scenery, for the richness of
her mines, for the fertility of her soils, and for the salu-
brity of her climate, — a climate as delightful and healthy
as any upon which the sun ever shone ; a soil in whose
bosom most of the products of the habitable globe find a'
congenial home ; and a country overflowing with the
bounties of Providence, where God and nature seem to--
have set their seal as the Garden of the World. The fer-
tility of her soils and the salubrity of her climate must
always exercise a powerful influence on the prosperity of
her agriculture. In most parts of the State no buildings
are needed for stock, and none for the storing of the
crops ; and the bags of grain during the summer months
are allowed to remain in the open field until removed for
shipment.

Why the resources of such a country as California were
not earlier developed, seems to our finite minds a mys-
tery. But the marvellous workings of God's providence
are now clearly seen. Thus when the balance of trade
against our country became so large and continual, there-

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' by causing periodical revulsions and distress, then the
gold began to glisten in the streams of California ; .thus
when the forests became denuded of wood, then came the
discovery of coal and the working of the mines ; thus
when the whale was being exterminated for the produc-
tion of oil, then came the discovery of oil in the bowels
of the earth instead of the bowels of the sea ; and thus
when the fertility of our great wheat fields, moving con-
tinually west, began to decline, California comes to the
rescue with the golden harvest of her immense valleys,
rivalling in importance the treasures of her golden mines.
Wheat is the great crop of California. More than one
fourth of the cultivated land is devoted to it ; and so fer-
tile is the soil, that frequently the grain which is dropped
in harvesting produces another crop without sowing or
tillage. This is called a "volunteer croj) ;" and although
it often yields fifteen Inishels to the acre, it cannot be
-considered a judicious method of farming. Barley and
•oats are raised to considerable extent, l)ut Indian corn
was seldom seen in our ti-avels. The annual grain crop
of California is about thirty millions of bushels, two
thirds of which is wheat. In favorable seasons the aver-
age yield of wheat is about twenty-five bushels to the
acre. Instances, however, are not uncommon where in
new and very fertile locations it has reached fift}^ and
even sixty and seventy bushels per acre. The seed is
large, plump, white, and so well ripened by the high tem-
perature, that it may be stored in bulk for months, with-
out danger of sweating or injury, and in fact often re-
quires moistening before it is ground.

The quality of the California wheat is world-wide re-
nowned for its weight, strength, and whiteness. Some of
the districts, such as Alameda, Santa Clara, and San
Mateo, produce the finest wheat in the w^orld ; and the
quality of the whole State averages better than that of
the States this side of the Nevadas. As there is no rain
in the summer, the grain crops are left standing in the
fields for weeks after they are ripe. Much of the grain is

harvested by a machine called the header, which passes
throuirh the field cuttinor ^i, swath fifteen feet wide, takins:
off the heads eight inches long, throwing them into a
wagon by its side, at the rate of an acre in less than an
hour. The crops are generally threshed by a steam ma-
chine brought into the field. This machine requires two
horses, two men, and two horse forks to feed it, and, we
were told, threshed 800 to 1000 bushels of wheat and
put in bags per day. These bags remain in the open field
piled up in rows, until taken away by teams to the rail-
road stations. We saw acres of bags piled up five bags
liigh, a^vaiting shipment. On many of the large farms
the ploughing is done by gang ploughs, six abreast, and
drawn by ten or twelve horses. A sower is attached to
the plough, and in this way nine or ten acres of grain
may be put in the ground in a day. Nothing surprises
the traveller more than the immense fields of wheat seen
on the sides of the railroad. Think of riding for hours
through fields of wheat whose breadth extends miles be-
yond your vision, and you will have some idea of the
golden harvest of those ocean-like plateaus of grain that
abound in California, and which already equal in value
the products of her mines.

The supply of culinary vegetables, as seen in the mar-
kets of San Francisco and other cities, is very abundant
and of excellent quality. What surprises visitors from
the East is to find such articles as celery in the market all
summer. When we arrived, on the 20th of June, celery,
cauliflowers, melons, and marrow squashes of famous size
were on the stands in the market. With irrigation, crop
after crop can be obtained in varied succession, so that
you may find any thing you desire at any season. The
early vegetables begin to come in during the month of
February. Asparagus is cut from February to June.
One grower informed us he had six acres. The product
was about five tons to the acre, and was contracted for at
nine cents per pound. The size to which vegetables at-
tain is almost incredible. We were told of pumpkins

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weighing 250 pounds ; squashes 150 pounds ; beets 100
pounds ; and carrots oO pounds. Astonishing as these
facts may seem, it is easy to understand how such results
are obtained where growth never ceases. The mean tem-
perature of the coldest month, December, at San Fran-
cisco is said to be fifty-five degrees : in the interior it is
probably lower.

Althouo^h our attention was mainlv "iven to the or-
chard, vineyard, and garden, our luimerous journeys
through the interior of the State aftbrded us opportuni-
ties of learning its agricultural character. We were
everywhere impressed with the immense extent of the
fields and farms, and flocks of cattle and sheep. One
gentleman in Sacramento informed us that his farm em-
braced 13,000 acres of land, and that last year he sold
$40,000 worth of wheat. We visited one dairy farm,
containing 3500 acres, with 600 cows, only an hour by
rail from San Francisco, on the San Jose railroad ; and
were told of another farmer who had 2300 head of milch
cows. We met in our travels flocks of sheep on
their way to the mountains, of 3000 to 5000 head, for
fresh pasture. One firm from Maine, Avho crossed the
mountains in 1852 with 2000 sheep, now shear over
100,000, and own 150,000 acres of land. Another gen-
tleman who went from Roxbury in this State, with whom
we were formerly acquainted, now farms 32,000 acres of
land, and has 7000 sheep. His neighbor owns an island
devoted to sheep husbandry, and has 135,000 sheep.
This island is green with verdure throughout the year,
and it is said that in Los Angelos County one may travel
on the road for twenty-seven miles through the farms and
islands of one proprietor. While lands in the interior,
of most excellent quality, are to be had for from five to
twenty dollars per acre, those near the market are held
at prices far beyond the means of immigrants, or persons
of less capital.

With the valley lands so wonderfull}^ rich and produc-
tive, with a climate so mild that farm stock is rarely

housed, a£]jricultlirc has progressed rapidly, as has also
the ability to wield such immeuse' farms with profit. It
is but little over twenty years since the discovery of gold
in California, and not until some years after -was any con-
siderable degree of attention given to agriculture. At
first the want of experience in that peculiar soil and
climate was a hindrance, and it is safe to say that the last
ten or twelve ^^ears have produced the results we now
witness. The value of these agricultural products in
1869 is stated to be $30,000,000. This, considering the
population of the State, — less than 600,000, — is very
great. Indeed, the growth and commerce of the cities of
California, and the increase of agricultural and manufac-
turing productions and of mines, in a period of twenty
years, is amazing. The variety of crops which may be
grown in this State is wonderful. The foreign grape
yields more al)undantly than in any part of Europe. The
tig, orange, and the olive come to great perfection. Silk
culture promises to be successful j and large companies
are formed for its promotion. The culture of the tea
plant has been commenced and is likely to succeed, and
in the Sacramento valley canals are projected for the cul-
ture of rice.

When we consider that it is only about tw^enty years
since o-old was discovered in California, and that she has
now^ a population of nearly 600,000 souls ; that she has a
territory 800 miles in length and 200 in breadth, ten
times as large as our own State ; that she has millions of
acres of land equally well suited to tillage as any under
cultivation, we can hardly estimate her future progress,
prosperity, and power. And now that the great highw^ay
of nations has been opened across our continent, now that
the tide of population is pouring in on our western
shores, we begin to realize the great future of the Pa-
cific slope. In view of the addition of this wonderful
territory to our Union of States, is it not ours to claim
the fulfilment of the sentiment of Bishop Berkeley, —

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•

" Westward the course of Empire takes its way,
The first four acts already past;
The fifth shall end the drama with the day,—
Time's noblest otferiug is the last."

Next to the cereals of California no other production of
the soil, wool perhaps excepted, is so important as the
grape. The State has about 30,000,000 vines, two thirds
of which are in full bearing. The amount of wine made
is probably about 6,000,000 gallons ; that of brandy
about 400,000 gallons. This is exclusive of the large
quantities of grapes used for the table. Many of the
vineyards are quite profitable, yielding from $100 to
$500 per acre. Some of the varieties, such as the
Flame Tokay, have occasionally produced 8000 to
10,000 pounds per acre. Nearly all the vines are for-
eign varieties, among which strongly predominate the
Mission, as it is called, the Muscat of Alexandria, the
Black Hamburg and Rose of Peru, the latter probably
being the St. Peters. of our collections. The cheapest
grapes are the Mission, but they have often paid from
tifty to one hundred dollars per acre. The grapes sold
for eating bring from four to ten cents per pound ; but
three quarters or more of the crop is sold to the wine
manufacturer at about twenty dollars per ton. All the
foreign kinds are grown, of which there are at present
some two hundred varieties on trial.

California has great advantages for wine growing. The
vines produce very abundantly, and much more to the
acre than in our western vineyards or in those of Europe.
The yield is constant and regular in California, without
the risks of frost or damao-e from rain. Lands suitable
for vineyards can be had in the interior and on the foot-
hills for a few dollars per acre. The vine is being planted
on these foot-hills for up into the mountains, and both the
fruit and Avine are considered of finer flavor than that
raised on the bottom lands. The vines are grown in tree
form, without stake or trellis. The stems, from two to
three feet in height, — some of the oldest ten to fifteen
years planted, — are fully six inches in diameter. No

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summer pruning is practised further than the removal of
superfluous shoots, early in the season. The bearing
canes are allowed to run their full length, spreading over
the ground, M'liich is kept clear and well cultivated. They
are planted eight feet apart. The cost of cultivating is
$25 per acre, but some put it higher than this. The
average product is about twelve pounds per vine through
the State. The Mission grape is most productive, and
frequently yields thirty or forty pounds to a vine ; the
llcisling not over four or five pounds. Some of the
vineyards are 300 to 500 acres in extent. One that we
visited had a grape arl)or three quarters of a mile in
length, thirty feet in width, and twelve feet high, cov-
ered with grapes trained in the most elaborate and artis-
tic manner. Part of this grand arbor is used as a drive,
in which carriages pass each other in freedom.

I suppose it may be expected that I should express an
opinion in regard to the culture of the fruit in California.
In the several sections we visited, and many others, fruit
in general can be produced at a much less cost than with
ns at the East. 1st, In most cases the land can be had
of good quality at low prices. , Good fruit and grain land
in the coast valleys, except close to a town or village, can
be bought for $20 to $100 per acre. In the second range
of valleys, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and others at a dis-
tance from market, at a much less price. 2d, The trees
grow nearly twice as rapidly as with us, and come into
bearing in less than half the time. 3d, The fruit is sure,
large, and handsome, and yet nearly exempt from dis-
eases and insects. 4th, The atmosphere is so dry during
the whole season, that rotting on the trees is unknown ;
and the fruits remain on the trees sound long after thc}^
are ripe, thus greatly prolonging the season of gathering.
5th, The ground requires much less cultivation than at
the East. When the dr}' season commences, weeds cease
to be troublesome, and for a period of between four and
five months very little labor is needed to keep the ground
in order, Avhich is an important saving. And lastly,

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Labor is quite as cheap as with us. The necessity for
good culture exists there no less than with us, and is pro-
bably greater, as we observed instances where a single
year's neglect had nearly ruined the plantation, owing to
the exhausting nature of a climate where heat and drought
are so prolonged.

As I have remarked, fruits and fruit trees are, in a
great measure, free from insects and diseases in Califor-
nia ; however, the few which exist, it is reasonable to
suppose, will increase with the extension of fruit culture
the same as in other countries grown old. We saw a few
caterpillars on the apple, slug on the pear and cherry foli-
age, aphis on the orange and olive trees, and mildew on
the grape, cracking of the pear and curling of the peach
leaf; but in all these instances only in a slight degree.

At the time we arrived in San Francisco, on the 20th
of June, we foimd an abundant supply of all the early
fruits. Of strawberries the first crop had passed, the
second just coming in ; apricots, early sorts abundant and
beautiful; cherries in their prime, large, beautiful, and
excellent; currants plentiful and very large ; early pears,
chiefly Doyenne d'Ete and Madeleine; apples, mostly
Red Astrachan ; figs, gooseberries, and early plums. We
took immediate steps to ascertain in what localities we
would find the best examples in the several departments
of culture and within easy reach of us ; and ascertained
that the valleys of Santa Clara, Napa, Sonoma, Sacra-
mento, and San Joaquin contained some of the largest
and best-conducted orchards and vineyards in the State.
In the valley of Santa Clara we visited a large orchard
which consisted of 3000 pear trees, 4000 apple trees, 35
acres of strawberries, 10 acres of grapes, — in all 73
acres. Grapes were planted among the pears, the orchard
having been planted in 1855. The pear orchard was com-
posed of many of the leading well-known sorts ; the trees
remarkable for health, vigor of growth, and productive-
ness. The oldest were about twelve years, and some of
these we estimated at thirty feet in height, and a foot in

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diameter of trunk at the ground. The crop we regarded
as too heavy for the future welfare of the trees, and we
suggested the thinnhig of the fruit ; but the owner said
the low price of fruit would not justify the expense. We
shall speak of prices hereafter. Doyenne d'Etc and
Madeleine pears were being picked, and compared favora-
bly with those grown at the East ; all other varieties
seemed to do well ; many were" already, though not half
grown, highly colored. The apple orchard was less
promising than the pear, we thought, owing to the
ground being too wet at a certain period of the year.
New^town Pippin was said to be the most protital)le, and
next to that, Smith'^s Cider, White Pearmain, and Wine
Sop.

The strawberry here, when irrigated, bears the whole
year; but the principal crops commence in April, and
continue into Sei^tember. The strawberries are "'rown in
rows three and a half feet apart by one and a half feet in
the row, and kept in hills. The' plants were six years old,
the hills fully eighteen inches across, and were bearing
ripe and green fruit and blossoms at the same time.

This gentleman has three artesian wells on his prem-
ises, varying in depth from 320 to 340 feet, giving a con-
stant flow of water during the dry season. The straw-
berries are irrigated by carr3'ing the water along the head-
lands in wooden flmnes about eighteen inches square ;
stoppers are inserted opposite the .spaces between the
rows, and then the Avater is distributed and shut off at
pleasure. The proprietor informed us that he had on his
grounds a mile and a half of these flumes. The Long-
worth's Prolific strawberry here and elsewhere yielded
more profit, and constituted the bulk of this fruit at the
market stalls and in the shops. The later cherries were
in perfection, and ft)r size and beaut}^ surpassed any we
have ever beheld in any country. The Black Tartarian
and Napoleon Bigarreau, sold under the name of Royal
Ann, are much cultivated.

On the 28th of June we visited the plantation of an-

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other gentleman at San Lorenzo, who has 125 acres in
fruits, planted fifteen years since, and was one of the ear-
liest, most experienced and successful fruit growers in
that country. We found him in his extensive and well-
arranged fruit-packing house, preparing apricots, cher-
ries, early plums, pears, and currants for market. All
were remarkably fine. He had sent that morning to San
Francisco, cherries that measured three and three fourths
inches in circumference, and weighed thirty-six to the
pound. He sends annually about 65,000 pounds of cher-
ries at from ten to forty cents per pound, though some of
the earliest had brought seventy-five cents per pound.
All are sold in San Francisco, the Black Tartarian always
securing the highest price. He has forty acres of cherry
currants ; the bushes were covered with masses of fruit of
enormous size. He has sold 140,000 pounds in one year
at from nine to eleven cents per pound. The currants
are trained in bush form on single stems, and the branch-
es are carefully shortened during the growing season, to
keep them compact and prevent breaking dov/n. Of
blackberries he has eight or ten acres, all Lawton. Gen-
erally this berry does not succeed as well as at the East,
though we sa'w exceptions, to which we will refer hereaf-
ter. Pears are packed in fifty-pound and apples in sixty-
pound l)oxes. Pears thrive here grandly ; and he has
raised the Pound or Uvedale's St. Germain weighing four
pounds three ounces,.*

Almonds are grown to great size, in lines of half a
mile, both in the tree and fruit. We saw one tree four-
teen years old, fifteen inches in diameter, that has yielded
three bushels, which were sold at twenty-eight cents per
pound. He has 2000 trees on his grounds. The English
walnut succeeds as well, and some of the trees are already
large enough to bear two bushels of nuts each.

The sugar beet in this luxuriant soil attains to fully

* Since the delivery of tliis address, a pear of the same variet^^has
been received by Mr. Wilder, from California, weighing- four pounds
nine ounces. — Secretary.

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twice the size and weight it. does with us in one season.
We heard of sinii'le ones weighing 118 pounds. A com-
pany has been organized here ibr manufacturing beet
sugar ; and this same establishment proposes to unite the
manufacture, on their own grounds, of currant jelly,
which is so extensively put up in San Francisco.

In Napa valley we examined an orchard containing 100
acres. Here we saw a line apple orchard, one of the best
in that vicinity. The Earl}' Harvest and lied Astrachan
were fit to gather. AVilliam's Favorite was largely plant-
ed, and looked remarkably well. The following sorts
were named as the most prolitable, in addition to those
we have mentioned : Early Strawberry, Summer Eose,
Early Harvest, Wine Sop, Rawles Janet, Newtown Pip-
pin, White Pearmain, Roxbury Russet, Rhode Island
Greeniuij, Yellow Bellflowcr, and Smith's Cider. The
Northern Spy and Baldwin failed, and had been grafted
over with Yellow Bellilower and other sorts ; the New-
town Pippin bearing off the palm as the best.

We visited another of the pioneers in fruit culture in
California. When he conunenced he planted peach
stones, and in eio^hteen months fathered fruit from the
trees, and sold in San Francisco many thousand bushels,
and some at enormous prices. Cherries also flourished
here, the Duke predominant.

Another orchard lies in the heart of this beautiful val-
ley, of 125 acres of fruit trees and vines, all in the finest
state of cultivation ; the only defect being that the trees
stand too closely together. They were of tw^elve years'
planting ; many were eighteen inches to two feet in diam-
eter of trunk, and twenty-five to thirty feet in height.
Of the 125 acres, 25 are in grapes, 50 in apples, and the
balance in pears, cherries, &c. The apple succeeded
here ; the varieties wore Early Harvest, Red Astrachan,
Fall Pippin, Fallawater, Yellow Bellilower, Smith's Cider,
and White Winter Pearmain. The view of this orchard,
as we rode through a lawn seeming more like an English
park in extent, was grand and imposing ; the Avhole estate
with its grain fields comprising 2300 acres.

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One of the finest pear orchards at Sacramento con-
tained 10.000 trees. The oldest trees had been phmted
nine years, and some of them were twenty-five or thirty
feet high. Like others, the trees were crowded in plant-
ing. Here we saw the Benrre Clairgeau and Winter
Nelis pear after onl}^ four years' planting, twenty feet
high and stems full six inches in diameter, heavily laden
with fruit. The following varieties were very fine:
Benrre Gifiisird, Rostiezier, Bartlett, Winter Nelis, Du-
chesse d'Angouleme, Vicar of Winkfield, and Seckel. Of
the last named the orchard contained 1000 trees ; of Win-
ter Nelis a long avenue. This gentleman sent to the New
York market, last year, 800 bushels of the Vicar of
Winkfield pear ; and by November 1st of this year he
will send to the East more than 6000 bushels of pears, of
wdiieh 500 bushels will be Lawrence ; and also five tons of
Muscat of Alexandria grapes ; and here in a grove of fig
trees as large as apple trees and twenty-five feet high, we
partook of figs, apricots, peaches, plums, pears, black-
berries, melons and grapes at the same time. Of the
grape he had one vineyard containing 10,000 vines, all of
the JSIuscat of Alexandria, and of these he will send this
autumn to Chicago five tons or more.

On the 5th of July, we visited the Alhambra gardens,
in the Alhambra valley, near Martinez. The ranch em-
braces some 700 acres, ninety of Avhich are planted with
fruit; thirty-four acres are covered with grape, half with
the Mission grape, so called ; the other sorts embrace
White Muscat of Alexandria, Flame Tokay, White Chas-
selas. Black Hamburg, White Corinth, Palestine, &c.
Bunches of the last named we found, on measurement, to
be eighteen inches in length, though of course the berries
were not half grown. Isabella and Catawba have been
tested and found unsuccessful. The orchard contained
1200 apple trees, 1000 pear trees, 1800 peach trees, be-
sides plums, cherries, almonds, apricots, figs, walnuts,
pomegranates, quinces, and oranges. Pear trees looked
well, and the varieties run the same as in other places.

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The quince trees surprised us ; the}^ were gi'owii with one
stem, hke an apple tree, and were the finest and hir<^c8t
we ever saw, — two hundred in numl^cr. The price ob-
tained for the fruit is from three to four cents a pound.
The pomegranates, 180 in number, were super!) phuits,
about six feet in height, covered with fruit and flowers.
A splendid sight of the kind, and such an one as we
never enjoyed before. They ripen in Septeml)er and
October, and sell for eight to fifteen cents per pound. In
good seasons they produce 600 pounds. Here, also, the
English walnuts were beginning to bear, fifteen years old,
and produce sixty to seventy pounds per tree. The Al-
haml)ra valley is narrow, wholly occupied by this planta-
tion, and sheltered on two sides by hills some GOO feet
high. The climate is therefore very warm, and on the 1st
of July the mercuiy rose to 109 in the shade.

The next orchard which claimed our attention was a
short distance from Sacramento, owned by the Messrs.
Smith, who formerly carried on an extensive nursury
business in addition to fruit-gTowing ; and their gi-ounds
were regarded, and justly so, the finest in the State ; but
the floods, so destructive around the city, swept away a
large portion of the grounds near the river, and covered
other parts from three to five feet deep in sand ; the finest
portions were thus destroyed, and the w^reck is still to be
seen ; the portion remaining bears a heavy crop. Pears
and plums were especially fine ; of the fonner. Dearborn's
Seedling, Bartlett, White Doyenne, Winter Nelis, Eas-
ter Buerre, Dix, and Glout Morceau ^vere prominent.
Dearl^orn's Seedling and Glout Morceau surpassed in size,
beauty, and quantity any crops we have seen. Trees of
Dearborn were bearing eight to ten bushels of fruit ; the
Dix were high colored and fine ; the White Doyenne was
in its ancient beauty and excellence. The crops of plums
were so heavy as to break down the branches of the trees ;
the early Orleans were just gathered and ready for market.
AVashington plums were superb. The ground where
these fine, fruitful trees were growing, was covered by

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sand to the depth of two to three feet, washed on by the
flood ; in our climate they would have perished. We
could not but share in the sympathy so generally felt and
expressed for the Messrs. Smith. They were the pioneers
in this culture, and esteemed and highly respected by all.
Nor would we forget to mention the beautiful orchard of
Mr. F. D. Atherton, of Fair Oaks, San Mateo, to whom
we were indebted last year and on the present occasion
for fine specimens of fruit on exhil)ition at our fair. His
pear orchard contains a choice collection, including the
newer sorts, and like all his other fruits bear marks of
good cultivation ; in a word, not a weed was to be seen
on the o'rounds, and the surface was rolled as smooth as a
floor.

The apple, pear, peach, plum, and cherry all thrive and
bear abundantly in California. The apples are larger than
in the Atlantic States ; those grown near the sea do not
keep so well and are not so juicy. Those grown in Sierra
Nevada, where the winters are cool, keep as well as in
New Enofland. There are no worms in fruits ; the curcu-
lio is unknown.

Hitherto the production has exceeded home demand ; this
seems extraordinary when twenty years have not elapsed
since the planting of the first orchard. We were told
that in 1853 peaches were first sent to market, some sell-
ing as high as $6 per dozen, and even $5 for a single
peach ; now they are selling at fifty cents to one dollar
per bushel, and even at a lower price. In 1854 and
1855 cherries were brought from Oregon and sold for
$2.50 per pound. A single apple was sold for |5, and
300 boxes of apples brought $1.50 per pound ; peaches
raised in Sacramento in 1855 and 1856, a single basket
containing sixty peaches, realized $60. Until last year
the consumption was confined to the home market. Biit
now the Pacific and other railroads open new markets and
greatly augment the demand. The business is now be-
coming systematized, and cars are being specially con-
structed to carry fruit to Eastern markets. We exam-

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ined four of llicm just being finished at Siicramcnto, and
two of llicm loaded witli Dartlett pears, ten tons eaeh,
came over with us on our train July 28th, bound east.
We brouo-ht some liartlctts home which remained in irood
condition three weeks on the way from the time of pick-
ing.* AVhile the growers complain of low prices,
the dealers keep them up. We were frequently in
the fruit market of San Francisco, between the 2 2d of
June and the 19th of July, and find the following prices
in our memoranda : —

Wholesale, or by the box : Cherries, ten to thirty-five
cents per pound ; apricots, eight to ten cents per pound ;
strawberries, ten to fifteen cents per pound ; currants, ten
to fifteen cents per pound.

July 14th to 19th. Peaches, fifty cents to one dollar
per half-bushel basket ; strawberries, three to ten cents
per pound ; Jaune Hative plum, four cents per pound ;
Early Orleans plum, eight cents per pound ; Duane's
Purple plum (largo and handsome), eight cents per
pound ; Washington plum, twelve cents per pound ; Dam-
sons, nine cents per pound ; Gages, three cents per pound ;
currants, ten cents per pound; gi-apes, fifteen cents per
pound ; Black July grapes, twenty-five cents jjer pound ;
Early Harvest apples, fifty to seventy-five cents per box
of sixty pounds ; Red Astrachan apples, two dollars to
two dollars and fifty cents per box ; Ped June apples, one
dollar and fifty cents per box ; figs, four to five cents per
pound ; Royal Ann (Napoleon) cherries, thirty to thirty-
five cents per pound ; Belle Magnifique cherries, and
other varieties, fifteen to twenty cents per pound ; Blood-
good pears, two to three dollars per box of fifty pounds ;
Tyson pears, one dollar and fifty cents per box ; Mission
pears, one dollar and twenty-five cents per box ; black-
berries, ten to fifteen cents per pound ; raspberries, twelve
to thirty cents per pound ; apricots, four to seven cents
per pound.

* Since that elate to December 1st, more than 8000 bushels have
beeii forwarded to Chicago and Eastern markets.

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It will be understood that these prices are all in gold or
silver, and were taken on several different days. Prices
vary, of course, from day to day, according to the supply
and demand.

Fruits keep much longer on the trees and vines in Cali-
fornia than with us. The tig is produced in great abun-
dance and of excellent quality in many parts of the coun-
try ; indeed, we saw it fruiting heavily along the street
side. When the process of drying becomes well under-
stood, as it will shortly, the fig culture must become a
source of great profit, and will, I think, rank among the
most profitable fruits. At preseut much of the crop is
lost every year. In a country where fruits cau be grown
so cheaply,, modes of profitable consumption will soon
suggest themselves.

For drying fruit, California is superior to most other
countries in the world. As a general rule, the fruits
are superior to ours in size and beauty, generally sweeter,
but not superior in flavor. With a few exceptions, the
cherries, apricots, as well as the early pears, are as fine as
any raised in any country. The deficiency in flavor, if it
be so, may be owing to the unripe condition of the fruit
by premature picking and improper ripening. The early
fruits, not of overgrown size, are usually of better quality
and not so fibrous and mealy as those of autumn. But
we are unable to say how far the want of flavor is owing
to improper treatment. In the case of strawberries, the
best varieties have not yet been adopted by the market
growers, and with the exception of the currant, none of
the small fruits are as good as ours. The grapes are
almost exclusively what we call foreign varieties. Wild
native grapes abound in all the woodecl parts of the State,
but they are very di9*erent in character from our grapes
of the East. American grapes have been tested, but as
far as we could ascertain, with unfavorable results; this,
however, we do not regard as conclusive, as some experi-
ments may yet be successful.

On arriving in California we were at once struck with

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the character of the trees and plants which we saw in the
gardens and streets. Instead of the ehns, maples, &c.,
which prevail at the East, we saw the Cape of Good Hope,
Mexican, and some other semi-tropical trees and plants.
These trees are everywhere planted as common, and they
grow as easily as willows do with ns. So rapid is their
development that we saw an Australian Eucalyptus tree
which was fifty feet in height, five feet in circumference of
trunk, and only six years old ; and a Pinus Insignis six
years old, forty feet high. We also saw fuchsias (ladies'
ear-drop) ten feet high, with heads of four to six feet
broad ; beds of scarlet geranium of immense size and ten;
feet high, and in many instances trained to reach the second
story windows of the house ; in one garden a fuchsia
hedge of eight feet in height, with stems as large as a.
man's arm ; such tender trees and plants as we grow under
glass arc here found in open ground for ornament.

The Collector of the Port of San Francisco, Mr. Phelps,.,
very kindly invited us to visit the forts, islands, and other
objects of interest in the harbor. On this delightfid ex-
cursion we saw some plants well worthy of note. At
Black Point, Gen. Ord's quarters, there was a glowing
mass of scarlet geraniums, full ten feet high, noticeable
fiir out in the bay ; tree mallows and fuchsias of enormous,
size. At Fort Alcatraz we saw a trellis of ivy-leaved
geranium, six feet high ; a mass of flowers, forming a
division fence ; tree heliotropes and fuchsias, seeming
more like trees than greenhouse plants. At Angel Island, a.
charming spot, we noticed a hedge of rose geranium fifty
feet long and nine feet in height ; and this same plant
grown as standards, with clean stems and large heads at.
least five feet high and four broad. Hoses were every-
where seen in gardens, even our delicate Tea and Noi-
sette roses, attaining extraordinary size. We beheld fine
rose trees six feet high, with stems as large as the arm ;
and in some instances climbing to the top of a three-story
house. Greenhouse plants, such as are seen in our win-
dows for house plants, here in the open air reach eight

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and ten feet in height, — such as the lemon verbena, so
fragrant, and the rose geranium, to which we have al-
luded.

Ornamental trees in California are larger and far more
beautiful than with us. "We saw a sycamore or but-
tonwood tree 115 feet high; a California laurel 50 feet
high, with trunk 10 feet in diameter. On our way from
San Jose to San Lorenzo, on the "Western Pacific Kail-
road, waiting for a train, and seeing in the midst of a grain
field a large horse-chestnut tree, we thought we would
give it a closer examination. On reaching it we found a
party of Chinamen, who were employed binding the grain,
preparing their dinner. The tree exceeded our expecta-
tions, both in size and beauty. It was fully fifty feet
high, with a spread of branches forty feet by measure-
ment. The branches swept the ground on every side,
and were then, June 28th, in full bloom. The flower
spikes were from twelve to eighteen inches in length,
many two feet, all in a drooping or pendulous position.
Since that time we have met with thousands of this species
in different parts of the State, but no specimen approach-
es this either in size or beauty. Our party decided to
have this tree propagated ; and in commemoration of our
visit named it " "Wilderii." At a railroad station where
we stopped we also saw Lamarque roses and scarlet gera-
niums trained to the top of a three-story house, covering
the whole end ; a tree mallow twelve feet high, and stem
ten inches in diameter ; and an Australian pea trained on
a water tower fortj-five feet high, covering it entirely.

And what astonished us was the rapidity and ease with
which such trees and plants as the palms, the American
aloe or century plant came to maturity. At one of the
fashionable watering places we found lodgings provided
for us in the cottages, each having palm trees before its
windows ; and it was a common occurrence to find in the
gardens the century plant, which seldom blooms with us
short of fifty or sixty years, in full flower at the age of
ten or twelve years. "We saw several from thirty to forty
feet in height, and with stems one foot thick at the base. ,•

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But some one inquires, "Did you see the big trees ? "
Oh, yes : there they stood in sublime majesty, towering
above all around them ; raising their lofty heads midway
between heaven and earth, their topmost branches fading
from our vision in the blue ethereal above. " But are these
trees so old and grand as have been represented ? " Yes :
time with unerrins: fiusrcr has inscribed in concentric cir-
cles on their venerable trunks a history far back of the
age when Jesus of Nazereth walked on earth. How
marvellous their story ! A thousand years before our
Saviour was born, these trees had their birth. Nearly
nineteen centuries have since p:issed away, and still, robed
in living green, they live on. The Egyptian pyramids are
wearing away, sand by sand ; monuments are crumbling
into dust ; the ancient cedars of Lebanon are fast passing
away ; but the gigantic Sequoia in unconscious sovereign-
ty, fit type of the magic growth of American civilization
and power, still lives on ; and wJio shall say that it may not
continue, for thousands of years, to wave its branches in
ever-living green, and, like the free institutions of our be-
loved land, wave on to the final day !

The trees we visited were in Calaveras County, 200
miles north of San Francisco, where we also found many
large trees of the Conifera species. Words would fail to
describe the sensations in riding through this giant forest,
on a road as smooth as a park drive, just as the sun went
down on our approach to the grove. As we entered the
grove the moon had risen so as to throw a silvery light
on the two "big trees," Sequoia, which form a grand gate-
way over 300 feet in height, and called the Sentinels. As
we passed between them we were filled wdth amazement,
and uncovered our heads in reverence to those glorious
monarchs of the forest. Our heart was too full for utter-
ance, but our inmost soul cried out, Speak to us, ye
children of olden time : oh, speak ! Tell us in what age
you were born ; tell us who inhabited this mighty forest
when you first came forth from earth. Tell us what tem-
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your day and generation ! But the tears in our eyes
spoke louder than the noble trees, and so we passed on.

In the morning, after breakfast, we started on our
journey through the grove which is in close proximity,
indeed, surrounding our hotel. The grove is said to ex-
tend over fifty acres, but the largest specimens are grouped
in a comparatively small space. We have alluded to the
"Sentinels," which form a gateway, as it were, to the
a'rove. The laro-est of these is 315 feet in heiofht, the
others over 300 feet, and, twenty-three feet in diameter.
There are ten trees in the o-rove thirtv feet, or over, in
diameter, and upwards of 300 feet in height. Most of
these trees have been named, and the names are inscribed
on tablets, which are. nailed to the trees in a conspicuous
place. Some of the names, as, for instance, those of a
State or cit}', are ap})r()priate ; but some of them are scarce-
ly short of desecration, according to our view of such mat-
ters : Old Bachelor, Old Maid, Siamese Twins, Salem
Witch, &c., &c. As these trees have all been described
so often by travellers, it would be superfluous for us and
foreio'n to our purpose to give a detailed account of them ;
but I will name a few of the largest. In 1853, oiie of the
largest trees, ninety-two feet in circumference and over
300 feet high, was cut down. Five men worked twenty-
flve days in felling it, using large augers. The stump ot
this tree has been smoothed, and a house built on it which
easily accommodates thirty-two dancers, and theatrical
performances have been held upon it. Our party of six-
teen persons assembled in a circle on its trunk, and there,
in commemoration of our visit, we partook of the true
California juice, and with united congratulations and' bene-
dictions on this relic of former ages, we poured a libation
from our glasses on its hoary head. One of these, the
'■ Father of the Forest," long since l)owed his head in the
dust, and yet how stupendous even in his ruin ! He
measures 112 feet in circumference at the base, and can
be traced 300 feet, where the trunk was broken by foiling
against another tree ; it here measures sixteen feet in

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diameter, and according to the average taper of the other
trees, this venerable giant must have been 450 feet in
hciirht when standino^, and forty feet in diameter. A
hoUow chamber, or burnt cavity, extends through the
trunk 200 feet, hirge enough for a person to ride through
on horseback, and whose upper side is wide enough for a
carriage to run on. Walking upon the trunk and looking
from its uprooted })ase, the mind can scarcely conceive its
prodigious dimensions, while on the other hand tower its
giant sons and daughters, forming the most impressive
scene in the forest.

But who will believe our report? What traveller did
not doul)t their size until, with measure in hand, he had
spanned these giants of the forest? Imagine, if you can,
a tree whose heio^ht is 100 feet more than that of Bunker
Hill Monument, and, even more marvellous if possible, of
one whose hei2:ht was more than double that of Bunker
Hill Monument, and whose first branch was 200 feet from
the ground, and you would have a correct idea of some of
the largest of the big trees of Calaveras County. There
arc also groves of these trees in other parts of California,
where specimens of even larger size, it is said, have been
seen.

And who that has ever stood amidst these miracles of
creation can fail to render reverential awe to Him who
made and has preserved them to this time ! How appro-
priate the sublime words of our own poet, Bryant : —

" Father, thy hand
Hath reared these venerable cohimns ; thou
Didst weave this verdant roof.

"Thou didst look down
Upon the nalced earth, and forthwith rose
All these fair ranks of trees. They in thy sun
liudded, and shook their green leaves in the breeze,
And shot toward heaven.

" The century living crow,
Whose birth was in their tops,
Grew old and died
Among their branches, till at last they stood.
As now they st:ind, massy and tall and dark,
Fit shrine for humble worshipper to hold
Communion with tiis Maker."

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Nor can I close these remarks without reference to the
courtesies and hospitalities extended to us by the good
people of California. The first of these was the recep-
tion at Omaha of a telegram from the California committee
with the inquiry, " When will you meet us at sunrise on
the summit ? " To which we responded, " At sunrise Mon-
day morning ; " and just as the sun was lighting up his
fires on the snow-clad cliffs around us, the delegation,
consisting of the presidents of several societies, with their
ladies, came on board the cars, each bearing bouquets oi
flowers and baskets of fruits ; and from that time until we
parted Avith them at the same place, thirty days after-
wards, we were treated with a degree of affection and re-
gard that will ever be remembered with heartfelt grati-
tude.

Our tour was one of continual and unalloyed gratifica-
tion ; and never shall I forget the sensations of that hour
when we stood on Nevadas' summit, amidst those snowy
cliffs, to see the sun in his coming. Never before did I
feel that I was so near heaven ; and I could not but re-
peat the language of the old Latin poet, " jSic itur ad
astra" — tins is the way to the stars!

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Report of the President and Secretary.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture : —

Sir, — The Report of the Transactions of the Norfolk Agri-
cultural Society for the j^ear 1870 is herewith submitted.

With reference to the operations of the Society during the
past year, nothing has occurred of especial interest or im-
portance. The unusual and protracted drought, so general
throughout New England, seriously injured the grass and grain
crops of the county, and materially reduced the show of Stock
at the Exhibition. But, notwithstanding these drawbacks, the
result of the year's operations has been more favorable than
could reasonably have been expected.

The subjoined reports of the several committees will afford a
more specific statement of the operations of the Society for the
past year.

JOHN S. ELDRIDGE, President.
HENRY 0. HILDRETH, Secretary.

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Reports of Committees.

HORSES.

Class A. — Roadsters.

Stallions. — There were none entered for premiums. Frank
Sumner of Milton, entered for exhibition his Morgan stallion
Golden Gate. The fine, stallion Jupiter Abdallah, Jr., owned
by Henry P. Kendrick of Brighton, was exhibited upon the
track, and in the opinion of the committee his speed and good
looks, combined with other qualities, render him one of the
most desirable stock horses in the county. To each of the
above named stallions the committee would recommend the
Society's diploma.

For brood mare with a foal at her side, John Davenport, Can-
ton, 1st premium, $7 ; diploma to N. Kingsbury, Milton.
• For best two years old colt, Phineas Frost, Medtield, 1st pre-
mium, $3.

For best one y&av old colt, Phineas Frost, Medfield, 1st pre-
mium, $3.

For best pair of roadsters in harness, William E. Coflhi, Dor-
chester, 1st premium, $10 ; T. E. Clark, Hyde Park, 2d pre-
mium, $7.

For best gelding or mare, R. Alby, Franklin, 1st premium,
$8 ; Wra. T. Thacher, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $6 ; F. B. Ray,
Franklin, 3d premium, $4 ; Y. M. Cragin, Dedham, 4th premi-
um, $2. Richard Holmes, Roxbury, entered in this class a
fine thoroughbred and Moi-rill mare, but being chairman of the
committee declined taking a premium, and the committee
would recommend that he receive the Society's diploma.

For the Committee on Class A,

RICHARD HOLMES, Chairman.

Class B. — Horses of All Work.

For best stallion, four years old, W. T. Cook, Milton, 1st pre-
mium, $10.
For best brood mare with foal at her side, W. J. Griggs,

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Brookline, 1st premium, $7 ; W. T. Cook, Milton, 2d pre-
luiiuii, S5 ; James A. Wliite, Wrentham, diploma.

For best four years old colt, C. and C. Mackintosh, Neodliam,
1st premium, $5 ; J. Walter Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium, $3.

For best three years old colt, Emery Hawes, North Stou<rhton,
1st premium, $o ; John E. White, Milton, 2d premium, $3.

For best two years old colt, Nathaniel Farrington, Jr., Canton,
1st premium, $3 ; J. S. P^ldridge, Canton, 2d premium, $2.

For best one year old colt, James C. White, Milton, 1st pre-
mium, S3.

For best gelding or mare, R. Williams, Hyde Park, 1st pre-
mium, $Q ; Joseph Dix, Dorchester, 2d premium, $4.

For the Committee on Class B,

JOHN D. BRADLEE, Chairman.

Class C. — Family or Carriage Horses.

For best brood mare with foal at her side, S. Carpenter'
Sharon, 1st premium, $7.

For best two years old colt, S. Cabot, Canton, 1st premium,
$3 ; C. and C. Mackintosh, Needham, 2d premium, $2 ; Ed-
ward Rooney, Dedham, diploma.

For best one year old colt, Emery Hawes, North Stoughton,
1st premium, S3 ; C. C. Moriart}^, Needham, 2d premium, $2.

For best pair carriage horses, Joseph Dix, Dorchester, 1st
premium, $10.

For buggy or chaise horses, Charles Davenport, Canton, 1st
premium, $8 ; Wm. Porter, Randolph, 2d premium, $6 ; Rich-
ard Holmes, Roxbury, 3d premium, S-4 ; S. E. Morse, Dedham,
diploma.

For best matched ponies, C. W. Hebard, Dorchester, 1st
premium, $G.

For best single pony, J. W. Bradlee, Milton, 1st premium,
S3.

For the Committee on Class C,

ALDEN BARTLETT, Chairman.

Class D. — Draught or Team Horses.

For best draught horse, Luther Eaton, Dedham, 1st pre-
mimum, S7 ; C. G. Upham, Needham, 2d premium, $5.

For best pair of draught horses, Luther Eaton, Dedham, 1st
premium, $7 ; Patrick McNamara, Needham, 2d premium, $5.

H. a. darling, ) Committee on
C. A. HOWLAND, i Class C.

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The committees of the several classes of horses regret ex-
ceedingly that there is a seeming reluctance on the part of
owners of good stock in the county to contribute such as will
add to and materially aid these annual exhibitions. That there
ai-e many good horses raised and owned in the county there can
be no question ; and with the facilities now offered b}^ the
Society for the care and protection of animals, the smallness of
the premiums offered is the only reason presented to the com-
mittee for the small number of contributions. They would
therefore recommend thtit the premiums be increased, especially
on stallions, brood mares, and colts.

For the Committee,

EICHARD HOLMES, Chairman.

PLOUGHING.

Double Horse Teams. — Luther Eaton, Dedham, with subsoil
plough, 1st premium, $15 ; Henry Goulding, Dover, 2d premi-
um, SlO ; Blackman Brothers, Needham, with soil plough, 1st
premium, $15 ; Patrick McNamara, Dover, 3d premium, $5.

EBENEZER W. TOLMAN, Chairman.

Single Horse Teams. — Cyrus G. Upham, Needham, with
Whittemore and Belcher's plough. No. 20, 1st premium, $10 ;
Daniel A. L3'nch, Dedham, with Prouty andMears' plough, No.
154, 2d premium, $5.

LEWIS W. MORSE, Chairman.

Double Ox Teams. — George O. Farrington, Dedham, with
Ames' Plough Company's, No. 26, 1st premium, $15 ; Luther
Eaton, Dedham, with Ilolbrook & Small's plough, No. QQ, 2d
premium, $10 ; Daniel Sullivan, Dover, with Ames' plough, No.
73 1-2, 3d premium, $5.

AARON D. CAPEN, Chairman.

Single Ox Teams. — William Fales, Dedham, 1st premium,
$10.

B. N. SAWIN, Chairman.

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WORKING OXEN.

Luther Eaton, Dedhani, 1st premium, $G ; Uriah Capen Por-
ter, East Stoiighton, 2d premium, S-i ; William Fules, Dedham,
3d premium, $2.

JOHN BATTELLE, Chairman.

BULLS.

Jerseys. — John S. Eldridge, Canton, 1st premium, $5 ; John
S. Wright, Brookline, 2d premium, $3.

Jamestown. — John Tims, Dedham, 2d premium, ^2.
Grade. — Luther Eaton, Dedham, 1st premium, $3.

NATHANIEL S. WHITE, Chairman.

COWS.

Milch Coics. — J. N. Stevens, Hyde Park, Jamestown and
Jersey, best cow, without regard to breed, 1st premium, $8.

Jersey. — John S. Wright, Brookline, 1st premium, $5.

Jamestown. — Col. Eliphalet Stone, Dedham, 1st premium, $5.

Grade. — P. Gallagher, West Roxbury, 2d premium, $1.

Heifers in Milk. — James Galloway, Quincy, 1st premium, $4 ;
Mrs. Mar}' Holmes, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $2.

Herds. — John S. Eldridge, Canton, for his herd of twenty-
three Jerseys (it having received the first premium last year),
the Society's diploma.

J. W. GAY, Chairman.

HEIFERS.

There were no heifers between two and three years old of
foreign stock on exhibition r (besides those in milk), except
Aldernej's, entered by the President of the Society, Hon. John
S. Eldridge of Canton, to whom the 1st, 2d, and 3d premiums
of §3, $2, and $1, w^ere awarded.

For grade, J. N. Stevens, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $3.

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P'or heifers of any breed between one and two years old,
Richard Holmes, Roxbury, 1st premium, $2 ; J, Cook, West
Roxbur^^, 2d premium, $1.

For the best heifer calf under one year old, B. F. Leach,
Hyde Park, 1st premium, $2.

The committee also recommend diplomas to J. W. Gay of
West Dedham, Thos. Hennessey of West Roxbury, and J. R.
Fisher of South Dedham.

ELIJAH TUCKER, Chairman.

SWINE.

Boars. — Henry Gonlding, Dover, Suffolk, 1st premium, $6 ;
C. L. Copeland, Milton, Mackay, 2d premium, $4 ; C. and C.
Mackintosh, Needham, Chester, diploma.

Sows. — J. H. Farrington, Milton, breeding sow with nine,
pigs, 1st premium, SO ; J, S. Eldridge, Canton, Suffolk sow with
five pigs, 2d premium, $4.

Weaned Figs. — C. and C. Mackintosh, Needham, four Chester
pigs, very fine, 1st premium, $6 ; Stephen Welch, Dedham,
seven Columbia and Essex pigs, 2d premium, $4.

Fat Hogs. — Henry Goulding, Dover, for Chester White,
twenty months old, 1st premium,^$10.

J. W. CAY, Chairman.

SHEEP.

John S. Eldridge, Canton, for largest and best lot of sheep,
1st premium, $10. John S. Eldridge, Canton, for best lot of
lambs, 1st premium, $8 ; for best ram, 1st premium, $5.

TRUEMAN CLARKE, Chairman.

POULTRY.

The Committee on Poultry would respectfully submit the
following report : —

The exhibition of Fowls this year was the finest and most ex-

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tensive the Society lifis ever heen favored with. There were for-
ty-nine entries, many of tliein of very superior fowls from ini-
l)orted .•md curefuliy selected stock. Takin<; into consideiation
the large number and the excellent quality of the dilferent
breeds exhibited, it was pronounced by good authority to be the
best show of poultry that the Society ever had, and noted breed-
ers from abroad declared it to be tlie best collection of choice
bred fowls for a county show ever seen in the State.

Your committee feel encouraged by the lively interest taken
by the competitors, and trust that this interest will be fostered
by the Society l)}^ allowing the committee to classify and
systematize the arrangement of their department, as the case
may require. We would suggest that a system of " classifica-
tion of breeds " be adopted similar to that used by Poultry As-
sociations, firmly believing that in giving our influence to en-
courage the improvement of poultry we arc contributing
largely to the support of the agricultural interests of the State.
We believe that our exhibitions of poultry will yet be one of
the most attractive features of our annual shows.

After thoroughly canvassing the merits of the many coops of
fowls on exhibition your committee award the following pre-
miums : —

Light Brahma. — A. W. Cheever, Wrentham, 1st premium,
$5 ; Hemy Bird, Stoughton, 2d premium, $3.

DarTi Brahma. — C. L. Copeland, Milton, 1st premium, $5.

Buff Cochins. — A.H. Drake, Stoughton, 1st premium, $5 ; C.
L. Copeland, Milton, 2d premium, $S.

Partrklr/e Cochins. — C. L. Copeland, Milton, 1st premium, $5 ;
W. C. Bradbur}-, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $3.

White Cochins. — A, H. Drake, Stoughton, 1st premium, $5.

Plymouth Bocks. — A. H. Drake, Stoughton, 1st premium, $5.

Gray Dorkings. — A. II. Drake, Stoughton, 1st premium, %b ;
G. "W". Rice, Roxbury, 2d premium, 83.

White Leghorn. — C. II. Spring, Newton Lower Falls, 1st pre-
mium, S5 ; J. II. Farrington, Milton, 2d premium, $3.

Red Leghorn. — A. H. Drake, Stoughton, 2d premium, $3.
Black Spanish. — J. F. Cowell, Wrentham, 1st premiiim, $5.

Hondans. — C. H. Spring, Newton Lower Falls, 1st premium,
So ; W. C. Bradbury, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $3.

Silver Hamhurgs. — A. H. Drake, Stoughton, 2d premium, S3.

Bantams. — A. 11. Drake, Stoughton, 1st pi-emium, $5.

Geese. — Henry Gouldiug, Dover, 1st premium, $5.
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Tarkeys. — C. andC. Mackintosh, Needham, 1st premium, $5.
Pigeons. — A. E. Whittier, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $2.

For the Committee,

ABEL F. STEVENS, Chairman.

FRUITS.

Apples.-— Abel F. Stevens, "VVellesley, best collection of twelve
varieties, 2d premium, $8. Charles Stearns, Brookline, for the
best collection of five varieties, 1st premium, $6 ; D. II. Elkins,
Milton, second premium, $4. For the best collection of the fol-
lowing varieties : Baldwin — D. H. Elkins, Milton, 1st premium,
$2. R. I. Greening— Abel F. Stevens, Wellesley, 1st premium,
$2; J. N. Geissler, Sharon, 2d premium, $1. Gravenstein — -E.
Ramsdell, Dedham, 1st premium, $2 ; W. Harding, Dorchester,
2d premium, $1. Hubbardston Nonsuch — W. Harding, Dor-
chester, 1st premium, $2 ; E. Richards, West Roxbury, 2d pre-
mium, $1. Roxbury Russett — II. Farrar, Jamaica Plain, 2d
premium, $1. Porter — Jno. F. Cowell, Wrentham, 1st premium,
$2 ; John Turner, Needham, 2d premium, $1. Blue Pearmain
— E. Ramsdell, Dedham, 1st premium, $2. Gloria Mundi —
Warren Fisher, Boston, 2d premium, $1.

Pears. — Walker & Co., Boston, for the best collection of
twenty varities, 2d premium, $12. H. P. Kidder, Milton, for
the best collection of ten varieties, first premium, $8 ; John D.
Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium, $6 ; C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain,
3d premium, $4. G. S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, for the best col-
lection of five varieties, 1st premium, $Q ; W. J. Griggs, Brook-
line, 2d premium, $4 ; J, W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 3d premium,
$2. ' For the best collection of the following varieties : Bartlett
— John D. Bradlee, Milton, Ist premium, $2 ; Benjamin Mann,
M,D., Boston, 2d premium, $1. Beurre d'Anjou — Warren
Fisher, Boston, 1st premium, $2 ; Walker & Co., Boston, 2d
premium, $1. Urbaniste — Warren Fisher, Boston, 1st premium,
$2. Merriam — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, $2 ;
Mrs. Merriam, Milton, 2d premium, $1. Louise Bonne d'Jersey
— Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline, 1st premium, $2. Vicar of
Winkfield — Isaac Ha3^den, Boston, 1st premium, $2 ; C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, $1. Duchesse d'Angouleme^Walk-
er & Co., Boston, 1st premium, $2 ; Warren Fisher, 2d premi-
um, $1. Seckle — Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium, $2 ;
Walker & Co., Boston, 2d premium, #1. Onondaga — C. F. Cur-

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tis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, $2. Sheldon — Walker & Co,,
Boston, 1st premium, $2 ; C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 2cl pre-
mium, $1. Bcurre Bosc — Warren Fisher, Boston, 1st premium,
$2 ; Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline, 2d premium, $1. Doyenne
Boussock — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, $2, Beurre
Clairgeau — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, $2. Law-
rence— Walker & Co., Boston, 1st premium, $2, Winter Nelis
— Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium, $2 ; Warren Fish-
er, Boston, 2d premium, $1. Beurre Langlier — C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, $1. Maria Louise — Timotli}^ Smith,
Dedham, 1st premium, $2 ; J. H. Farrar, Jamaica Plain, 2d pre-
mium, $1. Mount Vernon — Walker & Co., Boston, 2d premi-
um, $2. Howell — Walker «feCo., Boston, 2d premium, $1.

Foreign Grapes. — For the best four bunches of the following
varieties : Black Hamburg — W. J. Stuart, Hyde Park, 2d pre-
mium, $1.

Native Grapes. — J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, for the best col-
lection, 1st premium, $4 ; C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 2d pre-
mium, S3 ; J. H, Adams, Milton, 3d premium, $2. Delaware —
G. B. Parrott, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $2 ; Arthur Holmes,
Roxbur}-, 2d premium, $1. Rogers' Hybrids — J. W. Brooks,
Milton, 1st premium, %2. Concord — Abel F. Stevens, Welles-
le}', 1st premium, $2 ; E. Read, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $1.

Cranberries. — Nathan Longfellow, Needham,for the best col-
lection, S3 ; C. & C. Mackintosh, second best, S2.

The Committee on P^ruits recommend that the following gra-
tuities be awarded : —

Pears. — F. D. Atherton, California, for the best collection of
California pears, So. Benjamin Mann, M.D., Boston, collec-
tion, S4. Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline, collection, S3. W. .J.
Griggs, Brookline, collection, S3. Isaac Ha3'den, Boston,
collection, S3. Mrs. Merriam, Milton, one dish of Merriam, Si.
Elijah Tucker, Milton, one basket Pound, Si. Timothy Smith,
Necdham, one dish. Si. A. D. Capen, Dorchester, one cHsh,
Seckle, Si. J. H. Adams, Milton, one dish. Si.

Api^les. — Moses Kingsbury, Dedham, collection, S3 ; H. L.
Williams, Dedham, one dish. Si ; A. W. Whitcomb, Randolph,
one dish, Si ; Timothy Smith, Dedham, one dish, Si.

Grapes. — Walker & Co., Boston, collection, S3 ; Abel F. Ste-
vens, Wellesley, collection, S3 ; J. W. Paige, Medfield, one dish,
Si ; George Crane, one dish. Si ; Joel Sai'gent, Quincy, one
dish, Si.

Peaches. — J. X. Geissler, Sharon, one dish, Si.
Baslcet of Fruit.— Mvs. W. J, Stuart, Hyde Park, S3.

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California Wines. — Californiii Wine Co., Boston, the Society's
diploma and $5.

For tlie Committee,

E. C. R. WALKER, Chairman.

FLOWERS.

Cut Flowers. — Mrs. George Vose, Milton, 1st premium, $4;
Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $3 ; H. P. Kidder,
Milton, 3d premium, $2 ; J. W. Brooks, Milton, gratuity, $2 ;
Mac}^ Randall, Sharon, gratuity, $2 ; Mrs. P. Swift, Hyde Park,
gratuity, $1.

Bouquets. — Mrs. C. G. Upham, Needham, 3d premium, $2 ;
Mrs. H. P. Mcintosh, Needham, gratuity, %l \ J. H. Adams,

Milton, gratuity, $1.

Baskets. — Mrs. M. C. Mcintosh, Needham, gratuity, $2 ; Mrs.
Charles Mcintosh, Needham, gratuity, $1 ; Mrs. Charles Mei*-
riam, Milton, gratuity, $1.

Gladiolus. — Best collection, Geo. Crafts, Brookline, 2d pre-
mium, $3 ; best new seedling, Geo. Crafts, Brookline, 2d pre-
mium, $1.

Dahlias. — Best collection, Macy Randall, Sharon, 1st pre-
mium, $2.

Zinnias. — Best collection, Mrs. George Vose, Milton, 1st
premium, $2.

Verbenas. — Mrs. O. F. Britton, Stoughton, gratuity, $1.

l^ardian Case. — Mrs. S. M. Stuart, Hyde Park, premium of

Flower Wreath. — Mrs. Merriam, Milton, gratuity, $1.

ROBERT WATT, Chairman.

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V E G E T A B L E S .

For best collection and variety. — Cyrus G. Upliam, Needhani,
1st premium, $15 ; C. and C. Mackintosh, Needluim, 2d premi-
um, $10 ; A. F. Stevens, Needham, 3d premium, $5.

For best collection of Potatoes. — C. E. C. Breck, Milton, 1st
premium, $G.

For best half bushel of Potatoes. — Clias. F. Curtis, Jamaica
Plain, 1st premium, $2 ; J. N. Geissler, Sharon, 2d premium, $1.

For Orange Carrots. — Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st
premium, $2.

For Flat Tarnips. — Eben Paul, Dedham, 1st premium, $2.

For Beets. — R. T. Lombard, Needham. 1st premium, $2.

For Parsnips. — R. T. Lombard, Needham, 1st premium, $2.

For Onions. — R. T. Lombard, Needham, 1st premium, $2.

For Muskmellons. — R. T. Lombard, Needham, 1st premium.,

$2.

For Drum-head Cabbage. — Allen Coll)urn, Dedham, 1st pre-
mium, $2 ; James Dorr, 2d, Dorchester, 2d premium, $1.

For Cauliflower. — Allen Colburn, Dedham, 1st premium, $2.

For Savot/ Cabbages. — Allen Colburn, Dedham, 1st premium,
$2 ; James Dorr, 2d, Dorchester, 2d premium, $1.

For Sweet Cora. — Allen Colburn, Dedham, 1st premium, S2.

For Red Cabbages. — James Dorr, 2d, Dorchester, gratuit}^, $1.

For Marrow Squashes. — W.J. H^de, Brookline, 1st premium,
$2.

For Canada CrooTx-Xeck Sqaushes. — John Vose, Hyde Park,
1st premium, $2 ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 2d premium, §1.

tor Waterinellons. — B. C. Vose, Hvde Park, 1st premium,

e2.

HENRY GOULDING, Chairman.

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BREAD.

Wheat. — Mrs. ClmrlesH. Merriatn, Milton, 1st premium, $3 ;
Mrs. Charles Winship, Sharon, 2d premium, $2.

Unbolted Wheat. — Mrs. Geo. D. Everett, Dover, 2cl premium,

$2.

Wheat and Indian. — Mrs. George D. Everett, Dover, 1st
premium, $'d ; Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham, 2d premium,

Rye and Indian. — Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham, 1st
premium, $3 ; Mrs. George D. Everett, Dover, 2d premium, $2.

CALVIN RICHARDS, Chairman.

DAIRY.

Butter. — A. W. Cheever, "SVrentham, box of twenty pounds,
1st premium, Si 0 ; Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham, box of
twenty pounds, 2d premium, $8 ; Mrs. John Turner, Needham,
box of twelve pounds, 1st premium, ^5.

J. ^y. GAY, Chairman.

SEEDS,

A. F. Stevens, Needham, for Timotli}', red top, and clover
seeds, 1st premium, $1.

A. F. Stevens, Needham, for wheat, rye, barley, and oat seeds,
1st premium, $4.

J. H. Farrington, Milton, for improved eight-rowed j'ellow
corn, 1st premium, $2.

C. and C. Mackintosh, Needham, for eight-rowed corn, 2d
premium, $1.

ROBERT MANSFIELD, Chairman.

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CARUIAGES, WAGONS, &c.

S. E, Morse, 'South Dedham, a gratuity of $5 for three car-
riajjes.

A handsome single buggy vras entered by Capt. Richard
ITohnes of Roxbury, but as the carriage was not manufactured
in the county, the conunittee were not al)lc to award a })remium
to' the manufacturers, Messrs. William 1*. Sargent & Co. of
Boston. Tiiey, however, award them the Society's diploma.

JOHN HALL, Chairman.

L E xi T 1 1 E R , & c .

F. Capen & Co., North Stoughton, for three cases of calf
boots, 1st ])renn'um, $3.

D. & F. Iviston, Hyde Park, for calf skins, 1st premium, $1.

SAMUEL ATHERTON, Chairman.

AGRICULTURAL I :^ I P L E .M E N T S .

This department was liberally supplied by a few contributors
with articles of greatest A-alue and use to farmers. Messrs.
Breck & Son of Boston, presented the largest and best collec-
tion, and to them the committee unanimously awarded the first
premium, $12. This collection contained almost every article
of chief importance to the farmer, and of the best material and
construction.

Messrs. Whittemore, Belcher & Co. of Boston, offered several
articles of like importance and value as those in the former col-
lection, and to them was unanimously awarded the second pre-
mium, Sg.

Among the remaining articles on exhibition, the committee
deem worthy of special notice and commendation W. A.
AV ood's New Jointed Bar ]\Iowcr, — a noiseless, easily -operated
machine, embracing peculiar advantages, — presented by H. F.

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Shaw of West Roxbiiiy. Also, the Spraouo Mower, presented
by W. A. Barrett & Co. of Providence, a light, strong, compact,
simple machine, to be operated by horses or oxen, and of much
lower cost than any other on exhibition of equal or superior
worth.

Also a ease of exceedingly neat and highly finished farming
tools and elegant cutler}^ from the Roby Manufacturing Com-
pany of West Chelmsford.

It is much to be regretted that no fit opportunity is offered
for a practical trial of important implements by which alone
can their distinctive merits be ascertained. Still n;iore is it to
be regretted that so few persons are observed to pay any atten-
tion to objects of so much importance to the improvement and
profitableness of agriculture. Certainly no other department" of
the exhibition is deserving of more careful examination by all
who are emplo3'ed in the cultivation of the soil, and wlio regard
their own interest, or would promote the prin:iary object of an
Agricultural Society..

For the Committee,

CIIAS. C. SE\YALL.

LADIES' WORK.

Mrs. A. J. Whittier, Hyde Park, rug. Si. Miss Emma J.
Farrington, Hyde Park, wax flowers, 75 cents. Miss H,
Knight, Jamaica Plain, wax harp, $1. MissH. Knight, Jamai-
ca Plain, basket of wax flowers, $2. Miss H. Kniglit, Jamaica
Plain, chair, Si. Miss E. S. Winship, Sharon, bead cushion,
50 cents. Miss E. S. Winship, Sharon, embriodered fiannel
skirt, 75 cents. Miss E. S. Winship, Sharon, ottoman cover,
$1.50. Emmanuel Sutermuster, Milton, wall basket, 75 cents.
Miss Alice C. Dickerman. Randolph, wax flowers, 75 cents.
Mrs Betsey T. Creswell, Milton, cliair tidy, 75 cents. Mrs.
Alden Hunt, Milton, hooked rug, 75 cents. Mrs. Wm. Eagan,
Hyde Park, needle book, 50 cents. Miss H. K. Egan, Hyde
Park, infimt's skirt, 75 cents. Miss Beulah Hunt, jMilton, knit
elastics, 50 cents. Mrs. Thomas Decatur, Jamaica Plain, easel,
$1. Mrs. P. S. Phillips, Dedham, hair wreath, $1.50. Miss
Susie Rest, Mill Village, wax pond lilies, 75 cents. Mrs. Susan
Barton, Mill Village, wax flowers, 75 cents. IMrs. Thonias P.
Swift, Hyde Park, crinoline basket, 50 cents. Mrs, Thomas P.
Swift, Hyde Park, chair and ottoman, $1. Miss Hannah M.
Walsh, South Walpole, wreath and bouquet, §1. Mrs. J. W.

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Reynolds, Stoutihton, fif<;-luxn, $2. Miss Ella E. Webster, TTyde
Park, tattinu' collar, oO cents. Miss Clara F. Lincoln, Jamaica
riaiii, straw IVanie, 50 cents. Miss Nellie J. Lincoln, Jamaica
Plain, enibriodered yokes, 75 cents. Mrs. B. Sabin, Dedhani,
hose, 7") cents. jMiss jNIartlia DaA'is, Peadville, qnilt, 75 cents.
Mrs. I^^aac P>ullar(l, Peadville, oil i)aintinii,s, $1. Mrs. C. Mar-
den, Dedliam, worsted work, $2. Mrs. Leon A. Priest, Wal-
pole. enibriodered chair, $1.50. INIrs. Leon A. Priest, AValpole,
li<j;lit screen, $2. Miss jNIary Talbot, Stoughton, cushion and
frame, 75 cents. IMrs. Mary Marden, Dover, qnilts, $2. Mrs.
]\L*irv Marden, Dover, woolen hose, 50 cents. Miss Jennie
liill, l)()\er, afghau, $1. Miss P^tta A. Upton, Boston lliiih-
lands, carriage alghan, $2. Miss Nettie Gilson, Hyde Park,
wax wreatli, $1. Mrs. Win. A. Bonney, Hyde Park, dress
and mats, $1. Mrs. A. D. Ham, Hyde Park, cushion and mats,
50 cents. Niss Nellie H. Bonney, Hyde Park, shopping bag,
Si. Mrs. W. T. Thacher, Hyde 'Park, skirts .and blanket, $1.
]\Irs. T. S. Moseley, Hyde Park, cushion, 50 cents. Mrs. T. S.
IVIoseley, Hyde Piirk, quilt, 75 cents. Mrs. S. W. Moseley,
Hyde Park, embroidery, 50 cents. Miss Gertie Kenrick,
Dover, tidy, 50 cents. M. and S. Everett, Dover, cushion, 50
cents. Mrs. C. D. Everett, Dover, autumn leaves, 75 cents.
IMiss Fannie E. Decatur, Jamaica Plain, straw frame and
flowers, 75 cents. Miss Sarah B. Grover, East Walpole, three
jjairs hose, SI. Mrs. Richard Holmes, Boston Highlands, car-
riage afghan, S2.

The committee recommend diplomas to the following : —

Mrs. L. K. Decatur, Great Falls, for rugs.

Mrs. H. W. Bonney, Hyde Park, for tid}'.

For the Committee,

Mrs. THOMAS DECATUR.

BAG AND FOOT RACES.

The report of the Committee on Bag and Foot Races is re-
si)ectfidly snbmitted. The Bag Race came off on Thursday, Sept.
22. 1H70, at L30 p. m. — distance, 15 rods. Prizes, $10 and $5.

There wer.e four entries — Moses Bafs of Halifax, N. S., (In-
dian,) Thomas Buchan, Hyde Park ; Robert Scott, Hyde Park ;
Albert Cobb, Sharon.

Thomas Buchan won the first prize of $10, and Moses Bass
the second of 65. A gratuity of $2 was given Robert Scott,
lor his future encouragement.

The Foot Race— ^distance one half mile, prizes §15 and $8 —

An

came off on Frida}^ the 23d, at 2 p.m. There were six contest-
ants.

Moses Bass, Halifax, N. S., (Indian) 1st prize, $15 ; Thomas
Buchan, Hyde, 2d prize, $5 ; George Taylor, Canton, (colored)
gratuity, $1 ; John Fernald, Roxbury, distanced ; AYilliani
Broadbent, Readville ; Robert Simms, distanced. Time, 2.23.

Your couunittee were solicited to start a bag race, and through
the generosity of Messrs. Bradlee, Curtis, and White, who are al-
ways ready to contribute to gratify the ladies, two parses of
five and three dollars were made up witliout entrance fees.
Moses Bass, Thomas Buchan, Robert Henderson, and George
Taylor, entered the lists. On the trial things got somewhat
mixed by the excitement of the crowd pressing around the goal
and on the track. Taylor got his foot through a hole in his
bag, which enabled him to lengthen his pace, while Henderson
found himself on his beam ends. The parties agreed to call it
a dead heat and tiy again. On the second trial Buchan came in
first and Taylor second, leaving the others far behin<l.

Buchan is the champion bag runner of the Scottish Highland
Club, and does his work with an ease surprising to a beholder ;
while Taylor is a new beginner, having practised but a short
time in a meal bag on a barn floor.

"O

WILLIAM R. MANN, for the Committee.

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Recapitulation of Premiums

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

For 1870.

HORSES

W. T. Cook,
Joseph Dix,
Luthur Eaton, .
Wiiliani E. Coftin,
R. Alby,

Emery Hawes, .
Charles Davenport,
John Davenport,
T. E. Clark,
W. J. Grin-jrs, , '
C. & C. Mackintosh,
S. Carpenter,
Phineas Frost, .
W. T. Thacher,
J. W. Bradlee, .
R. Williams,
William Porter,
C. W. Hebard,
C. G. Upham. .
Patrick McNamara,
F. B. Ray,
Richard Tlolmes,
John E. White, .
N. Farrinjjton, Jr.,
James C. White,
S. Cabot,
F. M. Crasin, .
J. S. Eldridire, .
C. C. Moriarty,

HORSES.— ExTKA Premiums

B. F. Brown,
B. F. Ballon, .
Richard Holmes,
Charles E. Stephenson,
D. W. Beckler, .
M. T. Downey, .
J. F. Ellis,
J. Walter Bradlee,
Lorenzo Smith, .
Thomas Parker,

PLOUGHING.

Lntlier Eaton, .
Blackmau Brotiiers, .

. .$15 00

. U 00

. 14 00

. 10 00

. 8 00

• 8 00

8 00

. 7 00

. 7 00

7 00

. 7 00

. 7 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

. 5 00

. 5 00

. 4 00

. 4 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 3 00

. 2 00

. 2 00

, 2 00

HUMS.

$175 00

. 125 00

. 105 00

. 75 00

. 75 00

. 20 00

. 15 00

. 10 00

. 10 00

. 10 00

...«;25 00

. 15 00

George 0. Farrington,

. .$15 00

William Fales, .

. 10 00

Henry Gouldiug,

. 10 00

C. G. Upham, .

. 10 00

Patrick McNamara, .

. 5 00

Daniel A. Lynch,

. 5 00

Daniel Sullivan,

.5 00

WORKING OXEN.

Lntlier Eaton, .
U. C. Porter,
William Fales, .

BULLS.

John S. Eldridge,
John S. Wright,
Luther Eaton, •
John Tims,

CO AYS.

SWINE.

Henry Goulding,
J. H. Farrington,
C. & C. Mackintosh
C. L. Copeland,
J. S. Eld ridge, .
Stephen Welch,

$10 00
4 00
2 00

$5 00
3 00
3 00
2 00

J. N. Stevens. .

. $8 00

John S. Wright,

. 5 00

Eliphalet Stone,

. 5 00

P. Gallagher, .

. 4 00

James Galloway,

. 4 00

Mrs. Mary Holmes, .

. 2 00

HEIFERS.

John S. Eldridge,

. $6 00

J. N. Stevens, .

. 3 00

Richard Holmes,

. 2 00

B. F. Leach, .

. 2 00

J. Cooke,

. 1 00

. $16 00

. 6 00

. 6 00

4 00

. 4 00

. 4 00

44

SHEEP.

John S. Eldridge,

POULTRY.

A. H. Drake,
C. L. Copeland, .
C. H. Spring, .
W. C. Bradbury,
A. W. Cheever,
J. F. Cowell, .
Henry Goulding,
C. &\C. Mackiiitosli,
H. Bird, .
J. H. Farrington,
G. W. Kice.
A. R. Whittier, .

FRUITS.

Walker & Co., .

C. F. Curtis,
Abel F. Stevens,
Warren Fisher, .
H. P. Kidder, ' .
John D. Bradlee,
W. J. Griggs, .
Charles Stearns,

D. H. Elkins.
G. S. Curtis,
J. W. Page,
Thomas B. Griggs,
Benjamin Mann,
Isaac Hayden,

F. D. Atherton, .
California AVine Co.,

E. Ramsdell,
Theodore Lyman,
Timothy Smith,
W. Harding,

J. H. Adams,
Nathan Longfellovv,
Moses Kingsbury,
Mrs. W. J. Stuart,
J. N. Geissler, .
John F. Cowell,
Mrs. J. H. Merriam,

G. B. Parrott, .
J. W. Brooks, .

C. & C. Mackintosh,
E. Richards,
H. Farrar, .
J. H. Farrar,
John Turner,
Arthur Holmes, .
E. Read,
Elijah Tucker, .
A. I). Capen,
ILL. Williams, .

.$23 00

^.^,3 00

13 00

10 00

6 00

5 00

5 00

5 00

5 00

3 00

3 00

3 00

2 00 1

$2fi 00
IS 00
15 00
9 00
8 00
8 00
7 00
GOO
G 00
6 00
6 00
6 00
00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

00

2 00

2 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

100

A. W. Whitcorab,
J. W. Page,
George Crane, .
Joel Sargent,
AV. J. Stuart,

FLOWERS.

George Vose,

Mrs

Mrs. S. M. Stuart,

Macy Randall, . . '

George Craft,

Mrs. John Vose,

H. P. Kidder, .

J. W. Brooks, .

Mrs. C. G. Uphara, .

Mrs. M. C. Mackintosh,

Mrs. Charles Merriam,

Mrs. P. Swift, .

Mrs. H. P. Mackintosh,

J. H. Adams,

Mrs. Charles Mackintosh,

Mrs. 0. F. Brittou, .

VEGETABLES.

C. G. Upham, .
C. &. C. Mackintosh,
R. T. Lombard,
Allen Colburn, .
C. E. C. Breck,

A. F. Stevens, .
Charles F. Curtis,
James Dorr, 2d,

B. C. Vose,
Eben Paul,
W. J. Hyde,
John Vose,

J. N. Geissler, .

BREAD.

Mrs. George D. Everett,
Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, ,
Mrs. Charles H. Merriam,
Mrs. Charles Wiuship,

DAIRY.

$1 00
1 00
1 00
1 00
1 00

$6 00
5 00
4 00
4 00
3 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2

1
1
1
1
1

00
00
00
00
00
00

$15 00

10 00

8 00

8 00

6 00

5 00

4 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

2 00

2 00

100

^7 00
5 00
3 00
2 00

A. W. Cheever,

.$10 00

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow,

8 00

Mrs. John Turner,

5 00

SEEDS.

A. F. Stevens, .
J. H. Farrington,
C. & C Mackintosh,

$5 00
2 00
100

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CARRIAGES, &c.
S. E. Morse, . . . $u 00

LEATHER, &c.

F. Capon & Co.,
1). & F. Easton,

$3 00
1 00

AGRICULTURAL IMPLE-
MENTS.

J. Breck & Son, . . $12 00

Whitteuiorc, Belcher & Co., G 00

BAG RACE.

Tl'oinas Buchan,
Mosi!.s Bass,
Robert Scott,

$10 00
.'j 00
2 00

FOOT RACE.

Moses Bass,
Tiiomas Bnclian,
George Taylor, .

$15 00
5 00
1 00

LADIES' WORK.

(See pages 40 and 41)

$49 50

$158'.) 50

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TREASUI\Ei\'s RePOI\T,

C. C. CnuRCniLL, Treasurer, in account loith the Norfolk Agricultural

Society.

To balance, November 30, 1870,

cash of uevv members, ■ . . . .
" " Coramouwealth, ....
" from net proceeds of Exhibition, 1870,
" " all other sources,

Dn.

$500 38

Ul 00

coo 00

1,424 25

1,045 00

Contra.

Ck.

Cash paid incidental expenses.

. 1,619 33

" " preminms,

. 1,356 00

" " salary of Recording Secretary,

100 00

" " salary of Treasurer,

. 100 00

" " interest,

510 00

" in Treasury,

75 30

§3,700 03

f3,7(J0 03

C. C. CliUECHILL, Treasurer.

Dedham, Nov. 30, 1870.

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ox THE OCCASION OF THE

Twenty-Second Anniversary

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY, Sept. 21st, 22d, and 23d, 1870.

The twenty-second annual exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural
Society was held at Readville on Wednesday, Tiiursday, and
Friday, September 21st, 22d, and 23d, 1870. Although the
weather was clear and the attendance large, the Exhibition
was not as successful as on some former j-ears, owing to vari-
ous causes, the principal of which were the terrible drought,
whicli deterred the owners of choice stock from sending their
herds; the hail storm of June 20th, which devastated the fruit
orchards belonging to many of our largest contributors, and
the occurrence on the same days of the exhibitions of theMassa-
clmsetts Horticultural Society and the Weymouth Agricultural
Society, and on the two preceding days of tlie Norfolk Farm-
er's Chil). Notwithstanding these disadvantages, and the ex-
treme heat and dust, which rendered driving or walking alike
uncomfoi-table, the receipts were large, and the proceedings
highly interesting. Tlie following is a condensed sketch of the
leading contributions in the several departments : —

The number of Horses on exhibition was quite large ; among
them were the fine stallion Golden Gate, owned by Frank Sum-
ner of ISIattapan ; a two and a three years old colt, of a cross
of the Young Morrill and Messenger breeds, belonging to C.

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Frost of Meclfield, both beautiful animals, and giving promise
of marked excellence ; a sorrel colt, two years and three months
old, weighing 1050 pounds, owned by N, Farrington, Jr., of
Canton ; the gray stallion, mare, and foal of the St. Lawrence
and Percheron breeds, from W. T. Cook of Milton ; a colt,
three years old, of the Percheron breed, from Emery Hawes of
North Stoughton ; two excellent gray mares, one four and the
other two years old, belongijig to C. tfe. C. Mackintosh of
Needham ; a thoroughI)red Morgan, from Joseph Dix of Dor-
chester ; and a beautiful pair of matched carriage horses be-
longing to William E. Coffin of Dorchester.

The show of Stock, though much less in amount than on
;St©me previous years, was e:i,cellent, and included the fine herd
of Jerseys belonging to Mr. Eldridge ; bulls by Mr. Eldridge,
John S. Wri»ht of Brookline, Luther P^aton and J. R. Fisher
of Dedhara, and others ; cows from J. S. Wright of Brookline,
Colonel Stone of Dedham, J. N, Stevens of Hyde Park, and
others.

Of Swine, -valuable contributions were macle l\y C L. Cope-
land and J. H. Farrington of jMilton ; C. & C. Mackintosh of
Needham ; Henry Goulding of Dover ; J. 8. Eldridge of Can-
ton, and others.

Of Sheep, the only contribution was a fine flock of South
Downs from Mr. Flldridge, the President.

Of Poultry, the show was unusually larj:ie and fine, Mr. A. H.
Drake of Stougliton making a splendid display, and excellent
contributions were made by A. W. Cheever of Wrcntham, C. H.
Spring of Needham, C. L. Copeland of Milton, W. C. Brad-
bury of Hyde Park, H. Bird of Stoughton, C. <fc C. Mackin-
tosh of Needham, and others.

In the Ladies' Department there were a large number of ele-
gant contributions of enibroi<^lery of various kinds, hair woik,
and many articles for use and ornament, which attracted much
attention.

Of Fruit there was a good displa}', although the loss of the con-
tributions of the IMessrs. Clapp of Dorchester, who have for
many years taken the first premium at the exhibitions of this and
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, but whose fruit was
almost wholly destroyed by the great hail storm of June 20th,
was most seriously felt. Weld Farm, from which there has
almost invariably been a fine display, this year failed to put in
ail appearance. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder contributed 115 va-

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rietics of penrs, but not for premimn. So laro'c was the nnm-
her of contributors tluifc we Imvo no space in which to mention
them, but must refer to the report of the committee on this
most iuTportant department. Tiie fine display of Cab-fornia
fruit, ort'ered by jMr. F. I>. Athcrton, formerly of Dedham, at-
tracted much attention.

Of Flowers, there were man}' contributors, prominent among
whom were IMrs. CJeorge Vose and Mrs. IMen-iam, and Messrs,
li. P. Kidder, J, W. Brooks and J. H. Adams of Miltou ; Mrs.
C. G. Upham and Mrs. JNIackintosh of Needham ; George
Craft of I>:'ookline ; Macy Randall of Sharon, and others.
One of the most attractive articJes on exhibition was the beau-
tiful Wardian Case contributed by Mrs. S. M, Stuart of Hyde
Park.

The Vegetable Department was filled, notwitlRtanding tbe
unfavorable season, with fine contribuitions from Messrs. C. G.
Iipham, C. & C. Mackintosh, Abel F. Stevens, and R. T. Lom-
bard of Needham ; C, E. C. Rreck and John Myers of Milton ;
John and B. C. Vose of Hyde Park ; Allen Colburn of Ded-
ham ; AV. J. Hyde of Brookliue ; C. F. Curtis of Jamaica Plain,
and others.

The shO'W of Bread and Butter^ though excellent in quality,
Avas not as extensive as at some former exhibitions.

Of Agricultural Implements, Messrs, Joseph Breck & Son of
Boston made a very large and excellent display ; and contribu-
tions were also made l>y ^Messrs, Whittemore, Belcher & Co. of
Boston. Mowing Machines were exhibited by Henry F. Shaw
of West Roxbur}', and W. Barrett & Co, of Providence. A
case of ver}' superior agricultural toals and a case of swords
and cutlery were exhibited by the Roby Mannfiicturing Co. of
North Chelmsford, of which Mr. Charles Coburn, formerlv of
Dedham, is the agent.

Mr. S. E. Morse of Soutlil Dedham offered three superior
"Wagons ; and Capt- Richard Holmes exhibited a very superior
buggy, manufactured by Messrs. "NV. P. Sargent & Co. of Bos-
ton. Tiiere Avere several contributions to the department of
manufactures which we have no space to notice.

The Ploughing Match took place on the grounds outside the
inclosure on Tluu'sda}^ morning at half-past ten o'clock. There
were four entries of double horse teams, three of double ox
teams, three single horse teams, and one single ox team. Im-
mediately" after these there was a drawing contest, for which
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were entered a single horse, double and single horse teams, and
a single ox team. In the opinion of the judges the ploughing
and drawing were both of unusual excellence.

The first performance in the programme for Thursday after-
noon was the Sack Race of 15 rods, for which tiiere were three
entries — Thomas Buchan of Hyde Park, Robert Scott of Hyde
Park, and an Indian b}- the name of Moses Bass. Buchan ran
the distance very easily, stopping once or twice for his compet-
itors to catch up witli him, and won the first prize of SlO.
The second prize of $o was taken by Bass, who made the dis-
tance by short jumps. The remainder of the afternoon was
devoted to tlie races on the track.

On Friday, the first performance was the grand cavalcade of
all the horses on exhibition on the track, making a fine displav.
At 12 o'clock a procession w\as formed under the direction of
Capt. Thomas Decatur of Jamaica Plain, Chief Marshal of the
Exhiliition, wdiich marched to the excellent music of the H3'de
Park Band to tlie tent, where an elegant and substantial col-
lation had been prepared by Thomas D. Cook of Boston. After
prayer by Rev. James H. AViggin,of Medfield, Chaplain of the
day, the conapanj^ were invited by the President, Hon. John S.
Eldridge of Canton, to partake of the repast. At the conclu-
sion of the dinner the President made a brief and appropriate
address of welcome and congratulation, and introduced the Hon-
orary President of the Societ}', Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, as the
orator of the occasion. Mr. Wilder then gave a very interest-
ing sketch of his recent tour in California, which was listened
to with deep attention, and which will be found in full at the
commencement of this volume.

Rev. E. Porter Dyer of Shrewsbury then read the following
original Poem, which was received with great favor ; —

Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen : —

Such fame of Norfolk County Fair

Had reached me in my mountain home,

Said I, I surely niuM be there!

And therefore am I come,

As modern students everywhere

Would visit classic Rome,

To be a learner at the feet

Of Farmers raised to Moses's seat.

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I longed Avith ea^^cr eyes to sec
The iVuits of Norl'olk indiistiy,
Where science, iirt, and taste combine
To prune the orchard, train the vine ; —
Where Nature marshals all her forces.
And brings forth fi-om her vast resources
The richest products of the soil,
To crown intelligence and toil.

I longed to share this day, at least,

The pleasni-e of this rural feast.

To mingle with your husbandmen.

Whose products crown the hall and pen:

To see what crops j'our fields turn out

In spite of long continued drought ;

To see what butter, cheese, or bread,

Your wives and dairj' girls have made ;

To see your apples, pears, and peaches,

Your grapes and flowers — and — hear the speeches

Of meji who for their rural knowledge

Deserve a Doctorate from college.

Not in vain has the t3'pe of the Ploughman told
Some wonderful things of the land of gold ;
'Tis well that the sights of the men who have trod
The fields of the West should be Noyes'd abroad ;
And the eloquent speaker who just sat dov.'u.
Whose speech of this day is the joy and crown.
Has given us sketches which clcarl}- evince
The hu&bahdman's taste in the mercantile prince,
He, to, sii-, has given the world the straAvberry,
Called President Wilder, magnificent, very.

But, sir, what mighty changes

Have o'er this planet passed !
As backward to the birth of time

The mental eye is cast.

When erst the art of Farming

And Gardening began,
No County Fairs were wont to cheer

The toiling husbandman.

Xo sketch of Western travel,

No bard of rural lay,
Gave entertainment at a feast

Like this you spread to-day.

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No merchant prince and Farmer

Was delegated then
To represent the Commonwealth,

And go frem pen to pen.

There then were no reporters

To write down every word,
No well-trained band like yours at hand

Sweet music to afford.

No ladies dressed in fashion

At that for distant day,
Came forth like birds of Paradise

To aid the grand disj>lay.

'Twas harvest time in Eden,

When rural life began,
And Horticulture the employ

The Lord assigned to man.

I said 'twas time of Harvest,

Because I think 'twas so ;
With apple, plum, and peach, and pear,

The garden was aglow.

The grapes in purple clusters

Abundant were and free.
And autunin birds were carolling

On vine and bush and tree.

When He who governs nature,

And doeth all things well,
Oi'dained for man a cattle show —
■ As ancient records tell ;

For fowls of every feather

And beasts to Adam came,
That he might see the grand display,

And give to each a name.

That was an exhibition

Magnincent and rare.
Which God's own hand in Eden planned,

That first grand Cattle Fair.

But when from blooming Eden

The guilty couple went
To suffer in the dreary wild

The pangs of banishment,

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The curse the primal Farmer

Had dreaded so before,
Of toiling for a livelihood,

He found a blessing bore.

lie found health sprang from labor.
And happiness from health,

And while he yet was very young-
Became a man of wealth.

His tools for toil were simple.
Home-made and rude and plain,

Till better impliments at length
Were forged by Tubal Cain.

From that day to this agriculture .

A wonderful progress has made.
And science and skilful mechanics

Have both under tribute been laid.
Till here in your old Norfolk County

On this your great festival daj^
Your gardens, your fields, and your orchards.

To culture proud compliments pay.

I doubt if -when Adam the Farmer

Gave names to the fowls and the brutes.
When grape-vines were laden in Eden,

And trees were bent down with their fruits.
He ever had any such cattle

As those which are seen in your pens.
Or any such fine looking poultr}'.

Such ducks, geese, or turkeys, or hens.

Nor can T believe that his apples

Could evei' have made such a show —
Or a pear have been found in his garden

To equal the Beurre d'Anjou ;
Who thinks he could show the Diana,

The Concord, or e'en Delaware,
In such a perfection of beauty,

As some of your specimens are.

In needlework Eve never ofieved

A very extended display.
And so we can't tell with precision

What ladies could do iu her day.

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But look at the prime manufactures
This old Norfolk County turns out,

And say, of intelligent progress,
Can any man harbor a doubt ?

The boots of old Weymouth and Stoughton,

And Randolph, the boot banner town.
Have won for the County of Norfolk

A world-wide and noble renown :
Your Manns manufacture prime belting,

Your Lothrop makes many a "tool,"
French & Ward have a high reputation

For various knittings in wool.

Port Norfolk aflbrds window fixtures.

Old Walpole makes cloth cards of wire
And Quincy produces a granite

The world is constrained to admire ;
The webs of elastic by Wattles

Of various colors are fine.
And Morse's stove polish unrivalled

For giving " the Rising Sun" shine.

While Foxboro', Wrentham, and Medfleld,

Make bonnets and hats for the Fair,
The best sewing silks come from Canton,

And beautiful smalts are made there.
Now none of these things were in Eden —

At least, sir, I never have read
That any of these manufactures

At that Cattle Fair were displayed.

But Dorchester, Dedham, and Milton,

For eminent men are renowned.
And beautiful landscapes and gardens

All over their acres abound.
I have heard, sir, one President Eldridge,

Has bought him a nice little farm,
And built him an elegant stable.

And keeps of fine horses a swarm.

All this, sir, I heard in the country.

Far up in our little hill town ;
You will not, I trust, therefore wonder,

I had a desire to come down.
To share in this festive occasion.

And gather what lessons I may.
And, sir, I am greatly delighted

With what I have witnessed to-day.

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What a beautiful show of fine horses,

Well lashioucd with nostrils so wide,
Full-breasted, smooth-limbed, with large muscles,

And full of ambition and pride.
What beautiful Jerseys we witnessed,

What poultry with plumage so gay —
And wluit a flue show of fair ladies,
. In plumage as lovely as they.

*********

The elegant flowers you have shown us to-day,
J^xcelling all Solomon's kingly array.
In fashion and form are exceedingly fine,
All tinged with the hues of the pencil divine.

The beast of the field never pauses to gaze

Where the rose or the lily its beauty displays,

Though it bloom in the field where he happens to graze.

The ox is bright-eyed, with great muscular powers,
But the ox has no delicate sense such as ours,
To make him delight in the fragrance of flowers.

The birds never pause on contemplative wing,
To welcome the violet's bloom in the spring.
Or tune their sweet carols its odors to sing.

The flowers with their odors and^perfumes so rare.
With their elegant hues and their fashions so fair,
Were ordained not for brutes nor for fowls of the air.

His hand who hath penciled and lavishly strewn
Their varied forms over the fields of each zone,
Has fashioned the flowers for His children alone.

His children enjoy them — He meant that they should-
WhetV.er grown in the garden, the field, or the wood,
And acknowledge Him author of every thing good.

One qualification a bard much needs.
Who sings to the farmers of gaiden seeds,
Of bread and butter and milk and cheese,
Of harvesting crops and of hiving bees, —
One qualification more than all,
And that is experience, — mine is small!
The man of experience speaks with power.

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Whether of beast, or of bird, or flower ;

The man of experience makes the best preacher.

Best lawj'er, best farmer, best doctor or teacher.

A good old parson in onr town —

In former days there were some such, —
Had one church member who got down,
Through liquoring a grain too much.
And so the good old parson preached

On drunkenness a searching sermon.
Which fell upon the culprit's head.

As dews distilled on ancient Hermon,
So pointed, pungent, sharp, and plain.
He thought he had not preached in vain.
One busj^body went,

When sermon time was done.
To give his fechng vent,

And asked the guilty one,
(To harrow ui^ his soul.

And hear what he would say,)
How he the sermon liked.
The parson preached that day.
" I liked the parson's speech first rate,"

Replied the fallen man,
" Because I thought he seemed to speak
Like an experienced man."

Some people dread the thought of toil.
As if their dignity would spoil.

By anything like labor ;
So pardon me if I devote
One moment to an anecdote

Related by my neighbor.

A lazy, loafing, genteel man.

Whose wife, when something shocked her.
Became so very sick one night, she sent

Her husband for the doctor.

Two miles, — he could not go afoot —

That seemed so much like labor.
So walked a mile the other way.

And routed up his neighbor,

And asked if he would lend his marc.

To go for the physician, —
His wife was very sick, and in

A critical condition.

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The farmer was kind, but liis old mare's lame back

Had troubled her (greatly all day,
He thought 'twould be cruel to take the poor beast

From the stable, and so answered Nay !
But the lazy man ur^cd, if he'd lend him the mare.

He would handle old Dobbin with excellent care,
And lead /ley the whole of the way!

I would T mujht, now in a word,
Ti'aise dulj' all I've seen and heard.
But, sir, 1 nvxy as well confess it,
Mere words are too poor to express it.

When once, before King Solomon,

The queen of Sheba humbly knelt,
To praise him for the acts he'd done, —

And tell him, frankly, how she felt,

" It was a true report,"" said she,
'* 1 heard in mine own land of thee ;

Thine acts, th)"^ wisdom, and thy skill,

Howbeit, X believed not, till

I came and saw with mine own eyes,

Thy wondrous works and enterprise ;

And lo ! thou art exceeding wise !

T'hough Fame great marvels did unfold,

1 find the halfXvAil not been told.

For thou in wisdom, act, and word,

Excellcst all the fame 1 heard."

I feel, I presume, as the Sheban queen then did.

Your show, which for this year, could hardly be mended,

Has been, as the ladies saj-, perfectly splendid.

I am pleased with the stories I hear of the West,

But /, sir, I like old Massachusetts the best.

'Tis the home of my lathers, the land of my birth,

And to me 'tis the lovelist spot on the earth !

Now glory be to Him who gives

The early and the latter i-ain,
Who gives us roots and fruits and flowers,

And fills our bins with ripened grain.

And calm as autumn suns decline,

And autumn leaves decay,
As nature for her wintry sleep,

Lays her brown robes away,

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So may we lay those forms away,
Life's great work nobly done,

And cfo to that fair blooraino,' land
Whose seasons all are one.

The following selected hymn, by John G. Whittier, was then
sung to the tune of Old Hundred, by the audience, the veteran
chorister of Canton, Samuel B. Noyes, Esq., leading off in his
usual effective manner : —

O Painter of the fruits and tiowers !

We thank thee for thy wise design
Whereb}' these human hands of ours

In Nature's garden work with thine.

And thanks that from our daily need

The joy of simple faith is born ;
That he who smites the summer weed

May trust thee for the autumn corn.

Give fools their gold and knaves their power ;

Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall ;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower,

Or plants a tree, is more than all.

For he who blesses, most is blest ;

And God and man shall own his worth
Who toils to leave as his bequest

An added beauty to the earth.

And, soon or late, to all that sow,

The time of harvest shall be given ;
The flowers shall bloom, the fruit shall grow,

If not on earth, at last in heaven !

Brief addresses were then made by Chas. L. Flint, Esq., Sec-
retary of the State Board of Agriculture, Mr. J. T. Ellsworth
of Barre, delegate from the State Board, Hon. Albert Fearing
of Hingham, John Cummings, President of the Middlesex Ag-
ricultural Society, James S. Clark of Framingham, and others.
At 2 o'clock the services in the tent were finished and the ex-
ercises of the day concluded with the races upon the track.

Although the Exhibition was not, as a w^hole, as successful

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as some of the former shows, j^et when all the discouraging ele-
ments encountered are taken into consideration, the members of
the Society have cause for congratulation at even this measure
of success. Certainly no exhibition ever given by the Society
involved more hard labor on the part of those concerned in the
work of preparation. The discouraging and disheartening
drought whilst it lessened materially the number of contribu-
tors and spectators, added very much to the amount of work
to be done. Another unfortunate circumstance connected with
the Exhibition was the occurrence on the same days of the ex-
liibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural and the Weymouth
Societies and the North Wrentham Farmer's Club. It is to be
hoi)ed that hereafter some arrangement will be made whereby
the simultaneous occurrence of exhibitions in adjoining locali-
ties may be prevented. Such an arrangement will be for the
mutual advantage of the societies, and would be far more satis-
factory to the visiting public.

We cannot close this meagre report without expressing our
sense of the obligations the Society is under to Capt. Thomas
Decatur, the efficient Chief Marshal, whose position on the
Committee of Arrangements imposed upon him a double share
of duty, all of which was faithfully, zealously, and courteously
performed. His labors were constant and unremitting from the
beginning to the close of the Exhibition. On Friday he was
assisted by tlie following gentlemen as aids : — Colonel H. A.
Darling, Hj'de Park, Isf, and Capt. John Newcomb, Jr., Rox-
bury, 2d Assistant, and by Messrs. Surgeon Benjamin Mann,
Wm. M. Mallard, Maj. Agustus Wright, William B. Fenner, J.
W. Dean of Roxbury, and A. R. Whittier of Hyde Park.

The police force of State Constabulary, under the direction
of Officers Dean and Hough, assisted by a detachment of the
police of H^'de Park, rendered most efficient aid in the preser-
vation of order.

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pFFICEI\S OF THE SoCIETY, 187O.

President:

Hon. JOHN S. ELDRIDGE,

Honorary President:
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER.

of Canton.

of Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents :
Hon. AMOS A. LAWRENCE, .

Hon. OTIS GARY,

STEPHEN W. RICHARDSON, .

ELIJAH TUCKER,

HENRY GREW,

ROYAL W. TURNER, . . . .

of BrooMine.
of Foxhorough.
of Franklin,
of 3Iilton.
of Hyde Park,
of Bandolph.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary 1
HENRY O. HILDRETH,

of Dedham.

Treasurer 1

CHAUNCY C. CHURCHILL,

of Dedham.

Executive Committee
WILLIAM R. MANN,
AARON D. WELD,
ERANCIS P. DENNY,
Hon. TRUMAN CLARKE,
CHARLES BRECK,
ALFRED W. WHITCOMB,
E. C. R. WALKER, .
ALBERT B. BALCH, .
WILLIAM E. COFEIN,

of Sharon,
of West Boxbvi~>j.
of Brookline.
of Walpole.
of Milton,
of Bandolph.
of Boxbnry.
of Med,field.
of Dorchetter.

Finance Committee and Auditors

IRA CLEVELAND,

CHARLES HAMANT,

EDWARD S. RAND, Jr., ....

of Dedham.
of 3IedJield.
of Dedham.

Gl

ALVAH MORRISON.
JOHN B. ARNOLD.

Board of Trusteest

KELLINOIIAM.

GEORGE H. CROOKS.

BUAINTIIKK.

DAVID H. BATES.
GEORGE WALES.

GEORGE CRAFT.
WILLIAM J. HYDE.

BROOKI.INE.

GEORGE GRIGGS.
CHARLES STEARNS.

ELLIS TUCKER.
JAMES T. SUMNER.

CANTON.

CHARLES H. FRENCH.
NATHANIEL S. WHITE.

WILLIAM B. JOHNSON.
SOLOMON J. BEAL.

COHASSET.

ABRAHAM H. TOWER.
JOHN Q. A. LOTHROP.

LUTHER EATON.
ALLEN COLBURN.

IkEDIIAM.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

FREDERICK CLAPP.
JOHN H. ROBINSON.
AXEL DEARBORN.

DORCHESTER.

JOSIAH H. CARTER.
AARON D. CAPEN.
AUGUSTUS P. CALDER.

HENRY GOULDING.
EPHRAIM WILSON.

DOVER.

B. N. SAWIN.

AMOS W. SHUMWAY.

FOXBOROUGH.

JAMES CAPEN. ERASTUS P. CARPENTER.

FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS. DAVID SHAW.

FRANKLIN.

ERASTUS L. METCALF. HIRAM W. JONES.

JOHN W. KICHARDSON. FRANCIS B. RAY.

ALPHEUS P. BLAKE.
WILLIAM J. STUART.

HYDK FARK.

BENJAMIN F. RADFORD.
WILLIAM T. THACHER.

CHARLES C. SEWALL.
ELIJAH THAYER.

MEDFIELD.

WILLIAM Q. FISHER.
A. B. PARKER.

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WILLARD P. CLARK.
RICHARD RICHARDSON.

SAMUEL COOK.
ALBERT K. TEELE,

MEDWAY.

WILLIAM DANIELS.
MILTON M. FISHER.

MILTON.

JOHN W. BROOKS.
LYMAN DAVENPORT.

ABEL F. STEVENS.
CHARLES H. DEWING.

NEEDHAM.

FREEMAN PHILLIPS.
HENRY BLACKMAN.

WALTER 11. FISHER.
ERASTUS DUPEE.

NORFOLK.

LUCAS POND.
GEORGE E. HOLBROOK.

JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON.
LEMUEL BILLINGS.

QUINCY.

JACOB F. EATON.
CHARLES MARSH.

ROYAL W. TURNER.
J. WHITE BELCHER.

JAMES RITCHIE.
RICHARD HOLMES.
E. C. R. WALKER.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE.
LEWIS W. MORSE.

KANDOLPII.

WILLIAM PORTER.
EPHRAIM MANN.

ROXBUHY.

ROLAND WORTHINGTON.
J. AUSTIN ROGERS.
WILLIAM RAYMOND LEE.

SHARON.

WARREN COBB.
CHARLES H. WARREN.

LUCIUS CLAPP.
HENRY BIRD.

STOUGHTON.

ELISHA C. MONK.
ROBERT PORTER, Jr.

WILLARD LEWIS.
EDMUND W. CLAP.

WALPOLE.

JOHN N. SMITH.
EDMUND POLLEY.

WEST ROXBURY.

EBENEZER W. TOLMAN. CHARLES F. CURTIS.

ANDREW T. MESERVE. THOxMAS DECATUR.

ALBERT TIRRELL.
JOHN W. LOUD.

EDMUND T. EVERETT.
ALFREi) BARNARD.

WEYMOUTH.

JAMES HUMPHREY.
ERASTUS NASH.

AVRENTHAM.

GARDNER H. STARKEY.
ALONZO W. CHEEVER.

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I^

AMES OF

Members.

BELLINGHAM.

Chilson, Paul,* 1800.
Crooks, George A.
I'ickei-iug, Asa,* '69. [3.]

BRAINTKEE.

Arnold, John V>.
Arnold, .Joseph A.
I{;ites, I);ivid II.
P.hike, .loscpli H. D.,* '08.
IJowditch, Eboiiozer C.
IJradlord, E. S.,* 1800.
Chace, George
Dow, Charles II.
Dyer, Isaac
Dver, .Joseph
Fogg, Charles M.,* 18.54.
French, George G.
French, Charles,* 1881.
French, .Jonathan

Hollingsworth, E. A.

Ilollis, Caleb

ItollLs, David N.

Hollis,.John A.

Ilollis, .losiah

Howard, .1. G.

Ludden, Miss Carrie F.

Ludden,. Joseph T.,* '02

Locke, \V. F.

!Manslield. John

iSIansrteld. Warren

M'jrrison, Alva

Niles, DaidolH.

Fenniman, Kzra,* 1836.

I'ei'kiiis, Oliver

Potter, |i:dw,\r<l

Kand, William T.

Kendall, Apollos,* 18!>3.

■SCelson, Amos, W.

Stetson, Caleb

Srod<lard, A. A.

Thaver, Kbnczer C.

Tl\;iyer, Hezekiah,* 18.54.

Thayer, Sylvaiuis

Vinton. Thomas B.

Wainwriuht, Peter

Wainwright, William L.

Wales, George

Wild, Hiram

Willis, G. W., * '5-2. [4t.]

BROOKLISE.

Amory, James S.
Amory, William
Applt;ton, Willi.im, Jr.
Bab M)ck, George*
IJartlett, .James
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, Jos. H.
Bird. Jesse,* ls«.53.
Blake, George Baty
Blauey, >-lenry
Bramiiall, William

Brown, .Joseph T.
Churchill, Wm.,* 18.57.
Craft, Miss Emeline II.
Cr:irt, Charles,* 1804.
Crall, Cieorge
Craft, Samuel,* 1850.
Corey, Elijah
Corey, Timothy
Dane, John,* 18.54.
Dane, John H.
Denny, Francis P.
Ferris, iSIortimer C.
Fishar, Francis
Frazar, Amherst A.
Griggs, (ieorge
Griggs, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas B.
Griggs, William J.
Ileushaw, Sam'l,* 1803.
Hill, M. F.
Howe, Frank E.
Howe, James Murray
Howe, John
Hvde, William J.
.Jameson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.

Lawrence, Amos A.
Lyman, Theodore

Parker, Edward G.,* 'OS.

Parlier, M.D..* 180S.

Parsons, Thomas

Salisbury, William G.

Sampson, (ieorge U.

Shaw, U. Howland,* 'tiO.

Stearns, Charles

Stearns, Marshall,* 1870.

TiKiyer, John E.,* li-.57.

Trowbridge, John H.

Turner, John X.,* 18G4.

White, Henry K.

Williams, Moses B. ['r2]

CANTON.

Abbott, Ezra
Ames, FiMuk M.
Billings, Uriah
P.illings, William
Bray, Edgar W.
Brewster, Ezra S.
Capen, Ezekiel
Capeu Siimuel,*1803.
Chapman, Oliver S.
Crane, Albert
Cushman, Charles F.
Davenport, .John, .Jr.
Deane. Francis W.
Deane, Oliver
Downes, George,* 1831.
Dovvnes, Miss C. T.
Downes, George E.
Draper, Thomas
Dunbar, Elijah
Dunbar, -James
Dunbar, Nathaniel
Uuubar, William,* 1807.

Eager, Edward R.
Elilriilgi', .John S.
Eldrld:;e, .John S., .Tr.
Endicott, John,* la55.
Endicott, Charles
Everett, J. Mason
Everett, Leonard,* ia52.
Farrington, Nath'l, Jr.
Feuno, Jesse,
French, Charles II.
French, Thomas,* 1802.
Fuller, Daniel
(ruild, Horace
II;dl, John
Howard, Lucius
Huntoon, Benj.,* 1804.
Hun toon, Mrs. Benjamin
Huntoon, D. T. V.
Kinslev, Lyman

Kollock, Jererni.ah

Lincoln, Frederick W.

Lord, William P.

Mansfield, William

Mcintosh, Adam

Mcintosh, Roger S.

McKendry, William

Messinger, Vernon A.

Messinger, Virgil J.

Morse, William

Noves, Samuel B.

IteVere, Joseph

Shepard, James S.

Spare, Elijah

Spaulding, Corodon

Stetson, .Joseph

Sunnier, .James T.

Sumner, (ieorge F.

Sumner, Mrs. Sarah E.

Tilt, Benjamin B.

Tucker, Edmund

Tucker, Ellis

Tucker, Jedediah

Tucker, Nathaniel. Jr.

Tucker, Phineas

Tucker, William,* 1808.

Ward, Samuel G.

AVentwortb, Edwin
Wentworth. Nathaniel
White, Elisha,* lS(i5.
White, Nathaniel S.
Wood, Rufus C. [73]

COHASSET.

Beal, Solomon .J.
Beal, Mrs. S. J.
Doane, James C.
Johnson. William B.
Sohier, William D.,*'l')8.
Souther, Laban,* 1800.
Tower, Abraham H. |7j

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamia H.
Aldea, Abuer

64

Alden, Fi*aucis
Aklen, George,* 18(53.
Allien, Leonard
Alden, SMuiuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William, 2rt
Babcock, Samuel B.
Bacon, Silas D.
Bailey, Benjamin H.
Baker, David A.
Baker, Joel M.
Baker, Obed,* 18G8.
Baker, Timothy
Baker, William
Balch, Benj. W.,* 1858.
Barrows, Edward
Barrows, Thomas
Bates, iMartin,* 1869.
Bean, Albion,* ISiiO.
Bestwick, Frederick L.
Bickuer. Samuel 11.
Bosworth, Isaac C.,* 'GG.
Boyden, Addison
Boyden, Benjamin
Brooks, Edward C.
Brvant, Austin,* 1851.
Bullard, Elijah
Bullard,. John,* 186-2.
Bullard, Lewis
Bullard, William
Burgess, Ebenezer,* 1870.
Burgess, Ebenezer P.
Burgess, Edward P.
Capeii, Charles J.
Capen, Oliver,* 1865.
Carroll, Sant'ord
Cawley, John
Chase, James M.,* 1800.
Chickering Horatio
(Whickering, Monroe,
Churchill, Chauncy C.
Clapp, E(lward
Clapp, Nathaniel,
Clark, Joseph W.
Clarke, Horatio
Clarke, Mrs. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Cobb, Jonathan II.
Coburn, Charles
Coburn, Mrs. Chas.
Colburn, Allen
Colburn, Nath'l,* 185:3.
Colburn, Waldo
Cormerais, Henry
Coolidge, George
Cox, John, Jr.
Crane, E. B.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
Crane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos H.
Crossman, Charles B.
Curtis, George F.
Cushing, Henry W.
DsmreU, Wm. S.,* 18G0.
Daniell, EUery C.
Davenport, George
Day, -Toseph
Day, Lewis
Dean, James
Deane, Jolni,* 1S64.
Dixon, Rufus E.
Doggett, John,* l&">7.
Douahoe, Patrick
Dravton, .lohn,* 18.56.
Duff, John

Dunbar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, .Tohn

Eaton, John Ellis,* 1854.
Eaton, IvUther
Eaton, Luther A.

Ed.son, Mrs. E. G.,* 1800.
Ellis, Calvin F.
Ellis, Charles
Ellis, Colburn,* 1804.
Ellis, George,* 18.55.
Ellis, Jason
Ellis, Merrill D.
I.llis, Oliver
Ely, F. D.

Endicott, AgustusB.
Everett, George
Everett, Mrs. Hepzibah
Fairbanks, Wm.,* 1803.
Fales, William
Farrington, Chas.,* 18.59.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, James,* 1864.
Farrington, Mrs. James
Fari'ington, Jesse,* 1857.
Farrington, .Tesse
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,* 1803.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* 1863.
Fisher, Amory
Fisher, El)en'rS..*18G7.
Fisher, Mrs. Elizabeth D.
Fisher, Freeman,* 1860.
Fisher, James R.
Fisher, Jose))h
Fisher, Joshua
Fisher, Thomas
Fleming, Douglas
Fogg, David S.
Foord, Enos,* 1861.
Foord, .James
French, Abram
French, Chai-les
French, George M
Fuller, George,* 1809.
Fuller, Greenwood
Gardner, .fohn
Gay, Ebenezer F.
Gay, Mrs. Hannah S.
Gav, Jeremiah W.
G.iy, Lusher,* 1855.
Gay, Mrs. A. M.,* 18G6.
Gay, Wm. King,* 1859.
Gleason, Daniel
Gould, George
Green, Elisha
(ireen, John
Green, Mi's. John
Guild, Culvin
Guild, Francis
Guild, Henry
Gunnison, George D.
Harnden, Harvey,* 1803.
Hartney, Thomas
Hartshorn, Caleb W.
Hartshorn, I.,ouis E.
Hartshorn, Richard D.
Henck, John B.
Hewps, Hannah E.
Hewins, Mrs. Hattie W.
Hildrcth, Henrv O.
Ilinkley, Mrs. M.J.
Holmes, Edw. B.,* 1865.
Houghton, William A.
Howe, Elij;ih, Jr.
Howe, Francis, 1860.
Howe, Josiah D., * 1807.
Hoyle, M.irk C.
.Ta:'kson, Marcus B.
.Ldmson, Edwin,* 1856.
Keelan, Michnel
Kcves, Ebenezer W.
Keyes, Edw. L.* 18.59.
Kingsbury, Lewis II.
Kingrbury, Moses
Lamson, Alvan,* 1864.

Luce, D. W.

Lynch, Mrs. A.,* 1889.
Lvnch, Daniel A.
Lynch, Wm. F.,* 1809.
McLane, James
M.'inn, Henry A.
Mann, Herman,* 1851.
Mann, Samuel C.,* 1804.
Mann, Wm. H.,* 1804.
INIarden, Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, M.artin * 1805.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin,* 1809.
Mason, William
iMason, Wm. H.,* 1861.
ISIercer, JMiss Marv
Metcalf, (ieorge E"
Mitchell. Francis N.
Morgan, John
Morrill, Henrietta W.
Morse, Albert
Morse, Curtis G.
Morse, John,* 1801.
Morse, John L.
Morse, Otis
IMorse, Sidney B.
Motley, Tliom.is,* 1864.
M\ rr ly, Daniel
Neal, A. B.
Noyes, Nathaniel
Norris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion. Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamin A.
Page Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C.
Paul, Mrs. ICbenezer.
Pettee, James,* 18:;8.
Phelps, Timothv
Phillips, Nathiui
Phillips, Mrs. P. M.
<2uin('.v, Edmund
Rand,EdwardS., Jr.
Roblev, Kobert C.
Rice, .John P.
liice, WiUinm R,.
Rich.'irds, Abiatlmr
Richards. E. M.,*1S65.
Richards, llenrv White
Rich:irds, J. F.> 18.52.
Richarrls, Lewis A.
Richards, Mason,* 1800.
Richards, Reuben,* 1855.
Ricliar<ls, William B
Rodman, Alfred,* 18.53.
Rodman, Alfred
Rodman, Mrs. Alfred
Rooney, Francis
Russell, Charles
Russell, Ira
Sampson, E. W.,* 1807.
Scanlan, David
Stdiwartz, Mrs. .foanna
Scott, Joel,* 18.58.
Shattuck, Willavd
Shaw, Charles B., 1809.
Sheriir, John L.
Sherman, Charles B.
Sherwin, Thomas,* 1809.
Shifter, Carlos
Small, Miss -lane S.
Smith, Edwin
Smith, Henry
Smith, Lvman
Smith, Nathaniel*
Smith Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Zebiua,* 1864.
Siie.'ir, Henry F.
Stimson, .Tei'emy,* 1869.
Stone, Eliphalet

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^S^I^e.v, John
Siiinncr, Kdwrird
i^miiner, Mirick P. .
Siuniier, Mrs. Sarah R.
Smnncr, Win. U.,* 18:;0.
Sutton, Kiioch,* 1853.
TaCt K/.ra \V.
Tall.ol, .(osiah W.
'Ihavci-, J. II. It.
Thoiii.is, .lohii W.
Thompson, ltol)'t,* 18S-t.
Ttiwoi-, William 15.
TrclVv, .Taines
Tublis, IScnj, II.,*18.7t.
Van l{rnnt,"(i. .1.,* ISIW.
Vos(!, (k'oitic! II.
M';ikeliehl,'Thouiii.« L.
Wall's, .saui'K.Ir.,* 18(50.
Washlnirn, .\\v\. C.
Waters, Josopli \V.
WeatluM-bee, c;oi\il'(>rt
Weatlicrbee, .Jabez
Wcatheilx'o, -Jesse
WoallKTbce,.Iohu E.
Webb, Moses E.
Welib, Seth, .Jr.,* isrj2.
VVelch, Sto|)lic'n
AVehi, Joseph U.
Welcome, Jacob H.
White, John,* iNxi.
White, N. I!.
While, Walter
Whitinjr, Hf/,eUiah
Wliitinj:. Iforace
Whiting, .Margaret M.
Whiting, Jloses
Whiting, William
Whitnev. S. S.,* 185.5.
Wight, banlorth P.
Wightt Kbeuczer
Williams, G. W.,* 18(U.
AVilson, John.F.,*185;J.
Wilson, Ueiiben S.
Winslow Alfred N.
Winslow, George
Wtthington, Warren
Wood, Mrs. Amos
AVoods, W'm. G.* 1803.
AVorthiugton, E. [294]

DORCHESTER.

Abbott. Mllliam E.
Adams, Benjamin W.
Atherton, .Samuel
Austin, William R.
Bachi, Ignatius C* 18.59.
Bacou, Charles II.
Baker, Edmund .1.
Baker, Walter,* 18.52.
Baldwin P^noch,* 18ij0.
Barnes, Parker
Biiriy, Michael O.,* 18.5S.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Billings, Lemuel
Bispham, Eleazer J.
Blanchard, Charles V.
Brown, B. F.
Brown, Mrs. B. F.
Bradlee, James B.
]5radstreet, S.umuel
Bramhall, Cornelias
Breck, Henry, .Ir.
Brewer, Darius,* 1854.
Briggs, Franklin
Brooks, Noah,* 1852.
Brooks, William B.
Brown, Augustus
Brown, George M,
Burt, George L.

9

Capen, Aaron T>.
Capen, Sauuiel .f.
Cajten, Thomas W.
Caider, Augustus P.
Camplicll, Thomas
(Jarlton, Mary A.
Carlton, Martha G.
Carrutli, Ch.irle.s
Carrufh. Nathan
Carter, Josiah II.
Carter, Elizabeth E.
Carter, Cizzie .s.
Cliilds, Nathanitd R.
Churchill, Asaph
( 'l;ip[), .\masa
Cla)]p, E<hvard B.
(;hipi), Fredei'ick
(ylupp, Frederick A.
Clap)), Lemuel, 2d,
Clapi", James H.
Clapp, .John P.
Clai>p, Richard,* 18(i2.
Clapp, Thaddeiis,* 18!il.
Clapp, William,* 18.59.
Clapp, William C.
Cleveland, S. il.,* 185G.
Cobb, Moses G.
Codman, John
Ci>dman, Robert
(Jollin, William E.
C'ouant, R. B.
Copenhmen, A. W.,* 'G(!
Curtis, Ebenezer
Cushing, Abel,* 186G.
Gushing, Benjamin
Davis, Barnabas
Dearborn, Axel

Denny, Daniel
Denny, Daniel, Jr.
Doody, Dennis

Dorr, James
Downer, Samuel
Flynn, Thomas
r'dllanshee, Isa.ac W.
Foster William M.
Fowler, M. Fiel<}
French, Benj, v., *18(;0.
French, Mrs. B. V.
Gardner, Henry J.
Gilbert, Samuel, Jr.

Gleason, Moses,* 185G,

(Jleason, Roswell

Gleasmi, Sarall,* 18,'>4.

Groom, Thomas

Hall, .Josepii

Hall, Oliver

Hall, S.-xmuel

Hammond, Horatio

Harding, William

Harding, Mrs. Wni.

Hardy, Alphens

Harris, Benjamin W.

Hartshorn, i^ewis E.

Hathaway, Nichola.'s

Haven, .John A.

Haynes, Edward, Jr.

Haynes, George A.

Hebard, B. F.

Hebard, C. F.

Hewins, John C.

Hickey, Timothy

Hickey, 'William

Holbrook, Nathan

Holmes, Ebenezer

Hooper, Franklin Henry

Hooper Rob't C.,* 18(i0.

Hooper, Robert, C, Jr.

Hought^m, George A.

Howe Charles,* 1869.

Howe, James T.

Humphrey, Henry

Hunt, Charles

Jgoc, Patrick
Jacobs, IJenjamin,* 1870.
Jones, Nahum
Jon(!s, William
King. Kdward,* 1866.
King, l<'raiikhn
Learned, .J. M.
Lee. .Jan)es, .Jr.
Leonard, .Joseph
Lewis. Edwin J.
Liversidge, S.,'* 18.52.
Liversidge, Thoma.'J
Mack, Henry M.
Mack, Mrs. 11. M.
Mack, S. P.,- ISK).
iAlcAulifle, Daniel
Maishall,Wm.,* 18157.
May, John J.
Means, James H.
Mears, John
Mears, .John. Jr.
Miller, Jlrasnius D,.
Minot, John,* 18151.
Mitchell, Simeon
Mosidey, Flavel
Mnmlord, Thomas J.
Munroe, William
Murphy, Timothv
Nazro,"John G.* 1870.
Newhall, Cheever
Newhall, John M.,* '09.
Nichols, Norman
Payson, Thomas
Payson, Mrs. Thomas
Peirin, Augustus W.
Peters, Henry H.
Peterselia, Franz
Pierce, Chas. li.,* 18.57.
Pierce, Henry,
Pierce, Henry L.
Pierce, Jesse,* 1856.
Pierce, I^ewis

Pierce, Robert

Pierce. WMlliam,* 18.5;J.

I'ierce, Wm. B.,* iSoS.

Pierce, William P.

Pope, Alexander

Pope, William

Pratt, Laban

Preston, Edward

Preston, John,* 185G.

I'reston, John

Prince, William G.

l^routy, I>orenzo

Richardson. George

Richardson, William H.

Rideout, Asa

Robic, John

Robinson, iMrs D. A.

Robinson, Eli W.

Robinson, John H.

Robinson, N. T.

Robinson, Stephen A.

Rnggles, Edward H. K.

Scudder, Horace,* 1851.

Shaw. Theron V.,* ISTO,

Smith, Henry,

Snell, Ste|>hen D.

Southworlh, A. C.

Spear, Daniel

Spear, Joshua, Jr.

Spear, Luther

Spooner, John P.

Stephenson, Charles E.

Sumner, Clement

Swan, .James

Temple, Hannaniah

Temple Thomas F.

Temple, William F.

Thayer, Benjamin W.

Thompson, Joshua P.

Thurlow, Kofus

66

Tileston, Edmunl P.
Tilestoii,F. L.
Tileston, S;inuiel
Tolman, Eben'r,* 18'J3.
Tolnian, Williiim
Train, P^nocli,* 1S08.
Trenilct, Tliomiis,* 18.)8.
Trull, John H.
Trull, Mrs. J.H.
Trull, John \V.
Tuttle, Joseph,* 1870.
Upham, James H.
Vinson, Thomas M.
Vose, liobort
Vose, Robert, Jr.
Washburn, Allen J.
Webster, Charles W.
Weleh, John II.
Weh;h, Mrs. -F. JI.
Whi)iple, John L.
Wilder, Marshall P.
Wildrr, Mrs. M. P.,* '.54.
Wilder, Mrs. U. P.
Williams, S. B., * 1851.
AVillis, C. J.
Withington, Wm. C.
Whitten, Charles V.
Woodman, James
Worthinston, Wm.,* '.57.
Worthington, Wm. F.
Wright, Eduumd
Wright, .Mrs. Edmund
Wright, Otis,* '(io. [32G]

DOVER.

Adams, Adna J.
Adams, John
Allen, Jared
Allen, Timothy
liacon, Aaron
Bacon, Jlary S.
Baldwin, Fi'ank
Baker, Jabez
Barden, Calvin
Battelle, John
Battelle, Mrs. John
Battelle, John E.
Battelle, ISFary D.
Battelle, Rachael A.
Battelle, Ralph
Beatie, Thomas
Bigelow, Calvin
Bigelow, Charles A.
Bigelow, >Irs. Hannah T.
Bigelow, Mrs. Abraham
Bigelow, William A.
Bliss, Linus
Bliss, IMrs. Linus
Brookbank, Miss Bella
Chiekering, Daniel
Chie.kering, George B.
Chiekering, Otis
Chiekering, Samuel
Cleveland", William
Dunn. Theodore
Everett, George D.
Everett, Mrs. Martha A.
Everett, Miss Martha E.
Everett, Miss Sarah E.
Fearing, Perez L.
Gannett, William W.
Gay, Francis G.
Gonlding, H. Emeliue
Goulding, Henry
Goulding, Henry E.
Jones, Alice J.
Jones, I. L.
Jones, Luey
Lyman, Miss Fi-ances L.
Ma'i'i) Mrs. Adeline B.
Mawti> Daniel,* 1859.

Mann, Daniel F.
Mann, ElbridgeL.
Mann, Hollis
Mann, S. J. B.
Marden, Mrs. Mary
McGill, Thomas
3[cN'amara, Patrick
Newell, Benjamin
Newell, Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Miss Betsey E.
Newell, Jesse
Newell. Josiah B.
Otis, E. B.
Perry, Elijah
Perry, Mrs. Mehitable
Richards, Calvin
Richards, Mrs. Calvin
Richards, Jennie A.
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers, Wilbor J.
Sanger, Ralph,* ISGO.
Sawiu, Benjamin N.
Sawin, Fi-auk W.
Sawin, Mary A.
Sawin, Mary J.
Shumway, Amos W.
Shumway, Amos W., Jr.
Shnmway, Hannah
Shumway, John W.
Shum'way, Sarah G.
Sias, Samuel
Smith, Abner L.
Smith, Charles H.
Smith, Mary W.
Sullivan, Daniel
Tisdale, William
Upham, Martha P.
Upham, Walter W.
Wall, Patrick
Wilson, Ephraim
Wilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, E. Henry
Wilson, Jliss N. D. [ttO]

FOXBOROUGH.

Aldrich, H. D.,* ISTti.
Belcher, Lewis W.
Burr, Simeon
Capen, James
Carpenter, Daniels
Carpenter, Erastus P.
Carpenter, James E.
Carpenter, Oliver
Cary, Otis
Cobb, Elias G.
Dickerman, Lemuel
Dixon, Sarah O.
Fisher, Albert
Foster, James W.
Guild, Freedom,* 18G2.
Hersey, David
Hodges, Alfred
Ken-, Robert W.,* 1867.
Kingsburv, Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. S.
Leonard, James F.
Leonard, Samuel B.
Leonard, Sanford
.Merrick, John M.
Pettee, David
Pettee, Joseph G.
Pettee, Simeon E.
Shepard, J. M.* 18S6.
Sherman, Job
Smith, Silas
Sumner, Mrs. A. M.
•;,"niner, Charles C.
Imvey, Martin,* 18G1.
'j^Mliams, Francis D.
"^^ yman, David [35 J

FRANKLIN.

Adams, Albert
Adams, Peter
Adams, Ward,* 1805.
Albv, R.

Atwood, Mrs. Ruth,* '(3.
Atvvood, Shadrach
Baker, David P.
Bullard, Piam
Chapman, P>lisha P.
Daniels, Adams
Daniels, Albert E.
Daniels, Charles F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeWitt, Archiliald,* 1*59.
DeWitt, iSIrs. Mary A.,* 'm
Fisher, Herman C.
Fisher, Maxcy,* 1835.
Fisher, Waller H.
Fisher, Mrs. Walter II.
Fisher, Walter M.
Green, Henry M.
Green, Martin
Hardinar, Lewis
Hills, Theron C.,* 18132.
Jones, Hiram W.
Knapp, AltVed '^
Aletcalf, Alfred G.
Metcalf, Alfred H.
Metcalf, Erasmus B.
Metcalf, Erastus L.
Metcalf, Whiling
Metcalt, William
Miller, John V\^
Miller, Phillip W.,* 1860.
Morse, George W.
Morse, Joseph
Nason, George W.,* 18!;8.
Pond, IJenry E.
Ray, Francis B.
Ray, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.
Ray, James P.
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Stephen W.
Rockwood, E.,* 1804.
Rock wood, Nathan
Sargeant, A. D.
Scott, Saul B.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
Wadsworth, (;eorge M.
Wadsworth, Joseph H.
Wales, Otis, Jr.
Whiting, Joseph
Whiting, Joset)h M.
Whiting, Wm.E. [55]

HYDE PARK.

Adams, Henry C. ■
Adams, C. Henry
Adams, Henry 8.
Allen, Zenas
Blake, A. P.
Bleakie, Robert
Blazo, W. A.
Bissett, Henry F.
Beatey, John
Binney, William A.
Bradbury, (;. C.
Brainard, A. H.
Bragg, William M.
Bryant, H.J.
Bullard, William
Coleman, E. J.
Clarke, T. Rmery
Conner, Barney
Crane, Nathaniel
Darling, H. A.
Dolan, Thomas
Davis, Enoch P.

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Davis, David L.
Dow, J. K.
Downiiij^, AlfVert
Downinjr, J;iinef<
Evans, 'riiomjiN C.
Everett, W. .S.
Easton, K. A.
Farnswortli, C. L.
FaiTiiiiiton. .lolin B.
Eiske, II. C.
Genv, Oliiiiles F.
Getcliell, 1{. C.
(iilson. ,!oliii
Gilsoii, Vidlottic L.
Gould, .1. 15.
(iivw, Henry
Haiiibliii, J.'G.
JIanlv, B. II.
Ilaskcll, n. B.
IIcl).inl, Nathaniel
Horton, E. G.
Ireland, John
Kendrick, II. C.
Lougce, U. W.
Lawson, J. 1).
Leach, B. F.
Eeach, Mrs. L. A.
McAvoy, J. D.
Macomber, E. H.
Moseley. K. r.
Moseley, T. W. H.
><'oiTis,"K. N.
Nott, Gordon H.
Kott, Koxanna
Nott, L.B.
Nott, Margaret
Nott, Maggie G.
Noyes, George W.
O'Connell, Daniel
Patterson, Janie.s
Parrott, George B.
Pratt, James
Perkins, E. G.
Park, Wisner
Pierce, C. H.
Pierce, George
Phinnner, K. B.
Putnam, Sidney
liaynes, J. J.
Kaynes, Mis. E. II.
Kadford, B. F.
Kaiilet, D. D.
Kich, D. B.
Kich, II. A.
Kussell, A. L.
Spring, Cliarles
Sprague, K. T.
Sharrock, George
8tark, C. C.
Stevens, J. N.
Stuart, AVilliamJ.
Stuart, Mrs. W. J.
Sherman, George E.
Sanford, O. 8.
Sumner, Giarissa,* 18(59.
Straw, L. H.
Swan, B.
Swill, Thomas P.
Thacher, William T.
Thacher, Mrs. W. T.
Thaine, T. G.
Thaine, Mrs. J. W.
Thompson, B. F.
Tower, Isaac N.
Turner, C. li.
Turner, K. W.
Twitcholl, John M.
Vose, John
Vose, B. C.
Weenian, William E.
Wrght, Itichard

Whittier, A. R.
Williams, .1. 1).
Williams, John M.
■\Villlanis, K.
Willis, .,()liii M.
^Vtlite, Charles A., Jr.
White, K. P.
Wliicher, M. E. [Ill]

MEDFIELD.

A bell, Wm. F.
A bell, Mrs. Wm. F.
Atlams, George F.
AlliMi, Mr.s. Harriet B.
Allen, Noah
Allen, William C.
Baker, Jo.sej)!! H.
Baker, Mr.s. Juseidi II.
Balrli, Albert
Battel), Kalph A.
Barney, Thomas L.
Barney, iMis. Thomas L.
Bigelow, And)ew
Bidlard, John E.
Garson, Joseph
Ghenery, William
Cheney, Nathaniel H.
Cheney, Seth
Crane, George
Curtis, Daniel D.
Curtis, Mrs. Daniel D.
Curtis, Irving
Cushman, Jacob II.
Cushman, Mrs. Jacob R.
Davis, George
Davis, Mrs. George
Ellis, Caleb
Ellis, Francis D.
Ellis, George W^.
Ellis, John
Ellis, Samuel
Fisher, Hinsdale,* 18G9.
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sarah H.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, M)s. Isaac
Frost, Pliineas, Jr.
llamant, Miss Alice E.
Ilamant, Mrs. N. Anna
Hamant, Miss Abby
llamant, airs. Eliza M. C
Hamant, (. aleb S.
Hamant, Charles
Hamant, Mrs. Charles
llamant, Daniels, Jr.
llamant, Daniel D.
Harding, Allied
Harding, Nathan
Ilartsliorn, Joseph,* 1866,
Hartshorn, Warren
Hewins, William P.
He wins, Mrs. William P.
Jones, John P.
Jane.s, Walter,* 1867.
Morse, E;iakim
Morse, Joel
Morse, iMi.ss Lucy
Parker, A. B.
Parker, Mrs. A. B.
Partridge, Mrs. E. A.
Partridge, Henry, Jr.
Richardson, Simeon
Roberts, Mrs. Helen M.
Roberts, Robert
Salisbury, Wm.,* 1857.
Sanborn, Edward M.
Sanborn, W.

Sewall, Charles C.
Sewall, Mrs. Charles C.
Scwall, ICdward U.
Sewall, Miss Elizabeth S.
Shiimway, Benjamin F.
Smith, tJeorge M.
Stedman, Cyrus,* ISC').
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A.,* 1863.
Turner, J. Addison
Wetherell, Harlus W.
Wiieeler, Emory
Willard, Gibson [84]

MEDWAY.

Adams, Edward
Adams, Elisha
Adams, Lyman
Adams, Wyman
Barber, (ieorge,* 1851.
Barber, Thomas
Boyd, William B.
Billiard. John, Jr.
Cary, Gilinan
Carey, William H.
Clark, James P.,* 1865.
Clark, James, W.
Clark, Mrs. James W.
Claik, Maria F.
Clark, Willard P.
Crosby, George,* 1859.
Daniels, James Willard
Daniels, Paul
Daniels, Mrs. Paul
Daniels, William
Ellis, James H.
Fisher, Milton M.
Fuller, Asa M. B.
Hariling, Theodore
Henderson, William
Hurd, .Julius C.
Ide, Jacob
Kingsbury, Gilbert
Lovell, Asahel P.
Lovell, Zachariuh
Lovering, Warren
Mann, James
Mason, Horatio,* 1808.
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalf, Luther
Morse, Asa D.
Partridge, Clark
Partridge, Geoige
Richardson, Eli.^ha F.
Richardson,. Jeremiah D.
Richardson, .Joseph L.
Richardson, Moses
Richardson, Richard
Slocumb, C.,* 1861.
Stevens, Daniel G.
Walker, John S.
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler, A bij.ihR. [48]

MILTON.

Adams, Edward H.
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Amory, Francis
Arnold, John, Jr.*
Babcock, Josiah,* 1863.
Babcock, Lemuel W.
Babcock, Samuel
Baldwin, Edward
Beal, Jonathan
Beck, Gideon
Blanchard, J. W.
Bradlee, John D.
Bradlee, J. W.

68

Bradlee, Miss W. A.
Bveck , Charles
Bi-eck, Charles E. C.
Bronedoii, Chailes
Brooks, John W.
Bunton, Jesse
Burt, John
Burt, Sumner
Bush, James P.
Churchill, Jos. McKean
Chapman, H. L.
Clapp, G. VV.
Cook, Samuel
Cook, W. T.
Copelund, Charles L.
Copeland, Lewis
Cornell, Walter
Crehore, John A.
Crowd, George
Cunningham, C. Loring
Cunningham, Francis,* '67
Curtis, Daniel T.
Davenport, Edwin
Davenport, Mrs. Ellen M.
Davenport, Lewis
Davenport, Lyman
Davenport, Nathaniel T.
Davis, William H.
Dmv, John 11.
Dudley, Benjamin F.
Elkin.s, D. IL
Emerson, Joshua
Everett, George
Farrington, Henry J.
Fenno, Rufus P.
Feri-y, George S.
Ferry, William M.
Forbes, John M.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Foster, William H.
Foster, William L.
Gannett, George K.
Gannett, Samuel
Garrett, George E.
Greene, George W.
Hall, George VV.
Higgins, David
Hinckley, Thomas H.
Hobson, A. R.
Hobson, Miss Martha J.
Hollingsworth, Z.
Hollis, Thoviias
Holmes, C. C.
Houghton, E. W.
Houghton, Jason W.,*

1807.
Hunt, Charles E.
Hunt, George
Hunt, William M.
Kendall, J. B.
Kent, George W.
Kidder, H. P.
Kinsman, Adolphus
Lothrop, T. K.
Merriam, Mrs. Charles H.
Myers, John
Parker, C. H.
Peabody, O. W.
Pierce, Dean
Pierce, Edward L.
Pope, Ebenezer,* 1853.
Raymond, George
Richards, Reuben A.
Bobbins, James M.
Bodgers, O. T.,* 18.59.
Rogers, H., Jr.,* 185.5.
Rotch, Benjamm S.
Itowe, Joseph,* 1856.
Ruggles, E. T.
RuRgles, Philemon
Russell, Henry S.
Safford, N. F.

Senter, L. W.
Sias, Eiiphalet
Sias, John

Sigourney, Henry II. W.
Slone, Charles,* 18.51).
Teele, Albert K.
Thayer, J;ison
ThaVer. J. B.
Thompson, Geo.,* 1857.
Todd, Robert M.
Towne, A. J.
Tucker, David W.
Tucker. Elijah
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah
Tucker, Stillm;in L.
Tucker, Timothy,* 18G4.
Twombly, Josiah F.
Vose, George
Vose, Mrs. George
Vo.se, Henry
Vose, Francis E.
Vose, J. W.
Watson, R. S.
Walker. J. K.
Webb, Josiah
Webster, Joseph R.
West, Henry
White, Benjamin
White. F. B.
"W^hite, James P.
White. John E.
Wolcott, J. Huntington

[127]

NEEDHAM.

Alden, Otis
Avery, Jonathan
Avliiig, Isaac
Beless, Thomas^
Bemis, Mrs. S. S.
Bowers, Henry
Blackman, Henry
Blackman, Augustus
Buck, Charles
Bnck.Mrs.F. P. H.,*1855

Buck, Miss Mary M.
Bullen, Ichabod,* 18.58.
Clark, Joseph P.
Cooper, Samuel
Daniell, George K.
Darling, George F.
Dewing, Charles H.
Dewing, Warren
Eaton, Geoi-ge E.
KayrSjWiltiam C.
Emmons, Chas. P.,* '07.
Flagg. Solomon
Flagg, Wm.,* 18!)1.
Gardner, Elbridge
Goss, Daniel J.
Gray, James
Harmon, Charles H.
Harmon, Cyrus-
Harris, John,* 1858.
Harris, John M.
Harvey, Stephen F.
Holland, John
Hollis, ElishaP.
Howe, Albion K.
Howe, Mrs. Eliza M.
Howland, George
Hubbard, G. G.,* 18.5fi.
Hunnewell, Horatio H.
Hunting, Israel
Kimball, Benjamm G.
Kimball, Mrs. Betsey G.
Kimball, Daniel,* 18(33.
Kingsbury, J. M.
Kingsbury, Lemuel

Kingsbury, Lauren
Kingsbury, Thos.,* ia59.
Kingsbury, William A.
Knapp, A. P.
Lombard, R. T.
Longfellow, George J.
Longfellow, Mary L.
Longfellow, Nathan
Longfellow, Mrs. Nathan
Longfellow, Wilber F.
Longfellow, Fannie E.
Lovewell, Charles B.
Low, George W.
Lyon.Mrs. Julia A.
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
Mansfleld, Charles H.
Manslield, John
Manstiekl, Robert
Manslield, Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, William
McCrackin, John
McCrackin, Robert
Mcintosh, Mrs. F. E.
Mcintosh, Mrs. H. P.
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mcintosh, Mrs. Mary G.
Mills, John
Mills, Matthias
Morton, Otis, Jr.,
Morton, W. T. G.* 18558.
Newell, Artemas
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes, Josiah
Peabodv, Ezekiel
Phillips", Freeman
Pierce, William
Pierce, William, Jr.
Pierce, Mrs. Harriet
Revere, (ieorge
Robinson, Henry
Sawyer, John
Sawyer, Otis,* 18.55.
Scudder, Marshal S.
Seagrave, Saul S.
Shaw, George W.,* '51
Shaw, John W.
Snelling, Nathaniel G.
Spring, Charles H.
Stedinau, Francis
Stedman, Mrs. F. F.
Stedman, William M.
Stevens, A. F.
Stone, David
Stone, Henry L.
Sumner, Lewis
Sumner, Samuel B.
Tucker, E. H.
Turner, John
Turner, Mrs. John
Upham, Cvrus G.
Ware, Dexter,* 1851.
Ware, Reuben
Ware, Althea
Ware, Rnel
Ware, William S.
Washburne, G. W.
Webber, Aaron D.
Welles, John
Whitaker, Edgar K.
White, George
Wilder, C. T.
Williams, Silas G.
Wood, Henry
Wright, Lewis [120 1

QUINCY.

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John Q.
Adams, Ebenczer

69

■BMrlletl, iDriiliini,* 1S53.
Hass, .IosimIi
J'.ass, Ijewis
]{axU'r, r).nii(>l
Baxter, Klijali
li.-vxlcr, Mrs. Klijah
Baxter, Mrs. (icorge
IJaxtor. (ieorfTi- L.
Bealo, Georg(! \V.,*1851.
Hoals, Natlianiel 11.
Billings, LcuHU'l
Bracki'tt, Ia'huu'I
lirigliam. .((isiali,* 1807.
Carr, John .).
Curtis, Noah,* IS-JO.
Eaton, Jai-oh F.
Kniinons, Nathaniel 11.
Kt'llows, Ensign S.
Fri'iU'riek, Kltvuer
French, W.i-^nington M.
c;h)vcr, II. N.,* 18i;;{.
Green, John .V.,* ISol.
Greenleaf, Daniel
Greenleaf, Thos.,* 1854.
Howland, C. A.
Norton, Lloyil G.
JMarsh, Charles
Miller, Charles E.
Morton, William S.
Miuiroe, Israel W.
Newcouib, James
Neweomb, John B.
()iiiiioy, Josiah,* 1804.
Quincv, J. P.
Kii'hanls, L.,* 18.-)2.
Robertson, Joseph \V.
Uogers, Clilt
Savil, John
8oiith\vorth, C.'A.
S);ear, Clia<:. A.,* 1838.
Stetson, James A.
Tliayer, G. V.* lSiJ4.
Torrey. William
Turner, Eilward
Walker, William
AVhite, Nathaniel,* IS")?.
Willard, Solomon,* 18:U .
Williams, Francis [.il]

RANDOLPH.

Alrleii, Ehenczer
Alden, Horatio R.
Belcher, Allen .\.
Belcher, J. White
Buck, Nathan,* 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Chrir-toiJher M.
Cushini;-, Abner L.
Holbi-ook, Caleb S.
Iloll)rool;, I{;iislia
Jordan, John T.,* 1805.
Leeds, Jose])!),* ISoS.
Maguire, James
Maguire, James F.
Slaiui, Eiihiaim,* 18C3.
aiann, .Setli, 2d
Kiles, Jacob
I'orter, William
Sno\v, Zenas,* 1^57.
Stevens, Itichard
Tileston, G. H.
Tower, Isaac,* 1830.
Turner, Koyal \V.
Turner, .Setii
Wales, Aimllos
Wales, E|)!ii aim,* 1855.
Wales, John, 2d
Wales, Jonathan,* 1S'J2.
AVIiiti'onili, Allied W.
Wliito, AUuuiraui

White, Jairiia

White, Jonathan [,32]

llOXBURY.

Adams, Thomas,* 1869.
Ames, It. W.
Andrews, All'red A.
Ai)|)leton, Charles T.
Bacon, ^Villiam
Bartlett, Henry,* 1800.
Blake, S. I'arkmaii
Bowditch, A/.i'll
Bowilitch, A/.ell C.
Bray, Charles \<\
Brigham, Joseiih L.
l{ro\vn, Andrew J.
Bryant, Charles W.
BulVord, John 11.
Chadwick, -'oseph H.
(Jliandler, John G.
Clarke, Jolm J.
Ct)dman, Henry,* 1853.
Copeland, B. F.,* 18()3.
Copeland, Ciias.,* 18.53.
Copchmd, Franklin
Cotting, IJenjamin E.
Crawshaw, Jc)seph
Crosby, Benjaniiu H.
Davis. Gilniau
Dearborn, 11. A. S.,* '51.
Ellis, Charles,* 1800.
Ellis, Ch.-irles M.
Eustis, William
Fisher, \Varieii
Fiske, George A.
Ford, Seth II.,* ISGS.
Faucis, Eben'r,* 1858.
French, Jonathan
French, Mrs. J.
Fuller, H. Weld
Fu.-'Sell, John
Gardner, Francis
Gray, Henry D.
Guild, Frederick
Guild, Henry
GuiM, James
Ham, Joseiih
Harris, Horatio
Hayden, Isaac
Hendee, Charles J.
Ilewes, John M.
Hewins, Whiting,* 1855.
Uicklmg, Charles
Holmes, Richard
Holmes, Mrs. Richard
Huckins, James,* 18G8.
Huckins, James W.
Hustin, William 11.
Keene, James
Kidder, Frederic
King, William .S.
Kingsbury, William B.
Kittredge, Alvah
Lee, Wiili.-im Raymond
Lemist, Eilwiu
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, Franklin H.
Lewis, Samuel S.
Lowell, John A.
Mackintosh, Samuel
IMann, Benjamin
Mathes, Albert U.
McBiirnev, Charles
Mcintosh, William H.
Merrill, John J.
Monroe, (Jeorge H.
Oakley, Frank E.,* 1805.
F.iine, Joseph P.
I'arkei', Augustus
Parker, Geoige J.
Parker, Thomas

Perry, Almon
Pickering, Henry W.
Pike, Charles S.
Putnam, Allen
llich, Napthali D.
Ric(', George W.
Kitchie, James
Uobiuson, J, P.,* 1863.
Hopes, Joseph S.
Sargent, Kpes
Shed, Henry P.
Simmons, 1). A.,* 18G0.
,skiniier, Elias
Sleeper, Jolm S.
Stevens, Amos
Stone, Ebene/.er W.
Sturgis, Janms
Tapi)an, Josiah S.
Thacher, Thomas, Jr.,*

18!!)
Thwing, Supply C.
Tolinau, James,* 1868.
Trescott, Elijah, Jr.
Tucker, Daniel
V^inson, Cornelius M.
Walker, E. C, II.
Walker, Samuel,* 1800.
Ware, Leonard
Way, Samuel A.
Weston, Lvcurgus B.
Whiting', William (Mou-

ti'ose Avenue. )
Williams, A, D,,* 1833.
Williams, Aaron D., Jr.
Williams, David W.
Williams, Mrs" D. W.
Williawis, Dudley
Williams, G. Foster
AVilliams, G. II.,* 1802.
Williams, S.,* 18.ri.
Williams, Thomas B.
Wilson, Granville W.
Winslow, Edward
AViswall, Samuel
Wolcott, John W.
AVorthiugtou, lioland

fl21]

SHARON.

Baker, P. Howard
Baker, Mrs, P. H.
Blackmail, E, H.
BuUard, Benjamin
Clark, Edwin R.,* 18GS.
Col)b, Warren
Cobb, Mrs, Wai-ren
<;oljb, Miss Ella M.
Cobii, Lizzie M,
Drake, Asahel S.
Drake, Mrs. Asahel S.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, George W.
Gay, Mrs. G. W.
Geissler, J. N.
Geissler, Mrs. J. N.
Hewins, Elijah,* 18.57.
Hewins, Lemuel D.,* '68.
Howard, George F.
Howaril, Mrs. G. F.
Hixou, A, G.
Hixon, Mrs. A, G.
Hixou, Charles O.
Hixon, Mrs. C. O.
.Johnson, Lucas
Johnson, Otis
Lothvoj), Howard A,
Mann, George R.
Mann, Mrs. George R.
Mann, William R.
Mann, Mrs. William K.
Mauu, Miss M. Ella

JO

Mann, ]\rifis E. Jfary
Mann, (icor^rt' H.
Morse, Kihvard L.
Mor^e, Jliss K. G.
jMoise, Jiaivey
Moi'se, Leprellotte
Morse, Lewis AV.
Movsc, Mrs. Lewis W.
Pettee, D. Webster
Pettee, Jfrs. D. W.
liaiKlall, JI:ice>-, Jr.
Sanger, John M.
Suiilh, Lewis
Turner, Calvin
Turner, Julia C.
Warren, Charles H.
Weld, H. O.
Wicks, Mrs. A. L.
Wicks, Miss ^rarvL.
Wicks, William B.
Winsliip, Charles
Winship, Mrs. Charles

[54]

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atherton, James
Atheitoi), William
Belcher, Luther J.
Belcher, Orin
Belcher, Wni. S.,* 1862.
Bird, lTenr3-
Capen, Samuel
Clap)), I^ncius
Clai>p, Mrs. Lucius
Clark, Chester '
Curtis, Samuel W.
Brake, Albert H.
Drake, Philip 11.
Ellis, J. Freeman
G.iy, Cyrus H.
Gay, Hiram
Gay, John M.
Gay, Lemuel,* 1866.
Gav, Mace
Gay, >^athaniel
Goldthwait, Daniel A.
Haw( s Kmery
Dill, .)auies

Hodges, Leonard
Hodges, Samuel W.

Hodges, iSlrs. S.W.

Ingham, .Tames
Jones, Henry

Kimball, Henry C.

Litllelield, Charles

:\ronk, ElishaC.

Paul, Saniuel

Porter, Luther

Porter, b'olxu-t

Porter, Robert, .Jr.

Porter, Uriah C.

Porter, 'J'iieron M.

Porter, John M.

Southworlh, Amasa

Southwoi-th, Asahel

Sumner, Francis C.

Swan, Elisha

Ttilbot, (ieovge

Talbot, Newton

Thaver, S. I^vsander

Tucker. Wales

Wales, Nathaniel

Warren, N. M. [49]

WALPOLE.

Allen, .Jeremiah
Allen, Lewis
Bacon, H. B.
Bacon, Sani'l W.,* 18G9.

Bacon, William,* 1862.
Bird, Cliarles
Bird, Francis W".
Boyden, Horatio
Cheney, .Tiise]ih
Clap, Edmund W.
Claij, George 11.
Clap, .'^amuel G.,* 1870.
Claii, Wai'ren
Clarke, Sirs. Betsey M.
Clarke, Henry S.
Clarke, JMrs. H. S.
Clarke, Trueman
Couant, George
Cram, .Jerome B.
Ellis, Isaac
Ellis, James
Ellis, Joseph,* ISol.
Fuller, .James K.
Gilbert, Samuel
Gould, John A.* 1861.
Gray, H. Fannie
Gray, Smith,* 1869.
Gray, Mrs. Suiith
Gray, William H.
Guild, Cliarles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshoi-n, Geoige
Hawes, Joseph,* JS49.
Hyde, George 13.
Lewis, Willard
Mann, John
]Mann, I ov.ell
Neale, Benjamin
Page", William A.
Piei-ce, Shadrach S.
Plimpton, C. G.,* 1864.
Plimpton, H. M.
Policy, Edmund
Priest, Mrs. Leon A.
Scott, .James G. •
Shepard, E.
Sn)ith, John N.
Smith, Mis. John N.
Smith, Metcalf
Stone, Elienezer.* 18G9.
Thompson, Eilwin
Wilmarth, Ada E.
Wilmarth, Naaman B.
Wilmarth, Elizabeth F.
Wilson, Edwin
Wilson, Mrs. Edwin [Sli]

WEST ROXBURY.

Allen, Steidien M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. R.
Arnold , .Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, William Percy
Bacon, Diiniel C.,* IS-OG.
Bacon, Er,incis E.
Bhcoii, \Villi;ini B.
Bailey, laither (J.
Balch, George H.
Balch, .Josejiii,* 1849.
Balch, Jo-eidi W.
Bantield. Everett C.
I5arber, A.D.
Bai tlett, Alden
Bartlelt, Mrs. Alden
Beckwith. Menvy
Billings, .Joseph II.
Billings, Mrs. Joseph H.
Billin.gs, ^liss .Jennie
liilliugs. Miss Mary
Blake John J.
Blake, William
Blackmail, George

Bliss, George N.
Bliss, Mrs. Lucius S.
Bidles, Matthew
Bond. Georue William
Bowditch. .J. Insersoll
Biiidford, S. D.,* 1S65.
Ibadish, Levi .1.
Brewer, Charles
Brewer, Otis
Brown, A. S.
Brown, Benjamin
Brown, Daniel A.
Browne. Horace B.
Bruce, N. T.
Butters, J. A. C.,* 1856.
Cabot Stephen
Cary, Isaac H.
Cass, Aaron
Cass, Francis W.
Cass, Henry W.
Cronin, .Jeremiah
Crosby, Albert
Crosby Miss Fannie H.
Crosby, Miss Irene M.
Crosby, IMiss iMinnie K.
Comins. Linus B.
Cowing. Walter H.
CurtisJ" .Joseph H.
Curtis, George S.
Curtis Charles P.
Dabney, Chas. W., .Jr.
Davis, Francis,* lS(i5.
Decatur, Thomas
Dexter, Anson
DixWell, John J.
Drajjer, Aliijah W.
Dudley, Henry
Dudley, Eohraim M.
I-Cldridge, Oliver
Emmons, .Tolni A.
Enslin, Willisun
Evans, William
Farrar, -J. II:;in)lton
Farringtou, Ebenezer T
Gilbert, Luther
Gooding, George
Gould, .loscjih D.
Greeuough. David S.
Hall, Allred B.
Hall, l)avi<l P.
Hall, .Joseph
Hall. William D.
Harod, William F.
Head, Charles D.
Head, Francis C.
Ilenchmnn. Nath'l H.
Hewins, Charles A.
Hilborn, S. D.
Howland, J. T.
Hunt, Harrison O.
Keith, William,* 1859.
J amb, Reuben A .,* 1858.
I^awrie, Andrew B.
I.,ow, .John <J.
layman. Jlrs. Thomas
Mackintosh, Charles G.
IMackintosh. J. S.
Manning, Charles,* '69.
March, A. S.,* 1854.
March, .Viulrew^ S.
Mcintosh,' William
Meserve, Andrew T.
Moserve, Isaac H.
Minot, Gcfirge R.
Morse, Charles
Morse, Pol ert M.
j\Iot!ev, i\:i-s A. Lothrop
IMo;ley Charles D.
Jlotley, Thomas
IMotley, Mrs. Thomas
IMotle'y. Thomas L.
North, Geuj-ge G.

71

3':ific',.I.'sc|ili W.
Pauc. Kill IV.* 18!in.
Palnior, W'illi.iin.* ISCO.
Pa|iine;iu, Aiitoine
Pai>iiic;iu, AllVeil
I'iirkt'v, S. \Viiii'licster
Parkinson, John,* ISCii.
Picrci", John
Pop)), IliiTonenias
Prnit, John C.
Presfotr, NMilian I?.
Prescott, i\ris. M. 15.
Pricliaril, Jeremiah
I'rielianl, Vila
Pricharil, (Mlnmn
lliiliarils. IMward
Itichards, Ceo. H.
Kichards, Mva. G. IT
KichnitMul. 'Phonias T.
Kolu'son, \Viliiini U.
Kodnian, Samuel \V.
Jiu^sell, Geo. i;.,* ISWi.
Sampson, Charles,* 1859.
Seaverns, Thomas W.
Sh.iw, Francis G.
Shaw, J. J.
Sh;i\v, Onincy A.
Smith, Alvln
Slocunib, William FT.
Smith. Iluniplu'ey
Smitli. Joseph M.
Smith, Lorenzo
Smith. Melanctlion
Spanldini;-. Solomon R.
Si)ooner, \Vm. 11., Jr.
Stevens, S. W.
Stnraris, Russell
Stnrtevant, BenJ. P.
Swett, Samuel \V.
Taft, Ueed
■Tavlor, H.B.,*18(!1.
Tieknor, Wm.D.,* 1864.
TiHen, Geo. A.
Tolman, Ebenezer W.
Tolman, Lneins A.
Townsend, David
Tufts, James,* 1859.
Watt, Robert
Watt, Lizzie

Tatt, ;\[arion J.
Webster, John L.
Weld, .\aroii 1).
AVcld, Mrs. A. D.
Weld, Aaron D., Jr.

Wold, Miss A.K.
Weld, .Miss Kliza
Weld, Kraueis M.
\\'rU[, .J. (iardner
AVeld, Nalhaniel
Weld, .Mrs. Murv P.
Weld, Kichard II.
M'eld, Stephen .M.,* 'G7.
Weld, .Miss Susan
Wentworlli, .laeob
Westcott, .steiilien
Wheeler, Warren li.
Whitney, J. G.
WhitneV, Mrs. J. G.
Whitney, IMiss N.U.
Whvtal, Thomas G.
A\hvt;d, .Mrs. Thomas G.
Williams, 15. P.,* 18.-)G.
\\'illiams, (ieorj^e IL
M'illiams, Henry 11.
Williams, Moses
^^■illiams, Moses B.
Williams, .N. D.,* 18.53.
■Williams, Tliomas B.
William? . .lo.seph W.
Willson, Edmund IJ.
Winchester, Parker
Win{,', B. F.
^X'itherbee, John B.
Woodman, Georj^e F.
AVoodward, Chauncey.
Woodhui'v, .loseph .P.
Woiley, B. W.
Young, Calviu
York, John [108.]

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel
Burrill, .\nsel
Filield, Noah,* ISfiV.
Howe, Appleton,* 1870.
Humphrey, Ebenezer
Hnmphiev, L.,* 1857.
Hunt, A. N.,*18G4.
Hunt, Elias,
.Tones, .James '
Kinsfsbury, F. A.,*1SG0.
Loud, Joseiih, Jr.
Loud, John W.
Nash, Abner P.
Nash, Erastus
Nash, Steidien W.
Porter, Thomas B.
Richards, Elias

Shaw, Nathaniel,* 18G0.

Tiirell, Albert

Tirrell. James,* 18fS.

'riirell, Wilson

White, .I;imi's

White, Thomas [23]

WTtENTIIAM.

Aldrich, Artemas
T'.ainard, AUVed
Blakesley IInlil)ard
(^'heever, Aliui/.o \V.
Cheever, .Mrs. Eliza II.
Cheever, Otis G.
Clap, Harvey E.,* 1803.
(Jlav Nehemiah
Cowell, William W.
Duijee Erastus
Everett, Mrs. E.T.
Everett, Edmund T.
Everett. Melatiah,* 18.^8.
Faxon. Francis (i.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr.,* '09.
Fisher, Hiram B.
Fisher. Silas P.,* 18G5.
Ford, J. T.
Ford, Peter
Fuller, Clianncy G.
Gasset, Henry , Jr.
(irant, (jeorge
Grant, Robert P.
Grant, Whiting
Hawes. Benj.,* 1887.
H<dl)rook, George E.
Ide, Edwin S.
Jepson William A.
Larkin, Lyman B.
Jlann, Howard
Parker, Ebenezer B.
Pond, Handel,* 18G7.
Pond, Jabez E.
Pond, Lucas
Pond, Mrs. Lucas
Proctor, Thomas
Robinson, Joel H.
Sayles, Caleb W.,* 1863.
Starkey, Gardner H.
Stone, "Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Trowbridge, Henry
Ware, Asa
White, .Tames A.
Wiggiu, James S. \i5]

MEMBEKS KESIDING OUT OF THE COtTNTT.

Allen, George E., Newton.
Allen, .Joseph A.. Newton.
Allen, Nathaniel T., Newton.
Balch, Wesley P., Boston.
Beckler, D. W.

Cal lender, Benjamin, Boston.
Collins, .James H., Cambridge.
Copeland, R. McCleai-y, Boston.
Beunie, E. M., Boston.
I)e Reynoso, Bernard.
Donahue, I'atricdj, Boston.
Edmanils, J. AMlcy, Newton.
Ellis. David, Camliridge.
Garbett. W. A., Boston.
Goililanl, Tliomas, Boston.
(Joiild. .Tames, Boston.
Gould. George, Newton.
Hai>go<>(l, L. S.
Mollis, Joiiu W., Newton.

Inches, Martin E., Boston.
Loring, A. K., Boston.
jNIatthews, Natlian, Boston.
Messenger, G. W., Boston.
Minot. (ieorge W., Boston.
Norton, R. R., Boston.
Potter, Silas, Boston.
Quinn, .Tohn, Boston.
Rand, Edward S., Boston.
Rogers, J. A., Boston.
Roswell, Mary Ann, Boston.
Slade, Robert, Boston.
Smith, George W., Boston.
Stcarne, .John, Newton.
Tajipan, I>ewis W., Boston.
Vinal. Otis, Boston.
AVainwright, H. C, Boston.
Wells, B. T., Boston.
Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge.

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Members admitted,
Members deceased,

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LIST OF FUEMIUMS,

Eiilcs nnti Ecrjulattons ant) Ei'st of Commiltccs,

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

FOE THE

piBtg-^icmHii ^mHmd fel[3i)biti0ira;

TO BE HOLDEN AT

READVILLE,

ON

THUKSDAY and FRIDAY, SEPT. 22 and 23, 1870.

HYDE PAEK:
HILDEETH & GETCHELL, PRINTERS,

1870.

^^ The Trustees invite the Agriculturists, Mechanics, Manufacturers,
Horticulturists, and Ladies of the County, to join their endeavors to
render the Exhibition worthy of the patronage of the Commonwealth,
and creditable to themselves.

OFFICEES OF THE SOCIETY . . 1869-70.

President.
Hon. JOHN S. ELDEIDGE, .

Honorary President.
Hon. MAKSPIALL P. WILDER, .

Canton.

Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents.
Hon. Amos A. La^\'kexce,
Hon. Otis Gary,
Stephen W. Richardson,
Elijah Tucker,
Henry Grew,
Royal W. Turner,

Corresponding and Becording Secretary.
Henry O. Hildreth,

Treasurer.

Chauncy C. Churchill,

Brookline.

Foxborough.

Franklin.

Milton.

Hyde Park.

Randolph.

Dedham.

Dedliam.

Executive Committee.
William R. Mann, Sharon; Aaron D. Weld, West Roxbury; Francis
P. Denny, Brookline ; Truman Clarke, Walpole ; Charles Breck, Mil-
ton; Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph ; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury; A.
B. B.vLcn, Medfield; Willlv>i E. Coffin, Dorchester.

Finance Committee and Auditors.
Ira Cleveland, Dedham; Charles Haimant, Medfleld^; Edward S.
Rand, Jr., Dedham.

Supervisory Committee.
The President, Honorary President, and Secretary, ex officiis ;
Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; Charles C. Sewall, Medfield ; Otis C.vky,
Foxborough ; A. W. Cheever, Wrentham ;|Erastus L. Metcalf, Frank-
lin; B. G. Klmball, Needham; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles
Breck, Milton; B. N. Sawin, Dover; Robert Watt, West Roxbury;
Lucius Clapp, Stoughton ; Josiah P. Quincy, Quiucy.

Committee of Arrangements.

Augustus B. Endicott, Chauncy C Churchill, Nathaniel Smith,

Henry O. Hildreth, Dedham ; Charles H.umant, Medfield ;^William R.

Mann, Sharon; Thomas Decatur, Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury;

A. P. Calder, Dorchester; A. P. Blake, Willloi J. Stuakt, Hyde Park.

KOKFOLK AGKICULTURAL SOCIETY.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles
grown or manufactured in the County, unless otherwise specified
in the premium list. Essays and Agricultural Implements being
exempted from this rule, will be opened to general competition.

1^^ Committees are prohibited from aivarding gratuities, other
than diplomas, unless sp>ecijied in the premium list.

^^ Ho object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it
possesses points of superiority ; and the Committees are prohibited
from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles or ob-
jects are not deemed worthy.

Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a pre-
mium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a member of
the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upwards,
shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two
dollars, respectively, and may thereafter become a member.

All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium —
herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must be on
the ground at or before twelve o'clock on Thursday, the first day
of the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals
will not be allowed to be removed from the pens before 3 o'clock
on Friday, the second day, and all other articles not until 5
o'clock.

The same animal (except working oxen and draught horses)
or article shall not be allowed to compete for more than one pre-
mium. And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties
shall not be included in different collections of the same exhibitor,
competing for premium.

In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the
County living remote from the Society's grounds, a sum — not
exceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for compensation of
travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine and sheep, as

have been broucrht or driven more than five miles — reckoninsr
the distance from whence they come to the place of exhibition —
and receive no premium. Only one travel will be allowed to the
same person. Pa3'ment -will be made at the rate of ten cents per
mile for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight cents per mile for each
bull, cow, heifer, or yearling ; ten cents per mile for each boar,
sow or litter of weaned pigs ; and eight cents for each flock of
sheep. But no such payment shall be made for any animal or
animals which, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to
manage them, are not of a superior character and worthy of [^exhi-
bition, or have not been entered in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the Society.

The animals, while on the ground, will be fed at the expense of
the Society.

No person serving on any of the Committees shall have a vote
in any case, when he shall be personally interested as a competitor.

After the objects for exhibition are arranged, they will be under
the exclusive charge of the Superintendents, and cannot be re-
moved luithout their consent.

All other Entries for premiums must be made in Vriting, and
shall be placed in the hands of the Recording Secretary, on or
before the 15th of November.

Premiums awarded and not called for on or before the last Wed-
nesday in March following, will be considered as given to the
Society, in aid of its funds.

The Trustees have carefullj^ revised and approved of the follow-
ing list of premiums. The respective Committees, appointed to
award the same, are required to enforce a strict conformity to all
the rules in relation to Entries and Certificates.

In the appointment of Committees^ the Trustees will seek for
the most judicious and skillful individuals in the various towns in
the County, to award the premiums ; but should they fail to secure
the aid of the ablest and most experienced men in the above
capacity, they will rel}^ upon the forbearance which, they believe,
will be generously extended towards sincere and unwearied eff"orts.

As it Avill become the duty of the Society to make to the Legis-
lature an exact report of its doings, the Trustees deem it of the
highest importance that earnest and persevering eftbrts be made by
the citizens of every town in the County to bring out the results
of their skill and industry.

JOHN S. ELDPvIDGE, President.

Henry 0. Hildretii, Secretary.

LIST

OF

PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR THE YEAR 1870.

[Successful Competitors may receiye their Premiums in Plate or Money, at their option.]

Superintendents at Exhibition.

Horses. — Willlui R. Mann, Sharon ; Assistant, Henky S. Clakk,
Walpole.

Cattle. — Nathaniel Smith, Dedliam.

Sheep, Swine and Poultry.— 3. W. Page, "West Roxbury.

JPrwi^.— Charles F. Curtis, Wbst Roxbury.

Flowers. — Rorert Watt, West Roxbui'y.

Vegetables. — Andrew T. Meserve, West Roxbury.

Manufactures, Carriages, Agricultural Implements, etc. — William Ames,
Dedham.

Plowing and Drawing. — Luther Eaton, Dedham.

Ladies' Work. — Mrs. Thomas Decatur, West Roxbury.

F A.RM S .

EXPERIMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARMS.

Supervisory Committee.— The President, Honorary President, and Secretary, ex offlciis.
Francis P.Denny, Brookline; Charles C. Scwall, Medficld; Otis Gary, Foxboroiigh ;
A. W. Cheever, AVrentham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; B. Q.Kimball, Needham;
Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Breck, Milton; B. N. Sawin, Dover; Robert Watt,
West Roxbury; Lucius Clapp, Stonghton; Josiah P. Qnincy, Quiucy.

For the best managed Farm, taking into view the condition of
the buildings, fences and orchards, the cultivation of the lands, the
care and management of the stock, the quantit}^ quality and pres-
ervation of the crops, the expenses incurred, and the improvements

made during the yejir, with a detailed statement of tlie whole, to
be rendered on or before November 15th, $25 ; second best, $20.

Competitors must give notice of their intention to the Secretary
on or before June 15th. Farms entered for premiums will be viewed
b}^ the Supervisory Committee, as they shall deem expedient, be-
tween June 20th and September 20th. Any farm offered for inspec-
tion, without being entered for a premium, will be viewed and
reported by the Committee, if seasonable application be made to
the Chairman.

PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Committee.— Henry Grew, Hyde Park; H. W. Jones, Franklin; Edmund W. Clap,
Walpole; Charles E. C. Breck, Milton; E. P. Carpenter, Foxboro'.

Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands. — For the best experi-
ment in reclaiming wet meadow or swamp lands, by drainage or
otherwise, on not less than one-half acre, with statement in detail
of the previous condition and produce of the land, the method and
expense of the experiment, and the produce at the present time,
$8 ; second best, $4.

Under-Draining Land. — For the best experiment in under-
draining land, not less than forty square rods, regard being had to
the chai-acter of the soil and subsoil, the method, extent, expense
and result of the experiment, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best,
French's Drainage.

Old Pasture and Unimproved Lands. — For the best con-
ducted experiment in renovating and improving old pasture lands
and lands hitherto lying waste, on not less than one acre, with or
without plowing, with a statement of the previous condition of the
land, and of the method, expense and result of the experiment, $8 ;
second best, $5 ; third best, Flint's Dairy.

TURNING IN CROPS AS MANURE.

Committee— Aa,von D. Weld, West Roxbury ; Calvin Richard^, Dover; S. W. Richard-
son, Franklin.

For the most satisfactory experiment of turning in crops as a
manure, either green or dry, on not less than one-half acre of land,
a detailed account of the whole process, expense and result to be
given in writing, $6.

EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOIL PLOWING.
For the best experiment, on not less than one acre of land, of
the effect of subsoil plowing, to be determined by the difference in
the value of crops, raised on equal portions of equally manured

land, of like quality, one-half of which having been snl3soil plowed,
and the other half plowed in the usual manner, — statements of the
depth of plowing in each instance, together with all the particulars
of culture, required, $8 ; second best, Burr's Vegetables.

FEEDING AND FATTENING STOCK.

Committee.— A. W. Cheever, Wrentham; John Silas, Milton; A. T. Meserve, "West
Eoxbury.

Comparative Value of Crops as Food for Cattle. — For the
best experiment upon a stock of cattle, not less than four in num-
ber, to ascertain the relative value of the different kinds of fodder
used, with a statement in detail of the quantity and quality of the
same, as compared with English hay, the experiment to be made
in the three winter months, $12 ; second best, Stephens' Farmer's
Guide.

Feeding of Milch Cows. — For the best experiment in the
feeding of milch cows, by soiling, stall-feeding or pasturing, with a
detailed statement of the comparative advantages of either method,
regard being had to the saving of manure, comfort of the animals
and produce of the diary, $12 ; second best, $8 ; third best, Flint's
Dairy.

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cattle,
with a statement in detail of the process, expense and result, $5 ;
second best, Flint's Grasses.

Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine,
with a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second
best, Flint's Dairy.

HAY.

Committee.— ^vastuB L. Metcalf, Franklin; Ellis Tucker, Canton ; Francis D.Williams,
Foxborough.

For the largest quantity and best quality of English hay per
acre produced on any farm in the County, regard being had to the
character of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and making,
$5 ; second best, Flint's Treatise on Grasses.

CRANBERRY VINES.

For the best experiment in transplanting Cranberry Vines, or in
growing them from seed, on not less than one-eighth of an acre,
which shall be in the most flourishing and productive state, on the
10th of September, $6 ; second best, $3 ; third best, Eastwood's
Cranberry Culture.

Competitors will be required to give an exact statment of the
process, expense and result of the experiment.

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aH^LIISr J^NT) ROOT CHOIRS.

GRAIN CROPS.

Committee.— WWVmm J. Hyde, Brookline; Robert Mansfield, Needham; John N.
Smith, Walpole; Francis Marsh, Dedham; George E. Cliickering, Dover.

For the best experiment in raising Wheat., a premium of $10 ;
second best, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising liye, Oats or Barley, each,
a premium of $10 ; second best, each, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of
$10 ; second best, Flint's Dairy.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, Millet or Buck,
wheat, each, Bridgeraan's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Samples of each kind of Grain, not less than a half bushel, prop-
erly labeled, must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of the
crop to be ascertained by weight, as follows : — Corn and Rye,
56 pounds each to the bushel ; Barley and Buckwheat, 48 pounds
each ; Oats, 32 pounds ; Wheat, 60 pounds.

ROOT CROPS.

For the best experiment in raising Potatoes, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots, Pars-
nips, Mangold WuHzel, or Ruta-Baga, each. Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, each, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Flat Turnips, Burr's Vegeta-
bles ; second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

Samples of roots, not less than one bushel, properly labeled,
must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of the crops, which
must be on not less than one-quarter of an acre, shall be ascertained
by the weight of the roots — freed from dirt and without tops — as
follows : — Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangold Wurtzel and Ruta-
Bagas, 60 pounds ; Carrots, 55 pounds ; Onions and Flat Turnips,
50 pounds ; Parsnips, 45 pounds to the bushel.

Experiments will be viewed by the Committee between July 1st
and September 20th.

Claimants for premiums must render to the Chairman of the
Committee, on or before November 15th, a written statement of
the character and previous condition of the laud, its present value,

2

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and the taxes upon it ; the kind, quality and value of manure used ;
the quantity and cost of seed sown ; the labor and expense of culti-
vating and harvesting the crop ; and the quantity, quality and
value of the crop. In awarding premiums, regard will be had to all
these cii'cumstances, and to the area of the ground in cultivation.

VEGETABLES.

Committee.— D. S. Meserve, West Roxbury; A. L. Smith, Bovei-; John W.Richard-
eon, Franklin; William Griggs, Brookline; Charles G. Mackintosh, West Roxbury.

For the best experiment in raising Squashes — one-half dozen of
each variety to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, Thomas' Rural Affairs.

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages — not less than six
heads to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; second
best, Thomas' Rural Aifairs.

MIXED CROPS.

Committee. — William J. Hyde, Brookline; Robert Mansfield, Needham; Francis
Marsh, Dedham; George E. Chickering, Dover; John N. Smith, Walpole.

For the best experiment in cultivating mixed crops of Grain and
Vegetables, in alternate portions, or of different roots, in alternate
rows, Harris' Treatise on Insects ; second best. Burr's Vegetables ;
third, best, French's Drainage. The experiment must be made on
not less than half an acre of land, and a detailed statement of the
mode of culture, expense and pi'oduct must be rendered on or
before November 15th.

FLOW^iNO m:a.tch:.

Committee.— Aaron D. Capen, Dorchester; Nathan Longfellow, Needham; Robert
Porter, Jr., Stoughton; Charles L. Copeland, Milton; Ephraim Wilson, Dover.

Double Ox Teams. With Sod and Subsoil Plow. For best
performance in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre,
eight inches in depth, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

With any other Flow, Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second
best, $10 ; third best, $5.

Committee.— TJenry Goulding, Dover; John E. Wethcrbee, Dedham; Joel Morse, Med-
field; William Pierce, Needham; E. W. Tolman, West Roxbury.

Double Horse Teams. With Sod and Subsoil Ploio. Same
conditions. Best, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

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With any other Plow. Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second best,
$10 ; tliii-d best, $5.

Committee.— ^.'^. Sawin, Dover; Thomas B. Grigf^s, Brooklinc; Joel H. Robmson,
■Wrcntham; AValter 11. Fisher, Norfolk; Henry Blackmail, Needham.

Single Ox Teams. With any Plow, For the best performance
in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of au acre, six inches in
depth, within an hour, $10 ; second best, $5.

Committee.— A. T. Meserve, West Roxbury ; John Eaton, Dedham; Lewis W. Morse,
Sharon; Josiah H. Carter, Dorchester; Benjamin F. White, Milton.

Single Horse Teams. Same conditions. Best, $10 ; second
best, $5.

Note. — A Double Team will consist of two yokes of oxen with or
without a driver ; or a team of one yoke of oxen and a horse, with or with-
out a driver. Single Team, one yoke of oxen or one pair of horses with-
out a driver. Each competitor must own his team and plow, and
enter the same in his own name. Plows must be held and teams driven by
their owners, or by persons statedly in their employ. Notice to compete
must be given to the Secretary on or before tlie Wednesday previous to
the Exhibition. In awarding premiums, one hour will be allowed for the
performance of the work, regard being had to the width and depth of the
furrow slice, and the evenness, ease and quiet with which the work is
performed.

TREE CULTURE.

FRUIT TREES.

CommiWee.— A. K. Teele, Milton; Geo. Craft, Brookline ; Cheever Newhall, Dorches-
ter; Robert Watt, West Roxbury; William C. Allen, 3Iedfleld.

Apple Orchard. For the best Apple Orchard, of not less than
afty trees, which shall have been set out at least fire years, and
which shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 1870,
$8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Pear Trees. For the best engrafted or budded standard Pear
Trees, set out at least five years, and which shall be in the most
thriving condition in the autumn of 1870, not less than tioenty-five
trees, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

For the best engrafted or budded Pear Trees oli Quince roots,
■with same conditions, and not less ihsiti Jifty trees., $8 ; second best,
Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

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Peach Orchards. For the best Peach Orchard, of not less than
twenty-five trees, which shall be in the most thrifty bearing condi-
tion in the autumn of 1870, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and
Fruit Trees.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than fifty trees, grown from
pits planted since 1862, on the spot where the trees stand, which
shall be in the best condition in 1870, $8 ; second best, Downing's
Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Apples or Pears. For the best variety of new /Seed-
ling Apples or Pears, of decidedlj^ superior quality, one dozen speci-
mens to be exhibited, together with a history of the origin of the
tree, a description of the growth, and its bearing character, $8 ;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Peaches. For the best variety of Seedling Peaches
of decidedly superior quality, and worthy of general cultivation —
one dozen specimens to be exhibited two years in succession — to-
gether with a history of its origin, a description of its growth, and
the bearing character of the tree, $5 ; second best, Barry's Fruit
Garden.

Note. — Notice of uitention to compete to be given to the Secretary on
or before September 1.

FOREST TREES.

Commiffee.—YAlvrHvd S. Rand, Jr., Dedham; Francis Parkman, Weift Roxbury;
George Craft, Brookliue; Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; Charles F. Howard, Foxboro'.

For the best plantation of Forest Trees, of either of the follow-
ing varieties, namely : AVhite Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch,
White Ash, or Walnut, Scotch Larch, Norway Spruce, Pitch, White
and Norway Pine, or other varieties, not less than three years old,
and not less than one thousand trees, — entries to be made to the
Secretary previous to June 10th, — a premium of $15.

For the best plantation, containing not less than five hundred
trees, Emerson's Shrubs and Trees of Massachusetts.

Ornamental Planting. To any individual or society, regard
being had to the number of persons associated, for the larger num-
ber and best growth of ornamental trees, not less than fifty, which
shall have been planted in a public square or on the roadside at
least two years — first premium, $10 ; second do., Emerson's Shrubs
and Trees of Massachusetts.

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HEDGES.

For the best Live Hedge Fence, not less than five hundred feet in
length, $5 ; second best, Warder's Hedges.

For thfe best Evergreen Hedge, of Hemlock or Norway Spruce,
not less than four hundred feet in length, $5 ; second best, Warder's
Hedges. Premiums to be awarded in 1871.

HORTICULTURE.

[Rule. — All flowers, fruits and vegetables are. to be grown by, and
entered in the name of, the contributor.]

FLOWERS.

Co7ninittee.— John M. Merrick, Jr., Walpole; A. K. Teele, Milton; Robert W.att, West
Roxbury; George Craft, Brookline; Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall.Medfield; Mrs. B.F.Rad-
ford, Hyde Park.

For the best collection of Cut Flowers, $4 ; second best, $3 ;
third best, $2. For the best and most tastefully arranged baskets
of flowers, not less than four, S-1 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2.
For the best and most tastefully arranged bouquets, not less than
four, $4 ; second, $3 ; third, $2. For the best collection of named
gladiolus in spikes, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2, For the best
collection of new seedlings in spikes, $3 ; second best, $2. For the
best new seedlings. Si. For the best collection of Japan lilies, $3 ;
second best $2. For the best new seedling, $1. For the best col-
lection of dahlias, $2 ; second best, $1. For the best new seedling,
$1. For the best collection of double zinnias, $2 ; second best, $1.

A statement in writing of the sorts contributed, and the con-
tributor's name, will be required.

Gratuities, in publications, to the amountof $10,may be awarded
at the discretion of the Committee.

FRUITS.

Committee.— E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury; Geo. Davenport, Dedliam ; A. P. Blake, Hyde
Park; George Vose, Milton; Robert Watt, West Roxbury; Charles F. Curtis, West
Roxbury; Joseph W. Wattles, Canton.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of A^yples, twelve spec-
imens of each varietj' — first premium, $12 ; second do., Harris'
Treatise ; third do., $4 ; fourth do., $3 ; fifth do., Barry's Fruit
Gai-den.

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For the best collection of five varieties of Apples, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $6 ; second do., $4.

For the best collection of twenty varieties of Pears, twelve spec-
imens of each variety — first premium, $15 ; second do., $12.

For the best collection of ten varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $6 ; second do., |4 ; third do.,
62.

For the best collection of Peaches, not less than twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2 ; third do.,
Cole's Fruit Book.

For the best collection of Plums, not less than twelve Specimens
of each variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., Thomas' Rural
Affairs.

Apples. For the best collection of the following varieties, not
less than twelve specimens of each: — Baldwin — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Rhode Island Greening — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Gravenstein — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1 ;
Hubbardston Nonesuch — first premium, %2 ; second do., $1. Rox-
bury Russet — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Porter — first
premium $2 ; second do., $1. Tolman Sweet — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. For any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1.

Pears. For the best collection of the following varieties, not
less than twelve specimens of each : — Clapp's Favorite — "first pre-
mium, $2 ; second do., $1. Bartlett — first premium, $2; second
do., $1. Beurre d'Anjou — first pi-emium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Urbaniste — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Merriam — first pre-
mium, $2 ; second do., $1. Louise Bonne de Jersey — first premium,
$2; second do., $1. Vicar of Winkfield — first premium, $2; sec-
ond do., $1. Duchesse d'Angouleme — first premium $2 ; second
do., $1. Seckle — first premium, %2; second do., $1. Onondaga —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Sheldon — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Beurre Bosc — first premium, S2 ; second do., $1.
Doyenne Boussouck — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre
Clairgeau — first premium, %2 ; second do., $1. Lawrence — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Winter Nelis — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Beurre Langlier — first premium, $2; second do.,
$1. Butfum — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Maria Louise —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Dana's Hovey — first premium,
$2 ; second do,, $1. Paradise d'Automne — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. For any other variety — first premium $2 ; second $1.

Grapes. For the best collection of Foreign Grapes — first pre-
mium, $4 ; second do., $3.

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For the best four bunches of the following varieties, four bunches
of each variety : — Black Hamburg — first premium, $2 ; second do.,
$1. Wilmot's No. 16 — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Vic-
toria— first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. For the best four bunches
of any wliite variety, $2.

For a new variety of Native or Seedling Grape, equal or superior
to the Isabella, ripening in this County in the open air, by the
?H iddle of September, prolific and suitable for the table — first pre-
mium, $20 ; second do., $10.

For the best collection of Native Grapes, first premium, $4 ;
second do., $3 ; third do., $2. Delaware — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Diana — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Rogers'
Hybrids — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Allen's Hybrid —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Concord — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Any other variety — first premium, $2; second
do., $1.

Quinces. For the best collection of Quinces, not less than a
peck, $2.

Cranberries. For the best collection of Cranberries, not less
than four quarts, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, Eastwood's
Cranberry Culture.

No exhibitor taking a premium for collections, shall compete
with the same varieties in the class for single dishes.

COLD VINERIES.

Commj/i^ee.—Eliphalet stone, Dedham; Jolm Pearce, West Roxbury; Edward S. Rand
Jr., Dedbam.

For the best crop, and the most economically kept Cold Vinery,
not less than thirty feet, fii-st premium, $4 ; second best, $3.

GARDEN.

Committee.— D. S. Meserve, West Roxbury; Ebenezer P. Crane, Dedham; A. L.
Smith, Dover; John W. Richardson, Franklin; William Griggs, Brookline.

For the best Vegetable Garden, regard being had to the vari-
ety, excellence and quantity of the products thereof, and the mode
and expense of cultivation, Burr's Vegetables ; second best, Bridge-
man's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Entries must be made before the 10th of June, and an exact
statement rendered before the first of November.

VEGETABLES.

Class 1.
For the best and largest collection of Vegetables exhibited, $15 •
second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

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For the best and largest collection of Potatoes, not less than one
peck of each variety, $6 ; second best, $3.

For the best and largest collection of Winter Squashes, not less
than four of each variety, $A ; second best, $3.

For the best new variety of Seedling Potatoes, superior to any
kind now in cultivation, a premium of $10.

Class 2.

For one-half bushel best Table Potatoes, $2 ; second best, $2.

For one-half bushel best Turnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Carrots, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Beets, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Tomatoes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Onions, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Parsnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Salsify, $2 ; second best, $1.

For two quarts best Lima Beans, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Late Drumhead Cabbages, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Green Globe Savoys, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Cauliflowers, $2 ; second best, $1.

For twelve best heads of Celery, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Marrow Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Canada Crookneck Sqashes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Pumpkins, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Musk-MelonS, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Water-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1..

For twelve ears best Sweet Corn, $2 ; second best, $1.

No exhibitor in class 1 shall compete in class 2 with the same
varieties.

SEEDS.

Committee.— William J. Hyde, Brookline ; Robert Mansfield, Needham ; Francis Marsh,
Dedham; Hiram W. Jones, Frankiin; John N. Smith, Walpole.

For the best sample of ears of Seed Corn, not less than forty in
number — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

For the best collection of Onion, Carrot, Beet, Parsnip and Ruta-
Baga Seeds — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best ten pounds of Timothy, Redtop and Clover Seed, $1.

For the best sample, one peck each, of Wheat, Rye, Barley and
Oats, SI.

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A. ]^^IM: A. L s.

All animals to be entered in the name of the owner, who mu«;t
have had them in his possession at least six months before the
P^xliibition.

All animals, entered in accordance with the rules and regulations,
will be fed, during the Exhibition, at the expense of the Society.

For any animal worthy of the first premium, having received a
similar one at any previous Exhibition, a diploma, certifying the
rank of such animal at the present Exhibition, shall be awarded
instead of a premium.

A diploma may also be awarded, at the discretion of the several
Committees, for any animal, worthy of exhibition, from without the
limits of the Society.

CATTLE.

Committee. — Asahel S. Drake, Sharon; Samuel J. Capen, Dorchester; Nathaniels.
White, Canton; Amos W. Shumway, Dover; Hiram Caldwell, Charles H. Dewing,
Neeclham.

Bulls. For the best Bull, one year old and upwards, of either
Jersey, Durham, Devon, Ayrshire, Hereford, Kerry, or other foreign
stock — in each class, $5 ; second best, $3.

For the best Grade or Native Bull, $3 ; second best, $2.

For the best Bull Calf, under one year old, foreign or native
stock, S3 ; second best, $2.

Committee. — Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedhara; Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; A. W, Chee-
ver, Wrentham; Jacob F. Eaton, Quincy; Caleb Ellis, Medfleld; Aaron Bacon, Dover.

Cows. For the best Cow, three years old or upwards, of foreign
stock, of cither class, each, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $3.

Grade, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $3.

Milch Cows. Three years old and upwards. For the best
Milch Cow, without regard to breed, each, $8 ; second best, $6 ;
third best, $4 ; fourth best, $2.

For the best Milch Heifer, less than three years old, $4 ; second
best, $2.

Herds of Milcii Cows. For the best herd of Milch Cows — not
less than six — kept on any farm in the County, and exhibited at
the Show, regard being had to the breed, age and milking proper-
ties— first premium, the Wilder Cup, of the value of $25 ; second
premium, $12 ; third premium, $8 ; fourth premium, $6.

Note. — No competitor for the premiums oflered for liei'ds shall be al-
lowed to ofl'er the same animals for any premium of a diflereut class.
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Committee.— E\\ja.h Tucker, Milton; Luther Enton, Dedham; Charles Mackintosh,
Needham; Joseph W. Robertson, Qnincy; William Harding, Dorchester.

Heifers. For the best Heifer, two years old and under three,
foreign stock, of either class, each, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third
best, $1.

Grade or Native, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, $1.

For the best Heifer, one year old, of any stock, $2 ; second
best, $1.

For the best Heifer Calf, under one year old, of any stock, $2 ;
second best, $1.

Committee.— James Capen, Foxborough; Robert Porter, Stougliton ; Henry M. Mack,
Dorchester; John Battelle, Dover; William Q. Fisher, Medfield.

Working Oxen. For the best yoke, four years old and upwards,
$6 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.

Town Teams. For the largest and best team, of not less than
ten yokes of Oxen or Steers, from any city or town in the County
— first premium, $12 ; second best, $8.

Steers. For the best joke, well broken, three years old and
under four, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2.

For the best yoke, well broken, two 3^ears old and under three,
$3 ; second best, $2.

Note. — For Oxen or Steers, and also for Herds of Milch Cows, bred and
raised by the exhibitor, twenty per cent additional. In testing the
strength, docility and training of Working Oxen, the load shall not be less
than 2,500 pounds for oxen of five years old and npwai'ds ; and not less
than 2,000 pounds for oxen under five years old. In testing the character
of Steers, as the Committee may direct, special regard will be paid to
their docility and proper training.

Committpe. — Francis B. Ray, Franklin; James Ellis, Walpole; Charles Breck, Milton;
William P. Hewins, Medfield; Daniel W. Stevens, Medway.

Fat Cattle. For the best beef animal fattened b}' the exhib-
itor, within the County, regard being had to the manner and
expense of feeding — of which a written statement will be required
— first premium, $8 ; second do., |6.

SWINE.

Committee. — Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedhani; Amory Fisher, Dedham; Thomas B. Griggs,
Brookline; Emory Wheeler, Medfield; Whiting Grant, Wrentham.

For the largest and best collection of Swine — not less than six
hogs in number — first premium, $15 ; second do., $10 ; third do., $7.

Boars. For the best Boar, not less than six months old, $G ;
second best, $4.

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Sows. For the best Sow, not less than six months old, $C ;
second best, $-4.

"VVeaxeu Pigs. For the best litter, not less than four in number
and not more than feix moutlis old, $6 ; second best, 64.

Fat Ho(js. For the best Fat Hog, regard being had to breed,
age and feeding, $10 ; second best, $G.

Note. — No competitor for the largest collection of swine will be allowed
to ofler the same for any premium of a ditfereut class.

SHEEP.

Cnmmittfe.— Truman Clarke, Walpole ; Joseph H. Billings, West Roxbury; Theodore
Hardiug, Medway.

For the largest and best lot of Sheep — not less than six in num-
ber— $10 ; second best, $8.

For the best lot of Lambs — not less than six in number — bred
bj^ the exhibitor, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best Ram — Cotswold, Leicester, Oxford Down or South-
down— not less than one year old, $5 ; second best, $3.

Committee.— Ahel F. Stevens, Needbam; John W. Richardson, Franklin; Charles E.
U. Breck, Milton.

For the best coUection of not less than three Fowls, either dark
or light Braniah, Shanghai, Black Spanish, Dorking, Bantam,
Hamburg, French Fowls, or an}^ other variety, each, $5 ; second
best, $3.

Turkeys. For the best collection — not less than six — $5 ; second
best, $3.

Geese. For the best collection — not less than six — $5 ; second
best, $3.

Ducks. For the best collection — not less than six — $5 ; second
best, $3.

Pigeons. For the best collection — not less than six — $2 ; second
best, Si.

Note. — Poultry must be entered on the first day of the Exhibition before
12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

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HORSES.

In awarding the premium on Roadsters, the general good quali-
ties— such as style, action, constitution and enduring properties —
as well as speed of the animals, will receive special consideration.

In testing the speed of horses, each animal — four years old and
over — will be required to draw a carriage weighing, with driver
included, not less than 350 pounds.

It is understood that horses which have heretofore been classed
under the head of " Thoroughbred and part Thoroughbred," may
compete as Roadsters, or in any other class.

Colts and Fillies will compete in separate classes, as heretofore,
the premiums being the same for either sex.

No Stallion will be entitled to a premium without a guarantee of
his remaining for service in the County six months.

In testing the strength, docility and training of Draught or Team
Horses, the load shall not be less than 2,500 pounds for a single
horse, and 3,500 pounds for a pair of horses.

Every entry for premium must be made before 12 o'clock of the
first day of the Exhibition, and the Stock must be present the
second day on or before 9 o'clock a.m.

It must be distinctly understood that premiums will not be
awarded to any animal that does not, in the opinion of the Com-
mittee, possess decided merit and a sound constitution.

Class A. — Roadsters.

Committee.— -'Richard Holmes, Roxbury ; Henry Jones, Stoughton; A. W. Whitcomb,
Randolph; J. Austin Rogers, Roxbury; Henry S. Clarke, Walpole.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 yea,YS old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " " " 7 00

2d Division.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00

2d best " " " " 5 00

dd Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old, a premium of .

2d best " " ...

best 3 yeai's old, " ...

2d best " " ...

$5 00

3 00

5 00

3 00

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Sd Division. — Colts cmd Fillies — Concluded
For the best 2 years old, a premium of .
2d best " " . ,

best 1 year old, "

2d best " " . .

Ath Division. — Pairs in Harness.
For the best pair of Roadsters, a premium of

2d best " "

5th Division. — Harness Horses.

For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of ,

2d best " " "

3d best " " "

4th best " " "

S3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

$10 00

7 00

$8 00

6 00

4 00

2 00

Class B. — Horses of all "Work.

Committee. — John D. Bradlee, Milton; Oliver Deane, Canton; George R. Mann,
Sharon ; William T. Thacher, Hyde Park ; Henry Beckwith, West Roxbury.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of SlO 00
2d best, " " " " 7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " 5 00

Sd Division. — Colts and Fillies.
For the best 4 years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 j^ears old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best "

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Ath Division. — Pairs in Harness.
For the best, a premium of . . .
2d best, " ...

6th Division. — Horses in Harness.
For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of
2d best " " "

$5 00

3 00

5 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

$7 00

5 00

$6 00

4 00

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Class C. — Family Horses.

Committee. — Alden Bartlett, West Roxbury; A. P. Caldei*, Dorchester; John M.
Harris, Needham; Francis B. Ray, Franklin; B. F. Brown, Dorchester.

\st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, four years old and upwards, a premium of $ 1 0 00
2d best " " " " 7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with Foal at her side, a premium of %1 00

2d best " " u ■ u 5 qq

3fZ Division. — Colts and Fillies.
For the best four years old, a premium of
2d best " "

best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best "

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Ath Division. — Carriage Horses 15 to 16 hands high.
For the best pair of Carriage Horses, a premium of
2d best

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5th Division. — Buggy or Chaise Horses.
For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of
2d best " " " "

3d best " "

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6th Division. — Saddle Horses.
For the best Saddle Horse, a premium of

2d best " "
3d best " "

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1th Division. — Ponies.
For the best matched Ponies, a premium of
2d best " " "

best single Pony, "

2d best " "

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$5 00

3 00

5 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

$10 00

7 00

$8 00

6 00

4 00

$6 00

4 00

3 00

$6 00

4 00

3 00

2 00

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Class 1). — DKArfuix or Team Houses.

Committee.— SWas G.Williams, Nooilham; Ellis Tucker, Canton; Ilonry A. Darling
Hyde Park; Charles G. Mackintosh, West Roxbury ; Charles A. Ilowlaud, Quuicy.

1st Division. — Single Draught or Team Horses.
For the best Draught Horse, a premium of . . . S7 00
2d best " " " ... 5 00

2d Division. — Pairs of Draught or Team Horses. '

For the best pair of Draught or Team Horses, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " " . 5 00

BUTTER.

Committee.— Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Lucius Clapp, Stoughtou; Milton M. Fisher,
Medway; Isaac Fiske, Medlield; Mrs. B. N. Sawin, Dover; Mrs. Nathan Longfellow,
Keedham.

For the best produce of Butter, on any farm within the County,
for four months, from the 20th of May to the 20th of September —
a sample of not less than twenty pounds to be exhibited — quantity
as well as quality to be taken into view, — first premium, $10 ;
second do., $8 ; thii'd do., S5 ; fourth do., S-i.

Note.— It will be seen that these premiiuns are offered for the best prod-
uce on the Farms, and not simply for the best specimens exhibited. Each
lot must be numbered, but not marked ; any public, or known mark, must
be completely concealed, nor must tlie competitors be present at the ex-
amination.

For the best box of Butter — not less than 12 pounds — first pre-
mium, $5 ; second do., $'S ; third do., Flint's Treatise on Dairy
Farming.

Note.— B?<«er must be presented only on the morning of the second
day before 9 o'clock.

Cheese. For the best lot of Clieese— not less than forty pounds
— first premium, §5 ; second do., 3 ; third do., Flint's 'Li'eatise on
Dairy Farming.

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B R E A.D.

Committee. — Calvin Richards, Dover; J. White Belcher, Randolph; Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Newhon; Mrs. William Harding, Dorchester; Mrs. Eliphalet Stone, Dedham;
Mrs. W. W. Gannett, Cambridge; Charles H. Mansfield, Needhara.

For the best loaf of Wheat and Indian, of not less than two
pouncfe weight — fii-st premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf made of Unbolted Wheat, which has been
grown in the County, of not less than two pounds weight — first
premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Rye and Indian, of not less than four pounds
weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Wheat Bread, of not less than two pounds
weight — first premium, S3 ; second do., $2.

For the best specimens of each or any of the aforementioned
kinds of bread, made by any young woman under eighteen years of
age, an additional premium of twenty-five per cent.

The bread presented for premium must be made on the first day
of the Exhibition, by some member of a family, in whose name the
entry shall be made, and to whom the premium shall be awarded.
The bread shall be made without the use of saleratus or other alka-
line substance, and made in the family, and be presented only on
the second day of the Exhibition, before 9 o'clock in the 7norning.
No name or mark shall be put on the loaves, except the number of
the entry in the Committee's book.

The names of contributors shall not be known to the Committee,
and no person shall serve on the same if any member of his family
shall be a competitor.

HONEY.

For the best specimen of Honey in the comb, not less than six
pounds, Longstrath on the Honey Bee ; .second best, $1.

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ISIA^lSrXJP'^CTURES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee.— Charles C. Sewall, Mertfleld ; John Sias, Milton ; A. T. Meserve, West
Roxbury; Edmund T. Everett, Wrentliam; Charles E.G. Breck, Milton; Luther Eaton,
Dedham.

For the largest find best collection, $12 ; second, $6.

For any new or improved Plow, which on trial shall be found
best adapted for the thorough pulverization of old plowed land, a
premium of $6.

New INTE^moNS. For any new invention of decided superiority
and usefulness to the farmer, a premium or gratuity, at the discre-
tion of the Committee.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

Committee. — Mrs. Thomas Decatur, West Roxbury; Mrs. Samuel B. Noyes, Canton;
Miss Abby F. Hayes, Dorchester; Mrs. John M. Harris, Needham; Mrs. Charles H.
Lealand, Dedham, Mrs. W. T. Thacher, Hyde Park.

Fancy Articles — including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shellwork,
Milliner}', Drawings, Paintings, etc.

For such articles in this department as may be deemed worthy,
a sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars shall be appropriated, to
be paid in premiums or gratuities, proportioned to the cost and
value of the article, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — It should be understood that in this department of Ladies' work
— while other things will receive due consideration — the premiums are in-
tended SOLELY FOR NEWLY MADE articles which are really useful or par-
ticularly beautiful. For well-made garments of any kind ; for stocking
knitting of wool, cotton or silk; or bonnet and cap making; for all articles
for children's wear, well made or tastefully embroidered; for neat and
thorough mending, patching and darning ; for drawing, designing, or paint-
ing in oil or water colors ; for models in plaster, wood or marble, etc.

Any article well and tastefully, wrought, oflered by children under twelve
years of age, will receive particular attention.

Committee.— A, S. Harding, Medway; J. A. Turner, Medfield; Charles C. Sumner,
Foxborough.

Manufactures of Straw. For the best specimen of Straw
Bonnets, wholly of domestic manufacture, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best specimen of Straw Braid., of domestic straw, not
less than 100 yai'ds, $5 ; second best, $3.

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Committee.— Charles H. French, Canton; Naaman B. Wilmarth, Walpole; Luther
Metcalf, Medway ; Ezra W.Taft, Dedham; Francis B. Ray, Franklin.

Manufactures of Cloth, Flannels, Hosiery, etc. Cotton Cloth.
For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any description, not less
than twenty-eight yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the
discretion of the Committee.

Woolen Clotli. For the best specimen of Woolen Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty yards in quantity, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cotton and Woolen Mixed. For the best specimen of Cotton
and Woolen Cloth, of any description, not less than twenty yards
in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Flannels. For the best specimen of Flannel, not less than
twenty j^ards in quantity, a premium or gratuit}^, at the discretion
of the Committee.

For the best specimen of Cotton Flannel, not less than twenty
yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the
Committee.

For the best pair of Woolen Blankets, a premium or gratuity, at
the discretion of the Committee.

Hosiery, etc. For the best specimen of Woolen Hose, a premium
of $1.

For the best specimen of Woolen Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Hose, a premium of 50 cents.
For the best specimen of Cotton Half Hose, a premium of 25
cents.

For the best specimen of Worsted Hose, a premium of $1.
For the best specimen of Worsted Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the best specimen of Sewing Silk, not less than one pound,
a premium of $2.

For the best specimen of Knitting Yarn, not less than one pound,
a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Spool Thread, not less than one pound,
a premium of $1.

For the best Fleece of Wool, a premium of $1.
For the best dozen seamless Grain Bags, a premium of $1.
For the best specimen of neat and thorough mending, patching
or darning of garments, hose, etc., a premium of $1.
For the best specimen of covered bonnet wire, $3.

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Counterpanes. For the best Counterpane — regard being had
to quality and expense of materials — first premium, $3 ; second do.,

$2.

• Carpetings, Rugs and Floor Cloth.

For the best " Common " Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting.
" " u Pine " " " "

" " "Superfine" " "

• " " " Common," " Fine " or " Superfine " Ingrain 3-ply

Carpeting.
For the best Brussels Floor Carpeting.
" " Tapestry " "

" " Velvet Carpeting.
For each of these descriptions of Carpeting, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note.— Ingrain 3-ply Carpeting will be judged by the comparative merits
of pieces of similar weight; or disregarding weight, by the quality of
color, the taste of shading, and evenness in spinning and weaving.

For the best piece of Stair Carpeting, the Societ3^'s diploma.
For the best Hearth Rug, the Society's diploma.
For the best specimen of painted Floor Cloth, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Any articles in either of the foregoing departments, which shall
have been manufactured in the family of the person presenting it, will
receive tlie particular consideration of the Committee, and, if worthy, a
suitable premium.

Committee.— Frcivik 51. Ames, Canton; Alexander Dickson, West Roxbury; Curtis G.
Morse, DeJluim; Manley W. Cain, Dorchester.

Glass, Stone, Earthen and Wooden "Ware. For the finest
collections and best specimens of articles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brass, Copper, Tin, Iron and Britannia Ware. For the finest
collections and best specimens of ai'ticles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cabinet Work. For the best specimen of Cabinet Work, a
premium or the Society's diploma.

Iron Fencing, Gates and Posts. For the best specimen of each
— regard being had to cost and utility, as well as ornament — a pre-
mium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

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Stoves. For the best Farmer's Cauldron Stove ;
" " " Cooking "

" " " Parlor "

— a premium of $2 each.

Horse and Ox Shoes. For the best set of Horse and Ox Shoes,
a premium of $1.

For the best specimens of Horse Shoes, for meadoio lands, a
premium of ^1.

Committee.— .Joseph Day,Declhain; Samuel Atherton, Dorchester; Benjamin F. White,
Weymouth; John'.Mann, Walpole; E. C. Monk, Stoughton.

India Eubber Goods. For the finest collection of India Rubber
goods, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brushes, Combs, Hats, Caps and Gloves. For the finest col-
lection and best specimens of each of these articles, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Leather, and Articles Manufactured Therefrom.

For the best specimen of Thick Boots, a premium of . $2 00

Calfskin, " . 3 00

Thin Boots, other

than Calfskin, " . 2 00

Kipskin, « . 2 00

Thick Brogans, " . 1 00

Fine Brogans, " . 1 00

Ladies' Boots, " . 1 00

For the best specimen of Upper or Sole Leather, or Morocco, a
premium or gratuity, each, at the discretion of the Committee.
For the best single Carriage Harness ;
" " double " "

" " Cart Harness — a premium or gratuity, each, at the
discretion of the Committee.

For the best Riding Bridle, a premium of . . . $1 00
" " " Saddle, " ... 2 00

*' " Carriage or Cart Whip, a premium of . 1 00

Carriages, Wagons, Carts, etc.

Committee.— A. J. Whittier, Hyde Tark; John Hall, Canton; Thomas L. Barney
Medfleld.

For the best specimen of Family Carriages, for one horse gr two
horses ;

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For the best Covered "Wagon ;
" " Open "

" " Farm *'

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" " " Wheelbarrow — either a premium or gratu-

ity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Com»H!7/ce.— George Vose, Milton; B. G. Kimball, Needham; Theodore Dunn, Dover;
George Crane, Medlleld.

Jellies, Preserves, Pickles and Ketchups. For the finest
collection and best specimen of each, made of articles of domestic
growth, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Native Wines, Cordials, etc. For the best specimens of Wines'
from American grapes, not less than two bottles to be exhibited,
$2 ; second best, $1.

For the best specimen of Wine or Cordial from currants, black-
berries, raspberries, or elderberries, not less than two bottles to be
exhibited, each, $1.

Note. — It is to be understood that all articles presented for premium, in
each of the forejioing departments, except Agricultural Implements, shall
have been manufactured or produced within the County, and by the person
presenting them. Also, that in every case, the Examining Committee shall
have the right to substitute the Society's diploma for a premium or gratu-
ity, or to give it where no premium or gratuity has been offered, at their
discretion.

All discretionary premiums or gratuities shall be proportioned to the
actual value and utility of the articles.

Articles iu either of the above departments, contributed to the Exhibi-
tion by persons not resident in the County, shall receive suitable attention
from the Committee, and, if woi'thy, be awarded the Society's diploma.

MISCELLA.NEOUS.

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Committee.— E. A. Samnels, Canton; Carlos Slafter, Dedham; A. W. Cheever, Wren-
thain.

For the largest and best collections of Birds and Insects found
within the County, beneficial or injurious to vegetation, properly
arranged and classified, to be exhibited on the Society's tables, at
the next annual fan-, one copy of Harris's Treatise on Insects.

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AGRICULTURAL LABORERS.

For a certificate — signed by his employer, and countersigned by
any two of the Trustees residing nearest to the applicant — of the
superior qualifications of any man or youth, in the employment of
any member of the Society for a period next preceding, of not less
than two years, attesting the industry, integrity, respectful demean-
or and general good habits, during the time, of the bearer of such
certificate, a premium of Membership of the Society and a diploma.

AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS.

Comm«7<<?e.— Marshall P. "Wilder, Dorchester; Charles C. Sewall, Metlficld; Henry O.
HildreUi, Dedhain ; Frauds P. Denny, Brookline; Albert K. Teele, Milton.

' For the best Report of Committees w^hich recommend the award
of premiums. First premium, $8 ; second, $6 ; third, $4.

For the best Essaj^ on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the various grasses, or cereal, fruit or vegetable
crops, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the breeding and raising of the different classes
of farm stock, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the fattening of cattle, swine or sheep, de-
tailing the process and expense of the same, a premium not exceed-
ing $25.

Forest Trees. For the best Essay on the raising and cultiva-
tion of Forest Trees, a premium not exceeding $25.

Insects. For the best Essay on the destruction of Insects inju-
rious to vegetation, such as CurcuUo, Borer, Canker- Worm, Cater-
jyillar. Cut- Worm, Squash-Bug, Sriped-Bug, Rose-Bug, etc., etc., a
premium not exceeding $25.

Preservation of Winter Fruit. For the best Essay on the
preservation of Apples and other Winter Fruits, a premium not ex-
ceeding $25.

Preservation of Vegetables. For the best Essay on the pres-
ervation of Vegetables, a premium not exceeding $25.

Agricultural Education. For the best Essay on Agricultural
Education, a premium not exceeding $25.

Farm Accounts. For the best Essay on a system of Farm Ac-
counts, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Domestic Poultry, a premium not exceed-
ing $25.

For the best Essay on Fences for Farms, uniting economy,
strength and appearance, a premium not exceeding $25.

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For the best Essay on the extermination of Weeds and Plants
destructive to crops, a premium not exceeding S25.

For the best Essay on the preservation and application of Liquid
Manure, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best P^ssay on the introduction of new Fruits or of new
articles of Field Culture, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the value and application of Phosphate of
Lime, or any fertilizer of the soil, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Bees and Structure of Hives, with partic-
ular reference to feeding Bees, and guarding against the spoliation
of the Bee Moth, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best plan for a Barn and Barnyard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfort of the Cattle, the ease and conven-
ience of tending them, and the making and preserving the Manure,
a premium not exceeding $25.

These premiums will not be awarded unless the Essaj's offered
shall, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to decide upon
them, be deemed worthy of an award, without reference to their
comparative merit.

FARM BUILDINGS.

For the best planned house and out-buildings — regard being
had to the cost and economy of labor — the house to be warm, well
lighted and ventilated, with a cellar protected from frost and ver-
min, and the whole not to cost over $1,800 — to be examined by
the Supervisory Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said
Committee.

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ONTENTS.

Address, by Samuel B. Noyes,
Keport of the President and Secretary,

on Horses, .

on Races,

on Ploughing,

on Working Oxen

on Bulls,

on Cows,

on Heifers, ,

on Swine,

on Poultry, .

on Pears,

on Apples, Grapes, &c.

on Flowers, .

on Vegetables,

on Bread,

on Dairy,

on Seeds,

on Leather Work, &c.,

on Agricultural Implements

on Ladies' Work, .
llecapitulation of Premiums, .
Report of the Treasurer,
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Anniversar
Officers of the Society, .
Names of Members,

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A.IDDIIESS.

BY SAMUEL B. NOYES, OF CANTON.

Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Norfolk
Agricultural Society : — Twenty-two years ago the Norfolk
County Agricultural Society was organized. Those of us
present to-day, who were present at the first public festival at
Dedham, will remember with what a thrill of interested en-
thusiasm we enjoyed that day, to which we had looked for-
ward with such pleasing anticipation. Many of the active
men of that day — not alone the farmers, who had a special
interest in the formation of the Society — but many, almost
all of the men who, from their position in other walks of life,
exercised a leading and controlling influence on public mat-
ters — Christian ministers, who, from every town in this
county, came to grace and to enjoy your first festival ; trusted
physicians, statesmen, orators, poets ; those who made the
day so glorious in its enjoyment and so pleasing in remem-
brance, have passed away from this earth. They, whom time
has spared to be here to-day, and who, faithful to the vows of
fealty registered on that memorable occasion, have followed
the fortunes of this Society, constantly laboring for its real
good, will recall to-day the labors of Burgess, and Lamson,
and Wight and Keyes, of Dedham ; and Lunt, of Quincy ;
and Merrick, of Walpole ; and Sanger, of Dover ; and Lin-
coln, of Canton ; and^of others whose names are household
words in the farm-houses of this county, and are inseparably
connected with the remembrance of the beginning of the So-
ciety. And there were Governor Briggs, and the brilliant

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Horace Mann, and the eloquent Everett, and the grand old
Daniel Webster ! Do they not all

"From those bright regions of eternal day.
Where they now shine among their fellow saints,
Arrayed in purer light, look down on us ? "

He, whose mind conceived and inspired the idea of this
Society, — not his greatest conception, for it is to him that we
owe the United States Agricultural Society, the American
Pomological Society, the State Board of Agriculture, the State
Agricultural College, — he, whose genius planned, whose en-
terprise perfected, whose munificence endowed, whose exam-
ple blessed the beginning of this Society, whose twenty-third
anniversary you are celebrating, has never ceased to labor in
its behalf This youngest child of his paternity he has ever
loved with partial fondness. Other children he may have
who share that paternal care which continues even after the
number of years allotted to infancy, but no one of them has
ever been, or can ever be, so dear to him as this. And he is
here to-day. The time may come when we shall see his face
no more. But his counsels and his labors and his memory
will ever live.

" They err who tell us these can die,
For they are indestructible."

About forty years ago, when the City of Boston was com-
paratively a small village, on Court street, near the head of
Hanover street (as I have heard), in a room in an old-fash-
ioned building, to which you descended by a wooden step,
Robert New — " Bob " New — kept his barber-shop. He was
a pretty old man, and his customers, who, in those days made
the barber-shop a sort of exchange, where they learned the
gossip of the town, used to call him " Old New. " By-and-by
it transpired that the barber had a son born in his house, and
the curiosity of his customers was great to know what he
would christen him. So for some d|iys they asked him,
" What do you call the boy .-• " " Nothing, " was the reply ;
and so the child went by the name " Nothing New." And if
you should ask me what can be said here to-day in this pres-

ence, which is new, I should answer — nothing. And my
theme may well be called " Nothing New, "

It seems to me that you can consider no subject to-day of
more importance than to know how the interest of the people
of this county in this Society, formed under such glorious
auspices, can be heightened, and increased, and extended,
livery farmer in the County of Norfolk should be as enthusi-
astic in its continuance and support to-day as they were who
established it. There may be town societies, or smaller dis-
trict societies, but these should be subsidiary to, and branches
of, this Society, as county societies are parts of State societies,
as State societies are tributary to the New England Society,
or to a National Society. It is a local interest we need.

We need not fear that the human race will ever cease to
have a delight in the cultivation of land, — the raising of grain
and fruits, — in planting trees. Men always did delight in the
pleasures of agriculture. It has been the chosen pursuit of
the ablest and wisest. men in all ages. The pleasures of the
husbandman have been the theme of poets and orators in
every language and in every land. These pleasures, Cicero
tells us, are not checked by any old age, and make the nearest
approach to the life of a wise man. And he tells us that Ho-
mer introduces Laertes, soothing the regret which he felt for
his son, by tilling the land and manuring it,

Marcus Curius, after he had triumphed over the Samnites,
over the Sabines, over Pyrrhus, spent the closing period of his
existence in agricultural pursuits.

Cincinnatus was at the plow when it was announced to him
that he was made Dictator.

" God Almighty, " says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ;
and indeed it is the purest of pleasures ; it is the greatest re-
freshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and
palaces are but gross handiworks, "

Addison says a garden was the habitation of our first par-
ents before the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with
calmness and tranquility, and to lay all its turbulent passions
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The philosopher Bolingbroke was never so happy, Pope tells
us, as when among the hay-makers on his farm.

And not alone in the refinements of rural life will there be
an interest. Farmers hold the world together. There may
be years when they seem to be of less consequence. Trade
or manufactures may allure some of them for a time. But
there will ever be latent in every man's breast a hope to end
his days on a farm. Then we need not fear but that there
will always be farmers in Norfolk County. Every diminution
of its territory by which some of its oldest and most glorious
farms are consigned to the city to be covered with dwellings,
will but make those which remain to be more affectionately
regarded. And in a county like this, whose territory is grow-
ing smaller every year, the farmers can in many ways sub-
serve their best good by a union for the support of this So-
ciety. How otherwise shall be controverted what I have so
often heard said in other States of the Union, that the old
farms of New England, more particularly of Massachusetts,
are passing out of the ownership of the descendants of the
families who first cleared the fields and fenced them, and
planted the orchards, and builded the barns and the farm-
houses — and planted the shade trees which overshadow
them.

Alas ! it is too true, as any one can know who travels
through the Massachusetts towns, not on railroads, but by the
old town and county roads. When I have been driving about
the country, I have paused more than once to contemplate the
desolated appearance, the forlorn aspect of some of these an-
cient farm-houses. They were not, perhaps, what the archi-
tect of these days would call beautiful, yet they were like the
houses which Socrates would have called beautiful.- He
reasoned on the subject thus: — "Should not he, who pur-

oses to have a house such as it ought to be, contrive that it
may be most pleasant, and, at the same time, most useful to
live in .-* " This being admitted, he said, " Is it not then pleas-
ant to have it cool in summer and warm in winter ? " When
his hearers had assented to this, he said, " In houses, then,

that look to the south does not the sun, in the winter, shine
into the porticoes, while in the summer it passes over our
heads, and above the roof, and casts a shade ? Ought we not
to build the parts towards the south higher, that the sun in
winter may not be shut out, and the parts towards the north
lower, that the cold winds may not fall violently on them ?
To sum up the matter briefly, that would be the most pleas-
ant and the most beautiful residence in which the owner, at
all seasons, would find the most satisfactory retreat, and de-
posit what belongs to him with the greatest safety. " As if
they had brought the art of building from ancient Greece, so
did our ancestors construct their houses on a southern slope,
fronting to the sun, high in front, and low in the rear. We
used to hear them called " salt-box houses;" for in every one
of these houses there used to be a salt-box, shaped precisely
like the house.

I am not to be reckoned among the oldest persons here to-
day, but I have seen many of these New England farm-
houses, and comtortable, inviting places they were. There
was the long kitchen, with its broad, deep fire-place in which
a half-cord of wood could be piled and fired on festive nights.
What suppers, what sports there were after a spinning bee,
or a quilting bee, or a corn husking ! What Thanksgiving
feasts ! What birthday rejoicings, what wedding festivals,
those old kitchens witnessed ! The fire on the wide hearths
never went out. And all through the winter months, when
the crops had been housed in the barns and stored in the cel-
lars, joyful among themselves, as Virgil has it, — the farmers
enjoyed mutual feasts.

There was little of what is called rivalry or envy in those
elder days among the farmers. There was a general harmony
and good neighborhood. The interest of one was the inter-
est of all. Did one of them have the misfortune to have his
house or his barn burnt, his neighbors would raise and finish
a new house or barn for him. What famous women were the
wives of the farmers who lived in those houses. How they
rose up early and sat up late, and carded wool and flax and
spun yarn and knitted stockings and wove cloth ; and they

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made butter and cheese ; and they raised up sons and daugh-
ters all the while. Verily, as Mr. Alexander Everett once
wrote, there should an order go forth for a Solemn Bee to as-
semble in every State in New England with a view to ascer-
tain and preserve the oral traditions of the customs of our
ancestors, of the farmers of the early days of our State.

There were cities in those days, and the line of demarca-
tion between town and country life was sharply drawn. Mr.
Boutwell, at the dinner at the last New England Agricultural
Fair at Lowell, spoke of the time as past when a man from
the country would be known and distinguished from the in-
habitants of the city the moment he set his feet in State
street. And here is seen our connection with the great Past.
It -was so in ancient Greece. As Athens grew in wealth, the
richer part, indeed, of the country population were more and
more attracted to it ; and Isocrates, writing almost four hun-
dred years before Christ, can already contrast his own time
with the days when "the houses and establishments in the
country were handsomer than those within the walls, and
when many of the citizens did not even come to town for the
festivals. " But there remained a frugal farmer class, strongly
conservative of the old simplicity, totally strange to the life
of the city, and rarely, in some cases never, visiting it. In
the Greek Comic Dramas the temptations which beset the
rustic on his visits to Athens are forcibly described. A far-
mer sends his son to sell wood and barley ; the young man
sees a philosopher at the Academy, and to his father's dis-
may comes back a Cynic. Another, having been sent to buy
earthen ware, is betrayed into a ruinous carouse ; a third,
after disposing of his figs and nuts goes to the theatre, and is
thrown into ecstacies of wonder and terror by a conjuror.
The rareness of such visits is also marked. In one letter a
young Attic farmer requests a neighbor to be his guide in a
first visit to Athens ; he longs to see what this thing may be
which they call "town" — we call it the elephant. In another
a son implores his mother to " come and see the splendors of
the town before her dying day ;" for though distant but a few
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US how the rustic may be known, for he will carry the fra-
grance of a posset made with wine, barley meal, grated cheese,
and honey, flavored with thyme, on his breath into the Ecclc-
sia! And we are told of one Cleon, a villainous Athenian
trader, who sold bad shoe leather to the country people, " so
that before they had worn the shoes a day they were too large
by a couple of spans."

So far as there is any known written history of the transac-
tions of the human race on this earth, there has ahvays been
a country, and there has always been a town! God rhade
the country, and man made the town. And in the ancient
farm-houses of this county were cultivated and cherished
the divine graces of character. First of all, piety ; hum-
ble trust in God.* By patient, industrious labor, they
cleared the fields of their forests, they gathered the rocks and

* Note. — 1646. " This year, about the end of the 5th month, we had
a very strong hand of God upon us, for upon a suddaine, innumerable
armys of caterpillars filled the country all over all the English plan-
tations, which devoured some whole meadows of grasse, and greatly )«
devoured barley, being the most growne, and tender corne, eating
off all the blades and beards, but left the corne, oxAy many ears they
quite eat off. by eating the green straw asunder below the eare, so
that barley was generall}'- half spoiled; likewise they much hurt
wheate, by eating the blades ofi", butt wheate had the lesse hurte, be-
cause it was a little forwarder than barley, or harder and dryer, and
they lesse meddled with it. As for rye, it was so hard and near ripe,
they touched it not. But above all grains they devoured oatss. And
in some places they fell upon Indian corne and quite devoured it, in
other places they touched it not. They would crosse highway's by
1000.

Much prayer was made to God about it, and fasting in divers places,
and the Lord heard, and on a suddaine took them all away again in
all parts of the country, to the wonderment of all men. It was the
Lord, for it Avas done suddainely."

1662. It pleased God this spring to exercise the country with a se-
vere drought, but some were so rash as to impute it to the sitting of
the Synod. But God Avas pleased to bear witness against their rash-
ness. For no sooner was the Synod met, June 10, but they agreed to
set the next day apart to ask God's favorable presence and to ask
rain ; and the day following, God sent raine from Heaven." — Ellis
History of lioxbury Town, pages 75, TC, 77.

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stones into walls, they constructed the rude bridges and the
highways, they planted the fruit trees ; their houses were nur-
series of pious sons and daughters. In them there was
plenty, and there was peace. One generation after another
inhabited them, or came back to them on holidays to renew
their early associations, at the old homestead. And why not
continue the custom .'' Why should you allow these old farm-
houses to go out of the family name, — to be demolished, to
fall to pieces from decay .'* Why is it that these ancient tem-
ples of godly piety, and of all rustic virtues, are falling to
ruin .-•

There are crises in the life of almost every man who lives
to middle age, which are sad. As when a man parts with his
homestead. If he has laid out the grounds, builded the house,
planted the trees, trained the vines, — if his wife has watched
the growth of the flower beds, and with each returning spring
has given to the sunshine and the summer showers the plants
which she has guarded within doors from the cold of winter ;

— there is something inexpressibly sad in this.

But it is sadder far when a man parts with an old farm
which has been the homestead of his family through many
successive generations, and it passes out of the family name
or falls into ruins ! You have seen this — you have stood by
the front door of one of these old farm-houses when the last
owner was borne out by his neighbors to return no more.
You have looked eastward, southward, westward, northward,
over acres of tillage, orchard, woodland, which he had added
to the acres which had come to him from his paternal ances-
tors, and you have then recalled with what anxious care he
had guarded these acres, with what watchful thrift he had ad-
ded to them and had extended his bounds, building walls and
fences, ditching and draining, and enriching the old pastures,

— increasing his crops and his flocks and herds. Conserva-
tive in his frugal industry — holding the world together while
all about him there might be changes, and you have been
ready to exclaim as you looked upon the old house,

"Say, ancient edifice, thyself with years
Grown gray, how long upon the hill has stood

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Thy weather-braving roof, and silent marked
The human leaf in constant bud and fall :
The generations of deciduous man
How often hast thou seen them pass away I"

This preservation of the old farm need not hinder the in-
crease of the number of towns. There are thousands of
acres of land yet in this state, enough of these acres in this
county, which are now comparatively unproductive. These
can be populated, and the farmers will lose nothing thereby.
They will rather gain.

Here is the town within whose limits we are to-day assem-
bled ; it is not perhaps on the map of the state, but it num-
bers more than five thousand souls. Fifteen years ago it had
no name, it was hardly begun. Three or four men came out
here and walked over this territory, where nothing but pine
trees and stunted oak trees were growing, where cows could
be pastured for sixteen dollars a season ; and they said let
us build here a town ; let us make a place where the crowded
residents of the stifled lanes and alleys of the city can have
homes, where they can breathe the pure air, scented only
with the fragrance of green grass and the wild forest flowers.
Some of us know what opposition they encountered. We
can remember and recall how the " conservative " element of
the ancient town adjoining, banded themselves together to re-
sist the establishment of the town of Hyde Park.

But the town was established, and the men, who, shut up in
the city, sighed for the country, with which they had been fa-
miliar in their youth, came hither and built their houses and
brought their families. I have no doubt that each man will
tell you that his first motive for coming was to have a bit of
land, a sort of farm with which to solace himself And it was
not the farmers who opposed the building of this town. It
was rather those who, while they might have been large land
owners, hesitated about helping the breaking up of the
local centres of business, which they foresaw must inevitably
follow.

And yet, not alone by keeping alive these unions and friend-
ships can our farmers prosper.

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It is to the man who works that success comes, in any vo-
cation. And I see before me many men, the secret of whose
success in amassing fortunes is a matter of mystery to some
of their fellows, but which is no mystery to those who know
how untiring has been their industry ; how adventuresome has
been their labor ; how, in the new, and before them, untrodden
deserts of the western world, they have labored to construct
the means of travel, of intercommunication ; how they have
tunnelled mountains, bridged rivers, filled up valleys, opened
new avenues for the outlet of the pent-up industry of the
crowded portions of the country, and have created wealth by
bringing into cultivation millions of acres of virgin soil, cover-
ing them with the vine and grain and untold herds of cattle
and sheep and horses, gathering villages and towns and cities,
rearing school-houses and churches and factories ! These new
places are tributary to the support of the older portions of the
country.

A Massachusetts farmer need not be troubled nor repine at
his hard lot when he looks upon the mammoth corn and
squashes and peas and peaches which are produced in Kansas
and California and other new states. Size is power, other
things being equal. The big tree of Calaveras county, Cali-
fornia, one hundred feet higher than Bunker Hill monument,
whose first branch is two hundred feet from the ground, ex-
cited the wonder of our distinguished friend, as he told us last
year, but I never yet heard him say he would like to see such
a tree growing on his plantation. So at the great fair at
Lowell, the other day, they who looked upon the fat woman
who weighed a thousand pounds, were none of them desirous
to take her home. It is not by the size of the farm so much
as it is by the labor and manure bestowed upon it, and its
proximity to a market, that its profit is determined. I have
seen on a farm in California a thousand bushels of peas laying
on the ground to be devoured by pigs, or to rot, because there
was no better use for them. A farmer in Norfolk county
would know what to do with them.

It will be a long time before these wonderful farms of which

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we hear and read, and which some of us have seen, will be-
come of that homelike character belonging to our New Eng-
land forms. I have travelled over one of those famous farms.
Its extent was, 71,000 acres. It took two days to drive through
it, stopping as we went and returned, to examine but seven of
the butter manufactories. For the farm was divided into
twenty-one dairy farms, for the manufacture of butter. To
each farm was allotted between sixty and seventy cows. The
buildings were furnished, and the farm and the cows were
leased to the farmer for $25 a year.

But the owner of this immense plantation, and of more than
a thousand cows, with oxen and bulls and young cattle and
sheep and horses, in like proportion, did not live upon his
farm ; and in no one of the farm houses did we see a woman.
There was no home about them. I have wandered many days
and many miles with other New Englanders over the plains of
Florida, whose soil will produce all the grains and the semi-
tropical fruits with almost no labor, and we used to say that
we would not exchange a farm of sixteen acres in the most
barren part of Massachusetts for the whole State of Florida.

Mr, President : — It is an unmistakable proof of the dignity
of all pursuits and of labor in any way connected wdth agri-
culture, that the interest in these farmers' festivals never
ceases, never decreases, but continually grows. We all feel
that it is the farmers who hold the world together. Without
them the manufactures would cease ; without the men who
raise the corn and oats, and all grains, and raise the cattle,
commerce would languish, and the ships which now cover the
ocean would rot at their wharves. Farming is the labor of
most of us in early days, and we delight to return to it in old
age. There is an indescribable pleasure in these farmers'
gatherings ; there is an excitement in the sight of fat cattle,
and flocks of sheep, in roaring Durham, Devon, Hereford,
Ayrshire, or Jersey Bulls, and the meek-eyed heifers of the
various breeds, in the prancing of fiery-mouthed stallions
and fleet-footed mares — rulers of the turf — which moves us
and sends our blood hilarious through our veins ; — there is a
never wearying delight from the exhibition of vegetables and

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fruits and flowers ; — and may we not be assured by this day's
success that the old Norfolk Agricultural Society has yet a
brilliant future and a permanent place in the affections of the
people of this county !

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R.EPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY.

To the Secretary of the State Board of AgrictiJtnre: —

Sir, — In accordance with the requirements of the statute,
tlie following statement of the Transactions of the Norfolk
Agricultural Society for the year 1S71 is submitted: —

The operations of the Society for the past year have not
been marked with anything of special or noteworthy impor-
tance. The change of location of the Society's Grounds,
whilst giving promise of increased attendance, has not thus
far resulted in immediate advantage ; but with reasonable dili-
gence and care on the part of the members in keeping up the
character of the Exhibitions, there can be no doubt that the
efficiency and usefulness of the Society will be greatly pro-
moted by the central location and excellent accommodation
afforded by the new grounds. The drought of the past two
years has seriously interfered with the show of Stock at the
Exhibition, but a favorable year will doubtless witness an ex-
hibition second to none in the eastern section of the State.

The reports of the several committees, which are herewith
subjoined, afford a specific statement of the oj^erations of the
Society for the past year.

JOHN S. ELDRIDGE, President.

HENRY O. HILDRETH, Secretary.

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j^EPOF\TS OF Committees.

HOESE S .

Class A. — Roadsters.

Franklin Snmner, of Milton, best stallion, 1st premium, $10.

J. H. Farrington, Milton, best brood mare with foal, 1st premi-
um, $7.

Jason Houghton, Milton, best 3 year old colt, 1st premium, $5.

P. Frost, Medfield, best two year old colt, 1st premium, $3 ;
J. C. White, Milton, 2d best premium, |2.

J. W. Bradlee, Milton, best one yea.v old colt, 1st premium, $3.

J. E. Billings, West Roxbmy, 2d best one year old colt, 2d pre-
mium, $2,

F. B, Ray, Franklin, best pair roadsters, 1st premium, $10 ; H.
T. Billings, Sharon, 2d premium, S7.

J. S. Eldridge, Canton, first and second best gelding or mare, 1st
premium, $8 ; 2d premium, $6.

Class B. — Horses op All Work.

Dr. ?. Cabot, Canton, best stallion, 1st premium, $10.

Caleb E. Tucker, Randolph, best brood mare with foal at side,
1st premium, 67. John Lawless, North Stoughton, second best do,
2d premium, $5.

Emory Hawes, North Stoughton, best four year old, 1st premi-
um, $5.

N. Farrington, Canton, best three year old, 1st premium, $o.

W. T. Cook, Milton, best one year old, 1st premium, $3.

F. B. Ray, Franklin, best pair in harness, 1st premium, S7.

F. H. Stevens, Milton, best gelding or mare, 1st premium^ $6 ;
S. E. Morse, Dedham, 2d best premium, $4.

Class C. — Family or Carrl4.ge Horses.

Emory Hawes, North Stoughton, best colt, two years old, 1st
premium, S3 ; J. W. Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium. $2.

A. R. Whittier, Hyde Park, best pair carriage horses, 1st premi-
um, $10 ; W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 2d best premium, $7.

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W. T. Thaehcr, HyJe Park, best buggy liorso, 1st premium, $8 ;
V. L. Gates, Jomaica Plain, 2d best premium, SG.

R. Hohnes, Roxbury, best saddle horse, 1st premium, $6 ; Wra.
Ratclilfe, Roxbury, 2d best premium, $4 ; A. P. Calder, Dorches-
ter, 3d premium, $3.

Cliarlos Curtis, Brookliue, best pony, 1st premium, $3 ; J. W.
Bradlee, Milton, diploma.

Class D, — Draught or Team Horses.

Luther Eaton, Dedham, best draught horse, 1st premium, $7 ;
C. G. Upham, Needham, 2d best premium, 85.

Luther Eaton, Dedham, best pair of draught horses, 1st pre-
mium, 67 ; Patrick McNamara, Dover, 2d best premium. So.

RACES.

The prizes for races were awarded as follows, viz : —

Thursday — 1st Race — "Walking horses, prize SIO, to Beatey
it Miles, Hyde Park.

2d Race — Gents' driving horses. Society's cup, to H. Beck-
with, Jamaica Plain.

3d Race — 1st prize, James Graj'-, Needham, S75 ; 2d prize,
Wm. Claig, South Weymouth, $50; 3d prize, Thomas Parker,
Boston Higlilands, $25.

4th Race — Double teams, B. F. Brown, Dorchester, $50.

5th Race, 3 minutes — W. T. Cook, Foxboro', $25,

The 2d prize in the 2d race, and also the 2d prize in the 4th
race, and the prize for the last horse in (the Gth race), were not
awarded, because in the first two cases all horses, save the winner
of one prize, were distanced, and in the 6th no entries were made.

Friday — 1st Race — Beatej' & Miles, Hyde Park, 1st prize,
$75 ; Wm, Claig, South Weymouth, 2d prize, $50,

2d Race — M, T, Downing, South Boston, 1st prize, $30 ; J. X.
Woodard, Framingham, 2d prize, $20.

3d Race — I, IL Bickford, Brookline, Society's cup; Alden
Bartlctt, Jamaica Plain, 2d prize, $15 ; Wm, Claig, South Wey-
mouth, 3d prize, $10,

4th Race — D. Bigley, Cambridge, 1st prize, $100 ; James Gray,
Needham, 2d prize, $50.

The 3d prize in 4th race was not awarded.

Respectfully submitted for the Committee,

AUGUSTUS P. CALDER, Chairman.

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PLOUGHING.

Double Ox Teams. — Two entries. 1st premium of ^15 to Wil-
liam Fales, of Dedham, with Ames Plow Company's plow, No. 155 ;
2d premium of $10 to George O. Farrington, of Dedham, with Ames
Plow Company's plow, No. 26.

AARON D. CAPEN, Chairman.

Single Ox Teams. — One entry. 2d premium of S8 to George E.
Whiting, of Dedham.

B. N. SAWIN, Chairman.

Double Horse Teams. — Two entries. 1st premium of $15 to
Charles L. Copeland, of Milton, with Wliittemore &Belcher's plow
(Eagle No. 20) ; 1st premium of $15 to Blackman Brothers, of
Needham, with Michigan Sub-Soil plow (Prouty & Mears).

HENRY GOULDING, Chairman.

Single Horse Teams. — Three entries. 1st premium of $G to B.
N. Sawin, of Dover, with Whittemore & "Belcher's improved Eagle
No. 20 ; 2d premium of H to D. A. Lynch, of Dedham, with Tele-
graph plow, No. 2.

JOHN EATON, Chairman.

WORKING OXEN.

To George E. Farrington, of Dedham, 2d premium of 8-1 ; Wil-
liam Fales, of Dedham, 3d premium of $2.

ROBERT MANSFIELD, Chairman.

BULLS .

.Jersey. — 1st premium of $5 to Solomon Talbot, of Sharon, for
one-year old.

Grade. — 1st premiimi of $3 to Dennis Keliher, of Randolph, for
one-year old.

A. S. DRAKE, Chairman.

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COWS.

Jersey. — J. S. El(lridgG,of Canton, 1st premium, $5 ; 2cl premium,
$i ; 3(1 premium, 83.

Grade: — James Glancey, of Dedliam, 2d premium, S3.
Herds. — Lutlier Eaton of Dedliam, 21 cows, 2d premium. Si 2.

J. W. GAY, Cliairman.

HEIFERS.

There were no Iieifers between two and three years old, of any
breed, entered for premiums.

For yearlings, William Jordan, of Hyde Park, the first premium,
of 62 ; S. Talbot, of Sharon, 2d premium, $1.

ELIJAH TUCKER, Chairman.

P. S. — After the awards were made, a number of fine heifers ar-
rived, some of which would have been entitled to premiums had
tiiey l)een entered in season, among which were those of Luther
Eaton, of Dedham, and Mary Holmes, of Readville. E. T.

SWINE

Best Collection. — 1st premium, J. H. Farrington, Milton, $15.

Best Boar. — M. S. Scudder, Grantville, ^Q ; 2d premium, J. H.
Farrington, Milton, $4.

Best Sow. — J. H. Farrington, Milton, $6; 2d premium, M.S.
Scudder, Grantville, 84.

Meaned Pigs. — J. H. Farrington, Milton, 86.

Fat Hog.— J. H. Farrington, Milton, 810.

S. Welsh, of Dedham, gratuity for boar, $2.

R. T. Lombard, of Ncedham, for improved Chester Sow, diploma.

THOMAS B. GRIGGS, Chairman.

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POULTRY.

Class 1. — For the largest collection of Fowls, 1st premium, A.
II. Drake, Stoughton, $15 ; 2cl premium, C. L. Copeland, Milton,
SIO.

Class 2 — Liglit Brahma. — 1st premium, J. F. Cowell, Wrentliam,
$5 ; 2cl premium, H. Bird, Stoughton, $3.

Darh Brahma. — 1st premium, W. T. Cook, Milton, So.

Buff Cochin. — 1st premium, W. T. Cook, Milton, So ; 2d pre-
mium, L. E. Gray, Foxboro', S3.

Partridge Cochin. — 1st premium, W. T. Cook, Milton, $5.

White Cochin. — 1st premium, L. H. Gay, Stoughton, So.

Black Cochin. — 2d premium, L. H. Gay, Stoughton, S3.

Plymouth Pock. — 1st premium, L. E. Gray, Foxboro', $5 ; 2d
premium, L. H. Gay, Stoughton, S3.

White Leghorn. — 1st premium, C. & F. Spring, Needham Falls,
$5 ; 2d premium, L. E. Gray, Foxboro', S3.

lied Leghorn. — 1st premium, A. H. Drake, Stoughton, $5.

Black Sjxmish. — 1st premium, C. & F. Spring, Needham Falls,
S5 ; 2d premium, same, S2.

Silver Hamburg. — 1st premium, A. H. Drake, Stoughton, S5.

Pencilled Hamburgs. — 1st premium, A. H. Drake, Stoughton, S5 ;
2d ]ireraium, N. B. White, South Dedham, S3.

Creve Cours. — 1st premium, C. & F. Spring, Needliam Falls, So.

Houdans. — 2d premium, C. & F. Spring, Needham Falls, $3.

Black Red Game. — 1st premium, W. T. Cook, Milton, S5 ; 2d
premium, Lewis Bronsdon, Milton, S3.

Broivn Peel Game. — 1st premium, Lewis Bronsdon, Milton, S^.

Sebright Bantams. — 1st premium, J. F. Cowell, Wrentham, So ;
2d premium, H. F. Parrott, Hyde Park, S3.

Turkeys. — 1st premium. R. T. Lombard, Needham, So ; 2d pre-
mium, M. S. Scudder, Grantville, S3.

Geese. — 1st premium, Henry Goulding, Dover, S5.

Ducks. — 1st premium, J. T. Cowell, Wrentham, So ; 2d premi-
um, John Vose, Hyde Park, S3.

Gratuities. — Guinea Foids. — H. Davenport, Milton, Si.

Spanisli. — Wm. Lyon, Needham, Si.

Iloudan. — E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park, $2.

White Middlesex. — L. AVelch, Dedham, $1.50.

Game Bantams. — C. L. Copeland, Milton, Si.

Frizzly Fowls. — B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, $1.

Pigeons. — Ed. Palmer, Milton, Si.

Squirrel. — J. Wiggin, Roxbury, 50c.

White Pabbits. — J. M. Spencer, lleadrille, 50c.

ABEL F. STEVENS, Chairman.

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PEARS.

The Committee on Pears respectfullj- report the following list of
premiums awarded by them : —

For the best collection of twenty varieties of Pears, H. P. Kid-
der, Milton, 1st premium, 615 ; Walker & Co., Boston, 2d premi-
um, 612. For the best collection of ten varieties of pears, G.
8. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, 68 ; A. K. Teele, Milton,
2d premium, 6G ; J. D Bradlee, Milton, 3d premium, 64. For the
best collection of five varieties of pears, C. F. Curtis, Jairaica
Plain, Lst premium, 6G ; J. W. Brooks, Milton, 2d premium, 64.
For the best collection of the following varieties : Bartlett — G. .S.
Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, 62 ; Warren Cobb, East
Sharon, 2d premium, 61. Beurre d'Anjou — AValker & Co., Bos-
ton. 1st premium, 62 ; J.W, Page, Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, 61.
INIerriam — J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, 62. Louise
Bon de Jersey — W. J. Griggs, Brookline, 1st premium, 62 ; John
J. Merrill, Boston, 2d premium, $1. Vicar of Winkfield — Walker
& Co., Boston, 1st premium, 62 ; Edwin Davenport, IMilton, 2d
premium, 61. Duchesse dAngouleme — AY. J. Griggs, Brookline,
1st premium, $2; F. H. Catlin, Hyde Park, 2d premium, 61.
Seckle — S. L. Crane, East Stougliton, 1st premium, 62 ; R.
Holmes, Boston Highlands, 2d premium, 61. Swan's Orange — C.
F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, 62 ; Edwin Davenport,
Milton, 2d premium, 61. Sheldon — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain,
1st premium, 62; A. W. Benton, Brookline, 61. Beurre Bosc — •
Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline, 1st premium, $2 ; J. W. Page,
Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, 61. Beurre Clairgeau — C. F. Curtis,
Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, $2 ; J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 2d
l»remium, 61. Lawrence — AValker & Co., Boston, 1st premium,
62. Beurre Langiier — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium,
62. Butfuin — C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, 62 ; A.
K. Teele, Milton, 2d premium, 61 . Mount Vernon — Walker «fe Co.,
Boston, 1st premium, 62. De Tongres — J. W. Page, Jamaica
Plain, 1st premium, $2,

Tiic Conunittee recommend that the folloAving gratuities be

awarded : — •

Diplomas. — D. Wyman, East Foxboro', for Beurre Clairgeau
Pear. Wm. U. Fairbairn, Hyde Park, for Duchesse Claiigeau
Pear. D. H. Elkius, IMilton, collection of Pears. Joseph Col-
burn, West Dedliam, collection of Pears.

For the Committee,

E. C. R. WALKER, Chairman,

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APPLES, GRAPES, &c.

The Committee award the following premiums :
Apples. — For the best collection of five varieties of Apples,
twelve specimens of each variety, to A. F. Stevens, Weileslej, 2d
premium, 8-i. For the best collection of the following varieties :
Baldwin — Moses Kingsbury, AVest Dedham, 2d premium, $1.
riubbardston Nonesuch — H. P. Kidder, Milton, 1st premium, $2.
Roxbury llussett — A. F. Stevens, Wellesle}-, 2d premium, 61.
Porter — A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 1st premium, 82, Golden
Sweet — A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 2d premium, SI, For collection
of three varieties, D. H. Elkins, Milton, gratuity, $1.

Grapes. — For the best collection of P'oreign Grapes, J, W.
Brooks, Milton, 1st premium, 86 ; W. J, Stuart, H3'de Park, 2d
premium, $4.

For the best collection of Native Grapes, J, W. Brooks, Milton,
1st premium, 8-1 ; John H. Adams, Milton, 2d premium, 83 ;
Charles F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 3d premium, ^2. For the best
dish of the following varieties : Delaware — E. Hemman, AVest
Roxbury, 1st premium, 82 ; Geo. B, Parrott, Hvde Park, 2d pre-
mium, 81. Diana — -Walker & Co,, Boston Highlands, 1st premium,
82; J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, 81. Rogers' Hy-
brids— Wilder — J. W. Talbot, Dedham, 1st premium, 82 ; Agawam
— J, W. Talbot, Dedham, 1st premium, 82 ; L, B. White, South
Dedham, 2d premium, 81. Merrimack — B, C. Vose, H3-de Park,
1st premium, 82. Salem — B, C. Vose, Hyde Park ,1st premium,
82; A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 2d premium, 81. Allen's Hybrid
— Walker & Co., Boston Highlands, 1st premium, 82 ; J. W.Page,
Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, 81. Concord — R. D. Newton, Hyde
Park, 1st premium, 82; J. W. Talbot, Dedham, 2d premium, SI,
Israella — Walker & Co., Boston Highlands, 1st premium, 82 ;
B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 2d premium, 81. lona — B, C. Vose
Hyde Park, 1st premium, ^2 ; Walker & Co., Boston Highlands,
2d premium, 81- Clinton — John H. Adams, Milton, 1st prmiun..
82; E. Hemman, West Roxbury, 2d premium, 81, Hartford — o.
W. Page, Jamaica Plain, first premium, ^2 ; R. P. Sumner, Mil-
ton, 2d premium, 81. Black Hamburg — John Kiegan,Hyde Park,
gratuity, 81.

Quinces. — J. W. Brooks, Milton, gratuity, 81; W. J. Stuart^
Hyde Park, gratuity, 81.

Cranberries — Nathair Longfellow, Needham, 1st premium, 83 ;
Nathaniel Gay, Stoughton, 2d premium, $2.

Figs — AYalker & Co., gratuity, 81.

For the Committee,

GEORGE VOSE, Chairman.

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F L O W E E S.

Cut Floicers. — Mrs. George Vose, Milton, 1st premium, 84 ;
Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $3 ; H. P. Kidder, Mil-
ton, 3d premium, $2 ; J. W. Brooks, Milton, gratuit}-, $2 ; Cbas.
F. Curtis, West Roxbury, gratuity, $2 ; John H. Adams, Milton,
gratuity'. Si.

Baskets. — Mrs. Charles H. Meriara, Milton, 3d premium, S2.

Bouquets. — Mrs. Hannah P. Mcintosh, Needham, 3d premium,
82 ; C. G-. Upham, Needham, gratuity, 81 ; Mrs. C. P. Chubbuck,
Boston Highlands, gratuity, 81.

Gladioli. — George Crafts, Brookline, Named Gladioli, 1st
premium, 84 ; New Seedling, 81 ; best collection, gratuity, 82 ;
J. W. Brooks, Milton, collection of Gladioli, gratuit}^, $1.

DaJilias. — B. 8. Rotch, Milton, 2d premium, 81.

Double Zinnias. — Mrs, George Vose, Milton, 1st premium, 82.

Seedling Verbenas. — H. P. Kidder, Milton, gratuity, $2 ; Mrs.
Olive F. Britton, Stougliton, gratuity, 82.

Seedling Petunias. — Mrs. A. K. Teele, Milton, gratuity, 82.

Cockscombs. — Mrs. George Vose, Milton, gratuity, 81."

Vases of Floivers. — Mrs. L. G. Daniels, Hyde Park, gratuity, 82.

Miniature Floiver Garden. — Mrs. Merriam, Milton, gratuit}', §1.

A. K. TEELE, Chairman.

VEGETABLES.

Collection of Vegetables. — 1st premium, 820, to C. G. Upham,
Needham ; 2d premium, 815, to R. T. Lombard, Needham ; 3d
premium, $10, to A. F. Stevens, Needham.

Collection of Potatoes. — 1st premium, $Q, to E. Paul, Dedham ;
2d premium, 83, to E. J. Davenport, Milton.

Best half-bnshel of Table Potatoes. — 1st premium, $2, to C. F.
Curtis, Jamaica Plain; 2d premium, 81, to Humphrey Smith,
West Roxbury.

Best Winter Squash. — 84 to Gilbert Sumner, Milton.

Crooked JSfeck Squash. — 1st premium, $2, to E. Paul, Dedham.

Drumhead Cabbage. — 1st premium, 82, to Allen Colburn, Ded-
ham ; 2d premium, 81, to B. C. Vose, Hj'de Park.

Cauliflower. — 1st premium, 82, to Allen Colburn, Dedham.

Onions. — 1st premium, $2, to Allen Colburn, Dedham.

Turnips. — 1st premium, 82, to E. Paul, Dedham.

Beets. — 2d premium, 81, to D. H. Elkins, Milton.

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Tomatoes. — 1st premium, $2, to B. C. Vose, Hyde Park.
M'uskmellon. — 1st premium, $2, to B. C. Vose, Hyde Park.
Watermellon. — 1st premium, $2, to E. J. Davenport, Milton.

C. L. COPELAND, Chairman.

BEEAD.

Wheat Bread. — 1st premium of 63 to Mrs. E. W.Hougliton, of
Milton ; 2d premium of $2 to Mrs. Charles Winship, of Sharon.

Wheat and Indian. — 1st premium of $3 to Mrs. Nathan Long-
fellow, of Needham.

jRye and Indian. — 1st premium of $3 to Mrs. Edwin S, Cook,
of Dorchester ; 2d premium of $2 to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, of
Needham.

J. WHITE BELCHER, Chairman.

D A I K Y .

There were two lots of 20 lb. Butter offered fop premium.

For one the Committee awarded the 1st premium of $10 to Mrs.
John Turner of Needham. This lot was accompanied with a
statement of the product of the dairy from May 20 to September
20, which is herewith submitted by the Committee.

The other lot was not accompanied by any statement, as the
rules require, and not being of a very superior quality the Commit-
tee awarded the 2d premium of $3 for a 12 lb. box to Mrs. War-
ren Cobb, of Sharon.

There was but one lot of Cheese offered, for which the Commit-
tee awarded the 1st premium of 65 to Nathaniel Gay of Stoughton.

M. M. FISHER, Chairman.

SEEDS .

The first premium of $2 to C. G. Upham of Needham, for Seed
Corn ; 2d premium of $1 to J. H. Farrington of Milton.

1st premium of $1 to Abel F. Stevens of Wellesley, for sample
of wheat, rye, barley, and oats.

GEO. E. CHICKERING, Chairman.

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LEATHER WORK, &c.

Liither A. Eaton, Dedham, for the best single carriage harness,
a premium of $1.

JOHN MANN, Chairman.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

The Committee on Agricultural Implements recommend the
Society's diploma to W. E. Barrett & Co., of Providence, R. I.,
for Sprague's Improved One-horse Mower.

They also recommend a diploma to S. H. "Warren, of Weston,
for a "Strawberry Runner Cutter."

ELIJAH TUCKER, Chairman.

LADIES' WORK

Mrs. Rinaldo Williams, Hyde Park, wax cross, $1. Miss Helen
E. Sumner, Milton, pencil drawing, 75c. Miss E. S. Winship,
Sharon, embroidered rug, $1; ottoman cover, 50c; patchwork
quilt, 75c. Miss Martha M. Davis, Readville, chair tidy, 75c.
Mrs. D. L. Davis, Readville, silk hose, 50c. Mrs. Isaac Bullard,
Readville, ottoman, 75c. Mrs. Alfred Downing, Readville, knitted
basket, 50c ; 3 chair tidies, 50c. Mrs. I]. P. Davis, Readville,
lamp mat, 50c. Mrs. G. W. Craft, Readville, ottoman cover, 75c.
Miss Maria C. Palmer, Milton, 2 floor mats, 75c ; night dress j^oke,
50c. Master Addison L. Winship, Sharon, aged 6 years, patch-
Avork, 50c. IMiss Sarah S. Ellis, Sharon, afghan, $1. Miss Sarah
A. Fanning, Canton, wax Autumn leaves, 75c. Miss Maiy Soule,
Dover, 2 lamp mats, 50c. Mrs. Jessie Davenport, Canton, hooked
rug, 50c. Master John Goulding, Dover, stutfed birds, $1. Mrs.
Rufus Thurlow, Dorchester, quilt, 76c ; chair tidy, 50c ; rug, 50c.
Ladies' Social Circle, Medfield, carriage afghan, 82. Miss Alice
Scwall, Medfield, ottoman cover, $1. Miss Marian Perry, Hyde
Park, embroidered flannel skirt, 50c. Mrs. Frank L. Gates, Ja-
maica Plain, screen, $1. Mrs. S. Emma GilDson, Hyde Park, chair
tidies, 75c. Grace Vose, Hyde Park, 11 years old, tatting, 50c.
Mrs. Eliza Stebbins, Milton, silk bed quilt, §1. Miss Jennie F.

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Capen, Randolph, carriage afglian, $1.50. Miss A. E. Davenport,
Milton, table mat, 50c. Susan P. Parker, Milton, towel rack, 50c.
Mrs. Mary Marden, Dover, comforter, Si ; quilt, 75c ; two pair
stockings, 50c. Miss Sai-ali J. Ellis, South Dedham, i:)air pillow
slips, 75c. Mrs. Egan, Hyde Park, wax flowers, 50c. Mrs. Al-
fred Fales, Foxboro*, drawn rug, 50c. Mrs. Charles Marden,
Dedham, carriage afghan, $2. Miss Mary Howe, Readville, chair
tidies, 50c. Mrs. M. L. Gates, AYest Roxbury, flannel skirt, 50c ;
chair seat, 81. Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, Stoughton, ottoman, 75c ;
quilt, 75c. Mrs. E. Fisher, South Dedham, 72 years old, toilet
set, 50c. Mrs. Sanford, Medwaj', hooked rug, 75c. Mrs. Sarah
A. French, Braintree, embroidered needle work, $1. Miss L.
Ellis, South Dedham, collar, 75c. Miss Elba Ellis, South Ded-
ham, velvet patchwork, 50c. Mrs. M. B. Southwick, Stoughton,
carriage afghan, 02.

For the Committee,

MRS. THOMAS DECATUR.

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f^

ECAPITULATION OF fREMIUMS

f-

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

For 187 1.

HORSES.

F. B. Ray.

John S. E^ldridge,

Luther Eaton, .

Franklin Sumner,

S. Cabot, .

A. R. Whittier,

Emery Hawes, .

Wm. T. Thacher,

J. H. Farrington,

H. T. Billings, .

Caleb E. Tucker,

W. T. Cook (FoxboroO,

F. H. Stevens, .

F. L. Gates,

R. Holmes,

Jason Houghton,

J. W. Bradlee, .

John Lawless, .

N. Farrington,

C. G. Upham, .

P. McNamara, .

S. E. Morse,

Wm. Ratcliffe, .

P. Frost, .

W. T. Cook (Milton)

A. P. Calder, .

Charles Curtis,

J. C. White, .

J. E. Billings, .

HORSES.— Extra Premiums.

$17 00

14 00

14 00

10 00

10 00

10 00

8 00

8 00

7 00

7 00

7 00

7 00

6 00

6 00

6 00

5 00

5 00

5 00

5 00

5 00

5 00

4 00

4 00

3 00

3 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

2 00

James Gray,
William Claig,
D. Bigley,

Beatey & Miles,

B. F. Brown, .
M. T. Downing,
Thomas Parker,

Wm. T. Cook (Foxboro'),
J. N. Woodard,
Alden Bartlett,

PLOUGHING.

William Fales, .

C. L. Copeland,
Blackman Brothers,
Geo. O. Farrinsfton, .
Geo. E. Whiting, .
B. N. Sawin,

D. A. Lynch,

WORKING OXEN.

Geo. O. Farrington,
William Fales,

S125 00
. 110 00
. 100 00

BULLS.

Solomon Talbot,
Dennis Keliher,

COWS.

John S. Eldridge,
Luther Eaton, .
James Clancy, .

HEIFERS.

William Jordan,
S. Talbot, .

85 00
50 00
30 00
25 00
25 00
20 00
15 00

$15 00

15 00

15 00

10 00

8 00

6 00

4 00

$4 00
2 00

So 00
3 00

$12 00

12 00

3 00

$2 00
1 00

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SWINE.

J. H. Farrington,
M. S. Scudder, .
S.Welch, .

POULTRY.

A. H. Drake, .

W. T. Cook (Milton),

C. & F. Spring,

J. F. Cowell, .

C. L. Copeland,

L. E. Gray,

L. H. Gay,

L. Bronsdon, .

R. T. Lombard,

Henry Gouldiug,

H. Bird, .

N. B. White,

H. F. Parrot t,

M. S. Scudder,

John Vose,

E. C. Aldrich,

L. Welch, .

H. Davenport,

William Lyon,

B. C. Vose,
Ed. Palmer,

APPLES, GRAPES, &c

John ^Y. Brooks,

A. F. Stevens,
Walker & Co.,

B. C. Vose,
W. J. Stuart,
John H. Adams
J. W. Talbot,
J. W. Page,
E. Hemman,
N. Longfellow,
H. P. Kidder,

C. F. Curtis,
R. D. Newton,
Nathaniel Gay,
jNIoses Kingbury

D. H. Elkins, .
Geo. B. Parrott,
L. B. White, .
R. P. Sumner, .
John Kiegan, .

PEARS.

Walker & Co.,
C. F. Curtis,

$41 GO

10 00

2 00

$30 00

20 00

20 00

15 00

11 00

11 00

11 00

8 00

5 00

0 00

.3 00

3 00

3 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

1 60

I 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

c.

$11 00

9 00

8 00

7 00

5 00

5 00

5 00

4 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

2 00

2 00

2 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

$20 00

16 00

H. P. Kidder, .
G. S. Curtis,
A. K. Teele, .
J. W. Page, .
J. D. Bradlee, ,
J. W. Brooks, .
W. J. Griggs, .
Edwin Davenport,
S. L. Crane,
Thomas B. Griggs,
Warren Cobb, .
John J. Merrill,
F. H. Caffin, .
R. Holmes,
A. W. Benton, .

FLOWERS.

Mrs. Geo. Vose,

George Craft, .

H. P. Kidder, .

Mrs. John Vose,

J. W. Brooks, .

Mrs. Charles IL Merriam,

Charles F. Curtis, .

Mrs. H. P. Macintosh,

Mrs. Olive F. Bntton,

Mrs. A. K. Teele, .

Mrs. L. G. Daniels, .

John H. Adams,

O. G. Upham, .

Mrs. C. P. Chubbuck,

B. S. Rotch, .

VEGETABLES.

C. G. Upham, .
R. T. Lombard,

A. F. Stevens, .
Ebenezer Paul,
Allen Colburn, .
E. J. Davenport,

B. C. Vose,
Gilbert Sumner,

C. F. Curtis, .
Humphrev Smith,

D. H. Elkins, .

BREAD.

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow,
Mrs. E. W. Houghton,
Mrs. Edwin S. Cook,
Mrs. Charles Winship,

$15 00
10 00
7
7
4
4
4
2

00
00
00
00
00
00

2 00
2 00
00
00
00
00
00

$7 00

7 00
4 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
00
00
00
00

$20 00

15 00

10 00

10 00

6 00

5 00

00

00

00

00

00

$5 00
3 00
3 00
2 00

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DAIRY.

Mrs. Jolin Turucr, .
Kiitli.iniel Gay,
Mrs. Warren Cobb, .

LEATHER WORK.

L. A. Eaton,

$10 00
5 00
3 00

$1 00

SEEDS.

A. F. Stevens, .
C. G. Upham, .
J. H. Earrlugton,

$4 00
2 00
1 00

LADIES' WORK.
(Sec pages 27 and 28.) $39 75

1,475 25

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Tl\EASUI\EI\'s RePOI\T,

C. C. Churchill, Treasurer, in Account with the Norfolk Agricultural

Society.

To balance in Treasury Nov. 30, 1870,
cash of new members, .
" " Commonwealth,
" from net proceeds of Fair, 1871,
" " all other sources, .

De.

§75 30
61 00

600 00
1,488 75
1,091 45

COXTKA.

Or.

y cash paid incidental expenses,

. $GG0 65

" " premiums, . . . .

. 1,394 85

" " Secretary's salary, .

100 00

" " Treasurer's " .

100 00

" " interest on debt,

. 1,050 00

" in Treasury,

11 00

$3,316 50

$3,316 50

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.

Dedhaji, Nov. 30, 1871.

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P^ROCEEDINGS

ox THE OCCASION OF THE

Twenty-Third Anniversary

OF THE

IS'ORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, September 21 and 22, 1871.

The twentj'-thircl Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural
Societ}"- took place at Readville on Thursday and Frida_y, Septem-
ber 21 and 22, 1871. Owing to A'arious causes the attendance was
less than on the two previous j'ears, and the show in some de-
partments, particularly in that of stock, was inferior to those of
preceding exhibitions. In the departments of fruits, flowers,
vegetables and poultry, the sliow was one of the best ever made by
the Societ3^ The following is a brief recapitulation of some of the
leading features of the Exhibition :

Of horses the show was quite large, the principal breeds being
confined to the Messenger thoroughbred, Robert Bonner and Black
Hawk, Morgan and Messenger, and Columbus, which were respec-
tively shown by Caleb E. Tucker, Randolph ; Dr. S. Cabot, Can-
ton ; Jason Houghton, Milton ; J. H. Farrington, Milton ; J. Wal-
ter Bradlee, Milton ; C. C. Moriai'ty, Needham ; H. G. Billings,
Sharon, and Chas. S. Holmes, Boston Highlands. Several fine
colts were among the number, as were also specimens of fancy
breeds.

The show of stock was very small. Mr. Eldridge exhibited fine
specimens of Jersey stock, and there were entries by several other
owners, of which there were none of marked excellence. On the
second day of the exhibition. Colonel Luther Eaton, of Dedham,
entered a large herd of excellent stock, which partially redeemed
the character of the exhibition.

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The display of swine was not large but of excellent quality.
Prominent among the exliibitors were M. S. Scudder and R. T.
Lombard, of Needham, and J. H. Farrington, of Milton.

The poultry' show was unanimously acknowledged as one of the
best ever made by the Society, and it is but just to say that for
this fine display the Society is mainly indebted to the exertions of
Mr. Abel F. Stevens, of "Welleslej', the superintendent of that de-
partment. The principal contributors were Mr. Stevens ; A. H.
Drake, L. H. Gay, and Frank Packard, of Stoughtou ; B. C. Vose
and E. C. Aldrich, of Hyde Park ; Henry Davenport, Lewis Brons-
don, C. L. Copeland, and W. T. Cook, of Milton ; L. E. Gray, of
Foxboro', and J. F. Coweil, of Wrentham, Mr. Henry Goulding,
of Dover, displayed a tine collection of India wild geese, and Mr.
R. T. Lombard, of Needham, a good lot of turke3's.

The display' of fruit was excellent, especially of pears and grapes.
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester, exhibited more than 100 va-
rieties of pears, which, as usual, were not entered for premium, and
fine collections were shown by Walker & Co., of Roxbury ; H. P.
Kidder, J. D. Bradlee, J. W. Brooks, A. K. Teele, D. H. Elkins,
and Edwin Davenport, of Milton ; Charles F. and Geo. S. Curtis,
and J. W. Page, of Jamaica Plain ; W. J. Stuart, of Hj'de Park ;
Thomas B. Griggs and W. J. Griggs, of Brookline, and others.
Hc«i. Otis Car}', of Foxboro', exhibited 6 specimens of Duchesse
d'Angouleme, grown by G. F. B. Leighton, of Norfolk, weighing
respectively 24 3-4, 24, 23 1-2, 22, 22, and 20 1-4 ounces, the ag^
gregate weight being 8 lbs. 8 1-2 ounces. The show of grapes was
one of the largest and best ever made by the Society, embracing
contributions from J. W. Brooks, B. P. Sumner and John H.
Adams, of Milton ; W, J. Stuart, B. C. Vose, and Geo. B. Parrott
of Hyde Park ; N. B. White and J. W. Talbot, of South Dedham ;

E. Hemman, of West Roxbury ; A. F. Stevens, of Weliesely, and
others. Of apples the display was small, the principal contribu-
tors being A. F. Stevens, of Weliesely ; H. P. Kidder and D. H.
Elkins, of Milton, and Moses Kingsbur}', of West Dedham.

Of flowers there Avas a beautiful display. Cut flowers were
shown by Mrs. Geo. Vose, of Milton, occup^dng an entire side of
the hall. Her double Zinnias especially were very attractive. Mr.
Geo. Craft, of Brookline, had a large array of Gladioli ; Col. M.
P. Wilder a fine show of Japan lilies ; Mr. j. W. Brooks, of Milton
Hill, a good show of Gladioli ; Mrs. John Vose, of Hyde Park, a
large displa}- of cut flowers. Bouquets and baskets were also ex-
hibited in great profusion. Col. B. S. Rotch, of Milton; Mrs. L.
G. Daniels, of Hyde Park ; Mrs. Charles H. Merriam, of Milton ;
Charles F. Curtis, of West Roxbury ; J. W. Brooks, of Milton ;
H. P. Kidder, of Milton ; Mrs. Hannah P. Mackintosh, of Need-
ham, and Mrs. Joseph H. Beal, of Quincy, taking the lead.

Of vegetables, fine displa^-s were made b}^ C. G. Upham, Abel

F. Stevens, and R. T. Lombard, of Needham ; Colonel Stone, Al-
len Colburn, and E. Paul, of Dedham ; Charles F. Curtis, of Ja-

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maica Plain ; Joliu Vose, of Hyde Park ; D. H. Elkins, F. J. Da-
venport and Benjamin White, of Milton ; AVarren Cobb, of East
Sharon, and Hurai)lirey Smith, of West Roxbury.

In tlie department of Ladies' Work, tlie display, though not as
large as on some former occasions, was of superior quality. Mrs.
R.^Villiams, of Hyde Park, exhibited an elegant wax cross and
wreath ; Miss Helen E. Sumner, of Milton, some line pencil draw-
ings ; Mrs, Crawford, of Readville, three elaborate tidies ; Miss E.
S. Winship, of Sharon, some elegant embroidery and several quilts ;
Mrs. Frank L. Gates, of Jamaica Plain, a beautiful screen ; jMrs.
Henry Phelps, of Readville, a stutf'ed owl ; the Ladies' Social Circle
of Medfield, a splendid afghan ; Mrs, Thomas Decatur, of Jamaica
Plain, an oil ]-»:iinting : Mrs. Sarah A. French, of Braintree, some
exquisite needle work ; Miss Alice Sewall, of Medfield, an ottoman
cover, and Mrs, Charles Marden, of Dedham, an elegant afghan.

The show of bread and butter and dairy products, and of agri-
cultural implements, was unusually small, and contained nothing
worthy of special mention.

In the department of Domestic Manufactures, the Wilson New
Under-feed Sewing Machine, entered and operated by Josiah Tis-
dale, of South Dedham, attracted much attention.

The principal features in Thursday's programme were the
ploughing match at 10 1-2 a. M.,and the drawing match at 11 a.m.,
and the trotting matches in the afternoon. Under the two first-
named the following awards were made :

Ploughing — Single ox teams, second premium, Geo. E. Whiting,
of Dedham ; double ox teams, 1st, Wm. Fales, of Dedham ; 2d,
Geo. O. Farrington, of Dedham. Single horse teams, 1st, B, A.
Sawin, of Dover ; 2d, D, A, Lynch, of Dedham ; double horse
teams, Charles L. Copeland, of Milton, and Blackman Brothers, of
Needham, Working oxen — 2d prize to George O, Farrington,
Dedham,

In the afternoon there were six races, the first being for the
best walking horse, Beatey & Miles, of Hyde Park, entered Dick,
and F. B. Ray, of Franklin, Lady Allen. Both were sent once
ror.nd the half mile track, and the prize of 810 was awarded to
Dick. The first trot was for gentlemen's driving horses, owned
within the count}', that had never trotted for money, owners driv-
ing to a road wagon ; other qualities besides speed to be consid-
ered ; best two in three. First prize, " Society's Cup," value $25 ;
second prize, 810. There were five entries : — H. Beckwith, of Ja-
maica Plain, ns. s. g. Frank ; Beatey & Miles, of Hyde Park, ns.
m. Lady Champlain ; B. Swan, of Hyde Park, ns, blk. m. Moll
Pitcher ; C. A. Mackintosh, of West Roxbury, ns. b. g. Athenian ;
A. C. Richardson, of Dorchester, ns. b. g. Ben. Frank won the
first heat in 2.;j3 1-2, distancing the other four horses.

The next race was for horses owned in the county at least one
month previous to the race ; best three in five, to harness. First
prize, $75, second §50, third, §25. There were eight entries, but

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in the first heat five were distanced, leaving the b. m. Jennie, en-
tered by James Gray, Wm. Claig's b. m. Martha Washington, and
Thomas Parker's s. m. Lady Cohimbus. Of these Jennie won in
three straight heats. Martha Washington was second. Time —
2.42 1-2, 2.44, 2.46 3-4.

A race for donble teams came next, the requirements being that
they should have been owned in the county, and by the same man,
for one month previous, owner to drive ta road wagon, best three in
rive. First prize, $50 ; second, S25. B. F. Brown, of Dorchester,
entered Shawmut and Graduate ; and F. B. Ray, of Franklin,
named Childers and Allen. Ray's team was distanced in the first
heat, Brown's winning the heat and race in 3.03 1-4.

The last race was for the horses that trotted a mile nearest to
three minutes, $25 being offered. W. T. Cook, of Foxboro', en-
tered the winning animal, bay mare, Kitty. The other entries
were chestnut gelding Dick, by D. Bigley, of Cambridge, and Yan-
kee B03', by H. McLaughlin, of Boston.

The day closed with a foot race of half a mile, in which there
were five contestants. A boy named Moses Bass, the well-known
champion " runnist," took the first prize of $5 ; J. O'Brien the
second of $3, and Connor the third, $1.

On Fridaj^ the first performance was the grand cavalcade of all
the horses on exliibition on the track, making a fine display. At
12 o'clock a procession was formed under the direction of Captain
Thomas Decatur, of Jamaica Plain, Chief Marshal of the Exhibi-
tion, which marched to the excellent music of the Biookline band
to the tent. After prayer by Rev. Francis C. Williams, of Hyde
Park, chaplain of the day, the Honorary President of the Society,
Hon. Marshal P. Wilder, invited the company to partake of an ex-
cellent and substantial collation, which had been prepared by L. E.
Reed, of Boston.

After an hour spent in discussing the viands, the company was
called to order by Mr. Wilder, who, after congratulating the So-
ciety on the success of the Exhibition, extended his heartfelt sym-
pathy to the President, Mr. Eldridge, for the affliction which re-
quired his absence. If any improvement was needed in either of
the departments, it was within the province and ability of the
members to make it. The soil of Norfolk County was not so favor-
able to agriculture as some other sections of the State, but with
indomitable energy on the part of its farmers it could be compelled
to give an increase, and if it failed it would be because they had
not done their duty. Mr. Wilder then spoke of the success of
other associations formed for culture of fruit, the officers of which
came from the Norfolk Agricultural Society, and closed with assur-
ing the Society that whenever he could serve them in any capacity
they could rely upon his assistance. The remarks of Mr. Wilder
were received with applause.

The President then introduced to the audience, as the orator of
the occasion, Samuel B. Noyes, Esq., of Canton, who gave the

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rulmirable address, which will be found in full at the commence-
ment of this volume. It was listened to with the closest attention,
and at its close was most heartily applauded.

After music by the band, the President introduced Eugene
Bntchelder, Esq., of Dover, as the poet of the occasion, and his
production was received with marked applause.

The following hymn, by John G. Whittier, was then sung by the
audience : —

Once more tlic liberal year l.niighs out

O'er riclier stores than gems or gokl ;
Once more with harvest-song aud shout

Is nature's bloodless triumph told.

Our common mother rests and sings,

Like Ruth, among her garnered sheaves;
Her lap is lull ol' goodly things,

Her brow is bright with autumn leaves.

Who murmurs at his lot to-day ?

Who scorns his native I'ruit and bloom ?
Or sighs for dainties far away,

Eeside the bounteous board of tome ?

Thank Heaven, instead, that Freedom's arm

Can change a rooky soil to gold, —
That brave and generous lives can warm

A clime with northern ices cold.

And let these altars wreathed with flowers

And piled with fruits, awalje again
Thanksgiving for the golden hours,

The early and the latter rain !

Hon. F. A. Sawyer, United States Senator from South Carolina,
v/as then called upon in response to the sentiment, "Oiu- Southern
friends — one with us in the achievement of American independence,
may they be with us in the preservation of the American Union ;
Should auld acquaimtance be forgot?" and made an eloquent
speech, reviewing the political situation at the South. After brief
addresses from Capt. Fay, of Athol, delegate from the State Board
of Agriculture, and others, an adjournment was made to witness
the races on the track, which began at 2 o'clock.

The first race was for horses owned in the county that have
never beaten 2.45 ; best three in five, to harness. Beatey & Miles
of Hyde Park, entered Lady Champlain ; Wra. Craig, of South
Weymouth, Martha Washington ; Thomas Parker, of Jamaica
Plain, Lady Columbus ; B. Swan, of Hyde Park, Ben. Butler.
Three heats were trotted. The first prize of S75 was taken by
Ladv Champlain, and the second of $50 by Martha Washington.
Time, 2.51 1-4, 2.50 1-4, 2.49 1-2.

The second race was for running horses, in which M. T. Down-
ing, of South Boston, entered c. m. Lady Gibbens ; J. H. Wood-
ard, of Framingham, r. g. Little Mac ; and M. T. Downing, b. g.
Major Mahan. Two heats only were trotted, though the race was
closely contested between Gibbens and Little Mac, the former win-
ning the first prize of §30, and Little Mac the second of S20.
Time, 1.59 1-2, 2.00 3-4.

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For the third race, open to all horses, best three in five, to har-
ness, owner to drive to road wagon, Henry Nay, of Boston, entered
b. m. Lady Norfolk ; Alden Bartlett, Jamaica Plain, brown g. Bis-
niark ; J. N. Bicklbrd, b. g. Mark Twain ; R. H.Davis, b. g.Knox
Colt ; C. A. Mackintosh, West Roxbnry, brown g. Athenian ; J.
N. Ayres, Boston Highlands, b. m, Nell}^ ; Wni. Claig, South Wey-
mouth, br. g. Dexter ; H. A. Thomas, b. s. Shakespeare. Mark
Twain won the Society cup, valued at $30 ; Bismarck the second
prize of $15, and Dexter the third prize of $10.

A wheelbarrow and bag race were among the features of the
afternoon, and the exhibition was brought to a successful termina-
tion at about 6 o'clock.

Although the Societ}' was deprived of the presence of the Presi-
dent, who was detained at home in consequence of the sudden
death, on the morning of the exhibition, of his venerable father,
yet his place was well supplied l)y the father of the Society, the
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, who has never ceased to manifest the
warmest interest in the Society, and whose presence was doubly
welcome on the present occasion. The warm reception accorded
to him, and the hearty and enthusiastic manner in which the re-
marks of the orator, referring to him, were received, attested in
the most unmistakable terms to the deep respect and regard enter-
tained for him by all the members of the Society.

The onerous and responsible duties of Chief Marshal were never
better performed than on this occasion by Capt. Thomas Decatur,
of Jamaica Plain, who, on the second day, was assisted by the fol-
lowing gentlemen as aids : — Messrs. H. A. Darling, of n3'de Park,
and John Newcomb, Augustus Wright, C. E. Fenncr and W. B.
Fenner, of Boston Highlands.

The best of order prevailed during the entire exhibition, and the
police duty was well performed by a detachment of the State
Police under Officer B. P. Eldridge, of Dorchester, assisted by the
police force of Hyde Park.

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PPFICERS OF THE ^OCIETY, 187I.

President 1

Hox. JOHN S. ELDRIDGE,

of Canton.

Honorary President!
Hox. MARSHALL V. WILDER,

Vice-Presidents :

Hox. AMOS A. LAWRENCE,
Hux. OTIS GARY, .
STEPHEN W. RICHARDSON,
ELIJAH TUCKER, .
HENRY GREW,
ROYAL W. TURNER,

Corresponding and Recording Secretary;
HENRY O. HILDRETH,

Treasurer;

CHAUNCEY C. CHURCHILL,

Executive Committee:

WILLIAM R. JIANN,
FRANCIS P. DENNY,
Hox. TRUMAN CLARKE,
CHARLES BRECK, .
ALFRED W. WHITCOMB,
E. C. R. WALKER, .
ALBERT B. BALCH,
WILLIAM E. COFFIN,
CHARLES F. CURTIS, .

Finarce Committee and Auditors;

IRA CLEVELAND,

EDWARD S. RAND, Ju.

VriLLIAM J. STUART

of Dorchester.

of BrooMine.
of Foxboroufjh.
of Franklin,
of Milton,
of Hyde Park.
of Bandolph.

of Dedham.

of Dedham.

of Sharon,
of Brookline.
of Walpole.
of Jliiton.
of Randolph,
of Eov.btiry.
of 3Iedfieia.
of Dorchester,
of West Boxbury,

of Dedham.
of Dedham.
of Hyde Park.

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Board cf Trustees:

BELLINGHAM.

GEOIIGE H. CROOKS.

ALVA MOKPJSON.
JOHN B. ARNOLD.

GEORGE CRAFT.
WILLIAM J. HYDE.

BRAINTREE.

DAVID H, BATES.
GEORGE WALES.

BROOKtlXE.

GEORGE GRIGGS.
CHARLES STEARNS.

ELLIS TUCKER.
JAMES T. SUMNER.

WILLIAM B. JOHNSON.
SOLOMON J. BEAL.

LUTHER EATON.
ALLEN COLBURN.

FREDERICK CLAPP.
JOHN H. ROBINSON.
AXEL DEARBORN.

HENRY GOULDING.
EPHRAIM WILSON.

JAMES CAPEN.
FRANCIS D. WILLIxVMS.

ERASTUS L. METCALF.
JOHN AY. RICHARDSON.

ALPHEUS P. BLAKE.
WILLIAM J. STUART,

CHARLES C. SEWALL.
ELIJAH THAYER.

CANTON.

CHARLES H. FRENCH.
NATHANIEL S. WHITE.

COHASSET.

ABRAHAM H. TOWER.
JOHN Q. A. LOTHROP.

DEDHAM.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

DOItCHESTEK.

JOSIAH H. CARTER.
AARON D. CAPEN.
AUGUSTUS P. CALDER.

DOVER.

BENJAMIN N. SAWIN.
AMOS W. SHUMWAY.

FOXBOROUGH.

ERASTUS P. CARPENTER.
DAVID SHAW.

FRANKLIN.

HIRAM W. JONES.
FRANCIS B. RAY.

HYDE PARK.

WILLIAM T. THACHER.
HENRY A. DARLING.

MEDli'IELD.

WILLIAM Q. FISHER.
ALONZO B. PARKER.

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WILLARD P. CLARK.
RICHARD RICHARDSON.

SAMUEL COOK.
ALBERT K. TEELE.

ABEL F. STEVENS.
CHARLES H. DEWING.

WALTER H. FISHER.
ERASTUS DUPEE.

JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON.
LEMUEL BILLINGS.

SETH TURNER.

J. WHITE BELCHER.

JAMES RITCHIE.
RICHARD HOLMES.
WILLIAM BACON.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE.
LEWIS W. MORSE.

LUCIUS CLAPP.
HENRY BIRD.

WILLARD LEWIS.
EDMUND W. CLAP.

EBENEZER W. TOLMAN.
ANDREW T. MESERVE.

ALBERT TIRRELL.
JOHN W. LOUD.

GARDNER H. STARKEY.
ALONZO W. CHEEVER.
6

MEDWAY.

WILLIAM DANIELS.
MILTON M. FISHER.

MILTON.

LYMAN DAVENPORT.
OLIVER W. PEABODY.

NEEDHAM.

HENRY BLACKMAN.
CYRUS G. UPHAM.

NORFOLK.

LUCAS POND.
GEORGE E. HOLBROOK.

QULNCY.

JACOB F. EATON.
CHARLES MARSH.

RANDOLPH.

WILLIAM PORTER.
EPHRAIM MANN.

ROXBURY.

ROLAND WORTHINGTON.
J. AUSTIN ROGERS.
ISAAC HAYDEN.

SHARON.

WARREN COBB.
CHARLES H. WARREN.

STOUGHTON.

ROBERT PORTER, Jr.
ALBERT H. DRAKE.

WALPOLE.

JOHN N. SMITH.
EDMUND POLLEY.

WEST ROXBtTRY.

THOMAS DECATUR.
ALFRED S. BROWN.

WEYMOUTH.

JAMES HUMPHREY.
ERASTUS NASH.

WRENTHAiM.

JOHN F. COWELL.
CHAUNCEY G. FULLER.

4:2

Names of Membei^s.

BELLINGHAM.

Chil?on, Paul,* 1860.
Crooks, George H.
PickeriDg, Asa,* '69. [3.]

BRAINTKEE.

Arnold, John B.
Arnold, Joseph A.
Bates, David H.
Blake, Joseph H. D.,* 'G8.
Bowditch, Ebenezer C.
Bradford, E. S.,* 1866.
Ohace, George
Dow, Charles H,
Dyer, Isaac
Dyer, Joseph
Fogg, Charles M.,* 1851.
French, George G.
French, Charles,* 1861.
Fi-ench, Jonathan
Holiingsworth, E. A.
Hollis, Caleb
Hollis, David N.
Hollis, John A.
Hollis, Josiah
Howard, J. G.
Ludden, Miss Carrie F.
Ludden, Joseph T.,* '62.
Locke, W. F.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Warren
Morrison, Alva
Jsiles, Daniel H.
Penniman, Ezra,* 1866.
Perkins, Oliver
Potter, Edward
Rand, n^illiam T.
Randall, ApoUos,* 1363.
Stetson, Amos W.
Stetson, Caleb
Stoddard, A. A.
Thayer, Ebenezer C.
Thayer, Hezekiah,* 1854.
Thayer, Sylvanus
Vinton, Thomas B.
Wain Wright, Peter
Walnwright, William L.
Wales, George
Wild, Hiram
Willis, Geo. W.,* '52. [44.1

BROOKLINE.

Amory, James S.
Amory, William
Appleton, William, Jr.
Babcock, George,*
Bartlett, J.nmes,* 1871.
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, Jos. H,

Bird, Jesse,* ia56.
Blake, George Baty
Blaney, Henry
Bramhall, William,* 1870.
Brown, Joseph T.
Churchill, Wm.,* 1857,
Craft, Miss Emeline H.
Craft, Caleb
Craft, Charles,* 1864.
Craft, George
Craft, Samuel,* 1856.
Corey, Elijah,* 1859.
Corey. Timothy
Dane, John,* 1854.
Dane, John H.
Denny, Francis P.,* 1871.
Ferris, Mortimer C.
Fisher, Francis,* 1871.
Frazar, Amherst A.
Griggs, George
Griggs, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas B.
Griggs, William J.
Heushaw, Sam'l,* 1863.
Hill, M. F.
Howe, Frank E.
Howe, James MuiTay
Howe, John,* 1867.
Humphrey, Willard J.
Hyde, William J.
Jameson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.
Lawrence, Amos A.
Lyman, Theodore
Parker, Edward G.,* '68.
Parker, M. D.,* 1863.
Parsons, Thomas
Salisbury, William G.
Sampson, Geoige R.
Sliaw, G. Howland,* '67.
Stearns, Charles
Stearns, Marshall,* 1870.
Thayer, John E.,* 1857.
Trowbridge, John H.
Turner, John N.,* 1864.
Welch, Matthew,* 1868.
White, Henry K.
Williams, Moses B.,* 1866.
[55]

CANTON.

Abbott, Ezra
Ames, Frank M.
Billings, Uriah
Billings, William
Bray, Edgar W.
Brewster, Ezra S.
Capeu, Ezekiel
Capeu, Samuel,* 1863.
Chapman, Oliver S.
Crane, Albert
C ashman, Charles F.

Davenport, Charles
Davenport, John, Jr.,
Deaue, Francis W.
Deane, Oliver
Downes, George,* 1861.
Downes, Miss C. T.
Downes, George E.
Draper, Thomas
Dunbar, Elijah
Dunbar, James,* 1867.
Dunbar, Nathaniel
Dunbar, William,* 1857.

Eager, Edward R.
Eldridge, John S.
Eldridge, John S.. Jr.
Eudicott, John,* 1855.
Endicott, Charles
Everett, J. Mason
Everett, Leonard,* 1852.

Farrington, Nath'l, Jr.
Fenno, Jesse
French. Charles H.
French, Thomas,* 1862.
Fuller, Daniel
Guild, Horace
Hall, John
Howard, Lucius
Huntoon, Benj.,* 1864.
Huntoon, Mrs. Benjamin
Huutoon, D. T. V.
Kinsley, Lyman
KoUock, Jeremiah
Lincoln, Frederick W.,* '71.
Lord, William P.
Mansfield, William
Mcintosh, Adam
Mcintosh, Rogers.
McKendry, William
Messiuger, Vernon A.
Messinger, Virgil J.
Morse, William
Noyes, Samuel B.
Revere, Joseph
Shepard, James S.
Spare, Elijah
Spaulding, Corodon
Stetson, Joseph
Sumner, James T.
Sumner, George F.
Sumner, Mrs. >arah E.
Tilt, Benjamin B.
Tucker, Edmund
Tucker, Ellis
Tucker, Jedediah
Tucker, Nathaniel, Jr.
Tucker, Phineas
Tucker, William,* 1868.
Ward, Samuel G.
Wentworth, Edwin
Weutworth, Nathaniel
White, Elisha,* 1865.
White, Nathaniels.
Wood, Rufus C. [74.]

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COHASSET.

Beal, Solomon J.
Beal, Mrs. !>. J.
Doaiie, Jiinies C.
Johnson, William B.
Sohier, William 1).,*'08.
Soutlier, Laban,* ISIJO.
Tower, Abraham 11. [7.]

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamin H.
Alden, Abner
Allien, Francis
Aklcn, George,* 18U2.
Alden, Leonard
Aldeu, Samuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William, 2d
Babcock, Samuel B.
Bacon, Silas D.
Bailey, Benjamin II.
Baker, David A.
Baker, Joel M.
Baker, Obed,* 1868.
Baker, Timothy
Baker, William
Balch, Benj. W.* 1858.
Barrows, Edward
Barrows, Thomas
Bates, Martin,* 18G9.
Bean, Albion,* 18(50.
Bestwick, Frederick L.
Bickner, Samuel K.
Bosworth, Isaac C.,* '06.
Boydeu, Addison
Boydeu, Benjamin
Brooks, Edward C.
Bryant, Austin,* 1851.
Bullard, Elijah
BuUard, John,* 1862.
Bullard, Lewis
Bullard, William
Burgess, Ebenezer,* 1870.
Burgess, Ebeney.er G.
Burgess, Edward P.
Capen, Charles J.
Capeu, Oliver,* 1865.
Carroll, Sanford
C'awley, John
Chase, James M.,* 1860.
Chickering, Horatio
Chickeriug, Munroe
Churchill, Chauncey C.
Clapp, Edward
Clapp, Nathaniel
Clarke, Joseph W.
Clark, Horatio
Clark, Mrs. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Cobb, Jonathan H.
Coburn, Charles
Coburn, Mrs. Chas.
Colburu, Allen
Colburn, Isaacus
Colburn, Nath'l,* 1853. ■
Colburn, Waldo
Cormerais, Henry
Coolidge, George
Cox, John, Jr.
Crane, E. B.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
Crane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos H.* 1864.
Crossmau, Charles B.

Curtis, George F.
Gushing, Henry W.
Damrell, Wm. S.,* 1860.
Daniell, Ellery C.
Davenport, George
Day, Joseph
Day, Lewis
Dean, James
Deaue, John,* 1864.
Dixon, Rufus E,
Doggett, John,* 1857.
Donahoe, Patrick
Drayton, John,* 1856.
Dull", John
Dunbar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, John
Eaton, John Ellis,* 1854.
Eaton, Luther
Eaton, Luther A.
Edson, Mrs. E. G.,* 1859.
Ellis, Calvin F. •
Ellis, Charles
Ellis, Colburn,* 1864.
Ellis, George,* 1855.
Ellis, Jason
Ellis, Merrill D,
Ellis, Oliver
Ely, F. D.

Endicott, Augustus B.
Everett, George
Everett, Mrs. Hepzibah
Fairbanks, Wm.,* 1863.
Fales, William
Farrington, Chas.,* 1859.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, James,* 1864.
Farrington, Mrs. James
Farrington, Jesse,* 1857.
Farrington, Jesse
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,* 1863.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* 1863.
Fisher, Amory
Fisher, Ebeu'rS.,* 1867.
Fisher, Mrs. Elizabeth D.
Fisher, Freeman,* 1860.
Fisher, James R.
Fisher, Joseph
Fisher, Joshua
Fisher, Thomas
Fleming, Douglas,* 1858.
Fogg, David S.
Foord, Enos,* 1861.
Foord, James
French, Abram
French, Charles
French, George M.
Fuller, George,* 1869.
Fuller, Greenwood
Gardner, .John
Gay, Ebenezer F.,* 1871.
Gay, Mrs. Hannah S.
Gay, .Jeremiah W.
Gay, Lusher,* 1855.
Gay, ]S[rs. A. M.,* 1866.
Gay, Wm. King,* 1800.
Gleason. Daniel
Gould, George
Green, Elisha,* 1865,
Green, John
Green, Mrs. .John
Guild, Calvin
Guild, Francis
Guild; Heniy
Gunnison, George D.
Haruden, Harvey,* 1863.
Hartney, Thomas

Hartshorn, Caleb W.
Hartshorn, Louis E.
Hartshorn, Richard D.
Henck, John B.
Hewes, Hannah E.
Hewins, Mrs. Hattie W.
Hildreth, Henry O.
Hinkley, Mrs. M. J.
Holmes, Edw. B.,* 1864.
Houghton, William A.
Howe, Elijah, Jr.
Howe, Francis,* 18.^9.
Howe, Josiah D.,* 1867.
Hoyle, Mark C.
Jackson, Marcus B.
Jolmson, Edwin,* 18.56.
Keelan, Michael
Keyes, Ebenezer W.
Keyes, Edw. L.,* 1859.
Kingsbury, Lewis H.
Kingsbury, Moses
Kingsbury, Mrs. Sally
Lamson, Alvan,* 1S64.
Luce, D. W.
Lynch. Mrs. A.,* 1869.
Lynch. Daniel A.
Lynch; Wm. F.,* 1869.
BlcClane, James
Mann, Henry A.
Mann, Herman,* 1851.
Mann, Samuel C.,* 1864.
Mann, Wm. H.,*1864.
Marden, Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, Martin,* 1805.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin,* 1869.
Mason, William
Mason, Wm.H.,* 1861.
Mercer, Miss Mary
Metcalf, George E.
Mitchell, Francis N.,*
Morgan, John
Morrell, Henrietta W.
Morse, Albert
Morse, Curtis G.
Morse, John,* 1801.
Morse, John L.,* 1864.
Morse, Otis
Morse, Sidney E.
Motley, Thomas,* 1864,
Murray, Daniel
Neal, A. B.
Noves, Nathaniel
Norris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion, Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamm H.
Page, Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C.
Paul, Ebenezer
Paul, Mrs. Ebenezer
Pettee, James,* 1868.
Phelps, Timothy
Phillips, Nathan
Phillips, Mrs. P. M.
Quincy, Edmund
Band, Edward S., Jr.
Robley, Robert C.
Rice, John P.
Rice, William R.
Richards. Abiathar
Rich.ards, Edward M.,* '65.
Richards, Henry White
Richards, J. P.,* 1852.
Richards, Lewis A.
Richards, Mason,* 1866.
Richards, Reuben,* 1855.
Richards, William B.

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Rodman, Alfred,* 1853.
Rodman, Allred
Rodman, Mrs. Alfred
Roouey, Francis
Russell, Charles
Rnssell, Ira
Sampson, E. W.,*1S67.
Scanlan, David
Schwartz, Mrs. Joanna
.Scott, Joel,* 1858.
Shattuck, Willard
Shaw, Ohas.B., *il869.
Sheriff, John L.
Sherman, t'harles B.,*
Sherwiu, Thomas,* 1869.
Slafter, Carlos
Small, Miss Jane S.
Smith, Edwin
Smith, Henry-
Smith, Lyman
Smith, Nathaniel*
Smith, Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Zebina,* 18C5.
Sjjear, Henry F.
Stimson, Jeremy,* 1869.
Stone, Eliphalet
Sully, John
.Sumner, Edward
Sumner, Mirick P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah R.
Sumner, Wm. R.,* 1860.
Sutton, Enoch,* 1853.
Talt, Ezra W.
Talbot, Josiah W.
Thayer, John H. B.
Thomas, John W.
Tohmpson, Rob't,* 1854.
Tower, William B.
Trefry, James
Tubbs, Benj. H.,* 1854.
Van Brunt, G. J.,* 1863.
Vose, George H.
AVakefleld, Thomas L.
Wales, Sam'l, Jr.,* 1860,
Washburn, Alex. (}.
Waters, .Joseph W.
AVeatherbee, Comfort
Weatherbee, Jabez
Weatherbee, Jesse
Weatherbee, John E.
AVebb, Moses E.
AVebb, Seth, Jr.,* 1802.
AVelch, Stephen
AVeld, Joseph R.
Wellcome, Jacob H.
AVhite, John,* 1852.
AVhite, N. B.
AAniite, AValter
Whiting, Hezekiah
AVhiting, Horace
Whiting, Margaret M.
AVhiting, Moses
AVhiting, William
AVhitney, S. S.,* 1855.
AVight, Danforth P.
Wight, Ebenezer,* 1871.
Williams, G. W.,* 1861.
AVilson, John F.,* 1853.
Wilson. Reuben S.
AVinslow, Alfred N.
AVinslow, George
AVithington, AVarren
Wood, Mrs. Amos
Woods, Wm. G.,* 1863.
Wortliington, E. [297J

DORCHESTER.

Abbott, William E.
Adams, Benjamin W.
Atherton, Samuel
Austin, William R.
Bachi, Ignatius C.,* 1859.
Bacon, Charles H.
Baker, Edmund J.
Baker, Walter,* 1852.
Baldwin, Enoch,* 1860,
Barnes, Parker
B.arry, Michael O.,* 1859.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Billings, Lemuel
Bispham, Eleazer J.
Blanchard, Charles F.
Brown, B. F.
Brown, Mrs. B. F.
Bradlee, James B.
Bradstreet, Samuel
Bramhall, Cornelius
Breck, Henry, Jr.
Brewer, Darius,* 1854.
Briggs, Franklin
Brooks, Noah,* 1852.
Brooks, AVilliams B.
Brown, Augustus
Brown, George M.
Burt, George L.
Capen, Aaron D.
Capen, Samuel J.
Capen, Thomas AV.
Calder, Augustus P.
Campbell, Thomas
Carleton, Mary A.
Carleton, Martha G.
Carruth, Charles
Carruth, Nathan
Carter, Josiah H.
Carter, Elizabeth E.
Carter, Lizzie S.
Childs, Nathaniel R.
Churchill, Asaph
Clapp, Amasa
Clapp, Edward B.
Clapp, Frederick
Clapp, Frederick A.
Clapp, Lemuel
Clapp, James H.
Clapp, John P.
Clapp, Richard, * 1862.
Clapp, Thaddeus, * 1861.
Clapp, William, * 1860.
Clapp, William C.
Cleveland, S. H., * 1856.
Cobb, Moses G.
Codman, John
Codman, 'Robert
Coffin, AVilliam E.
Conant, R. B.
Copenhagen, A. W„ * 1866.
Curtis, Ebenezer
Gushing, Abel, * 1866.
dishing, Benjamin
Davis, Barnabas
Dearborn, Axel
Denny, Daniel
Denny, Daniel, Jr.
Doody, Dennis
Dorr, James
Downer, Samuel
Flynn, Thomas
FoUansbee, Isaac AV.
Foster, AVilliam H.
Fowler, M. Field
French, Benj. V., * 1860.

French, Mrs. B. V.
Gardner, Henry J.
Gilbert, Samuel, Jr.
Gleason, Moses, * 1856.
Gleason, Roswell
Gleason, Sarall, * 1854.
Groom, Thomas
Hall, Joseph
Hall, Oliver
Hall, Samuel
Hammond, Horatio
Harding, William
Harding, Mrs. Wm.
Hai'dy, Alpheus
Harris, Benjamin W.
Hartshorn, Lewis E.
Hathaway, Nicholas
Haven, John A.
Haynes, Edward
Haynes, George A.
Hebard, B. F., * 1871.
Hebard, C. F.
Hewins, John C.
Hickey, Timothy
Hickey, William
Holbrook, Nathan
Holmes, Ebenezer
Hooper, Franklin Henry
Hooper, Rob't C, * 1SU9.
Hooper, Robert C, Jr.
Houghton, George A.
Howe, Charles, * 1869.
Howe, James T.
Humphrey, Heniy
Hunt, Charles
Igoe, Patrick
Jacobs, Benjamin, * 1870.
Jones, Nahum
Jones, William
King, Edward, * 1867.
King, Franklin
Learned, J. M.
Lee, James, Jr.
Leonard, .Joseph
Lewis, Edwin J.
Liversidge, S., * 1852.
Liversidge, Thomas
Mack, Henry M.
Mack, Mrs. H. M.
Mack, S. P., *1866.
McAuliffe, Daniel
Marshall, Wm., * 1867.
May, John J.
Means, James H.
Mears, John
Mears, John, Jr.
Miller, Erasmus D.
Minot, John, * 1861.
Mitchell, Simeon
Moseley, Flavel
Mumford, Thomas J.
Munroe, William
Murphy, Timothy
Nazro, John G., * 1870.
Newhall, Cheever
Newhall, John M., * 1869.
Nichols, Norman
Payson, Thomas
Payson, Mrs. Thomas
Perrin, Augustus AA'".
Peters, Henry H.
Petersilea, Franz
Pierce, Chas. B., * 1857.
Pierce, Henry
Pierce, Henry L.
Pierce, Jesse, * 1856.
Pierce, Lewis
Pierce, Robert

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Pierce, William, * mil.
Piorce, Wni. 15., * 1858.
Pierce, William P.
Pojie, Alexiinder
Pope, William
Pratt, Laban
Presiton, Kdward
Preston, John, * 1858.
Preston, John
Prince, William G,
Prouty, Lorenzo
Kichartlsou, George
Kichanlson, William 11.
Hideout, Asa
Robic, John
Robinson, Mrs. D. A.
Robinson, Eli W.
Robinson, John H.
Robinson, Nathan T.
Robinson, Stephen A.
Rugsles, Edward H. K.
Scudder, Horace, * 1851.
Shaw, Theron V., * 1870.
Smith, Henry
Snell, Stephen D.
Southworth, A. C.
Spear, Daniel
Spear, Joshua, Jr.
Spear, Luther
Spooner, John P.
Stephenson, Charles E.
Sumner, Clement
Swan, James
Temple, Haunaniah
Temple, Thomas F.
Temple, William F.
Thayer, Benjamin W.
Thompson, Joshua P.
Thurlow, Rufus
Tileston, Edmund P.
Tileston, F. L.
Tileston, Samuel
Tolman, Eben'r, * 1863.
Tolman, William
Train, Enoch, * 1868.
Tremlet, Thomas, * 1858.
Trull, John H.
Trull. Mrs. J. H.
Trull, John W.
Tutile, Joseph, * 1870.
Upham, James H.
Vinson, Thomas M.
Vose, Robert
Vose, Robert, Jr.
Washburn, Allen J., * 1865.
Webster, Charles W.
Welch, John H,
Welch, Mrs. J. H.
Whipple, John L.
Wilder, Marshall P.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P., * 1854,
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.
Williams, S. B., * 1854.
Willis, C.J.

AVithington, William C.
AVhitten, Charles V.
Woodman, James
M'orthington, Wm., * 1857.
Worthington, Wm. F.
Wright, Edmund
Wright, Mrs. Edmund
Wright, Otis, * '65. [226]

DOVER.

Adams, Adna J.
Adams, John

Allen, Jarcd
Allen, Timothy
Racon, Aaron
Bacon, Mary S.
Baldwin. Frank,
Baker, Jabez
Burden, Calvin
Battelle, John
Battelle, Mr.i. John
Battelle, John E.
Battelle, Mary D.
Battelle, Rachel A.
Battelle, Ralph
Beatie, Thomas
Bigelow, Calvin
Bigelow, Charles A.
Bigelow, Mrs. Hannah T.
Bigelow. Mrs. Abraham
Bigelow, William A.
Bliss, Linus
Bliss, Mrs. Linus
Brookbank, Miss Bella
Chickering, Daniel
Chickering, George E.
Chickering, Otis
Chickering, Samuel
Cleveland, William
Dunn, Theodore
Everett, George D.
Everett, Mrs. Martha A.
Everett, Miss Martha E.
Everett, Miss Sarah E.
Fearing, Perez L.
Gannett, William W.
Gay, Francis G.
Goulding, H. Emeline
Goulding, Henry
Goulding, Heni-y E.
Lyman, Miss Frauces L.
Mann, Mrs. Adeline B.
Mann, Daniel,* 1859,
Manu, Daniel F.
Mann, Elbridge L.
Mann, Hollis
Mann, S. J. B.
Marden, Mrs, Mary
McGill, Thomas
McNamara, Patrick
Newell, Benjamin
Newell, Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Miss Betsey E.
Newell, Jesse
Newell, .Josish B.
Otis, E. B.
Peri-y, Elijah
Perry, Mrs. Mehitable
Richards, Calvin
Richards, Mrs. Calvin
Richards, Jennie A,
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers, Wilbor J.
Sanger, Ralph, * 1860,
Sawin, Benjamin N.
Sawin, Frank W.
Sawin, Mary A,
Sawin , Mary J,
Shumway, Amos W.
Shumway, Amos W., Jr,
Shumway, Hannah
Shumway, John W.
Shumway, Sarah G.
Sias, Samuel
Smith, Abner L.
Smith, Charles H,
Smith, Mary W.
Sullivan, Daniel
Tisdale, WiUiam

Upham, Martha F.
Upham, Walter W,
Wall, Patrick
Wilson, Ephraim
AVilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, K. Henry
AVilson, Miss N. D. [87]

FOXBOROUGH,

Aldrich, H. D., * 1854.
Belcher, Lewis AV,
Burr, Simeon
Capen, James
Carpenter, Daniels
Carpenter, Erastus P,
Carpenter, James E,
(carpenter, Oliver
Cary, Otis
Cobb, Elias G.
Cook, William T.
Dickerman, Lemuel
Dixon, Sarah O.
Fisher, Albert
Foster, James AV.
Guild, Fi-eedom, * 1802.
Hersey, David
Hodges, Alfred
Kerr, Robert W., * 1867.
Kingsbury, Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. S.
Leonard, James F.
Leonard, Samuel B. * 1866.
Leonard, Sanford
Merrick, John M., * 1871.
Pettee, David
Pettee, Joseph G.
Pettee, Simeon E.
Shepard, J. M, * 1866.
Shermam, Job
Smith, Silas
Shaw, David
Sumner, Mrs. A. M,
Sumner, Charles C.
Torrey, Martin, * 1861.
AVilliams, Francis D.
Wyman, David [37]

FRAJS'KLIN,

Adams, Albert, * 1869.
Adams, Peter
Adams, AVard, * 1865.
Alby, R.

Atwood, Mrs. Ruth, * 1862.
Atwood, Shadrach
Baker, David P.
BuUard, Piam, * 1865.
Chapman, Elisha P.
Daniels, Albert E.
Daniels, Chas. F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeAVitt, Archibald, * 1859.
DeAVitt, Mrs. Mary A., * '65.
Fisher, Herman, C.
Fisher, Maxcy, * 1865.
Green, Henry M.
Green, Martin
Harding, Lewis, *
Hills, Theron C, * 1862.
Jones, Hiram AV.
Jones, Alice J.
Jones, I. L.
Jones, Lucy
Knapp, Alfred
Metcalf, Alfred G.

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Metcalf, Alfred H.
Metcalf, Erastus B.
■ Metcalf, Erastmus L.
Metcalf, Whitmg, * 1869.
Metcalf, Williatu
Miller, John W.
Miller, Phillip W. * 1860.
Morse, George W.
Morse, Joseph
Nasou, George W., * 1868.
Pond, Henry E.
Ray, Francis B.
Ray, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.
Ray, James P.
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Stephen W.
Rockwood, E., * 1864.
Rockwood, Nathan
Sergeant, A. D.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
Wadsworth, George M.
Wadsworth, Joseph H,
Wales, Otis, Jr.
Wliitiug, Joseph
Whiting, Joseph M.
Whiting, Wm. E. [54]

HYDE PARK.

Adams, Henry C.
Adams, C. Henry
Adams, Henry S.
Allen, Zenas
Blake, Alpheus P.
Bleakie, Robert
Blazo, W. A.
Bissett, Henry F,
Beatey, John
Bonney, William A.
Bradbury, C. G.
Bradbury, W. C.
Brainard, Amos H.
Bragg, William M.
Bryant, H. J.
Bullard, William
Coleman, E. J.
Clarke, T. Emery
Conner, Barney
Crane, Nathaniel
Dai-ling, Henry A.
Dolan, Thomas
Davis, Enoch P.
Davis, David L.
Dow, J. E.
Downing Alfred
Downing, James
Evans, Thomas C.
Everett, W. S.
Easton. F. A.
Farnsworth, C. L.
Farrington, John B.
Fiske, H. C.
Gerry, Charles F.
Getchell, R. C.
Gilson, .John.
Gilson, Violettie L.
Gould, John B., * 1870.
Grew, Henry
Hamblin, J. G.
Hardy, B. H.
Haskell, B. B.
Hebard, Nathaniel
Horton, E. G.
Ireland, John
Kendrick, Henry C.
Lougee, R. W.
Lawson, J. D,

Leach, B. F.
Leach, Mrs. L. A,
McAvoy, .1. D.
Macomber, E. H.
Moseley, B. P.
Moseley, T. W. H.
Norris, R. N.
Nott, Gordon H,
Nott, Roxanna
Nott, L. B.
Nott, Margaret
Nott, Maggie G.
Noyes, George W.
O'Connell, Daniel
Patterson, James
Parrott, George B.
Pratt, James
Perkins, E. G.
Park, Wisner
Pierce, C. H.
Pierce, George
Plummer, R. B.
Putman, Sydney
Rayues, J. J.
Raynes, Mrs. E. H.
Radford, B. F.
Ranlef, D. D.
Rich, D. B.
Rich, Henry A.
Russell, A. L.
Spring, Charles
Sorague, R. T.
Sharrock, George
Stark, C. C.
Stevens, J.N.
Stuart, William J.
Stuart, Mrs. W. J.
Sherman, George E.
Sanford, O. S.
Sumner, Clarissa, * 1869.
Straw, L. H.
Swan, B.
Swift, Thomas P.
Thacher, William T.
Thacher, Mrs. W. T.
Thaiue, T. G.
Thaine, Mrs. J. W.
Thompson, B. F.
Tower, Isaac N.
Turner, C. R.
Turner, R. W.
Twitchell, John M.
Vose, John.
Vose, Mrs. John
Vose, B. C.
Weeman, W. E.
Wright, Richard
Whittier, A. R.
Williams, J. D.
Williams, John M.
Williams, R.
Willis, John M.
White, Charles A., Jr.
White, E. P.
Whitcher, M. L. [113]

MEDFIELD.

Abell, Wm. F.
Abell, Mrs. Wm. F.
Adams, George F.
Allen, Mrs. Hari'iet B.
Allen, Noah
Allen, William C.
Baker, Joseph H.
Baker, Mrs. Joseph H.
Balch, Albert B.
Battelle. Ralph A.

Barney, Thomas L.
Barney, Mrs. Thomas L.
Bigelow, Andrew
Bullard, .John E.
Carson, .Jose))h
Chenery, William
Cheney, Nathaniel H.
Cheney, Seth
Crane, George
Curtis, Daniel D.
Curtis, Mrs. Daniel D.
Curtis, Irving
Cushman, Jacob R.
Cushman, Mrs. Jacob R.
Davis, George
Davis, Mrs. George
Ellis, Caleb
Ellis, Francis D.
Ellis, George W.
Ellis, John
Ellis, Samuel
Everett, Edmund T.
Everett, Mrs. E. T.
Fisher, Hinsdale, * 1869.
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sai-ah H.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, Mrs. Isaac
Frost, Phineas, Jr.
Hamant, Miss Alice E.
Hamant, Mrs. N. Anna
Hamant, Miss Abby
Hamant, Mrs. Eliza M. C.
Hamant, Caleb S.
Hamant, Charles
Hamant, Mrs. Charles
Hamant, Daniels, Jr.
Hamant, Daniel D.
Harding, Alfred
Harding, Nathan
Hartshorn, Joseph, * 1886.
Hartshorn, Warreu
Hewins, William P.
Hewins, Mrs. AVilliam P.
Jones, John P.
Janes, Walter, * 1867.
Morse, Eliakim
Morse, Joel
Morse, Miss Lucy
Parker, Alonzo B.
Parker, Mrs. A. B.
Partridge, Mrs. E. A.
Partridge, Henry, Jr.
Richardson, Simeon
Roberts. Mrs. Helen M.
Roberts, Robert.
Salisbury, Wm.,* 1857.
Sanborn, Edward M.
Sanborn, W.
Sewall, Charles C.
SewalljMrs. Charles C.
Sewall, Edward U.
Sewall, Miss Elizabeth S.
Shumway, Benjamin F.
Smith, George M.
Stedman, Cyrus, * 1865.
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A., * 1864.
Turner, J. Addison
AVetherell, Harlus W.
Wheeler, Emory
Willard, Gibson [84]

47

MEDWAY.

Adams, Kdwavd
Ailams, Klisha
Ailanis, J>yman
Ailains, Wyman
Uarber, (ieorge, * 1851.
i;arl)ei". Thomas
r.oyd, William B.
lUillanl.Jolm, Jr.
C'arv, GiliDan
Carey, William H.
Clai-lc, Jaiiie8P.,*18G5.
Clark, .James W.
Clark, iMrs. .Tames W.
Clark, Maria F.
Clark, WillardP.
Crosby, (ieorge, * 1800.
Dauieis, .htiiies Willard
Dauiels, I'aul
Daniels, Mrs. Paul
Dauiels, William
Ellis, James H.
Fisher, Milton M.
Fuller, AsaM.B.
Harding, Theodore
Henderson, William
liurd, Julius C.
Ide, Jacob
Kiugsbury, Gilbert
Lovell, Asaliel P.
Lovell, Zachariali
I.overiug, Warren
Maun, James
JMason, Horatio, * 18G8
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalf Luther
Morse, Asa D.
Partridge, Clark
Partridge, George
Richardson, Elisha F.
Kichardson, Jeremiah D.
Richardson, Joseph L.
Richardson, Moses
Richardson, Richard
Slocumb, C, * I8iil.
Stevens, Daniel G.
Walker, John S.,*1871.
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler, Abijah R. [48]

MILTON.

Adams, Edward H.
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Amory, Francis
Arnold, John, .Ir. *
Babcock, Josiiih, * 1863.
Babcock, Lemuel W.
Babcock, Samuel
Baldwin, Edward
Beal, Jonathan
Beck, Gideon
Blanchard, J. W.
Bradlee, John D.
Bradlee, J. W.
Bradlee, Miss W. A.
Breck, Charles
Breck, Charles E. C.
Bronsdon, Charles
Brooks, John W.
Buuton, Jesse
Burt, .John
Burt, Sumner
Bush, .James P.
Churchill, Jos. McKean

Chapman, R. L.
Clapp, G. W.
Cook, Samuel
Cook, W. T.
Copelaud, Cliarles L.
Copeland, Lewis
Cornell. Walter
Crehore, John A,
Crowd, George
Cunningham, C. Loring
Cunningham, Francis, * '67
Curtis, Daniel T.
Davenport, Edwin
Davenport, Mrs. Ellen M.
Davenport, Lewis
Davenport, Lyman
Davenport, Nathaniel T.
Davis, William H.
Dow, John R.
Dudley, Benjamin F.
Elkius, D. II.
Emerson, Joshua
Everett, George
Farrington, Henry J.
Fenuo, Rulus P.
Ferry, George S.
Ferry, William M.
Forbes, John M.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Foster, William H.
Foster, William L.
Gannett, George K.
Gannett, Samuel
Garrett, George E.
Greene, Geo. W.
Hall, G^^orge W.
Higgins, David
Hinckley, Thomas H.
Hobson," A. R.
Ilobson, Miss Martha -J.
Hollings worth, Z.
Hollis, Thomas
Holmes, C. C.
Houghton, E. W.
Houghton, Jason W., * 1867,
Houghton, Jasou
Hunt, Charles E.
Hunt, George
Hunt, William M.
Kendall, J. B.
Kent, George W.
Kidder, Henry P.
Kinsman, Adolphus
Lothrop, T. K.
Merriam, Mrs. Charles H.
Myers, .John
Parker, C. H.
Peabody, Oliver W.
Pierce, Dean
Pierce, Edward L.
Pope, Ebenezer, * 1853.
Raymond, George
Richards, Reuben A.
Robbins, James M.
Rodgers,O.T., * 1859,
Rogers, H., Jr., * 18.55.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Rowe, Joseph, * 18.56.
Ruggles, E. T.
Ruggles, Philemon
Russell, Heni-y S.
Safford, N. F.
Senter. L. W.
Sias, Eliphalet
Sias, .John

Sigourney, Henry H. W.
Slone, Charles, * 1859.
Teele, Albert K,

Teelc, Mrs. A. K.
Thayer, .Jasou
Thayer, .James B.
Thompson, George, * 1858.
Todd, Robert M.
Towne, A. J.
Tucker, David W.
Tucker, Elijali
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah
Tucker, Stillman L.
Tucker, Tmiothy, * 1864.
Twombly, Josiah F.
Vose, George
Vose, Mrs. George
Vose, Henry
Vose, Francis E.
Vose, .Joshua W.
Watson, Robert S.
Walker, J. K.
Webb, JosLah
Webster, Joseph R.
West, Henry
White, Benjamin
White, Franklin B.
White, James P.
White, John E.
Wolcott, J. Huntington

[129]

NEEDHAM.

Alden, Otis
Avery, Jonathan
Ayling, Isaac
Beless, Thomas
Bemis, Mrs. S. S.
Bowers, Henry
Blackman, Henry
Blackman, Augustus
Buck, Charles
Buck, Mrs. F. P. H., * 1855.
Buck, Miss Mary M.
BuUen, Ichabod, * 1858.
Clark, Joseph P.
Cooper, Samuel
Danicll, George K. .
Dai-ling, George F.
Dewing, Charles H.
Dewing, Warren
Eaton, George E.
Eayrs, William C.
Emmons, Chas. P., * 1867.
Flagg, Solomon
Flagg, Wm., * 18fil.
Gardner, Elbridge
Goss, Daniel J.
Gray, James
Harmon, Ch.arles H.
Harmon, Cyrus
Harris, John, * 1858.
Harris, John M.
Harvey, Stephen F.
Holhaud, .John
Hollis, Elisha P.
Howo, Albion K.
Howe, Mrs. Eliza M.
Howland, George
Hubbard, G.G.,* 18.56.
Hunnewell, H. Hollis
Hunting, Isr.ael
Kimball, Benjamin G.
Kimball, Mrs. Betsey G.
Kimball, Daniel, * ltC2.
Kingsbury, J. M.
Kingsiniry, Lemuel
Kingsbury, Lauren
Kiugsbury, Thos., * 1859.

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Kingsbury, William A.
Kuapp, A. P.
Lombard, R. T.
Longfellow, George J.
Lougl'ellow, ]Mary L.
Longfellow, Nathan
Longfellow, IMrs. Nathan
Longfellow, Wilber F.
Longfellow, Fannie E.
Lovewell, Chai'les B.
Low, George VV.
Lyon, Mrs. Julia A.
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
JIansfleld, Charles TI.
Manslielil, John
Mansfield, Robert
Mansfield, Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, William
McCrackin, John
McCrackin, Robert
Mcintosh, Mrs. F. E.
Mcintosh, Mrs. II. P.
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mcintosh, Mrs. Mary C.
Mills, John
Mills, Matthias
Morton, Otis, Jr.,
Morton, W. T. G. * 180,8.
Newell, Artenias, * 1S71.
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes, Josiah, * 1871.
Peabody, Ezekiel
Phillips, Freeman
Pierce, William
Pierce, William, Jr.
Pierce, Mrs. Harriet
Revere, George
Robinson, Henry
Sawyer, John
Sawyer, Otis, * 18,').').
Scudder, Blarshal S.
Seagrave, Saul S.
Shaw, George. W., * 1853.
Shaw, John W.
Snelling, Nathaniel G.
Spring, Charles U.
Stednian, Francis
Stedman, Mrs. F. F.
Stedman, William M.
Stevens, A. F.
Stone, David
Stone, Henry L.
Sumner, Lewis
Sumner, Samuel B.
Tucker, E. H.
Turner, John
Turner, Mrs. John
Upham, Cyrus G.
Ilpham, Mrs. C. G.
Ware, Dexter, *1851.
Ware, Reuben
Ware, Althea
Ware, Ruel
Ware, William S.
Washburne, G. W.
Webber, Aaron D.
Welles, John
Whitaker, Edgar K.
White, George
Wnider, C. T.
Williams, Silas G.
Wood, Henry
Wright, Lewis [121]

NORFOLK.

Daniels, Adams
Fisher, Walter H.
Fisher, Mrs. ^^^ H.
Fisher, Walter M.
Ford, James T.
Pond, Lucas
Pond, Mrs. Lucas
Robinson, Joel II.
Scott, Saul B.
Trowbridge, Henry

QUINCY.

[10]

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John Q.
Adams, Elienezer,
Bartlett, Ibrahim, * 1853.
Bass, Josiah
Bass, Lewis
Baxter, Daniel
Baxter, Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. George
Baxter, George L.
Beale', George W., * 1851.
Beals, Nathaniel H.
Billings, Lemuel
Brackett, Lemuel
Brigham, Josiah, * 18G7.
Carr, Jolin J, * 1805.
Curtis, Noah, * 185G.
Eaton, Jacob F., * 1871.
Emmons, Nathaniel H.
Fellows, Ensign S.
Frederick, Eleazer
French, Washington M.
Glover, H. N., * 18(;;5.
Green, John A.j * 18G1.
Greenleaf, Daniel
Greeuleaf, Thos., * 185L
Ilowlaud, Charles A.
Horton. Lloyd G.
Marsh, Charles
Miller, Charles E.
Morton, William S., * 1871.
Munroe, Israel W.
Newcomb, James
Newcomb, John B.
Quincy, Josiah, * 1804.
Quincy, Josiah P.
Richards, L., * 1852.
Robertson, Joseph W.
Rogers, Clift.
Savil, John

Southworth, C. A. * 1871.
Spear, Charles A., * 1808.
Stetson, James A.
Thayer, G. F. * 18G4.
Torrey, William
Turner, Edward
Walker, William
White, Nathaniel, * 18G7.
Willard, Solomon, * 18G1.
Williams, Francis [51]

RANDOLPH.

Alden, Ebenezer
Alden, Horatio B.
Belcher, Allen, A.
Belcher, J. White
Buck, Nathan, * 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Christopher M.
Cushing, Abuer, L

Holbrook, Caleb S.
Holbrook, Elisha
Jordan, John T., * 1865.
Leeds, Joseph, * 1858.
Magnire, James
Maguire, James F.
Mann, Ephraim, * 1863.
Mann, Seth, 2d
Niles, Jacob
Porter, William
Snow. Zenas, * 1857.
Stevens, Richard
Tileston, G. H.
Tower, Isaac, * 18G5.
Turner, Royal W.
Turner, Seth
Wales, Apollos
Wales, Ephraim, *1855.
Wales, John, 2d
Wales, Jonathan. * 18G2.
Whitcomb, Alfred W.
White, A don Irani
White, Jairus
White, Jonathan [32]

ROXBURY.

Adams, Thomas, * 1569.
Ames, Robert W.
Andrews, Alfred A., * 18G4.
Appieton, Charles T.
Bacon, William
Bartlett, Henry, * 18G0.
Blake, S. Parkmau
Bowditch, Azell
Bowditch, Azell C.
Bray, Charles F.
Brigham, Joseph L.
Brown, Andrew J.
Bryant, Charles W.
Buflbrd, John H.
Chadwick, Joseph II.
Chandler John G.
Clarke, John J.
Codman, Henry, * 1853.
Copeland, B. F., * 1803.
Copeland, Chas., * 18,53.
Copeland, Franklin
Cotting, Benjamin E.
Crawshaw, Joseph
Crosby, Benjamin H.
Davis, Gilman
Dearborn, H. A. S., * 1851.
Ellis, Charles, * 1800.
Ellis, Charles M.
Eustis, William
Fisher, Warren
Fiske, George A.
Ford, Seth H., * 1803.
Francis, Eben'r, * 1858.
French, Jonathan
French, Mrs. J.
Fuller, H. Weld
Fussell, John
Gardner, Francis
Gray, Henry D.
Guild, Frederick
Gould, Henry
Gould, James
Ham, Joseph
Harris, Horatio
Hayden, Isaac
Hendee, Charles J.
Hewes, John M.
Hewens, Whiting, * 1855.
Hickling, Charles
Holmes, Richard
Holmes, Mrs. It.

49

lluckiiis, James, * 1SG8.
Huckins, Jiimes W.
Huston, William R.
Keene, James
Kidder, Kroderic
King, William S.
Kinjjsbiiiy, William B.
Kittred^c, Alvah
Leo, William Ilaymoud
Lemist, Edwin
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, Franklin H.
Lewis, Samuel S.
Lowell, John A.
Mackintosh, Samuel
ALann, Benjamin
Mathes, Albert K.
M(;Burney, Charles
Mcintosh, William IL
Merrill, John J.
Mouroe, George H.
Oakley, Frank E., '^ 1805.
Paine, Joseph P.
Parker, Augustus
Parker, George J., * ISGO.
Parker, Thomas
Perry, Almon
Pickering, Ilenry W.
Pike, Charles S.
Putnam, Allen
Rich, Naphthalie D.
Rice, George AV.
Ritchie, James
Robinson, J. P., * I8G0.
Ropes, Joseph S.
Sargent, Epes
Shed, Henry P.
Simmons, D. A., * 1859.
Skinner, Elias
Sleeper, John S.
Stevens, Amos
Stone, Ebenezei" W
Sturgis, James
Tappan, Josiah S.
Thachcr, Thomas, Jr., *

l8(;i».
Thwing, Supply C.
Tolman, James * 18C8.
Trescott, Elijah
Tucker, Daniel
Vinson, Cornelius M.
Walker, E. C. R.
Walker, Samuel, * 18G0,
Ware. Leonard
Way, Samuel A.
Weston, Lycurgus B.
Whiting, William (Men

trose Avenue.)
Williams, A. D., * 1863.
Williams, Aaron D.
Williams, David W.
Williams, Mrs. D. W.
Williams, Dudley
Williams, G. Foster
Williams, G. H., * 18G2.
Williams, S., * iai2.
Williams, Thomas B.
Wilson, Granville W.
Wiuslow, Edward
Wiswall, Samuel
Wolcott, John W.
Worthington, Roland

[121]

SHARON.
Baker, P. Howard

Baker, Mrs. P. H.
Blackman, E. H.
Bullard, Bcnjamiu
Carpenter, Shepard
Carpenter, > rs. Shepard
Clark, Edwin R.,* 18G8.
Cobb, AVarren
Cobb, Mrs. Warren
Cobb, Miss Ella M.
Cobb, Lizzie M.
Drake, Aeahcl S.
Drake, Mrs. Asahel S.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, George W.
Gay, Mrs. G. W.
Geissler, J. N.
Geissler, fllrs. .J. N.
Ilewins, Elijah,* 1857.
Hewins, Lemuel D.,* 1868.
Howard, George F.
Howard, ]Mrs. G. F.
Hixon, A. G.
Hixon, Mrs. A. G.
Hixon, Charles O.
Hixon, 31r8. C. O.
•Johnson, Lucas
Johnson, Otis
Lothrop, Howard A.
Mann, George R.
Mann, Mrs. George R.
Mann, William R.
Mann, INIrs. William R.
Mann, Miss M. Ella
Mann, Miss E. Mary
Maun, George H.
Morse, Edward L.
Morse, Miss E. G.
Morse, Harvey
Morse, Leprellctte
Morse, Lewis W.
Morse, Mrs. Lewis W.
Pettee, D. Webster
Pettee, Mrs. D. W.
Randall, Macey, Jr.
Sanger, John M.
Smith, Lewis
Talbot, Solomon
Turner, Calvin
Turner, .Julia C.
Warren, Charles H.
Weld, H. O.
Wicks, JNIrs. A, L.
Wicks, Miss Mary L.
Wicks, William B.
Winship, Charles
Winship, Mrs. Charles
Winship, Miss Elmira S.
[58]

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atlierton, James
Atherton, William
Belcher, Luther J.
Belcher, Orin
Belcher, Wm. S.,* 1862.
Bird, Henry
Capcn, Samuel
Clapp, Lucius
Clapp, Mrs. Lucius
Clark, Chester
Curtis, Samuel W.
Drake, Albert H.
Drake, .Jonathan S,
Drake, Phillip II.
Ellis, J. Free
Gay, Cyrus H

Gay, Hiram
Gay, .John M.
Gay, Lemuel,* 186G.
Gay, Mace
Gay, Nathaniel
Goldthwait, Daniel A.
Hawes, Emery
Hill, James

Hodges, Lconanl,* 1870.
Hodges, Samuel W.
Hodges, Mrs. S. W.
Ingham, .James
Jones, Ilenry
Kimball, Ilenry C.
Littleiield, Charles
Monk, Elisha C.
Paul, Samuel
Porter, Luther
Porter, Robert
Porter, Robert, Jr.
Porter, Uriah C.
Porter, Theron M.
Porter, .John M.
Southworth, Amasa
Soutliworth, Asahel
Sumner, Francis C.
Swan, Elisha
Talbot, George
Talbot, Newton
Thayer, S. Lysander
Tuci;er, Wales
Wales, Nathaniel
Warren, N.M. [M\

WALPOLE.

Allen, Jeremiah
Allen, Lewis
Bacon, II. E.
Bacon, Sam'l W.,* 180!i.
Bacon, William,* 18U2.
Bird, Charles
Bird, Francis W.
Boydeu, Horatio
Cheney, .Joseph
Clap, Edmund W.
Clap, George R.
Clap, Samuel G.,* 1870.
Clap, Warren
Clarke, Mrs. Betsey M.
Clarke, Heni-y S.
Clarke, Mrs. H. S.
Clarke, Truemau
Conant, George
Cram, Jerome B.
Ellis, Isaac
Ellis, James
Ellis, Joseph,* 1851.
Fuller, James R.
Gilbert, Samuel
Gould, .John A.,* 1861.
Gray, H. Fannie
Gray, Smith,* 1869.
Gray, Mrs. Smith
Gray, William H.
Guild, Charles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshorn, George
Hawes, Joseph,* 1849.
Hyde, George B,
Lewis, Willard
Mann, .John
Mann, Lowell
Neal, Benjamin
Page, William A.
Pierce, Shadrach S.
Plimpton, C. G., * 1864.

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Piimpton, H. M.
Polley, Edmuud
Priest, Mrs. Leon A.
Scott, James G.
Shepard, E.
Smith, Joha N.
Smith, Mrs. John N.
Smith, Metcalf
Stone, Ebenezer,* 1869,
Thompson, Edwin
Wilmarth, Ada E.
Wilmarth, Naaman B.
AVilmarth, Elizabeth F.
VVilson, Edwin
Wilson, Mrs. Edwin [5G]

WEST EOXBURY.

Allen, Stephen M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. R.
Arnold, Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, William Percy
Bacon, Daniel C* 1856.
Bacon, Francis E.
Bacon, William B.
Bailey, Luther C.
Balch, George H.
Balch, Joseph,* 1849.
Balch, Joseph W.
Banfield, Everett C.
Barbar, A. D.
Bartlett, Alden
Bartlett, Mrs. Alden
Beckwith, Henry
Billings, Joseph H.
Billings, Mrs. Joseph H.
Billings, Miss Jennie
Billings, Miss Mary
Blake, John J.
Blake, William
Blackman, George
Bliss, George N.
Bliss, Mrs. Lucius S.
Bolles, Matthew
Bond, George William
Bowditch, J. IngersoU
Bradford, S. D.,* 1865.
Bradish, Levi J.
Brewer, Charles
Brewer, Otis
Brown, Alfred S.
Brown, Benjamin
Brown, Daniel A.
Browne, Horace B.
Bruce, N. T.
Butters, J. A. C.,* 1856.
Cabot, Stephen
CJaiy, Isaac H.
Cass, Aaron
Cass, Francis W.
Cass, Henry W.
Cronin, Jeremiah
Crosby, Albert
Crosby, Miss Fannie H.
Crosby, Miss Irene M.
Crosby, Miss Minnie E.
Comins, Linus B.
Cowing, Walter H.
Curtis, Joseph H.
Curtis, Geoege S.
Curtis, Charles F.
Dabney, Chas. W., Jr.,* '71
Davis, Francis,* 1865.
Decatur, Thomas

Dexter, Anson
Dixwell, John J.
Draper, Abijah W.
Dudley, Heiiry
Dudley, Ephraini M.
Eldridge, Oliver
Emmons, John A.
Ensliu, Williani
Evans, William
Farrar, J. Hamilton
Farrington, Ebenezer T.
Gfttes, Mrs. F. L.
Gilbert, Luther
Gooding, George
Gould, Joseph D.
Greeuough, David S.
Hall, Alfred B.
Hall, David P.
Hall, Joseph
Hall, William D.
Harod, William F.
Head, Charles D.
Head, Francis C* 1865.
Henchman, Nath'l H.
Hewfns, Charles A.
Hilborn, S. D.
Howlaud, J. T,
Hunt, Harrison G.
Knights, Miss H.
Keith, William, * 1859.
Lamb, Reuben A., * 1858.
Lawrie, Andrew B.
Low, John J.
Lyman, Mrs. Thomas
Mackintosh, Charles G.
Mackintosh, J. S,
Manning, Charles, * 1869.
March, A. S.,* 1854.
March, Andrew S.
Mcintosh, William
Meserve, Andrew T.
Meserve, Isaae H.
Minot, George R.
Morse, Ohai-les
Morse, Robert M.
Motley, Charles D.
Motley, Thomas
Motley, Mrs. Thomas
Motley, Thomas L.
North, George G.
Orange, Thomas
Page, Joseph W.
Page, Kilby, * 1869.
Palmer, William, * 1860.
Papineau, Antoine
Papineau, Alfred
Parker, S. Winchester
Parkinson, John, * 18G5.
Pierce, .John
Popp, Hieronemas
Pratt, John C.
Prescott, Nathan B.
Prescott, Mrs. M. B.
Prichard, Jeremiah
Prichard, Vila
Prichard, Gilman
Richards, Edward
Richards, Geo. H.
Richards, Mrs. G. T.
Richmond, Thomas H.
Robeson, William R.
Rodman, Samuel W.
Russell, Geo. R., * 1866.
Sampson, Charles, * 1859.
Seaverns, Thomas W.
Shaw, Francis G.
Shaw, J. J.
Shaw.QuincyA.

Smith, Alvin,* 1870.
Slocumb, William H.
Smith, Humphrey
Smith, Joseph M.
Smith, Lorenzo
Smith, Melancthon
Spaulding, Solomon R.
Spooner, Wm. H., Jr.
Stevens, S. W.
Sturgis, Russell
Sturtevant, Benj. F.
Swett, Samuel W.
Taft, Reed
Taylor, H. B. * 1861.
Ticknor, Wm. D., * 1894.
Tilden, George A.
Tolman, Ebenezer W.
Tolnian, Lucius A., * 18V1
Townsend, David
Tufts, James, * 1859.
Watt, Robert
Watt, Lizzie
Watt, Marion J.
Webster, John L.
Weld, Aaron D.
Weld, Mrs. A. D.
Weld, Aaron, D. Jr.
Weld, Miss A.K.
Weld, Miss Eliza
Weld, Francis M.
Weld, J. Gardner
Weld, Nathaniel
Weld, Mrs. Mary P.
Weld, Richard H.
Weld, Stephen M., * 1867.
Weld, Miss Susan
Wentworth, Jacob
Westcott, Stephen
Wheeler, Warren R.
Whitney, Israel G.
Whitney, Mrs. I. G.
Whitney, Misa N. B.
Whytal, Thomas G.
Whytal, Mrs. Thomas G.
Williams, B. P., ♦1856.
Williams, George H.
Williams, Henry H.
AVilliams, Moses
Williams, Moses B.
Williams, N. D., * 1852.
Williams. Thomas B.
Williams, Joseph W.
Willson, Edmund B.
Winchester, Parker
Wing, B. F.
Witherbee, John B.
Woodman, George F.
Woodward, Chauncey
Woodbury, Joseph P.
Worley, B. W.
Young, Calvin
York, John [V^

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel
Burrill, Ansel
Fifleld, Noah. * 1807.
Howe, Appleton, * 1870.
Humphrey, Ebenezer
Humphrey, L., * 1857.
Hunt, A. N., * 1864,
Hunt, Elias
Jones, James
Kingsbury, F. A., * 1860.
Loud, Joseph
Loud, John W.

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Nasli, AbnerP.

Nasli, Erastas

Naah, Stephen \V.

I'orter, Thomas B.

llichavda, Elias

Shaw. Nathaniel, * 18C0.

Tin-ell, All)ert

Tivrell, Janios, * 1865.

Tirrell, Wilson

White, James

White, Thomas [23]

WRENTHAM.

Aldrich. Artemas
Harnard, Alfred, * 1871.
lilakesley, Hubbard

Chccvcr, Alonzo W.
Cheever, Mrs Eliza R.
Cheever, Otis G.
Clap, Harvejr E., * 1853.
Clay, Nehemiah
Cowell, John F.
Cowell, William W.
Dupee, Erastus
Everett, RIelatiah, * 1858.
Faxon, Francis G.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr., * 1869.
Fisher, Hiram B.
Fisher. Silas P.,* 1805.
Ford. Peter
Fuller, Chauncy G.
Gassett. Henry, Jr.
(irant, George
Grant, Robert P.

Grant, Whiting
Havves. Benj., * KSCV.
Holbrook, George E.
Ide, Edwin S.
Jepson, William A,
Larkin, Lyman B.
Mann, Howard
Parker, Ebenezer B.
Pond, Handel, * 1867.
Pond, Jabez E.
Proctor, Thomas
Styles, Caleb W., * 186;;.
Starkey, Gardner H.
Stone, Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Ware, Asa
White. James A.
Wiggin, James S. [3!)]

MEMBERS RESIDING OUT OF THE CO0NTV,

Allen, George E., Newton.
Allen, Joseph A., Newton.
Allen, Nathaniel T., Newton.
Balch, Weslej' P., Boston.
Beckler, Daniel W.
Callender, Benjamin, Boston.
Collins, James H., Cambridge.
Copeland, R. McClcary, Boston.
Dennie, Edward M., Boston.
De Reynoso Bernard.
Donahoe, Patrick, Boston.
Edmands, J. Wiley, Newton.
Ellis, David, Cambridge.
Garbett. William A., Boston,
Goddard, Thomas, Boston.
Gould, James, Boston.
Gould, George, Newton.
Hapgood, Lyman S., Boston.
Hollis, John W., Newton,
Inches, Martin B.Boston.

Lawrence, Mrs. James.

Loring, A. K., Boston.

Matthews, Nathan, Boston.

Messenger, G. W., Boston, * 1871.

Minot, George, W., Boston.

Norton, R, R., Boston.

Potter, Silas, Boston.

Quiun, John, Boston.

Rand, Edward S., Boston.

Rogers, J. A., Boston.

Roswell, Mary Ann, Boston.

Slade, Robert, Boston.

Smith, George W., Boston, * 1861.

Stearne, John, Newton.

Tappan, Lewis W., Boston.

Vinal, Otis, Boston.

Wainwright, H. C. Boston.

Wells, B.T., Boston.

Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge. [39]

Members admitted,
Members deceased.

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LIST OF" i>iiemium:s.

3KuIcs antj Uegulattons anli Eiist at Committees,

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

FOB THE

TWEJNfTY-TIimD ANNUAL EXHIBITION,

TO BE HOLDEN AT

READYILLE,

ON

THURSDAY AND FEIDAY, SEPT. 21 and 22, 1871,

HYDE PARK:
HILDRETH & GETCHELL, STEAM JOB nilNTERS.

isri.

|^"The Trustees invite the Agriculturists, Mechanics, Manufac-
turers, Horticulturists, and Ladies of the County, to join their
endeavors to render the Exhibition worthy of the patronage of the
Commonwealth, and creditable to themselves.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY 1870-71.

Fresident.
Hon. JOHN S. ELDRIDGE, .

Honorary President.
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER, .

Vice- Preside nts.

Hon. Amos A. Lawrence,
Hon. Otis Gary,
Stkpiien W. Richardson,
Elijah Tucker,
Henry Grew, .
Royax W. Turner,

Corresponding and Recording Sec
Henry O. Hildreth,

Canton.

Dorcliester.

Brookllne.

Foxborough.

Franklin.

Milton.

Hyde Park.

Randolph.

etary.

Treasurer.

Chauncy C. Churchill,

Dedham.

Dedham.

Executive Committee.

"William R. Mann, Sharon ; Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; Truman
Clarke, Walpole ; Charles BrecK; Milton ; Alfred W. Whitcomb, Ran-
dolph; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury ; A. B. Balch, Medfield; William E.
Coffin, Dorchester; Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury.

Finance Committee and Auditors.

Ira Cleveland, Dedham; Edward S. Rand, Jr., Dedham; William
J. Stuart, Hyde Park.

• Supervisory Committee.

The President, Honorary President, fand Secretary, ex-officiis;
Francis P. Denny, Brookline ; Charles C. Sewall, Medfleld ; Oris Gary,
Foxborough ; A. W. Chkever, Wrentham ; Erastus L. Metcalf, Frank-
lin ; B. G. Kimuall, Needham ; Henry Grew, Hyde Park ; Charles Breck,
Milton; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton; Josiah P. Quincy, Quincy; Elijah
Tucker, Milton ; Henry Goulding, Dover.

Committee of Arrangements.

Chauncy C. Churchill, Henry 0. Hildreth, Dedham ; William
R. Mann, Sharon; Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury; A. P. Calder,
Dorchester; A. P. Blake, Willlui J. Stuart, E. P. Davis, Hyde Park;
John D. Br^vdlee, Milton ; Richard Holmes, Roxbury.

IS^ORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

EULES AND REGULATIONS.

It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles
grown or manufactured in the County, or in towns contiguous
thereto, unless otherwise specified in the premium list. Essays
and Agricultural Implements, being exempted from this rule, will
be opened to general competition.

I^^ Committees are prohibited from awarding gratuities, other
than diplomas, imless specified in the premium list.

^P" ]!^o object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it
possesses points of superiority; and the Committees are prohibited
from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles or objects
are not deemed worthy.

Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a
premium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a member
of the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upwards,
shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two
dollars, respectively, and may thereafter become a member.

All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium —
herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must be on
the ground at or before twelve o'clock on Thursday, the first day
of the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals will
not be allowed to be removed from the pens before three o'clock on
Frida}^ the second day ; and all other articles not until five o'clock^

The same animal — except working oxen and draught horses —
or article shall not be allowed to compete for more than one pre-
mium. And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties shall
not be included in difierent collections of the same exhibitor, com-
peting for premium.

In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the
County living remote from the Society's grounds, a sum — not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for compensation of
travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine, and sheep, as
have been brought or driven more than five miles — reckoning the
distance from wh^ice tliey come to the place of exhibition — and

receive no premium. Only one travel will be allowed to the same
person. Payment will be made at the rate of ten cents per mile
for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight cents per mile for each bull,
cow, heifer, or yearling ; ten cents per mile for each boar, sow,
or litter of weaned pigs ; and eight cents per mile for each flock
of sheep. But no such payment shall be made for any animal or
animals which, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to
manage them, are not of a superior character and worthy of ex-
hibition, or have not been entered in accordance with the rules
and regulations of the Society.

The animals, while on the ground, will be fed at the expense of
the Society.

No person serving on any of the Committees shall have a vote
in any case, when he shall be personally interested as a com.
petitor.

After the objects for exhibition are arranged, they will be
under the exclusive charge of the Superintendents, and cannot be
removed without their consent.

All other entries for premiums must be made in writing, and
shall be placed in the hands of the Recording Secretary on or before
the 15th of November.

Premiums awarded and not called for on or before the last
Wednesday in March following, will be considered as given to the
Society, in aid of its funds.

The Trustees have carefully revised and approved of the follow-
ing list of premiums. The respective Committees appointed to
award the same are required to enforce a strict conformity to all
the rules in relation to EntHes and Certificates.

In the appointment of Committees the Trustees will seek for
the most judicious and skillful individuals in the various towns
in the County, to award the premiums ; but should they fail to
secure the aid of the ablest and most experienced men in the above
capacity, they will rely upon the forbearance which they believe
will be generously extended towards sincere and unwearied efforts.

As it will become the duty of the Society to make to the
Legislature an exact report of its doings, the Trustees deem it of
the highest importance that earnest and persevering eflbrts be
made by the citizens of every town in the County to bring out
the results of their skill and industry.

JOHN S. ELDRIDGE, President.
Henry O. Hildreth, Secretary.

LIST

OP

PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR THE YEAR 1871.

(Successful Competitors may receive their Premiums in Plate or Money, at their option.)

Superintendents at Exhibition.

Horses. — Augustus P. Caxder, Dorchester; Assistant, Henry S.
Clarke, Walpole.

Cattle. — Nathaniel S. White, Canton.

Sheep and Swine. — Henry Goulding, Dover.

Poultry. — A. F. Stevens, Needham.

Fruit. — Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury.

Flowers. — Robert Watt, West Roxbury.

Vegetables. — William J. Stuart, Hyde Park.

Manufactures, Carriages, Agricultural Implements, &c. — William Ames,
Dedbam.

Plowing and Drawing. — Luther Eaton, Dedham.

Ladies' Work. — Mrs. Thomas Decatur, West Roxbury.

F A E M S.

EXPERIMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

[MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARMS.

Supervisory Committee. — The President, Honorary President, and Secretary, ex.
offlciis; Francis P. Denny, Brookline; Cliarles C. Sewall, Medlield; Otis Gary, Fox-
borough; A. W. Cheever, Wrentham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; B. G.Kimball,
Needham; cnry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Breck, Milton; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton;
Josiah P. Quincy, Quincy; Elijah Tucker, Milton; Henry Goulding, Dover.

For the best managed farm, taking into view the condition of
the buildings, fences, and orchards, the cultivation of the lauds,
the care and management of the stock, the quantity, quality, and
preservation of the crops, the expenses incurred and the improve-
ments made during the year, with a detailed statement of the
whole, to be rendered on or before November 15th, $25 ; second
best, $20.

Competitors must give notice of their intention to the Secretary
on or before June 15th. Farms entered for premiums will be
viewed by the Supervisory Committee, as they shall deem expe-
dient, between June 20th and September 20th. Any farm offered
for inspection, without being entered for a premium, will be viewed
and reported by the Committer, if seasonable application be
made to the Chairman.

PERMANENT IIVIPROVEMENTS.

Covimitfee.— Henry Grew, Hyde Park; H. W. Jones, Franklin; Edmund W. Clap
Walpole; Charles E. C. Breck, ^Milton; E. P, Carpenter, Foxborough.

Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands. — For the best experi-
ment in reclaiming wet meadow or swamp lands, by drainage or
otherwise, on not less than one half acre, with statement in detail
of the previous condition and produce of the land, the method and
expense of the experiment, and the produce at the present time, $8 ;
second best, $4.

Under-draining Land. — For the best experiment in under-
draining land, not less than forty square rods, regard being had
to the character of the soil and subsoil, the method, extent, ex-
pense, and result of the experiment, $10 ; second best, $5 ; thu'd
best, French's Drainage.

Old Pasture and Unimproved Lands. — For the best conducted
experiment in renovating and improving old pasture lands and
lands hitherto lying waste, on not less than one aere, with or with-
out plowing, with a statement of the previous condition of the
land, and of the method, expense, and result of the experiment, $8 ;
second best, $6 ; thii'd best, Flint's Dairy.

TURNING IN CROPS AS MANURE.

Committee.— Aharon D. Weld, West Roxbiiry; Calvin Richards, Dover; S. W. Rich-
ardson, Franklin.

For the most satisfactory experiment of turning in crops as a
nanure, either green or dry, on not less than one-half acre of land,
a detailed account of the whole process, expense, and result to be
given in writing, S6.

EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOIL PLOWING.

For the best experiment, on not less than one acre of land,
of the effect of subsoil plowing, to be determined by the differ-
ence in the value of the crops raised on equal portions of equally
manured land, of like quality, one-half of which having been sub-
soil-plowed, and the other half plowed in the usual manner, state-

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merits of the depth of plowing in each instance, together with all
tho particulars of culture required, $8 ; second best. Burr's Vege-
tables.

FEEDING AND FATTENING STOCK.

Committee.— A, W. Cheever, Wrenthajn; John Slas, Milton ; A. T. Meserve, West
Roxbury.

, Comparative Value of Crops as Food for Cattle. — For the
best experiment upon a stock of cattle, not less than four in num-
ber, to ascertain the relative value of the different kinds of fodder
used, with a statement in detail of the quantity and quality of
the same, as compared with English hay, the experiment to be
made in the three winter months, $12 ; second best, Stephens,
Farmer's Guide.

Feeding of Milch Cows. — For the best experiment in the
feeding of milch cows, by soiling, stall-feeding, or pasturing, with
a detailed statement of the comparative advantages of either method'
regard being had to the saving of manure, comfort of the animals,
and produce of the dairy, $12 ; second best, $8 ; third best, Flint's
Dairy.

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cattle,
with a statement in detail of the process, expense, and result, $5 ;
second best, Flint's Grasses.

Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine,
with a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second
best, Flint's Dairy. ,

HAY. /

Committee.— 'Er&BtxxB L. Metcalf, Franklin; Ellis Tucker, Canton; Francis D, Wil

lians, Foxborough. ;

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For the largest quantity and best quality of English hay per
acre produced on any farm in the County, regard being had to the
character of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and making
$5 ; second best, Flint's Treatise on Grasses.

a»

CEANBERRY VINES. '

For the best experiment in transplanting Cranberry Vines,
or in growing them from seed, on not less than one-eighth of
an acre, which shall be in the most flourishing and productive stata
on the 10th of September, $6 ; second best, $3 ; third best, East-
wood's Cranberry Culture.

Competitors will be required to give an exact statement of the
process, expense, and result of the experiment.

GRAm AND EOOT CROPS.

GRAIN CROPS.

Committee.— Charles Brcck, John Sias, Charles E. C. lireck, all of Milton.

For the best experiment in raising Wheat, a premium of $10 ;
second best, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Rye, Oats, or Barley, each,
a premium of $10 ; second best, each, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of
$10 ; second best, Flint's Dairy.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, 3Iillet, or
BucTctvheat, each, Bridgeman's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Samples of each kind of Grain, not less than a half bushel,
properly labeled, must be exhibited at -the Show. The quantity
of the crop to be ascertained by weight as follows : — ^Corn and
Rye, 56 pounds each to the bushel ; Barley and Buckwheat, 48
pounds each ; Oats, 32 pounds ; Wheat, 60 pounds.

ROOT CROPS.

For the best experiment in raising Potatoes, Burr's Vegeta-
bles ; second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots,
Parsnij)s, Mangold WuHzel, or Buta-Baga, eacb, Burr's Vege-
tables ; second best, each, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Flat Tx(,rnips, Burr's Vegeta-
bles ; second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

Samples of roots, not less than one bushel, properly labeled,
must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of the crops, which
must be on not less than one-quarter of an acre, shall be ascer-
tained by weight of the roots — freed from dirt and without tops
— as follows : Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangold "Wurtzel and Ru-
ta-Bagas, 60 pounds ; Carrots, 55 pounds ; Onions and Flat Tur-
nips, 50 pounds ; Parsnips, 45 pounds to the bushel.

Experiments will be viewed by the Committee between July
1st and September 20th.

Claimants for premiums must render to the Chairman of the
Committee, on or before November 15th, a written statement of the
character and previous condition of the land, its present value,

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and the taxes upon it ; the kind, quality and value of manure used ;
the quantity and cost of seed sown ; the labor and expense of cul-
tivating and harvesting the crop ; and the quantity, quality and
value of the crop. In awarding premiums, regard will be had to all
these circumstances, and to the area of the ground in cultivation.

VEGETABLES.

Committee.— Charles L. Copeland, Milton; John W. Richarrlson, Franklin; A. D.
Capen, Dorchester; J. W. Page, West Roxbui-y; John Sias, Milton.

For the best experiment in raising SqnasJies — one-half dozen of
each variety to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; se-
cond best, Thomas' Rural Affairs.

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages — not less than six
heads to be exhibited at the Show — Burrs' Vegetables ; second best,
Thomas' Rural Affairs.

MIXED CROPS.

CowMi»i«ee.— Charles Breck, John Sias, Charles E. C. Breck, all of Milton.

For the best experiment in cultivating mixed crops of Grain and
Vegetables, in alternate portions, or of different roots, in alternate
rows, Harris' Treatise on insects ; second best. Burr's Vegetables ;
third best, French's Drainage. The experiment must be made on
not less than half an acre of land, and a detailed statement of the
mode of culture, expense and product must be rendered on or be-
fore November 15th.

PLOWmG MATCH.

Committee,— Aaron J). Capen, Dorchester; Nathan Longfellow, Needham; Charles
L. Copeland, Milton.

Double Ox Teams. — With Sod and Subsoil Plow. For best
performance in plowing sward land, at least one-eight of an acre,
eight inches in depth, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

With any other Plow. — Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second best,
$10 ; third best, $5

ComwijWee.— John E. Wetherbee, Dedham; Henry Goulding, Dover; Charles Harts-
horn, ^i^alpole ; James T. Sumner, Canton.

Double Horse Teams. — With Sod and Subsoil Plow. Same
conditions. Best, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

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With any other Ploiv. — Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second
best, $10; third best, $5,

Committee.— B. 'N. Sawin, Dover; B.G.Kimball, Ncedham; Charles A. Bigelow, Med-
way.

Single Ox Teams. — With any Ploio. For the best performance
in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre, six inclies
in depth, within an hour, $10 ; second best, $8 ; third best, $5.

Co»«7n(«ee— John Eaton, Dedliam Lewis W. Morse, Sharon; Edward Suniner, Ded-
ham; Horace Guild, Canton; Adam Mcintosh, Canton.

Single IIokse Teams. — Same conditions. Best, $10 ; second
best, $5.

Note. — A Double Team will consist of two yokes of oxen with or
without a driver ; or a team of one yoke of oxen and a horse, with or
without a driver. Single Team, one yoke of oxen or one pair of
horses without a driver. Each competitor must own his team and
plow, and enter the same in his own name. Plows must be held
and teams driven by their owners, or by persons statedly in their
employ. Notice to compete must be given to the Secretary on or
before the Wednesday previous to the Exhibition. In avi^arding pre-
miums, one hour will be allowed for the performance of the work,
regard being had to the width and depth of the furrow slice, and the
evenness, ease and quiet with which the work is performed.

TEEE CULTURE .

FRUIT TREES.

Co7nmr«ee.— a. K. Teele, Milton ; Geo. Craft, Brookline; Cheever Newhall, Dorches-
ter; Robert Watt, West Roxbury ; William C. Allen, Medfleld.

Apple Orchards. — For the best apple Orchard, of not less than
fifty trees., which shall have been set out at least five years, and
which shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 1871,
C8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Pear Trees. — For the best engrafted or budded standard Pear
Trees, set out at least five years, and which shall be in the most
thriving condition in the autumn of 1871, not less than tiventy-five
trees, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

For the best engrafted or budded Pear Trees on Quince roots,
with same conditions, and not less than fifty trees, $8 ; second
best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

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Peach Orchards. — For the best Peach Orchard, of not less than
twenty-Jive trees, which shall be in the most thrifty bearing condi-
tion in the autumn of 1871, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits
and Fruit Trees.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than Jifty trees, grown from
pits planted since 18G2, on the spot where the trees stand, which
shall be in the best condition in 1871, $8 ; second best, Downing's
Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Apples or Pears. — For the best variety of new Seed-
ling Apples or Pears, of decidedly superior quality, one dozen speci-
mens to be exhibited, together with a history of the origin of the
tree, a description of the growth, and its bearing character, $8 ;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Peaches. — For the best variety of Seedling Peaches
of decidedly superior quality, and worthy of general cultivation —
one dozen specimens to be exhibited two years in succession — to-
gether with a history of its origin, a description of its growth, and
the bearing character of the tree, $5 ; second best, Barry's Fruit
Garden.

Note. — Notice of intention to compete to be given to the Secretary on
or before September 1.

• FOREST TREES.

Commi«ce— Edward S. Rand, Jr., Dedham; Trancis Parkman, West Roxbury;
George Craft, Brookline ; Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ; Charles F. Howard, Foxboro'.

For the best plantation of Forest Trees, of either of the follow-
ing varieties, namely : White Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch,
White Ash, or Walnut, Scotch Larch, Norway Spruce, Pitch, White
and Norway Pine, or other varieties, not less than three years old,
and not less than one thousand trees, — entries to be made to the
Secretaiy previous to June 10th, — a premium of $15.

For the best plantation, containing not less than five hundred
trees, Emerson's Shrubs and Trees of Massachusetts.

Ornamental Planting. — To any individual or society, regard
being had to the number of persons associated, for the larger num-
ber and best growth of ornamental trees, not less than fifty, which
shall have been planted in a public square or on the roadside at
least two years — first premium, $10 ; second do., Emerson's Shrubs
and Trees of Massachusetts.

HEDGES.

For the best Live Hedge Fence, not less than five hundred feet in
length, $5 ; second best. Warder's Hedges.

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For the best Evergreen Hedge, of Hemlock or Norway Spruce,
not less than four hundred feet in length, $5 ; second best, Warder's
Hedges. Premiums to be awarded in 1872.

HORTICULTURE.

[Rule.— All flowers, fruits, and vegetables are to be grown by, and
entered in the name of, the contributor.]

FLOWERS.

Committee.— A. K. Teele, Milton ; Robert Watt, West Roxbury ; George Craft, Brook-
^ine; William L. Foster, Milton; Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, Medfield.

For the best collection of Pot Plants, $10 ; second best, $5.
For the best collection of Cut Flowers, $4 ; second best, $3 ;
third best, $2. For the best and most tastefully arranged baskets
of flowers, not less than four, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2.
For the best and most tastefully arranged bouquets, not less than
four, $4 ; second, $3 ; third, $2. For the best collection of named
gladiolus in spikes, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2. For the
best collection of new seedlings in spikes, $3 ; second best, $2.
For the best new seedlings, Si. For the best collection of Japan
lilies, S3 ; second best, $2. For the best new seedling, $1. For
the best collection of dahlias, $2 ; second best, $1. For the best
new seedling, Si. For the best collection of double zinnias, S2 ;
second best. Si.

A statement in writing of the sorts contributed, and the con-
tributor's name, will be required.

Gratuities, in publications, to the amount of SlO, maybe awarded
at the discretion of the Committee.

FRUITS.

Committee on Pears.— E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury ; Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury;
Geo. Davenport, Dedham; Francis Marsh, Dedham; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park;
Robert Watt, West Roxbury.

Committee on Apples and other Frtiits.-George Vose, Milton ; E. C. R. Walker, Rox
bury; E.S. Kand, Jr., Dedham; O. W. Peabody, Milton; Robert Watt, West Roxbury.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of Apples, twelve
specimens of each variety — first premium, S12 ; second do., Harris'
Treatise ; third do., S4 ; fourth do., S3 ; fifth do., Barry's Fruit
Garden.

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For the best collection of five varieties of Apjoles, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $Q ; second do., $4.

For the best collection of twenty varieties of Pears, twelve
specimens of each variety — first premium, $15 ; second do., $12.

For the best collection of ten varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $8 ; second do., $6 ; third
do., $4.

For the best collection of five varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — fii'st premium, $6 ; second do., $4 ; third
do., $2.

For the best collection of Peaches, twelve specimens of each
variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2 ; third do.. Cole's Fruit
Book.

For the best collection o'f Plums, twelve specimens of each
variety — first premium, $3-; second do., Thomas' Rural Affairs.

Apples. — For the best collection of the following varieties,
twelve specimens of each : — Baldwin — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Rhode Island Greening — first premium, $2 ; second do.,
$1. Gravenstein — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1 ; Hubbardston
Nonesuch — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Roxbury Russet
— first premium, $2; second do., $1. Porter — first premium, $2;
second do., $1. Tolman Sweet — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
For any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. .

Pears. — For the best collection of the following varieties, twelve
specimens of each : — Clapp's Favorite — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Bartlett — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre
d'Anjou — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Urbaniste — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Merriam — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Louise Bonne de Jersey — first premium, $2;
second do., $1. Vicar of Winkfield — first premium, $2 ; second do.,
$1. Duchesse d'Angouleme — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Seckle — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Onondaga — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Sheldon — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Beurre Bosc — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Doyenne Boussouck — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre
Ciairgeau — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Lawrence — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Winter Nelis — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Beurre Langlier — first premium; $2 ; second
do., $1. Buffum — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Maria
Louise — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Dana's Hovey
— first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Paradise d'Automne —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. For any other variety — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

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Grapes. — For the best collection of Foreign Grapes — first pre-
mium, $6 ; second do., $4.

For the best four bunches of the following varieties, four bunches
of each variety : — Black Hamburg — first premium, $3 ; second do.,
$2. Wilmot's No. 16 — first premmm, $3 ; second do., $2. Vic-
toria— first premium, $3 ; second do., $2. For the best four bunches
of any white variety, $3.

For a new variety of JVa^i ye or Seedling Grape, equal or superior
to the Isabella, ripening in this County in the open air by the
middle of September, prolific and suitable for the table — first pre-
mium, $20 ; second do., $10.

For the best collection of Native Grapes, first premium, $4 ;
second do., $3 ; third do., $2. Delaware — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., Si. Diana — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Rogers*
Hybrids, Wilder, Lindley, Agawam, Merrimack and Salem, each —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Allen's Hybrid — first premium,
$2 ; second do., $1. Concord — first premium, $2 ; second do.. $1.
Any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

Quinces. — For the best collection of Quinces, not less than a
peck, $2.

Cranberries. — For the best collection of Cranberries, not less
than four quarts, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, Eastwood's
Cranberry Culture.

No exhibitor taking a premium for collections, shall compete
with the same varieties in the class for single dishes.

COLD VINERIES.

Co7nmi«ee.— Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; John Pearce, West Roxbury; Edward S.
Rand, Jr., Dedham.

For the best crop, and the most economically kept Cold Vinery,
not less than thirty feet — first premium, $4 ; second best, $3.

GARDEN.

ComnttWee.— Charles L. Copeland, Milton; John W. Richardson, Franklin; A. D.
Capen, Dorchester; J. W. Page, West Roxbury; John Sias, Milton.

For the best Vegetable Garden, regard being had to the vari-
ety, excellence and quantity of the products thereof, and the mode
and expense of cultivation, Burr's Vegetables ; second best. Bridge-
man's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Entries must be made before the 10th of June, and an exact
statement rendered before the first of November.

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VEGETABLES.

Class 1.

For the best and largest collection of Vegetables exhibited, $20 ;
second best, $15 ; third best, $10.

For the best and largest collection of Potatoes, not less than one
peck of each variety, $6 ; second best, $3.

For the best and largest collection of Winter Squashes, not less
than four of each variety, $4 ; second best, $3.

For the best new variety of Seedling Potatoes, superior to any
kind now in cultivation, a premium of $10.

Class 2.

For one-half bushel best Table Potatoes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Turnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Carrots, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Beets, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Tomatoes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Onions, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Parsnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Salsify, $2 ; second best, $1.

For two quarts best Lima Beans, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Late Drumhead Cabbages, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Green Globe Savoys, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Cauliflowers, $2 ; second best, $1.

For twelve best heads of Celery, $2 ; second best, $1.

For foiu" best Marrow Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Canada Crookneck Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Pumpkins, $2 ; second best, $1.
■ For four best Musk-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Water-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.

For twelve ears best Sweet Corn, $2 ; second best, $1.

No exhibitor in class 1 shall compete in class 2 with the same
varieties.

SEEDS.

Commi^ee.— Hiram W. Jones, Frankiin; Francis Marsh, Dedham; John N. Smith,
Walpole; George E.Chickering, Dover; Elbrldge L. Mann, Dover.

For the best sample of ears of Seed Corn, not less than forty in
number — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

For the best collection of Onion, Carrot, Beet, Parsnip and Ruta-
Baga Seeds — fli-st premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best ten pounds of Timothy, Redtop and Clover Seed, $1.

For the best sample, one peck each, of Wheat, Rye, Barley and
Oats, $1.

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ANIMALS.

All animals to be entered in tlie name of the owner, who rnust
have had them in his possession at least six months before the
Exhibition.

All animals, entered in accordance with the rules and regula-
tions, will be fed, during the Exhibition, at the expense of the
Society.

For any animal worthy of the first premium, having received a
similar one at any previous Exhibition, a diploma, certifying the
rank of such animal at the present Exhibtion, shall be awarded
instead of a premium.

A diploma may also be awarded, at the discretion of the several
Committees, for any animal, worthy of exhibition, from without
the limits of the Society.

CATTLE.

Committee.— Aeahel S. Drake, Sharon; Nathaniel S. White, Canton; Robert Porter,
Jr., Stoughton; Warren Cobb, Sharon; James Capen, Foxboro'.

Bulls. — For the best Bull, one year old and upwards, of either
Jersey, Durham, Devon, Ayrshu-e, Hereford, Kerry, or other for-
eign stock — in each class, $5 ; second best, $3.

For the best Grade or Native Bull, $3 ; second best, $2.

For the best Bull Calf, under one year old, foreign or native
stock, $3 ; second best, $2.

Committee— Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham ; Francis P. Benny, Brookline ; A. W. Chee-
ver, Wrentham; Jacob F. Eaton, Quincy ; Caleb Ellis, Medfleld; Aaron Bacon, Dover.

Cows. — For the best Cow, three years old or upwards, of
foreign stock, of either class, each, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third
best, 63.

Grade, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $3.

Milch Cows. — Three years old and upwards. For the best
Milch Cow, without regard to breed, each, $8 ; second best, $6 ;
third best, $4 ; fourth best, $2.

For the best Milch Heifer, less than three years old, $4 ; second
best, $2. «

Herds of Milch Cows. — For the best herd of Milch Cows —
not less than six — kept on any farm in the County, and exhibited
at the Show, regard being had to the breed, age and milking

Note. — No competitor for the premiums offered for herds shall be allowed
to offer the same animals for auy premium of a differeut class.

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properties — first premium, the Wilder Cup, of the value of $25 ;
second premium, ^12 ; third premium, $8 ; fourth premium, S6.

Committee.— ^Vijah Tucker, Milton; Ellis Tucker, Canton; John Sias, Milton; Lemuel
Billings, Quincy.

Heifers. — For the best Heifer, two years old and under three,
foreign stock, of either class, each, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third
best, $1.

Grade or Native, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, $1.

For the best Heifer, one year old, of any stock, $2 ; second
best, $1.

For the best Heifer Calf, under one year old, of any stock, $2 ;
second best, $1.

CommUtee.—Hohert Mansfield, Needhara ; Robert Porter, Stoughton; Henry M. Mack,
Dorchester; John Battelle, Dover; William Q. Fisher, Medfleld.

Working Oxen. — For the best yoke, four years old and upwards,
$6 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.

Town Teams. — For the largest and best team, of not less than
ten 3^okes of Oxen or Steers, from any city or town in the County
— first premium, $12 ; second best, $8.

Steers, — For the best yoke, well broken, three years old and
under four, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2.

For the best yoke, well broken, two years old and under three,
$3 ; second best, $2.

Note.— For Oxen or Steers, and also for Herds of Milch Cows, bred and
raised by the exhibitor, twenty per cent additional. In testing the
strength, docility and training of Working Oxen, the load shall not be less
than 2,500 pounds for oxen of Ave years old and upwards ; and not less
than 2,000 pounds for oxen under five years old. In testing the character
of Steers, as the Committee may direct, special regard will be paid to
their docility and proper training.

Committee.— James Capen, Foxboro'; Lewis W. Belcher, Foxboro'; Charles Went-
jvorth. Canton.

Fat Cattle. — For the best beef animal fattened by the exhibi-
tor, within the County, regard being had to the manner and expense
of feeding — of wliich a written statement will be required — first

premium, $8 ; second do., $6.

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SWINE.

Committee — Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline; William J. Hyde, Brookline; Henry
Goulding, Dover; B. N. Sawiu, Dover; Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham.

For the largest and best collection of Swine — not less than six
bogs in number — first premium, $15 ; second do., $10 ; third do.^

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Boars. — For the best Boar, not less than six months old, $6 ;
second best, $4.

Sows. — For the best Sow, not less than six months old, $6 ;
second best, $4.

Weaned Pigs. — For the best litter, not less than four in num-
ber and not more than six months old, $6 ; second best, S4.

Fat Hogs. — For the best Fat Hog, regard being had to breed,
age and feeding, $10 ; second best, $6.

Note. — No competitor for the largest collection of swine will be allowed
to oiler the same for any premium of a different class.

SHEEP.

Committee.— Vhnrlea Breck, Milton; John S. Mackintosh, West Roxl)ury; Theodore
Harding, Medway.

For the largest and best lot of Sheep — not less than six in
number — $10 ; second best, $8.

For the best lot of Lambs — not less than six in number — bred by
the exhibitor, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best Ram — Cotswold, Leicester, Oxford Down or South-
down— not less than one year old, $5 ; second best, $3.

POULTRY.

Committee.— Abel F. Stevens, Needham; Albert H.Drake, Stoughton; J. F. Co well,
Wrentham.

Class 1.

For the largest and best collection of Gallinaceous and Aquatic
Fowls, first premium of $15 ; second do., $10 ; or "Tegetmier's
Poultry Book."

Class 2.

• For the best trio light Brahmas,*dark Brahmas, Cochins, Span-
ish Dorking, Leghorn, Hamburg, French Fowls, Bantam, or any
other variety, the first premium, $5 ; second do., $3.

For the best pair of Turkeys, first premium, $5 ; second do.,
§3.

For the best pair of Geese, first pi'emium, So ; second do., $3.

For the best pair of Ducks, first premium, $5 ; second do., S3.

For- the best collection of Pigeons, first premium, §3 ; second
do., $2.

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Ten dollars in gratuities may be awarded, at the discretion of
the Committee.

Note. — Poultry must be entered on the first day of the Exhibition , before
12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

HORSES.

In awarding the premium on Roadsters, the general good quali-
ties— such as style, action, constitution and enduring properties —
as well as speed of the animals, will receive special consideration.

In testing the speed of horses, each animal — four years old and
over — will be required to draw a carriage weighing, with driver in-
cluded, not less than 350 pounds.

It is understood that horses which have heretofore been classed
under the head of "Thoroughbred and part Thoroughbred," may
compete as Roadsters, or in any other class.

Colts and fillies will compete in separate classes, as heretofore,
the premiums being the same for either sex.

No Stallion will be entitled to a premium without a guarantee of
his remaining for service in the County six months.

In testing the strength, docility and training of Draught or
Team Horses, the load shall not be less than 2000 pounds for a
single horse, and 3500 pounds for a pair of horses.

Every entry for premium must be made before 12 o'clock of the
first day of the Exhibition, and the Stock must be present the
second day on or before 9 o'clock a.m.

It must be distinctly understood that premiums will not be
awarded to any animal that does not, in the opinion of the Com-
mittee, possess decided merit and a sound constitution.

Augustus P. C alder, Dorchester, General Chairman.
Class A. — Roadsters.

Committee.— Henry Jones, Stoughton; William T. Thacher, Hyde Park; Francis B.
Ray, Franklin.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " « " 7 00

2d Division.

For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " 5 00

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3d Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old,

a premium of

2d best "

best 3 yearS old,

2d best "

best 2 years old,

2d best "

best 1 year old,

2d best «

AtJi Division. — Pairs in Harness.

For the best pair of Roadsters, a premium of
2d best « "

5th Division. — Harness Horses.

For the best Geldiug or Mare, a premium of .
2d best " " "

3d best " " «

4th best " " " , .

$5

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5

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3

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Class B. — Horses of all Work.

Committee.— A.\fc&di W. Whitcomb, Randolph; Oliver Deanc, Canton; Charles A.
Howland, Quincy,

1st Division. — Stallions.

For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " " " 7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.

For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " 5 00

dd Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old.

a premium of .

- $5 00

2d best "

3 00

best 3 years old,

5 00

2d best "

3 00

best 2 years old,

3 00

2d best "

2 00

best 1 year old,

3 00

2d best "

2 00

Ath Division.— Pairs in

. Har

ness.

For the best, a premium

of .

$7 00

2d best, "

•

•

•

5 00

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5th Division. — Horses in Harness.
For the best Gelding or Mare, a. premium of

2d best "

((

$6 00
4 00

Class C. — Family Horses.

Committee.— George R. Mann, Sharon; John M. Harris, Needham; Henry Beckwith,
West Roxbury.

1st Division. — Stallions.

For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " " " 7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.

For the best Brood Mare, with Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " 5 00

dd Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best four years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best

((

((

Ath Division. — Carriage Horses 15 to 16 hands high.
For the best pair of Carriage Horses, a premium of

2d best

((

5th Division. — Buggy or Chaise Horses.

For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of
2d best " " » "

3d best " " " "

6^^ Division. — Saddle Horses.

For the best Saddle Horse, a premium of

2d best " " " . .

3d best " « " . .

7th Division. — Ponies.

For the best matched Ponies, a premium of .

2d best " " « . .

best single Pony, "

2d best " " " . .

$5 00

3 00

5 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

$10 00

7 00

$8 00

6 00

4 00

$6 00

4 00

3 00

$6 00

4 00

3 00

2 00

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Class D. — Duaugut or Team Houses.

Committee.— SWus G. Williams, Nccdham; Henry A. Darling, Hyde Park; Charles G.
Mackintosh, West Uoxbury.

1st Division. — Single Drai^ht or Team Horses.

For the best Draught Horse, a premiuin of . . . $7 00
2d best " " " ... 5 00

2d Division. — Pairs of Draught or Team Horses.

For the best pail- of Draught or Team Horses, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " " 5 00

DAIRY.

BUTTER.

Committee.— MUton M. Fisher, Meilway; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Lucius Clapp,

Stoiigiitoii; Marshall S. Scudder, Needham; Mrs. George Vose, Milton; Mrs. William
K. Mann, Sharon.

For the best produce of Butter, on an}'' farm within the County,
for four months, from the 20th of May to the 20th of September —
a sample of not less than twenty pounds to be exhibited — quantity
as well as quality to be taken into view, — first premium, $10;
second do., $8 ; third do., $5 ; fourth do., $4.

Note. — It will be seen that these premiums are offered for the best
produce ou the Farms, and not simply for the best specimens exhibited.
Each lot must be numbered, but not marked; any public or known mark
must be completely concealed, nor must the competitors be present at the
examination.

For the best box of Butter — not less than 12 pounds — first pre-
mium, $5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's Treatise ou Dairy
Farming.

^°''i!JoTE.— Butter must be presented only on the morning of the second
day before 9 o'clock.

Cheese. — For the best lot of Cheese — not less than forty pounds
— first premium, §5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's Treatise on
Dairy Farming..

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BREAD.

Committee.— 3 , Wliite Belcher, Randolph; Calvin Richards, Dover; Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Newton; IVIrs. Eliphalet Stone, Dedhan^^ Mrs. W. W. Gannett, Cambridge.

For the best loaf of Wheat and Indian, of not less than two
pounds weight — first premium, $3 ; second do,, $2.

For the best loaf made of Unbolted Wheat, which has been grown
in the County, of not less than two pounds weight — first premium,
$3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Rye and Indian, of not less than four pounds
weiglit — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Wheat Bread, of not less than two pounds
weight — first pi-emium, $3-; second do., $2.

For the best specimens of each or any of the aforementioned
kinds of bread, made by any young woman under eighteen years
of age, an additional premium of twenty-five per cent.

The bread presented for premium must be made on the first day
of the Exhibition, by some member of a family, in whose name the
entry shall be made, and to whom the premium shall be awarded.
The bread shall be made without the use of saleratus or other al-
kaline substance, and made in the family, and be presented only on
the second day of the Exhibition, before 9 o'clock in the morning.
No name or mark shall be put on the loaves, except the number of
the entry in the Committee's book.

The names of contributors shall not be known to the Committee,
and no person shall serve on the same if any member of his family
shall be a competitor.

HONEY.

For the best specimen of Honey in the comb, not less than six
pounds, " Longstrath on the Honey Bee " ; second best, $1.

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MANUFACTUEES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee.— Charles C. Sewall, Mcdfleld; A. W. Cheever, Wrcntham; Elijah Tucker,
Milton ; Ellis Tucker, Canton ; A. T. Messerve, West Roxbury ; Calvin Richards, Dover ;
Henry Goulding, Dover.

For the largest and best collection, $12 ; second, $6.,
For any new or Improved Plow, which on trial shall be found
best adapted for the thorough pulverization of old plowed land, a
premium of $6.

New Inventions. — For any new invention of decided superiority
and usefulness to the farmer, a premium or gratuity, at the discre-
tion of the Committee.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

Committee.— 'M.rs. Thomas Decatur, West Roxbury; Mrs. Samuel B. Noyes, Canton;
Miss Abby F. Haynes, Dorchester; Mrs. John M. Harris, Needham; Mrs. Charles H,
Lealand, Dedham; Mrs. W. T. Thacher, Hyde Park.

Fancy Articles — including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shell-
work, Millinery, Drawings, Paintings, &c.

For such articles in this department as may be deemed worthy, a
sum not exceeding seventy -five dollars shall be appropriated, to be
paid in premiums or gi-atuities, proportioned to the cost and value
of the article, at the discretion of the Committee. "

Note.— It should be understood that in this department of Ladies' work
— while other things will receive due consideration — the premiums are
intended solely for newly made articles which are really useful or par-
ticularly beautiful. For well-made garments of any kind ; for stocking
knitting of wool, cotton or silk ; or bonnet and cap making ; for all articles
for children's wear, well made or tastefully embroidered; for neat and
thorough mending, patching and darning ; for drawing, designing, or paint-
ing in oil or water colors ; for models in plaster, wood or marble, &c.

Any article well and tastefully wrought, offered by children under twelve
years of age, will receive particular attention.

Committee.— A, S. Harding, Medway; J. A. Turner, Medfleld; Charles C. Sumner
Foxboro*.

Manufactures of Straw. — For the best specimen of Straw
Bonnets, wholly of domestic manufacture, S8 ; second best, $5.

For the best specimen of Strmo B)-aid, of domestic straw, not
less than 100 yards, $5 ; second best, $3.

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CommiUee.—Cha,rleB H. French, Canton; Naaman B. Wilmarth, TValpole; Luther
Metcalf, Medway; Ezra W. Taft, Dedham; Francis B. Ray, Franklin.

Manufactures op Cloth, Flannels, Hosiery, &c. — Cotton
Cloth. For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any description,
not less than twenty-eight yards in quantity, a premium or gratui-
ty, at the discretion of the Committee.

Woolen Cloth. — For the best specimen of Woolen Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty yards in quantity, a premium or
gratuity, at, the discretion of the Committee.

Cotton and Woolen Mixed. — For the best specimen of Cotton
and Woolen Cloth, of any description, not less than twenty yards
in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Flannels. — For the best specimen of Flannel, not less than
twenty yards in quantity, -a premium or gratuity, at the discretion
of the Committee.

For the best specimen of Cotton Flannel, not less than twenty
yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the
Committee.

For the best pair of Woolen Blankets, a premium or gratuity, at
the discretion of the Committee.

Hosiery, &c. — For the best specimen of Woolen Hose, a premi-
um of $1.

For the best specimen of Woolen Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Hose, a premium of 50 cents.

For the best ' specimen of Cotton Half Hose, a premium of 25
cents.

For the best specimen of Worsted Hose, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Worsted Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the best specimen of Sewing Silk, not less than one pound,
a premium of $2.

For the best specimen of Knitting Yarn, not less than one
pound, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Spool Thread, not less than one pound,
a premium of $ 1 .

For the best Fleece of Wool, a premium of $1.

For the best dozen seamless Grain Bags, a premium of $1.

Forthe best specimen of neat and thorough mending, patching or
darning of garments, hose, &c., a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of covered bonnet wire, $3.

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CouNTERrANES. — Foi' the best Counterpane — regard being had
to quality and expense of materials — tlrst premium, $3 ; second
do., $2.

Carpetings, Rugs and Floor Cloth.

For the best "Common" Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting.

(( u "Fine" " " "

" " "Superfine" " "

« " • "Common," "Fine" or "Superfine" Ingrain 3-ply

Carpeting.
For the best Brussels Floor Carpeting.

" " Tapestry " "

" " Velvet Carpeting.
For "eaeh of these descriptions of Carpeting, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Ingrain 3-ply Carpeting will be judged by the comparative merits
of pieces of similar weight ; or disregarding weight, by the quality of
color, the taste of shading, and evenness in spinning and weaving.

For the best piece of Stair Carpeting, the Society's diploma.
For the best Hearth Rug, the Society's diploma.
For the best specimen of painted Floor Cloth, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Any articles in either of the foregoing departments, which shall
have been manufactured in the family of the person presenting it, will
receive the particular consideration of the Committee, and, if worthy, a
suitable premium.

Com»n£«ee.— Frank M. Ames, Canton; Alexander Dickson, West Roxbury; Curtis G.
Morse, Dedham; Manley W. Cain, Dorchester.

Glass, Stone, Earthen and Wooden "Ware. — For the finest
collection and best specimen of articles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brass, Copper, Tin, Iron and Britannia Ware. — For the finest
collection and best specimen of articles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cabinet Work. — For the best ipecimen of Cabinet Work, a
premium or the Society's diploma.

Iron Fencing, Gates and Posts. — For the best specimen of each
— regard being had to cost and utilit}^, as well as ornament — a
premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee,

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Stoyes. — For the best Farmer's Cauldron Stove ;
" " " Cooking "

« " " Parlor "

— a premium of $2 each.

Horse and Ox Shoes. — For the best set of Horse and Ox Shoes,
a premium of $1.

For the best specimens of Horse Shoes, for meadow lands^ a
premium of $1.

Committee.— Samuel Atherton, Dorchester; JosephDay, Dedham; Benjamin T. White,
Weymouth; John Mann, Walpole; Jonathan R. Gay, Stoughton,

India Rubber Goods. — For the finest collection of India Rub-
ber goods, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Commit-
tee.

Brushes, Combs, Hats, Caps and Gloves. — ^For the finest col-
lection and best specimen of each of these articles, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Leather, and Articles Manufactured Therefrom.

For the best specimen of Thick Boots, a premium of .

Calfskin, "

Thin Boots, other

than Calfskin, "
Kipskin, "

Thick Brogans, "
Fine Brogans, "
Ladies' Boots, "
For the best specimen of Upper or Sole Leather, or Morocco, a
premium or gratuity, each, at the discretion of the Committee.
For the best single Carriage Harness ;
" " double " "

" " Cart Harness — a premium or gratuity, each, at the
discretion of the Committee.

For the best Riding Bridle, a premium of . . . $1 00
" " " Saddle, " ... 2 00

" " Carriage or Cart Whip, a premium of . 1 00

Carriages, Wagons, Carts, &c.

Committee, — A. J. Whittier, Hyde Fslm; Jacob R. Cushman, Medfleld; Sidney E.
Morse, Dedham; George K. Gannett, Milton ; Richard Holmes, Roxbury; William A.
Blaze, Hyde Park.

For the best specimen of Family Carriages, for one horse or two
horses ;

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$2 00

3 00

2 00

2 00

1 00

1 00

1 00

20

For the best Covered Wagon ;
" " Open "
" " Farm "
" '• " Cart;

" . " " Wheclbarro'W — either a premium or gratu-

ity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Committee.— John W. Richardson, Franklin; B, G. Kimball, Needham; Theodore
Dunn, Dover; George Crane, Medflcld.

Jellies, Preserves, Pickles, Ketchup, Canned Fruits and
Vegetables. — For the finest collection and best specimen of each,
made of articles of domestic growth, a premium or gratuity, at
the discretion of the Committee.

Nati\^ Wines, Cordials, &c. — For the best specimens of
Wines from American grapes, not less than two bottles to be ex-
hibited, $2 ; second best, $1.

For the best specimen of Wine or Cordial from currants, black-
berries, raspberries, or elderberries, not less than two bottles to be
exhibited, each, $1.

Note. — It is to be understood that all articles presented for premium, in
eacif of the foregoing departments, except Agricultural Implements, shall
have been manufactured or produced within the County, and by the person
presenting them. Also, that in every case, the Examining Committee shall
have the right to substitute the Society's diploma for a premium or gratu-
ity, or to give it where no premium or gratuity has been offered, at their
discretion.

All discretionary premiums or gratuities shall be proportioned to the
actual value and utility of the articles.

Articles in either of the above departments, contributed to the Exhibi-
tion by persons not resident in the County, shall receive suitable attention
from the Committee, and, if worthy, be awarded the Society's diploma.

miscella:n'eous.

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Committee.— VI. A. Samuels, Canton; Carlos Slafter, Dedham; A. W. Cheever, Wren,
tham.

For the largest and best collections of Birds and Insects found
within the County, beneficial or injurious to vegetation, properly
arranged and classified, to be exhibited on the Society's tables, at
the next annual fair, one copy of Harris's Treatise on Insects.

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AGRICULTURAL LABORERS.

For a certificate — signed by his employer, and countersigned by
any two of the Trustees residing nearest to the applicant — of the
superior qualifications of any man or youth, in the employment of
any member of the Society for a period next preceding, of not less
than two years, attesting the industry, integrity, respectful de-
meanor and general good habits, during the time, of the bearer of
such certificate, a premium of Membership of the Society and a
diploma.

AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS.

CommiWee.— Marshall p. Wilder, Dorchester; Charles C. Sewell, Medfleld : Henry O.
Ilildreth, Dedham; Francis F. Denny, Brookline; Albert K. Teele, Milton.

For the best Report of Committees which recommend the award
of premiums. First premium, $8 ; second, $G ; third, $4.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the various grasses, or cereal, fruit or vegeta-
ble crops, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the breeding and raising of the different
classes of farm stock, a premium not exceeding $25. «

For the best Essa}^ on the fattening of cattle, swine or sheep,
detailing the process and expense of the same, a premium not
exceeding $25.

Forest Trees. — For the best Essay on the raising and cultiva-
tion of Forest Trees, a premium not exceeding $25.

Insects. — For the best Essay on the destruction of Insects inju-
rious to vegetation, such as Carculio, Borer ^ Canker- Worm, Cater-
pillar, Cut-Worm, Squash-Bug, Striped-Bug, Rose-Bug, &c., t&c, a
premium not exceeding $25.

Preservation of Winter Fruit. — For the best Essay on the
preservation of Apples and other Winter Fruits, a premium not
exceeding $25.

Preservation of Vegetables. — For the best Essay on the
preservation of Vegetables, a premium not exceeding $25.

Agricultural Education. — For the best Essay on Agricultural
Education, a premium not exceeding $25.

Farm Accounts. — For the best Essay on a system of Farm
Accounts, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Domestic Poultry, a premium not exceed-
ing $25.

For the best Essay on Fences for Farms, uniting economy,
strength and appearance, a premium not exceeding $25.

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Foi' the best Essay on the extermination of Weeds and Plants
destructive to crops, a premium not exceeding $25,

For the best Essay on the preservation and application of Li-
quid Manure, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the introduction of new Fruits or of new
articles of Field Culture, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the value and application of Phosphate of
Lime, or any fertilizer of the soil, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Bees and Structure of Hives, with partic-
ular reference to feeding Bees and guarding against the spoliation
of the Bee Moth, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best plan for a Barn and Barnyard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfort of the Cattle, the ease and conven-
ience of tending them, and the making and preserving the Manure,
a premium not exceeding $25.

These premiums will not be awarded unless the Essays offei*ed
shall, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to decide upon
them, be deemed worthy of an award, without reference to their
comparative merit.

FARM BUILDINGS.

For the best planned house and out-buildings — regard being
had to the cost and economy of labor — the house to be warm, well
lighted and ventilated, with a cellar protected from frost and ver-
min, and the whole not to cost over $1,800 — to be examined by
the Supervisory Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said
Committee.

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

Norfolk Agricultural Society

1872.

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PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Address, by Eliphalct Stone, 5

Report of the President and Secretary 22

on Hay Crops, 23

on Horses, 28

on Plowing 30

on Working Oxen, 31

on Bulls, 31

on Cows, 31

on Heifers, 32

on Fat Cattle, 33

on Swine, 33

on Poultry, 33

on Fruits, 35

on Flowers, 38

on Vegetables, 39

on Bread, 40

on Dairy, 40

on Straw Goods, 42

on Seeds, 42

on Agricultural Implements, &c., 43

on Manufactures, 42

on Birds and Insects, 43

on Ladies' Work, 44

on Grain and Root Crops, 45

Recapitulation of Premiums, 48

Report of the Treasurer 51

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary, 52

Officers of the Society, 59

Names of Members, 62

ADDRESS.

BY ELIPHALET STONE, OF DEDHAM.

Mr. President^ Ladies and Gentlemen :

It is pleasant to be here to-day, assembled with the farm-
ers of Norfolk, and to witness this glorious fruition of their
hopes and labors. It is truly the Farmers' Jubilee. To
them belong all the credit and glory of this Exhibition, but
the joy and felicity of it are shared alike by all classes. Ar-
tisan, lawyer, merchant, clergyman, all are here to partici-
pate in the rich pleasures of this festival day. And as our
eyes rest with delight upon these varied displays of fruit and
flowers and other products of agricultural toil presented here
to-day, I am sure there is no heart that is not filled with in-
creased respect for the dignity of labor, and with profound
gratitude for the bounties and favors of Almighty God.

THE UNITY OF INTERESTS.

Agriculture and civilization have walked the world to-
gether since the pastoral age ; and although agriculture lies
at the foundation of all our interests, still it never could
reach its highest usefulness without the stimulus of other
industries. A community of formers isolated from other in-
fluences will naturally fall into a state of careless indolence,
and will cherish no desire beyond their most common
necessities. You propose to them to introduce other inter-
ests, and they will look upon it as an invasion of their rights.

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But this spell ol' apathy being ouce broken by the introduc-
tion of manufacturing pui'suits, and the agriculturist will
awake from his slothful dreams and co-operate with the gen-
eral progress of things, and wonder that the world moves no
faster.

With industry comes economy ; and when idleness steps
out, energy and manhood step in. AVith manufacturing in-
dustry come all the improvements of the age, — better com-
mon roads, railroads and canals : waters that have flowed for
centuries untamed to the ocean, now turn the wheels of
industry and furnish a highway for the better transportation
of the products of the farmer and the manufacturer, creating
a home market and cheap carriage for their surplus produc-
tions. It is then, and not till then, that the farmer awakes to
his own interest. It is then the farmer becomes anxious to
probe Nature and wrest from her her richest treasures. His
calling assumes a new dignity and importance. It ceases to
be a mere means of livelihood, and becomes one of the chief-
est instrumentalities of wealth, influence and honor. His
land rises in value, his productions are increased, and he
supplies himself not only with the necessaries of life, but
with its luxuries also, and thus becomes a lord in creation.
The farmer who produces food and the raw materials for the
manufacturer, must in return receive the products of the
manufacturer, such as tools, clothing and furniture ; and the
closer their interests are allied, the greater the profits and the
cheaper will be their j^roducts to each other.

The produce of the farm especially will not bear a long
transportation, as the cost would absorb the whole profit
above production. The cost of food that would feed a thou-
sand people at home would not feed five hundred at the dis-
tance of a hundred miles, Avithout the ready means of steam
or water transportation. Thus it Avill be seen that a popula-
tion, combining all these interests in close relation, can sup-
ply each others' wants much cheaper and to the material ad-
vantage of all, sending the surplus to a foreign market, and

bringin;^ in return such iirticlcs Jis are not produced in the
homo market, and giving to industry its greatest reward.

The capital expended in the construction of improved
means of communication will generally repay the cost in the
increase of the value of property situated within the range of
its business. It brings the producer nearer his market, and
he reaps more equal advantages with those who live nearer
the cities and large manufacturing towns. The cost of an
article depends not only on the production, but also on the
cost of bringing it to market. Coal would be valueless at
the mines unless there were other means than human power
to transport it to the consumer. But with steam or railroad
facilities it becomes cheap fuel thousands of miles from the
mine. And the same power brings all parts of a country
into close relationship. Thus all branches of industry help
and assist each other, and all are made richer and happier.

But the vital utilit}'^ of manufactures to the farmer is in
their subserviency to agriculture, by affording to the husliand-
man a near and steady home inarhet. They give him the
advantage of two markets instead of one ; and instead of
quickening the industry and augmenting the resources of
other nations, they stimulate and increase the capital and
honor of our own. In order to show the more intimate
connection between agriculture and its kindred interests, I
would refer to a speech of Mr. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, in
Congress, on the Woollens Bill of 1828. He said "that he
supported the bill from its supposed l)enefits to agriculture,
on the ground that protection to our manufactures created a
home market for our farmers which no change in Europe
could art'ect, and prevent the importation of foreign agricul-
tural products to the neglect of our own." He continued :
''What is the importation of cloth but the importation of
agricultural products? Analyze it, resolve it into its consti-
tuent parts or elements, and what is it? Wool and labor.
What produces the wool? Grass and grain. What supports
labor but bread and meat? Cloth is c()mj)osed of the grass

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and grain that food the sheep, and the bread and meat that
support the hiljorer who converts the wool into cloth." He
also controverted the idea that the encouragement of manu-
factures was injurious to commerce ; and held it to be a sound
doctrine, that the prosperity of commerce would always be in
proportion to the prosperity of agriculture and manufactures.

Daniel Webster once spoke of agriculture as follows : "It
feeds us ; to a great extent it clothes us ; without it we
should not have manufactures, we should not have commerce.
They all stand together, like pillars in a cluster, the largest
in the centre, and that largest is agriculture." Washington
said, "I know of no pursuit in which more real and impor-
tant service can be rendered to any country, than by improv-
ino- her agriculture. A skilful agriculture will constitute one
of the mightiest bulwarks of which civil liberty can boast."
Did he foresee the great struggle through which his country
was to pass, and through which it could not have passed
triumphantly but with the assistance of this " mighty bul-
wark" that compelled the South to give up sooner than
she would, had not starvation stared her in the face? It was
the lack of bacon and corn, as well as the force of our bullets,
that gave us the victory. It was the power we held to sup-
ply that mighty army with bread, combined with the bone
and sinew of our brave farmer boys, that made the North in-
vincible. What could we have done without our railroads?
And what interest, more than any other, built our railroads ?
Agriculture and her associate interests, without which they
could not be supported to-day.

Look at California. A little more than twenty short years
have passed since the discovery of her gold. For ten years
she poured her vast treasures into the lap of the world, and
still she was poor in every qualification that makes a State
great and prosperous. She was a non-producer of the great
staples. She had but little agriculture, although endowed
with a rich virgin soil and the finest climate on the continent.
She had no manufactures, and consequently but little com-

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merce. She was poor iiidocd with all her gold. She saw
her fault, and wisely went to work to correct it. She turned
her attention to agriculture and manufactures, and our ven-
erated Honorary President has told us of her present great-
ness.

There are tw^o periods in the history of our country worthy
of note. The first was the action of Enirland towards her
colonies jirevious to the revolution. She held them in such
absolute subjection that, besides the common domestic indus-
try and the ordinary mechanical employments, no kind of
manufacturing was allowed. In 1750 a manufactory of hats
in Massachusetts drew the attention and excited the jealousy
of Parliament. All colonial manufactories were declared to
be common nuisances, not excepting even forges, in a coun-
try possessing in abundance every clement for the manufac-
ture of iron. In 1770 the great Chatham, alarmed by the
first manufacturing attempts of New England, declared that
the colonies ou<»ht not to l)e allowed to manufacture so much
as a hob-nail.* Freed from the trammels which had been
imposed upou them, and reduced consequently to their own
resources for the supply of their wants, the United States
found during the war that manufiictures of every kind had
received a remarkable impulse, and that agriculture was de-
riving from them such benefits that the value of the soil, as
well as the wages of lal)or, were largely increased in spite of
the ravages of war. After the war, the manufactured pro-
ducts of England again found an open door ; and encountering
the infant manufactures of America in free competition, the
latter being unable to sustain themselves, the industry which
had sprung up and prospered during the war was extin-
guished. Our manufacturers were ruined, our merchants,
even those who had hoped to enrich themselves by importa-
tions, became l)ankrupt ; and all these causes imited had such
a disastrous influence upon agriculture, that a general depre-

* SiH' List, p. 1(>7; Iliiiton's U.S.. i)p. LSl-llKJ; Tuc-ker, vol. i. p. SI.

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ciatiou of real estate followed, and failure l)ecaine general
among- proprietors. American industry must have perished
in that struggle if the embargo, and afterwards the war of
1812, had not come to its relief. In this period, as in that of
the war of Independence, the industrial arts received an ex-
traordinary impulse.

Long experience has taught ns that agriculture could not
arrive at a high degree of prosperity without manufticturing
industry. As Jeflerson said, "The prosperity of the coun-
try can only be fixed upon a solid basis where the manufac-
turers are placed side by side with the agriculturists." Allow
me to quote from an address given by Hon. Thomas Allen
before the Berkshire Agricultural Society last year. He
said, "The stimulus given to production by the late civil
war, causing high prices, induced such an increase in the
manufacture of agricultural machinery and implements as to
more than fill the place of the million of men drawn into the
ranks of the army; and the consequence was, that this nation
exhibited an example, such as has been never seen in all his-
tory, of a people supporting a consuming army of a million
in the field of war, yet not only filling the gap, but actually
so increasing their domestic products as to create a larger
surplus for exportation than ever before. As compared with
1860 and the years previous, these exports, except cotton
only, were actually doubled during the war ; and thus our
agriculture not only supplied food for the masses of the peo-
ple and for the army and navy, I^ut gold for the public treas-
uvy. What a proud monument is that to the skill of our
mechanics and the enterprise of our farmers ! For who can
say that but for this wonderful spirit aroused and developed
in agriculture, our soldiers could not have been sustained,
and the war might have been a failure ? "

I think I have shown you that the cultivators of the soil
stand pre-eminent among the great industrial classes in our
country ; that they feed all other classes and produce all the
raw material for the other interests, and constitute the main

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supporting' element of our commerce. I have not lessened
the importunce of any other interest, l)ut have shown that all
stand together in harmonious relations, and that no one in-
terest can sutler without atfecting the whole.

THE INTERESTS OF LABOR.

Wealth of itself means nothing more than the possession
of something that has a market value and not possessed by
the generality of men. It is only a benefit in the highest
degree or sense when its blessino's are diffused amono- all
classes. The legitimate purpose of wealth is to ameliorate
the human condition as much as possible by furnishing to
man the means of physical comfort and enjoyment, and open-
ing a way for his highest moral and intellectual improve-
ment. To be effective, Capital and Labor must be on good
terms. There is no natural antagonism between them. The
true relations of capital and labor are best maintained where
there is the greatest freedom of competitive industry, and
where each is sure of its reward. If fnjustice comes between
them, both nmst suff'er, and in any contention Labor must
suffer first, as her wants are immediate ; Capital can stand a
longer sieo:e. Both their interests o-row out of the wants
and demands of the community ; and they ought not to be
circumscril)ed, unless the}' interfere with morality and the
public good. It is to capital we owe our public and private
prosperity, and labor partakes as much of its benefits as cap-
ital, and oftentimes more. It may be and sometimes is the
case, owing to peculiar circumstances, as in some kinds of
business durmg the late war, that capital for the time being
ma}' reap a greater reward than labor ; still the time always
comes when the tables are turned and labor receives more in
proportion than capital. As an illustration of this principle,
let us take the M^oollen manufacturing interests during the
late war. Some of these interests enjoyed unprecedented
prosperity. The natural effect was to turn into that channel
all the availa])]e machinerv of the countrv. The war ending

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suddenly, left this vast amount of machinery in full opera-
tion, and consequently the supply soon exceeded the demand.
Instead of stoppino- or turning a part into other channels,
thus reducing the product to the actual demand, the manu-
facturer, feeling his strength in the accumulated profits of
the past, continued to manufacture until the surplus was
thrown on to an overstocked market, and consequently
prices fell, in some cases even below the cost of the raw ma-
terial. The splendid fortunes made during the continuance
of the war soon vanished, and hundreds of millions were thus
lost to the capitalists.. Fortunate was it for the country,
and more especially for the laboring classes, that the capi-
talists heeded not the warnings of prudence. Had they
stopped manufacturing, it would have depressed all other
kinds of business, and deprived the laborer of his employ-
ment, and created untold misery and suffering. But on the
contrary, wages continued at war prices, and still continue,
notwithstanding the decline in the prices of food and cloth-
ing. It could be shown that every dollar lost by the man-
ufacturer was paid in wages to the laborer. The laborer
continued on in prosperity while the capitalist lost all. Con-
sider the benefits the laborer and the community derived
from this sacrifice of capital. It took the splendid fortunes
of the past and diffused them through the community.

The true interests of the country are promoted where these
powerfid industrial elements operate in sympathy and attract
instead of repelling each other. We want no antagonism
Avhere all ought to confederate for the common good.
When we foster the great productive forces which feed and
clothe humanity, we bring each calling into amity and reci-
procity with all other callings. Thus the great harp of la-
bor with its thousand strings, touched as with a master's
hand, will vibrate in harmony through all the land. Mighty
are the achievements that spring from the union of capital
and labor ; l)ut their noblest offspring are the homes of our
people. It is these that make the chief glory of New Eng-

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kind. Go Avhere you will, and more especially in the vicin-
ity of her cities and large villages, and you will find numer-
ous rural homes, owned generally b}^ the occupants, and
surrounded by beautiful trees and flowers and tasteful gar-
dens. These are not the houses of the rich alone : a major-
ity, a large majority, belong to the middle and even poorer
classes.

There is not a spot on the continent where the people are
so well fed and so comfortably housed as in the "Old Bay
State. " There is no spot on this beautiful earth where the
poorer classes are so Avell fed, so well clothed and so well
to do, in all that confers comfort and happiness upon the in-
dividual. There is no place where the laborer receives
greater reward for his toil, where he can enjoy so many
blessings, free as the air he breathes, as here in our own
New Enoland. Our schools are free to all, io-jiorance has
no excuse, and the poor shall not want.

The character of a people may always be correctly judged
by their surroundings ; and it is these influences that have
made us what Ave are, — the most moral and the best educated,
as a whole, in the world. The spirit of our institutions
being against large landed proprietors, brings the difl'erent
classes more closely into communion of tastes and habits ;
and a correct taste once formed in a conmiunitv becomes dif-
fused throuijh the Avhole, thus elevatino- the whole mass.
Let the political hucksters who are prowling up and down
the land, striving to create an antagonism l)etween the la-
borer and his employer, turn their attention to the bettering
the condition of the honest poor in their home surroundings,
and they w^ould confer a real blessing upon the whole com-
munity. Let them associate with others having capital ; let
them secure lands in healthy locations, lay out streets and
ornament them with trees and shrubs, and build neat and
comfortable dwellings ; then let them take these men by
the hand, and say to them, "One of these homes can be
yours if you will ; industry, economy and sobriety will make

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them 3"oiii"s ; " and they will thus open a fountain in that man's
heart that has been closed to its own interests by the ice of
envy and jealousy.

The ciy of these agitators is, "We must elevate labor."
Yes ;]vbut you must elevate the lal)orer first. You cannot
raise the stream al)Ove the fountain. The thermometer of
manhood will indicate every degree of excellence ; and when
the mercury has risen above the freezing point of the lower
passions into the genial warmth of a higher manhood, then,
and not till then, will his virtues bud and blossom. To ele-
vate the laborer you must first create a desire in him to bet-
ter his condition ; then show him a plausil)le way to do it.
Desire is the mainspriug to all endeavor, both good and evil ;
and when the desire of a man goes no further than to work
that he may eat and drink, there is not much chance to dig-
nify labor. Inspire the laborer with new incentives, awaken
a laudable self-esteem, and he will work with a will. As-
sure him he may have a comfortable homstead for his family,
and the motive to exertion will put the eight and ten hour
system out of his mind. The allurements of home will absorb
all inclination to roam from place to place. He will discover
that he has something to live for, and thus become a satis-
fied, loyal citizen, a sustainer of the laws that before seemed
enacted for his oppression. To place before men reasonable
objects of am])ition, and exalt their aims, is praiseworthy in
the sight of all men. There are but few natures so lost to
the dignity of manhood that they will betray the confidence
reposed in them.

The interest of agriculture is the interest of humanity.
Seven eighths of the population of the most civilized nations
are engaged in it, and it mainly feeds the inhabitants of the
globe, estimated at more than one thousand millions. Nev-
ertheless there exists a prejudice against farming. This is
not all from the outside. There is a lack of confidence
among the farmers themselves. They think that other in-
terests and professions make a greater show in the world ;

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that it is easier to get riclies and honor in the workshop or
eountinii'-room than on the farm. This is erroneous ; but
still the influence of this impression is as injurious as though
it were actually true. Therefore any measures calculated to
instill a greater respect for the farmers calling will in a
measure efiect a cure. What we want is to create an enthu-
siasm among the farmers, make them feel that their calling is
respectable and respected. They will thus receive afresh im-
pulse and inspiration. Let our young men but imbibe this spir-
it, and they will impart it to all Avith whom they come in con-
tact. The farm is the great nursery of all the professions as
Avell as the industrial arts of the country. From the hills and
valleys of New England, fresh and vigorous come the strong-
recruits to till the vacant places of honor, influence and
power. The heated air of the factory, workshop and count-
imr-room is not conducive to the growth of substantial men.
These only grow to perfection in the free air of our hillsides
and valle^'^s ; and "the nearer the soil, the better the stock."

We always speak of the farmer's profits comparatively.
We compare his success with that of the merchant or manu-
facturer, and even then avc do not take them generally, but
individually. We take isolated cases of success. In consid-
ering the profitableness of farming we should remember that
farmers nowhere live so well and spend so much money on
themselves and families as in New England. In the lan-
iruaire of another, "There are none that make the soil con-
tribute so much to the soul and character; none who use
such excellent instruments ; none who have more convenient
buildings ; none who educate their children better, and none
whose real manhood is more purely developed in all the im-
portant relations of life."

The present is a fast age, especially with us Yankees.
Everybody is in a hurry to get rich, and few are willing to
bide their time and patiently pursue the intermediate steps
necessary to obtain this result. We all want to begin where
our father^ left oft*. But experience teaches us that success

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is rarely o1)taIiied except through patient industry persis-
tently pursued through many years. It is only time and in-
dustry that build the fabric stately and strong. It is the
restlessness and impatience that cause so many failures in
life ; and the farmer is no exception to this rule. But more
persons succeed in agriculture, in proportion to the numljer
employed in it, than in any other calling. Certain conditions
are requisite to success in any business ; and with these
secured, prosperity is sure to follow.

One great secret of success in any business is a love of the
calling. One's heart must be in it. He must have faith
and confidence, and then go ahead. Again, he must under-
stand his calling. If the farmer ploughs deep he must manure
accordingly. So, too, he must be frugal, turning everything
into grist. If we gather hay we must rake after, as success
often depends upon the gleanings. It is the last ounce that
tips the scale.

I have said that the condition of a people may be correctly
judged by their surroundings. This is particularly true of
the farmer. Go where you will, and you can tell a thrifty
ftirmer the moment your eye rests on his grounds. What-
ever a man loves to do he will generally do well, and he will
do it with an earnestness that overcomes all obstacles. On
the contrary, where there is indifference nothing is done as
it should be. When the ftu-mer is earnest he is enthusiastic,
and his work is a pleasure and delight : and order, neatness
and happiness are the result. The man who is a farmer by
accident or force of circumstances, and has no love for the
calling, can never succeed. His fingers are as stiff" and cold
as his heart, and they will not work. I assure you, my
friends, that there is nothing that adds a more abiding charm
and satisfaction to one's life and experience than the pursuit
of agriculture. You, Mr. President, will allow me to quote
from a most able address, given before this Society more
than twenty years ago by one of its founders and most noble
benefactors, whose memory "still lives" in the hearts of its

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rnoinbors, and will l)e cherished long ;if"ter those that knew
liim here shall have passed away.

He said, "The desire to get rid of farm work should not
exist among the young men of an agricultural people ; and
yet it would be uncharitable to keep them all at home when
the cities cannot live without them. It is the fresh activity
of the country that feeds the healthy growth and vigor of the
town ; and the most distinguished instances of success in pro-
fessional, mercantile or mechanical life may be traced back to
the farm. The raw boy who to-day makes his first acquain-
tance with the crowded street, in everybody's way, as he
stares with dazzled eyes and open mouth at the shop windows
and moving wonders a])out him, will in a few years be found
one of the conscript fathers of the city ; a leader among the
able and enterprising, a founder of public charities, a bene-
factor to the poor, a man of great heart and open hand,
mighty in the money market, yet not unmindful that he be-
gan with nothing, and ready to assist and encourage those
who are starting on the same capital. Go to the luxurious
mansion of this successful man when he shall have obtained
the full zenith of prosperity. Ask him, as he is surrounded
by everything that is supposed to make existence desirable,
on what portion of his eventful life he looks back with most
satisfaction. Will he dwell on commercial gains, or profes-
sional eminence, or political honors? Oh, no! He will
turn coldly from these aims of his uneasy life back to the
time when he knew nothing of the I)usy world before him,
and he will glow with pride as he honestly Ijoasts of his for-
mer skill with the scythe, or of the rods of stone wall he as-
sisted to lay on his father's fVmn. He will tell you that often
as he has struggled in the hard battle of life, when disap-
pointment, Avhich comes to all, has visited him, and as he
has been Aveighed down by a sense of the worthlessness of
the prize which has been the object of his exertions, the
happy spot w'here he once played and Avorked has arisen be-
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Avill siiy how he has hoped to have, one day, aonie (juiet .s[)ot
where the evening of life could glide tranquilly on amidst
the repose and beauty of nature ; hoAv he has longed to live
again among the holy things of his early days, which have
had an influence on the better part of his life. He will tell
how his sleep has been tinged with recollections of the past,
dreaming over his boy-time once more ; hearing the song of
birds, as it used to come in the twilight through the windows,
mingled Avith the breath of the honeysuckle, and feeling
again the south wind play in the raven locks of his child-
hood."*

These truthful words, —

"They haunt ine still, thouii'h many :i year has fled.
Like some wild melody ; "'

and will, so long as my memory shall hold its throne. And
I am happy in the thought that the spotless mantle of this
most estimable man has fallen upon a son who is worthy to
bear it.

Had the principles of agricultural reform and improve-
ments been as well understood as the principles which gov-
ern our mercantile interests, and been as well applied, our
New England farms would not present the barren spectacle
Avhicli in some instances Ave noAv behold. You cannot vio-
late the laAvs of the soil any more than you can the laAvs
which govern your physical system. Similar hiAvs govern
both. Nature will supply the demands of growth according to
her resources ; and A^d^en exhausted, must receive back the
elements of Avhich she has been robbed, or she refuses longer
to yield her Avonted harvest. Science enjoins upon agricul-
ture the condition of a self-sustaining vitality. Whatever is
taken from the soil by the harvest must be returned to it
again ; otherwise a great injury is inflicted, not only upon

* The late lion. Georire 11. Russell.

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the fanner but upon the whole country. It has been truly
said, "To destroy tlie productiveness of the soil, to squander
the elements of that productiveness, is to destroy the hopes
of civilized humanity, and rol) posterity of its birthright to
a career of progress." We are the agents in the employ of
nature to prosecute and improve her interests ; and in order
to do this understandingly we must be fully acquainted with
her workings. We nuist understand the action of light, heat,
moisture and the properties of vegetal>lc growth ; how this
plant food is formed, and how and in what manner the plant
takes up and a[)propriatcs that food to its own use ; the
effect of cropping upon the soil, and the condition of the
soil under any circumstances ; the causes of fertilit}' ; the
effects of ploughing, underdraining, irrigation, &c.

There is a love of nature instinct in everv livino- soul.
This, if rightly iniluenced, may conduce to the highest inter-
ests of agriculture. The mind is ever active, and possesses
the quality of curiosity to a large degree. It must know the
why and Avherefore of external objects, and their relations,
and it receives pleasure in the effort to obtain this knowledge,
and the possession bnt creates a desire to know more and
more. New ideas and emotions excite and perpetiiate the
luind's activity, which is essential to our enjoyment. Na-
ture is lioundless ; she is a complete laboratory ; she is full of
information. The sciences applicable to agriculture are the
key to unlock and disclose to the inquiring niiiid her mys-
teries.

My friends, the future prospects of agriculture in this
country cannot i)e misunderstood. The rapid ipiprovements
that are being made in the machinery of the farm, show that
the mind as well as the muscle is actively at work ; that the
days of isfiiorant toil are fast s^iviuo; way to the united efforts
of the head and hand; that the prejudices which have sur-
rounded the tillers of the soil like mists around the moun-
tain's summit, are being gradually dispelled through the in-
fluence of an enlightened understanding:. The farmer is

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jihout to assume his rightful place at the head of our iudus-
trial pursuits. The Agricultural College and the Institute of
Industrial Science are both established on a lirm foundation.
Through the instrumentality of these twin institutions of our
Commonwealth, the farmer and mechanic will be raised to a
loftier position of dignity and influence, with an enlarged
power of blessing, not only themselves, but the world.

The time is coming when the rudimentary principles of
aifriculture and the mechanic arts will be l^ranches of learn-
ina' to be tauo-ht in our common schools. The time is not
far distant when the living language of nature, as interpreted
by Geology, Botany and Vegetable Physiology will be like
"household words" wath the farmer, who will then go forth
and see how the silent chemistry of nature, like a mighty
architect, ])uilds up the gorgeous fabric of the vegetable cre-
ation, alike stately, delicate and beautiful. So will the farm-
er's calling be ennobled and invested with the fascinations of
intellectual grace and beauty.

And now, in conclusion, I congratulate you again upon the
success of 3'our labors for the past season. In the few words
I have spoken I am conscious of having said little that is not
already familiar to you all. But if I have succeeded in im-
pressing upon you something of my own conviction of the
dignity, importance and usefulness of New England Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts, I shall be more than content. Al-
thousfh we New Eno;landers are not known as an a£>'ricultural
people, still to my mind there is nothing that adds more to
her culture, comfort and happiness than her Agricultural and
Horticultural interests. They are the essential elements in
her domestic economy, without which the grand harmony of
New England's industries would be incomplete. Forever
may the mower's scythe and the harvester's flail ring in uni-
son with the weaver's shuttle and forgeman's anvil !

Whatever adds to the glory and character of New Englnnd
it behooves us to sacredly foster and transmit. We love
thee, New England, land of peace, prosperity and plenty!

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We hail thoe Icador in the world's grand [jrogress. Stran-
gers and wanderers seek refnge in thine open arms, Avith
benedictions. Thou hast enough and to spare.

" Nature never did betray
Tlie lieart that loved her; 'ti.s her ])rivileiie
Through all the years of tills our life to lead
^i'rom joy to joy ; for she can so inform
'riie mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
Our cheerful faith, that all wliich we be!io;d
Is fnll of blessino's."

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Eeport of the President and Secretary.

To the Secretary of the -State Board of Agricultare :

Str, — In accordiince with the rcqiiireiiients of tho stat-
ute, the follow! no- statement of the Transactions of the Nor-
folk Agricnltuval Society for the year 1872 is snbmitted.

As nothing" of especial interest or importance has trans-
pired since our last pnblication, we refer to the subjoined
Reports of the several Committees of the Society, and to the
Secretary's Eeport of the proceedings on the days of the
Annual Exhibition, as afibrdinii: the best means of iuforma-
tion as to the operations of the Society during the past year.

HENRY S. RUSSELL, PresldeiU.
Henry O. Hildreth, Secretary,

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

REPORT ON HAY CROPS.

Your Committee on the best Hay Crop produced ou tmy furm in
tlie county, have been called upon but once. There has been but
one entry for premiums come to our notice. We have examined
the farm, and find by the peculiar and somewhat novel manner of
manuring, seeding, and harvesting the crops, together with the
different varieties of grasses grown, and their adaptability to the
producing of milk, a very remarkable contrast to other farms
which have come under our notice in years past.

We award to Mr.A. W. Cheever, of Sheldonville, Wrentham, the
Society's first premium of $25 for the best Hay Crop.

E. L. METCALF, Chairman.

Franklin, Nov. 13, 1872,

STATEMENT OF A. W. CHEEVER.

(To the Committee of the Norfolk Agricultural Society on Ex-
periments in producing the largest quantity and best quality of
English hay per acre on any farm in the county, regard being had
to the character of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and
making.)

Character of the Soil.

The character of the soil on my farm is very much varied, run-
ning from the best of drained meadow through several grades of
loam up to poor, thin, dry, gravelly knolls, and consists of about
twenty-five acres in mowing and tillage. The tillage includes
over two acres of orchading, and as much more in corn fodder,
potatoes and gardens. Some corn fodder and grass is grown
among the trees in the orchards. The remainder of the cultivated
land produces one or more crops of hay every year.

The land has been cleaned almost entirel}' of rocks and stones
that would interfere with the free use of the plow, cultivator and
haying machines. The old stone walls have been removed to the
low-land drains, until the whole farm, except seven acres of pas-
ture, is contained in two lots separated only by a lane leading

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fi'oiu the barn yard to the pastures. As the principal crop sold from
the farm is butter, and as it is desirable to obtain as large a quan-
tity as possible, it is my aim to make the land produce tlie largest
practicable amount of hay and other fodder, and have it of the very
best quality for making rich milk.

Old-Fashioned Style of Raising Hay.

The old New England practice of our fathers and grandfathers,
which still exists, I believe, on too many of our farms, of making
corn, potatoes, pumpkins, white beans and the small grains as rye,
oats and barley, the principal crops, and hay a secondary one, has
on my place been entirely abandoned.

Under the old system, after a field had ceased to produce enough
hay to pay for the harvesting, it was given over to the cows,
till, in many cases, it was no longer worth pasturing. It was then
plowed and planted with potatoes or corn, beans and pumpkins, or
all of them together, for one, two, or three years. And, as almost
every farmer had land that needed plowing oftener than he could
get round to it, he was tempted to plow up more each year than he
could well manure. So a little manure was put in the hills, which
gave the crop just enough power to enable it to draw out about all
the strength the land possessed. The next crops were either r3^e,
oats or barley, sown without applying an additional coat of ma-
nure, which so reduced the fertility of the land that the grass seed
which was put in with the grain, seldom showed itself, except the
clover, till the second year afterwards. This system of rotation
gave corn or some other hoed crops one or more 3'ears, then some
kind of small grain sown with grass seed, then clover, and on the
fourth year from plowing, provided it was planted but one year,
English grass again. The mowing fields were always pastured
after haying, and often till the grass was gnawed close down to the
roots. This was tlie practice on my farm till within a few years.
If the season was favoral)le, one or two fair crops of hay were ob-
tained during the rotation.

Hay the Main Crop.

Now, hay is made the principal crop, and the others, if any are
grown, are only secondary. The grass is treated with manure
just as arc other crops, and it is allowed the whole benefit of the
land, ver}^ little grain being sowed with it, and it is generally
manured with a light coat spread on the surface at the time of
sowing. Even if the land is in pretty good condition, a light dress-
ing of manure spread on top of the ground and slightl}^ harrowed
in, at the time of sowing, will often make the difference of one
crop the first year. The grass is pushed forward early in the
spring, gets a start of the weeds, so that two instead of one crop
can be cut the first season. For the sake of having the hay of the

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very best quallt}' for producing rich milk and butler, all the better
portions of tlie mowing are sown with such grasses as can be made
to produce two or three crops in a ^^ear.

Varikties of Grass Seed.

On tlie reclaimed meadow land orchard grass is grown as a
l)rincipal crop, always giving three cuttings in a season. Herds-
grass is put a little higher up, and, if top-dressed, yields two good
crops, while on the dry hills that are not good grass lands, except
in very favorable seasons, the red-top is sown, which never can be
cut the second time. The dilferent kinds are grown separately in
a measure, so that haying may not come all at once, as the differ-
ent kinds do not come to maturity at the same time by about
tifteen to thirty da3's.

TliME OF 8owiN(;.

1 sow grass seed both in spring and fall, just as soon as a field is
ready. At both seasons 1 like to have it in early, the earlier the
better. Sow winter rye for fodder every fall, and am very success-
ful with grass seed at the same time. The rye comes off so very
early the next spring that the grass has time to make a good
growth, thfit can be cut in August. On all fall-sown fields, clover
is put on the following spring. I frequently lose the seed by its
swelling before steady warm weather, and then shrinking again and
dying, unless it can be worked in a little with a harrow. If I lose
it, I re-sow it even the third time, if necessary. I consider clover-
seed cheap at any ordinary price, to mix with other grasses. It
takes but little value to sow au acre, and if it catches and does
well, it pays largely, while if it fails, the loss on account of seed is
(piite small. Herdsgrass, I very much prefer to sow in the fall
early enough to get a good hold on the soil before winter sets in.
Sometimes the grasshoppers do it great damage by eating off
the young blades as fast as they come above ground ; but if we do
not sow Ave must not expect to reap. If herdsgrass is sown in
spring, it is ({uite apt to l)e killed by the hot summer sun just after
taking off the first crop, especially if it has grown fast and is tall
aad slender.

Pkeparation of Land.

I rather prefer to have the land to be seeded, previousl}- planted
with some hoed crop ; but if I have fields that from an}' cause are
not producing satisfactory crops, I do not hesitate to re-seed with-
out planting If to be sown in spring, I should want the ground
well plowed, cultivated and manured the fall before, so that I
could get the seed in at the earliest moment that the grouiid could
be made fit. In preparing for re-seeding, I am particular to have
the furrows turned well over, all one way, by a swivel plow that
leaves no dead furrows or ridges, and not less than eight inches
deep, so I can have a mellow top soil of at least ibur inches for a
seed bed. Always pick up loose stones, and roll down smooth at

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the time of seeding. If only ii light coat of manure is applied, it
is always spread directl}- from the cart, as, if left in heaps,
the grass is apt to lodge where the heaps were dropped, especially
if left through a storm.

Harvesting.

I always consider it safe to commence haying as soon as grass
begins to lodge, whether it is in May, June or July. Cut all my
ha}' and rowen with a machine. If the weather is steady and good
for hay-making, cut in the afternoon after four o'clock. The next
morning, after the dew is off, turn it two or three times, then, after
dinner, rake up and put it in the barn as fast as possible, treading
it down solid and keeping it as much as I can away from the air.
Prefer to make it enough so it will not mould and turn brown, but
choose to run a little risk of under-drying, rather than a greater
one of oA'er-wetting, in bad weather. I do not object to putting in
hay that will slightly heat in the mow, if it is free from any mois-
ture except its own sap. I find that a great deal more hay can be
stored in the same barn, it cut early, than if allowed to get ripe.
To have it feed well to my cows, it must be cut and cured in such
a manner and at such a time, that it will come from the mow soft
and limber, instead of hard and wiry. If the ha}^ weather is not
good, of course it takes longer to make it. It must be cocked over
night and covered, if need be, till it can be dried, either by the
sun or the wind. I gather the hay with a horse wheel-rake the first
day, and after the second day, when it has been cocked. I also
highly prize the drag-rake, that enables a boy a dozen years old to
keep the scatterings up with the team when carting, and to clean
up after the horse-rake. I this year procured aBuUard's Improved
Tedder. I am perfectly satisfied with it, and should not think I
could get along without one through another hay season. It cost
absolutely nothing for repairs, and we made a number of lots of
hay one day sooner than we could have done without it, and thus
escaped a storm and a great amount of hard Avork at reopening and
drvins. Thee sometimes there would be a little dash of a shower,
just a sprinkle on our dry hay, that would have prevented its going
into the barn, had we not had a tedder with which in a half hour we
could make the hay as dry as before the shower.

Hay vs. Roots.

By the help of such haying machines as the larmers can now
command, I believe that on good grass lands a farmer had better
give his attention to raising grass and hay for his stock, instead of
the heavy root crops which require so much labor in planting, cul-
tivating, weeding, hoeing, harvesting, storing and feeding out. If
I could buy roots as I can grain at less prices than I could afibrd to
raise them for, I would like to feed a few every day through the
winter to my dairy and growing stock. But at the present prices
of labor, and with the present facihties for harvesting the hay crop,
I think I cannot afford to raise many roots. And with such hay

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as I can have b}' high manuring and frequent cuttings, I do not
believe I very much need them. M3' cows are never troubled with
indigestion or constipation when they are given a liberal allow-
ance of good rowen.

Pasturing Mowinc; Fiki.ds.

I do not believe in feeding rowen in the field. With mowers that
easily cut an acre per hour, and tedders and rakes that will turn and
gather it together in good weather ready for the cart in another
hour, we can better attbrd to feed the second crop in the barn, where
the manure can be better preserved and where the cattle will be
in no danger of cropping too closely or of pulling up the grass by
the roots or of tramping it into the ground. My mowing fields are
never fed by any animals.

I do not mean to mow later than the first of September ; that
gives time for another crop to come up sufficient to protect the life
of the grass through a freezing winter. It is well known by ob-
serving men that tlie tops of plants cannot make much growth un-
less the roots grow also, and that the roots cannot increase without
a corresponding growth of the tops. Now, when a heavy field of
grass is cut in midsummer, the plants receive a severe shock ; but
with favorable weather for a few da3's, they are enabled to recover
and put on a new growth ; but when cattle are turned on to such a
field they keep the tops eaten down so closely that the roots can-
not make a strong, healthy growth, such as will carry them safely
through a severe winter.

Top-Dressing.
I practice top-dressing to some extent. If I top-dress at all, it is
while the grass is thick and vigorous, instead of waiting till all the
best varieties are exhausted. The best time for appljung manure,!
believe — other things being equal — is just after removing a crop. It
then acts both as a mulch and a fertilizer. The question of top-
di-essing or re-seeding will probably remain an open one for some
time yet, there are so many attending circumstances to be taken
into the account. The cost of seed, the labor of plowing and cul-
tivating, the destruction of the sward by droughts, winter-killing
or grubs, the impurity of the grass-seed in market that is full of
foul weeds, all have a bearing that makes it necessary for each one
to decide for himself, whether to top-dress or re-seed.

Amount of Hay Cut.

Of the gross amount of hay cut on my farm, I cannot give as ac-
curate an account as I would like to, as I have no reasonable con-
venience for weighing the whole crop. I could give the number of
loads drawn in, but that would not gi\e others a very correct idea
of the number of tons. I shall leave the estimates to the judg-
ment of the Committee. The present condition of the fields and
the prospects for next year's crops speak for themselves. The best
I can do towards fixing the amount of ha}- raised, is to give the
number of animals fed from the twenty-five acres : — Two horses,

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eight to ten cows, two to four yearlings and two to four calves
are fed very liberally from the hay products each year, which is
equal to a little more than one full grown animal to every two
acres of the whole farm, excepting that the cows are pastured in
part, about one month, between green rye and the time of cutting
corn-fodder. The calves and yearlings are also pastured outside
of these acres, to a small extent.

I am 'sorry that it has not been convenient for all the members
of the Committee to visit the premises and judge for themselves of
the comparative condition of the land which I have entered as a
hay or grass farm. A. W. Cheever.

Sheldonville, Oct. 30, 1872.

HORSES.

The Committees of the several classes in which this depart-
ment is divided have reported to nie as follows : —

Class A. — Roadsters.

Stallions. — First premium of ten dollars to Jason Houghton
of Milton, for Bay Stallion ''Red Hawk ; " 2d premium of seven,
to Jason Houghton of Milton, for chestnut stallion "Go."

Brood Mares with Foal. — First premium of seven dollars to
W. ¥j. Coffin of Savin Hill, Dorchester, for Black Hawk mare
and colt; 2d premium of five to Wm. T. Cook of Foxboro', fbi-
brown thoroughbred mare and colt.

Four Years Old. — First premium of five dollars to N. B, Ste-
A'ens of Dorchester, for Knox colt ; 2d premium of three to P.
Frost of Med field, for sorrel colt.

Three Years Old. — First premium of five dollars to James C,
White of Milton, for brown filly ; 2d premium of three, to Emery
Hawes of Stoughton, for black filly.

Two Years Old. — First premium of three dollars to George C.
Park of Walpole, for black filly ; 2d premium of two, to Jason
Houghton of Milton, for sorrel colt.

One Year Old. — First premium of three dollars to William T.
Cook of Foxboro', for gray colt ; 2d premium of two, to Frank
Sumner of Milton, for chestnut colt.

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Pairs in Harness. — First premium of ten dollars to Francis B.
Raj' of Franklin ; 2d premium of seven, to F. H. Stevens of Milton

Harness Horses. — First premium of eight dollais to W. T.
Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of six, to Oliver \V. Penbody of
Milton.

Class B. — Horses of all Work. — Stallions. — No entries.
Brood Mares. — First premium of seven dollars to William T.
Cook of Foxboro'.

Three Years Old. — First premium of three dollars to John
Davenport of Canton ; 2d premium of two, to W. T. Cook of Mil-
ton.

Pairs in Harness. — First premium of seven doUai's to William
T. Thacher of Hyde Park ; 2d premium of five, to Thomas Deca-
tur of Sharon.

Horses in Harness. — First premium of six dollars to Emery
Ilawes of Stoughton ; 2d premium of four, to Willard Hamblin of
Hyde Park.

Class C. — Family Horses. — Stallions. — None.

Brood Mares. — None.

Colts and Fillies^ Four Years Old. — None.

Colts and Fillies, Three Years Old. — First premium of five
dollars to John Davenport of Canton ; 2d premium of thiee, to J.
W. Bradlee of Milton.

Colts and Fillies, Tv)o Years Old. — First premium of three dol-
lars to J. E, Billings of Roxbury.

Colts and Fillies, One Year Old. — None,

Carriage Horses. — First premium of ten doUai-s to W. T.
Cook of Foxboro'.

Bvggy Horses. — First premium of eight dollars to W. T. Cook
of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of six, to A. F. Stevens of Needham ;
3d premium' of four, to A. W. Whitcomb of Randolph.

Saddle Horses. — First premium of six dollars to W. T. Cook
of P^oxboro'.

Ponies. — First premium of three dollars to Fraaicis Codman of
Brookline ; 2d premium of two, to J. W^. Bradlee of Milton.

Class D. — No entries.

RACES,

First Day. — Thursday.

First Race. — First prize, cup valued at thirty dollars, to J. D.
Bickford, of Brookline ; 2(1 prize of ten, to B. Swan f>i" Hyde
Park.

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Exhihitioyi of Ladies' Horsemanship. — First prize, cup valued at
thirty dollars, to Mrs. William Ratclitf ot" Roxbury.

Second Race. — First prize, cup valued at forty dollars, to H.
R. Bird of Canton.

Third Race — Double Teams. — Whip valued at fifteen dollars,
to F. B. Ray of Franklin.

Fourth Race. — First prize, cup valued at forty dollars, to R. B.
Forbes of Milton ; 2d prize of fifteen, to Charles S. Holmes of
Roxbury.

Second Day. — Friday.

First Race. — First prize, cnp valued at sevent^'-five dollars, to
Oliver Dean of Canton;- 2d prize of forty, to A. G. Parker
of Dedham ; 3d prize, whip valued at fifteen, to I. D. Bickford of
Brookline.

Second Race — Double Teams. — First prize, cup valued at sixty-
five dollars, to R. W. Hamblin of Hyde Park ; 2d prize of twenty-
five to B. Swan of Hyde Park.

Third Race — Running Race. — First prize, cup valued at thirty-
five dollars, to R. B, Forbes of Milton ; 2d prize of fifteen, to R.
B. Forbes of Milton.

The Fourth Race was indefinitely postponed, owing to the
weather.

Augustus P. Calder, Chairman.

PLOWING.

Double Ox Teams — Two entries. Second premium often dollars
to Horace and Geo. E. Wliiting of Dedham ; second premium of
ten to Wm. Fales of Dedham.

Nathan Longfellow, Chairman.

Double Horse Teams — One entry. First premium of fifteen
dollars to Goulding and Parmenter of Dover.

J. E. Wetherbee, Chairman.

Single Horse Teams — Two entries. First premium of ten dol-
lars to John Ross of Medfield ; second premium of five, to Henry
W. Vose of Milton.

Lewis W. Morse, Chairman.

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WORKINCf OXEN.

First premium of ten dollars to Frederick & Pleld of Qtiincy ; 2d
premium of seven to Wm. Fales of Dedham ; 3d premium of
four to H. Whiting of Dedham.

Robert Mansfield Chairman.

BULL8.

Jersey. — First premium of ten dollars to William T. Cook of
Foxboro' ; 2d premium of five to Henry M. Mack of Dorchester.

Jersey Bull Calf. — First premium of five dollars to Wm. R.
Robeson of Milton ; 2d premium of two to Wm. T. Cook of Fox-
boro. '

Guernsey. — First premium of ten dollars to Wm. P. Perkins of
Brookline.

Brittany. — First premium of ten dollars to Joseph W. Wattles
of Canton.

Ayrshire. — First premium of ten dollars to James Galloway of
(^uincy ; 2d premium of five to G. D. Houghton of Milton.

Ayrshire Bull Calf. — First premium of five dollars to H. E. Bacon
of Walpole.

A. S. Drake, \
James Capen, > Committee.
N. S. White, j

COWS.

Brittany. — First premium of ten dollars to J. W. Wattles of
Canton.

Jersey. — First premium of ten dollars to A. T. Browne of Brook-
line ; 2(1 premium of five to W. R. Robeson of Milton ; 3d premium
of four to H. M. Mack of Dorchester; gratuity to B. C. Vose of
Hyde Park.

Guernsey. — First premium of ten dollars to Jas. M. Codraan of
Brookline ; 2d premium of five to Jas. M. Codman of Brookline.

Ayrshire. — First premium of ten dollars to H. E. liacon of Wal-
pole ; 2d premium of five to C. L. Hunt of Milton.

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Grade. — First premium of ten dollars to J, H. Farrington of Mil-
ton ; 2d premium of five to Chas. W. Cook of Milton ; 3d premi-
um of four to E. M. Gary of Milton.

Herds of Coivs. — Second premium of twelve dollars to H. M.
Mack of Dorchester.

Heifers in Milk.

Jersey. — First premium of five dollars to W. T. Cook of Fox-
boro.'

Guernsey. — First premium of five dollars to Jas. M. Codman of
Brookline.

Ayrshire. — First premium of five dollars to H. E. Bacon of Wal-
pole.

Grade. — ^J'irst premium of five dollars to Chas. W. Cook of Mil-
ton ; 2d premium of four to Edward P. Burgess of Dedham ; 3d
premium to G. D. Houghton of Milton.

Best Heifer in Milk, Less than Three Years Old. — First premium
of five dollars to Frank H. Fales of Dedham.

J. W. Gay, Chairman.

HEIFERS.

Guernsey. — First premium of five dollars to Jas. M. Codman of
Brookline.

Ayrshire. — First premium' of five dollars to H. E. Bacon of Wal-
pole ; 2d premium of four to J. H. Wolcott of Milton ; 3d premium
of three to J. H. Wolcott of Milton.

Brittany. — First premium of five dollars to J. W. Wattles of
Canton.

Jersey. — Second premium of four dollars to R. A. Richards of
Milton ; 3d premium of two to A. T. Browne of Brookline.

Grade. — First premium of five dollars to A. T. Browne of Brook-
line ; 2d premium of four to George D. Houghton of Milton ; 3d
premium of two to W. B. Brooks of Milton.

Best Heifer Calf Under One Year Old. — First premium of four
dollars to G. D. Houghton of Milton ; 2d premium of two to
Charles W. Cook of Milton.

Edward P. Burgess, Chairman.

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FAT CATTLE.

The Committee on Fat Cattle found but one pair of oxen on ex-
hibition, whieli were entered 1)}' Frederick & Field of Qnincy, who,
according to their statement rendered, bought them six months
ago, when they weighed 3700 pounds. Their feed has been good
hay and six quarts each of corn meal every day. They have
worked hauling stone at the quarries each working day, and now
weigh 3918 pounds, having made a gain of over 200 pounds live
weight, with no expense chargeable to feeding, but with an income
derived from their labor.

We award to Frederick & Field the first premium of eight dol-
lars.

A. W. Chekveu, Chairman.

8W1XE.

Largest and best Collection. — First premium of fifteen dollars
to J. H. Farrington of Milton.

Boars. ■ — First premium of six dollars to Charles W. Cook of
Milton ; 2d premium of four to J. H. Farrington of Milton ; gra-
tuity of three to A. T. Browne of Brookline.

Sows. — First premium of six dollars to John Sias of Milton ;
2d premium of four to A. T. Browne of Brookline ; gratuity of
three to E. M. Cary of Milton ; gratuity of two to J. H. Farring-
ton of Milton.

Fat Hogs. — First premium of ten dollars to N. Farrington of
Canton ; 2d premium of six to John Sias of Milton.

Weaned Pigs. — First premium of six dollars to N. Farrington
of Cantoa ; 2d premium of four to Edwin Davenport of Milton.

Thomas B. Griggs, for the Committee.

POULTRY

Light Brahma. — First premium of five dollars to A. H. Drake
of Stoughton ; 2d premium of three to Edwin Davenport of Mil-
ton.

Dark Brahma. — First premium of five dollars to A. H. Drake of
Stoughton ; 2d premium of three to C. L. Copeland of Milton.

Partridye Cochin. — First premium of five dollars to A. H.
Driike of Stoughton ; 2d premium of three to C. L. Copeland of
Milton,

Buf Cochin. — First premium of five dollars to C. L. Copeland
of Milton ; 2d premium of three to W. T. Cook of Milton.

White Cochin. — First premium of five dollars to A. H. Drake of
Stoughton ; 2d premium of three to A. H. Drake of Stoughton.

Black Cochin. — First premium of five dollars to A. H. Drake of
Stonghton.

Plymouth Bock. — First premium of five dollars to A. H. Drake
of Stoughton ; 2d premium of three to L. H. Gay of Stoughton.

White Leghorn. — First premium of five dollars to C. and F.
Spring of Needham ; 2d premium of three to E. C. Aldrich of
Hyde Park.

Dominique. — Second premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis of
Norwood.

Houdans. — First premium of five dollars to E. C. Aldrich of
Hyde Park.

Black Red Game. — First premium of five dollars to Henry Bird
of Stoughton.

Mhite Georgian Game. — Second premiiim of three dollars to
M. 1. Ellis of Norvv^ood.

Old Fowls.

Dark Brah'ma. — First premium of five dollars to C. L. Copeland
of Milton ; 2d premium of three to Francis Codman of Brookline.

Partridge Cochin. — First premium of five (hjllars to C. L. Cope-
land of Milton.

Buff Cochin. — First premium of five dollars to C. L. Copeland
of Milton ; 2d premium of three to W. T. Cook of Milton.

Black Cochin. — First premium of five dollars to L. H. Gay of
vS tough ton.

Plymouth Rock. — First premium of five dollars to L. H. Gay of
Stoughton.

'[\hite Leghorn. — First premium of five dollars to C. and F.
Spring of Needham.

Black Spanish. — First premium of five dollars to C. and F.
Spring of Needham ; 2d premium of three to C. and F. Spring of
Needham.

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Houdan. — Second premium of three dollars to Francis Codman
of Brookline.

Dominique. — First preminm of five dollars to M. I. Ellis of
Norwood,

Dominique Game. — First premium of five dollars to M. I. Ellis
of Norwood.

Ducks.

Spam/led Mallard. — First premium of five dollars to Abel F.
Stevens of Needham.

Aylesbury. — First premium of five dollars to William T. Cook of
Milton ; 2d premium of three to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

Rouen. — First premium of five dollars to C. L. Copeland of
Milton ; 2d premium of three to C. L. Copeland of Milton.

Turkeys.

■Second premium of three dollars to I. M. Bradt of Hyde Park.

Geese.

China. — First premium of five dollars to "W. T. Cook of Milton.

Wild India. — Second premium of three dollars to Henry Gould-
ing of Dover.

Gratuities.

Geese. — Ephriam Horn of Hyde Park, two dollars.

Partridge Cochin. — M. I. Ellis of Norwood, two dollars.

Ducks. — Henry M. Bird of Stoughton, two dollars.

Habbits. — Fred Pratt of Hyde Park, one dollar.

The Committee regret that some of the exhibitors did not conform
with the Society's rules, as many fine fowls were entered in pairs,
and others four and six in a coop, thereby debarring them from tak-
ing premiums, as the Society otter only on Trios and on Aquatic
Fowls in pairs.

Abel F. Stevens, Chairman.

PEARS.

Best Twenty Varieties. — First premium of fifteen dollais to F.
& L. Clapp of Dorchester ; 2d premium of twelve to H. P. Kidder
of Milton.

Best Ten Varieties. — First premium of eight dollars to C. F.
Curtis of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of six to J. W. Brooks of
Milton : 3d premium of four to .7. D. Bradlee of Milton.

Best Five Varieties. — First promium of six dollais to Geo. S.
Curtis of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of four to Chas. F. Curtis
of Jamaica Plain.

Single Dishes.

Clapp's Favorite. — First premium of two dollars to F. & L.
Clapp of Dorchester.

Bartlett. — First premium of two dollars to Geo. S. Curtis of Ja-
maica Plain ; 2d premium of one to Wm. J. Griggs of Brookline.

Beurre d'Anjon. — First premium of two dollars to Geo. S. Cur-
tis of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of one to Chas. F. Curtis of
Jamaica Plain.

Urbaniste. — First premium of two dollars to C. B. Leavitt of
Roxbury ; 2d premium of one to Theodore Lj'man of Brookline.

Merriam. — First premium of two dollars to C. F. Curtis of Ja-
maica Plain ; 2d premium of one to J. W. Page of Jamaica Plain.

Louise Bon d' Jersey. — First premium of two dollars to C. B.
Leavitt of Roxbury ; 2d premium of one to Thodore Lyman of
Brookline.

Vicar of WinkfieJd. — First premium of two dollars to J. W.
Brooks of Milton ; 2d premium of one to C. F. Curtis of Jamaica
Plain.

Duchesse d' Angoideme . — First premium of two dollars to Wm.
J. Griggs of Brookline ; 2d premium of one to Geo. 8. Curtis of
Jamaica Plain.

SecMe. — First premium of two dollars to Theodore Lyman of
Brookline ; 2d premium of one to J. W. Brooks of Milton.

Onondaga. — First premium of two dollars to J. W. Brooks of
Milton ; 2d premium of one to C. F. Curtis of Jamaica Plain.

Sheldon. — First premium of two dollars to Thodore Lyman of
Brookline ; 2d premium of one to Wm. J. Griggs of Brookline.

Beurre Bosc. — First premium of two dollars to Geo. S. Curtis of
Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of one to E. Hemman of West Rox-
bury.

Doyenne Bonssock. — First premium of two dollars to C. F. Cur-
tis of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of one to Theodore Lyman of
Brookline.

Beurre Clairgeau. — First premium of two dollars to J. W. Page
of Jamaica Plain.

Laivrence. — First premium of two dollars to Theodore Lyman Qf
Brookline.

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Winter Neh's. — First premium of two dollars to Theodore Ly-
man of Brookline ; 2d premiuiii of one to Dr. Benjamin Mann of
Roxhnr}'.

Beurre Hardy. — First premium of two dollars to Chas. F. Cur-
tis of Jamaica Plain.

Buffum. — First premium of two dollars to Theodore Lyman of
Brookline.

Marie Loxdse. — First premium of two dollars to J. W. Brooks
of Milton ; 2d premium of one to Theodore Lyman of Brookline.

Dana's Uovey. — First premium of two dollars to Theodore hy-
man of Brookline.

Mount Vemoii. — First premium of two dollars to C. B. Leavitt
of Roxbur}' ; 2d premium of one to C. F. Curtis of Jamaica Plain.

Flemish Beauty. — First premium of two dollars to J. D. Bradlee
of Milton ; 2d premium of one to David W. Tucker of Milton.

Gratuities.

For Collection. — To C. B. Leavitt of Roxbury, three dollars.

For Seedling Pears. — To F'. & L. Clapp of Dorchester, three
dollars.

Hon. Marshal P. Wilder made his twenty-third display of over
one hundred varieties, but not for premium. The estate of W. B.
Kingsbury also made a fine display.

Chas. F. Curtis, Chairman.

APPLES, GRAPES, Etc.

Best Collection^ of Twelve Varieties. — First premium of twelve
dollars to F. & L. Clapp of Dorchester; 2d premium, "Harris'
Treatise," to D. H. Elkins of Milton ; yd premium of four to F.
& L. -^lapp of Dorchester ; 4th premium of three to A. W. Chee-
ver of Wrentham ; oth premium, "Barry's Fruit Garden." to Abel
F. Stevens of Needham.

Best Five Varieties. — First premium of six dollars to Chas. F.
Curtis of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of four to Edward Ramsdell
of Dedham.

Single Dishes.

Baldivin. — First premium of two dollars to J. F. Cowell of
Wrentham.

Greening. — First premium of two dollars to A. F. Stevens of
Needham.

Oravenstein. — First premium of two dollars to F. & L. Clapp of
Dorchester : 2d premium of one to Henry Bird of Stoughton.

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Huhhanlston Nonesuch. — First preniiuin of two dollars to H. P.
Kidder of Milton.

Porters. — First premium of two dollars to J. F. Cowell of
Wrentliam ; 2d premium of one dollar to Henry Bird of Stoughton.

Tolman Sioeet. — First premium of two dollars to F. & L. Clapp
of Dorchester.

Washington. — First premium of two dollars to F. & L. Clapp of
Dorchester.

Cogswell. — Second premium of one dollar to J. Crane of Ded-
ham.

Peaches. — First premium of three dollars to Miss Louise Lewin
of Milton.

Plums. — First premium of three dollars to J. W. Brooks of Mil-
ton.

Foreign Grapes. — First premium of three dollars to J. W.
Brooks of Milton, for Wilmot's 16.

Native Grapes. — Second premium of two dollars to J. W. Brooks
of Milton.

Single Dishes — Concord. — First premium of two dollars to B. C.
Vose of Hyde Park ; 2d premium of one to J. F. Cowell of Wrenth-
am.

Figs — Turkey Brown. — Gratuity of two dollars to C- B. Leavitt
of Roxbury.

Cranberries. — First premium of three dollars to Nathaniel Gay
of Stoughton ; 2d premium of two to Nathan Longfellow of Need-
ham ; 3d premium, "Eastwood's Cranbeny Culture," to J. B. Tilley
of Brookline.

Diploma to Henry Goulding of Dover, for twelve varieties of
apples, the entry not being entitled to a premium for want of strict
compliance with the rules of the Society, for which I'eason several
valuable contributions of Fruits from other parties were excluded
from competition for premiums.

Geo. Vose, Chairman.

.FLOWERS.

Pot Plants.— First premium of ten dollars to J. & B. C. Vose of
Hyde Park ; 3d premium of live to N. T. Davenport of Milton.

Cut Flowers. — First premium of four dollars to Mrs. John Vose
of Hyde Park ; 2d premium of three to N. T. Davenport of Mil-
ton ; 3d premium of two to J. W. Brooks of Milton.

Bouquets. — First premium of four dollars to Anthony McLaren
of Jamaica Plain.

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Crhuh'oloK — Best named Collection. — First pieniinm of four dol-
lars to Anthony McLaren of Jamaica Plain.

For iSeedlbig. — Three dollars to Anthony McLaren of Jamaica
Plain.

For Single JSpike. — One dollar to Anthony McLaren of Jamaica
Plain.

Zinnias. — Second premium of two dollars to Mrs. Abraham
Holmes, Jr., of Milton.

Gratuities.

H. P. Kidder of Milton, two dollars, for Cut Plowers.

Miss H. G. Davenport of Milton, two dollars, for Cut Howers.

Anthony McLaren of Jamaica Plain, two dollars, for Cut Flow-
ers, Zinnias and Li Hies.

Mrs. Abraham Holmes, Jr., of Milton, two dollars, for Cut Flow-
ers.

Mrs. Joshua Britton of Stoughton, two dollars, for Seedling Ver-
benas.

i\Irs. A. K. Teele of Milton, two dollars, for Seedling Petunias ;
Lyman Davenport of Milton, three dollars, for Rose-buds.

N. T. Davenport of Milton, one dollar, for Bouquet.

Miss Lizzie W. Vose of Milton, three dollars, for large Flower
Basket.

Mrs. John Vose of Hyde Park, two*dollars, for Hanging Basket.

B.C. Vose of Hyde Park, one dollar, for Corner Bracket.

Mrs. .John Vose of Hyde Park, one dollar, for Seedling Verbena.

A. K. Teele, Chairman.

VEGETABLES.

For Largest and Best Collection. — Second premium of fifteen
dollars to J. B. Tilley of Brookline ; 3d premium of ten to E. P.
Burgess of Dedham.

Potatoes., Largest and Best Collection. — First ijremium of six
dollars to A. F. Stevens of Needham.

Table Potatoes. — First premium of two dollars to John Ross of
Medfield ; 2d premium of one to John Vose of H^de Park.

Lima Beans. — First premium of two dollars to George Hurter
of Hyde Park.

Crook-Neck Sqv.ashes. — Gratuity of one dollars to N. E. Knight
of Randolph.

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Marrow Squashes. — First premium of two dollars to John Vose
of Hyde Park.

Water Melon. — Second premium of one dollar to J. Sands of
Randolph.

Sweet Corn. — Second premium of one dollar to A. F. Stevens
of Needham.

Mammoth Marrow Squash. — Gratuity of two dollars to J. W.
Brooks of Milton ; gratuity of one to J. Sands of Randolph.

Mangold Wurtzel. — Gratuity of two dollars to C. W. Cook of
Milton.

Turnips. — First premium of two dollars to E. Paul of Dedhara.

Canada Crook-Neck Squash. — First premium of two dollars to
E. Paul of Dedham.

Egg Plant. — Gratuity of one dollar to N. T. Davenport of Mil-
ton.

C. L. CoPELAND, Chairman.

BREAD.

^heat. — First premium of three dollars to Mrs Alfred Downing
of Hyde Park ; 2d premium of two to Mrs. M. E. McAvoy of
Hyde Park.

Diploma to Miss M. G. Hurter of Hyde Park, for Parker House
Kolls.

Wheat and Indian. — First premium of three dollars to Mrs.
Nathan Longfellow of Needham ; 2d premium of two to Miss
Fannie F. Longfellow of Needham.

Rye and Indian. — First premium of three dollars to Mrs. Nathan
Longfellow of Needham ; 2d premium of two to Mrs. E. Paul of
Dedham.

J. White Belcher, Chairman.

DAIRY.

Butter — Ten -Pound Lots. — First premium often dolLirs to A.
W. Cheever of Wrentham ; 2d premium of eight to James R.
Fisher of Norwood ; 3d premium of five, to Henry M. Mack, of
Dorchester ; 4th premium of four to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow of
Needliam.

Best Box of Butter. — First premium of five dollars to W. P.
Perkins of Brookline ; 2d premium of three to A. W. Cheever of

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Wrentliam ; .'5il premium of Flint's Treatise to J. M C(^(luian of
Brookline.

Cheese. — F'irst premium of five dollars to JNIrs. Mary Mnrsliall
of Stougiiton ; '2(\ premium of three to Nathaniel (lay of Stough-
ton.

It is very seldom that those who offer for Premium Lots of But-
ter under the first class strictly comply with the rules of the So-
ciety in regard to the cows from which the butter is made, their
keeping, the quantity of l)uttcr made, and the method of churning
and setting of the milk for cream, &c., and perhaps they have so
neglected it because the Society haA^e not usuall}- pul)lished any of
these statements. The Connnittee are happ}' to bear testimony to
the fact that Mr. Cheever, who has for many years successfully
competed for the first premium, has always complied with these
rules, and so ha\e some others ; and the Committee suggest that
the accompanying statement of Mr. Cheever be published with the
annual report.

M. M. Fisher, Chairman.

STATEMENT OF A W. CHEEVER.
To the Committee on the Dairy : —

The package of Butter herewith presented is a sample of 697
pounds sold during the past four months, from an average of eight
cows. The larsrest number milked during; the time of trial was ten.
Two have been sold for beef. Four calved since the commence-
ment of the trial, and two of these calves were fattened and three
others have been raised on new milk for about two weeks, and then
fed with milk twelve hours old for some three weeks longer. One
of these calves was dropped just before the commencement of the
trial.

The two cows sold were twelve years old. All the others were
less than five at commencement of trial. One is now five years old ;
two are four years ; two are three years, and tw(j are two years,
and the other twenty-one months at time of calving, which was
July 15th. The two three-years old calved last year, and will
come in again next winter.

The average yield per week has been about four or five pounds
per cow, which would be a small quantity if the animals had been
of full age and were in full flow. M3' average for the past two 3'ears
has been over 200 pounds per cow, of butter sold, besides selling
nearly one day's milk per week. During the trial, one day's milk
has been sold each week, one half of which stood twelve hours be-
fore skimming, the other half sold new ; and besides what milk,
butter and cream has been used in my famih', one quart of new
milk has been sold ever}- morning.

The feed has been good pasture about four weeks, green r3-e,
green corn-stalks, and the best of hay fed in the stalls the remain-
der of the time. Some grain is fed every day — to beef cows all

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they will eat, and to the others enough to keep them in good work-
ing condition. The grain hjis been about equal quantities of corn
meal, cotton seed meal and wheat bran, vai-ying from four to eight
quarts, according to the age and condition of the ditferent animals.

My milk is kept above ground, in tin pans, set on racks ; my room
is well protected from the sun on the south by a covered and
blinded walk, and by trees and vines. The north window is pro-
tected by blinds, the sash being entirely removed most of the time.
I give my room a very thorough airing in the night, but keep it
pretty close during the day. In that way I have kept my weekly
supply of butter very even ; one week only, and that in August,
did it fall oft" ver}^ perceptibl}'. Have churned twice a week most
of the time. Always wash the butter in cold water as soon and
as clean as possible after churning, to remove all the milk. While
washing, work it dry, then salt with less than a half ounce of salt
per pound. Let it stand, or rather ha)7r/ in a cool w^ell a few hours,
then work over and put up for market in pound lumps, or one-
quarter i)ound cakes. The price obtained is fifty-five cents by the
year, and during the summer forty pounds per week are engaged,
and thirty pounds per week in the winter.

The butter is never touched with the hands ; it is sometimes
salted in the churn, but always worked under a lever on a hard
wood table, set so inclined as to allow the milk aud brine to run off
freely. Temperature at churning from 62 to 64 degrees.

A. W. Chkevek.

Sheldonville, Sept. 12, 1872.

STRAW GOODS.

First premium of eight dollars for best Hat of domestic manu-
facture ; also the Society's diploma for a large and superior as-
sortment of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hats, made of Straw, Paper,
and other materials, to Carpenter, Cook & Co. of Foxboro'.

A. S. Harding, Chairman.

SEEDS.

Corn. — Second premium of one dollar to J. B. Tilley of Brook-
line.

For best sample of Wheat, Barley, and Oats, one peck each,
one dollar for each kind to A. F. Stevens of Needham.

Geo. E. Chickering, Chairman.

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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, NEW INVENTIONS,

Etc.

For Collection of Ar/riaultural Implements. — Premium of six
dollars to Whittemore, Belcher & Co. of Boston.

For Yankee Hay Tedder. — Society's Diploma to G. F. Shaw of
"West Roxbiuy.

For Wringing Machine. — Society's Diploma to Providence Tool
Company.

For Drain Pipe. — Society's Diploma to David W. Lewis & Co.
of Roxlnuy.

For Spring Beds. — Society's Diploma to Timoth}'^ smith of
Dedham.

For Wilson's Seiving Machine. — Society's Diploma to Josiali
Tisdale of Norwood.

N, B. WiLMARTH, Chairman.

CARRIAGES, ETC.

For Family Carriage for One Horse. — Premium of five dollars
to S. E. Morse of Norwood.

For Express Wagon. — Premium of five dollars to J. W. Roby of
Norwood.

Geo. K. Gannett, C. L. Copeland, Alex. McDonald, Com-
mittee.

BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Your Committee on Birds and Insects are happy to report two
entries : one by John Goulding of Dover, of 28 specimens of Stuffed
Birds and Animals, including the gray, red, and flying Squirrels,
the gray Owl, tlie common Partridge, Quail, and Snipe, the pretty
little Auks that visited this section last winter, two little Goslings,
one young Peet-Weet, and the remainder of the collection made up
of Bluebirds, Blackbirds, Snow Buntings, Warblers, Tanagers, etc.
The work was quite well done, and the collection received a large
share of attention from the visitors. The other entry was a case of
95 specimens of Insects, presented by Miss L. A. Howell of Hyde
Park, quite tastefully arranged, but not named and classified as the
rules of the Society require. But as one of the objects of the So-
ciety is to increase the interest as well as to disseminate useful and
correct information on the subject of Insects, either beneficial or in-
jurious to vegetation, and as these voung contributors who take

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the trouble to collect antl exhibit cases of insects have probably
no books of reference by which to name or classify their speci-
mens, your Committee take the liberty to award a copy of Harris'
Treatise on Insects to each of the competitors named above.

A. W. Cheever, Chairman.

LADIES' WORK.

The ladies, in giving their report, would say that they have tried
to discharge their duties as well as possible. We were unexpect-
edly called upon to serve as a Committee, owing to the absence of
the ladies previously appointed to act in that capacity.

We would suggest that a Diploma be given to the firm of French
& Ward, Stoughton, for their fine display of worsted goods ; also
that notice be taken of the fine collection of shells displayed by
Mrs. J. H. Smith of Boston.

We would also modestly venture to suggest that a small Com-
mittee-room be added to the department of ladies' work, where the
ladies may work out their reports without fear of interruption.

The number of articles contributed is 154, which is much larger
than has been received here of late years.

Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park ; Mrs. W. T. Thacher, Hyde Park ;
Miss M. G. HuRTER, Hyde Park ; Mrs. J. W. Bradlee, Mil-
ton ; Mrs, S. Allen, Dedham ; Miss S. M. Vose, Hyde Park.

LIST OF PRIZES.

Miss H. Marsh, Quincy, embroidered quilt, $2.

Mrs. B. W. Loud, Randolph, silk quilt, $2.50.

Mrs. E. S. Ellis, Sharon, silk quilt, $1.

Mrs. Fannie Fitzgerald, Milton, quilt, 50 cents.

Mrs. John Crawford, Readville, quilt, 50 cents.

Mary McGovern, Readville, quilt, 50 cents.

Mrs. Betsy E. Capen, Stoughton, rag mat, $2.

Miss R. B. Allen, Roxbury, rag mat, $1.50.

Mrs. Jas. Robertson, Milton, rag mat, $1.

Mrs. P. Clark, Medway, rag mat, 50 cents.

Mrs. C. A. Spring, Hyde Park, Pastelle painting, 75 cents.

Miss E. F. Boyden, Norwood, bead picture, $2.

Mr. T. Hibbard, West Roxbury, oil painting, $1.

Mrs. R. F. Boynton, Hyde Park, preserved wreath, $1.

Miss M. G. Hurter, Hyde Park, wax cross, $1.

Mrs. Denning, West Roxbury, wax flowers, $1.

Mrs. Joseph Sykes, Hyde Park, wax flowers, gratuity, 50 cents.

Caroline F. Atherton, Readville, wax fruit, $1.

Mrs. Edward Newcomb, Hyde Park, bead basket, 50 cents.

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Mrs. H. G. Davenport, Milton, water colors, 50 cents.

Mrs. Edward Newconib. Il^'dc Park, autiunu Uiaves, oO cents.

Mrs. H. D. Gilman, Readville, shell wreath, 75 cents.

Miss A. E. Davenport, Milton, toilette set, 50 cents.

Mrs. Henry Silver, Hyde Park, toilette set, 25 cents.

Susie Blaisdell, Readville, pansy mats, 50 cents.

Miss Emily Tucker, Canton, tidies, 75 cents.

Mrs. Mclntire, Milton, crochet tidies, 25 cents.

Mrs. E. J. Leach, Readville, tid3% 25 cents.

Miss Helen C. Perry, Dorchester, tidy, gratuity, 25 cents.

Mrs. John Crawford, Readville, tidies, Society's diploma.

Miss H. Barbour, Milton, worsted tidy, 25 cents.

Mrs. A. W. Goss, Dorchester, worsted mats, 25 cents.

Mary N. Edwiirds, Dedham, towel-rack, $1.

Agnes M. Pratt, Readville, toilette set, 25 cents.

Minnie Jacobs, Readville, two fans, 25 cents.

Mrs. B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, knitted tea-set, 50 cents.

Mrs. John Crawford, Readville, woolen hose, 25 cents.

Mrs. S. T. Eagan, Hyde Park, undersleeves, 25 cents.

E, S. Winship, Sharon, flannel skirts, 25 cents.

Annie Greggs, Brookline, embroidered bracket, $1.

Grace A. Vose, age 12, Hyde Park, tatting collar, $1.

Minnie Spring, age 13, Hyde Park, tidy. Si.

Delores Mitchell, North Abington, embroidery, 25 cents.

Elenora F. Hurter, Hyde Park, tatting, gratuity, 25 cents.

Ellen Hickey, Milton, collar, gratuity, 25 cents.

Rosie Allen, Hyde Park, tidy, Society's diploma.

G. F. Lincoln, Hyde Park, picture-frame, 50 cents.

Mrs. W. S. Morse, Boston, silk tatting collar, 25 cents.

Mrs. W. T. Thacher, Hyde Park, embroidery, $1.

Mrs. J. Britton, Stoughton, quilt, Society's diploma.

Mrs. F. Britton, Stoughton, quilt. Society's diploma.

Miss S. Sumner, Hyde Park, rug. Society's diploma.

Sum total for prizes and gratuities, S34.75.

GRAIN, ROOT AND MIXED CROPS.

(This Report came too late lor insertion in the usual order.)

The Committee on Grain, Root and Mixed Crops respectfully re-
port that there was one field of Corn, one of Mangohl WurtzeU
and one of Carrots, entered for premium by Mr. .T. B. Tille}' of
Brookhne.

Owing to neglect in entering the crops, the Committee were not
aware they had been entered until after the exhibition, consequent-

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ly we did not examine the specimens, which were on exhibition at
the show.

A part of the committee visited the farm of Mr. Tilley, Sept.
20th. The corn had then been cut up and shooked, and, as far as we
couhl judge, appeared very well, as did also the Mangolds and Car-
rots. At a subsequent visit, after the corn was husked, a basket
full w^as shelled and weighed thirty-three pounds, which, after
drying, weighed thirty and one-half pounds, and as Mi*. Tilley
stated that he had 165 baskets of ears (which statement was fully
corroborated by measuring the bin), there were eighty-nine 85-100
bushels on the acre. Mr. Tilley furnished the following statement
of the cost : —

Planted May 20, 1872.

Three cords manure, eleven dollars per cord $33 00

Putting manure on land 4 00

Planting, three dollars ; seed, .seventy-five cents 3 75

June 3d, two days' hoeing; June 22d, nno. day and a half 7 00

August 5th, one day hoeing; September 3d, cutting up. two days — 6 00

October 7th, husking 4 00

Interest on land, five hundred dollars per acre 35 00

Taxes, eight dollars and seventy cents per one thousand 4 35

Cost, as per statement $97 10

It will be seen that Mr. Tilley has said nothing about plowing,
and it will also be seen that his men did what we should call uncom-
mon days' works. Probably Mr. Tilley is one of those men who
says to his workmen, " come," instead of " go."

To off'set this $97 10

We have eighty-nine 85-100 bushels corn, at oue dollar per bushel.. 89 85

Less cost $7 25

Al though a large crop of corn, yet owing to the high price of
land and the taxes, makes the profit on the wrong side. But as he
has neglected to say any thing about the value of the fodder, which
if we estimate at thirty-five or forty dollars, it will give him a small
protit.

We therefore award him the first premium of $10.

Mr. Tilley furnished the following statement of Mangold Wutzel
crop planted May 15th, 1872 :—

Seed, one dollar and fifty cents ; planting, two dollars .$3 50

June 10th, weeding 4 00

" 20th, " second tinie 6 00

July 24th, hoeing 4 00

Oct. 21st, harvesting 6 00

Eight cords Manure, eleven dollars 88 00

.$111 50
Interest on Laud and Taxes $39 35

$150 85
In this Mr. Tilley says nothing about plowing and nothing about
putting oil the manure.

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One rod of these were dug and weighed three hundied and thirty
three pounds, equal to fifty-three thousand two Inmdred and
eighty pounds, or twenty-six and six-tenths tons, or eiglit liundred
and eiglity-eight busliels of sixty pounds eaeh per acre, Mr. Tilley
has put no value to this crop, hut if we call them twelve dollars
per ton, which we think is low, it will amount to three hun-
tlred and nineteen dollars and twenty cents, leaving a good profit,
even if ten dollars had been added for plowing ; Init a man who
can do the whole work of sowing, weeding, and harvesting an acre of
Mangolds (and the Committee will give him the credit of keeping
his crops very clear of weeds), for twenty two dollars or with
eleven days' work, is certainly deserving of a good profit.
We award him the first premium, "Burr's Vegetables." ^
Mr. Tille}' furnished the following statement of his Carrot
Crop, planted May 14th, 1872 : —

Seed, two dollars ; sowing, one dollar and fifty cents $3 50

June lOtli, hand cultivatiuji 2 00

" 28th, weeding V 8 00

August 1st, hoeing 4 00

October 26th, harvesting :. G 00

Six cords manure, eleven dollars (!6 00

Interest on land and taxes 39 35

Total $128 85

In this statement, Mr. Tilley says nothing about plowing or put-
ting on manure, or the value of the crop. One rod of these were
dug, and weighed one hundred and fourteen pounds, equal to
eighteen thousand two hundred and fortj^ pounds, or nine and
twelve-hnndredths tons, or three hundred and thirty-one and
eight-tenths bushels per acre ; owing to dry weather and blight,
rather a small crop. But if we estimate them at twenty dollars
per ton, which we think rather low, they amount to one hundred
and eighty-two dollars and forty cents, leaving a small profit, even
if something should be added for plowing.

We award him the second premium, " McMahon's American
Gardener."

In consideration of the lact that there have been so few Grain and
Root Crops offered for premium of late, the Committee felt dis-
posed to overlook some informalities and omissions, and award the
premiums as they have for the purpose of stimulating others to re-
port their experiments with crops, and perhaps: to induce Mr. Til-
ley to try again with a better xniderstanding of the I'equirements of
the Societv for premiums, and to report the result not only of what
he does but how he does it, bearing in mind that a well-conducted
failure may be as much advantage to the pnblic, if not to the iutUvi-
dual, as though it had been a perfect success.

For the Committee

CiiAKLES Breck, Chairman.
Milton, Dec. 4th, 1872.

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Recapitulation of Premiums

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

For 1872.

HORSES.

W. T. Cook, Foxboro' $27 00

Jason Hoimhtoii 19 00

Francis B. Kay 10 00

Emery Hawes 9 00

John Davenport 8 00

Wni. E. Coftln 7 00

W. T. Thacher 7 00

F.H.Stevens 7 00

Oliver W. Peabody 6 00

A.F.Stevens 6 00

N. B. Stevens 5 00

James C. White 5 00

Thomas Decatur 5 00

J. W. Bradlee 5 00

Willard Hamblin 4 00

A. W. Whitcomb 4 00

P. Frost 3 00

Geo. C. Park 3 00

J. E. BiUinKS 3 00

Francis Codman 3 00

Franic Sunnier 2 00

W. T. Cook, (Milton) 2 00

HORSES. — ExTUA. Premiums.

K. B. Forbes $90 00

Oliver Deane 75 00

11. W. Hamblin 65 00

J. D. Bicklord 45 (lO

A. G. Parker 40 00

H. R. Bird $40 00

B. Swan 35 00

Mrs. William Ratcliff 30 00

Francis B. Kay 15 00

Charles S. Holmes 15 00

PLOWING.

Goulding & Parmenter $15 00

H. & G. E. Whitinj,' JO 00

William Fales 10 00

John Koss 10 00

Henry W. Vose 5 00

WORKING OXEN.

Frederick & Field $10 00

William Fales 7 00

H. Whiting 4 00

FAT CATTLE.

Frederick & Field $8 00

BULLS.

W. T. Cook .^..$12 00

W. P. Per ins 10 00

Joseph VV. Wattles 10 00

James Galloway 10 00

Henrv M. Mack 5 00

Wm.R. Robeson 5 00

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G. 1). Ilongliton $5 00

H. E. Bacon 5 00

COWS.

James M. Codinan $20 00

H. M. Mack 16 00

H. E. Bacon 15 00

J. W.Watties 10 00

A.T.Browne 10 00

J. II. Earrinjrton 10 00

Cliarle? W . Cook 10 00

W. K. Robeson 5 00

C.L.Hunt 5 00

W. T. Cook 5 00

Frank H.Fales 5 00

E. M. Gary 4 00

Edward P. Burgess 4 00

G. D. Houghton 2 00

HEIFERS.

G. D. Houghton ^$8 00

J. H. Walcott 7 00

A.T.Browne 7 00

James M. Codman 5 00

H. E. Bacon 5 00

J.W.Watties 5 00

R. A. Ricliards 4 00

W.B.Brooks 2 00

Charles W. Cook 2 00

SWINE.

J. H. Farrington $21 00

N. Farrington 16 00

John Sias 12 00

A. T. Browne 7 00

C. W. Cook 6 00

Edwin Davenport 4 00

E. M. Gary 3 00

POULTRY.

C. L. Gopeland $34 CiO

A. H. Drake 33 00

M. I. Ellis 23 00

C.&F. Spring 18 00

W. T. Cook 16 00

L. H. Gay 13 00

E. G. Aklrich 8 00

F. Codinan 6 00

Henry Bird 5 00

A. F. Stevens 5 00

Edwin Davenport 3 00

I. M. Bradt 3 00

Henry Goulding 3 00

Heurv M. Bird 2 00

E. -Horn 2 00

Fred. Pratt 1 00

APPLES, GRAPES, Ere.

F. & L. Clapp 2$2 00

J.W.Brooks 8 00

G.F.Curtis 6 00

J. F. Cowell 5 00

Edward Ramsdell 4 00

A. W. Cheever 3 00

Mrs. L. Lewis 3 00

N. Gay 3 00

B. C. Vose 2 00

H. P. Kidder 2 00

N. Longfellow 2 00

A.F.Stevens 2 00

Henry Bird 2 00

C. B. Leavitt 2 00

Joseph Crane 1 00

PEARS.

Charles F. Curtis $22 00

F. & L. Clapp 20 00

Theodore Lyman 16 00

J. W, Brooks 13 00

Geo. S. Curtis 13 00

H. P. Kidder 12 00

C. B. Leavitt y 00

J. D. Bradlee 6 00

W. J. Griggs 4 00

J. W. Page 3 00

Benjamin Mann 1 00

E. Hemman 1 00

D. W. Tucker 1 00

FLOWERS.

Anthony McLaren $14 00

J. & B. C. Vose 10 00

N. T. Davenport 9 OO

Mrs. John Vose 7 00

Mrs. Abraham Holmes, Jr 4 00

Lyman Davenport 3 00

Miss Lizzie W. Vose 3 00

Mrs. H. G. Davenport 2 00

Mrs. A. K. Teele 2 00

J.W.Brooks 2 00

H.P.Kidder 2 00

Mrs. Joshua Britton 2 00

B. C. Vose 1 00

VEGETABLES.

J. B. Tilley $15 00

E. P. Burgess 10 00

A.F.Stevens 7 00

E.Paul 4 00

John Vose 3 00

John Ross 2 00

Geo. Hurler 2 00

J. Sands 2 00

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J, "W. Brooks $2 00

C.W.Cook 2 00

M. E. Knight 100

N.T.Davenport 100

BREAD.

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow f 6 00

Mrs. Alfred Downing 3 00

Mrs. M. E. McAvoy 2 00

Miss Fanny E. Longfellow. . . 2 00
Mrs.E.Paul 2 00

DAIRY.

A. W. Cheever $13 00

James R. Fisher 8 00

Henry M. Mack 5 00

W. P. Perkins ' 5 00

Mrs. Mary Marshall 5 00

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow 4 00

Nathaniel Gay 3 00

STRAW GOODS.

Carpenter, Cook & Co $8 00

SEEDS.

A. F. Stevens...'. $3 00

J. B. Tilley 1 00

HAY CROP.

A. W. Cheever $25 00

GRAIN CROP.

J. B. Tilley .$10 00

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Whittemore, Belcher & Co... $6 00

CARRIAGES.

S. E. Morse $5 00

J. W. Roby 5 00

LADIES' WORK, Etc.

(Seepages 44 and 45.) ^34 00

Total ^1,605 00

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Treasurer's Report.

C. C. Churchill, Treasiirer, in account with the Norfolk Agricultural

/Society.
Dr.

To balance in Treasury, Nov. 30, 1871 !$1 1 00

cash of new members 94 00

" " Commonwealth GOO 00

" from net proceeds of Fair, 1872 500 00

" •• all other sources 1,786 90

$2,991 90

Contra. Cr.

By cash paid incidental expenses $575 25

" ♦' premiums 992 50

«' " Secretary's salary 100 00

" " Treasurer's " 100 00

" " interest on debt 1,080 00

Balance in Treasury 144 15

$2,991 90

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.
Dedham, Nov. 30, 1872.

5^

p]RocE:EDi:Nras

ON thp: occasion of the

TwENTY-]-^OURTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE

NOKFOLK AGKICULTURAL SOCIETY,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, September 12th and 13th, 1872.

The 24th Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural Society
was held at Readville, on Thursday and Friday, September 12th
and 13th, 1872. The weather was very unfavorable, the clouds on
Thursday morning threatening rain, and on Friday "giving down"
with a zeal worthy of this remarkable season. The show was,
however, far superior to any as yet given at Readville, and one of
the best ever held by the Society, But for the stormy weather it
would have proved a decided success. In the opinion of compe-
tent judges the show of horses and stock was by far the best ever
given in the County. The following is a brief recapitulation of
the leading features of the Exhibition : —

Of Horses there was a fine display, prominent among which was
the splendid stud of General Russell, including Fearnaught, with
six mares with foals, and three yearling colts. Beautiful animals
were also entered b}^ W. T. Cook of Foxboro', J. H. Billings of
West Roxbury, J. C. White of Milton, W. E. Coffin of Dorchester,
and others.

The show of Stock was very large and of very superior quality,
including one yoke of Hereford oxen, owned by Frederick & Field
of Quincy ; Jersey bulls of W. T. Cook of Foxboro', W. R. Robe-
son of Milton, H. M. Mack of Dorchester ; Guernsey of W. P.
Perkins of Brookline ; Brittan}- of J. W. Wattles of Canton ; Ayei'-
shire of H. E. Bacon of Walpole, and Ayershire and Alderney of
Luther Eaton of Dedham. Of cows, fine displays of Jersey stock
was made bv H. M. Mack of Dorchester, with a herd of seven ani-

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mals ; W. R. Robeson of Milton, A. T. Browne of Brookline, Benj.
C. Vose of Hyde Park ; of (Guernsey, by James M. Codnian of
Brookline, who first inii)orte(l this excellent stock and contribnted
several very superior animals ; of Ayershire, l)y Charles W. Cook
and C. L. Hunt of Milton ; II. PI Bacon of Walpole, Jersey and
Ayershire by E. M. Cary of Milton. Jeremiah W, Gay of Ded-
ham, exhibited, on Friday, a fine herd of Jamestown, Grade Ayer-
shire and Durham, which were not entered for premium. Of heif-
ers entries were made of Jersey by W. T. Cook of Foxboro', A.
T. Browne of Brookline, R. A. Richards of Milton ; of Guernsey,
by J. M. Codman of Brookline ; of Brittany, by J. W. Wattles of
% Canton ; of Ayershire, by J. H. Wolcott of Milton, H. E. Bacon of
Walpole ; of Aj'ershire and Jamestown, by E. P. Burgess, of Ded-
ham.

Of Swine, the show of which was excellent, the leading exhibit-
ors were J. H. Farrington, John Sias, C. W Cook, P^dwin Daven-
port, and E. M. Cary of Milton ; A. T. Browne of Brookline, and
N. Farrington of Canton.

Of Poultr}', the display was but little if any inferior to the splendid
show of last year. Prominent among the contributors were A. H.
Drake, Henry Bird and L. H. Gay of Stoughton ; C. L. Copeland,
W. T. Cook of Milton ; Francis Codman and J. B. Tilley of
Brookline ; C. and F. Spring and A. F. Stevens of Needhara, and
E. C. Aldrich of Hyde Park.

The display of Fruit was large and of excellent quality. Of
pears, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder exhibited one hundred and ten va-
rieties, not for premium, and fine displays were made by F. and L.
Clapp of Dorchester, with twenty varieties ; H. P. Kidder of Milton
twenty varieties ; C. B. Leavittof Roxbury, twenty varieties ; estate
ofW. B. Kingsbury of Roxbury, eighteen varieties; T. Lyman of
Brookline, seventeen varieties ; C. F. Curtis of Jamaica Plain, fif-
teen varieties ; J. W. Brooks of Milton, ten varieties ; J. D. Brad-
lee of Milton, ten varieties ; Benj. Mann of Roxbury, seven varie-
ties ; G. S. Curtis of Jamaica Plain, five varieties ; and good dis-
plays were made by many others. Of apples, F. and L. Clapp of
Dorchester exhibited twenty varieties; A. F. Stevens of Needham,
twenty-four varieties ; D, H. Elkins of Milton, fourteen varieties ; A.
W. Cheever of Wrentham, twelve varieties ; Henrj^ Goulding of
Dover, twelve varieties ; S. E. Morse of Norwood, eleven varieties ;
and many other contributors added to the attractions of this depart-
ment of the exhibition. The show of grapes was not large. J. W.
Brooks of Milton, contributed seven varieties ; N. B. White of
Norwood, three varieties ; J. F. Cowell of Wrentham, two varie-
ties ; B. C. Vose of H3^de Park, one variety. Contributions of
peaches were made by C. E. Churchill, N. T. Davenport, Henry
W. Vose, and W. E. Lewin of Milton. Of plums, J. W. Brooks of
Milton, exhibited seven varieties. Of cranberries, exhibitions were
made by N. Longfellow of Needham, J. W. Tilley of Brookline, and
N. Gay of Stoughtoii.

Beautiful displays of Flowers were made by Lyman Davenport of

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Milton, whose collection of Rose-buds formed a fine contrast to the
bright, fresh foliage by which they w^ere surrounded ; George Craft
of Brookline, w^hose fine collection of the Gladioli, not entered for
premium, attracted much attention ; Anthony McLaren of Forest
Hills ; J. W. Brooks, H. P. Kidder, Mrs. A. K. Teele, Mrs. Abra-
ham Holmes, jr., of Milton ; J. and B. C. Vose, Mr. John Vose,
Lizzie W, Vose of Hyde Park ; and Mrs. Joshua Britton of Stough-
ton.

Of Vegetables, the show was smaller than usual, the leading ex-
hibitors being A. F. Stevens of Needham ; J. B. Tilley of Brook-
line ; E. P. Burgess and E. Paul of Dedham ; J. W. Brooks and C.
W. Cook of Milton ; B. C. and John Vose of Hyde Park.

In the department of Ladies' Work the display was the best
made for many years. The number of contributions was veiy
large, and many of the articles were of marked taste and elegance.
The Society is greatly indebted to the ladies in charge of this de-
partment for the faithful, assiduous and intelligent manner in
which their perplexing duties were performed.

In this department were placed the elegant cases of straw, pa-
per, velvet, and other hats, sixty-one specimens in all, contributed
by Messrs. Carpenter, Cook & Co. of Foxboro', which were sur-
rounded by crowds of admiring visitors, and which proved one of
the most attractive features of the in-door exhibition.

The display of Bread and Butter was unusually good, the but-
ter being of marked excellence. That made from the milk of the
Guernse}^ cows imported by Mr. James M. Codman of Brookline,
attracted much attention.

In the department of Domestic Manufactures, prominent among
other articles Avas the Improved Clothes Wringer manufactured by
the Providence Tool Company of Providence, R. I., now regarded
as the standard machine ; Spring Beds made on the patent of Man-
ual & Drake, and exhibited by the present owner of the patent,
Mr. Timothy Smith of Dedham ; Wilson Sewing Machines, with
Cowle's treadle, and Common Sense Sewing Machine with Hall's
treadle, both exhibited by Josiah Tisdale of Norwood.

Of Agricultural Implements a display was made by Whittemore,
Belcher & Co. of Boston ; and G. F. Shaw of West Roxbury
exhibited his Yankee Hay Tedder.

The principal features in Thursday's programme were the plow-
ing match at half-past 10 a.m., and the drawing match at 11 a.
M., and the trotting matches in the afternoon. Under the two first
named the following entries were made, there being eight compet-
itors, Henry Goulding of Dover entering a double-hor e team, H.
& G. E. Whiting of Dedham, and William Fales of Dedham, double
ox-teams ; pairs of horses (otherwise known as a single-horse
team) by J. R. Fisher of Norwood ; H. W. Vose of Milton ; Wm,
M. Hunt of Milton ; John Ross of Medfield ; and D. A. Lynch of
Dedham. For the drawing-match there was only one entry, that
of Frederick & Field of Quincy, with their fine yoke of Hereford
oxen.

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In the afternoon the I'accs commenced at 2 o'clock. Tlie Judges
in tlie various races were A. li. Balcli of Medfield, A. W. Whit-
comb of Randolph, and J. E. Hall of Dorchester.

The first was of gentlemen's driving horses. There were ten
entries for the mile race, which for convenience were divided into
two sections. The first heat of each division was made in the same
time (3.02), the leaders being J. H. Bickford's b. g. Mark Twain,
and B. Swan's b. g. Horace Greeley. At the end these two horses
were put through an additional heat, which resulted in a victory
for the former by a short length, in 2.58.

Between the races there was a very pleasant and ladylike exhi-
bition of equestrian skill by Mrs. Wm. Ratclifie, jr., of Roxbury,
for a prize of a splendid whip.

The prize whip, valued at $10, for double teams, best two in
three, single mile heats, was contended for by F. B. Ray of Frank-
lin, H. Hamblin of Hyde Park, and Richard Holmes of Roxbury.
They came in in the above order on the first heat ; time, 3.21 1-4.
The second heat resulted in the same, order being maintained and
time reduced to 3.14 1-2.

The fourth race was for running. First prize, Society's cup,
valued at $40 ; second prize, $18 casli. Two entries were made
for this race b}'^ R. B. Forbes' blk, g. Montauk, and R. Holmes' b.
m. Troubadour, and was won by the former in 2.08.

For the foot race of half a mile, there were five entries and three
prizes, which were won as follows : — First, J. C. Connell ; second,
Moses Bass ; third, J. E. Maxim.

On Friday, the first performance was the grand cavalcade of all
the horses on exhibition on the track. At 12 o'clock m., a pro-
cesssion was formed under the direction of Col. Henry A. Darling
of Hyde Park, Chief Marshal, which marched to the excellent
music of the Dedham Brass Band to the tent. After prayer by
Rev. Dr. Morison of Milton, Chaplain of the day, the President of
the Society, Gen. Henry S, Russell of Milton, invited the company
to partake of an excellent and substantial dinner, prepared by L.
E. Reed of Boston. After half an hour passed at dinner, the
company was called to order bj^ the President, who, in a few feli-
citous remarks, introduced Col. Eliphalet Stone of Dedham as the
orator of the occasion, who gave the thoughtful, suggestive and
eloquent address, which will be found in full at the commencement
of this volume.

The following Ode, written for the occasion, by Mrs. William
McKendry, jr., of Canton, was then sung in fine st^de to the tune
of " The Star Spangled Banner," by a quartette consisting of Mr.
S. B. Noyes of Canton, Miss Sarah W. Ames of Canton, Miss
Eliza Porter of Stoughton, and Mr. Geo. F. Sumner of Canton.

THE FARMER IS LORD OF THE LAND.

» I.

Oh yes, well we know what was man's first employ,
Was the sweetest, the best, and of Nature's divining;

5()

Aa of old, 80 alone, 'tis the luisbandmau's joy,

With the sheaves of his hope. Mother Earth's to be twining;
And right gladsome is he, faithful helpmate to be,
The harvest to share, its fruition to see.

CHOKUS.

Oh yes, 'tis the Farmer is lord of the land,

Who, light-hearted and free, 'neaththe blue skies may stand.

II.

His banks do not fail, nor give plunderer's spoil.
But their verdurous store yields to Winter's long needing.

Worthy payment for all of the summer's hard toil ;
Aye, the farrow is rich where the plough has been speeding,

Oh, "his life it is fair, and lacks feverish care 1

To-day we may see what its dividends bear.

CHORUS.

Oh yes, 'tis the Farmer is lord of the land,

The light hearted and bold, 'neaih the blue skies may stand.

III.

All hail, then, we cry, -and God-speed, yoenian bold !

From your noble career turn ye not for the calling
Of the world's syren voice, or its glittering gold,

Though its phrenzied pursuit all the world seems enthralling;
Far more peaceful and free. Nature's steward to be,
With smiles of content, earned fruition to see.

CHORUS.

Oh ves, 'tis the Farmer is lord of the land.

Who, light hearted and bold, 'neath the blue skies may stand.

Gen. Eussell, the President, spoke in terms of higli honor of
one whose name was to-day a household word in Massachusetts,
and who had done so much to place their Society where it now
stood, the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, the honorary President.

Col. Wilder was received with warm applause. He thanked his
hearers for their kind remembrance of his efforts in behalf of the
Society, and for what he had done to further the interests of agri-
culture. If there was anything which he remembered it was those
with whom he had been associated for the last twenty years. They
wanted no speech from him ; they all knew how he stood in the
cause which had been so eloquently portrayed by his friend, Col.
Stone. He congratulated them upon the success of the exhibition.
They stood there last year complaining that the farmers of Norfolk
County were doing little, but the exhibition of to-day was supe-
rior to any held for many years. This was just what he had ex-
pected when they put their young and energetic President upon the
track. He referred to the influence and the example the Norfolk
Society had exerted in behalf of agriculture. From this had eme-
nated the United States Agricultural Society, the Massachusetts
Board of Agriculture, and the Agricultural College. He hoped the
Society would go on prospering, and promised it his constant sup-
port. This closed the exercises in the tent, and the company left
for the track Avhere, notwithstanding the rain, which by this time
was falling fast, the races took place as follows : —

For the first race, mile heats, best two in three, open to all
horses— first prize, Society's cup, valued at seventy-five dollars ;
second prize, cash, forty dollars ; third prize, a driving whip, val-

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lied at fifteen dollars. There were seven horses entered, viz :
Young Cloud, entered by J, D. Bickford of Brooldine ; Brown
Dick, by A. G. Parker of Dedhani ; Athenian, by C. A. Mackin-
tosh of West Roxbury ; St. Lawrence, by D. W. Barrows of South
Weymouth ; Cinderella, by H. R. Bird of Canton ; and General
Grant, by C. A. White of Hyde Park. The horses were divided
into two classes, of which Young Cloud, in the first class, won the
first heat, Athenian coming in second, St. Lawrence third, Cinder-
ella fourth, and General Grant fifth. Time, two minutes forty-sev-
en and a half seconds. In the second class the first heat was won by
Brown Dick in two minutes and fifty seconds, Mark Twain being
second. For a second heat, after a protracted season of scoring,
the horses got away amid a pelting rain and over a heav}'^ track,
finishing the race in the following order : — Young Cloud the vrin-
ner ; time, two minutes and forty-seven seconds ; Brown Dick sec-
ond, Mark Twain third, and General Grant fourth.

The second race was for double teams, mile heats, best two in
three, and the prizes the vSociety's cup and twenty-five dollars in
cash. R. W Hamblin of Hyde Park, entered black mares Kitty
and Jenny ; Eliot Southworth of Stoughton, dark brown mares
Kitty and Pony ; F. B. Ray of Franklin, bay mares Lad}^ Childers
and Belle ; C. A. White of Hyde Park, brown geldings Gen. Grant
and Brilliant ; R. Holmes of Boston Highlands, F'orest Boy and
mate, and H. Beckwith of West Roxbury, Greeley and mate. In
the first heat Kitty and mate and Lady Childers and Belle were
distanced. Mr. Hamblin's horses were first home, Greeley and
mate second. Time, three minutes and ten seconds. The second
heat terminated with like result, Mr. Hamblin securing the cup,
and Mr. Beckwith the second prize.

The third race for double teams was participated in by R. B.
Forbes' Sand Fly and Montauk, the latter entered by W. Bell of
Milton. A third horse was entered, Lexington b}: James Gray,
who balked and refused to start. It required the united efforts of
the jocky and one of the marshals to get the refractory animal past
the judges' stand, which accomplished, he went over the course
alone, but on reaching the gate he bolted for the stable and was
seen no more. The contest between the two remaining horses was
quite spirited, and resulted in favor of Sand Fly, who did the
single dash of a mile in two minutes and two seconds, winning a
cup valued at thirty-five dollars, while his opponent received fifteen
dollai's in cash.

The fourth race was dispensed with, also the bag race, but the
foot race for a prize of $15 was run by Hamilton and Bass, who
were in the race on Thursday. The Indian was the winner. Time,
six minutes and thirty seconds. Hamilton ran three quarters of a
mile, when he gave out and came back across the enclosure. Thus
closed in a driving rain storm the twenty-fourth anniversary of this
time-honored Society, which, since its organization, has had but
two rainy Exhibition days. But for the cloudy appearance of

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Thursday morning, and the driving rain of Friday, the exhibition
would have been one of the most successful ever given by the Society.
A marked feature of this year's show was the presence of many new
contributions of Jerse}'^ stock, and the presence of many prominent
merchant farmers, who in the future may be counted on for valu-
able aid and assistance.

The thanks of the Society are due to Col. Henry A. Darling of
Hyde Park, who, owing to the illness of Col. Thomas, took the
post of Chief Marshal, which he filled with marked ability and
success. He was ably assisted by the following gentlemen as aids :
Benjamin R. Mann, John Newcomb, William B. Fenno, and
Augustus H. Wright, all of Roxbury.

Excellent order was maintained during the entire exhibition, the
police duty having been most efficiently performed by a detachment
of the State police, under- the direction of officer B. P. Eldridge of
Neponset, consisting of officers Gary, Porter, Whittaker, Bailey,
Furnald, Clifford, Bean, Macoy, McFarlin, Collingwood and Pratt,
assisted by the police force of Hyde Park and Jamaica Plain.

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Officef^s of the Society, i8'(2.

President!
Gen. henry S. RUSSELL, of Milton.

Honorary Presidents
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER, of Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents :

Hon. OTIS GARY, of Foxhorough.

STEPIIEN W. RICHARDSON, of Franklin.

ELIJAH TUCKER, of Milton.

HENRY GREW, of U(jde Park.

ROYAL W. TURNER, of Randolph.

ALONZO W. CHEEVER, of Wrentham.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary :
HENRY O. HILDRETH of Dedham.

Treasurer!
CHAUNCEY C. CHURCHILL, of Dedham.

Executive Committee i

WILLIAM R. MANN, of >Sharon.

Hon. TRUMAN CLARKE of Wal2Kle.

'CHARLES BRECK, of Milton.

ALFRED W. WHITCOMB, of liandolph.

E. 0. R. WALKER of Boxbury.

ALBERT B. BALCH, of Medjield.

WILLIAM E. COFFIN, of Dorchester.

CHARLES F. CURTIS of West Boxbnry.

AUGUSTUS P. C ALDER of West Boxbury.

Finance Committee and Auditors:

IRA CLEVELAND, of Dedham.

EDWARD S. RAND, Ju., of Dedham.

WILLIAM J. STUART, if Hyde Park.

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Board of Trustees i

BRLLINGHAM.

GEORGE H. CROOKS.

BRAINTKEE.

ALVA MORRISON.
JOHN B. ARNOLD.

GEORGE CRAFT.
WILLIAM J. HYDE.

ELLIS TUCKER.
JAMES T. SUMNER.

WILLIAMS. JOHNSON.
SOLOMON J. BEAL.

LUTHER EATON.
ALLEN COLBURN.

FREDERICK CLAPP.
JOHN H. ROBINSON.
JOSIAH H. CARTER.

HENRY GOULDING.
EPHRAIM WILSON.

JAMES CAPEN.
FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS.

ERASTUS L. METCALF.
JOHN W RICHARDSON.

DAVID H. BATES.
GEORGE WALES.

BROOKLINE.

CANTON.

COHASSET.

DEDHAM.

GEORGE GRIGGS.
CHARLES STEARNS.

NATHANIEL S. WHITE.

ADAM Mcintosh.

ABRAHAM H. TOWER.
JOHN Q. A. LOTHROP.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

DORCHESTER.

DOVER.

AARON D. CAPEN.
AUGUSTUS P. CALDER.
HENRY M. MACK.

BENJAMIN SAWIN.
AMOS VV. SHUMWAY.

FOXBOROUGH.

FRANKLIN.

ERASTUS p. CARPENTER.
DAVID SHAW.

HIRAM W. JONES.
FRANCIS B. RAY.

HOLRROOK.

CALEB S. HOLBROOK.

HYDE PARK.

ALPHEUS P. BLAKE.
WILLIAM J. STUART.

CHARLES C. SEWALL.
ELIJAH THAYER.

WILLARD P. CLARK.
RICHARD RICHARDSON.

SAMUEL COOK.
ALBERT K. TEELE.

MEDFIELD.

MEDWAY.

MILTON.

WILLIAM T. THACHER.
HENRY A. DARLING.

WILLIAM Q. FISHER.
ALONZO B. PARKER.

WILLIAM DANIELS.
MILTON M. FISHER.

LYMAN DAVENPORT,
OLIVER W. PEABODY.

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ABEL H. STEVENS.
CHARLES H. DEWING.

WALTER H. FISHER.
ERASTUS DUPEE.

JAMES R. FISHER.
JOHN E. SMITH.

JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON.
LEMUEL BILLINGS.

NEEDIIAM.

NORFOLK.

NORWOOD.

QUINCY.

HENRY BLACKMAN.
CYRUS G. UPHAM.

LUCAS POND.
GEORGE. E. HOLBROOK.

JOSIAH W. TALBOT.
LEWIS DAY.

CHARLES A. HOWLAND.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

SETH TURNER.

J. WHITE BELCHER.

ROLAND WORTHINGTON.
J. AUSTIN ROGERS.
ISAAC HAYDEN.

RANDOLPH.

ROXBURY.

WILLIAM PORTER.
EPHRIAM MANN.

JOSEPH H. CHADWICK.
GEORGE CURTIS.
SAMUEL LITTLE.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE.
LEWIS W. MORSE.

SHARON.

WARREN COBB.
GEORGE R. MANN.

LUCIUS CLAPP.
HENRY BIRD.

STOUGHTON.

ROBERT PORTER, JR.
ALBERT H. DRAKE.

WALPOLE.

WILLARD LEWIS.
EDMUND W. CLAPP.

ALFRED S. BROWN.
N. B. PRESCOTT.

JOHN W. LOUD.
JAMES HUMPHREY.

GARDNER H. STARKEY.
JOHN F. COWELL.

JOHN N. SMITH.
EDMUND POLLEY.

WEST ROXBURY.

WEYMOUTH.

WRENTHAM.

HAMILTON J. FARRAR.
GIDEON WALKER.

ERASTUS NASH.
JAMFS L. BATES.

CHAUNCEY G. FULLER.
ROBERT P. GRANT.

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J^Ia

MES OF

JK

EMBERS.

BELLINGHAM,

Chilson, Paul,* ISOO.
Crooks, George II.
Fickeriug, Asa,* 'C9. [Z.]

BRAINTREE.

Arnold, John B.
Arnold, Joseph A.
Bates, DavidJI.
Blake, Jose|jh IT. D.,* 'G8.
Bowditcli, Ebeuezer C. j
Bradford, E. S.,* ISUO.
Chace, (ieorge
Dow, Charles II.
Dyer, Isaac
Dyer, Joseph
Fogg, Charles M.,* 1854.
French, George G.
French, Charles,* 18G1.
French, Jonathan
HoUiugsvvoi-th, E. A.
Hollis, Caleb
Hollis, David N.
Hollis, John A.
Hollis, Josiah
Howard, J. G.
Ludden, Miss Carrie F.
Ludden, Joseph T.,* '62.
Locke, W. F.
Msnsfiekl, John
Manslield, Warren
Morrison, Alva
Niles, Daniel H.
Penniman, Ezra,* 1866.
Perkins, Oliver
Potter, Edward
Rand, William T.
Randall, Apolloa,* 1863.
Stetson, Amos W.
Stetson, Caleb
Stoddard, A. A.
Thayer, Ebenezer C.
Thayer, Hezekiah,* 1854.
Thayer, Sylvanus,*1872.
Vinton, Thomas B.
Wain Wright, Peter
Wainwright, William L.
Wales, George
Wild, Hiram
Willis, Geo. W.,* '53. [44.]

BROOKLINE,

Amory, James S,
Amory, William
Appleton, William, Jr.
Babcock, George,*
Bartlett, James,* 1871.
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, .Jos. II.
Bird, Jesse, *18.'>0.
Blake, George Baty

Blaney, Henry
Bramhall, Willi.im,* 1870.
Brown, Joseph T.
Cliurchill, Wm.,* 1857.
Codraan, Francis
Codmaii , James M.
Corey, Elijah,* 1859.
Corey, Timothy
Craft, INIiss Emeline II.
Craft," Caleb
Craft, Cliarles,* 1804.
Craft, George
Craft, Samuel,* 1856.
Dane, John,* 1854.
Dune, John H.
Denny, Francis P.,* 1871.
Ferris, Mortimer C.
Fisher, Francis,* 1871.
Frazar, Amherst A.
Griggs, George
Griggs, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas B.
Griggs, Wm. J.
Henshaw, Samuel,* 1863.
Hill, M. F.
Hov.e, Frank E.
Howe, James Murray
Howe, John,* 18B7.
Humphrev, Willard J.
Hyde, William J.
Jameson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.
Lawrence, Amos A.
Lyman, Theodore
Parker, Edward G.,* '68.
Parker, M. D.,* 1863.
Parsons, Thomas
Salisbury, William G.
Sampson, George R.
Shaw, G. Howlaud,* '67.
Stearns, Charts
Stearns, Marshall,* 1870.
Thayer, John E.,* 1857.
Trowbridge, John H.
Turner, John N.,* 1864.
Welch, Matthew,* 1868.
White, Henry K.
Williams. Moses B.,* 1866.
[57.]

CANTON.

Abbott, Ezra,* 1872.
Ames, Frank M.
Billings, Uriah
Billings, William
Bray, Edgar W.
Brewster, Ezra S.
Cabot, Samuel
Capen,Ezekiel,* 1872.
Capen, Samuel,* 1863.
Chapman, Oliver S.
Crane, Albert
Ctishman, Cliarles F.

Davenport, Charle.s
Davenport, John, Jr.
Deane, Francis W.
Deane, Oliver
Dovvnes, George,* 1861,
Downes, Miss C. T.
Downes, George E.
Draper, Thomas
Dunbar, Elijah
Dunbar, James,* 1867.
Dunbar, Nathaniel
Dunbar, William,* 1857.
Eager, Edward R.
Eldridge, John S.
Eldridge, .Tehu S., Jr.
Endicott, .John,* 1855.
Endicott, Charles
Everett, .J. Mason
Everett, Leonard,* 1852.
Farrington, Nathaniel, Jr.
Fenno, Jesse
French, Charles II.
French, Thomas,* 1862.
Fuller, Daniel
Guild, Horace
Hall, John
Howard, Lucius
Huntoon, Benj.,* 1864.
Huntoou, Mrs. Benjamin
Huntoon, D. T. V.
Kinsley, Lyman
Kollock, Jeremiah
Lincoln, Frederick W.,* '71.
Lord, William P.
Mansfield, William
Mcintosh, Adam
Mcintosh, Roger S.
McKendry, William
Messinger, Vernon A.
Messinger, Virgil J.
Morse, William
Noves, Samuel B.
Prouty, Lorenzo,* 1872.
Revere, Joseph
Shepard, James S.
Spare, Elijah
Spaulding, Corodon
Stetson, Joseph
Sumner, .James T.
Sumner, George F.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah E.
Tilt, Benjamin B.
Tucker, Edmund
Tucker, Ellis
Tucker, Jedediah
Tucker, Nathaniel, Jr.
Tucker, Phineas
Tucker, William,* 1868.
Ward, Samuel G.
Wentworth, Edwin
Wentworth, Nathaniel
White, Elisha,* 1865.
Wliite, Nathaniel S.
Wood, Uufus C. [76.]

03

CO MASS KT.

Heal, Solomon J.
I teal, IMis. S.,J.
|)i)aiu\ .Iam(!s C.
.lolmson, William 15.* 1872.
•Soliicr, William 1>. * 18o8.
Sotillicv, Laltan,* lS(i().
Tower, Abraham II. [7.]

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamin H.
Aldeu, Abiier
Alden, Francis
Allien, George,* 18G2.
Aldeu, Leonard
Alden Samuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William. 2d
Haboock, Samuel B.
Bacon, Silas D.
J$ailey, Benjamin H.
Baker, David A.
Baker, Obed,* 18G8.
Baker, Timothy
Baker, William
Balch, Bcuj. W.* ISoS.
Barrows, Kdward
Barrows, Tliomas
Bates, Martin,* 1809.
Bean, Albion,* I8(i0.
Bestwick, Frederick L.
Bickner, Samuel II.
Bosworth, Isaac C* 180G.
Boyilen, Addison
Boyclen, Benjamni
Brooks, Edward C.
Bryant, Austin,* 1851.
Bullard, Elijah
Bullard, John,* 18G2.
Bullard, Lewis
Bullard, William
Burgess, Ebeuezer,* 1870.
Burgess, EbenezerG.
Burgess, Edward P.
Capen, Charles J.
Capen, Oliver,* 1865.
Carroll, Sanford
Caw'ev, John
Chase" James M.,* 1860.
Chickering, Horatio
Chickeriiig, Munroe
Chnrcliill, Chauncy C.
Clapp, E(lward
Clapp, Satlianiel
Clarke, Joseph W.
Clark, Horatio
Clark, Mrs. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Coblj, Johnatlian II.
Coburn, Charles
Coburn, Blrs, Charles
Colburn, Allen
Colburn, Isaacus
Colburn, Nathaniel,* lS5o.
Colburn, Waldo
Copeland, Franklin
Cornierais, Henry
Coolidge, George
Cox, John .Jr.
Crane, E. B.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
• Jrane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos H.,* IS'J4.
Crossraan, (.Jharics B.
Curtis, George F.

Ciishing, Henry W.
Damrell, Wm. S.,* 18'.!0.
Daniell, Ellery C.
Davenport, George,* 1872.
Hean, James
Doane, John,* 18Gt.
I)i.\on, liulus E.
Doggett, John,* 1857.
Donahoe, Patrick
Dravton, .lohu,* 185G.
Dull", Jolni
l)unl)ar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, .Tohn

Eaton, John Ellis,* 1851.
Eaton, Luther
Eaton, Luther A.
Ed8on,IMrs.E.G.,*185i).
Ellis, Calvin F.
Ellis, Colburn,* 185L
Ellis, (ieorge,* I8G5.
Ellis, Jason
Ellis, Merrill D.
Ellis, Oliver
Ely, F. D.

Endicott, Augustus B.
Everett, Mrs. Hepzibah
Fairbanks, W^ui.,* 18Go.
Fales, William
Farrington, Chas.,* I&j9.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, James,* 1864.
Farrington, Mrs. James
Farrington, Jesse,* 1857.
Farrington, .Jesse
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,* 1863.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* 186.1.
Fisher, Amory
Fisher, Eben'r S.,* 1867.
Fisher, Mrs. Elizabeth D.
Fisher, Freeman,* 1860.
Fisher, Joseph
Fisher, .Joshua
Fisher, Thomas
Fleming, Douglas,* 1858.
Follansbee, Isaac W.
Foord, Enos,* 1861.
Foord James
French, Abram
French, Charles
French, George M.
Fuller, George,* 1800.
Fuller, Greenwood
Gardner, John
Gay, Ebenezer F.,* 1871.
Gay, Mrs. Hannaii S.
Gay, Jeremiah W.
Gay, Luslier,* 1855.
Gay, Mrs. A. M.,* 1806.
Gay, Wm. King,* I860.
Gleason, Daniel
Gould, <ieorge
Green, Elisha,* 1865.
(Treen, John,
Green, Mrs. John
Guild, Calvin
Guild, Francis
Guild, Henry
Gunnison, George D.
Harnden Harvey,* 1863.
Hartney, Thomas
Henck, John B.
Hewes, Hannah E.
Hewins, Mrs. Hattic W.
Ilildreth, Henry O.
Hinkley, Mrs. M.J.
Holmes, Edward B.,+ 1S64.

Houghton, AVilliam A.
ilowe, Elijah, .Jr.
Howe, Francis,* IWO.
Mowe,Josiah D.,* 1867.
.Jackson, .Marcus B.
Johnson, E<lwiu,* 1856.
Keclan. Michael
Keyes, Ebenezer W.
Keyes, Edward L.,* 18.59.
Kingsbury, Lewis H.
Kingslniry, Moses
Kingsbury. Mrs. Sally
Lamson, Alvan,* 1864.
Luce, D W.
Jvynch, Mrs. A.,* 1869.
Lynch, Daniel A.
Lynch, Wm. F.,* 18(!9.
McClane, James
Mann, Henry A,
Manii, Herman,* 1851,
Mann, Samuel C ,* 1864.
Mann, W. H.,*1804.
Marden Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, Martin,* 1865.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin,* 1869.
Mason, ^ViIliam
Mason, Wm. H.,* 1861.
Mercer, Miss Mary
Mitchell, Francis N.*
Jlorgan, .John
Morrell, Henrietta W.
Motley, Thomas,* 1864.
Murrav, Daniel
Neal,A. B.
Noyes, Nathaniel
Norris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion,. Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamin H.
Piige, Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C.
Paul, Ebenezer
Paul, Mrs. Ebenezer
Pettee, James,* 1868.
Phelps, Timothy
Phillips, Nathan
Phillips, Mrs. P. M.
Quiucy, Edmund
Kand, Edward S., Jr.
Robley, Robert C.
Rice,. John P.
Rice, William R.
Richards, Aljiathar
Rii hards, Edward M.,* '65
Richards, Henry White
Richards, J. F.,* 1852.
Richards, Lewis A.
Richards, Mason,* 1866.
Richards, Reuben,* 1855.
Richards, William B.
Rodman, Allred,* 1853.
Rodman, Allred
Rodman, Mrs. Alfred
Kooney, Fran(;is
Russell, Charles
Russell, Ira
Sampson, E. W.,* 1867.
Scaulan David
Schwartz, Mrs. Johanna
Scott, Joel,* 1&')8.
Shattuck, Willard
Shaw, Charles B.,* 1869.
Sheriff, John L.
Sherman, Ch.arles B.,*
Sherwin, Thomas,* 1869.
Slalter, Carlos
Small, Miss Jaue S.

64

Smith, Edwin
Smilli, Henry
Smith, Nathaniel,*
Smith, Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Zebina,* 1865.
Spear, Henry F.
Stimson, Jeremy,*18G9.
Stone, Eliphalet
Sully, John
Sumner, Edward
Sumner, Mirick P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah R.
Sumner, William R.,* 1860.
Sutton, Enoch,* 1853.
Tat't, Ezra W.
Thayer, John H. B.
Thomas, John W.
Tower, William B.
Trefry, JameS
Tubbs, Benj. H.,* 1854.
Van Brunt, G. J.,* 1863.
Vose, Geoi-ge H.
Wakelield, Thomas L.
Wales, Sam'l, Jr.,* 1860.
Washburn Alex. C.
Waters, Joseph W.
Weatherbee, Comfort
Weathei-bee, Jabez
Weatherbee, Jesse
Weatherbee, John E.
Webb, Moses E.
AVebb, Seth, Jr.,* 1862.
Welch, Stephen
Weld, Joseph R.
Wellcome, Jacob H.
White, John,* 1852.
White, Walter
AVhitnig, George E.
AVhiting, Hezekiah
M^hiting, Horace
Whiting, Margaret M.
Whiting, Moses
Whiting, William
Whitney, S. S.,*1855.
Wight, Danforth P.
Wight, Ebenezer,* 1871.
Williams. G. W.,*1861.
Wilson, John F.,* 1853.
Wilson, Reuben S.
Withington, Wan-en
Wood, Mrs. Amos
Woods, Wm. G.,* 1863.
Worthington, E. [278.]

DORCHESTER.

Abbott, William E.
Adams, Benjamin W.
Atherton, Samuel
Austin, William R.
Bachi, Ignatius C.,* 1859.
Bacon, Charles H.
Baker, Edmund J.
Baker, Walter,* 1852,
Baldwm, Enoch,* 1860.
Barnes, Parker
Barry, Michael O.,* 1859.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Billings, Lemuel
Bispham, Eleazer J.
Blanchard Chas. F.
Brown, B. F.,* 1872.
Brown, Mrs. B. F.
Bradlee, James B.
Bradstreet, Samuel
Bramhall, Cornelius

Breck, Henry, Jr.
Brewer, Darius,* 1854.
Briggs, Franklin
Brooks, Noah,* 1852.
Brooks, Willliams B.
Brown, Augustus
Brown, George M.
Burt, George L.
Capen, Aaron D.
Capen, Samuel J.
Capen, Thomas W.
Campbell. Thomas
Carleton, Mary A.
Carleton, Martha G.
Carruth, Charles
Carruth, Nathan
Carter, Josiaii H.
Carter, Elizabeth E.
Carter, Lizzie S.
Childs, Nathaniel R,
Churchill, Asaph
Clapp, Amasa,
Clapp, Edward B.
Clapp, Frederick
C lapp, Frederick A.
Clapp, Lemuel
Clapp, James H,
Clapp, John P.
Clapp, Richard,* 1862.
Clapp, Thaddeus,* 1861.
Clapp, William,* 1860.
Clapp, William C.
Cleveland, S. H.,* 1856.
Cobb, Moses G.

Codnian, John

Codman. Robert

Coffin, William E.

Conant, R. B.

Copenhagen, A. W.,* 1866.

Curtis, Ebenezer

Gushing, Abel,* 1866.

Gushing. Benjamin

Davis, Barnabas

Dearborn, Axel

Denny, Daniel,* 1872.

Denny, Daniel, Jr.

Doody, Dennis

Dorr, James

Downer, Samuel

Flynn, Thomas

Follansbee, Isaac W.

Foster, William H.

Fowler, M. Field

French, Benj. V.,* 1860.

French, Mrs.B. V.

Gardner, Henry .J.

Gilbert Samuel, Jr.

Gleason, Moses,* 18.56.

Gleason, Roswell

Gleason, Sarall,* 1854.

Groom, Thomas

Hall, Joseph

Hall, Oliver

Hall, Samuel

Hammond, Horatio

Harding, William

Harding, Mrs. William

Hardy, Alpheus

Harris, Benjamin W.

Hartshorn, Lewis E.

Hathaway, Nicholas

Haven, John A.

Haynes, Edward

Hayncs, George A.

Hebard, B. F.,* 1871.

Hebard, C. F.

Hewins, .John C.

Hickey, Timothy

Hickey, William
Holbrook, Nathan
Holmes, Ebenezer
Hooper, Franklin Henry
Hooper, Robert C.,* 1869.
Hooper, Robert C. Jr.
Houghton, George A.
Howe, Charles,* 1869.
Howe, James T.
Humphrey, Henry
Hunt, Charles
Igoe, Patrick
Jacobs, Benjamin,* 1870,
Jones, Nahum
Jones, William
King, Edward,* 1867.
King, Franklin
Learned, J. M.
Lee, James, Jr.
Leonard, Joseph
Lewis, Edwin J.
Liversidge,S.,*1852.
Liversidge, Thomas
Mack, Henry M.
Mack, Mrs. H. M.
Mack, S. P.,* 1866.
McAuliffe, Daniel
Marshall, Wm.,* 1867.
May, John J.
Means, .Tames H.
Mears, John
Mears, .John, Jr.
Miller, Erasmus D.
Minot, John,* 1861.
Mitchell, Simeon
Moseley, Flavel
Mumford, Thomas J.
Munroe, William
Murphy, Timothy
Nazro, John G.,* 1870.
Newhall, Cheever
Newhall, John M.,* 1869.
Nichols, Norman
Pay son, Thomas
Payson, Mrs. Thomas
Perrin, Augustus W.
Peters, Henry H.
Petersilea, Franz
Pierce, Chas. B.,* 1857.
Pierce, Henry
Pierce, Henry L.
Pierce, Jesse,* 1856.
Pierce, Lewis
Pierce, Robert
Pierce, William,* 1&53.
Pierce, Wm. B.,* 1858.
Pierce, William P.
Pope, Alexander
Poije, William
Pratt, Laban
Preston, Edward
Preston, John,* 1856.
Preston, John
Prince, William G.
Richardson, George
Richardson, William H.
Rideout, Asa
Robie, John
Robinson, Mrs. D. A.
Robinson, Eli W.
Robinson, John H.
Robinson, Nathan T.
Robinson, Stephen A.
Ruggles, Edward H. R.
Scudder, Horace,* 1851.
Shaw, Theron V.,* 1870.
Smith, Henry
Snell, Stephen D.

05

Southwoi'lli, A. C.
Spear, Daniel
Speai", Joshua, Jr.
Spear, Luther
Spooner, John P.
Stephenson, Charles E.
Sumner, Clement
Swan, James
Temple, Hannaniah
Teuii)le, Thomas F.
Temple, AVilliam F.
Thaj'er, Benjamin W.
Thompson, Joshua P.
Thurlow, Rufus
Tileston, Edmund P.
Tileston, F. L.
Tileston, Samuel
Tolman, Eben'r,* 1863.
Tolman, William
Train, Enoch,* 18(38.
Tremlct, Thomas* 18.18.
Trull, John H.
Trull, Mrs. J. H.
Trull, John W.
Tuttle, Joseph,* 1870.
Upham, James H. ,
Vinson, Thomas M.
Vose, Robert
Vose, Robert, Jr.
Washburn, Allen .J.,* 1865.
Webster, Charles W.
Welch, John H.
Welch, Mrs. J. H.
Whipple, John L.
Wilder, Marshall P.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.,* 1854.
Wilder, Mrs. M. P.
Williams, S. B.,* 1854.
Willis, C. J.
Withington, William C.
Whitten, Charles V.
Woodman, .James
Worthington, Wm.
Worthington, Wm. F.
Wright Edmund
Wright, Mrs. Edmund
Wright, Otis.* '65. [223.]

DOVER.

Adams, Adna J.
Adams, John
Allen, Jared
Allen, Timothy
Bacon, Aaron
Bacon, Mary S.
Baldwin, Frank
Baker, Jaboz
Bardeu, Calvin
Battelle, .John
Battelle, Mrs. John
Battelle, John E.
Battelle, MaryD.
Battelle, Rachel A.
Battelle, Ralph
Bcatie, Thomas
Bigelow, Calvin
Bigelow, Charles A.
Bigelow, Mrs. Hannah T.
Bigelow, Mrs. Abraham
Bigelow, William A.
Bliss, Linus,* 1872.
Bliss, Mrs. Linus
Brookbank, Miss Bella
Cliickcring, Daniel
Chickeriug, George E.
Chickering, Otis
Chickering. Samuel

Cleveland, William
Dunn, Theodore
Everett, (ieorge D.
Everett, Mrs. Martha A.
Everett, Miss Martha E.
Everett, Miss Sarah E.
Fearing, Perez Ij.
Gannett, Willi.am W.
Gay, Francis G.
Goulding, H. Emelinc
Goulding, Henry
Goulding, Henrj' E.
Lyman, Miss Francis Ij.
Mann, Mrs. Adeline B.
Mann, Daniel,* 1*59.
Mann, Daniel F.
Mann, Elbridge L.
Mann, Hollis
Mann, S. .J. B.
Marden, Mrs. Mary
McGill, Thomas
McNamara, Patrick
Newell, Benjamin
Newell, Mrs. Benjamin
Newell, Miss Betsey E.
Newell, Jesse
Newell, JosiahB.
Otis, E. B.
Perry, Elijah
Perry, Mrs. Mehitablc
Richards, Calvin
Richards, Mrs. Calvin
Richards, Jennie A.
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers. Wilbor.J.
Sanger, Ralph,* 18(50.
Sawin, Benjamin N.
Sawiu, Frank W.
Sawin, M.ary A.
Sawin, Mary J.
Shumway, Amoa W.
Shumway, Amos W., Jr.
Shumway, Hannah
Shumway, John W.
Shumway, Sarah G.
Sias, Samuel
Smith, Abner L.
Smith, Charles H,
Smith, Mary W.
Sullivan, Daniel
Tisdale, William
Upham, Martha F.
Upham, Walter W.
Wall, Patrick
Wilson, Ephraini
Wilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, E. Henry
Wilson, Miss N. D. [87.]

FOX BOROUGH.

Aldrich.II. D.,*1854.
Belcher, Lewis W.
Burr, Simeon
Capen, .James
Carpenter, Daniels
Carpenter, Erastus P.
Carpenter, .Tames E.
Carpenter, Oliver
Cary, Otis
C()bb,Elias G.
Cook, William T.
Uickermau, Lemuel
Dixon, Sarah O.
Fisher, Albert
Foster, .James W.
Gay, Lewis E.

Guild, Freedom,* IWii.
Hersey, David
Hodges, Alfred
Kerr, Robert W.,* 18i)7.
Kingsbury, .Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. 8.
Leonard, Samuel B.,* 18(ifi.
Leonard, .Tames F.
Leonard, Sanford
Merrick. John M.,* 1871.
Pettee, David
Pettce, Joseph G.
Pettee, Simeon E.
Shepard, J. M.,* 1806.
Sherman, Job
Smith, Silas
Shaw, David
Sumner, Mrs. A. M.
Sumner, Charles C.
Torrey, Martin,* 18(;i.
Williams, Francis I).
Wyman, David [.JS.]

FRANKLIN.

Adams, Albert,* 1809.
Adams, Peter
Adams, Ward,* 1805.
Alby, R.

Atwood, Mrs. Ruth,* 1863.
Atwood, Shadrach
Baker, David P.
BuUard, Piam,* 1805.
Chapman, Elisha P.
Daniels, Albert E.
Daniels, Chas. F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeWitt, Archibald,* 1859.
DeWitt, Mrs. Mary A.,* '65.
Fisher, Herman C.
Fisher, Maxcy,* 1865.
Green, Henry M.
Green, iNIartin
Harding, liCwis,*
Hills, Theron C* 18(i2.
•Jones, Hiram W.
Jones, Alice J.
.Jones, I. L.
.Jones, Lxxcy
Knapp, Alfred
Metcalf, Alfred G.
ftletcalf, Alfred H.
Metcalf, Erastus L.
Metcalf, Erasmus B.
Metcalf, Whiting,* 1869.
Metcalf, William,* 1872.
Miller, John W.
Miller, Phillip W.,* 1860.
^lorse, George W.
Morse, .Joseph
Nason, George W.,* 1868.
Pond, Henry E.
Ray, Francis B.
Ray, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.
Ra.Y, James P.
Richardson, .John W
Richardson, Stephen W.
Rockwood, E.,*1864.
Rockwood, Nathan
Sergeant, A. D.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
Wadsworth, George M.
Wadsworth, Joseph II.
Wales, Otis, Jr.
AVhiting, Joseph
Whiting, .Joseph M.

66

Whiting, Wm. E. [53.]

HOLBROOK.

Holbrook, Caleb S.
Holbrook, Elisha N.,* 187-3
[2.]

HYDE PARK.

Adams, Henry C.
Adams, C. Henry
Adams, Henry S.
Allen, Zena.s
Blake, AlpheuB P.
Bleakie, Robert
Blazo, W. A.
Bissett, Henry F.
Beatey, John
Bonney, William A.
Bradbury, C. C.
Bradbury, W. C.
Bralnard, Amos H.
Bragg, William M.
Brvant, H.J.
BuUard, William
Coleman, E. J.
Clarke, T. Emory
Conner, Barney
Crane, Nathaniel
Darling, Henry A.
Dolan, Thomas
Davis, Enoch P.
Davis, David L.
Dow, J. E.
Downing, Alfred
Downing, Mrs. Alfred
Downing, James
Easton,r. A.
Ellis, Charles,* 1873.
Evans, Thomas C.
Everett, W. S.
Farnsworth, C. L.
Farrington, John B.
Fiske, H. C.
Gerry, Charles f.
Getchell, R. C.
Gilson, John
Gilson, Violettie L.
Gould, John B„* 1870,
Grew, Henry
Hamblin, J. G.
Hardy, B. H.
Haskell, B. B.
Hebard, Nathaniel
Horton, E.G.
Ireland, John
Kendrick, Henry C.
Lawson, J. D.
Leach, B. T.
Leach, Mrs, L. A.
Lougee, R. W.
McAvoy. J. D.
Macomber, E. H.
Moseley, R. P.
Moseley, T, W. H.
Xorris, R. N.
Nott, Gordou H,
Nott, Roxanna
Nott, L. B.
Nott, Margaret
Nott, Maggie <t.
Noyes, George W.
O'Connell, Daniel
Patterson, James
Parrott, George B.
Pratt, James
Perkins, E. G.

Park, Winner
Pierce, C. H.
Pierce, George
Plummer, R. B.
Putman, Sydney
Radford, B.F.
Ranlet, D. D.
Raynes, J.J.
Raynes, Mrs. E. H.
Rich, D. B.
Rich, Henry A.
Russell, A. L.
Spring, Charles
Sprague, R. T.
Sharrock, George
Stark, C. C.
Stevens, J. N.
Stuart, William J.
Stuart, Mrs. W. J.,* ISTZ.
Sherman, George E.
Sanford, O. S.
Sumner, Clarissa,* 1869.
Straw, L. H.
Swan, B.
SwiTt, Thomas P.
Thacher, William T.
Thacher, Mrs. W. T,
Thaine, T. G.
Thaine, Mrs. J. W.
Thompson, B. F.
Tower, Isaac N.
Turner, C. R.
Turner. R. W.
Twitchell, .John M.
Vose, John
Vose, Mrs. John
Vose, B. C.
Weeman, W. E.
Wright, Richard
Whittier, A. R.
Williams, J. D.
Williams, John M.
Williams, R.
Willis, John M.
Whitcher, M. L. [115.]
White, Charles A., Jr.
White, E. P.

MEDFIELD.

Abell, Wm. F.
Abell, Mrs. Wm. F.
Adams, George F.
Allen, Mrs. Harriet B.
Allen, Noah
Allen, William C.
Baker, Joseph H.
Baker, Mrs. Joseph H.
Balch, Albert B.
Battelle, Ralph A.
Barney, Thomas L.
Barney, Mrs. Thomas L.
Bigelow, Andrew
Bullard, John E.
Carson, Joseph
Chenery, William
Cheney, Nathaniel H.
Cheney, Seth
Crane, George
Curtis, Daniel D.
Curtis, INIrs. Daniel D.
Curtis, Irving
Cushman, .Tacob R.
Cushman, Mv». .Jacob R.
Davis, George
Davis, Mrs. George
Ellis, Caleb
Ellis, Francis D.

Ellis, George W.
Ellis, John
Ellis, Samuel
Everett, Ednnmd T.
Everett, Mrs. E. T.
Fisher, Hinsdale,* 1869.
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sarah H.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, Mrs. Isaac
Frost, Phineas, Jr.
Hamant, Miss Alice E.
Hamant, Mrs. N. Anna
Hamant, Miss Abby
Hamant, Mrs. Eliza M. C.
Hamant, Caleb S.
Hamant, Charles
Hamant, Mrs. Charles
Hanmnt, Daniels, .Ir.
Hamant, Daniel D.
Harding, Alfred
Harding, Nathan
Hartshorn, Joseph,* 1866.
Hartshorn, Warren
Hewins, William P.
Hewins, Mrs. William P.
Janes, Walter,' 1867.
Jones, John P.
Morse, Eliakim,* 1872.
Morse, .Toel
Morse, Miss Lucy
Parker, Alonzo B.
Parker, Mrs. A. B.
Partridge, Mrs. E. A.
Partridge, Henry, Jr.
Richardson, Smieon
Roberts, Mrs. Helen M.
Roberts, Robert,* 187-2.
Ross, John

Salisbury, Win * 1857.
Sanborn, Edward M.
Sanborn, W.
Sewall, Charles C.
Sewall, Mrs. Chas. C.,* 1872.
Sewall, Edward U.
Sewall, Miss Elizabeth S.
Shumway, Benjamin F.
Smith, George M.
Stedman, Cyrus,* 1865.
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A.,* 1864.
Turner, J. Addison
Wethereli, Harlns \V.
Wheeler, Emory
Willard, Gibson [86.]

MEDWAY.

Adams, Edward
Adams, Elisha
Adams, Lyuian
Adams, Wyman
Barber George,* 1851.
Barber, Thomas
Boyd William B.
Bullard, John, Jr.
Gary, Gilman
Carey, Willi.aniH.
Chase, Leander A.
Clark, Samea P., 189.',.
Clark, James W.
Clark, Mrs. James W.
Clark Maria F.^
Clark Willard t*.-

67

Oiosbv George, * 1860.
Oauiels, James WillarU
Daniols, Paul
Daniels, Mrs. Paul
Daniels William
KlliH, James II.
F. slier, Milton M.
Fuller Asa M. B.
Harding, Theorlore
Henderson, William
Kurd, Julius C.
Ide, .Jacob
Kiugsburj', Gilbert
Lovcll, Asaliel P.
Lovell, Zachariali
Levering, Warren
Mann, James
Mason, Horatio, * 1808
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalt', Luther
Morse, A.sa D.
Partridge, Clark
Partridge, George
Itichardson, Elislia P.
Richardson, Jeremiah D.
Richardson, Joseph L.
Richardson, Moses
Richardson, Richard
Slocumb, C, * 18«1.
Stevens, Daniel G.
Walker, John S.,* 1871.
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler, Abijah R. [48]

MILTON.

Adams, Edward H.
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Araory, Francis
Arnold, John, Jr. *
Babcock, Josiah, * 1863.
liabcock Lemuel W.
Babcock, Samuel
Baldwin, Edward
Keal, Jonathan
Beck, Gideon
Blanchard, J. W.
Bradlee, John D.
Bradlee, J. W.
Bradlee, Miss W. A.
Breck, Charles
Breek, Charles K.C.
Bronsiion, Charles
Bronsdoii, Lewis
Brooks, John W.
Bunton, Jes^e
Burt, John
iUirt, Sumner
Bush, James P.
C;hase, Leaiider A.
Churchill, Jos. McKeaa
Chapman, R. L.
Clapp G. W.
Cook, Charles W.
Cook, Samuel
Cook, W. T.
Copeland, Charles L.
Copeland, Lewis
Cornel), Walter
Crehore, John A.
Crowd, George
Cuuniugham, C. Lorlng
Cuniiinghaui, Francis,* '07
Curtis, Daniel T.
Davenport, Edwin
Davenport, Mrs. Ellen M.
Davenport. F. <i.

Davenport, Lewis
Davenport, Ijyman
Davenport. Nathaniel T-
Davis, William H.
Dow, John R.
Dudley, Benjamin F.
Elkins, D. H.
Emerson, Joshua
Everett, George
Farrington, Ilenry J,
Faulkner, James
Fenno, Rufus P.
F^erry, George S.
Ferry, William M.
Forbes, John M.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Forbes, R. B., Jr.
Poster, William H.
Foster, William L.
Gannett, George K.
Gannett, Samuel
Garrett, George E. ^

Greene, George W.
Hall, George W.
Harvey, \Villiam
Higgins, David
Hinckley, Thomas H.
Hobson', A. R.
Hobson, Miss Martha J.
Hollingsworth, Z.
Hollis, Thomas
Holmes, C. C.
Holmes, Mrs. Abraham, Jr.
Houghton, Geo. D.
Houghton, E. W.*
Houghton, Mrs. E. W.
Houghton, Jason W.,* 1867.
Houghton, Jason
Hunt, Charles E.
Hunt, Charles L.
Hunt, Goorge
Hunt William M.
Kendall, J. B.
Kent, George W.
Kidder, Henry P.
Kinsman, Adolphus
Lothrop, T. K.
Merriam, Mrs. Charles H.
Myers, John
Parker, C. U.
Peabody, Oliver W.
Pierce, Dean
Pierce, Edward L.
Pope, Ebenezer, * 1853.
Raymond, George
Richards, Reuben A.
Robbins, James M.
Rodgers, O. T., ♦ 1859.
Rogers, H., Jr., * 1855.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Rowe, Joseph, * law.
Ruggles, E. T.
Ruggles, Philemon
Russell, Henry S.
Saflford, N. F."
Senter, L. W.
Sias, Eliphalet
Sias, John

SIgourney, Ilenrv H. W.
Slone, Charles,* "1850.
Teele, Albert K.
Teele, Mrs. A. K.
Th.'iyer, Jason
Thayer, James B.
Thompson, George * 1858.
Todd, Robert M.
Towne, A. J.
Tucker, David W.

Tucker, Elijah
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah
Tucker, Stillman L.
Tucker, Timothy * 18»4.
Twombly, Josiah F.
Vose, George
Vosc, Mrs. George
Vose, Henry
Vose, Francis E.
Vose, Joshua W.
Watson, Robert S.
Walker, J. K.
Webb, Josiah
Webster, .Joseph R.
West, Henry
White, Benjamin
White, Franklin B.
White, .James P.
White, John E.
Wolcott, J. Huntington

[140J

NEEDHAM.

Alden, Otis

Avery, Jonathan

Ayling, Isaac

Beless, Thomas

Bemis, Mrs. S. 8.

Bowers, Henry

Blackman, Henry

Blackman Augustus

Buck, Charles

Buck, Mrs. F. P. H.,* 1855.

Buck, Miss Mary M.

Bullen, Ichabod,* 1858.

Clark, Joseph P.

Cooper, Samuel

Daniell, George K.

Darling, George F.

Dewing, Charles H.

Dewing, Warren

Eaton, George E.

Eayrs, William C.

Emmons, Chas. P.,* 1887.

Flagg, Solomon

Flagg Wm., 1861.

Gardner, Elbridge

Goss, Daniel J.

Gray, James

Harmon, Charles H-

Harmon, Cvrus

Harris, John,* 1858.

Harris, John M.

Harvey, Stephen F.

Holland, John
i Hollis, Elisha P.
j Howe, Albion K.

Howe, Mrs. Eliza M.
j Howland George

Hubbard, G. G.,* 1«58.

Hunnewell, H. Ilollis

Hunting, Israel

Kimball, Benjamin G.

Kimball, Mrs. Betsey G.
I Kimball, Daniel,* 1862.
I Kingsbury, .J. M.
I Kingsbury, Lemuel

Kingsbury, Lauren
: Kingsbury, Thos.,* 1849.
j Kingsbury. William A.

Knapp.A . P.
j Lombard, R. T.
I Longfellow, George J.
I Longlellow, Mary L.
I Longfellow, Nathan

Longfellow, Mrs. Nathan
■ LongfelloM-. MHlher E.,* *7i

(38

Low, George ^\^
Lyon, Mis. Julia A.
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
Mansfield, Charles H.
Mansfield, John
Mansfield, Robert
Mansfield, Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, William
McOrackin, John
McCrackin, Robert
Mcintosh, Mrs. F. E,
Mcintosh, l^rrs. H. P.
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mcintosh, Mrs. Mary C.
Mills, John
Mills, Matthias
Morton. Otis. Jr.
Morton. W. T. (3.* 18(18.
Newell, Artemas,* 1871.
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes, Josiah,* 1871.
Peabody, Ezekiel
Phillips. Freeman
Pierce, William
Pierce, William, Jr.
Pierce, Mrs. Harriet
Revere, Georjre
Robinson, Henry
Sawyer, John
Sawyer, Otis,* 185.5.
Scudder, Marshal S.
Seagrave, Saul S.
Shaw, George W.,* 1852.
Shaw, John W.
Snelling, Nathaniel G.
Spring, Charles H.
Stedman, Francis
Stedman, Mrs. F. F.
Stedman, William M.
Stevens, A. F.
Stone, David
Stone, Henry L.
Sumner, Lewis
Sumner, Samuel B.
Tucker, E. H.
Turner, John* 1872.
Turner, Mrs. John
Upham, Cyrus G.
Upham, Mrs. C. G.
Upham, Mrs. O. J.
Ware, Dexter,* 1851.
Ware, Reuben
Ware, Althea
Ware, Ruel
Ware, William S.
Washburne, G. W.
Webber, Aaron D.
Welles. John
Whitaker, Edgar K.
White, George
Wilde-, C. T.
Williams, Silas G.
Wood, Henry
Wright, Lewis [122.

NORFOLK.

Daniels, Adams
Fisher, Walter H.
Fisher, Mrs. W. H.
Fisher, Walter M.
Ford, James T.
Pond, Lucas
Pond, Mrs. Lucas
Robinson, Joel H.
Scott, Saul B.

Trowbridge, Henry [10.]

NORWOOD.

Baker, Joel M.
Boydfn, Miss Emma F.
Day, Joseph
Day, Lewis
Ellis, M. I.
Everett, George
Fisher, James R.
Fogg, David S.
Hartshorn, Caleb W.
Hartshorn, Richard D.
Hoyle, Mark C.
Metcalf, George E.
Morse, Albert
Morse, Curtis G.
Morse, John,* 1861.
Morse, John L.,* 1864.
Morse, Otis
Morse. Sidney E.
Smith, Lyman
Talbot. Josiah W.
Thompson, Robert,* 18.54.
White, N. B.
Winslow, Alfred N.
AVinslow, George [24]

QUINCY.

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, .John Q.
.\danis, Ebenezer
Bartlett, Ibrahim,* 1853.
Bass. Josiah
Bass, Lewis
Baxter, Daniel
Baxter, Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. Elijah
Baxter, Mrs. George
Baxter, George L.
Beale, George W.,* 1851.
Benls, Nathaniel H.
Billings, Lemuel
Brackett, Lemuel
Brlgham, Josiah,* 1867.
Carr, John J.,*i865.
Curtis, Noah,* 1856.
Eaton, Jacob F.,*1871.
Emmons, Nathaniel H.
Fellows, Ensign S.
Frederick, Eleazer
French, Washington M.
Glover, H. N.,* 1863.
Green, John A.,* 1861.
Greenleaf, Daniel
Greenleaf, Thoma8,*1854.
Howland, Charles A.
Horton, Lloyd G.
Marsh, Charles
Marsh, Miss Henrietta
Miller, Charles E.
Morton, William S.* 1871.
Munroe, Israel W.
Newcomb, James
Newcomb, John B.
Quincy, Josiah* 1864.
Quincy, Josiah P.
Richards; L.,* 1852.
Robertson, Joseph W.
Rogers, Clift
Savil, John

Southworth, C. A.,* 1871.
Spear, Charles A.,* 1868.
Stetson, James A.
Thayer, G.F.* 1864.
Torrey, William

Turner, Edward
Walker, William
White, Nathaniel,* 1867.
Willard, Solomon,* 1861.
Williams, Francis [52.]

RANDOLPH.

Alden, Ebenezer
Alden, Horatio B.
Belcher, Allen A.
Belcher. J. White
Buck, Nathan,* 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Christopher M. *
Gushing, Abner L.
Jordan, John T.,* 1865.
I-eeds, Joseph,* 18,58.
Maguire, James
Maguire, James F.
Mann, Ephraim,* 1863.
Mann, Seth, 2d
Niles, Jacob,* 1871.
Porter, William
Snow, Zen as,* 18,57.
Stevens, Richard
Tileston, G. H.
Tower, Isaac,* 1865.
Turner, Royal W,
Turner, Seth
Wales, ApoUos
Wales, Ephraim,* 1855.
Wales, John, 2d
Wales, .Jonathan.* 1862.
Whitcomb, Alfred W.
White, Adoniram
White, Jairus
White, Jonathan [30J

ROXBURY.

Adams, Thomas,* 1869.
Ames, Robert W.
Andrews, Alfred A.,* 1864.
Appleton, Charles T.
Bacon, William
Bartlett, Henry,* 1860.
Blake, S. Parkman
Bowditch, Azell
Bowditch, Azell C.
Bray, Charles F.
Brigham, Joseph L.
Brown, Andrew J.
Bryant, Charles H.
Buflord, John H.
Chadwick, Joseph H.
Chandler, John G.
Clarke, John J.
Codman, Henry,* 1853.
Copeland, B. F.,*1863.
Copeland, Chas.,* 1853.
(Jotting, Benjamin E.
Crawshaw, Joseph
Crosby, Benjaiiiin H.
Davis, Gilman
Dearborn, H. A. S.,* 1851.
Ellis, Charles,* I860.
Ellis, Charles M.
Eustis, William
Fisher, Warren
Fiske, George A.
Ford, Seth H.,* 1863.
Francis, Eben'r,* 1858.
French, Jonathan
French, Mrs. J.
Fuller, H. Weld
Fussell, John
Gardner, Francis

G9

LouKlellow, Faiiuie K.
Lovewell, Charles B.
Grav, Henry D.
Guild, Krederick
Guild, Henry
Guild, .James
Hani, Joseph
Harris, Horatio
Hayden, Isaao-
Hendoe. Charles J.
Hewes, John M.
Hewiiis, Whiting,* 1855.
Hickling, Charles
Holmes, Uichard
Holmes, Mrs. R.
Huckins, James,* 1868.
Huckins, .James VV.
Huston, William 11.
Keene, .Tamea
Kidder, Frederic
King, William S.
Kini;sbury, William B.
Kittredge, Alvah
Kee, William Raymond
Lemist, Edwin* 187-2.
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, Franklin H.
Lewis, Samuel S.
Lowell, John A.
Mackintosh, Samuel
Mann, Benjamin
Mathes, Albert R.
McGurney, Charles
Mcintosh, William H.
Jleirill, John J.
Monroe, George H.
Oakley, Frank E.,* 1865.
Paine, Joseph P.
Parker, Augustus
Parker, George J.,* 1860.
Parker, Thomas
Perry, Almon
Pickering, Henry W.
Pike, Charles S.
Putnam, Allen
Rich, NaphthalieD.
Rice, George W.
Ritchie, .James
Uobinson, J. P.,* 1863.
Ropes, Joseph S.
Sargent, Epes
Shed, Henry P.
Simmons, D. A.,* 1839.
Skinner, Ellas
Sleeper, John S.
Stevens, Amos
Stone, Ebenezer W.
Sturgis, James
Tappan, Josiah S.
Thacher, Thomas, Jr.,* '69.
Thwing, Supply C.
Tolman, James,* 1868.
Trescott, Elijah
Tucker, Daniel
Vinson, Cornelius M.
Walker, E. C. R.
Walker, Samuel,* 1860.
Ware, Leonard
Way. Samuel A.* 187-2.
Weston, Lvcurgus B..* '7-2.
Whiting. Wm. (Montrose

avenue.;
Williams, A. D..* 1863.
Williams. Aaron D.
Williams, David W.
Williams, Mrs. D. W.
Williams, Dudley
Williams, (i. Foster,* 187'2.

Williams, G. B.,* 186-2.
Williams, S., lS.j-2.
Williams, Thomas B.
Wilson, Granville W.
Winslow, Edward
Wiswall, Samuel
Woloott, John W.
Worthington, Roland [120]

SHARON.

Baker, P. Howard
Baker, Mrs. P. H.
Blackmail, E. H.
Bullard, Benjamin
Cailjenter, Shppard
Carpenter, Mrs. Shepard
Clark, Edwin R.,* 1868.
Cobb, Warren
Cobb, Mrs. Warren
Cobb, Miss Ella M.
Cobb, Lizzie M.
Drake, Ashael S.
Drake, Mrs. Ashael S.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, George W.
Gay, Mrs.G. W.
Geissler, .J. N.
Geissler, Mrs. J. N.
Hewins, Elijah,* 1857.
Hewins, Lemuel D.,* 1868.
Howard, George F.
Howard, Mrs. G. F.
Hixon, A. G.
Hixon, Mrs. A. G.
Hixon, Charles O.
Hixon, Mrs. C. O.
.Johnson, Lucas
Johnson, Otis
Lothrop, Howard A.
Mann, George R.
Mann, Mrs. George R.
Mann, William R.
Mann, Mrs. W^illiam R.
Mann, Miss M. Ella
Mann, Miss E.Mary
Mann, George H.
Morse, Edward L.
Morse, Miss E. G.
Morse, Harvey
Morse, Leprellette
Morse, Lewis W.
Morse, Mrs. Lewis VV.
Pettee, D. Webster
Pettee. Mrs. D. W.
Randall, Macey, Jr.
Sanger, .John M.
Smith, Lewis
Talbot, Solomon
Turner, Calvin
Turner, Julia C.
Warren, Charles H.
Wcld.H.O.
Wicks, Mrs. A.L.
Wicks, Miss Marv L.
Wicks, William B.
AVinship, Charles
Winship, Mrs. Charles
Winship, Miss Elmira S.
[58]

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atherton, James
Atherton, William
Belcher, Luther J.
Belcher, Orin

Belcher, Wm. 8.,* 1862.
Bird, JElenry
Capen, Samuel
Clapp, Lucius
Clapp, Mrs. Lucius
Clark, Chester
Curtis, Samuel W.
Drake, Albert H.
Drake, .Johathan S.
Drake. Pliillip H.
Ellis, .J. Freeman
Gay, Cyrus H.
Gay, Hiram
Gay, .John M.
Gay. Lemuel,* 18(i6.
Gay, Mace
Gay, Nathaniel
CJoldthwait, Daniel A.
Hawes, Emery
Hill, .James

Hodges, I^eouard,* 1870.
Hodges, Samuel W.
Hodges, Mrs. S. W.
Ingham, .Tames
•Jones, Henry
liimball, Henry C.
Littlelleld, Charles
Monk, Elisha C.
Paul, Samuel
Porter, Luther
Porter, Robert
Porter, Robert, Jr.
Porter, Uriah C.
Porter, Theron M,
Porter, .John M.
Southworth, Amasa,* 187-2.
South worth, Asaliel
Sumner, Francis C.
Swan, Elisha
Talbot, George
Talbot, Newton
Thayer, S. Lysander
Tucker, Wales
Wales, Nathaniel
Warren, N. M.

WALPOLE.

Allen, Jeremiah

Allen, Lewis

Bacon, H. E.

Bacon, Samuel W.,*^. 1869.

Bacon, William,* 186

Bird, Charles

Bird, Francis W.

Boy den, Horatio

Clienev, .Joseph

(.;lap, Edmund W.

Clap, George R.

Clap, Samuel G.,* 1870.

Cap, Warren

Clarke, Mrs. Betsey M.

Clarke, Henry S.

Clarke,Mr8. H. S.

Clarke, Trneman

Conant, George

Cram, Jerome B.

Ellis, Isaac

Ellis. Jame»!

Ellis, Joseph,* 1851.

Fuller, .'ames R.

Gilbert, Samuel

Gould, John A.,* 1861.

Grav, H. Fannie

Gray, Smith,* ls69.

Gray, Mrs. Smith

Gray, Widiam H.

Grover, Sarah B.

70

Guild, Charles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshorn, George
Hawes, Joseph,* 1849.
Hyde, George B.
Lewis, Willard
Mann, John
Mann, Lowell
Neal, Benjamin
Page, William A.
Pierce, Shadrach S.
Plimpton, C. G.,* 1864.
Plimpton, H.M.
Polley, Edmund
Priest, Mrs. Leon A.
Scott, James G.
Shepard E.
Smith, .Tohn N.
Smith, Mrs. John N.
Smith, Metcalf
Stone, Ebenezer,* 1869.
Thompson, Edwin
Wilmarth, Ada E.
Wilmarth Naaman B.
Wilmarth, Elizabeth F.
Wilson, Edwin
Wilson, Mrs. Edwin [57]

WEST ROXBURY.

Allen. Stephen M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. R.
Arnold,. Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, William Percy
Bacon, Daniel C* 1856.
Bacon, FiancisE.
Bacon, William B.
Bailey, Luther C.
Halch, George H.
Balch, Joseph,* 1849.
Raich, .Joseph W.
ISanfleld, Everett C.
Itarbar, A. D.
Banlett, Alden
Bartlett, Mrs. Alden
Beckwith, Henry
Billings, Joseph H.
Billings, Mrs. .Joseph H.
Billings, Miss .Jennie
Billings, Miss Mary
Blake, .John .J.
Blake, William
Blackman, George
Bliss, George N.
Bli«s, Mrs. Lncius S.
Bollcs, Matthew
Bond, Georure William
Bowditch, .J. Ingersoll
Bradford, S. D.,* 186.5.
Bradish, Levi .J.
Brewer, Charles
Brewer, Otis
Brown, Alfred S.
Brown, Benjamin
Brown, Daniel A.
Btowne. Horace E.
Bruce, N. T.
Butters, J. A. C.,* IR'ifi.
Cabot, .Stephen
Calder, Aug-ustiis P.
Cary, Isaac H.
Cass, Aaron
(Jass, Francis W.
Oasa, Henry \V.
Cronin, .Jeremiah

Crosby, Albert

Crosby, Miss Fannie H.

Crosby, Miss Irene M.

Crosby, Miss Minnie R.

Comins, Linus B.

Cowing, Walter H.

Curtis, Joseph H,

Curtis, George S.

Curtis, Charles F.

Dabney, Chas. W., .Jr.,* '71

Davis, Fiancis,* 1865.

Decatur, Thomas

Dexter, Anson

Dixwell, John .J.

Draper, Abijah W.

Dudley, Henry

Dudley, Ephraim M.

Eldridge. Oliver

Emmons. .John A.

Enslin, William

Evans, William

Farrar, J. Hamilton

Farrington, Ebenezer T.

Gates, Mrs. F. L.

Gilbert, I^uther

Gooding, George

Gould, .Joseph D.

Greenougii, David S.

Hall, Alfred B.

Hall, David P.

Hall, Joseph

Hall, William D.
Harod, William F.
Head, Charles D.
Head, Francis C* 1865.
Henchman, N.ath'l H.
Hewins, Charles A.
Hilborn, S. C.
Howland, J. T.
Hunt, Harrison G.
T<^nights, Miss H.
Keith, William,* l&i9.
Lamb, Reuhnn A.,* 1858.
Lawne, Andrew B.
Low, .John J,
Lyman, Mrs. Thomas
Mackintosh, Charles G.
Mackintosh, J. S.
Manning, Charles,* 1869.
March, A. S.,* 18.54.
March, Andrew S.
Mcintosh, William
McLaren, Anthony
Meserve, Andre ivT.
Meserve, Isaac H.
Minot, George K.
Morse, Charles
Aforse, Robert M.
Motlev, Charles D.
Motley, Thomas
Motley, Mrs. Thomas
Motley, Thomas L.
North, George (5.
Orange, Thomas
Page, .Joseph W.
Page, Kill)v,*1869.
Palmer, William,* 1860.
Papineau, Antoine
Papineau, Alfred
Parker, S, Winchester
Parkinson, John,* I8(>5.
Pierce, .John
Popp, Hiei-onemas
Pratt, John C.
Prescott, Nathan B,
Prescott, Mrs. N. B.
Prichard, .Jeremiah
Prichnvd, Vila

Prichard, Oilman

Richards, Edward

Richards, George H.

Richards, Mrs. G. T.

Richmond, Thomas H.

Robeson, William R.

Rodman, Samuel W.

Russell, Geo. R.,*1866.

Sampson, Charles,* 1869.

Seaverns, Thomas W.

Shaw, Francis G.

Shaw, J. .J.

Shaw, Quincy A.

Smith, Alvin *1870.

Slocumb, William H.

Smith, Humphrv

Smith, .Joseph iVI.* 1872.

Smith, Lorenzo

Smith, Melancthon

Spauldlng, Solomon R.

Spooner, William H.' Jr.

Stevens, S. W.

Sturgis, Russell

Sturtevant, Benj. F.

Swett, Samuel W.

Taft, Reed

Taylor, H. B.* 1861.

Ticknor, Wm. D.,* 1864.

Tilden, George A.
Tolman, Ebenezer W.
Tolman, Lucius A.,* 1871.
Townsend, David
Tufts, James,* 1859.
Watt, Robert

Watt, Lizzie
Watt, Marion J.
Webster, John L.
Weld, Aaron D.
Weld, Mrs. A. 1).* 1872.
Weld, Aaron, D. Jr.
Weld, Miss A. K.
\V^eld, Miss Eliza
Weld, Francis M.
Weld, J. Gardner
Weld, Nathaniel
Weld, Mrs. Mary P.
Weld, Richard H.
Weld, Stephen M.,* 1867.
Weld, Miss Susan
Wentworth, Jacob
Westcott, Stephen
Wheeler, Warren U.
Whitnev, Israel G.
Whitney. Mrs. I. G.
Whitney, Miss N. B.
Whvtal, Thomas G.
Whvtal, Mrs. Thomas G.
Williams, B. P.,* IS.'ie.
Williams, George H.
Williams, Henry H.
Williams, Moses
Williams, Moses B
Williams, N. D.,* 1853.
Williams, .Joseph W.
Willson, Edmund B.
Winchester, Parker
Wing, B. F.
Witherbee, .John B.
Woodman, George F.
Woodward, Chauncy* 1872
Woodbury. .Joseph P.
Worley, B. W.
Vonng, Calvin
York, .John

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel

71

Biinill, An sol

Kirteld, NoPh/ 18(iT.

Howe, Applcton,* lt>70.

Hiiniplirey, Kbenezor

Huiiiphic'v, I,.,* 1857.

Hunt, A. N.,* 1804.

Hunt, Elias

.Tones, James

Kingsbury, r. A.,* 1860.

Loud, Joseph

Loud, John W.

Nash, Abncr P.

Nash, Erastus

Nash, Stephen W.

Porter, Thomas B.

Kicliitrds, Elias

Shaw, Nathaniel,* 1800.

Tirrell, Albert

Tirrell. James,* 18(55.

Tirrell, Wilson

White, James

White, Thomas ['.':5]

WRKNTHAM.

Aldrich, Artemas
Barnard. Alfi-ed,* 1871.
Blakesley, Hubbard
Cheever, Alonzo W.
Cheever, Mrs. Eliza R.
Cheever, Otis G.,* 1872.
Clap, Harvey E.,* 1S5.3.
Clay, Nehemiah
Cowell, John F.
Cowoll, William W.
Dupee^ Erastus
Everett. Melatiab,* 18.58.
Faxon, Fiancis G.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr.,* 18»)9.
Fisher, Hiram B.
Fisher, Silas P.,* 1865.
Ford, Peter
Fuller, Chauncy <i.
Grant, George
Gasseit. Henry. .Tr.

Grant, Robert P.
Grant, Whltinjf
Hawes, BenJ.,* 1867.
Holbrook, George E.
Ide, Edwin S.
•Tepson, William A.
Larkin, Lyman B.
Mann, Howard
Parker, EbenezerB.
Pond, Handel,* 1867.
Pond, Jabez E.
Proctor, Thomas
Sayles, Caleb W.,* 1803.
Starkey, Gardner H.
Stone, Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Ware, Asa
White, Jauies A.
Wiggin, James S.

MBMBKKS RESIDING OUT OF THK COUNTY.

Allen, George E., Newton.
Alien, .Joseph A.. Newton.
Allen, Nathaniel T., Newton.
Balch, Wesley P., Boston.
Beckler, Daniel W.
Callender, Benjamin, Boston.
Collins,. James H., Cambridge.
Copeland, R. McCleary, Boston.
Dennie. Edward, M. IJoston.
De Reynoso Bernard.
Douahoe, Patrick, Boston.
Ediiiands, J. Wiley, Newton.
Ellis, David. Cambridire.
Garbett, William A., Boston.
Goddard, Thomas, Boston.
Gould, .James, Boston,
(ioiild, George, Newton.
Hapgood, Lyman S., Boston.
Hollis, .John W., Newton.
Inches, Martin B., Boston.

Members admitted,
Members deceased,

Lawrence, Mrs. .James.
Loring, A. K. Boston.
Matthews, Nathan, Boston.
Messenger, G. W., Boston,* 1871.
Minot, George H., Boston.
Norton, R. R., Boston.
Potter, Silas, Boston.
Quinn, .John, Boston.
Rand, Edward S., Boston.
Rogers, J. A., Boston.
Ro.sweil, Mary Ann, Boston.
Slade, Robert, Boston.
Smith, George W., Bo.ston,* 1864.
Stearne, John,Newtou.
Tappan, Lewis W., Boston.
Vinal, Otis, Boston.
Wainwright, H.C.Boston.
Wells, B. T., Boston.
Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge.

2082.

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LIST OF PREMIUMS,

Rules and Regulations and List of Comnnittees,

OF THK

Norfolk Agricultural Society

FOR THE

TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION,

TO BE HOLDEN AT

READVILLE,

THURSDAY and FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 and 26, 1S73.

HYDE PARK:

PRINTED AT THE GAZETTE OFFICE.

i . «

f)^The Trustees invite the Agriculturists, Mechanics,
Manufacturers, Horticulturists, and Ladies of the County, to
join their endeavors to render the Exhibition worthy of the
patronage of the Commonwealth, and creditable to them-
selves.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY,

1872 - 73.

President.

Gen. henry S. RUSSELL, Milton.

Honorary President.
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents.

Hon. Otis Gary, Foxborough.

Stephen W. Richardson Franklin.

Elijah Tucker Milton.

Henry Grew Hyde Park.

Royal W. Turner Randolph.

AlonzoW. Cheever Wrentham.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary.

Henry O. Hildreth Dedham.

Treasurer.
Chauncy C. Churchill Dedham.

Executive Committee.
William R. Mann, Sharon; Truman Clark, Walpole; Charles Breck,
Milton; Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury;

A. B. Balch, Medfleld ; William E. Coffin, Dorchester; Charles F. Curtis,
West Roxbury; Augustus P. Calder, West Roxbury.

Finance Committee and Auditors.
Ira Cleveland, Dedham; Edward S. Rand, Jr., Dedham; William J.
Stuart, Hyde Park.

Supervisory Committee.

The President, Honorary Pi'esident, and Secretary, ex-officiis; Charles
C. Sewall, Medfleld; Otis Cary, Foxborough; A. W. Cheever, Wrentham;
Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Breck,
Milton; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton; Josiah P. Quincy, Quincy; Elijah
Tucker, Milton ; Henry Goulding, Dover; E. C. R.Walker, Roxbury;
Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury; A. F. Stevens, Needham; Thomas

B. Griggs, Brookline ; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester.

Committee of Arrangements.

William R. Mann, Sharon ; Chauncy C. Churchill, Henry O. Hildreth,
Dedham; Charles Curtis, West Roxbury; A. P. Calder, Dorchester;
William J. Stuart, Hyde Park; John D. Bradlee, Milton; Charles A.
Howland, Quincy, Albert B. Balch, Medfleld; Ellis Tucker, Canton;
Henry S. Clarke, Walpole; Henry Trowbridge, Norfolk; Alfred W. Whit-
comb, Randolph.

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles
grown or manufactured in the County, or in towns contiguous
thereto, unless otherwise specified in the premium list. Essays
and Agricultural Implements, being exempted from this rule, will
be opened to general competition.

^^ Committees are prohibited from awarding gratuities, other
than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list.

|^°JVb object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it
possesses points of superiority ; and the Committees are prohibited
from aioarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles or objects
are not deemed worthy.

Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a
premium of five dollars or upward, and any lady, not a member
of the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upward,
shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two
dollars, respectively, and may thereafter become a member.

All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium —
herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must be on
the ground at or before twelve o'clock on Thursday, the first day of
the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals will
not be allowed to be removed from the pens before three o'clock on
Friday, the second day ; and all other articles not until five o'clock.

The same animal — except working oxen and draught horses —
or article shall not be allowed to compete for more than one pre -
mium. And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties shall
not be included in different collections of the same exhibitor, com-
peting for premium.

In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the
County living remote from the Society's grounds, a sum — not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for compensation of
travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine and sheep as
have been brought or driven more than five miles — reckoning the
distance from whence they come to the place of exhibition — and

receive uo premium. Only one travel will be allowed to the same
person. Pa^nnent will be made at the rate of ten cents per mile
for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight cents per mile for each bull,
cow, heifer or yearling; ten cents per mile for each boar, sow,
or litter of weaned pigs ; and eight cents per mile for each flock
of sheep. But no such payment shall be made for an}" animal or
animals which, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to
manage them, are not of a superior character and worthy of ex-
hibition, or have not been entered in accordance with the rules
and regulations of the Society.

The animals, while on the ground, will be fed at the expense of
the Society.

All flowers, fruits and vegetables are to be grown by, and entered
in the name of, the contributor.

No person serving on any of the Committees shall have a vote
in any case when he shall be personally interested as a com-
petitor.

After the objects for exhibition are an-anged, they will be under
the exclusive charge of the Superintendents, and cannot be re-
moved tcithout their consent.

All other entries for premiums must be made in writing, and
shall be placed in the hands of the Recording Secretary on or
before the loth of November.

Premiums awarded and not called for on or before the last
Wednesda}^ in March following, will be considered as given to the
Society, in aid of its funds. #

The trustees have carefully revised and approved of the follow-
ing list of premiums. The respective Committees appointed to
award the same are required to enforce a strict conformity to all
the rules in relation to Entries and Certificates.

As it will become the duty of the Society to make to the
Legislature an exact report of its doings, the trustees deem it of
the highest importance that earnest and persevering efforts be
made by the citizens of every town in the County to V)ring out the
results of their skill and industry.

HENRY S. RUSSELL, President.

Hbnry O. Hildreth, Secretary.

OF

PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR THE YEAR 1873.

(Successful Competitors may receive their Premiums in Plate or Money, at their option.)

Superintendents at Exhibition.

Horses. — Augustus P. Calder, Dorchester ; Assistant, Henry A Dar-
ling, Hyde Park.

Cattle. — Nathaniel S. Whitk, Canton.
Sheep and Swine. — Henry Goulding, Dover.
Poultry. — A. ¥. Stevens, Needham.
Fruit. — Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury.
Floioers. — Robert Watt, West Roxbury.
Vegetables. — David Henderson, Needham.

Manufactures, Carriages, Agricultural Implements, Etc. — William Ames,
Dedham.

Plowing and Drawing. — Asahel S. Drake, Sharon.
Ladies Work. — Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park.

Committee to Fill Vacancies on Committees at Exhibition.

Otis Cary, Foxboro'; Henry O^ Hildreth, Dedham ; Albert B.
Balch, Medfield ; N. B. Wilmarth, Walpole ; J. Walter Bradlee, Milton.

F A E M S.

EXPERIMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARMS.

Supervisory Committkk. — The President, Honorary President and Secretary, ex
offlciis; Charles C. Sewall, Medfield; Otis Cary, Foxborough; A. W. Cheever,
Wrentham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Breck,
Milton; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton ; Josiah P. Quincy, Quincy; Elijah Tucker, Milton;
Henry Goulding, Dover; E. C. R.Walker, Roxbury ; Charles P. Curtis, West Roxbury ;
A. F. Stevens, Needham; Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester.

For the best managed farm, taking into view the condition of
the buildingi=i, fences and orchards, the cultivation of the lands,

the care and management of the stock, the quantity, quality and
preservation of the crops, the expenses incuri-ed and the improve-
ments made during the year, with a detailed statement of the
whole, to be rendered on or before November loth, $25 ; second
best, $20.

Competitors must give notice of their intention to the Secretary
on or before June loth. Farms entered for premiums will be
viewed by the Supervisory Committee, as they shall deem (expe-
dient, between June 20th and September 20th. Any farm ottered
for inspection, without being entered for a premium, will be viewed
and reported by the Committee, if seasonable application be made
to the Chairman.

PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Committee — Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Horatio Boyden, Walpole ; Charles E. C.
Breck, Milton; E. P. Carpenter, Foxborough; Walter H. Fisher, Norfolk.

Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands. — For the best exper-
iment in reclaiming wet meadow or swamp lands, by drainage or
otherwise, on not less than one half-acre, with statement in detail
of the previous condition and produce of the land, the method and
expense of the experiment, and the produce at the present time,
$S ; second best, $4.

Under-draining Land. — For the best experiment in under-
draining land, not less than forty square rods, regard being had
to the character of the soil and subsoil, the method, extent, ex-
pense and result of the experiment, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third
best, French's Drainage.

Old Pasture and Unimproved Lands. — For the best con-
ducted experiment in renovating and improving old pasture lands
and lands hitherto lying waste, on not less than one acre, with or
Avithout plowing, with a statement of the previous condition of the
land, and of the method, expense and result of the experiment, $8 ;
second beat, $5 ; third best, Flint's Dairy.

TURNING IN CROPS AS MANURE.

Committee — Aaron D. Weld, West Roxbury; Calvin Richards, Dover; S. W. Rich-
ardson, Franklin.

For the most satisfactory experiment of turning in crops as a
manure, either green or dry, on not less than one half-acre of land,
a detailed account of the whole process, expense and result to be
given in writing. $6.

EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOIL PLOWING.

For the best experiment, on not less than one acre of land,
of the effect of subsoil plowing, to be determined by the difference
in the value of the crops raised on equal portions of equally ma-
nured land, of like quality, one half of which having been subsoil-
plowed, and the other half plowed in the usual manner, statements
of the depth of plowing in each instance, together with all the par-
ticulars of culture, required, $8 ; second best. Burr's Vegetables.

FEEDING AND FATTENING STOCK.

Committee — A. W. Cheever, Wrentham; John Sias, Milton; Charles Mackintosh,
Needham.

Comparative Value of Crops as Food for Cattle. — For the
best experiment upon a stock of cattle, not less than four in num-
ber, to ascertain the relative value of the different kinds of fodder
used, with a statement in detail of the quantity and quality of the
same, as compared with English hay, the experiment to be made
in the three winter months, $12 ; second best, Stephens' Farmer's
Guide.

Feeding of Milch Cows. — For the best experiment in the
feeding of milch cows, by soiling, stall-feeding or pasturing, with
a detailed statement of the comparative advantages of either me-
thod, regard being had to the saving of manure, comfort of the
animals, and produce of the daiiy, $12; second best, $8; third
best, Flint's Dairy.

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cattle,
with a statement in detail of the process, expense and result, $;") ;
second best, Flint's Grasses.

Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine,
with a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second
best, Flint's Dairy.

HAY.

Committee— Krastus L. Metcair, Franklin; Ellis Tucker, Canton ; Otis Cary, Fox-
borough.

For the largest quantity and best quality of English hay per acre
produced on any farm in the County, regard being had to the char-
acter of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and making,
$25 ; second best, Flint's Treatise on Grasses.

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CRANBERRY VINES.

For the best experiment in transplanting Cranberry Vines, or in
growing them from seed, on not less than one eighth of an acre,
which shall be in the most flourishing and productive state on the
10th of September, $6 ; second best, $3 ; third best, Eastwood's
Cranberr}'^ Culture.

Competitors will be required to give an exact statement of the
process, expense and result of the experiment.

GRAIN, EOOT AND MIXED CROPS.

Committee — Charles Breck, John Sias, Charles E. C. Breck, Milton ; Henry Bird
Stoughton ; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester.

Grain Crops. — For the best experiment in raising Wheat, a
premium of $10 ; second best, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Rye, Oats or Barley, each, a
premium of SIO ; second best, each, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of
SlO ; second best, Flint's Dairy.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, Millet or Buck-
wheat, each, Bridgeman's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Samples of each kind of Grain, not less than half a bushel,
properly labeled, must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of
the crop to be ascertained by weight as follows : Corn and Rye,
56 pounds each to the bushel ; Barley and Buckwheat, 48 pounds
each ; Oats, 32 pounds ; Wheat, 60 pounds.

Root Crops. — For the best experiment in raising Potatoes,
Burr's Vegetables ; second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots, Pars-
nips, Mangel-wurzel or Ruta-baga, each, Burr's Vegetables ; sec-
ond best, each, JMcMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Flat Turnips, Burr's Vegeta-
bles ; second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

Samples of roots, not less than one bushel, properly labeled,
must be exhibited at the Show, The quantity of the crops, which
must be on not less than one quarter of an acre, shall be ascer-

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tamed by weight of tlie roots — freed from dirt and without tops —
as follows : Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangel-wurzel and Ruta-
bagas, 60 pounds ; Carrots, 55 pounds ; Onions and Flat Turnips,
50 pounds ; Parsnips, 45 pounds to the bushel.

Competitors must give notice of their intention to compete, to
the Secretary, on or before June 15th ; and experiments will be
viewed by the Conunittee between July 1st and September 20th.

Claimants for premiums must render to the Chairman of the
Committee, on or before November 15th, a written statement of
the character and previous condition of the land, its present value,
and the taxes upon it ; the kind, quality and value of manure used ;
the quantity and cost of seed sown ; the labor and expense of cul-
tivating and harvesting the crop ; and the quantity, quality and
value of the crop. In awarding premiums, regard will be had to
all these circumstances, and to the area of the ground in cultiva-
tion.

Mixed Crops. — For the best experiment in cultivating mixed
crops of Grain and Vegetables in alternate portions, or of different
roots in alternate rows, Harris' Treatise on Insects ; second best.
Burr's Vegetables ; third best, French's Drainage. The experi-
ment must be made on not less than half an acre of land, and a
detailed statement of the mode of culture, expense and product
must be rendered on or before November loth.

VEGETABLES.

Committee — Charles L. Copeland, Miltou; John W. Richardson, Franklin; William
J. Griggs, Brookliue; William J. Hyde, Brookline; James Mackintosh, Needham.

Vegetable Garden. — For the best Vegetable Garden, regard
being had to the varietj^ excellence and quantity of the pi'oducts
thereof, and the mode and expense of cultivation, first premium,
$10 ; second do.. Burr's Vegetables ; third do., Bridgeman's Young
Gardener's Assistant.

Entries must be made before the 10th of June, and an exact
statement rendered before the first of November.

Experiments in Raising Vegetables. — For the best experi-
ment in raising Squashes — one half-dozen of each variety to be

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exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; second best, Thomas'
Rural Affairs.

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages — not less than
six heads to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; sec-
ond best, Thomas' Rural Aftairs.

Show of Vegetables at P^xhibition — Class 1. — For the best
and largest collection of Vegetables exhibited, |20 ; second best,
$15 ; third best, $10.

For the best and largest collection of Potatoes, not less than
one peck of each variety, $G ; second best, $3.

For the best and largest collection of Winter Squashes, not less
than four of each variety, $4 ; second best, $3.

For the best new variety of Seedling Potatoes, superior to any
kind now in cultivation, a premium of '•

Class 2. — For one half-bushel best Table Potatoes, $2 ; second
best, $1.

For one half-bushel best Turnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one half-bushel best Carrots, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one half-bushel best Beets, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one half-bushel best Tomatoes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one half-bushel best Onions, $2 ; second best, $1,

For one half-bushel best Parsnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one half-bushel best Salsify, $2 ; second best, $1.

For two quarts best Lima Beans, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Late Drumhead Cabbages, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Green Globe Savoj's, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Cauliflowers, $2 ; second best, $1.

For twelve best heads of Celery, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Marrow Squashes, S2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Canada Crookneck Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1,

For four best Pumpkins, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Musk-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Water-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.

For twelve ears best Sw^eet Corn, $2 ; second best, $1.

No exhibitor in class 1 shall compete in class 2 with the same
varieties.

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SEEDS.

Committee. — George E. Chickering, Dover; John N. Smith, Walpole; ElhridgeL.
Mann, Dover.

For the best sample of ears of Seed Corn, not less than forty in
number — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

For the best collection of Onion, Carrot, Beet, Parsnip and Ru-
ta-baga Seeds — first premium, S3 ; second do., $2.

For the best ten pounds of Timothy, Redtop and Clover Seed,
$1.

For the best sample, not less than one peck, of Wheat, Rye,
Barley or Oats, $1 each.

TREE CULTURE.

Committee — Edward S. Rand, Jr., Eliphalet Stone, Dedhani: A. K. Teele, Milton ;
George Craft, Brookline; Cheever Newhall, Dorchester; Robert Watt, West Roxbury ;
Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury.

FRUIT TREES.

Apple Orchards. — For the best Apple Orchard, of not less than
fifty trees, which shall have been set out at least five years, and
which shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 1873, $8 ;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Pear Trees. — For the best engrafted or budded standard Pear
Trees, set out at least five years, and which shall be in the most
thriving condition in the autumn of 1873, not less than twenty-five
trees, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

For the best engrafted or budded Pear Trees on Quince roots,
with same conditions, and not less than fifty trees, $8 ; second
best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees,

Peach Orchards. — For the best Peach Orchard, of not less than
twenty-five trees, which shall be in the tnost thrifty bearing condi-
tion in the autumn of 1873, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits
and Fruit Trees.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than fifty trees, grownfrom
pits planted since 1864, on the spot where the trees stand, which
shall be in the best condition in 1873, $8 ; second best, Downing's
Fruits and Fruit Trees.

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Sp:edling Apples or Pears. — For the best variety' of new seed-
ling apples or pears, of decidedly superior quality, one dozen speci-
mens to be exhibited, together with a history of the origin of the
tree, a description of the growth, and its bearing character, $8 ;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Peaches. — For the best variety of Seedling Peaches
of decided^ superior quality, and worthy of general cultivation —
ane dozen specimens to be exhibited two j^ears in succession — to-
gether with a history of its origin, a description of its growth, and
the bearing character of the tree, $5 ; second best, Barry's Fruit
Garden.

Note. — Notice of intention to compete to be given to the Secretary on
or before September 1st.

FOREST TREES.

For the best plantation of Forest Trees, of either of the follow-
ing varieties, namely. White Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch,
White Ash or Walnut, Scotch Larch, Norway Spruce, Pitch, White
and Norway Pine, or other varieties, not less than three years old,
and not less than one thousand trees, — entries to be made to the
Secretary previous to June 10th, — a premium of $15.

For the best plantation, containing not less than five hundred
trees, Emerson's Shrubs and Trees of Massachusetts.

Ornamental Planting. — To any individual or society, regard
being had to the number of persons associated, for the larger num-
ber and best growth of ornamental trees, not less than fifty, which
shall have been planted in a public square or on the roadside at
least two yeai-s — first premium, $10 ; second do., Emerson's Shi-ubs
and Trees of Massachusetts.

HEDGES.

For the best Live Hedge Fence, not less than five hundred feet
in length, $5 ; second best. Warder's Hedges.

For the best Evergreen Hedge of Hemlock or Norway Spruce,
not less than four hundred feet in length, $5 ; second best, Waider's
Hedges. Premiums to be awarded in 1873.

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FLOWERS.

Committee — A. K. Teele, Miltou; Robert Watt, West Roxbury; George Craft,
Bi-ookline; Lyman Davenport, Milton; Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, Medfleld.

For the best collection of Pot Plants, $10 ; second best, $5.
For the best collection of Cut Flowers, $4 ; second best, $3 ;
third best, $2. For the best and most tastefully arranged baskets
of flowers, not less than four, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2.
For the best and most tastefully arranged bouquets, not less than
four, $4 ; second, $3 ; third, $2. For the best collection of named
gladiolus in spikes, S4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2. For the
best collection of new seedlings in spikes, $3 ; second best, $2,
For the best new seedlings, $1. For the best collection of Japan
lilies, $3; second best, $2.' For the best new seedling, $1. For
the best collection of dahlias, $2 ; second best, $1. For the best
new seedling, $1. For the best collection of double |zinnias, $2;
second best, $1.

A statement in writing of the sorts contributed, and the con-
tributor's name, will be required.

Gratuities, in publications, to the amount of $10, may be award-
ed at the discretion of the Committee.

FRUITS.

Committee ON Pears — Charles F. Curtis, W. Roxbury; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury;
Otis Gary, Foxborough; John W. Brooks, Miltou; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park;
Charles H. Mansfield, Needham.

Committee on Apples and other Fruits — George Vose, Milton ; Aaron D.
Capen, Dorchester; E. S. Rand, Jr.,Dedham; William H. Forbes, Milton; David Shaw,
Foxborough.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of Apples, twelve
specimens of each variety — first premium, $12 ; second do., Harris'
Treatise ; third do., $4 ; fourth do., $3 ; fifth do., Barry's Fruit
Garden.

For the best collection of five varieties of Apples, twelve speci-
mens, of each variety — first premium, $6 ; second do., $4.

For the best collection of twenty varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each A^ariety — first premium $15 ; second do., $12.

For the best collection of ten varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $8 ; second do., $6 ; third
do., $4.

For the best collection of five varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $6 ; second do., $4; third
do., $2.

For the best collection of Peaches, twelve specimens of each va-
riety— first premium, $3 ; second do., $2; third do., Cole's Fruit
Book.

For the best collection of Plums, twelve specimens of each va-
riety — first premium, $3 ; second do., Thomas' Rural Affairs.

Apples. — For the best collection of the following varieties,
twelve specimens of each : Baldwin — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Rhode Island Greening — first premium, $2 ; second do.,
$1. (iravenstein — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Hubbard-
ston Nonesuch — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Roxbury
Russet — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Porter — fii-st pre-
mium, $2; second do., $1. Tolman Sweet — fii'st premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. For any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1.

Pears. — For the best collection of the following varieties, twelve
specimens of each : Clapp's Favorite — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Bartlett — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Beurre
d'Anjou — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Urbaniste — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Merriam — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Louise Bonne de Jersey — first premium, 82 ; second
do., $1. Vicar of Winkfield — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Duchesse d'Angouleme — first premium $2 ; second do., $1. Seckle
— first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Onondaga — first premium,
$2 ; second do.,$l. Sheldon — first premium, $2 ; second do., Si.
Beurre Bosc — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Do^-enne Bou-
souck — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Beurre Clairgeau —
first premium, $2 ; second do.. Si. Lawrence — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Winter Nellis — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Beurre Hardy — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Buftum —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Maria Louise — first premium,
$2; second do., $1. Dana's Hovey — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Mount Vernon — first premium, $2; second do., $1.
For other varieties, not exceeding three — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1.

Grapes. — For the best collection of Foreign Grapes — first pre-
mium, $6 ; second do., $4.

For the best four bunches of the following varieties, four bunches
of each variety: Black Hamburg — first premium, $3; second
do., $2. Wilmot's No. 16 — first premium $3 ; second do., $2.

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Victoria — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2. For the best four
bunches of any white variety, $3.

For a new variety of Native or Seedling Grape, equal or superior
to the Isabella, ripening in this County in the open air by the
middle of September, prolific and suitable for the table — first pre-
mium, $20 ; second do., $10.

For the best collection of Native Grapes — first i^remium, $4 ;
second do., $3 ; third do., $2. Delaware — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Diana — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Rogers'
Hybrids — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Allen's Hybrid —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Concord — first premium, $2 ;
second do., $1. Hartford Prolific — first premium, $2; second
do., $1. Any other variety, first premium $2 ; second do., $1.

Quinces. — For the best collection of Quinces, not less than a
peck, $2.

Cranberries. — For the best collection of Cranberries, not less
than four quarts, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, Eastwood's
Cranberry Culture.

No exhibitor taking a premium for collections shall compete
with the same varieties in the class for single dishes.

COLD VINERIES.

Committee —Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; John Pearce, West Koxbury; Edwaivi S.
Band, Jr., Dedham; Henry S. Clarke, Walpole.

For the best crop, and the most economically kept Cold Viner}',
not less than thirty feet — first premium, $4 ; second best, $3.

PLOWING MATCH.

Double Ox Teams. — With Michigan Ploio.

Committee — Nathan Longfellow, Needham; William J. Hyde, Brookline; Uriah
Capen Porter, Stoughtou.

For best performance in plowing sward land, at least one eighth
of an acre, eight inches in depth, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third
best, $5.

With any other plow. — Same conditions. Best, $15; second
best, $10 ; third best, $5.

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Double Horse Teams. — With Michigan Plow.

Committee.— John E. Wetherbee, Dedhani; Charles Hartshorn, Walpolc; James T.
Sumner, Canton; James Capen, Foxboro'.

Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.
With any other plow. — Same conditions. Best, $15; second
best, $10 ; third best, $o.

Single Ox Teams. — With any Plow.

Committee. — B. N. Sawin, Dover; Charles A. Bigelow, Medway ; Henry Blacknian,
Needham.

For the best performance in plowing sward land, at least one-
eighth of an acre, six inches in depth, within an hour, $10 ; second
best, $8 ; third best, $5.

Single Horse Teams.

Committee. — Lewis W, Morse, Sharon ; Adam Mcintosh, Canton ; Edward Sumner,
Dedham.

Same conditions. Best, $10 ; second best, $5.

XOTE. — A Double Team will consist of two yokes of oxea with or
without a driver ; or a team of one yoke of oxen and a horse, with or with-
out a driver. Single Team, one yoke of oxen or one pair of horses with-
out a driver. Each competitor must own his team and plow, and enter the
same in his own name. Plows must be held and driven by tlielr owners,
or by persons statedly in their employ. In awarding premiums, one hour
will be allowed for the performance of the work, regard beini? had to the
width and depth of the furrow slice, and the evenness, ease and quiet with
which the work is performed.

A ]S^ I M A L S.

All animals to be entered in the name of the owner, who must
have had them in his possession at least six months before the Ex-
hibition.

All animals, entered in accordance with the rules and regula-
tions, will be fed, durisng the Exhibition, at the expense of the
Society.

For any animal worthy of the first premium, having received a
similar one at any previous Exhiiiition, a diploma, certifying the
rank of such animal at the present Exliibition, shall be awarded
instead of a premium.

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A diploma may also be awarded, at the discre#on of the several
Committees, for any animal, worthy of Exhibition, from without
the limits of the Society.

HORSES.

In awarding the premium on Roadsters, the general good quali-
ties — such as style, action, constitution and enduring properties —
as well as speed of the animals, will receive special consideration.

In testing the speed of horses, each animal — four years old and
over — will be required to draw a carriage weighing, with driver
included, not less than 350 pounds.

It is understood that horses which have heretofore been classed
under the head of " Thoroughbred and part Thoroughbred," maj^
compete as Roadsters, or in any other class.

Colts and fillies will compete in separate classes, as heretofore,
the premiums being the same for either sex.

No stallion will be entitled to a premium without a guarantee of
his remaining for service in the County six months.

In testing the strength, docility and training of Draught or
Team Horses, the load shall not be less than 2000 pounds for a
single horse, and 3500 pounds for a pair of horses.

Every entry for premium must be made before 12 o'clock of the
first day of the P^xhibition, and the Stock must be present the sec-
ond day on or before 9 o'clock a.m.

It must be distinctly understood that premiums will not be
awarded to any animal that does not, in the opinion of the Com-
mittee, possess decided merit and a sound constitution.

Augustus P. Calder, Dorchester, General Chairman.
Class A. -—- Roadsters.

Committee, — Hem-y Jones, Stoughton; William T. Thacher. Hyde Park; William
Porter, Randolph.

Is^ Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " , " " 7 00

2d Division.
For the best brood mare, with a foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " '^ 5 00

3d Division. — Colts and Fillies:
For the best 4 years old, a premium of . ; . . $5 00

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For the 2tl best 4 3'ears old, a premium of
best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best "
4th Division. — Pairs in Harness.
For the best pair of Roadsters, a premium of
2d best " "

Cith Division. — Harness Horses.
For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of .
2d best '' " '^

3d best " " "

4th best " " "

$3 00

5 00

3 00

3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

$10 00

7 00

$8 00

6 00

4 00

2 00

Class B. — Horses of all Work.

Committee. — Oliver Deane, Canton; Francis B.Ray, Franklin: William T. Cook,
Foxborough.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " " " 7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " o 00

'dd Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 3'ears old, a pi

emium of

• • •

$5 00

2d best

3 00

best 3 3^ears old.

• • •

5 00

2d best '*

• • •

3 00

best 2 3'ear8 old,

• • •

3 00

2d best ''

• • •

2 00

best 1 year old,

•

3 00

2d best ^

• • •

2 00

4th Division. — Pairs in Harness.

For the best, a premium of

• •

• • •

$7 00

2d best, '■'

• •

• • *

5 00

f)th Division. — Horses in

Harness.

For the best Gelding or Mar

e, a premium of .

$0 00

2d best " "

(4

• ■

4 00

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Class C. — Family Horses.

CoMMirrEE. — George R. Mann, Sharon; Erastus Nash, Weymouth; Henry Trow-
bridge, Norfolk.

1st Dlinsion. — Stallions.
For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of 810 00
2d best " " " 7 00

2d Du'ision. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00

u
u

u

2d best " . "

3d Division. — Colts and Fillies.
For the best 4 years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old,
2d best „
For the best 2 5'ears old,
2d best "
best one year old,
2d best

4(h Division. — Carriage Horses 15 to 16 hands high.
For the best pair of Carriage Horses, a premium of
2d best " " "

^th Division — Buggy or Chaise Horses.
For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of
2d best " " " "

3d best '' " " "

Gth Division. — Saddle Horses.
For the best Satldle Horse, a premium of
2d best " " "

3d best '' " "

7th Division. — Ponies.
For the best matched Ponies, a premium of

2d best " "

best single Pony,

2d best " "

5 00

$5 00
3 00

5 GO
3 00
3 00

2 00

3 00
2 00

$10 00
7 00

$8 00

6 00

4 00

$Q 00
4 00

3 00

$6 00

4 00
3 00

2 00

Class D. — Draught or Team Horses.

Committee.— Everett J. Eaton, Needham ; Allen Colburn, Dedham ; Ephraim Mann ,
Randolph.

1st Division. — Single Draught or Team Horses.
For the best Draught Horse, a premium of . . $7 00

2d best "

5 00

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2d Division. — Pairs of Draught or Team Horses.

For the best pair of Draught or Team Horses, a premium of $10 00
2cl best " " " ♦* 7 00

CATTLE.
Bulls.

Committee. —Asnhel S. Drake, Sharon; Nathaniel S. White, Canton; James M. Cod-
man, lirookliiie; Edward M. Gary, Milton : Elijali Tucker, Canton.

For the best thoroughbred Bull, one year old and upwards, of
of either Jersej^ Durham, Devon, Ayrshire, Hereford, Kerry,
or other foreign stock — in each class, $10 ; second best, $5.

For the best Bull Calf under one year old, foreign stock — $o ;
second best, $2.

Cows.

Committee. — Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham; Aaron Bacon, Dover; Ellis Tucker, Can-
ton; Samuel Cook, Milton; Jesse Fenno, Canton; Augustus Lowell, Brookline; Charles
F. Howard, Foxboro'.

For the best Cow, three years old or upwards, of foreign stock,
of either class, each, $10 ; second best $5 ; third best, $4.

Grade, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best, $4.

Milch Cows. — Three years old and upwards. For the best
Milch Cow, without regard to breed, each, $12 ; second best, $8 ;
third best, $6 ; fourth best, $4.

For the best Milch Heifer, less than three ^^ears old, $4 ; second
best, $2.

Herds of Milch Cows. — For the best herd of Milch Cows —
not less than six — kept on any farm in the County, and exhibited
at the Show, regard being had to the breed, age and milking prop-
erties— first premium, the Wilder Cup, of the value of $25 ; sec-
ond premium, $12 ; third premium, $8 ; fourth premium, $6.

Note. — No competitor for the premiums oftered for herds shall be al-
lowed to ofter the same animals for any premium of a ditferent class.

Heifers.

Committee. — Edward P. Burgess, Dedham; Lemuel Billings, Quincy; Joseph W.
Page, West Roxbury.

For the best Heifer, two years old and under three, foreign
stock, of either class, each, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.
Grade or Native, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.
For the best Heifer, one year old, of any stock, $4 ; second best,

$2.

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For the best Heifer Calf, under one year old, of any stock, $4 ;
second best, $2.

Working Oxen, Town Teams and Steers.

Committee. — Robert Mansfield, Needham; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester: John Bat-
telle, Dover; Charles Hartshorn, Walpole.

For the best 3'oke, four years old and upwards, $10 ; second
best, $7 ; third best, $4.

For the largest and best team, of not less than ten yokes of Oxen
or Steers, from any city or town in the County — first premium,
$12 ; second best, $8.

For the best yoke of Steers, well broken, three years old and
under four, $6 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $3.

For the best yoke of Steers, well broken, two years old and un-
der three, $4 ; second best, $3.

Note. — For Oxen or Steers, and also for Herds of Milch Cows, bred
and raised by the exhibitor, twenty per cent additional. In testing the
strength, docility and training of Working Oxen, the load shall not be
less than 2,500 pounds for oxen of five years old and upwards ; and not
less than 2,000 pounds for oxen under five years old. In testing the char-
acter of Steers, as the Committee may direct, special regard will be paid
to their docility and proper training.

Fat Cattle.

Committee. — A. W. Cheever, Wrentham ; John Sias, Milton; Charles Mackintosh,
Neelham.

For the best beef animal fattened by the exhibitor, within the
County, regard being had to the manner and expense of feed-
ing— of which a written statement will be required — first pre-
mium, $8 ; second do., $6.

SWINE.

Committee — Samuel B. Noyes, Canton; Thomas B, Griggs, Brookline; Henry
Gouldin^, Dover; Solomon Flags. Needham; J. B. Tilley, Brookline.

For tlie largest and best collection of Swine — not less than six
hogs in number — first premium, $15 ; second do., $10 ; third do.,

$7.
Boars. — For the best Boar, not less than six months old, $6 ;

second best, $4.

yows. — For tlie best Sow, not less than six months old, $6 ;
second best, $4.

Weaned Pigs. — For the best litter, not less than four in nnin-
)ier and not more than six months old, $6 ; second best, $4.

Fat Hogs. — For the best Fat Hog, regard being had to breed,
age and feeding, $10; second best, $6.

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XoTK. — No coinpctitor Cor tin- l;ir;;<'sl (olloclioii of swine, will be ;il ■
lowed to oft'er the same for any preiniuiu of a cliffercut class.

SHEEP.

CoMMiTTKr.. — Charles Breck, Milton; JohnS. Mackintosh, West Roxbury; Theodore
Harding, Mcdway.

For the largest and best lot of Slieep — not less than six in
munber — $10; second best, S8.

For the best lot of Lambs — not less than six in nnraber — bred
by the exhibitor, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best Ram — Cotswold, Leicester, Oxford Down or Sonth-
down — not less than one year old, $o ; second best, $3.

POULTRY.

Committee. — Abel F. Stevens, Needham ; Albert H. Drake, Stoughton ; J. F. Cowell,
Wrentham.

Class 1.

For the largest and best collection of Gallinaceous and Aquatic
Fowls, first premium of $15 ; second do., $10 ; or " Tegetmier's
Poultry Book."

For the best collection of Water FoavIs, first premium, " Teget-
mier's Poultry Book ; " second do., $5.

Class 2.

For the Ijest trio light Brahmas, dark Brahmas, Cochins, Spanish
Dorking, Leghorn, Hambui'g, French Fowls, Asiatics, Dorkings,
Spanish Leghorns, Grand Polish, Bantam or any other variety,
either old fowls or chickens, first premium, $3 ; second do., $2 ;
third do., $1.

For the best pair of Turkeys, first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best pair of Geese, first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best pair of Ducks, first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

E'er the best collection of Pigeons, first premium, $3 ; second
do., $2.

Ten dollars in gratuities ma}^ be awarded, at the discretion of
the Committee.

Note. — Poultry must be entered on the first day of the Exhibition, be-
fore 12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

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D AIK Y.

Committee.— Milton M. Fisher, Medway ; Henry Grew, Hyde Park ; Lucius Clapp,
Stoughton : Marsliall S. Scudder, Needham ; Mrs. George Vose, Milton ; Mrs. William R.
Mann, Sharon.

Butter. — For the best produce of Butter, on any farm within
the County, for four months, from the 20th of Ma}^ to the 20th of
September — a sample of not less than ten pounds to be exhibited
— quantity as well as quality to be taken into view, — first pre-
mium, $10 ; second do., $8 ; third do., $5 ; fourth do., $4.

Note. — It will be seen that these premiums are offered for the best
produce on the Farms, and not simplj- for the best specimen.s exhibited.
Each lot must be numbered, but not marked ; any public or known mark
must be completely concealed, nor must the competitors be present at the
examination.

For the best box of Butter — not less than six pounds — first pre-
mium, S5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's Treatise on Dairy
Farming.

J^^NOTE. — Butter must be presented only on the morning of the sec-
ond day before 9 o'clock.

Cheese. — For the best lot of Cheese — not less than twenty-five
pounds — first premium, $5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's
Treatise on Dairy P' arming.

BREAD.

Committee.— J. White Belcher, Randolph; Albert B. Balch, Medfield; Elijah
Tucker, Milton; Mrs. Kliphalet Stone, Dedham; Mrs. A. S. Drake, Sharon.

For the best loaf of "Wheat and Indian, of not less than two
pounds weight — first premium S3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf made of Unbolted Wheat, which has been
grown in the County, of not less than two pounds weight — first
premium, $o ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Rye and Indian, of not less than four pounds
weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Wheat Bread, of not less than two pounds
weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

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For the best specimens of each or any of the aforementioned
kinds of bread, made by any young woman under eighteen years
of age, an additional premium of twenty-five per cent.

The bread presented for premium must be made on the first day
of the Exhibition, by some member of a family, in whose name the
entry shall be made, and to whom the premium shall be awarded.
The bread shall be made without the use of saleratus or other al-
kaline' substance, and made in the ftimily, and be presented only
on the second day of the Exhibition, before 9 o'clock in the morn-
ing. No name or mark shall be put on the loaves, except the
number of the entry in the Committee's book.

The names of contributors shall not be known to the Committee,
and no person shall serve on the same if any member of his family
shall be a competitor.

HONEY.

For the best specimen of Honey in the Comb, not less than six
pounds, "Longstrath on the Honey Bee ;" second best, $1.

MANUFACTURES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee.— William Ames, 2d, Dedliam; Calvin Richards, Dover; Henry Gould-
ing, Dover; Horace Guild, Canton.

For the largest and best collection, $12 ; second, $6.

For any new or improved Plow, which on trial shall be found
best adapted for the thorough pulverization of old plowed land, a
premium of $6.

New Inventions. — For any new invention of decided superiority
and usefulness to the farmer, a premium or gratuity, at the discre-
tion of the Committee.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.
Fancy Articles.

Committee.— Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park; Mrs. W.T. Thacher. Hyde Park; Mrs.
DiiiSiels, Hyde Park; Mrs. John M. Harris, Needham; Mrs. Charles H. Leland, Ded-
ham.

Including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shellwork, Millineiy,

Drawings, Paintings, &c.
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For such articles in this department as may be deemed worthy, a
sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars shall be appropriated, to be
paid in premiums or gratuities, proportioned to the cost and value
of the article, at the discretion of the Committee.

Xotp:. — It should be niulerstood that in this department of Ladies*
work — while other tilings will receive due consideration — the premiums
are intended .solely fok newly made articles which are really useful or
particularly beautiful. For well-made garments of any kind ;'fot. stock-
ins? knitting of wool, cotton or silk; for bonnet and cap making ; for all
articles for children's wear, well made or tastefully embroidered; for neat
and thorouo-li nuMKhng, patching and darning; for drawing, designing,
or painting in oil or water colors ; for models in plaster, Avood or marble,
&c.

Any article well and tastefully wrought, oflered by children under
twelve years of uge, will receive particular attention.

Manufactures of Straw.

Committee.— A. S. Hiuding, Medway; J. A. Turner, Medfield; Charles C^ Sumner,
Foxboro'.

For the best specimen of Straw Bonnets, wholly of domestic
manufacture, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best specimens of Straw Braid of domestic straw, not
less than 100 yards, $5 ; second best, $3.

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Manufactures of Cloth, Flannels, Hosiery, &c.

Committee.— Charles M. French, Canton; Naaman B. Wilmarth, Walpole; Luther
Mctcalf, Medway ; Ezra W. Talt, Dedham.

Cotton Cloth. — For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any
description, not less than twentv-eight yards in quantity, a pre-
mium or gratnity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Woolen Cloth. — For the best specimen of Woolen Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty yards in quantity, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cotton, and Woolen Mixed. — For the best specimen of Cotton
and Woolen Cloth, of any description, not less than twenty yards
in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Flannels. — For the best specimen of Flannel, not less than
twenty yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion
of the Committee.

For the best specimen of Cotton Flannel, not less than twenty
yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the
Conniiittee.

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For the best pair of Woolen Blankets, a premium or gratuity, at
the discretion of the Committee.

Hofiipry^&c. — For the best specimen of Woolen Hose, a premi-
um of SI.

For the best specimen of Woolen Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Hose, a premium of oO cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Half Hose, a premium of 25
cents.

For the best specimen of Worsted Hose, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Worsted Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the best specimen of Sewing Silk, not less than one pound, a
premium of $2.

For the best specimen of Knitting Yarn, not less than one pound,
a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Spool Thread, not less than one pound,
a premium of SI.

For the best Fleece of Wool, a premium of SI.

For the best dozen seamless Grain Bags, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of neat and thorough mending, patching or
darning of garments, hose, &c., a premium of Si.

For the best specimen of covered bonnet wire, S3.

Counterpanes. — For the best Counterpane — regard being had
to the qualit}^ and expense of materials — first premium, S3 ; second
do., S2.

Carpetings, Rugs and Floor Cloth.

For the best "Common" Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting.
(k a "Fine" " " ''

" " "Superfine" "■ "

" " "Common," "Fine" or "Superfine" Ingrain 3-ply

Carpeting.
For the best Brussels Floor Carpeting.
" Tapestry " "

" ' Velvet Carpeting.
For each of these descriptions of Carpeting, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Iii.<2:raiu 3-ply Carpetintr will he jui1o;(h1 by the comparative
merits of pieces of siiuilar weight; or disregardiiio: weight, hy the quality
of color, the taste of shading, and evenness in spinning and weaving.

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For the best piece of Stair Carpeting, tlie Society's diploma.
For the best Hearth Rug, the Society's diploma.
For the best specimen of painted Floor Cloth, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Any articles in either of tlie foregoing departments, which
shall have been manufactured in the family of the person presenting it,
wll receive the particular consideration of the Connnittee, and, if worthy,
a suitable premium.

Glass, Stone, Earthen, Wooden and Iron Ware.

Committee.— Frank M. Ames, Canton; Alexander Dickson, West Roxbury; Curtis
G. Morse, Norwood; Manly W. Cain, Dorchester.

Glass, Stone, Earthen' and Wooden Ware. — For the finest
collection and best specimen of articles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brass, Copper, Tin, Iron and Brittannia Ware. — For the
finest collection and best specimen of articles in each of these de-
partments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Cabinet Work. — For the best specimen of Cabinet Work, a
premium or the Society's diploma.

Iron Fencing, Gates and Posts. — For the best specimen of
each — regard being had to cost and utility, as well as ornament — a
premium or gratuitj^, at the discretion of the Committee.

Stoves. — For the best Farmer's Cauldron vStove ;
" " " Cooking "

u u c. Parlor "

— a premium of $2 each.

Horse and Ox Shoes.— For the best set of Horse and C)x Shoes,
a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Horse Shoes, for meadow lands, a
premium of $1.

Leather, and Articles Manufactured Therefrom, India Rub-
ber Goods., &c.

Committee.— Joseph Day, Norwood; Benjamin F. White, Weymouth; John Mann,
Walpole; Jonathan R. Gay, Stoughton.

India Rubber Goods* — For the finest collection of India Rub-
ber goods, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Commit-
tee.

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Brushes, Combs, Hats, Caps and Gloves. — For tlio finest col-
lection and best specimen of each of these articles, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

For the best specimen of Thick Boots, a premium of
" " « Calfskin,

" " " Thin Boots, other

than Calfskin,
" " " Kipskin,

" " " Thick Brogans,

" •■' " Fine Brogans,

" " " Ladies' Boots

For the best specimen of Upper or Sole Leather, or Morocco, a
premium or gratuity, each, at the discretion of the committee.
For the best single Carriage Harness ;
" " double " "

" " Cart Harness — a premium or gratuity, each, at the
discretion of the Committee.

For the best Riding Bridle, a premium of . $1 00

" Saddle, " . 2 00

" Carriage or Cart Whip, a premium of . 1 00

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Carriages, Wagons, Carts, &c.

Committee— George K. Gannett. Milton; Sanford Carroll, Dedham; George Everett,
Norwood.

For the best specimen of Family Carriages, for one horse or two
horses.

F'or the best Covered Wagon ;
" " Open
" " Farm "

" " « Cart;

" " " Wheelbarrow — either a premium or gratu-

ity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Jellies, Preserves, Pickles, Ketchup, «S:c.

Committee.— Mrs. A. F. Stevens, Needham; Mrs. Sarah E. Sumner, Canton; Mrs.
Elizabeth r. Wilmarth, Walpole; Mrs. A. H. Drake, Stoughton.

For the finest collection and best specimen of each, made of
articles of domestic growth, first premium, $5 ; second, $3 ; third,

$2.

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Canned Fruits and Vegetables. — For the finest collection and
best specimens of each, made of articles of domestic growth, first
premium, $5 ; second, $3 ; third, $2.

Note. — It is to be understood that all articles presented for premium,
in each of the foregoing departments, except Agricultural Implements,
shall have been manufactured or produced within the County, and by the
person presenting them. Also, that in every case, the Examining Com-
mittee shall have the right to substitute the Society's diploma for a pre-
mium or gratuity, or to give it where no premium or gratuity has been
offered, at their discretion.

All discretionary premiums or gratuities shall be proportioned to the
actual value and utility of the articles.

Articles in either of the above departments, contribiUed to the Exhibi-
tion by persons not resident in' the County, shall receive suitable attention
from the Committee, and, if wortliy, be awarded the Society's diploma.

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Committee.— A. W. Cheever, Wientham ; Edward Howe, West Roxbury ; A. F. Ste
vens, Needham.

For the largest and best collection of Insects found within the
County, beneficial or injurious to vegetation, properly arranged
and classified, to be exhibited on the Society's tables, at the An-
nual Exhibition, one cop}- of Harris's Treatise on Insects.

For the largest and best collection of Birds found within the
County, beneficial or injurious to vegetation, properly arranged
and classified, to be exhibited on the Society's tables, at the An-
nual Exhibition, one copy of Samuel's Book on Birds.

AGRICULTURAL LABORERS.

For a certificate — signed by his employer, and countersigned by
any two of the Trustees residing nearest to the applicant — of the
superior qualifications of any man or youth, in the employment of
any member of the Society for a period next preceding, of not less
than two years, attesting the industry, integrity, respectful de-
meanor and general good habits, during the time, of the bearer of
such certificate, a premium of Membership of the Society and a
diploma.

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AGRICULTURAL P:SSAYS.

COMMITTKE.— Henry S. RusselJ, Milton ; Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester; Charles
C. Sewell, Medlield; Henry O. Hildreth, Dedliam; Albert K. Teele, Milton; Theodore
Lyniun, IJrookline.

For the best Report of Committees which recommend the award
of premiums. First premium, $8 ; second, $6 ; third, S4.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the various grasses, or cereal, fruit or vegeta-
ble crops, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the breeding and raising of the diflferent classes
of farm stock, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the fattening of cattle, swine or sheep,
detailing the process and expense of the same, a premium not ex-
ceeding $25.

Forest Trees. — For the best Essay on the raising and culti\a-
tion of Forest Trees, a premium not exceeding $25.

Insects. — For the best Essay on the destruction of Insects inju-
rious to vegetation, such as CurcuUo^^Borer, Can Jeer- Worm, Cater-
pillar, Cut- Worm, Squash-Bag, Stnped-Bvg, Rose-Bug, etc., etc., a
premium not exceeding $25.

Pkesekvation of Winter Fruit. — For the best Essay on the
preservation of Apples and other Winter Fruits, a premium not
exceeding $25.

Preservation of Vegetables. — For the best Essay on the
preservation of Vegetables, a premium not exceeding $25.

Agricultural Education. — For the best Essay on Agricultural
Education, a premium not exceeding $25.

Farm Accounts. — For the best Essay on a system of Farm Ac-
counts, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Domestic Poultry, a premium not exceed-
ijg $25.

For the best Essay on Fences for Farms, uniting economy,
strength and appearance, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the Extermination of Weeds and Plants,
destructive to crops, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essa}' on the Preservation and Ap|)lication of
Liquid INIanure, a i)remium not exceeding $25.

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For the best Essay on the introduction of new Fruits, or of new
articles of Field Culture, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the value and application of Phosphate of
Lime, or any fertilizer of the soil, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Bees and Structure of Hives, with partic-
ular reference to feeding Bees and guarding against the spoliation
of the Bee Moth, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best plan for a Barn and Barnyard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfort of the Cattle, the ease and con-
venience of tending them, and the making and preserving the
Manure, a premium not exceeding $25.

Tliese premiums will not be awarded unless the Essays offered
shall, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to decide upon
them, be deemed worthy of an award, without reference to their
comparative merit.

FARM BUILDINGS.

For the best planned house and out-buildings — regard being had
to the cost and economy of labor — the house to be warm, well
lighted and ventilated, with a cellar protected from frost and ver-
min, and the whole not to cost over $2500 — to be examined by the
Supervisor}' Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said Com-
mittee.

LIST OF PREMIUMS,

Eules anti 3i\egulaticin!a anti ili'st of Cammittcea.

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

FOR THE

TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION,

TO BE HOLDEN AT

BEADVILLE,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, SEPT. 12 and 13, 1872.

HYDE PARK:
PRINTED AT THE Q- A Z E T T E OFFICE,

1872.

JI^^The Trustees invite the Agriculturists, Mechanics,
Manufacturers, Horticulturists, and Ladies of the County, to
join their endeavors to render the Exhibition worthy of the
patronage of the Commonwealth, and creditable to them-
selves.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY,

1871-72.

President.
Gkn. henry S. RUSSELL, .... Milton.

Honorary President.
Hon. marshal P. WILDER, .... Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents.

Hon. Otis Gary, Foxborough.

Stephen W. Richakdson, Franklin.

Elijah Tucker, Milton.

Henry Grew, H5'de Park.

Royal W. Turner, Randolph.

Alonzo W. Cheever, Wrentham.

Corresponding and Becording Secretary.
Henry O. Hildreth, Dedham.

IVeasurer.
Chauncy C. Churchill, Dedham.

Executive Committee.

William R. Mann, Sharon; Truman Clarke, Walpole; Charles
Breck, Milton; Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph; E. C. R. Walker,
Roxbury; A. B. Balch, Medfleld; Willia:m E. Coffin, Dorchester;
Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury; Augustus P. Calder, West Rox-
bury.

Finance Committee and Auditors.
Ira Cleveland, Dedham ; Edward S. Rand, Jr., Dedham; William
J. Stuart, Hyde Park.

Supervisory Committee.

The President, Honorary President, and Secretary, ex-officiis;
Charles C. Sewall, Medfleld ; Otis Cary, Foxborough ; A. W. Cheever,
Wrentham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; B. G. Kimball, Needham;
Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Breck, Milton; Lucius Clapp,
Stoughtou ; JosiAH P. QuiNCY, Quincy ; Elijah Tucker, Milton ; Henry
GouLDiNG, Dover; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury; Charles F. Curtis,
West Roxbury ; A. F. Stevens, Needham : Thomas B. Griggs, Brook-
line.

Committee of Arrangements.
William R. Mann, Sharon; Chauncy C. Churchill, Henry O. Hil-
dreth, Dedham ; Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury ; A. P. Calder,
Dorchester; Willia.m J. Stuart, Hyde Park; John D. Bradlee, Mil-
ton; John S. Fogg, Weymouth; Charles A. Howl.\nd, Quincy ; Al-
bert B. Balch, Medfleld ; Ellis Tucker, Canton ; Henry S. Clarke,
Walpole ; Henry Trowbridge, Norfolk.

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles
grown or manufactured in the County, or in towns contiguous
thereto, unless otherwise specified in the premium list. Essays
and Agricultural Implements, being exempted from this rule, will
be opened to general competition.

^^ Committees are prohibited from awarding gratuities, other
than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list.

^^No object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it
possesses j)oints of superiority ; and the Committees are prohibited
from awarding premiums, if, in their opinion, the articles or objects
are not deemed worthy.

Any gentleman, not a member of the Society, entitled to a
premium of five dollars or upwards, and any lady, not a member
of the Society, entitled to a premium of two dollars or upwards,
shall receive the amount exceeding the sum of five dollars or two
dollars, respectively, and may thereafter become a member.

All animals and articles intended for exhibition and premium —
herds of milch cows and bread and butter excepted — must be on
the ground at or before twelve o'clock on Thursday, the first day of
the Exhibition, to be entitled to any premium. Animals will
not be allowed to be removed from the pens before three o'clock on
Friday, the second day ; and all other articles not until five o'clock.

The same animal — except working oxen and draught horses —
or article shall not be allowed to compete for more than one pre-
mium. And in fruit, it is understood that the same varieties sliall
not be included in different collections of the same exhibitor, com-
peting for premium.

In order to extend liberal encouragement to citizens of the
County living remote from the Society's grounds, a sum — not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars — will be appropriated for compensation of
travel to the owners of all such neat cattle, swine, and sheep, as
have been brought or driven more than five miles — reckoning the
distance from whence they come to the place of exhibition — and

receive no premium. Only one travel will be allowed to the same
person. Payment will be made at the rate of ten cents per mile
for a yoke of oxen or steers ; eight cents per luile for each bull,
cow, heifer, or yearling ; ten cents per mile for each boar, sow,
or litter of weaned pigs; and eight cents per mile for each flock
of sheep. But no such payment shall be made for any animal or
animals which, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to
manage them, are not of a superior character and worthy of ex-
hibition, or have not been entered in accordance with the rules
and regulations of the Society.

The animals, while on the ground, will be fed at the expense of
the Society.

All flowers, fruits, and vegetables are to be grown by, and entered
in the name of, the contributor.

No person serving on anj'- of the Committees shall have a vote
in any case, when he shall be personally interested as a com-
petitor.

After the objects for exhibition are arranged, they will be
under the exclusive charge of the Superintendents, and cannot be
removed ivithout their consent.

All other entries for premiums must be made in writing, and
shall be placed in the hands of the Recording Secretary on or
before the 15th of November.

Premiums awarded and not called for on or before tlie last
Wednesdaj^ in March following, will be considered as given to the
Society, in aid of its funds.

The Trustees have carefully revised and approved of the follow-
ing list of premiums. The respective Committees appointed to
award the same are required to enforce a strict conformity to all
the rules in relation to Entries and Certificates.

In the appointment of Committees the Trustees will seek for
the most judicious and skilful individuals in the various towns
in the County, to award the premiums ; but should thej^ fail to
secure the aid of the ablest and most experienced men in the above
capacity, they will rely upon the forbearance which they believe
will be generouslj' extended towards sincere and unwearied eflforts.

As it will become the duty of the Society to make to the
Legislature an exact report of its doings, the Trustees deem it of
the highest importance that earnest and persevering etibrts be
ma.le by the citizens of every town in the County to bring out
the results of their skill and industry.

HENRY S. RUSSELL, President.

Henry 0. Hildreth, Secretary.

LIST

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PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR THE YEAR 1872.

(Successful Competitors may receive their Premiums in Plate or Money, at their option.)

Superintendents at Exhibition.

Horses, — Augustus P. Calder, Dorchester; Assistant, Henry A.
Darling, Hyde Park.

Cattle. — Nathaniel S. White, Canton.

Sheep and Swine. — Henry Goulding, Dover.

Poxdtry.—K. F. Stevens, Needham.

jFn«Y.— Charles F. Curtis, "West Roxbury.

JJ'/otoers.— Robert Watt, West Roxbury.

Vegetables.— Ci^-RVB G. Upham, Needham.

Manufactures, Carriages, Agricultural Implements, (fee— William Ames,
Dedham.

Plowing and Drawing. — Asahel S. Drake, Sharon.

Ladies' Work.—lAvs. Hamilton J. Farrar, West Roxbury.

Committee to fill Vacancies on Committees at Exhlbition.

Otis Cary, Foxborough; Henry O. Hildreth, Dedham; Albert B.
Balch, Medfield ; N. B. Wilmarth, Walpole ; J. Walter Bradlee, Milton.

FAR M S.

EXPERIMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARMS.

Supervisory Committee.— The President, Honorary President, and Secretary, ex-
officAis; Charles C. Sewall, Medfield; Otis Caiy, Foxborough; A. W. Cheever,
Wrentham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; B. G. Kimball, Needham; Henry Grew,
Hyde Park; Charles Breck, Milton; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton; Josiah P. Quincy,
Quincy; Elijah Tucker, Milton; Henry Goulding, Dover; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury;
Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury; A. P. Stevens, Needham; Thomas B. Griggs,
Brookline.

For the best managed farm, taking into view the condition of
the buildings, fences, and orchards, the cultivation of the lands.

the care and managemcet of the stock, the quantity, quality, and
preservation of the crops, the expenses incurred and the improve-
ments made during tlie year, with a detailed statement of the
whole, to be rendered on or before November 15th, $25 ; second
best, S20.

Competitors must give notice of their intention to the Secretary
on or before June 15th. Farms entered for premiums will be
viewed by the Supervisory Committee, as they shall deem expe-
dient, between June 20th and September 20th. Any farm offered
for inspection, without being entered for a premium, will be viewed
and reported by the Committee, if seasonable application be made
to the Chairman.

PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Committee.— Henry Grew, Hyde Park; H. W. Jones, Franklin; Horatio Boyden,
Walpole; Charles E. C. Breck, Milton; E. P. Carpenter, Foxborough.

Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands. — For the best experi-
ment in reclaiming wet meadow or swamp lands, bj' drainage or
otherwise, on not less than one half acre, with statement in detail
of the previous condition and produce of the land, the method and
expense of the experiment, and the produce at the present time, $8 ;
second best, $4.

Under-draining Land. — For the best experiment in under-
draining land, not less than forty square rods, regard being had
to the character of the soil and subsoil, the method, extent, ex-
pense, and result of the experiment, SlO ; second best, $5 ; third
best, French's Drainage.

Old Pasture and Unimproved Lands. — For the best conducted
experiment in renovating and improving old pasture lands and
lands hitherto lying waste, on not less than one acre, with or with-
out plowing, with a statement of the previous condition of the
land, and of the method, expense, and result of the experiment, $8 ;
second best, $5 ; third best, Flint's Dairy.

TURNING IN CROPS AS MANURE.

Commi^'ee.— Aaron D. Weld, West Roxbury; Calvin Richards, Dover; 8. W. Rich
ardson, Franklin.

For the most satisfactory experiment of turning in crops as a
manure, either green or dry, on not less than one-half acre of land,
a detailed account of the whole process, expense, and result to be
given in writing, $6.

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EXPERIMENTS IN SUBSOIL PLOWING.

For the best experiment, on not less than one acre of land,
of the effect of subsoil plowing, to be determined by the difference
in the value of the crops raised on equal portions of equally
manured laud, of like quality, one-half of which having been sub-
soil-plowed, and the other half plowed in the usual manner, state-
ments of the depth of plowing in each instance, together with all
the particulars of culture required, $8 ; second best. Burr's Vege-
tables.

FEEDING AND FATTENING STOCK.

Committee.— \. W. Cheever, Wrentham; John Sias, Milton; A. T. Meserve, West
Roxbury.

Comparative Value of Crops as Food for Cattle. — For the
best experiment upon a «tock of cattle, not less than four in num-
ber, to ascertain the relative value of the different kinds of fodder
used, with a statement in detail of the quantity and qualify of the
same, as compared with English hay, the experiment to be made
in the three winter months, $12 ; second best, Stephens' Farmer's
Guide.

Feeding of Milch Cows. — For the best experiment in the
feeding of milch cows, by soiling, stall-feeding, or pasturing, with
a detailed statement of the comparative advantages of either
method, regard being had to the saving of manure, comfort of the
animals, and produce of the dairy, $12; second best, $8; third
best, Flint's Dairy.

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cattle,
with a statement in detail of the process, expense, and result, $5 ;
second best, Flint's Grasses.

Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine,
with a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second
best, Flint's Dairy.

HAY.

Committee.— ^v&stna L. Metcalf, Franklin ; Ellis Tucker, Canton; Francis D. Wil-
liams, Foxborough.

For the largest quantity and best quality of English hay per
acre produced on any farm in the County, regard being had to the
character of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and making,
$25 ; second best, Flint's Treatise on Grasses.

CRANBERRY VINES.

For the best experiment iu transplanting Cranberry Vines, or
in growing them from seed, on not less than one-eighth of an
acre, which shall be in the most flourishing and productive state on
the 10th of September, $6 ; second best, $3 ; third best, East-
wood's Cranberry Culture.

Competitors will be required to give an exact statement of the
process, expense, and result of the experiment.

GRAIN, ROOT AND MIXED CROPS.

GRAIN CROPS.

Committee.— Charles Bieck, John Sias, Charles E. C. Breck, of Miltou ; Edward Sum-
ner, Dedham; Henry Bird, Stoughton.

For the best experiment in raising Wheat, a premium of $10 ;
second best, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Rye, Oats, or Barley, each,
a premium of $10 ; second best, each, Flint's Grasses.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of
$10 ; second best, Flint's Dairy.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, Millet, or Buck-
wheat, each, Bridgeman's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Samples of each kind of Grain, not less than half a bushel,
properly labeled, must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of
the crop to be ascertained by weight as follows : — Corn and Rye,
56 pounds each to the bushel ; Barley and Buckwheat, 48 pounds
each ; Oats, 32 pounds ; Wheat, 60 pounds.

ROOT CROPS.

For the best experiment in raising Potatoes, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots,
Parsnips, Mangold Murtzel, or Ruta-Baga, each, Burr's Vegeta-
bles ; second best, each, McMahon's American Gardener.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, Burr's Vegetables ;
second best, McMahon's American Gardener,

For the best experiment in raising Flat Turnips, Burr's Vegeta-
bles ; second best, McMahon's American Gardener.

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Samples of roots, not less than one bushel, properly labeled,
must be exhibited at the Show. The quantity of the crops, which
must be on not less than one-quarter of an acre, shall be ascer-
tained by weight of the roots — freed from dirt and without tops —
as follows : Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangold Wurtzel and Ruta-
Bagas, 60 pounds ; Carrots, 55 pounds ; Onions and Flat Turnips,
50 pounds ; Parsnips, 45 pounds to the bushel.

Experiments will be viewed by the Committee between July 1st
and September 20th.

Claimants for premiums must render to the Chairman of the
Committee, on or before November 15th, a written statement of
the character and previous condition of the land, its present value?
and the taxes upon it ; the kind, quality and value of manure used ;
the quantity and cost of seed sown ; the labor and expense of cul-
tivating and harvesting the crop ; and the quantity, quality, and
value of the crop. In awarding premiums, regard will be had to
all these circumstances, and to the area of the ground in cultiva-
tion.

MIXED CROPS.

For the best experiment in cultivating mixed crops of Grain and
Vegetables, in alternate portions, or of different roots, in alternate
rows, Harris' Treatise on Insects ; second best, Burr's Vegetables ;
third best, French's Drainage. The experiment must be made on
not less than half an acre of land, and a detailed statement of the
mode of culture, expense and product must be rendered on or be-
fore November 15th.

VEGETABLES.

VEGETABLE GARDEN.

Committee.— Charles L. Copeland, Milton ; John W. Richardson, Tranklin; J. W.
Page, West Roxbury ; William J. Griggs, Brookline ; J. N. Geissler, Sharon.

For the best Vegetable Garden, regard being had to the vari-
ety, excellence and quantity of the products thereof, and the mode
and expense of cultivation, first premium, $10 ; second do., Burr's
Vegetables ; third do., Bridgeman's Young Gardener's Assistant.

Entries must be made before the 10th of June, and an exact
statement rendered before the first of November.

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EXPERIMENTS IN RAISING VEGETABLES.

For the best experiment in raising Sqtiashes — one-half dozen of
each variety to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetal)les ; se-
cond best, Thomas' Rural Affairs.

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages — not less than six
heads to be exhibited at the Show — Burr's Vegetables ; second best,
Thomas' Rural Affairs.

SHOW OF VEGETABLES AT EXHIBITION.

Class 1.

For the best and largest collection of Vegetables exhibited, $20 ;
second best, $15 ; third best, $10.

For the best and largest collection of Potatoes, not less than one
peck of each variety, $6 ; second best, $3.

For the best and largest collection of Winter Squashes, not less
than four of each variety, $4 ; second best, $3.

For the best new variety of Seedling Potatoes, superior to any
kind now in cultivation, a premium of $10.

Class 2.

For one-half bushel best Table Potatoes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Turnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Carrots, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Beets, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Tomatoes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Onions, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Parsnips, $2 ; second best, $1.

For one-half bushel best Salsify, $2 ; second best, SI.

For two quarts best Lima Beans, $2 ; second best, $ 1 .

For four best Late Drumhead Cabbages, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Green Globe Savoys, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Cauliflowers, $2 ; second best, $1.

For twelve best heads of Celery, $2 ; second best, SI.

For four best Marrow Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Canada Crookneck Squashes, $2 ; second best, $1.

P'or four best Pumpkins, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Musk-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.

For four best Water-Melons, $2 ; second best, $1.

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For twelve ears best Sweet Corn, $2 ; second best, $1.
No exhibitor in class 1 shall compete in class 2 with the same
varieties.

SEEDS.

CoOT7nt'«e«.— Hiram W. Jones, Franklin; Francis Marsh, Dedham; John N. Smith,
Walpole; George B. Chickering, Dover; Elbridge L. Mann, Dover.

P'or the best sample of ears of Seed Corn, not less than forty in
number — first premium, S2 ; second do., $1.

For the best collection of Onion, Carrot, Beet, Parsnip and Ru-
ta-Baga Seeds — first premium $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best ten pounds of Timothj'^, Redtop and Clover Seed, $1.

For the best sample, not less than one peck, of Wheat, Rye,
Barley or Oats, $1 each.

TREE CULTURE.

FRUIT TREES.

Committee.— Edward S. Rand, Jr., Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; A. K. Teele, Milton;
George Craft, Brookline; Cheever Newhall, Dorchester; Robert Watt; West Roxbury.

Apple Orchards. — For the best apple Orchard, of not less than
fifty trees, which shall have been set out at least five years, and
which shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 1872,
$8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Pear Trees. — For the best engrafted or budded standard Pear
Trees, set out at least five years, and which shall be in the most
thriving condition in the autumn of 1872, not less than tioenty-five
trees, 88 ; second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

For the best engrafted or budded Pear Trees on Quince roots,
with same conditions, and not less than fifty trees, S8 ; second
best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Peach Orchards. — For the best Peach Orchard, of not less than
twenty-five trees, which shall be in the most thrifty bearing condi-
tion in the autumn of 1872, $8 ; second best, Downing's Fruits
and Fruit Trees.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than fifty trees, grown from
pits planted since 1863, on the spot where the trees stand, which
shall be in the best condition in 1872, $8 ; second best, Downing's
Fruits and Fruit Trees.

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Seedling Apples on Pears. — For the best variety of neiv Seed-
ling Apples or Pears^ of decidedly superior quality, one dozen speci-
mens to be exhibited, together with a history of the origin of the
tree, a description of the growth, and its bearing character, $8 ;
second best, Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees.

Seedling Peaches. — For the best variety of Seedling Peaches
of decidedly superior qualit}^ and worthy of general cultivation —
one dozen specimens to be exhibited two years in succession — to-
gether with a history of its origin, a description of its growth, and
the bearing character of the tree, $5 ; second best, Barry's Fruit
Garden.

Note,— Notice of intention to compete to be given to the Secretary on
or before September 1.

FOREST TREES.

For the best plantation of Forest Trees, of either of the follow-
ing varieties, namely : White Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch,
White Ash, or Walnut, Scotch Larch, Norway Spruce, Pitch, White
and Norway Pine, or other varieties, not less than three years old,
and not less than one thousand trees, — entries to be made to the
Secretary previous to June 10th, — a premium of $15.

For the best plantation, containing not less than five hundred
trees, Emerson's Shrubs and Trees of Massachusetts.

Ornamental Planting. — To any individual or society, regard
lieing had to the number of persons associated, for the larger num-
ber and best growth of ornamental trees, not less than fifty, which
shall have been planted in a public square or on the roadside at
least two years — first premium, $10 ; second do., Emerson's Shrubs
and Trees of Massachusetts.

HEDGES.

For the best Live Hedge Fence, not less than five hundred feet
in length, $5 : second best. Warder's Hedges.

For the best Evergreen Hedge of Hemlock or Norway Spruce,
not less than four hundred feet in length, $5 ; second best. Warder's
Hedges. Premiums to be awarded in 1873.

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FLOWERS.

rr>mmHtee—\. K. Teele, Milton; Robert Watt, West Roxbury; George Craft, Brook-
line; William L. Foster, Milton; Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, Medfleld.

For the best collection of Pot Plants, $10; second best, $5.
For the best collection of Cut Flowers, $4 ; second best, $3 ;

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third best, $2. For the best and most tastefully arranged caskets
of flowers, not less than four, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2.
For the best and most tastefully arranged bouquets, not less than
four, $4 ; second, $3 ; thiixl, $2. For the best collection of named
gladiolus in spikes, $4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $2. For the
best collection of new seedlings in spikes, S3 ; second best, $2.
For the best new seedlings, $1. For the best collection of Japan
lilies, S3 ; second best, $2. For the best new seedling, $1, For
the best collection of dahlias, $2 ; second best, $1. For the best
new seedling, $1. For the best collection of double zinnias, $2 ;
second best, $1.

A statement in writing of the sorts contributed, and the con-
tributor's name, will be required.

Gratuities, in publications, to the amount of SlO, may be award-
ed at the discretion of the Committee.

FRUITS.

Committee on Pears.— I^. C. E. Walker, Roxbury ; Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury ;
George Davenport, Dedham; Francis Marsh, Dedham; William J. Stuart, Hyde
Park; Charles H. Mansfield, Needham.

Committee on Apples and other Fruits.— George Vose, Milton; Aaron D. Capeu, Dor-
chester; E. S. Rand, Jr., Dedham; O. W. Peabody, Milton; George Craft, Brookline.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of Apx>lQS, twelve
specimens of each variety — first premium, $12 ; second do., Harris'
Treatise ; third do., $4 ; fourth do., $3 ; fifth do., Barry's Fruit
Garden.

For the best collection of five varieties of Apples, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, $6 ; second do., $4.

For the best collection of twenty varieties of Pears, twelve
specimens of each variety — first premium, S15 ; second do., S12.

For the best collection of ten varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, S8 ; second do., $6 ; third
do., $4.

For the best collection of five varieties of Pears, twelve speci-
mens of each variety — first premium, S6 ; second do., S4 ; third
do., $2.

For the best collection of Peaches, twelve specimens of each
variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., S2 ; third do., Cole's Fruit
Book.

For the best collection of Plums, twelve specimens of each
variety — first premium, S3 ; second do., Thomas' Rural Affairs.

Apples. — For the best collection of the following varieties,
twelve specimens of each : — Baldwin — first premium, $2 ; second

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do., $1. Rhode Island Greening — first premium, $2 ; second do.,
$1. Gravenstein — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Ilubbard-
ston Nonesuch — first premium, 82; second do., $1. Roxbury
Russet — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Porter — first premium,
$2 ; second do., $1. Tolman fc»weet — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. For any other variety — first i:remium, $2 ; second do., $1.

Pears. — For the best collection of the following varieties, twelve
specimens of each : — Clapp's Favorite — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Bartlett — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Beurre
d'Anjou — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Urbaniste — first
premium, S2 ; second do., $1. Merriara — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., $1. Louise Bonne de Jersey — first premium, $2 ; second
do.. $1. Vicar of Winkfield — first premium, $2; second do., $1.
Duchesse d'Angouleme — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Seckle
— first premium, $2 ; second do., $1 Onondaga — first premium,
$2 ; second do., $1. Sheldon — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Beurre Bosc — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Doj^enne Bou-
souck — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre Clairgeau — first
premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Lawrence — first premium, $2 ; se-
cond do., $1. Winter Nelis — first premium, $2; second do., $1.
Beurre Hardy — first premium; $2 ; second do., $1. Buff'um —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Maria Louise — first premium,
$2; second do., $1. Dana's Hovey — first premium, $2; second
do., $1. Mount Vernon — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. For
any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

Grapes. — For the best collection of Foreign Orapes — first pre-
mium, $6 ; second do., S4.

For the best four bunches of the following varieties, four bunches
of each variety : — Black Hamburg — first premium, $3 ; second do.,
%2. Wilmot's No. 16 — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2. Vic-
toria— first premium, S3 ; second do., $2. For the best four bunches
of any white variety, $3.

For a new variety of Native or Seedling Grape^ equal or superior
to the Isabella, ripening in this County in the open air by the
middle of September, prolific and suitable for the table — first pre-
mium, $20 ; second do., SIO.

For the best collection of Native Grapes, first premium, $4 ;
second do., $3 ; third do., %2. Delaware — first premium, $2 ; sec-
ond do., 81. Diana — first premium, %2 ; second do., $1. Rogers'
Hybrids, Wilder, Lindley, Agawam, Merrimack and Salem, each —
first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Allen's Hybrid — first premium,
S2 ; second do., $1. Concord — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Any other variety, first premium, $2 ; second do., 81.

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Quinces. — For the best collection of Quinces, not less than a
peck, $2.

Cranberries. — For the best collection of Cranberries^ not less
than four quarts, $3 ; second best, $2 ; third best, Eastwood's
Cranberry Culture.

No exhibitor taking a premium for collections, shall compete
with the same varieties in the class for single dishes.

COLD VINERIES.

Commj^iee.— Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ; John Pearce, West Koxbury; Edward S. Rand,
Jr., Dedham; Henry S. Clarke, Walpole.

For the best crop, and the most economically kept Cold Vinery,
not less than thirty feet — first premium, $4 ; second best, $3.

PLOWING MATCH.

Commit te.—^Sit\\ax\ Longfellow, Needham; William J. Hyde, Brookline; Uriah Capen
Porter, Stoughton,

Double Ox Teams. — With Michigan Ploiu. For best perform-
ance in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre, eight in-
ches in depth, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

With any other Ploiv. — Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second
best, $10 ; third best, $5.

Committee.— John E. Wetherbeo, Dedham; Charles Hartshorn, Walpoie; Janie3 T.
Sumner, Canton; Cyrus G. Upham, Needham.

Double Horse Teams. — With Michigan Plow. Same conditions.
Best, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.

With any other Plow. — Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second
best, $10 ; third best, $5.

CoOTwi«ee.—B. N. Sawin, Dover; Charles A. Bigelow, Medway; Robert Mansfield,
Needham.

Single Ox Teams. — With any Plow. For the best performance
in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth of an acre, six inches in
depth, within an hour, $10 ; second best, $8 ; third best, $5.

Comwiitce.— John Eaton, Dedham; Lewis W. Morse, Sharon ; Adam Mcintosh, Can
ton.

Single Horse Teams. — Same conditions. Best, $10 ; second
best, $5.

Note. — A Double Team will consist of two yokes of oxen with or with-
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a driver. Single Team, one yoke of oxen or one pair of horses without
a driver. Each competitor must own his team and plow, and enter tlie
same in his own name. Plows must be held and driven by their owners,
or by persons statedly in their employ. In awarding premiums, one hour
will be allowed for the performance of the work, regard lieing had to the
width and depth of the furrow slice, and the evenness, ease and quiet with
which the work is performed.

A :N^ I M A L S .

All animals to be entered in the name of the owner, who must
have had them in his possession at least six months before the Ex-
hibition.

All animals, entered in accordance with the rules and regula-
tions, will be fed, during the Exhibition, at the expense of the
Society.

For any animal worthy of the first premium, having received a
similar one at any previous Exhibition, a diploma, certifying the
rank of such animal at the present Exhibition, shall be awarded
instead of a premium.

A diploma may also be awarded, at the discretion of the several
Committees, for any animal, worthy of Exhibition, from without
the limits of the Society.

HORSES.

In awarding the premium on Roadsters, the general good quali-
ties— such as style, action, constitution and enduring properties —
as well as speed of the animals, will receive special consideration.

In testing the speed of horses, each animal — four years old and
over — will be required to draw a carriage weighing, with driver in-
cluded, not less than 350 pounds.

It is understood that horses which have heretofore been classed
under the head of "Thoroughbred and part Thoroughbred," maj-
compete as Roadsters, or in any other class.

Colts and fillies will compete in separate classes, as heretofore,
the premiums being the same for either sex.

No Stallion will be entitled to a premium without a guarantee of
his remaining for service in the County six months.

In testing tlie strength, docility and training of Draught or
Team Horses, the load shall not be less than 2000 pounds for a
single horse, and 3500 pounds for a pair of horses.

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Every entry for premium must be made before 12 o'clock of the
first day of the Exhibition, and the Stock must be present the
second day on or before 9 o'clock a.m.

It must be distinctly understood that premiums will not be
awarded to an}^ animal that does not, in the opinion of the Com-
mittee, possess decided merit and a sound constitution.

Augustus P. C alder, Dorchester, General Chairman.

Class A. — Roadsters.

Committee.— Renvy Jones, Stoughton; William T. Thacher, Hyde Park; Francia B.
Ray, Franklin.

1st Division. — Stallions.

For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " " " 7 00

2d Division.

For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " " " " 5 00

dd Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best

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$5 00

ith Division. — Pairs in Harness.

For the best pair of Roadsters, a premium of

2d best " " . .

5th Division. — Harness Horses.

For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of .

2d best " " " . .

3d best " " " . .

4th best « " " . .

Class B. — Horses of all Work.

Com?Ki«e«.— Alfred W. Whitcomb, Randolph; OliYer Deane, Canton; Charles A.
Howland, Quincy.

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1st Division. — Stallions.

For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " ♦' " 7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.

For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of S7 00
2d best " " " " 5 00

Sd Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old,
2d best "
best 2 years old,
2d best "
best 1 year old,
2d best "

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Ath Division. — Pairs in Harness.

F^'or the best, a premium of . . . • • . $7 00
2d best, " o 00

oth Division. — Horses in Harness.

For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of . . . $6 00
2d best" " " ... 4 00

Class C. — Family Horses.

CommUtee.— George R. Mann, Sharon ; Erastus Nash, Weymouth ; Henry Trowbridge,
Norfolk.

1st Division. — Stallions.

For the best Stallion, 4 years old and upwards, a premium of $10 00
2d best " " " " 7 00

2d Division. — Brood Mares.

For the best Brood Mare, with Foal at her side, a premium of 67 00
2d best " " " " o 00

3oZ Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old, a premium of
2d best "
best 3 years old, "

2d best " "

$5 00
3 00
5 00
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For the best 2 years old, •" ...

2d best '' " ...

best 1 year old, " ...

2d best " " ...

ith Division. — Carnage Horses 15 to 16 hands high.
P'or the best pair of Carriage Horses, a premium of
2d best " " "

oth Division. — Buggy or Chaise Horses.
For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of

2d best

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C)th Division. —

■Saddle Horses

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$6 00
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For the best Saddle Horse, a premium of . . ,
2d best " " " . . ,

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7th Division. — Ponies.

For the best matched Ponies, a premium of .

2d best " " " . . ,

best single Pony, " . . ,

2d best " " " ...

Class D. — Draught or Team Horses.

Committee.— SWas G. Williams, Needham; Charles G. Mackintosh, West Roxbiivy;
Alva Morrisou, Braintree.

1st Division — Single Draught or Team Horses.

For the best Draught Horse, a premium of . . . $7 00
2:1 best " " " ... 5 00

2d Division — Pairs of Draught or Team Horses.
For the best pair of Draught or Team Horses, a premium of SlO 00
2d best " " " " " 7 00

CATTLE.

Cc?«im«ce.— Asahel S. Drake, Sharon; Nathaniel S. White, Canton; Robert Porter,
Jr., ^toughton ; Warren Cobb, Sharon ; James Capen, Foxboro'.

Bulls. — For the best thorough bred Bull, one year old and up-
wards, of either Jersey, Durham, Devon, Ayrshire, Hereford, Kerry,
or other foreign stock — in each class, $10 ; second best, $5.

For the best Bull Calf, under one year old, of foreign stock — So ;
second best, $2.

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ComwiWec.— Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham; Aaron Bacon, Dover; Ellis Tucker, Can-
ton; Samuel Cook, Milton; William Q. Fisher, Medfleld, Jesse Fenno, Canton.

Cows. — For the best Cow, three years old or upwards, of for-
eign stock, of either class, each, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best,
$4.

Grade, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best, $4.

Milch Cows. — Three years old and upwards. For the best
Milch Cow, without regard to breed, each, $12 ; second best, $8 ;
third best, $6 ; fourth best, $4.

For the best Milch Heifer, less than three years old, $4 ; second
best, $2.

Herds of Milch Cows. — For the best herd of Milch Cows —
not less than six — kept on any farm in the County, and exhibited
at the Show, regard being had to the breed, age and milking prop-
erties— first premium, the Wilder Cup, of the value of $25 ; sec-
ond premium, $12; third premium, $8 ; fourth premium, $6.

Note. — No competitor for the premiums offered for herds shall be al-
lowed to offer the same animals for any premium of a different class.

CommiViee.— Joseph W. Robertson, Quincy; Edmund Tucker, Canton; Lemuel Bill-
ings, Quincy.

Heifers. — For the best Heifer, two years old and under thi-ee,
foreign stock, of either class, each, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best,
$2.

Grade or Native, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, $2.

For the best Heifer, one year old, of any stock, $4 ; second best,
^/.

For the best Heifer Calf, under one year old, of any stock, $4 ;
second best, $2.

Commi«ee.— Robert Mansfield, Needham; Robert Porter, Stoughton; Henry M. Mack,
Dorchester; John Battelle, Dover.

Working Oxen. — For the best yoke, four years old and upwards,
$10 ; second best, $7 ; third best, $4.

Town Teams. — For the largest and best team, of not less than
ten yokes of Oxen or Steers, from any city or town in the County
— first premium, $12 ; second best, $8.

Steers. — For the best yoke, well broken, three years old and
under four, $6 ; second best $4 ; third best, $3.

For the best yoke, well broken, two years old and under three,
$4 ; second best, $3.

Note. — For Oxen or Steers, and also for Herds of Milch Cows, bred and
raised by the exhibitor, twenty per cent additional. In testing the

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strength, docility and training of Working Oxen, the load shall not be less
than 2,500 pounds for oxen of Ave years old and upwards ; and not less
than 2,000 pounds for oxen under five years old. In testing the character
of Steers, as the Committee may direct, special regard will be paid to
their docility and proper training.

Committee.— A. Vf . Cheever, Wrentham; A. T. Messerve, West Roxbury ; Charles
Wentworth, Canton.

Fat Cattle. — For the best beef animal fattened by the exhibi-
tor, within the County, regard being liad to the manner and expense
of feeding — of which a written statement will be requii'ed — first
premium, $8 ; second do., $6.

SWINE.

Committee.— ^nmwfA B. Noyes, Canton ; Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline ; Henry Gould-
ing, Dover; Solomon Flagg, Needham ; Thomas Beless, Needham.

For the largest and best collection of Swine — not less then six
hogs in number — first premium, $15 ; second do., $10 ; third do.,
$7.

Boars. — For the best Boar, not less than six months old, $6 ;
second best, $4.

Sows. — For the best Sow, not less than six months old, $6 ;
second best, $4.

Weaneu Pigs. — For the best litter, not less than four in num-
ber and not more than six months old, $6 ; second best, $4.

Fat Hogs. — For the best Fat Hog, regard being had to breed,
age and feeding, $10 ; second best, $6.

Note. — No competitor for the largest collection of swine will be allowed
to offer the same for any premium of a different class,

SHEEP.

CommiMee.— Charles Breck, Milton; John S. Mackintosh, West Roxbury; Theodore
Harding, Medway.

For the largest and best lot of Sheep — not less than six in
number — $10 ; second best, $8.

For the best lot of Lambs — not less than six in number — bred by
the exhibitor, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best Ram — Cotswold, Leicester, Oxford Down or South-
down— not less than one year old, $5 ; second best, $3.

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POULTRY.

Committee.— Abe\ F. Stevens, Ncedham ; Albert H. Drake, Stoughton ; J. F. Cowell,
\Vreiithani.

Class 1.

For the largest and best collection of Gallinaceous and Aquatic
Fowls, tirst premium of $15 ; second do., $10 ; or "Tegetmier's
Poultry Book."

Class 2.

For the best tno light Brahmas, dark Brahraas, Cochins, Span-
ish Dorking, Leghorn, Hamburg, French Fowls, Bantam, or any
other variety, the first premium, $5 ; second do., $3.

For the best pair of Turkeys, first premium, $5 ; second do..

For the best j9caV of Geese, first premium, $5; second do., $3.

For the best patV of Ducks, first premium, $5 ; second do., $3.

For the best collection of Pigeons, first premium, $3 ; second do.,
$2.

Ten dollars in gratuities may be awarded, at the discretion of
the Committee.

Note. — Poultry must be entered on the first day of the Exhibition, be-
fore 12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

DAIRY.

BUTIER.

Commi«ee,— Milton M, Fisher, Medway; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Lucius Clapp,
Stoughton; Marshall S. Scudder, Needham ; Mrs. George Vose, Milton; Mrs. William
R. Mann, Sharon.

For the best produce of Butter, on any farm within the County,
for four months, from the 20th of May to the 20th of September —
a sample of not less than ten pounds to be exhibited — quantity as
well as quality to be taken into view, — first premiun, $10 ; second
do., $8 ; third do., $5 ; fourth do., $4.

Note. — It will be seen that these premiums are offered for the best
produce on the Farms, and not simply for the best specimens exhibited.
Each lot must be numbered, but not marked ; any public or known mark
must be completely concealed, nor must the competitors be present at the
examination.

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For the best box of Butter — not less than six pounds — first pre-
mhim, $5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's Treatise on Dairy
Farming.

|^**NoTE. — Butter must be presented only on the morning of the second
day before 9 o'clock.

Cheese. — For the best lot of Cheese — not less than twenty-five
pounds — first premium, So ; second do., $3 ; third do., Flint's
Treatise on Dairy Farming.

BREAD.

Committee.— J. White Belcher, Randolph; Albert B, Balch, Medfield; Mrs. Benjamia
Newell, Newton; Mrs. Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; Mrs. A. S. Drake, Sharon.

For the best loaf of Wheat and Indian, of not less than two
pounds weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf made of Unbolted Wheat, which has been grown
in the County, of not less than two pounds weight — first premium,
S3 ; second do., S2.

For the best loaf of Rye and Indian, of not less than four pounds
weight — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best loaf of Wheat Bread, of not less than two pounds
weight — first premium, S3 ; second do., S2.

For the best specimens of each or any of the aforementioned
kinds of bread, made by any young woman under eighteen years
of age, an additional premium of twenty-five per cent.

The bread presented for premium must be made on the first day
of the Exhibition, by some member of a family, in whose name the
entry shall be made, and to whom the premium shall be awarded.
The bread shall be made without the use of saleratus or other al-
kaline substance, and made in the family, and be presented only on
the second day of the Exhibition, before 9 o'clock in the morning.
No name or mark shall be put on the loaves, except the number of
the entry in the Committee's book.

The names of contributors shall not be known to the Committee,
and no person shall serve on the same if any member of his family
shall be a competitor.

HONEY.

For the best specimen of Honey in the comb, not less than six
pounds, "Longstrath on the Honey Bee ;" second best, $1.

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MANUFACTURES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee.— dxU'in Richards, Dover; Henry Goulding, Dover; A. T. Meaerve, West
Roxbury; Horace Guild, Canton.

For the largest and best collection, $12 ; second, $6.

For any new or improved Plow, which on trial shall be found
best adapted for the thorough pulverization of old plowed land, a
premium of $6.

New Invektions. — For any new invention of decided superiority
and usefulness to the farmer, a premium or gratuity, at the discre-
tion of the Committee.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

Committee.— Mrs, Hamilton J. Farrar, West Roxbury; Mrs. Samuel B. Noyes, Can-
ton; Miss Abby F, Haynes, Dorchester; Mrs. John M. Hams, Needham; Mrs. Charles
H.Lealand, Dedham; Mrs. W. T. Thacher, Hyde Park.

Fancy Articles — including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shell-
work, Millinery, Drawings, Paintings, &c.

For such articles in this department as may be deemed worthy, a
sum not exceeding seventy-five dollars shall be appropriated, to be
paid in premiums or gratuities, proportioned to the cost and value
of the article, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note.— It should be understood that in this department of Ladies' work
— while other things will receive due consideration — the premiums are
intended solbly for newly madb articles which are really useful or par-
ticularly beautiful. For well-made garments of any kind; for stocking
knitting of wool, cotton or silk; or bonnet and cap making; for all articles
for children's wear, well made or tastefliUy embroidered ; for neat and
thorough mending, patching and darning; for drawing, designing, or paint-
ing in oil or water colors ; for models in plaster, wood or marble, &c.

Any article well and tastefully wrought, offered by children under twelve
years of age, will receive particular attention.

Committee.— A, S, Harding, Medway; J. A. Turner, Medfleld; Charles C. Sumner,
Foxboro'.

Manufactures of Straw. — For the best specimen of Straw
Bonnets, wholly of domestic manufacture, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best specimens of Stratv Braid of domestic straw, not
less than 100 yards. So ; second best, $3.

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Committee.— Ch&rles H. French, Canton; Naaman B. Wilmarth, Walpole; Luther
Metcalf, Medway; Ezra W. Taft, Dedham; P. H. Baker, Sharon.

Manufactures of Cloth, Flannels, Hosiery, &c. — Cotton
Cloth. For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any description,
not less than twenty-eight yards in quantity, a premium or gratui-
t}^ at the discretion of the Committee.

Woolen Cloth. — For the best specimen of Woolen Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty yards in quantity, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cotton and Woolen Mixed. — For the best specimen of Cotton
and Woolen Cloth, of any description, not less than twenty yards
in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Flannels. — For the best specimen of Flannel, not less than
twenty yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion
of the Committee.

For the best specimen of Cotton Flannel, not less than twenty
yards in quantity, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the
Committee.

For the best pair of Woolen Blankets, a premium or gratuity, at
the discretion of the Committee.

Hosiery, &c. — For the best specimen of Woolen Hose, a premi-
um of $1.

For the best specimen of Woolen Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Hose, a premium of 50 cents.

For the best specimen of Cotton Half Hose, a premium of 25
cents.

For the best specimen of Worsted Hose, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Worsted Half Hose, a premium of 50
cents.

For the Best specimen of Sewing Silk, not less than one pound,
a premium of $2.

For the best specimen of Knitting Yarn, not less than one
pound, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Spool Thread, not less then one pound,
a premium of $1.

For the best Fleece of Wool, a premium of $1.

For the best dozen seamless Grain Bags, a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of neat and thorough mending, patching or
darning of garments, hose, &c., a premium of $1

For the best specimen of covered bonnet wire, $3.

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Counterpanes. — For the best Counterpane — regard being had
to the quality and expense of materials — first premium, $3 ; second
do., $2.

Carpetings, Rugs and Floor Cloth.

For the best "Common" Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting.

«( u ''Fine" '' " "

" " "Superfine" " "

" " "Common," "Fine" or "Superfine" Ingrain 3-ply

Carpeting.
For the best Brussells Floor Carpeting.

" " Tapestry " "

" " Velvet Carpeting.
For each of these descriptions of Carpeting, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note.— Ingrain 3-ply Carpeting will be judged by the comparative merits
of pieces of similar weight; or disregarding weight, by the quality of
color, the taste of shading, and evenness in spinning and weaving.

For the best piece of Stair Carpeting, the Society's diploma.
For the best Hearth Rug, the Societj^'s diploma.
For the best specimen of painted Floor Cloth, a premium or the
Society's diploma, at the discretion of the Committee.

Note. — Any articles in either of the forogoing departments, which shall
have been manufactured in the family of the person presenting it, will
receive the particular consideration of the Committee, and, if worthy, a
suitable premium.

Com77M«ee.— Frank M, Ames, Canton; Alexander Dickson, West Roxbury ; Curtis G.
Morse, Norwood; Manly W. Cain, Dorchester.

Glass, Stone, Earthen and Wooden Ware. — For the finest
collection and best specimen of articles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Brass, Copper, Tin, Iron and Britannia Ware. — For the finest
collection and best specimen of articles in each of these depart-
ments, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Cabinet Work. — For the best specimen of Cabinet Work, a
premium or the Society's diploma.

Iron Fencing, Gates and Posts. — For the best specimen of each
—regard being had to cost and utility, as well as ornament— a
premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

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Stoves. — For the best Farmer's Cauldron Stove ;
" " " Cooking "

" " " Parlor "

— a premium of $2 each.

Horse and Ox Shoes. — For the best set of Horse and Ox Shoes,
a premium of $1.

For the best specimen of Horse Shoes, for meadow lands, a
premium of $1.

Commiftee.—Samael Atherton, Dorchester; Joseph Day, Norwood; Benjamin F.
White, "Weymouth; John Mann, Walpole; Jonathan R. Gay, Stoughton.

India Rubber Goods. — For the finest collection of India Rub-
ber goods, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Commit-
tee.

Brushes, Combs, Hats, Caps and Gloves. — For the finest col-
lection and best specimen of each of these articles, a premium or
gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Leather, and Articles Manufactured Therefrom.

For the best specimen of Thick Boots, a premium of

Calfskin,

Thin Boots, other
than Calfskin,
Kipskin,
Thick Brogans,
Fine Brogans,
Ladies' Boots,

For the best specimen of Upper or Sole Leather, or Morocco, a
premium or gratuity, each, at the discretion of the Committee.
For the best single Carriage Harness ;
" " double " "

** " Cart Harness — a premium or gratuity, each, at the
discretion of the Committee,

For the best Riding Bridle, a premium of . . . $1 00

♦' " Saddle, " . . 2 00

<' *' Carriage or Cart "Whip, a premium of . 1 00

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Carriages, Wagons, Carts, &c.

Committee.— A. J. Whittier, Hyde Park; Jacob R. Cuehman, Medfleld; Sidney E.
Morse, Norwood; George K. Gannett, Milton; Richard Holmes, Roxbury.

For the best specimen of Family Carriages, for one horse or two
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For the best Covered Wagon ;
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" " Farm "

" " " Cart;

" " " "Wheelbarrow — either a premium or gratui-

ty, at the discretion of the Committee.

Committee. —Mva. A. F. Stevens, Needliam; Mrs. Sarah E. Sumner, Canton ; Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Wilmarth, Walpole.

Jellies, Preserves, Pickles and Ketchup. — For the finest
collection and best specimen of each, made of articles of domestic
growth, first premium, $5 ; second, 83 ; third, $2.

Canned Fruits and Vegetables. — For the finest collection and
best specimens of each, made of articles of domestic growth, first
premium, $5 ; second, $3 ; third, $2.

Note. — It is to be understood that all articles presented for premium,
in each of the foregoing departments, except Agricultural Implements,
shall have been manufactured or produced Avithin the County, and by the
person presenting them. Also, that in every case, the Examining Com-
mittee shall have the right to substitute the Society's diploma for a pre-
mium or gratuity, or to give it where no premium or gratuity has been
offei'ed, at their discretion.

All discretionary premiums or gratuities shall be proportioned to the
actual value and utility of the articles.

Articles in either of the above departments, contributed to the Exhibi-
tion by pei'sons not resident in the County, shall receive suitable attention
from the Committee, and, if worthy, be awarded the Society's diploma.

CABINETS OF BIRD& AND INSECTS.

Committee.— Carlos Slafter, Dedham; A. W. Cheever, Wrentham.

For the largest and best collection of Birds and Insects found
within the County, beneficial or injurious to vegetation, properly
arranged and classified, to be exhibited on the Society's tables, at
the next annual fair, one copy of Harris's Treatise on Insects.

AGRICULTURAL LABORERS.

For a certificate — signed by his employer, and countersigned by
any two of the Trustees residing nearest to the applicant — of the
superior qualifications of any man or youth, in the employment ol"
any member of the Society for a period next preceding, of not less
than two years, attesting the industry, integrity, respectful de-
meanor and general good habits, during the time, of the bearer of
such certificate, a premium of Membership of the Society and a
diploma.

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AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS.

Committee.— Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester ; Charles C. Sewell, Medfleld; Henry O.
Hiklreth, Dedham; Albert K. Teele, Milton; Benjamin G. Kimball, Needham.

For the best Report of Committees which recommend the award
of premiums. First premium, $8 ; second, $6 ; third, $4.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the various grasses, or cereal, fruit or vegeta-
ble crops, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the relative importance and value, as
sources of profit, of the breeding and raising of the different classes
of farm stock, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the fattening of cattle, swine or sheep,
detailing the process and expense of the same, a premium not ex-
ceeding $25.

Forest Trees. — For the best Essaj' on the raising and cultiva-
tion of Forest Trees, a premium not exceeding $25.

Insects. — For the best Essay on the destruction of Insects inju-
rious to vegetation, such as CurcuUo, Borer, Canker- Worm, Cater-
pillar, C^lt-Worm, Squash-Bug, Striped-Bug, Rose-Bug, &c., &c., a
premium not exceeding $25.

Preservation of Winter Fruit. — For the best Essay on the
preservation of Apples and other Winter Fruits, a premium not
exceeding $25.

Preservation of Vegetables. — For the best Essay on the
preservation of Vegetables, a premium not exceeding $25.

Agricultural Education. — For the best Essay on Agricultural
Education, a premium not exceeding $25.

Farm Accounts. — For the best Essa}^ on a system of Farm Ac
counts, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on Domestic Poultry, a premium not exceed-
ing $25.

For the best Essay on Fences for Farms, uniting economy,
strength and appearance, a premium not exceeding $25,

For the best Essay on the extermination of Weeds and Plants
destructive to crops, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the preservation and application of Liquid
Manure, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the introduction of new Fruits or of new
articles of Field Culture, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best Essay on the value and application of Phospliate of
Lime, or any fertilizer of the soil, a premium not exceeding $25.

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For the best Essay on Bees and Structure of Hives, with partic-
ular reference to feeding Bees and guarding against the spoliation
of the Bee Moth, a premium not exceeding $25.

For the best plan for a Barn and Barnyard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfort of the Cattle, the ease and conven-
ience of tending them, and the making and preserving the Manure,
a premium not exceeding $25.

These premiums will not be awarded unless the Essays offered
shall, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to decide upon
them, be deemed worthj^ of an award, without reference to their
comparative merit.

FARM BUILDINGS.

For the best planned house and out-buildings — regard being had
to the cost and economy of labor — the house to be warm, well
lighted and ventilated, with a cellar protected from frost and ver-
min, and the whole not to cost over $2500 — to be examined by the
Supervisory Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said Com
mittee.

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