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PAGE.

Address, bj' Robert Morris Copelaiul, 5

Report of the President and Secretary, 14

on Horses, ^^

on Plowing, ^^

on Bulls, 1^

on Cows,.

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on Heifers, ^^

on Swine "^

on Poultry 20

on Vegetables, 23

on Pears,

24

on Apples and other Fruits, 27

on Flowers,.

28

on Dairy, 29

on Bread, '^^

on Jellies, Preserves;^ &c., 30

on Seeds, ^^

on Straw Goods, ^^

on Carriages, Wagons, Carts, &c., 31

on Manufactures, 31

on Ladies' Work, 32

on Cabinets of Birds and Insects, 34

on Special Committee, 34

Recapitulation of premiums, 3o

Report of the Treasurer, 38

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary 39

Officers of the Society ^^

Names of Members, ^^

A^DD RE S S.

BY ROBERT MORRIS COPELAND.

Ladies and Gentlemen: — So very cordial an introduc-
tion rather takes away my breath. Being a Norfolk County
boy, and coming here to-day, twenty-five years after your So-
ciety is founded, it is hard to believe that within these twenty-
five years, I can see so great a change as that which presents
itself to-day. If it is so great to me, what must it be with
Mr. Wilder, who has been identified with the Society from
the very beginning .-' When we say twenty-five years it seems
but a small time ; but when we say a quarter of a century, it
seems a long time ; and it happens to-day that we have
reached one of those distinguishing boundaries in our pro-
gress, which mark an important step gained — that we have
passed one of the heats in which this Society has made good
time. It has got now far beyond the hopes of those who
founded it. If those gentlemen could have foreseen even but
a part of what has been accomplished they would have been
amply satisfied. One looks now at the Society and the
County with a good deal of honest pride. Look at the
County compared with what it was twenty-five years ago.

We have, indeed, the same landscape and the same natural
beauties of the earth as before, yet in those days the farms
crept up to the very feet of Boston, Where boys who are
now men gathered nuts and stole apples, are now to be seen
solid streets of stores and manufactories. You find that in
Dedham, and Canton, and Hyde Park and neighboring towns,
the requirements for building and manufacturing have raised
the land in value far beyond its worth for farming purposes.
Go back a few miles to the land that was so poor that it was
once considered to be worthless, and there now you will find
Hyde Park, which has grown up to be a handsome rural city.
We see what has been done during the past twenty-five years ;
what will be done during the next twenty-five .-'

We talk of the progress which the world at large has made,
and often-times overlook what has been going on around our
own homes. We all understand and appreciate what has been
done in the business and manufacturing interests ; yet in the
domain of agriculture there have been improvements, which
are greater in the aggregate than all that have been accom-
plished in other fields of effort, and yet we find that they pass
almost unnoticed. Twenty-five years ago an ordinary cow, of
the native breed, only brought about ^25, and perhaps an
extraordinary animal might have cost $75. How little did
the people of those days imagine that a cow would ever bring
the enormous price which one was sold for the other day, for
the sum of $40,600 ! Such a thing, even now, will almost take
away one's breath. Such things as these have taught the most
reluctant men among the farmers the worth of improved
breeds of stock and of scientific farming. Years ago they would
not believe that foreign cattle could ever become acclimated in
this country, or secure the high prices which they cost, but

this thing has been done. The American farmer went to
Europe and bought some of the best animals, and see what
they have done for the whole land ! Where is the farmer
now-a-days who is not pleased to sed a little of the yellow
blood of the Alderney under the hair of his cow, or to have an
animal he happens to own compared to the Jersey ? We find
animals now bringing prices which in those old days seenled
fabulous. It is a very little time, also, since a horse sold in
this country has brought as high a price as a $1000. People
said it was all very well for those who could afford it to raise
fine horses ; but they were luxuries and subserved no useful
end. But what would they say of this great improvement in
cattle ? A gentleman once went to Europe and bought a
merino sheep at great expense, and brought it to America.
The people said it was a foolish outlay of money ; that it couldn't
be acclimated, etc.; but an arrival of this same breed, raised
in America, has since been sent back again to its native land
in Silesia, and even carried away the highest prize for excel-
lence in that country. We have also made a vast improve-
ment in agriculture. Look at the increased number of fruits
that your past President, Mr, Wilder — (applause) — has
shown here, compared with what he could have shown twenty-
five years ago. See the fruits that have come out of the old
Walker nursery ; they have made an impression throughout
the country, way down in Delaware and Pennsylvania. We
in New England actually live on the mother soil of the world.
When we go out to the farms in the west, we are apt to think
that that is the only place for the farmer ; but the fact is, fully
as much can be done in New England by mechanical and
scientific processes, and by using all the means which are
placed in the hands of the farmer here. These old pudding-

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stone rocks of New England, for instance, give you all the
lime and the manurial requirements wanted, and with the com-
mon air you can get all the culture you need. I had occasion
to go down to Delaware a few months ago — a State where men
get $5000 for an acre of strawberberries. I saw one corn-field
upon which the man told me he had raised eighty bushels to
the acre ; but I told him that in New England they some-
times raised one hundred bushels to the acre, not including
the pumpkins, squashes, etc., which were raised with it, (laugh-
ter). I mentioned that one hundred and seventeen bushels
of corn had been raised to the acre in the town of Pembrook,
Mass. (Applause). This story was very hard for the man to

believe.

But it is not these exceptional crops, let me say, that are
best calculated to improve our agriculture ; and this leads me
to the subject upon which I want especially to speak to you,
viz:— "What really should be. the objects and the motives of
the agriculturists of this country ?" We are all talking about
the science of agriculture. What we want to know is whether
it can be reduced to practical results. These various experi-
ments made by men to get extraordinary crops do but little
to advance the real science of agriculture. True science gets
all the facts, lumps them together, and deducts conclusions
from the whole, and not from isolated parts. The agricul-
tural colleges do a vast deal of good, and will do more when
the people come to understand what the real value of an agri-
cultural college is. They teach that it is better to offer a
premium for crops which can be easily raised, than for those
extraordinary crops which can only be raised with difficulty.
It is well for the farmer to understand the limitations of his
work, and to know what he can do and what he cannot do, —

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what ought to be clone and what ought not. Crops are like
human beings, to a certain extent. They have a stomach, and
require certain kinds of food. If you treat a crop with special
manures, you can soon find by experiment just what that crop
likes, and precisely what ought to be done for it to get the
best results. You all understand, after a while, the import-
ance of reducing the bulk of manures as much as possible.
Let me refer again to Delaware. The soil of that State is
made up of the washings of a great river. A large portion of
the land has been cropped and cropped, until some of it will
now hardly bear sorrel, it is so poor. A man went down
there some years ago and bought some of this land that would
not pay taxes. He cultivated it with only superphosphate of
lime, with a view to raising crops of peaches and strawberries.
It was like taking a drowned man out of the sea. By means of
the proper manuring, he soon restored this land to a state of
fertility and raised most excellent crops. The rules of wealth
and the laws of nature combine to teach the lesson which may
be applied right here amongst you. All summer long Boston
has been complaining of the bad odors from this river and
that river. Worcester has been complaining of her sewage ;
so have Newport and other places. We find that the Back Bay
of Boston is the source of a good deal of trouble — that the peo-
ple living in the large houses of that section say it is unhealthy.
These matters may seem about as far oft" from agriculture as
the north pole, yet they tell us some stern facts of nature.
You make huge draughts on the guano banks for material to
put on the land, and yet you waste in your rivers and sewers
manure worth more than guano. Not only this, but the efflu-
via from great sewers poisons the air and undermines the
health of the people. And yet you allow the waste of mat-

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ter which, if fully utilized, would make Norfolk County the
garden of the world ; you throw away, in fact, what would
make this County and every other county fruitful, and you die
and pay for it. We shut our eyes to all this, yet they will in
time have to be opened, and opened, perhaps, in the sternest
wa}^ In giving your premiums, also, you should look more to
what will develope the general agricultural interests of the
County rather than simply the development of special crops.
On this question we must deal with things in the mass.

There is another side to the question — its esthetic side. I
have only to look about me to see that you appreciate the
beauty of flowers. Within a few years past the farmers have
developed many out-door plants which it would have been
thought impossible to raise twenty-five years ago, except in
green-houses. We find flowers everywhere, for nature loves
beauty. We ought to do everything which will tend to en-
courage the people to appreciate the beautiful, and in flori-
culture many can find a most congenial as well as profitable
vocation. It only is a very short time since, that when peo-
ple talked about beautifying a country place, men turned aside
with a sneer and asked, "what is it all worth .-'" The worth of
beauty, let me reply, no man can tell. The birds and flowers
and many other objects of nature which we see around us,
have beauty developed in a most extraordinary degree in color
and form, and all these things teach us that what is worth
doing at all is worth doing well. You have, to be sure, your
public parks and streets, planted with trees, but how little in
the way of natural adornment has been done as yet, and how
much has been left undone ! When you look up to your Blue
Hill or go to its top, or go to Wachusett, and gaze below,
you see a landscape that is unsurpassed anywhere in natural

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beauty. You may go to the Adirondacks, or the White Moun-
tains, or the Rocky Mountains, and never see anything better
than this. But many of our beautiful objects are constantly
being destroyed to make way for what is called "the march of
improvement." Look at the ugly gashes which have been
made in Parker's Hill in Roxbury, and the many disfigure-
ments of natural scenery in many other quarters around the
outskirts of Boston. If this work continues with the same
activity in the next twenty-five years that it has in the last, the
man who stands on Blue Hill in Milton will see that a sacri-
fice has gone on by destroying that which can never be re-
placed. If every man should try to prevent, so far as it is in
his power, every unnecessary sacrifice of natural objects,
great good would be done. If we could only put the city of
Boston under bonds, so that when it takes in any surround-
ing country it shall be withheld from destroying objects of
natural beauty, it would be an excellent thing. The injurious
effects of this ruthless destruction are felt principally among
the poorer classes. The few who are possessed of wealth can
have their own lawns and gardens, but the great multitude,
those who are the workers of the country, are cut off from
these luxuries. The people cannot enjoy the places of the
rich as well as those of their own. Any one who has seen
the Central Park in New York, or the Prospect Park in Brook-
lyn, and enjoyed the spectacles there presented to him, does
not need me to tell him of the pleasure which he received.
The rich men owe it, in fact, to the people to give them such
places of entertainment — such lawns and trees and grounds —
as will tend to turn their attention away from vaneful amuse-
ments and encourage a love of the simple pleasures and of
beautiful natural objects. If they do not give them these

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things, the time will come when the great siih stratum of so-
ciety will demand them. And why not give these things in
time ? Why not furnish a resort where the boys can play at
ball, where lovers can meet and stroll ? I could dwell long
upon such a subject as this, had I time.

Let me now go back once more to the old agricultural ques-
tion. It is hardly possible for us to realize the improvements
which are in store for us during the next quarter century. If ag-
riculture has grown to such great proportions during the last
twenty-five years, and horticulture has become what it has,
then it is reasonable to suppose that many wonderful improve-
ments are still in store for us. When we see the farmers
right around us with their horse-rakes and other modern ap-
pliances, we are apt to think that about all has been done that
can be done ; that we have about reached the limits of agri-
cultural machinery ; but this is not so. One ingenious man
has made a machine, which, I believe, is destined to thorough-
ly revolutionize agriculture — tomake as vast an improve-
ment as is seen in improving the breeds of cows from the old
grade of $20 to the modern blooded animal of $40,000. Those
v/ho have seen the Wilkinson steam plow, to which I refer, an
engine with a wheel like the foot of an elephant, which can
carry ten wagons loaded with men, and will accomplish a vast
amount of work in a very short time, will understand the
worth of this new agency. I have seen this machine hitched
up and running ten plows. It will save from $10 to $50 to the
farmer every time it is used. Thus you will see, my friends,
that agricultural science is as yet but in its infancy. The
farmer who now tills twenty acres will in the future till one
hundred acres, and do it with greater ease and profit than he
can now manage his twenty. These monster machines, to be

sure, are too expensive for any one individual to own, but a
score or more farmers, by clubbing together, can make it prof-
itable to use them. When you realize the vast possibilities
of the future, you will believe that the man who is with us
to-day — who has seen such improvements as Col. Wider has
seen during the past twenty-five years — will be but as a mere
child in comparison with the grown man of a generation or
two hence. (Applause.)

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Report of the President and Secretary.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture :

Sir, — We herewith submit, in compHance with the require-
ments of the Statute, the following statement of the Trans-
actions of the Norfolk Agricultural Society for the year 1873.

No material change has taken place in the condition or
prospects of the Society, now more than twenty-five years
old. We believe however that we but express the unanimous
judgment of those present, that the last Annual Exhibition of
the Society was in all respects one of the best ever held in
the County.

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

HENRY S. RUSSELL, President,

Henry O. Hildreth, Secretary.

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

HORSES.

The Committees of the several classes into which this depart-
ment is divided have reported to me as follows : —

Class A — Roadsters.

1st Division, Stallions. — First premium of ten dollars to ^Y. T.
Brown of West Roxbury ; Diploma to Juson Houghton of Milton.

2cl Division, Brood Mares. — First premium of seven dollars to
W. T. Cook of Milton ; 2d premium of five to W. T. Cook of
Foxboro'.

2>d Division, Colts and Fillies. — Four years old, first premium of
five dollars to R. Holmes of Boston Highlands ; three years old, first
premium of five dollars to J. Houghton of Milton ; 2d premium of
three, to J. Walter Bradlee of Milton ; two years old, first premium
of three dollars to W. T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of two,
to G. C. Park, P^ast Walpole ; one year old, 1st premium of three
dollars to W. T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premiuna of two, to W.
E. Coffin of Dorchester.

4th Division, Pairs in Harness. — First premium of tea dollars to
Albert Tirrell of Weymouth.

bth Division, Harness Horses. — First premium of eight dollars
to W. T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of six, none awarded ; 3d
premium of four, to A. P. Bickmore of Hyde Park ; -Ith premium of
two, to W. H. Warren of Randolph.

Class B. — Horses of all Work.

\st Division, Stallions. — First premium of ten dollars to K. W.
Sewell of Medfield.

2d Division, Brood Mares. — Pirst premium of seven dollars to
A. Davenport of Canton ; 2d premium of five, none awarded.

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dd Division, Colts and Fillies. — Four years okl, no entries ; three
3 ears old, first premium of three dollars to J. Davenport of Canton ;
two years old, no entries ; one year old, no entries.

■ith Division, 2)airs in liarness. — First premium of seven dollars
to W. T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of five, none awarded.

oth Division, horses in harness. — First premium of six dollars
to W. T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of four, to J. H. Far-
rington of Millon.

Class C. — Family Horses.

1st Division, Stallions. — No entries.

2f/ Division. Brood Mares and Colts. — First premium of seven
dollars to CM. Vinson of Dorchester; 2d premium of five, none
awarded.

od Division, Colts and Fillies. — Four years old, first premium
of five dollars to J. W. Bradlee of Milton ; 2d premium of three,
to Patrick McTernern of Foxboro' ; three years old, first premium
of five dollars to L. A. Eaton of Dedham ; two years old, none
entered ; one year old, first premium of three dollars to Capt.
Patillo of Stoughton ; 2d premium of two, to Charles Bronsdon of
Milton.

4//t Division, Carriage Horses. — First premium of ten dollars to
R. Holmes of Boston Highlands ; 2d premium, none awarded.

bth. Division, Buggy or Chaise. — First premium of eight dollars
to W. T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of six, to C. W. New-
hall of Norwood ; 3d premium of four, to C. F. Ellis of Dedham.

6th Division, Saddle Horses. — First premium of six dollars to
W. T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of four, to George S. Ferry
of Milton ; 3d premium, none awarded.

1th Division, Ponies. — Matched pairs, first premium of six dol-
lars to R. W. Hamblin of Hyde Park ; 2d premium, none awarded.

Single Pony. — First premium of three dollars to J. W. Bradlee
of Milton.

To Emery Hawes of Stoughton the committee recommend a
Diploma for his black horse, Orleans.

Class D. — Draught Horses.

]st Division, Single Draught-horse. — First premium of seven
dollars to Edward Sumner of Dedham.

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Pairs. — First premium of ten dollars to D. F, Decatur, West
Deilbam ; 2d premium of seven, to J. P. Sias of Milton.

SPECIAL PRIZES.

First Day. — Tiiuksday.

Gentlancti's Druing-Horses. — First premium of the Society's
Cup, twenty-five dollars, to ^y. R. Angier of Milton ; ■2d premium
often, to H. Parker of Dedham.

Xearest to three minutes. — Societj^'s Cup, twenty-five dollars, to
B.R. Ballon of Sharon.

Double Teams. — First premium. Society's Cup, twenty dollars,
to R. W. Hamblin of Il3de Park ; 2d premium of Driving AVhip,
ten dollars, to W. E. Coffin of Dorchester.

Running Horses. — First premium, Societj^'s Cup, thirty dollars,
to C. R. Robinson of Boston Highlands ; 2d premium of fifteen
dollars to C. W. Raymond of Boston Highlands.

Second Day. — Friday.

Open to all Horses. — First premium. Society's Cup, fifty dollars,
to B. R. Ballon of Stoughton ; 2d premium of forty dollars to H.
Parker of Dedham ; 3d premium, Driving Whip, ten dollars, to
Bradford Gannett of Sharon.

Double Teams. — First premium. Society's Cup, fifty dollars, to
R. W. Hamblin of Hyde Park ; 2d premium of twenty -five dollars,
to H. Parker of Dedham.

Running Horses. — First premium. Society's Cup, twent3--five
dollars, to AY. Bell of Milton ; 2d premium of fifteen dollars to C.
W. Raymond of Boston Highlands.

Last Horse. — First premium of ten dollars to H. L, Hunt of
Canton ; 2d premium of five to J. W. ]5radlee of Milton.

A. P. Calder, Chairman.

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PLOWING.

Double Ox Teams. — First premium of fifteen dollars to "William
Fales, Dedham, with Prouty & Mear's Plow, 155.

Nathan Longfellow, Needham, Chairman.

Double Horse Teams. — First premium of fifteen dollars to Black-
man Brothers, Needham, with Michigan Plow; 2d premium often
to J. H. Farrington, Milton, with Nourse Plow.

James T. Sumner, Canton, ) ^ . , ,
James Capen, Foxboro,' ' J Committee.

Single Horse Teams. — Henry Gouldingof Dover, first premium,
ten dollars. Plow, Steel Clipper, Ames Plow Co.

Henry W. Vose of Milton, with Plow, Prouty & Mears, No 154,
2d premium, five dollars.

L. W. Morse, Sharon, Chairman.

BULLS.

Jersey — one year old and upwards. — First premium of ten dollars
to Henry M. Mack of Dorchester ; 2d premium of five to William
T. Cook of Foxboro'.

Jersey — under one j^ear old. — First premium of five dollars to
William T. Cook of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of two to A. T. Brown
of Brookline.

Ayrshire — one year old and upwards. — First premium of ten
dollars to E. J. Morton of Milton ; 2d premium of five to James
Galloway of Quincy.

Holstein — one year and upwards. — First premium of ten dollars
to Henry Chaffin of Brookline.

Jamestoivn — one year old and upwards. — Second premium of
five dollars to Freeman Fisher of West Dedham.

Asahel S. Drake, Sharon, ']
Nathaniel S. White, Canton, ! p .,,
James M. Codman, Brookline, [ <-0"^"a"^e<^-
E. M. Gary, Milton, j

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cows.

^e,.cZs.— First premium of the Wilder Cup to William T. Cook
of Foxboro' ; 2d premium of twelve dollars to Henry M. ISIack of
Dorchester ; 3d premium of eight to W. R. Eobeson of Milton.

Best Coio in Milk. — First premium of twelve dollars to A. T.
Brown of Brookline, for his grade cow.

Best Heifer in MUk. — First premium of four dollars — 2 years —
to Matthew Bolles of West Roxbury ; 2d premium of two to Wisner
Park of Hyde Park.

Jersey. — First premium of ten dollars to B. S. Rotch of Milton ;
2d premium of five to B. S. Rotch of Milton ; 3d premium of four
to A. T. Brown of Brookline.

Holstein. — First premium of ten dollars to Henry Chaffin of
Brookline.

Grade. — 2d premium of five dollars to Freeman Fisher of Ded-
ham ; 3d premium of four to Freeman Fisher of Dedham.

Col. E. Stone exhibited, on the second day, an excellent James-
town cow, which attracted much attention but which was not entered
for premium.

J. W. Gay, Dedham, Chairman.

HEIFERS.

For the best Jersey Heifer, two years old and under three. — First
premium of five dollars to John A. Cunningham of Milton.

For the best Grade Heifer, two years old and under three. — Second
premium of four dollars to John A. Cunningham of Milton.

For the Second best Grade. — Third premium of two dollars to
Freeman Fisher of West Dedham.

For the Best Heifer one year old (Jamestoion) . — First premium of
four dollars to Freeman Fisher of West Dedham.

For the second best Heifer one year old {Grade). — Second pre-
mium of two dollars to J. R. Engley, Dedham.

For the best Heifer Calf under one year old. — First premium of

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four dollars to Wm. T. Cook, Foxboro' ; 2d premium of two dol
lars to A. T. Brown of Brookliue.

Edward P. Burgess, Dedham, \

Lehiuel Billings, Quincy, > Committee.

William AValker, Nepouset, )

SWINE.

For best Collection. — First premium of fifteen dollars to Nat. Far-
ringtou, Jr., of Canton ; 2d premium of ten dollars to J. H. Far-
rington of Milton ; 3d premium of seven dollars to N. Farring-
ton of Canton.

For best Boar. — First premium of six dollars to D. F. Decatur
of West Dedham ; 2d premium of four to J. H. Farriugton of Mil-
ton.

For best Soio. — First premium of six dollars to J. H. Farrington
of Milton ; 2d premium of four to D. F. Decatur of West Dedham.

For Weaned Pigs — best litter. — First premium of six dollars to
N. Farrington of Canton ; 2d premium of four to J. H. Davenport
of Canton.

For best Fat Hog. — First premium of ten dollars to N. Farring-
ton of Canton.

A gratuity of three dollars to L. J. Carthy of Brookline, for
Berkshire Sow and seven pigs ; a gratuity of two dollars to C.
Davenport of Canton, for sow and six pigs.

Samuel B. Noyes, Canton, \

Thos. B. Griggs, Brookline, > Committee.

Henry Goulding, Dover, )

POULTRY.— Ill Coops.

For Collection — First premium to M. I. Ellis, Norwood, fifteen
dollars.

Light Brahma — First premium of three dollars to A. H. Drake

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of Stoiigliton ; 2(1 premium of two to A. H. Drake of Stoughton ;
3d premium of one to L. H. Ga}- of Stoughton.

Dark Brahma. — First premium of three dollars to A. II. Drake
of Stoughton ; 2d premium of two to F. Codman of Brookline ;
3d premium of one to F. Codman of Brookline.

Partridge Cochin. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Fllis
of Norwood ; 2d premium of two to M. I. Ellis of Norwood ; 3d
premium of one to G. H. Pike of Roxbur}-.

Buff Cochin. — First premium of three dollars to A. H. Drake of
Stoughton.

White Cochin. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis of
Norwood ; 2d premium of two to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

Black Cochin — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis ot
Norwood ; 3d premium of one to M. I. P^Uis of Norwood.

Black Sjmnish. — First premium of three dollars to C. & F.
Spring of Needham ; 2d premium of two to C. & F. Spring of Need-
ham ; 3d premium of one to C. & F. Spring of Needham.

Leghorns. — First premium of three dollars to C. &, F. Spring of
Needham ; 2d premium of two to C. & F. Spring of Needham.

Chicks. — First premium of three dollars to E. C. Aldrich of Hyde
Park.

Bed Leghorn. — "W. C. Fuller of Dedham, 3d premium of one
dollar.

Houdans. — First premium of three dollars to E. C. Aldrich of
Hyde Park ; 2d premium of two to E. C. Aldrich of Hyde Park ;
3d premium of one to E. C. Aldrich of Hyde Park.

Creve-Cotirs. — First premium of three dollars to C. & F. Spring
of Needham.

Dominique. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis of
Norwood ; 2d premium of two to M. I. Ellis of Norwood ; 3d pre-
mium of one to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

I^lymouth Rocks. — First premium of three dollars to A. H.
Drake of Stoughton.

Chicks. — First premium of three dollars to A. H. Drake of
Stoughton ; 2d premium of two to A. II. Drake of Stoughton ; 3d
premium of one to L. II. Gay of Stoughton.

Games. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis of Nor-
wood ; 2d premium of two to M, I. Ellis of Norwood ; 3d pre-
mium of one to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

Dominique Game. — Second premium of two dollars to ]M. I. Ellis
of Norwood.

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Black Red Game. — Second premium of two dollars to "W. T.
Cook of Milton.

White Bantams. — First premium of three dollars to A. F. Stev-
ens of Wellesley.

Sebright Bantams. — First premium of three dollars to A. F. Stev-
ens of Welleslej^

Silver Sebright. — First premium of three dollars to A. F. Stev-
ens of Wellesle3\

Game Bantams. — First premium of three dollars to J. B. Tilley
of Brookline ; 2d premium of two to J. M. Twitchell of H3^de
Park.

Ducks.

Aylesbury. — First premium of three dollai's to M. I. Ellis of Nor-
wood ; 2d premium of two to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

Rouen. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis of Nor-
wood ; 2d premium of two to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

Cayuga. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis of Nor-
wood ; 2d premium of two to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

Mallard. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis of Nor-
wood ; 2d pi-emium of two to M. I. Ellis of Norwood.

Crested Ducks. — First premium of three dollars to M. I. Ellis
of Norwood ; 2d premium of two to J. B. Tilley of Brookline.

Gratuities.

White Ducks. — M. I. Ellis of Norwood, two dollars.

Canaries. — G. Karcher of Dedham, two dollars.

Gray Squirrels. — F. F. Place of Dedham, fiftj^ cents.

White Rabbits. — F. AY. Donahoe of Dedham, fifty cents.

Guinea Foiuls. — W. C. Fuller of West Dedham, one dollar.

Partridge Cochins Chicks. First premium of three dollars to A.
H. Drake of Stoughton ; 2d premium of two to A. H. Drake of
Stoughton ; 3d premium of one to G. H. Pike of Boston High-
lands.

Buff Cochins. — First premium of three dollars to A. H. Drake
Stoughton.

Mhite Cochins. — First premium of three dollars to A. II. Drake
of Stoughton ; 2d premium of two to A. H. Drake of Stoughton ;
od premium of one to L. H. Gaj'- of Stoughton.

Black Cochins. — First premium of three dollars to A. H. Drake

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of Stoiighton ; ^d premium of two dollars to A. H. Drake of
Stoughton.

Jloudans. — First premium of three dollars to E. C. Aldrich of
Il3'de Park ; 2d premium of two to PI C. Aldrich of Hyde Park ;
3d premium of one to E. C. Aldrich of Hyde Park.

Geese. — First premium of three dollars to AV. T. Cook of Mil-
ton ; 2d premium of two to Henry Goulding of Dover.

Abel F. Stevens, Needham, Chairman.

VEGETABLES.

For Largest unci Best Collection. — First premium of twent}- dollars
to J. B. Tiller, Brookline ; 2d premium of fifteen to James Mack-
intosh, Needham ; 3d premium of ten to Gilbert Sumner, Milton.

Potatoes, Largest and Best Collection. — First premium of six
dollars to A. F. Stevens, ("Wellesley,) Needham ; 2d premium of
three to \V. R. Robeson, Milton.

Winter Squashes. — First premium of four dollars to W. A. Hum-
phrey', Brookline ; 2d premium of three to Francis Guild, Dcdham.

Seedling Potatoes. — First premium of ten dollars to "NMlliam
McDonald, Milton.

Table Potatoes. — First premium of two dollars to E. Paul of Ded-
ham : 2d premium of one to A. D. Capen of Dorchester.

Turnips. — First premium of two dollars to George Richardson
of Needham ; 2d premium of one to E. Paul of Dedham.

Carrots. — First premium of two dollars to T. B. Griggs of
Brookline ; 2d premium of one to A. F. Stevens of (Wellesley,)
Needham.

Beets. — First premium of two dollars to George Richardson of
Needham ; 2d premium of one to T. B. Griggs of Brookline.

Tomatoes. — First premium of two dollars to N. T. Davenport of
Milton.

Onions. — First premium of two dollars to G. Richardson Of
Needham ; 2d premium of one to Allen Colburn of West Dedham.

Parsnips. — First premium of two dollars to A. F. Stevens of
(Wellesley,) Needham.

Drumhead Cabbages. — First premium of two dollars to Allen

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Colburn of "West Dcdham ; 2d premiam of one to Charles H.
Stearns of Brookline.

Green Globe Savoy Cabbages. — First premium of two dollars to
George Richardson of Needham ; 2d premium of one to J. TV.
Broolvs of Milton.

Canlijloicer. — First jiremium of two dollars to Allen Colburn of
West Dedhara.

Celenj. — First premium of two dollars to N. T. Davenport of
Milton.

Marrotv Squashes. — First premium of two dollars to T. B Griggs
of Brookline ; 2d premium of one to Rnfus P. Sumner of Milton.

Canada Crook-Xeck Squashes. — First premium of two dollars to
E. Paul of Dedham ; 2d premium of one to George Mellen of
Brookline.

PumpJdns. — First premium of two dollars to D. F. Decatur of
West Dedham ; 2d premium of one to A. A. Mandell of Hyde
Park.

Wafer Melons. — First premium of two dollars to E. Paul of Ded-
ham ; 2d premium of one to D. F. Decatur of West Dedhara.

Sioeet Corn.—Y'wat premium of two dollars to George Craft of
Brookline; 2d premium of one to A. F. Stevens of (Wellesle}-,)
Needhara.

Mr. W. J. Hyde of Brookline, being one of the committee, could
not compete for a premium, but his collection was of so superior a
(juality that we recommend that he receive a gratuity of two dol-
lars.

Your committee are pleased to report that the exhibition was
one of the largest and in every respect or^e of the best ever made
by the Society.

C. L. CoPELAND, Milton, ")

W. J. Griggs Brookline, ' Committee.
W. J. Hyde, Brookhne, |

D. F. Henderson, Needham, j

PEARS.

The exhibition of Pears was one of the best ever seen in our
Hall, including a collection from Col. Marshall P. Wilder of Dor-
chester, of 127 varieties, but not entered for premium. Messrs. F.

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& L. Clapp of Dorchester, exhibited over 50 varieties, one-half of
wliich were seedlings of their own growing, many of them being
of very decided merit, and destined to become popnlar as soon as
introduced to general culture. Fine collections were shown by
Messrs. Walker & Co. of Boston Highlands ; Col. E. Stone of
Dec! ham ; H. P. Kidder of Milton ; A. T. Brown of Brookline ; C. F.
Curtis of Jamaica Plain ; Charles Stearns of Brookline ; Mrs. B. F.
Kadford of Hyde Park ; W. A. Humphrey of Brookline, and many
others.

List of Puemiums.

Best Twenty Varieties. — First premium of fifteen dollars to
Charles F. Curtis of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of twelve to
Charles Stearns of Brookline.

Best Ten Varieties. — First premium of eight dollars to
William J. Griggs of Brookline ; 2d premium of six to George
S. Curtis of Jamaica Plain ; 3d premium of four to Joshua W.
Vose of Milton.

Best Five Varieties. — First premium of six dollars to Benjamin
Cashing of Dorchester ; 2d premium of four to J. VV. Brooks of
Milton ; 3d premium of two to Col. E. Stone of Dedham.

Single Dishes.

Bartlett. — First premium of two dollars to Geo. S. Curtis, Jama-
ica Plain ; 2d premium of one to F. H. Caffin, Hyde Park.

Beiirre Anjoic. — First premium of two dollars to J. D. Bradlec,
Milton ; 2d premium of one to Joshua W. Vose, Milton.

Urhaaiste. — tirst premium of two dollars to J. D. Bradlee, Mil-
ton ; 2d premium of one to A. D. Capen, Dorchester.

Merriam. — First premium of two dollars to C. F. Curtis, Jama-
ica Plain ; 2d premium of one to Edward Sumner, Dedham.

Louise Bon d' Jersey. — First premium of two dollars to Walker
& Co., Boston Highlands ; 2d premium of one to J. P. S. Churchill.
Milton.

Vicar of Winkjield. — First premium of two dollars to J. D.
Bradlee, Milton ; 2d premium of one to J. P. S. Churciiill, Milton.

Duchess. — First premium of two dollars to Charles Sin-ing of
Hyde Park ; 2d premium of one to J. D. Bradlee of Milton.

Seckle. — First premium of two dollars to E. Sumner of Dodhiim ;
2d premium of one to A. D. Capen of Dorchester.

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Sloan's Orange.— First premium of two dollars to J. D. Bradlee
of Milton.

Sheldon. — First premium of two dollars to C. F. Curtis of Ja-
maica Plain ; 2d premium of one to E. Paul of Dedbam.

Beurre Bosc. — First premium of two dollars to Geo. S. Curtis
of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of one to J. D. Bradlee of Milton.

Doyenne Bowssocfc.—First premium of two dollars to C. F. Cur-
tus of Jamaica Plain.

Beurre CI airgeati.— First premium of two dollars to C. F. Cur-
tis of Jamaica Plain ; 2d premium of one to J. D. Bradlee of Mil-
ton.

Winter Mlis.— First premium of two dollars to Col. Theodore
Lyman of Brookline ; 2d premium of one to A. D. Capen of Dor-
chester.

Beurre Hardy.— First premium of two dollars to C. F. Curtis of
Jamaica Plain.

_B^^^^t,^._First premium of two dollars to Joshua W. Vose of
Milton ; 2d premium of one to Col. Theodore Lyman of Brookline.

Maria Lonise.—First premium of two dollars to Timothy Smith
of East Dedham ; 2d premium of one to Col. Theodore Lyman of
Brookline.

Dana's Ilovey .—First premium of two dollars to Col. Theodore
Lyman of Brookline.

Mount Verno7i.—First premium of two dollars to Walker & Co. of
Boston Highlands ; 2d premium of one to C. F. Curtis of Jamaica

Plain.

Flemish Beauty.— First premium of two dollars to F. H. Caffin
of Hyde Park ; 2d premium of one to J. D. Bradlee of Milton.

jjoicell. —First premium of two dollars to J. D. Bradlee of Mil-
ton ; 2d premium of one to AValker & Co. of Boston Higldands.

Goodale.— First premium of two dollars to Walker & Co. of
Boston Highlands.

The Committee also award gratuities to the following for collec-
tions of Pears : —

To Mrs. B. F. Radford of Hyde Park, five dollars ; H. P. Kidder
of Milton, four dollars ; A. T. Brown of Brookline, three dollars ;
W. A. Humphrey of Brookline, two dollars.

C. F. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, Chairman.

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APPLES AND OTHER FRUITS.

Your Coramittee think the thanks of the Societj' are espccially
due to the Messrs. Clapp of Dorchester, Hon. Otis Cary of Fox-
boro', and Mr. Joseph Crane of Dedham for Apples ; Messrs. J.
W. Brooks and W. H. Forbes of Milton, and W. J. Stuart of
Hyde Park, for Grapes. Mr. Crane would have been entitled to
the first premium for a collection of apples if he had exhibited the
number of dishes and number of apples to a plate required by your
Regulations. To Hon. Otis Cary we are indebted for specimens
of fifty varieties of apples from Nebraska and twenty from the Fruit
Grower's Association of Canada — all perfect. The Messrs. Clapp.
who always do well, we may safely and truly say excelled them-
selves. Their dishes of apples would have done credit to any ex-
hibition at any fair, in one of our most fruitful seasons.

Aaron D. Capen. Dorchester, 1

David Shaav, Foxboro', I ^

Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline, f Committee.

Elijah Tdckek, Milton. J

The Committee award the following premiums : —

Apples — Five Varieties. — Second premium of four dollars to
Abraham Bigelow of Dover.

Single Dishes.

Baldioin. — First premium of two dollars to James Breck of Mil-
ton ; 2d premium of one to James Faulkner of Milton.

Greenings. — First premium of two dollars to James Faulkner
of Milton ; 2d pi-emium of one to F. & L. Clapp of Dorchester.

Poiiers. — First premium of two dollars to James Breck of Mil-
ton.

Gravenstein. — First premium of two dollars to F. «& L. Clapp of
Dorchester.

Washington. — First premium of two dollars to F. & L. Clapp of
Dorchester.

Dutch Codling. — First premium of two dollars to F. & L. Clapp
of Dorchester ; 2d premium of one to A. D. Capen of Dorchester.

Pomroy. — First premium of two dollars to A. D. Capen of Dor-
chester.

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Collections.

Gratuity. — First premium of two dollars to Joseph Crane of
West Dedham.

Peaches. — First premium of three dollars to Henry W. Vose
of Milton.

Cranberries. — First premium of three dollars to Nathan Long-
fellow of Needham ; 2d premium of two to Nathaniel Gay of
Stoughton ; 3d premium to James Mackintosh of Needham, East-
wood's Cranberry Culture.

Collection of Foreign Grapes. — First premium of six dollars to J.
AY. Brooks of Milton, seven varieties ; 2d premium of four to W.
J. Stuart of Hyde Park, two varieties.

Collection of Native Grapes. — First premium of four dollars to
W. H. Forbes of Milton, fourteen varieties ; 2d premium of three
to J. W. Brooks of Milton, twelve varieties ; 3d premium of two
to S. M. Vose of Hyde Park, eight varieties.

Concord. — First premium of two dollars to J. M. Merrick of
Walpole ; 2d premium of one to Walker & Co. of Boston High-
lands.

Deleivare. — First premium of two dollars to E. Hemman of West
Roxbury ; 2d premium of one dollar to J. B. Tilley of Brookline.

Diana. — First premium of two dollars to Walker & Co. of Bos-
ton Highlands ; 2d premium of one to J. W. Talbot of Norwood.

Rogers' Hybrid. — First premium of two dollars to B. C. Vose of
Hyde Park.

FLOWERS.

Pot Plants. — First premium of ten dollars to H. P. Kidder of
Milton ; 2d premium of five to B. C. Vose of Hyde Park ; gratu-
ity of three to N. T. Davenport of Milton.

Cut Floivers. — First premium of four dollars to George Craft of
Brookline ; 2d premium of three to N. T. Davenport of Milton ;
3d premium of two to Mrs. John Vose of Hyde Park ; gratuities
of two to Anthony McLaren of Jamaica Plain ; of one to H. P.
Kidder of Milton ; of one to J. W. Brooks of Milton ; of one to
Eliphalet Stone of Dedham.

Basket of Flowers. — First premium of four dollars to Miss H.

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D. Davenport of Milton ; gratuity of one to Mrs. B. C. Vose of Hyde
Park.

Boicqrtets.— First premium of four dollars to Miss H. D. Daven-
port of Milton ; 2d premium of three to J. D. Davenport of Mil-
ton ; 3d premium of two to Anthony McLaren of Jamaica Plain ;
gratuity of fifty cents to Mrs. S. M. Barbour of Foxboro'.

G'^afZio^as.— Named— First premium of four dollars to Anthony
McLaren of Jamaica Plain ; gratuity for collection, of one each
to Anthony McLaren of Jamaica Plain and Jas. Faulkner of
Milton.

Dahlias.— First premium of two dollars to Macy Randall of
Sharon ; 2d premium of one to Mrs. Joseph Crane of Dedham.

Zinnias.— First premium of two dollars to Mrs. Abraham
Holmes, Jr., of Milton ; 2d premium of one to Macy Randall of
Sharon.

Bose Buds. —GrsLtiiity of one dollar to N. T. Davenport of
Milton.

The Committee were especially pleased with the specimens of
rose buds from the green house of Mr. Lyman Davenport of Mil-
ton, showing in the green and healthy wood and foliage and well
developed buds, the most careful and successful cultu^-e. Col.
Stone of Dedham, very kindly placed on exhibition a new and
nicely quilled Dahlia, brought to this country by Hon. Charles L.
Flint, and never before exhibited. The exhibition of pot plants
by H. P. Kidder of Milton, and B. C. Vose of Hyde Park, was
remarkably fine, many of the plants being rare at.d beautiful. As
a whole, the display of flowers far surpassed that of former years.

A. K. Teele, Milton, Chairman.

DAIRY.

Best Produce— Ten-Pound Lots.— First premium of ten dollars
to W. R. Robeson of Milton ; 2d premium of eight to Henry M.
Mack of Mattapan ; 3d premium of five to James R. Fisher of
Norwood.

Best Sample — Six-Pound Lots. — First premium of live dollars

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to James R. Fisher of Norwood ; 2d premium of three to W. R.
Robeson of Milton; 3d premium of "Flint's Treatise" to Henry
M. Mack of Maitapan.

Quality generally superior. — W. R. Robeson only complied with
the conditions for Best Produce of Butter with sample of ten
pounds.

M. M. Fisher, Medwa}^, Chairman.

BREAD.

Wlieat. — First premium of thi'ee dollars to Mrs. Eliza Doole of
Dedham ; 2d premium of two to Nathaniel Gay of Stoughton.

Unbolted Wlieat. — None worthy of first premium ; 2d premium
of two to Mrs. Martha A. Everett of Dover.

Wheat and Indian. — First premium of three dollars to Mrs.
Nathan Longfellow of Needham ; 2d premium of two to Mrs.
Martha A. Everett of Dover.

Bye ayid Indian. — First premium of three dollars and 25 per
cent, additional, (contributor being only eleven years of age).
Miss Sadie E. Everett of Dover ; 2d premium of two to Mrs.
Martha A. Everett of Dover.

J. "White Belcher, Randolph, Chairman.

JELLIES, PRESERVES, &c.

First premium of five dollars to Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park,
for ten varieties of Canned Fruit.

Second premium of three dollars to Mrs. Edward Sumner, Ded-
ham, for eight varieties of Canned Fruit.

Third premium of two dollars to A. F. Stevens, (Wellesley,)
Needham, for collection of Jellies and Pickles.

Sarah E. Sumner, Canton, for the Committee.

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SEEDS.

The Committee on Seed Corn award the first premium of two
dollars to Eugene Batchelder of Dover, for his Batchelder Corn.

Nath. S. White, Canton, for the Committee.

STRAW GOODS.

For best specimen of Straw Bonnets. — First premium of eight
dollars to Messrs. Wm. T. Cook & Co. of Foxboro'.

For best specimen of Straw Braid. — First premium of five dol-
lars to Messrs. Wm. T. Cook & Co. of Foxboro'.

A. S. Harding, Medway, Chairman.

CARRIAGES, WAGONS, CARTS, &c.

For best specimen of Open Wagon. — Premium of five dollars to
J. W. Boby & Co. of Norwood.

For best specimen of Covered Wagon. — Premium of three dollars
to S. E. Morse of Norwood.

Geo. K Gannett, Milton, \

C. L. CoPELAND, Milton, > Committee.

Samuel Cook, Milton, '

MANUFACTURES.

The Committee were much pleased with an exhibition of Sponge
Carpet Lining, moth proof, by AV^illiain T. Cook & Co., (Union
Straw Works) of Foxboro'.

This article combines the qualities of straw and paper lining,

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being manufactured from sponge, with sufficient jute fibre to hold
it. It has been used in several large hotels in the city of New
York. It is moth proof.

The Committee award the Societj^'s Diploma.

Charles H. French, \

N. B. WiLMARTH, > Committee.

Samuel B. Noyes, )

LADIES' WORK.

The ladies, in giving their report, would say that the contribu-
tions this year, although smaller in quantity-, are superior in qual-
ity ; therefore the Committee have thought best to award larger
premiums. The work contributed by the children deserves special
notice. We particularly request that all articles should be en-
tered the first day, or before nine o'clock the second day, as it
would save much unnecessary labor.

Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park, for the Committee.

The following is a list of premiums awarded : —

Mrs. Morrison, Foxboro', silk quilt, $2.50.

Mrs. S. Staples, Oakdale, Dedham, $1.

Mrs. Josiah Capen, Jamaica Plain, knit quilt, $2.

Mrs. Welch, Oakdale, Dedham, patchwork, 50 cents.

Mrs, W. B. Southworth, Stoughton, carriage robe, $3.

Mr. Isaacus Colburn, West Dedham, braided mat, $2.

Mrs. George Craft, Readville, drawn rug, $1.

Mrs. A. M. Farrington, Canton, 1 drawn mat, 75 cents.

Mrs. A. II. Brainard, Hyde Park, carriage robe. Diploma.

Miss Olivia J. McCullough, Hyde Park, pictures, $2.

Mr. S. M. Wales, Oakdale, Dedham, pen drawing, 50 cents.

Mrs. Spring, Hyde Park, oil paintings, 50 cents.

Mrs. W. Shedd, Hyde Park, bead towel rack and cushion, $1.50.

Mrs. C. A. Parrott, Hyde Park, netted tidies, $1.

Mrs. Leander G. Britton, Stoughton, crochet tidy, 50 cents.

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Miss H. E. Barbour, Miiton, crochet tidy, 50 cents.
Mrs. Annie E. Thacher. Hyde Park, silk embroidery, S2.
Mrs. C. B. Slialer, Canton, embroidered garment, 81.50.
Mrs. A. M. Uphara, Readville, crochet garment, 50 cents.
Mrs. J. V. Abbott, Oakdale, Dedham, braided mat, 25 cents.
Mrs. R. Williams, Hyde Park, wax work, §1.50.
Mrs. Samnel M. Wales, Oakdale, Dedham, feather wreath, S2.
Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park, 1 pair hose, $1.
Mrs. J. II. Miller, Sharon, stockings, 50 cents.
Mrs. Spanlding, Canton, chair covering, $1.
Mrs. S. M. Baker, Foxboro', tatting, 50 cents.
Miss Minnie Spring, Hyde Park, tidy and hood, $1.
Miss Annie Chapin, Hyde Park, tidy and hood, §1.
Miss Mary F. Clark, Sharon, scrap bag, Si.
Miss Grace A. Vose, Hyde Park, tid}-, $1.
Charley Blanchard, Dedham, patchwork, §1.
Miss Daisy Spring, Hyde Park, pansey mats, ^5 cents.
Mrs. LeanderG. Britton, Stonghton, silk quilt. Si.
Miss Georgia B. Sumner, Milton, mats, 25 cents.
Mrs. George Haggett, Oakdale, Dedham, worsted work, $1.
Miss Emma L. Staples, Dedham, mats, 50 cants.
Miss A. Farrington, Readville, bible cushion, 50 cents.
JNIiss Eva Elliott, Readville, tatting, 50 cents.
Mrs. Hall, Readville, tatting collar, 40 cents.
Miss M. A. Dunsmore, Dedham, mats and tidy, Si.
Mrs. J. Britton, Stonghton, tidy and mats, 50 cents.
Miss H.Davenport, Milton, tatting. 25 cents.
Mrs. Mary Marden, Dover, silk quilt. Diploma.
Mrs. E. F. Bo3-den, Norwood, bead picture. Diploma.
Mrs. James K. Shattuck, Hyde Park, infant's cloak, SI.
Mrs. Charles Marden, Dedham, drawn rug. Diploma.
Miss Charlotte Mitchell, N. Abington, cushion, Diploma.
Miss Sophronia M. Barbor, Foxboro', miniature house, S3.
Miss Hattie Bonney, Hyde Park, cushion, 25 cents.
Miss Belle Bicknell, Hyde Park, moss mat, 75 cents.
Mrs. AV. A. Bonney, Hyde Park, needlework, SI.
Total, S47.15.

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CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Insects. — First premium of two dollars to Miss Anna Howell of
Hyde Park ; 2d premium of one dollar to John Goulding of Dover.

Birds, &c. — First premium of Samuel's Book of Birds to John
Goulding of Dover, for collection of 34 specimens of Birds and
Animals ; 2d premium of two to P. W. Aldrich of Milton, for col-
lection of 20 specimens of Birds ; 1st premiflm of one dollar to
A. E. Hunt of Hj'de Park, for 116 varieties of Birds' eggs; 2d
premium of fifty cents to J. P. Tebbets of Hyde Park, for eggs ;
od premium of twenty-five cents to Miss Ella D. Holmes of Hyde
Park, for eggs.

A. W. Cheever, Wrentliam, ) p .,,
A. F. Stevens, Needham, f

SPECIAL COMMITTEE.

We award the following Diplomas : — Josiah Tisdale of Norwood,
for Tisdale Treadle on Sewing Machines ; Timothy Smith of East
Dedham, for Spring Bed ; D. M. Easton of Hyde Park, for
finished Calf Skins.

N. B WiLMARTH, Walpole, for the Committee.

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Recapitulation of Premiums

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

For 1873.

HORSES.

W. T. Cook, (Foxboro') ....$46 00

Richard Holmes 15 00

J. W. Bradlee 11 00

W. T. Brown 10 00

Albert Tirrell 10 00

E. W. Sewall 10 00

D. F. Decatur 10 00

W. T. Cook. (Miltou) 7 00

Alfred Davenport 7 00

C.M.Vinson 7 00

Edward Sumner 7 00

J. P. Sias 7 00

C. W. Newhall 6 00

R. W. Hainblin 6 00

Jasou Houghton 5 00

L. A. Eaton 5 00

E. C. Bickniore 4 00

.J. H. Farriugton 4 00

C. F. Ellis 4 00

Geo. S. Ferry 4 00

John Davenport 3 00

Patrick McTeruan 3 00

Captain Patillo 3 00

G. C. Park 2 00

W. E. Coffin 2 00

W.H.Warren 2 00

Charles Bronsdou 2 00

HORSES.— ExTiJA Premiums.

B. R. Ballon $115 00

R. W. Hamblin 70 00

H. E. Parker 35 00

C.R.Robinson 30 00

C.W.Raymond 30 00

W.R. Angler 25 00

W. Bell 10 00

W. E. Coffin 10 00

Bradford Gannett 10 00

H. L. Hunt 10 00

J. W. Bradlee 5 00

PLOUGHING.

Blackman Brothers $15 00

William Fales 15 00

Henry Goulding 15 00

J. H. Farrington 10 00

Henry W. Vose 5 00

BULLS.

Henry M. Mack §10 00

Wm. T. Cook, (Foxboro') ... 10 00

E. J. Morton 10 00

Henry Chaffin 10 Oo

James Galloway 5 Oo

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Freeman Fisher $5 00

A.T.Brown 2 00

COWS.

W. T. Cook, (Foxboro')-.-.$25 00

A. T. Brown 16 00

B. S. Rotch 15 00

Henry M. Mack 12 00

Henry Chaffin 10 00

Freeman Fisher 9 00

W.R.Robeson 8 00

Matthew Belles 4 00

Wisner Park 2 00

HEIFERS.

John A. Cunningham $9 00

Freeman Fisher 6 00

W. T. Cook, (Foxboro') .... 4 00

J. R. Eugley 2 00

A.T.Brown 2 Oo

SWINE.

N. Farrlngton, Jr $38 00

J. H. Farrington 20 00

D. F. Decatur 10 00

J.H.Davenport 4 00

L. J. Carthy 3 00

C.Davenport 2 00

POULTRY.

M. I. Ellis $75 00

A. H. Drake 37 00

E. C. Aldrich 15 00

C. &F. Spring 14 00

A.F.Stevens 9 00

W. T. Cook, (Milton) 5 00

J. B.Tilley 5 00

L. H. Gay 3 00

F. Codraan 3 00

G. H. Pike 2 00

W. C. Fuller 2 00

J. M. Twitchell 2 00

G. Karcher 2 00

Henry Gouldiug 2 00

F. F. Place 50

F. W. Donahue 50

VEGETABLES.

J. B. Tilley $20 00

James Mackintosh 15 00

Gilbert Sumner 10 00

A. F. Stevens 10 00

William McDonald 10 00

George Richardson 8 00

E. Paul 7 00

T. B. Griggs 5 00

Allen Colburn $5 oo

W.A.Humphrey 4 oo

N.T.Davenport 4 oo

W. R. Robeson 3 oo

Francis Guild 3 oo

1). F. Decatur 3 oO

W. J. Hyde 2 00

George Craft 2 00

A. D. Capen 1 qo

Chas. H. Stearns 1 oO

J. W. Brooks 1 00

R. P. Sunmer 1 oo

Geo. Mellen 1 oo

A. A. Mandell 1 oo

PEARS.

Charles F. Curtis $26 00

J. D. Bradlee 14 00

Charles Stearns 12 00

Geo. S. Curtis 10 00

W. J. Griggs 8 00

J. W. Vose 7 00

Walker & Co 7 00

Benj. Gushing 6 00

Theodore Lyman 6 00

J.W.Brooks 4 00

F. H. Caffin 3 00

A. D. Capen 3 00

Edward Sumner 3 00

Eliphalet Stone 2 00

J. P. S. Churchill 2 00

Charles Spring 2 00

Timothy Smith 2 00

Ebenezer Paul 1 00

APPLES AND OTHER FRUITS.

J. W. Brooks $9 00

F. & L. Clapp 7 00

Abraham Bigelow 4 00

James Breck 4 00

W. J. Stuart 4 00

W. H. Forbes 4 00

James Faulkner 3 00

A. D. Capen 3 00

Henry W. Vose 3 00

N. Longfellow 3 00

Walker'& Co 3 00

Joseph Crane 2 00

Nathaniel Gay 2 00

S. M. Vose 2 00

J. M. Merrick 2 00

E. Heramau 2 00

J. B. Tilley 1 00

J. W. Talbot 1 00

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DAIRY.

W. E. Robeson .$13 00

James R. Fisher 10 00

Heury M. Mack 8 00

BREAD.

Mrs. Martha A. Everett §0 00

Miss Sadie E. Everett 3 75

Mrs. Eliza Doole 3 00

Mrs. N. Longfellow 3 00

Nathaniel Gay 2 00

FLOWERS.

H. P. Kidder SH 00

A. McLaren 9 00

Miss H. D. Davenport 8 00

N. T. Davenport 7 00

B. C. Vose G 00

Geo. Craft 4 00

J. D. Davenport 3 00

Macy Randall 3 00

Mrs.JohnVose 2 00

Mrs. Abram Holmes, Jr 2 00

J.W.Brooks 100

Eliphalet Stone 1 00

James Faulkner 100

Mrs. Joseph Crane 1 00

Mrs. S. M. Barbour 50

JELLIES, PRESERVES, Etc.

Mrs. John Vose S5 00

Mrs. Edward Sumner 3 00

A.F.Stevens 2 00

SEEDS.

Eugene Batchelder S2 00

STRAW GOODS.

W. T. Cook,&Co,(Foxboro)$13 00

CARRIAGES, WAGONS, Etc.

J. W. Rol)y & Co §5 00

S. E. Morse 3 00

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND IN-
SECTS.

Miss Annie Howell S2 00

P. W. Aidrich 2 00

John Goulding 100

A. E. Hunt 1 00

J. P. Tebl)ets 50

Miss Ella D. Holmes 25

LADIES' WORK, Etc.

(See pages ii and 45) $47 15

Total Sl,542 15

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TREASURER'S REPORT.

C. C. Churchill, Treasurer, in account with the JS^oifolk Agricultural

Society.

De.

To balance in Treasury, Nov. 30, 1872 $144: 15

cash of new members 123 00

" " Commonwealth 600 00

" from proceeds of Fair, 1873 2,788 50

*' " all other sources 731 88

$4,337 63

Contra. Cr.

By cash paid incidental expenses $637 98

" " premiums 1,603 50

" Secretary's salary 100 00

" " Treasurer's " 100 00

" '• interest on debt 1,878 7-4

Balance in Treasury 17 31

84,337 53

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.

Dedham, Nov. 30, 1873.

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FROCEEDINOS

on the occasion of the
Twenty-Fifth ^nniyei\sai\y

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, September 25th and 26th, 1873.

The 2oth Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural Society
was held at Readville, on Thursday and Friday, September 25th
and 2Gth, 1873. The weather was remarkably fine during the
entire two days, the number in attendance very large, and the
entire proceedings harmonious and highly satisfactory both to the
visiting public and the managers of the Fair. In many depart-
ments the displays were equal to any ever made by the Society,
and in none M-as the show of an inferior character. The following is
a brief recapitulation of the leading features of the Exhibition : —

Of Horses, the most prominent exhibitor was Col Henry S.
Russell, proprietor of Home Farm and the President of the So-
ciety, among whose many fine animals there were four fine colts
of the famous Fearnaught stock. William T. Cook of Foxboro'
contributed nine animals entered in three classes and representing
the Morgan, Messenger, St. Lawrence, Morrill, Knox, Gray Eagle
and Touchstone l)reeds.

The stock pens enclosed the largest number of thoroughbreds
ever brought upon the gi-ounds of the Society, comprising Jerseys,
Ayreshires and Holsteins, with a few crosses of Jersey and James-
town. William T. Cook of Foxboro', contributed twenty-five ani-

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mals of the Jersey breed, A. T. Brown of Brookline, eleven,
and Henry M. Mack of Dorchester made a fine show of Jerseys,
inchiding the famous bull Sir Richard. Contributions of clioice
stock were made by W. R. Robeson, B. S. Rotch and E. J. Mor-
ton of Milton, Henry Chaffln of Brookline, Matthew Bolles of AYest
Roxbury, and Freeman Fisher and Francis Marsh of Dedham.

Of Swine the principal contributors were J. H. Farrington,
Milton ; N. Farrington, Jr., Canton ; and S. J. Carthy of Brook-
line.

Of Poultry, the largest exhibitor was M. I. Ellis of Norwood,
with thirty-seven coops ; A. H. Drake of Stoughton, contributed
sixteen coops; E. C. Aldrich of H^'de Park, nine; C. & F.
Spring of Needhan, nine, and L. H. Ga}^ of Stoughton, six.

The display of Fruits was never surpassed at any previous ex-
hibition of the Society. Among other contributions were the follow-
ing of Pears : — Col. Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester, one hundred
and twenty-seven varieties, not entered for competition ; F. & L.
Clapp, Dorchester, twenty varieties, not for competition ; C. F.
Curtis of Jamaica Plain, twenty ; Col. Eliphalet Stone of Ded-
ham, twenty ; H. P. Kidder of Milton, twenty ; B. F. Radford of
Hyde Park, twenty ; A. T. Brown cf Brookline, twenty; J. W.
Vose of Milton, fifteen ; A. D. Capen, Dorchester, eleven ; J. D.
Bradlee of Milton, eleven ; John W. Brooks of Milton, ten ; Geo.
S. Curtis of Jamaica Plain, ten ; Col. Theodora Lyman of Brook-
line, seven ; E. Paul of Dedham, seven; and smaller collections
by a great number of contributors. Contributions of Apples were
made by F. & L. Clapp, Benjamin Cushing and A. D. Capen of
Dorchester ; Abraham Bigelow of Dover, and others. Fine dis-
plays of Grapes were made by J. W. Brooks, W. H. Forbes, H. P.
Kidder and N. S. Davenport of Milton ; W. J. Stuart, Sarah M.
Vose, A. Ennis, John Vose and B. C. Vose of Hyde Park ; E.
Hemman of West Roxbury ; J. M. Merrick of Walpole ; N. B.
White of Norwood, and others.

The display of Flowers was of great beauty and extent, the lar-
gest contributor being H. P. Kidder of Milton. Other contributors
were Miss H. D. Davenport and Mrs. H. G. Davenport of
Milton ; George Craft, Brookline, and Macy Randall, Sharon.

The show of Vegetables was one of the largest and best ever
made by the Society. Among the leading contributors were Mr.
J. B. Tilley, Brookline ; James Mackintosh, Needham ; Gilbert
Sumner, J. W. Brooks, N. T. Davenport, AV. R. Robeson, Milton ;

W. J. Hyde, L. J. Carthy, Thomas B. Griggs, W. A. Humphrey,
Brookline ; D. F. Decatur, Allen Colburn, Ebenezer Paul, Francis
Guild, Dedham.

The display of Ladies' Work was excellent, many of the con-
tributions showing great skill and taste. To this department
Messrs. Carpenter, Cook & Co., of Foxboro', contributed several
cases of elegant Straw Goods, which attracted much attention, as
did the newly patented Carpet Lining manufactured b}' that firm.

The show of Bread and Butter was larger than usual, that of
Butter being the best ever made b}' the Society.

To the department of Manufactures, contributions were made by
D. M. Easton & Co., Hyde Park, Leather ; Carriages, by C. L.
Farnsworth, Hyde Park, and S. E. Morse, Norwood ; Timothy
Smith, Dedham, Spring Bed ; Josiah Tisdale, Norwood, Tisdale
Treadle on Sewing Machines.

On Thursday- forenoon the Ploughing and Drawing Matches, in
which there were an unusual number of contestants, took place,
and the afternoon was devoted to examination of contributions bv
the several committees, and to trotting on the course.

On Friday, the first performance was the grand cavalcade of all
the horses on exhibition, on the track. At 12 o'clock m. a proces-
sion was formed under the direction of Colonel Henry A. Darling
of Hyde Park, Chief Marshal, which marched, to the excellent music
of the Randolph Band, to the tent. After prayer b}- Rev. Dr. Mor-
ison of Milton, Chaplain of the da^^, the President of the Society,
Gen. Hemy S. Russell of Milton, invited the company to partake
of an excellent and substantial dinner prepared b}' L. E. Reed of
Boston, at the close of which the company was called to order by
the President, who said : —

Ladies and Gentlemen, — We are favored to-day with the pres-
ence of Robert Morris Copeland, whose eminence in his profession
has alread}^ added another name to the roll of honor of Old Nor-
folk Count}'. (Applause.)

Mr. Copeland received a hearty greeting, and gave the thought-
ful, suggestive and eloquent address which will be found reported
in full at the commenc'ement of this volume.

At the conclusion of Mr. Copeland's address, Colonel Russell
arose and said : —

It would be presuming in me to undertake to introduce to you
your staunch friend and the founder of this Society, tlie Hon.
Marshall P. AVilder. (Loud applause.)

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Col. Wilder said :—

3fr. President, — I thank 3'ou for bringing my name to notice,
and 3'ou my friends for tlie very cordial manner in wliich 3'ou have
received its announcement. But I suppose all you wish of the
young man is simply to see him once more, or to hear his voice if
it be but for a moment. (Applause.) No one, I can assure 3'ou,
Mr. President, rejoices more than I do in this glorious exhibition of
your Society. But, sir, I believe the audience will give me credit
of having had some experience in this way, and I stand here to-
day to say that I have never seen a better exhibition of the old
Norfolk Agricultural Society than has graced its festival to-day.
It does ni}' soul good, sir ; I ft el that I live anew. I recount the
days past when we assembled together on some of those very re-
markable occasions, but I assure 3'OU of these days that none ever
surpassed this, if we may except its first exhibition, which was
crowned with an amount of distinguished talent that has scarcel3' ever
been seen at an3' simihir assemblage. But in every other respect —
and I pa3' most cordial liomage to the gentlemen I see around me,
and I would not bring them in invidious comparison with the splen-
did galax3- of that da3'- — in most every other respect this exhibition
closes the most prosperous year that the Societ3' has ever had. I
rejoice in it, sir ; for ever3' institution of age has its da3'- of
decadence — has its ups and downs. Now, sir, to-day the old Nor-
folk Society takes lier stand in the front rank, and there may she
stand forever ! I am extremel3' obliged to this old Norfolk County
boy for his excellent effort. He has given 3'ou an epitome of what
we have gone through for the advancement of agriculture.

In those earlier days when a man brought up in his remarks the
word science, all the papers would be down on him. Now we
have our Agricultural College which teaches science as applied to
farming, and we have its President here to-day who knows how to
teach it. (Applause.) Now brighter days have fallen upon us, as
has been illustrated b3' the orator to-day.

In looking over the exhibition to-day, and the splendid horses
raised l\y our worth3' President, all honor to him (applause) —
why, look back and compare them with the horses in the da3-s
gone by that were but mere shadows ; would that the3-
might always remain so. (Laughter.) And this remarkable pro-
gress in the breeds of stock ; look at your more than fifty Jerse3''
animals — some that would grace any exhibition. I can remember
the da3' when there was not a Jersey animal in the County of Nor-
folk. Now what is this but progress and improvement? M3-
friend has alluded to the cultivation of fruits and flowers. I agree
with all he sa3^s about flowers ; but let me go back to m3' depart-
ment of fruit. When I was young we did not know even the
names of the fruits we raised. The apples of a particular tree
were often distinguished only b3' naming them after some object
near which the tree stood. They were known as the "hog pens,"
or by some other equall3' outlandish appellation. But in the ad-

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van ce of the culture more care was taken in the nomenclature of
the fruit and in raising distinct and now kinds. Among the new
contributions was the '•Roxbury russet," whicli is one of the best
kind of apples, and is known and valued throughout tlie countr}'.
But let me say to you, and I rejoice to state the Hxct, that I have
livod to see that grand assemblage of our fruits :.t the national
exhibition in Boston two weeks since, and to speak of the great
progress which it marked. Wh}', sir, in the State of Nebraska
where a few years ago there was not a fruit raised, two j'cars ago
at Richir.ond she carried olf the 8100 prize, and here in Boston she
again carried otf other prizes. And it has all cmcnated from this
centre, — from the etlbrts made by the Massachusetts Horticul-
tural Societ}', to which Norfolk County contributed so largely.
For more than twenty years Norfolk supplied Presidents for
that Society. (Applause.) Allow me now in closing to congrat-
ulate 3'ou, my friends, on this beautiful, excellent exhibition. You
are now on the right track. I hope this Society may live on
prospering and to prosper, rising higher and higher in its excel-
lence, and having better and better exhibitions, and may I not say.
I hope to be here and witness it. (Warm applause.)

After music by the band, the following hymn, written b}' a lady
of Dedham, was sung : —

Once more, dear friends, the season's round

Our annual feast hath brought;
Again with thankful hearts we own

A year with blessings fraught.

Full many a time hath seed been sown.

And harvests p.athered in.
Since here went forth the brave and true,

Their country's peace to win.

And 'mid the scenes that echoed tlien

To sound of martial strife,
We bring the fair fruits of the land

For which they gave their life.

To Him whose loving kindness gives

The husbandman's reward,
We offer now our grateful thanks

For homes with plenty stored.

For all a nation's tlirift ami wcaltii,

And for the year's hi(;rea.-<e.
For freedom from the pestilence,

And for a land at peace.

And when shall send the harvest's Lord

To bid his reapers come,
Bearing our slieaves may' we go hence

To Heavenly Harvest-Home.

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Col. William S. Clark, President of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College, was the next speaker. He began b}' saying that
he was glad to have the opportunity- to sa}' a word in regard to
the excellence of the exhibition, particularly in the matter of fruit,
for which thanks were mainly due to Col. Wilder, whose name has
become known throughout the country as the prince of pomologists.
He had also become known throughout the country in every good
work which will benefit the people. Col. Wilder had said that he
would rather originate a new flower, or fruit, or vegetable, that
would hand down his name to posterity, than to receive any other
earthly honor. These, said the speaker, were eloquent words ; but
his fame was not perishable, for he would be remembered as the
founder of institutions that shall live forever, or as long as men
cultivate the earth. (Applause.) He would also be remembered
as the founder, originator and main spoke in the wheel of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, which is called a failure.
(Laughter.) He has failed in this last grand eftbrt of his life, so
some would try to have us believe. He has in truth borne more
slander on this account than any man in Massachusetts. The
speaker was \evy sorry for him. He said he had stood by him
himself and borne a good deal of pounding. But he would not
defend the Agricultural College, for it neeiled no defence. He did
not believe the farmers of Norfolk County would decry an institu-
tion which was founded to promote the cause of agriculture — to
gather the wisdom of all countries and diffuse it throughout our
own. He would tell them in a word what they Avere doing at the
College. The}' had a ver}- beautiful property of aljout 400 acres,
and also property in buildings, money, &c., of more than 8500,000.
Able men were employed to instruct the pupils in the various
branches of scientiflc farming who were performing their dut}' with
great zeal. The institution was also full of students, and was
never before in so flourishing a condition. So much for the Col-
lege. The speaker then alluded to the requirements needed for a
farmer, and said it took a good and intelligent man to make a suc-
cess in this pursuit, as in other things. He had seen a great
many cases where the right kind of men had made a good thing in
farming. The speaker next pleasantly referred to a recent visit
he had made to Cul.Russel's farm in Milton, and to the operations
of that gentleman in fancy horse flesh. He then alluded to the
dairy business, and to what his College was doing in that line.
The results which had been achieved were enough to show that
intelligent farming pa^-s, and that it was the work of his College
to train intelligent farmers. Judge Hoar had recently stated that
the ideal of Harvard College was literary culture, but the ideal of
the Agricultural College was business. It taught boys how to
work. It took them when th^- had got through the three R's —
'rithmetic, reading and 'riting (laughter) — and put them right to
work upon the farm, and taught them in this practical way the

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science of agriculture Without this actual practice there was no
such thing as intelligent fanning. His students had the scientific
principles thoroughly instilled into them by practice and study
combined. In farming, as in other things, they must begin at first
principles and get the elements of it thoroughly grounded, and
then progress can be made. When this method is generally pur-
sued agriculture will take a place as a profession worthy of respect.
It needed men of brains to bring it up to its proper position. Give
him a man of brains, he said, and such an one Avould go right,
whether he had mone\^ or friends to back him or not.

Mr. George M. Baker, President of the Marshfield Agricultural
Society, was next introduced. He briett}^ expressed his gratifica-
tion at the character of the exhibition, which, though it was the
twenty-fifth held by the Society, yet showed none of the deficien-
cies of age, but rather evidences of vast improvement since its
earlier days. The specimens of fruit he thought were wonderful,
and the Society that could make such a display must surely have
among its supporters the presence of that venerable gentleman
whose name was beloved and venerated wherever luscious fruits
were cultivated and their excellence appreciated. He closed by
expressing the hope that the Society would be favored in the future
with as genial skies as then smiled above them.

The next speaker was Mr. Charles L. Flint, Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture. He said he had attended many of
the annual shows of the Norfolk Societ}'', and was with them in
1849 when that grand galaxy was present to which Col. Wilder
had referred. He had also attended many exhibitions during the
present season, and was happ}- to say that this was the crowning
glory of them all. (Applause.) He was pleased at the condition
of the stock on the ground. When he came into office 3'ears
ago there was scarcely any blooded stock in the State ; now it was
abundant in nearly every part of the Commonwealth. He also
took pleasure in visiting the halls, where the display of apples,
pears and vegetables he said was the most magnificent he had seen
in any County exhibition. The progress in the culture of fruits,
he said, was one of the marvels of the present age. The speaker
then referred to the first efforts at fruit raising in Massachusetts
by Governois Winthrop and Endicott and other farmers during
the latter part of the seventeenth century. The fruit then raised
was apples exchisively, which were all seedlings and of an inferior
quality, and were raised only for cider. Even down to the end of
the first quarter of the present century little was done with ai)ples,
except to make cider and vinegar with them. I>ut fast progress
has been made since that time, and now more than fifty millions of
dollars is the annual product of the fruit of this country. Before
he sat down, however, he wished to express a little pride he felt in
one addition of their show, and this was in respect to its dahlias.
In 1843, while travelling over the Alps in Switzerland he came to

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the town of Altorf, which had been made immortal as the scene of
the famous shootino- by William Tell. It was a little tumble-down vil-
lage, but in front of all the cottages were little patches filled with
the most beautiful dahlias. He obtained rocts of some of the finest
specimens whicli he carried about with him in his travelling bag, and
finally brought home to America, and succeeded in raiding from
them some magnificent specimens, and established their growth in
this country. "This, he said, was the only claim he could make of
having contributed to the stock of products raised upon our Ameri-
can soil. He then closed by congratulating the Norfolk County
Society on its great success, and hoped it would go on as it had
begun.

At the close of Mr. Flint's address, Samuel B. Noyes, Esq., of
Canton, addressed the President of the Society as follows :—

3fr. President, — Among the many pleasant features of this
exhibition is that of meeting old friends and old faces, and also of
recollecting those who have been here in former times. Last year
there was a gallant steed at this exliibition whose beauty attracted
every eye. To-day that horse i.^ not here, but a lady of Milton, a
farmers' wife, has desired me to present this to you in memory of
the bereavement you have sustained in the loss of Fearnaught.

The speaker here presented to Col. Russell a beautiful represen-
tation of his famous horse, executed, in wax, in bas relief, and
handsomely framed, and read some lines which were appropriately
inscribed on the back of the token. On receiving the gift, Col.
Russell responded in these words : —

I thank the ladv for the kindness which has prompted this. I
assure you. sir, that' I value and appreciate the sympathy which is
so beautifully expressed. Fearnaught's death is recognized as a
loss to all New p:ugland, while, perhaps, practically speaking, the
loss falls heaviest on me. I am touched to find so wide a circle of
sorrowers with me in my bereavement. Fearnaught was indeed
a gallant animal, and it "was the chief pride of the Home Farm
in having him at its head.

Col. Russell then called attention to the exercises on the track,
which brought the proceedings in the tent to a close.

The races on the track began at 2 o'clock, under the direction
of Messrs. W. A. Angler, Milton, Albert B. Balch, Medfield, and
A. W. Whitcomb, Randolph, and .occupied the time until 5 o'clock,
when the exercises of the day were brought to a close.

No previous exhibition of the Society ever gave more satisfac-
tion to all connected with its management, and the splendid show

of Stock, Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables were never excelled at any
exhibition held in the County.

The best order prevailed during the entire two days, the police
arrangements being in charge of that excellent officer, B. P.
Eldridge, Deputy State Constable, assisted b}' tiie following mem-
bers of the force: — Clifford, Stoughton ; Porter, Braintree ; Ham-
mond, '\Vo\'mouth ; Whittaker, Franklin ; Fernald, Quincv ;
McAdoo, Somerville ; Macoj', Bridgewater ; Bramhall and Noo-
nan, Cambridge.

Tiie onerous and responsible duties of Chief Marshall were ad-
mirably performed by Col. Henry A. Darling of Hyde Park, assist-
ed b}' the following gentlemen as aids : — William B. Fenner and
Albert Carleton of Roxbury, and J. B. AValker, Col. Francis Boyd
and Joseph Richardson of Hyde Park.

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Officers of the Society, 1875.

President!
HENRY S. RUSSELL, of Milton.

Honorary President ■■
IIox. MARSHALL P. WILDER of Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents !

Hon. OTIS GARY, of Foxborough.

ALONZO W. CHEEVER, of Wrentham.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, of Quincy.

ALFRED W. WHITCOMB, of Bandolph.

THEODORE LYMAN of Brookline.

WILLIAM R. MANN, of Sharon.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary s
HENRY 0. HILDRETH, of Dedham.

Treasurer:
CHAUNCEY C. CHURCHILL, of Dedham.

Executive Committee!

E. C. R. WALKER, of Boxbury.

ALBERT B. BALCII, of 3IedJield.

CHARLES F. CURTIS, of West Boo:bnry.

AUGUSTUS P. CALDER, of West Boxbury.

WILLIAM T. COOK, of Foxborough.

ELLIS TUCKER of Canton.

HENRY M. MACK of Dorchester.

DAVID W. TUCKER, of Milton.

GEORGE CRAFT, oj Brookline.

Finance Committee and Auditors!

IRA CLEVELAND, of Dedham.

WILLIAM J. STUART, of Hyde Bark.

ELIPHALET STONE, of Dedham.

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Board of Trustese {
BELLINGIrA^r.
GEORGE H. CROOKS.
BRAINTUEE.

ALVA MORRISON.
JOHN B. ARNOLD.

GEORGE CRAFT.
WILLL\M J. HYDE.

JAMES T. SUMNER.
NATHANIEL S. WHITE.

SOLOMON J. BEAL.

LUTHER EATON.
ALLEN COLBURN.

FREDERICK CLAPP.
LEMUEL CLAPP.
SAMUEL J. CAPEN.

HENRY GOULDING.
EPHP.AIM WILSON.

JAMES CAPEN.
FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS.

ERASTUS L. METCALF.
JOHN W. RICHARDSON.

D.'VVID II. BATES.
GEORGE WALES.

BROOK LINE.

GEORGE GRIGGS.
CHARLES STEARNS.

CANTON.

ADAM McINTOSH.
EDMUND TUCKER.

COIIASSET.

ABRAHAM H. TOWER.

DEDIIAM.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

DORCHESTER.

AARON D. CAPEN.
JOSEPH E. HALL.
GEORGE DORR.

DOVER.

BENJAMIN SAWIN.
AMOS W. SHUMWAY.

FOXBOROUGH.

ERASTUS P. CARPENTER.
CHARLES F. HOWARD.

FRANKLIN.

HIRAM W. JONES.
FRANCIS B. RAY.

HOLBROOK.

CALEB S. HOLBROOK.

HYDE PARK.

ALPHEUS P. BLAKE.
W^ILLIAM J. STUART.

CHARLES C. SEWALL.
ELIJAH THAYEi;.

WILLARD P. CLARK.
RICHARD RICHARDSON.

ALBERT K. TEELE.
LYMAN DAVENPOJrr.

WILLIAM T. THACITER.
HENRY A. DARLING.

MEDFIELD.

WILLIAM Q. FISHER.
ALONZO B. PARKER.

MEDWAY.

WILLIAM DANIELS.
MILTON M. FISHER.

WILTON.

OLIVER W. PEA BODY.
CHARLES L. COPELAND.

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XEEDHAM.

ABEL F. STEVENS.
CHARLES H. MANSFIELD.

HENRY BLACKMAN.
JAMES MACKINTOSH.

NORFOLK.

WALTER H. FISHER.
ERASTUS DUPEE.

JAMES R. FISHER.
ISAAC ELLIS.

JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON.
LEMUEL BILLINGS.

J. WHITE BELCHER.
WILLIAM PORTER.

ROLAND WORTHINGTON.
J. AUSTIN ROGERS.
ISAAC HAYDEN.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE.
LEWIS W. MORSE.

LUCAS POND.

GEORGE E. HOLBROOK.

NORWOOD.

JOSIAH W. TALBOT.
SIDNEY E. MORSE.

QUINCY.

CHARLES A. HOWLAND.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

RANDOLPH,

EPHRIAM MANN.
SETH MANN, 2d.

ROXBURY.

JOSEPH H. CHADWICK.
GEORGE CURTIS.
SAMUEL LITTLE.

SHARON.

GEORGE R. MANN.
THOMAS DECATUR.

STOUGHTOX.

LUCIUS CLAPP.
HENRY BIRD.

WILLARD LEWIS.
HENRY M. PLIMPTON.

ROBERT PORTER, Jr.
ALBERT H. DRAKE.

WALPOLE.

JOHN N. SMITH.
EDMUND POLLEY.

WEST ROXBURY.

ALFRED S.
JOSEPH W.

BROWN.
PAGE.

HAMILTON J. FARRAR.
GEORGE S. CURTIS.

AVEYJVIOUTH.

JOHN W. LOUD.
JAMES HUMPHREY,

JOHN F. CO WELL.
EBENEZER B. PARKER.

ERASTUS NASH.
JAMES L. BATES.

WRENTHAM.

CHAUNCEY G. FULLER.
ROBERT P. GRANT.

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Names of M.embei\s.

BELLINGIIAM.

Chilson, Paul,* 18f 0.
Crooks, Geortje H.
Pickering, Asa,* '09. [3.]

BUAIXTUEE.

Ainolil, John B.
AinoUi, Joseph A.
l$atos, David II.
Blake, Joseph II. D.,*'68.
Bowilitch, Ebeuezer C.
Bia«ltoid, E. S.,* ISOG.
Chiice, George
How, Charles II.
Dyer, I^^anc
Dver, Joseph
Fogg-, Charles >r.,*l&J4.
French, Geoige G.
F'-ench, Charles.* 1801.
Freni-h, Joeaihau
Iloningsworlh, E. A.
Hollis, Caleb
Hollis, David N.
IloUis, John A.
Hollis, Josiah
Howard, J. G.
Ludden, Miss Carrie F.
Eudden, Joseph T.,* "62.
Locke, W.F.
Manslield, John
Maiislield, Warren
Morrison, Alva
Niles, Daniel II.
Pennini'in, Ezra.* 18GG.
Perkins. Oliver
Potter, Edward
Kami, William T.
Randall, ApoUos,* 1803.
Stetson, Amos W.
Stetson, Caleb
Stoddard, A. A.
Thaver, Ebenezer C.
Thayer, Hezekiah,* ]8,it.
Thayer, Sylvanus,* ln'rl.
Viulon, Thomas IJ.
Walnwright, Peter
Wainwrlght, William L.
Wales, George
Wild, Hiram
Willis, Geo. W.,* '52. [14.]

BROOKLINE.

Amory, James .S.
Aniory, William
Applcton, William, Jr.
Babcock, George,*
Bartlett, James,* 1871.
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, .Jos. 11.
Bird. Jesse,* 1M.")0.
Blake, George Buty

Blanev, Henry
Bramhall, William,* 1870.
IJi'Own, Atherton T.
Brown, Joseph T.
'"haftin, Ileniv
Chiirchill. Wiii.,* 18.->7.
Codman, Francis
Co<lman, James M.
Corey, Elijah,* 1859.
Corey, Timothv
Cralt, Miss Emeline H.
Crall, Caleb
Cralt, Charles,* 1864.
Craft, Geori:e
Cralt, Samuel.* 1»50.
Dane, John,* 1854.
Dane, .John H.
I»enny, Francis P.,* 1871.
Ferris, Mortimer C.
Fisher, Francis,* 1871.
Fr;izar, Amherst A.
Griggs, George
Griggs, Thoniiis
Griggs, Thomas B.
Grigirs, Wm. J.
Henshaw, Samuel,* 1803.
Hill, M. F.
Howe, Frank E.
Howe, .James Murray
Howe, John,* 1807.
Humphrey, Willard J.
Hnmi)lirey. W. A.
Hyde, William J.
Jaineson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.
Lawrejice, Amos A.
Lyman, Theodore
I'arker, Edward G..* 'C8.
I'arker, M. I).,* ISOS.
Parsons, Thomas
Keed, Eben
Reed, Mrs. Eben
Heed, Miss Ella
Salisbury, Wililam G.
Sampson, George R.
Shaw. G. IIowland,*'07.
Stearns, Charles
Stearns, Marshall,* 1870.
Thayer, John E.,* 1857.
Tilley, Jas. B.
Trowbridge, John H.
Turner, John N.,* 1804.
Welch, Matthew,* 1808.
White, Henry K.
Williams, Moses B.,* I8GC.
[C4.]

CANTON.

Abbott. Ezra,* 1872.
.Vmes, Frank M.
IJillings, Uriah
lijiliug-i, William
Bray, Edgar W.

Brewster, Ezra S.
Cabot, Samuel
Capen, Ezekiel,* 1872.
Capen, Samuel,* 1803.
Chapman, Oliver S.
Crane, .\lbert,* 1873.
Cushman, Charles F.
Davenjiort, Alfred
Davenport, Charles
Davenport, .John, Jr.
Deane, Francis \V.
Deane. Oliver
Downes, George,* 1801.
Downes, Miss C. T.
Downes, (ieorge E.
I)raper, Thomas
Dunbar, Elijah
Dunbar, James,* 1867.
I 'unbar, Nathaniel
Dunbar. William.* 1857.
Eager, Edward R.
Eldridgp, John S.
?^ldridge, John S.. Jr.
Endicott, John,* 1855.
Endicott, Charles
Everett J. Mason
Everett, Leonard,* 18.52.
Farrington, Nathaniel, Jr.
Fenuo, Jesse
French, Charles H.
French, Thomas,* 1802.
Fuller, Daniel
Guild, Horace
Hall, John
Howard, Lucius
Hunt, George L.
Huntoon, Benj.,* 1804.
Huntoon, Mrs. Benjamin
Huntoon, D. T. V.
Kinsley, Lyman
Kidlock, Jeremiah
Lincoln, Frederick W.,* '71
Lord, William P.
Manslield. William
Mcintosh, Adam
Mcintosh, Roger S.
McKendry, William
Messinger, Vernon A.
Messinger, Virgil J.
Morse, William
Noyes, Samuel B.
Prouty, Lorenzo,* 1872.
Revere, Joseph
Shejiard, 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

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Tucker, Nathaniel, Jr.
Tucker, Phineas
Tucker, William,* 18GS.
Ward, Samuel (t.
Wentwortli, Edwin
Wentwortli, Natliaiiiel
White, Elisha,* 18(i,3.
Wliite, Natlianiel S.
Wood, Kuliis C. [78.]

COHASSET.

Real, Solomon J.
Beal, Mrs. S. J.
Doaue, James C.
Johnson, William B.* 1872.
Sohier, William D.* 18'JS.
Souther, L,aban,* 1800.
Tower, Abraham H. [7.]

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamin H.
Alden, Abner
Aldeu, Francis
Alden, George,* 1862.
Alden, Leonard
Alden Samuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William, 2d
Babcock, Samuel B.* 1873.
Bacon, Silas D.
Bailey, Benjamin H,
Baker, David A.
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 11.
Bosworth, Isaac C* 1866.
Boy den, Addison
Boyden, Benjamin
Brooks, Edward C.
Bryant, Austin,* 1851.
Bullard, Elijah
Bullard, John,* 1852.
Bullard, Lewis
Bullard. William
Burgess, Ebenezer,* 1870.
Burgess, Ebenezer G.
Burgess, Edward P.
Capen, Charles J.
Capen, Oliver,* 1865.
Carroll, Sanford
Cawley, John
Chase, James M.,* 1860.
Chickering, Horatio
Chickering, Munroe
Churchill, Chauncey C.
Clapp, Edward
Clapp, Nathaniel
Clarke, -Joseph W.
Clark, Horatio
Clark, Mrs. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Cobb, Johnathan Ht
Cobarn, Charles
Coburn, Mrs. Charles
Colburn, Allen
Coll)urn, Isaacus
Colburn, Nathaniel,* 1853.
Colburn, Waldo

Copeland, Franklin
Cormerais, Henry
Coolidge, George
Cox, John, .Jr.
Crane, E. B.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
Crane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos II.,* 1864.
Ci'ossman, Charles B.
Curtis, George P.
Cushing, Henry W.
Dr.mrell, Wm. S.,* 1860,
Danied, Ellery C.
Davenport, George,* 1872.
Decatur, D. F.
Dean, .James
Deane. John,* 1864.
Dixon, llefus E.
Doggett, John,* 1857.
Donahoe, Patrick
Drayton, John,* 1856.
Dull', John
Dunbar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, John

Eaton, John Ellis,* 1854.
Eaton, Luthfir
Eaton, Luther A.
Edson. Mrs. E. G.,* 1859.
Ellis, Calvin F.
Ellis, Colburn,* 1854.
Ellis, George,* 1856,
Ellis, Jason
Ellis, Merrill D.
Ellis, Oliver
Ely, F. D.

Endicott, Augustus B.
Everett, Mrs. Hepzibah
Fairbanks, Wm.,*1863.
Fales, William
Farrington, Charles.,* 1859.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, .James,* 1864.
Farringon, Mrs. James
Farrington, Jesse,* 18.57.
Farrington, .Jesse
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,* 1863.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* 1863.
Fisher, Amoiy
Fisher, Eben'r S.,* 1867.
Fisher, Mrs. Elizabetli D.
Fisher, Freeman,* 1860.
Fisher, Freeman
Fislier, Joseph
Fisher, Joshua
Fisher, Thomas
Fleming, Douglas,* 18.58.
Follansbee, Isaac W.
Foonl, 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, Mrs. A. M.,* 1866.
Gay, Wm. King,* 1860.
(ilenson, Daniel
Gould, George
Green, Elisha,* 1865.
Green, .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. Haitie W.
Hildreth, Henrv O.
Hinkley, Mrs. M. J.
Holmes, Edward B.,* 1864.
Houghton, William A.
Howe, Elijah, Jr.
Howe, Francis,* 18.59.
Howe, Josiah D.,* 1867.
Jackson, Marcus B.
.Johnson, Edwin,* 1856.
Keelan, Michael
Keyes, Ebenezer W.
Keyes, Edward L.,* 1859.
Kingsbury, Lewis H.
Kingsbury, Moses
Kingsbury, Mrs. Sally
Lamson, Alvan,* 1864.
Luce, D. W.
Lynch, Mrs. A.,* 1869.
Lynch Daniel A.
Lynch Wm. F.,* 1869.
McLaue, James
Mann, Henry A.
Mann, Herman,* 1851.
Maun, Samuel C* 1864.
Mann, W. II.* 1864.
Marden, Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, Martin,* 1865.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin,* 1869 .
Mason, William
Mason. Wm. H.,* 18C1.
Mercer, Miss Mary
Mitchell, Francis N.*
Morgan, .John
Morrell, Henrietta W.
Motley, Thomar',* 1864.
Murray, Daniel
Neal, A. B.
Noyes, Nathaniel
Norris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion, Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamin H.
Pai;e, Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C.
Paul, Ebenezer
Paul, Mrs. Ebnezer
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
Richards, Edward M.,* '65
Richards, Henrv White
Richards, J. F.,* 1852.
Richards, Lewis A.
Richards, Mason,* 1866.
Richaris, Reuben,* 18)5.
Richards, William B.
Rodman, Alfred,* 1853.
Rodman, All'red
Rodman, Mrs. Alfred
Rooney, Francis

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Kussell, Charles
Kussell, Ira
;jampson, E. W.,* 18C7.
.Scanlan, David
Scliwartz, Mrs. Johanna
Scoto, Joel,* 1858.
Shattuck, NVillaicl
Shaw, Charles B.,* 1SU9.
'sheriff. John L.
Sherman, Charles B..*
Sherwiu, Thomas,* 1SG9.
Slalter, Carlos
Small, Miss Jane S.
Smith, E Iwiu
Smi'h, Henry
Smith, Nathaniel,*
Smith, Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Zebina,* 1805.
Spear, Henry F.
Stimsou, Jeremy,* 1869.
Stone, Eliplialet
Sully, John
Sumner, Edward
Sumner, Mirick P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah R.
Sumner, William R.,* 1860.
Sutton, Enoch,* 1853.
Talt, Ezra W.
Thayer, John H. B.,*1873.
Tnomas, John \V.
Tower, William B.
Trel'rv, James
Tubbs,Beuj,n.,*1851.
Van Brunt, G. J.,* 1863.
Vose, George 11.
Wakelield, Thomas L.
Wales, Sam'l Jr.,* 1860.
Washburn, Alex C.
Waters, Joseph W.
Weatherbee, Comfort
Weatlierbee, Jabez
Weatherbee, Jesse
Weatherbee, John E.
Webb, JMoses E.
Webb, Selh, Jr.,* 1862.
Welch, Stephen
Weld, Joseph R.
Wellcome, Jacob H.
While, John,* 1852.
White, Walter
Whiting, George E.
Wliithig, Hezekiah
Whiting, Horace
Whiting, Margaret M.
Wiiiling, Moses
Whiting, William
Whiluey. S. 8.,* 1855.
Wigiit, Danlorth 1*.
Wight, Ebenezer,* 1871.
Williams, G. W.,* 1861.
Wilson, John r.,* 1853.
Wilson, Reuben S.
Withington, Warren
\\'ood, Mrs. Amos
Woods, Win. G.,*1863.
Worthington, E. ["■280.]

DORCHESTER.

Abbott, William E.
Adams, Benjamin W,
Atherton, Samuel
Austin, William R.
r.achi, Ignatius C.,* 1859.
BacDii, Charles H.
Baker, Edinuml J.
Baker, Walter,* 1852.

Baldwin, Enoch,* 1800.
Barnes, Parker
Barry, Michael O.,* 1859.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Hillings, Lemuel
Bisphani, Eleazer J.
Hlanchard, Chas. F.
Brown, B. F.,* 1872.
Brown, Mrs. B. F.
Bradlee, James B.
Iji-adstreet, Samuel
Branihall, Cornelius
Breck, Henry, Jr.
Brewer, Darius,* 1854.
Briggs, Franklin
Brooks, Noah,* 18.52.
Ijrooks, Williams B.
Brown, Augustus
Brown, George M.
IJurt, George L.
Capen, Aaron 1).
Ca|ieii, Samuel J.
Capen, Thomas W.
Campbell, Thomas
Caiieton, Mary A.
Carlelou, Martha G.
Cariuth, Charles
Canuth, Nathan
C liter, Josiali H.
Carter, Elizibeth E,
Carter, Lizzie S.
Childs, Nathaniel R.
Cluircliill, Asaph
Chipp, Amasa
"lapp, Edward B.
Chipp, Frederick
Chipp, Frederick A.
Chipp, Lemuel
Clapp, James H.
Claiip, John P.
Clapp, Richard,* 1862,
Clapp, Thaddeus,* 1861.
Clapp, William,* 1860.
Clapp, William C.
Cleveland, S. H.,* 1856.
Cobb, Moses G.
Codinaii, John
Codmaii, Robert
Collin, William E,
Conant, R. B.
Copenhagen, A. W.,* 1860.
Curtis, Ebenezer
Cushiug, 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, Beuj. V.,* 1860.
Flench, iMrs. 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. William
Hardy, Alpheus
Harris, Benjamin W.
Hartshorn, Lewis E.
Hathaway, Nicliolas
Haven, John A.
Hayues, Edward
Haynes, George A.
Hebard, B. F.,* 1871.
llebard, C. F.
Hewins, John C.
Hickey, Timothy
Hickey, William
Holbrook, Nathan
Holmes, Ebenezer
Hoojier, Franklin Henry
Hooper, Robert C.,* 1869.
lloo[ier, Robert C, Jr.
Houghton, George A.
Howe, Charles,* 1869.
Howe, James T.
Humphrey, Henry
Hunt, Charles
Igoe, Patrick
Jacobs, Benjamin,* 1870.
Jones, Nahum
Joues, William
King, Edward,* 1807.
King, Franklin
Learned, J. M.
Lee, James, Jr.
Leonard, Joseph
Lewis, Edwin J.
Liversidge, S.,* 1852.
Liversidge, Thomas

Mack, Henrv M.

Mai k.Mrs.H. M.
Mack, S. P.,* 1866.
McAulifle, 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.,* 1809.

Nichols, Norman

Payson, 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,* 1853.

Pierce, Wni. B.,* 1858.

Pierce, William P.

Pope, Alexander

Pope, William

Pratt, Laban

Preston, Edward

Preston, John,* 1850.

Preston, John

Prince, William G.

Richardson, George

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Richardson, William II.
Hideout, Asa
Kobie, John
llobinson, Mrs. D. A.
Kohiiison, Eli \V.
Robinson, John H.
Robinson, Nathan T.
llobinson, Stephen A.
Ruggles, Edward H. K.
Sciiddev, Horace,* 1851.
Shaw, Theron V.,* 1870.
Smith, Henry
Suell, Stephen D.
Southworth. A. O.
Spear, Daniel
Spear, Joshua, Jr.
Spear, Luther
Spooner, John P.
Stephenson, Charles E.
Sumner, Clement
Swan, James,* 1873.
Temple, Hanuaniah,* 1873.
Temple, Thomas F.
Temple, William P.
Thayer, Benjamin W.
Thompson, Joshua P.
Thurlow, Rufus
Tileston.E. P.,*1873.
Tileslon, b'. L.
Tileston, Samuel,* 1872.
Tolinan, Eben'r,* 18(53.
Tohnan, William
Train, Enoch,* 1868.
Trenilet, Thomas,* 1858.
Trull, John H.
Trull, Mrs. J. H.
Trull, John W.
Tuttle, Joseph,* lb70.
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.
Whitien, Charles V.
Woodman, James
Worthingtun, Wm.,*
Wurthington, Wm. F.,*'73.
Wright, Edmund
Wright, Mrs. Edmund
Wright, Otis,* '05. [223.]

DOVER.

Adams, Adna J.
Adams, John
Alien, Jared
Allen, Timothy
L'a 'on, Aaron
Bacon, Mary S.
Baldwin, Frank
Baker, .Jabez
Bardcn, Calvin
Battelle, John
Baltello, Mrs. John
Batlelle, John E.
B ittelle, Mary D.
Battelle, Rachael A.
Battelle, Ralph

Beatie, Thomas
Bigelow, Calvin
Bigelow, Charles A.
Bigelow, Mrs. Hannah T.
Bigelow, Mrs. Abraham
Bigelow, William A.
Bliss, Linus,* 1872.
Bliss, Mrs. Linus
Broolibank, Miss Bella
Chickering, Daniel
Chickering, George E.
Chickermg, Otis
Chickering, Samuel
Cleveland, William
Dunn, Theodore
Everett, George D.
Everett, Mrs. Martha A.
Everett, JMiss Martha E.
Everett, Miss Sarah E.
Fearing, Perez L,
Gannett, William W.
Gay, Francis G.
Goulding, H. Emeline
Goulding, Henry
Goulding, Henry E.
Lyman, Miss Frances L.
Mann, Mrs. Adeline B.
Mann, Daniel,* 1859.
Mann, Daniel F.
Mann, Elbridge L.
Maun, lloUis
Mann, S. J. B.
Marden, Mrs. Mary
McGill, Thomas
McNaniara, Patrick
Newell, Benjainia
Newell, Mrs. Benjamin
Newell. Miss Betsey E,
Newell, Jesse
Newell, Josiah B.
Otis, E. B.
Perry, Elijah
Perry, Mrs. Mehitable
Richards, Calvin,* 1873.
Richards, Mrs. Calvin
Richards, Jennie A.
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers, \Vilbor J.
Sanger, Ralph, *18G0.
Sawin, Beniijmin N.
Sawin, Frank W.
Sawin, Mary A.
Sawin, .Mary J.
Shumway, Amos W.
Shuniway, Amos W., Jr.
Shumway, Hannah
Shuniway, Johu W^.
Shumway, Sarah G.
Sias, Samuel
Smith, Abner L.
Smith, Charles H.
Smith, Mary W.
Sullivan, Daniel
Ti-sdale, William
Upham, Martha F.
Upham, Walter W.
Wall, Patrick
Wilson, Ephraim
Wilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, E. Henry
Wilson, Miss N. D. [87.]

FOXBOROUGH.

Aldrich, H. D., *185L
BeJcher, Lewis ^V.
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 W.
Gay, Lewis E.
Guild, Freedom,* 1862.
Hersey, David
Hodges, x\llre<l
Kerr, Robert W.,* 1867.
Kingsburv, Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. S.
Leonard, Samuel B.,* 1866.
Leonard, James F.
Leonard, Sauford
Merrick, John M.,* 1871.
Pettee, Davil
Pittee, Joseph G.
Pettee, Simeon E.
Shepard, J. M.,* 1866.
Sherman, Job
Smith, Silas
Shaw, David
Sumner, Mrs. A. M.
Sumner, Charles C.
Torrey, Martin,* 1861.
Williams, Francis D.
Wymau, David. [38.]

FRANKLIN.

Adams, Albert,* 1869.-
Adams, Peter
Adams, Ward,* 18l'5.
Alby, R.

Atwood, Mrs. Ruth,* 1862.
Atwood, Shadrach
Baker, David J?.
Bullard, Piam,* 1865.
Chapman, Elisha P.
Daniels, Albeit E.
Daniels, Charles F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeWitt, Archibald,* 18o9.
DeWitt, Mrs. Mary A.,*'65.
Fisher, Herman C.
Fisher, Maxcy,* 18G5.
Green, Henry M.
Green, Martin,*
Harding, Lewis,*
Hills, Theron C.,* 1862.
Jones, Hiram W.
Jones, Alice J.
Jones, 1. L.
Jones, Lucy
Kuai:p, Allied
Metcalf, Altred G.
Metcalf, Alfred H.
Metcalf, Erastus L.
Metcalf, Erasmus B.
JMetcaU, Whiting,* 1869.
Metcalf, William,* 1872.
Miller, John, W.
Miller, Phillip W.,* 1860.
Morse, George W.
Morse, Joseph
Nason, George W.* 1868.
Pond, Henry E,
Ray, Francis B.
Ray, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.

55

Kay, James P.
Uiclianlson, John \V.
Richauison, Stepheu W,
Kockwood, E.,* 18m.
llockwood. Natliaa
Sersieant, A.D.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
WaiJsworth, George !M.
Wadsworth, Joseph II.
Wales, Otis, Jr.
Whitiug, Joseph
Whiting, Joseph M.
Whiting, Wm. E. [j:5.]

HOLBROOK.

nolbrook, Caleb S.
ilolbrook, Elisha S.* 1S72.
[■^•]

IIYUE Px\RK.

Adams, Henry C.
Adams, C. Henry
Adams, Henry S.
Aldrich, E. C.
Allen, Zenas
Blake, Alpheus P.
Blciikie, Robert
Blazo, \V. A.
Bissett, Henry F.
Beaiey, John
Bonney, William A.
Bradbury, C. C.
Bradbury. W. C.
Brainard, Amos H.
Bragg, William M.
Bryant, H. J.
■3ullard, William
Coleman, E. J.
Clarke, T. Emory
Conuor, Barney
Crane, Nathaniel
Darling, Henry A.
Dolau, Thomas
Davis, Enoch P.
Davis, David L.
Dow, J. E.
Downing, Alfred
Downing, iMrs. Alfred
Downing, .James
Kaston, F. A.
Ellis, Charles,* 187-2.
Evans, Thomas C.
Everett, W. S.
Farnsworth, C. L.
Farrington, John B.
Fiske, H. C.
Uorrv, Charles F.
Getchell, R. C.
Gilson, John
Gilson, Violettie L.
Gould, John I'..,* 1870.
Grew, Henry
ilaniblm, J. G.
Hamblin, R. W.
Hardy, B. H.
Haskell, B. B.
Hebard, Nathaniel
Horton, E. G.
Ireland, John
Ireland, Mrs. John
Kendrick, Henry C.
Lawson, J. D.
Leach, B. F.
Leach, .Mrs. L. A.
Lougei^ R. W.

McAvoy, J. n.
Maconibrr, E. II.
Moseley. R. P.
aioseley. T. W. H.
Norris, R. N.
Nott, Gordon H.
Nott, Roxtinua
Nott. I>. B.
Nott, Margaret
Nott, Maggie G.
Noyes, George W.
O'Co mell. Daniel
Patterson, .James
Parrott, tieorge B.
Pratt, James
Perkins, E. G.
I'ark, Wisiier
Pierce, C. H.
Pioice, George
Plunimer, R. B.
Putman, Sydney
Radlord, B. F.
Ranlet, D. D,
Ravues, J. J.
RaVnes, Mrs. E. H.
Ri("h, D.B.
Rich, Ilenrv A.
Russell, A.'L.
Sluing, Charles
Sprague, R. T.
Sliarrock, George
Stark, C. C.
Stevens, J. N.
Stuart, William J.
Stuart, Mrs. W. J.,* 1873.
I Sherman, George E.
San ford, O. S.
Sumner, Clarissa,* 18G9.
Straw. L. H.
Sw.an. B.
Swift, 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.
Vose, Mrs. B. C.
Weeman, W. E.
Wright, Richard
Whittier, A. R.
Williams, J. 1).
Williams, John M.
Williams, Rinaldo
Williams, Mrs. Rinaldo
Willis, John M.
Whitchcr, M. L.
White, Charles A., Jr.
White, E. P. [119.3

MEDFIELD.

Abell, Wm. F.
Abell, Mrs. Wm. F,
Adams, George F.
Allen, Mrs. Harriet B.
Allen, Noah
Allen, William C.
Baker, Josepli H.
Baker, Mrs. Joseph H.
Balch, Albert 15.
Battelle, Ralph A.

Barnev, Thomas L.
Barney, .Mis. Thomas L.
Bigfhiw, .\ndrew
Btillard, John K.
Carson, Jo.-eph
Ciiouery, William
Cheney, Nathaniel II.
Cheney, Seth
Crane, George
Curtis, Daniel D.
Curtis, Mrs. Dauiel 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, E. T.
Fishtr, Hinsdale,* 18G9.
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sarah II.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, Mrs. Isaac
Frost, Phineas, Jr.
Hamant, Miss Alice E.
Haniant, .Mrs. N. Anna
Hamant, .Miss Abby
Hamant, Mrs, Eliza M. C.
Hamant, Caleb S.* 1873.
Hamant, Charles
Hamant, Mrs. Charles
Hamant, Uaniels, Ji .
Hamant, Daniel D.
Harding, Alfred
Harding, Natluin
Hartshorn, Joseph,* IS6G.
Hartshorn, Warren
Hewins, William P.
Hewins, Mrs, William P,
Janes, Walter,* 18G7.
Jones, John P.
Morse, Eliakiui,* 1872.
Morse, Joel
Morse, Miss Lucy
Parker, .\lonzo B.
Parker, Mrs. A. B.
Partridge, Mrs. E. A.
Partridge, Henry, Jr.
Richardson, Simeon
Roberts, -Mrs. Helen M.
Roberts, Robert,* 1872.
Ross, .John
Salisbury, Wm,* IS.'i7.
Sanborn, Edward M.
Sanborn, W.
Sewall, Charles C.
Sewall, -Mrs. CC* 1872.
Sewall, Edward U,
Sewall, .Miss Elizabeth S.
Sluimway, Benjamin F,
Smith, George Al.
Stednian, Cyrus,* ISG5.
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, .Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A.,* 18G1.
Turner, J. Addison
Wetherell, Halus W.
Wheeler, Emory
Willanl. Gibson [8G]

5Q

MEDWAY.

Adams, Edward
Adams, Elisha
Adanis, Lyman
Adams, VVyman
Barber, George,* 1851.
Barber, Thomas
Boyd, William B.
Bullard, John, Jr.
Cary, Gilmau
Carey, William H.
Chase, Leander A.
Clark, James P.,* 1865.
Clark, James W.
Clark, .Mrs. James W.
Clark, Maria F.
Clark, Wdlard P.
Crosby, George,* 1860.
Daniols. James Willard
UanleU, Paul
Dauiels, Mrs. Paul
Daniels, William
Ellis, James H.
Fisher, Miltou M.
Fuller, Asa M. B.
Harding, Theodore
Henderson, William
Hurd, Julius C.
Ide, Jacob
Kingsbury, Gilbert
Lovell, Asahei P.
Lovell, Zachariah
Lovering, Warren
INIann, James
Mason. Horatio,* 1868.
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalf, Liuther
Morse, Asa D.
Partridge, Clark.
Partridge, George
Kichardson, Elisha P.
Kichardson, Jeremiah D.
Kichardson, Joseph L.
Kichardson, Moses
Kichardson, Richard
Slocumb, C.,* 1861.
Stevens, Daniel G.
Walker, Johns.,* 1871.
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler, Abiiali R. [48j

MILTON.

Adams, Edward H.
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Aniory, Francis
Arnold, John, Jr.*
Babcock, Josiah,* 1863.
Babcock, Lemuel W.
Babcock, Samuel
Baldwin, Edward
Beal, Jonathan
Beck, Gideon
Blanchard, J. W.
Bradlee, John L>.
Br.idlee, J. W.
Bradlee, Miss W. A.
Breck, Charles
Breck, Charles E. C.
Bronsdon, Charles
Bronsilon, Lewis
Brooks, John W.
Bunton, Jesse
Burt, John
Burt, Sumner
Busli, James P.

Chase, Leander A.
Churchill, Jos. McKean
Chapman, R. L.
Clapp, G. W.
Claik, Thomas
Cook, Charles W.
Cook, Samuel
Cook, W. T.
Copeland, Charles L.
Copeland, Lewis
Cornell, Walter
Crehore, John A.
Crowd, George
Cunningham, C. Loring
Cunningliam, Francis,* '67
Cunningham, John A.
Curtis, Daniel T.
Davenport, Edwin
Davenport, Mrs. Ellen M.
Davenport. F. G.
Davenport, Miss H. G.
Davenport, Lewis
Davenport, Lyman
Davenport, Nathaniel T.
Davis, William H.
Dow, John R.
Dudley, Benjamin F.
Elkins, D. H.
Emerson, Joshua
Everett, George
Farriugton, Henry J.
Faulkner, James
Fenno, Rul'usP.
Ferry, George S.
Ferry, William M.
Forbes, John M.
Forbes, Robert Bennett
Forbes, R. B., Jr.
Foster, William H.
Foster, William L.

Gannett, George K.

Gannett, Samuel

Garrett, George E.

Greene, George W.

Hall, George W.

Harvey, William

Higgins, David

Hinckley, Thomas H.

Hobson, A. R.

Hobson, Miss Martha J.

Hollingsworth, Z.

Hollis, Thomas,* 1873.

Holmes, C. C.

Holmes, Mrs.Abraham,Jr.

Hougliton, Geo. D.

Houghton, E. W.*

Houghton, Mrs. E.W.

Houghton, Jason W.,* '67.

Houghton, Jason

Hunt, Charles E.

Hunt, Charles L.

Hunt, George

Hunt, William M.

Kendall, J. B.

Kent, George W.

Kidder, Henry P.

Kinsman, Adolphus

Lothrop, T. K.

Merriam, Mrs. Charles H.

Morton, E. VV.

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.,* 1855.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Rowe, Joseph,* 1856.
Ruggles, E. T.
Ruggles, Philemon
Russell, Henry S.
Saflord, N. F.
Senter, L. W.
Sias, Eliphalet
Sias, .John

Sigourney, Henry H. W.
Slone, Cliarles,* 1851).
Stevens, F. H.
Sumner, R. W.
Teele, Albert K.
Teele, Mrs. A. K.
Thayer, Jason
Thayer, James B,
Thompson, George,* 1858.
Todd, Robert M.
Townc, A. .J.
Tucker, David W.
Tucker, Elijah
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah
Tucker, Stillnian L.
Tucker, Timothy.* 1804.
Twombly, Josiah F.
Vose, Francis E.
Vose, George
Vose, Mrs. George
Vose, Henry
Vose, Miss Lizzie W.
Vose, Joshua VV .
Watson, Itobert 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

[147]

NEEDHAM.

Aldeu, 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.
Bullen, Ichabod,* 185S.
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.,* 1867.
Flagg, Solomon
Flagg, Wm.,* ISGl.
Gardner, Elbridge
Goss, Daniel J.
Gray, James
Harmon, Charles H.
Harmon, Cyrus
Harris, Jolin,* 1858.

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Harris, John M. ,

Harvev, Stephen F.
Holluiul, John
Hollis, Elishii P.
Howe, Albion K.
Howe, Mrs. Eliza M.
Howland, George
Hubbanl. G. G.,* I«56.
Hunnewell, H. Hollis
Hunting, Israel
Kiniljall, Benjamin G.* '73.
Kimball, Mrs. Betsev G.
Kimball, Daniel,* mi.
King'^bury, J. M.
King^buiy, Lemuel
Kiiigsburv, Lauren
Kingsbury ,Thos.,* 18.i9.
Kingsbury, William A.
^napp, A. P.
Lombard, R. T,
Longfellow, George J,
Longlellow, Mary L.
Longfellow, Nathan
Longlellow, Mrs. Nathan
Longlellow, \V. E.,* ,73.
Low, George \V.
Lyon, iMro. Julia A.
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
Manslield, Charles H.
Mansfielil, John
Mansfleld, Robert
Manslield, Mrs. Robert
Manslield, William
McCrackin, John
McCrackin, Robert
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mcintosh, Mrs. F. E.
Mcluiosh, Mrs. H. P.
Mcintosh, James
BJcIntosh, Mrs. Mary 0.
Mills, John
Mills. Matthias
Morton, Otis, Jr.
Morton, W.T. G.* 1868.
Kewell, Artemas,* 1871.
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes, Josiah,* 1871.
I'eabody, Ezekiel
Phillips', Freeman
Pierce, William
Pierce, William, Jr.
Pierce, Mrs. Harriet
Revere. George
Richardson, Geo.
Robinson, Henry
Sawyer, John
Sawyer, Otis,* IS.'i.'i.
Scudder, Marshal S.
Seagrave, Saul S.
Shaw, George W.,* 1852.
Shaw, John W.
Snelling. X.athaniel G.
Spring, Charles H.
Stedinan, Francis
Stedman, Mrs. F. F.
Stcdman, William M.
Stevens, A. F.
Stone, David
Stone, Henry L.
Sumner, Lewis
Sumner, .Samuel B.
Tucker, E. il.
Turner, John,* 1872.
Turner, Mrs. John
Upham, Cyrus G.
Upham, Mrs. C. G.

Upham, Mrs. C. G.
Hare, Dexter,* 1851.
Ware, Reuben
Ware, Althea
Ware, Rnel
Ware, William S.
Washburne. G. W.
Webber, Aaron D.
Welles, John
Whittaker. Edgar K.
White, George
Wilder, C. T.
Williams, Silas G.
Wood, Henry
Wright, Lewis [124.1

NORFOLK.

Daniels, Adams
Fisher, Walter 11.
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.
Boyden, Miss Emma F.
Day, Joseph
Day, Lewis
Ellis, M. 1.
Everett, George
Fisher, James R.
Fogg, David S.
Hartshorn, Caleb W.
Haitshorn, Richard D.
Hoyle, Mark C.
Metcalf, George E.
Morse, Albert
Morse, Curtis G.
Morse, John,* 1861.
Morse, John L.,*186t.
Morse, Onis
Morse, Sidney E.
Smith, Lyman
Talbot, Josiah W.
Thompson, Robert,* 1854.
White, N.B.
Winslow, Alfred N.
Winslow, George [24J

QUINCY.

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John Q.
Adams, Ebenezer
Bartlett, Ibrahim,* 18.53,
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
Bracket! , Lemuel
Brigham, Josiah,* 1867.
Carr, John J..* 1865.
Curtis, Noah,* 18.56.
Eaton, Jacob F.,* 1871.
Emmous, Nathaniel H.

Fellows, Ensign S.
Frederick, Elciizer
French, Washington M.
Gallowav, James
Glover. H.N.,* 186.3.
Green, John A.,* 1861.
Greenleaf, Daniel
Greenleaf, Thomas,* 1854.
Howland, Charles A.
llorton, Lloyd G.
Marsh, Charles
Marsh, Mrs. Henrietta
Miller, Charles E.
Morton, William S.* 1871.
Munroc, Israel W.
Newcomb, .James
Newcomb, John B.
Quincy, Josiah,* 1864.
Quincy, Josiah P.
Itichards, L.,* 1852.
Robertson, Joseph W.
Rogers, Clilt
Savil, John

Southworth, C. A.,* 1871.
Spear, Charles A.,* 1868.
Stetson, James A.
Thayer, G. F.,* 1864.
Torrey, William
Turner, Eilward
Walker, William
White, Nathaniel,* 1867.
Willard, Solomon,* 1861.
Williams, Francis [53]

RANDOLPH.

Alden, Eljenezer
Alden, Horatio B,
Belcher, Allen A..
Belcher, J. White
Buck, Nathan,* 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Christopher M.*
Cushuig, Abner L.
Jordan, John T.,* 1865.
Leeds, Jo.seph,* 1858.
Maguire, James
Maguire, James F.
Mann, Ephraira,* 1863.
Mann, Seth, 2d
Niles, Jacob.* 1871.
Porter, William
Snow, Zenas,* 1857.
Stevens, Richard
Tileston, G. H.
Tower, Isa.ic,* 18(i5.
Turner, Royal W.
Turner, Seth
Wales, .\pollo8
Wales, Ephraim.* 1855.
Wales, John, 2d
Wales, .Jonathan,* 1863.
Whitcomb, Alfred W.
White. Adoniram
W hite, Jairus
White, Jonathan, [30]

ROXBURY.

Adams, Thomas,* 1869.
Ames, Robert W.
Andrews, Alfred A.,* 1864.
Appleton, Charles T,
Bacon, William*
Bartlett, Henry,* 1860.
Blake, S. Parkmau
Bowditch, Azell
Bowditcb, Azell C.

58

Bray, Charles F.
Brigham, Joseph L.
Brown, Audiew J.
Bryant, Charles H.
Bnffonl, John II.
Chadwick, Joseph H.
Chandler, John G.
Clarke, John J.
Codnian, Henrv,* IS.'iS,
Copelaud, B. F.,* 1803.
Copelaud, Chas.,* 1853.
Cotting, Benjamin E.
Crawshaw, Joseph
Crosby, Benjamin H.
Davis, Gilman
Dearborn, H. A. S.,* 1851.
Kllis, Charles,* 1800.
Ellis, Charles M.
Enstis, William
Fisher Warren
Fiske, <ieorye A.
Ford, Seth H.,* 1863.
Francis, Eben'r.,* 185?.
French, Jonathan
French, Mrs. J.
Fuller, H. Weld
Fussell, John
Gardner, Francis
Gray, Henry D.
Guilil, Frederick
Guild, Henry
Guild, James
Ham, Joseph
Harris, Horatio
Hayden, Isaac
Hendee, Charles J,
Hewes, John iSI.
Hewins, Whiting,* 185.",
Ilickling, Charles
Holmes, Richard
Holmes, Mrs. It.
Huckins, James,* 1868.
Huckins, James W.
Huston, William R.
Keene, James
Kidder, Frederic
King, William S.
Kingsbury, Wm. B.,* 1873.
Kittredge, Alvah
Kee, William Raymond
Lemist, Edwin,* 1872.
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, Franklin H.
Lewis, Samuel S.
Longfellow, Fannie E. .
Lovewell, Charles B.
Lowell, John A.
Mackintosh, Samuel
Mann, Benjamin
Matlies, AlDert 11.
McBurney, Charles
Mcintosh, William H.
Merrill, John J.
Monroe, George H,
Oakley. Frank E.,* 1865.
Paine, Joseph P.
Parker, Augustus
Parker, Geo. J.,* 1860.
Parker, Thomas
Perry, Alraon
Pickering, Henry W.
Pike, Cliarles S.
Putnam, Allen
Rich, Naphthalie D.
Rice, George \V.
Ritchie, James, 1873.
Robinson, J. P.,* 1863.
Ropes, Joseph S.

Sargent, Epes
Shed, Henry P.
Simmons, D. A.,* 1859.
Skinner, Elias
Sleeper, John S.
Stevens Amos
Stone, Ebenezer W.
Sturgis, James
Tappan, Josiah, S.
Thacher, Thos, Jr.,*'69.
Thwing, Supplv C.
Tolnian, James,* 1868.
Trescott, Elijah
Tucker, Daniel
Vinson, Cornelius M.
Walker, E.C.R.
Walker, Samuel,* 1860.
Ware, Leonard
Way, Samuel A.,* 1872.
Weston, Lycurgus B.,* '72.
Whiting, Wm. (Montrose

avenue,) *1873.
Williams, A. D.,* 1863.
Williams, Aaron D.
Williams, David W.
Williams, Mrs. D. W.
Williams, Dudley
Williams, G Foster,* 1872.
Williams G. B.,* 1802.
Williams, S.,* 18.52.
Williams, Thomas B.
tVilson, Granville W.
Winslow, Edward
Wiswall, Samuel
Wolcott, John W.
Worthingtou, Roland [120]

SHARON.

Baker P. Howard
Baker, Mrs. P.H.
Blackman, E. H.
Bullard, Benjamin
Carpenter, Shepard
Carpenter, Mrs. Shepard
Clark, Edwin R.,* 1808.
Cobb. Warren
Cobb, Mrs. Warren
Cobt), Miss Ella M.
Cobb, Lizzie 31.
Decatur, Thomas
Drake, Asahel S.
Drake, Mrs. Asahel S.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, George W.
G.ny, Mrs. G. W.
Geissler,J. N.
Geissler, Mrs. J. X.
Hewins, Elijah,* 1857.
Hewins, Lemuel D.,* 1868.
Howard, George F.
Howard, Mrs. G. F.
Hixon, G. F.
Hixon, Mrs. G. F.
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, MissM. 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.
Park, George C.
Pettee,D. Webster
Pettee, Mrs. D. W.
Randall, Macey, Jr.
Sanger, John M.
Smith, Lewis
Talbot, Solomon
Turner, (.alvin
Turner, Julia C.
Warren, Charles H.
Weld, H. O.
Wicks, Mrs. A. L.
Wicks, Miss Mary L.
Wicks, William B.
Winship, Charles
Winship, Mrs. Charles
Winship, Miss Elmira S.
[001

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atherton, James
Atherton, William
Belcher, Luther J.
Belcher, Orin
Belcher, Wm. S.,* 18G2.
Bird, Henry
Capen, Samuel
Clapp, Lucius
Clapp, Mrs. l^ucius
Clark, Chester
Curtis, Snmuel W.
Drake, Albert H.
Drake, Jonathan S.
Drake, Phillip H.
Ellis, J. Frecmau
Gay, Cyrus H.
Gay, Hiram
Gay, John M.
Gay, Lemuel,* 1866.
Gay, Mace
Gay, Nathaniel
Goldthwait, Daniel A.
Hawes, Emery
Hill, James

Hodges, Leonard,* 1870.
Hodges, Samuel W.
Hodges, Mrs. S. W.
Ingham, James
Jones, Henry
Kiriiball, Henry C.
Littlelield, Charles
Monk, Elisha C.
Paul, Samuel
Porter, Luther
Porter, Robert
Porter, Robert, Jr.
Porter, Uriah C.
Porter, Theron M.
Porter, John M.
Southworth, Amasa,* 1872.
Southworth, Asahel
Sumner, Francis C.
Swan, Elisha
Talbot, George
Talbot, Newton
Thayer, S. Lysander
Tucker, Wales
Wales, Nathaniel
Warren, N. M. [501

69

V\%VLPOLE.

Allen, Jeremiah
Allen, Lewis
Biicon, H. E.
Bacon, Samuel \V.,* 'U9.
IJacon, William,* ISt^i.
IJinl, Charles
IJinl, Francis W.
Boyden, Horatio
Cheney, Joseph
Clai;,Eiimun.l \V.
Clap, (jieorge K.
Clap, Samuel U.,* 1870.
Clap, Warren
Clarke, Mrs. Betsey M.
Clarke, Henry S.
Clarke. Mrs. H. S.
Clarke, Xruemau
Cunanc, George
Cram, Jerome B.
£llis, Isaac
Ellis, James
Ellis, Joseph,* Ifol,
Fuller, James K.
Gilbert, Sanjuel
Gould, John A.,* 181>1.
Gray, II. Fannie
Gray, smith, *18G9.
Gray, Mrs. Smith
Gray, William H.
Grover, Sarah B.
Guild, Charles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshorn, Georjce
Haxves, Joseph,* 1849.
Hyde, George B.
Lewis, Willard
Mann, John
.Mann, Lowell
Xeal, Benjamin
Page, William A.
I'ierce, Shadrach S.
riimpton, C. G.,* lSU-1.
I'limpton, H. M.
I'olley, Edmund
Friest, Mrs. Leon A.
Scott, James G.
Shepard, E.
'inith, John N.

mith, -Mrs. John X.

.nith, .Metcall

:one, Elicnezer,* 18(J'J.

nompsoii, Edwin

■ ilmarth. Ada E.

t'ilmarth, N'aaman B.
IVilmarth, Elizabeth F.
Wilson Edwin
Wilson, Mrs. Edwin, [57.]

WEST ROXBUUY.

Allen, Stephen M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. U.
Arnold Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, William Percy
Bacon, Daniel C.,* 1850.
Bacon, Francis E. '

Bacon, William B.
Bailey, Luther C.
Balch, George H.
Balch, Joseph,* 1*19.
Balch, Joseph W.
Banlleld, Everett C.
Barter. 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
lilackman, George
Bliss, George X.
I'liss, Mrs. Lucius S.
Bolles, Maltnew
Bond, George William
Bowditch, J. Ingeraoll
Bradford, S. I).,* 1805.
Bradish, Levi J.
Brewer, Charles
Brewer, Otis
Brown, .\lfreil S.
Brown, Benjamin
Brown. Uaniel A.
Browne, Horace E.
Brown, W. T.
Bruce, X. T.
Butters, J. A. C.,* 1850.
Cabot, Stephen
Calder, Augustus P.
Cary, Isaac U.
Cass, Aaron
Cass, Francis W.
Cass, Henry W.
Cronin, Jeremiah
Crosby, .\lbert
Crosby, Miss Fannie H.
Crosby, .Miss Irene M.
Crosby, Miss Minnie U.
Comins, Linus B.
Cowing, Widter H.
Curtis, Joseph II.
Curtis, George S.
Curtis, Charles F.
Dabney, Chas. W. Jr.<* '71.
Davis, Francis,* 1805.
De.vter, Anson
Di.\well, John J.
Drai)er, Abijali W.
Dudley, Henry |
Dudley, Ephraim W.
Eldrid'ge, Oliver
Emmons, John A.
Enslin, William
Evans, William
Farrar, J. Hamilton
Farrington, Ebenezer T.
Gates, Mrs. F. L.
Gilbert, Luther
Gooding, George
Gould, Joseph D.
Greenough, David S.
Hall, Allied B.
Hall, David P.
Hall, Joseph
Hall, William D.
Harod, William F.
Head, Charles I).
Head, Francis (;.,* 1805.
HeiK'hman, Xathaniel H.
llewins, Charles A.
Hilborn, S. C.
Howe, Edward W.
Howe, Mrs. Edward W.
Ilowland, J. T.
Hunt, Harrison G.
Knights, Miss H.
Keith, William,* ia50.
Lamb, Iteuben A.,* 1858.
Lawrie, Andrew B.

Low, John J.
Lyman, .Mrs. Thomas
Mackintosh, Charles G.
Mackintosh, J. S.
Manning, Charles,* 18G9.
March, A. S.,* 185L
March, Andrew S.
Mcintosh, William
McLaren, Anthony
Meserve, Andrew T.
Meserve, Isaac H.
Miniit, George R.
Morse, Charles
Morse, Robert M.
Motley, Charles D.
Motley, Thomas
Motley, Mrs. Thomas
Motley, Thomas L.
North^ George G.
Orange, Thomas
Page, Joseuh W.
Page, Kilby,* 1869.
Palmer, William,* 1800,
Papineau, Antome
Papineau. Alfred
Parker, S. Winchester
Parkinson, John,* 18<i5.
Pearce, John
Popp, Hieronemas
Pratt, John C.
Prescott, Xathan B.
Prescott, Mrs. X. B.
Prichard, Jeremiah •
Prichard, Vila
Prichard, Gilman
Kichards. Edward
Richards, George H.
Richards, Mrs. G. T.
Richmond, Thomas 11.
Robeson, William R.
Rodman, Samuel W.
Russell, Geo. R.,* 1806.
Sampson, Charles,* 1859.
Seaverns, Thomas W.
Shaw, Francis G.
Shaw, J. J.
Shaw. Quincy A.
Slocumb, William H.
Smith, Alvin,* 1870.
Smith, Humphry
Smith, Joseph M.,* 187i.
Smith, Lorenzo
Smith, Melancthon
Spaulding, Solomon R.
Spooner, William IL, Jr.
Stevens, S. W.
Sturgis, Russell
Sturtevant, Benj. F.
Swett, Samuel W.
Taft, Reed
Taylor, H. B.,* 1801.
Ticknor, Wm. D.,* 1861.
Tilden, George A.
Tolnian, Ebenezer W.
Toliiian, Lucius A.,* 1871.
Towiisend, David
Tufts, James,* 1859.
Watt, Uobert
Watt, Lizzie
Walt, Marion J.
Webster, John L.
Weld. Aaron D.
Weld, Mrs. A D.* 1872.
Weld, Aaron D., Jr.
Weld, Miss A. K.
Weld, .Miss Eliza
Weld, Francis M.
Weld, J. Gardner

60

Wekl, Nathaniel
Weld, Mrs. Mary P.
Weld, Richard H.
Weld, Stephen M.,* 18G7.
Weld, Miss Susan
Wentworth, Jacob
Westcott, Stephen
Wheeler, Warren R.
Whitney, Israel G.
Whitney, Mrs. I. G.
Whitney, Miss N. B.
Whytal, Thomas G.
Whytal, Mrs. Thomas G.
AVilliams.B. P., 1850.
Williams, George H.
Williams, Henry H.
Williams, Moses
Williams, Moses B.
Williams, N.D.,* 1852.
Williams, Joseph W.
Willson, Edmund B.
Winchester, Parker
Wing, B. F.
Withcrbee, John B.
Woodman, George F.
Woodward, Chauncy,* '72.
Woodbury, Joseph P.
Worley, B. W.
Young, Calvin
York, John [•202]

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel

Burrill, Ansel

Fifleld, Noah,* 1867.
Howe, Applftton,* 1870.
Humphrey, Ebenezer
Humphrey, L.,*1857.
Hunt, A. N.,* 1804.
Hunt, Elias
Jones, James
Kingsbury, F. A.,* 18G0.
Loud, Joseph
Loud, John SV.
Nash, Abner P.
Nash, Erastus
Nash. Stephen W.
Porter, Thomas B.
Richards, Elias
Shaw, Nathaniel,* 1860.
Tirrcll, Albert,
Tirrell, James,* 1865.
Tirrell, VVilson
White, James
White, Thomas [23]

WRENTHAM.

Aldrich, Artemas
Barnard, Alfred,* 1871.
Blakes'ey, Hubbai'd
Cheever, Alonzo W.
Cheever, Mrs. Eliza R.
Cheever, Otis G.,* 1872.

Clap, Harvey E.,* 1F53.
Clay, Nehemiah
Cowell, John F.
Cowell, William W.
Dupee, Erastus t
Everett, Melatiah,* 1858.
Faxon, Francis G.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr.,* 1869.
Fisher, Hiram B.
Fisher, Silas P.* 1865.
Ford, Peter
Fuller, Chauncey G.
Grant, Goorge
Gassett, Henry, Jr.
Grant, Robert P.
Grant, Whiting
Hawes, Benj.,* 1867.
Holbrook, GeorgeE.
Ide, Edwin S.
Jepson, William A.
Larkin, Lyman B.
Mann, Howard
Parker, Ebeneznr B.
Pond, Handel,* 1867.
Poud, Jabez E.
Proctor, Thomas
Sayles, Caleb W.,* 1863.
Starkey, Gardner H.
Stone, Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Ware, Asa
White, James A.
Wiggiu, James S. [39]

MEMBERS RESIDING OUT CF THE COUNTY.

Allen, George E., Newton,
Allen, Joseph A., Newton.
Allen, Nathaniel T., Newton.
Balch, Wesley P., Boston.
Beckler, Daniel \V.
Callender, Benjamin, Boston.
Collins, James H., Cambridge.
Copeland, R. McCleary, 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, Boston.
Loring, A. K. Boston.
Matthews, Nathan, Boston.
Messenger, G. W., Bo.ston,* 1871.
Minot, George H., Boston.
Norton, R. R., Boston.
Parmenter, Joshua, Natick.
Potter, Silas, Boston.
Quinu, John, Boston.
Rand. Edward S., Boston.
Rogers, J. A., Boston.
Boswell, Mary Ann, Boston.
Slade, Robert, Boston.
Smith, George W., Boston,* 1864.
Stearne, John, Newton.
Tappau, Lewis W., Boston,
Vinal, Otis, Boston.
Wainwright, H. C, Boston,
Wells, B. T., Boston.
Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge.

140.]

Members admitted,
Members deceased,

2111.
370.

LIST OF PREMIUMS,

Rules and Regulations and List of Committees,

Norfolk Agricultural Society

TWEMY-SIXTU ANMAL EXHIBITION,

TO BE HOLDEN AT

READYILLE,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, Sept. 24th and 25th, 1874.

HYDE PAIIK:
PRINTED AT THE GAZETTE OFFICE.

1874-

J^^-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,

1873-7-4.

Fresident.

HENRY S. RUSSELL, Milton.

Honorary President.

Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER Dorchester.

Vice-rrfisulotts.

Hox. Otis Gary Foxborough.

Alonzo W. CriEKVKU Wrentham.

John Quixcy Adams , Quiucy.

Ai.FUKU W. WiirrcoMB Randolph.

TiiEODOUK Lyman, Brookliue.

William R. AL\xx, Sharon.

. Corresponding and Becording Secretary.

IIkxry 0. HiLDRETii Dedhaiii.

Treasurer.

diAUXCY C. CiuiiCHiLL Dcdhaiii.

Executive Committee.

E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury ; A. B. Balch, Medfleld ; Charles F. Curtis,
West Roxbury: Augustus P. Caldcr, West Roxbury; William T. Cook,
Foxboro'; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester; David W. Tucker, Milton; Ellis
Tucker, Canton ; George Craft, Brookline.

Finance Committee and Auditors.

Ira Cleveland, Dcdham ; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park ; Eliphalet Stone,
DedhaiH.

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; 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.

Henry S. Russell, Milton; William R. Mann, Sharon; Chauncy C.
Churchill, Henry O. Hildreth, Dedham; Charles F. Curtis, WestRoxbury;
A. P. Calder, Dorchester; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park; John D.
Bradlee, Milton; Albert B. Balch, Medfleld; Alfred W. Whitcomb,
Randijlph; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester; Abel F. Stevens, Needham.

XOKFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

It is understood that all premiums will be restricted to articles
grown or manufactm-ed in the Count}', 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 x^i'ohibited from aicarding gratuities, other
than dixilomas, unless specified in the jjremium list.

^^No object or article will be entitled to a premium, unless it
2)0ssesses points of siqjeriority ; and the Committees are prohibited
Jrom 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 upward, and any lad}-, 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, respectiveh", 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 da}' 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 diflTerent 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 fift}" 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
ilistance from whence they come to the place of exhibition — and

receive no premium. Only ojic travel will be allowed to the same
person. Payment will be maile 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
shetp. 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 cliaracter 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 1)C personally interested as a com-
petitor.

After the objects for exhibition are arranged, they will be under
the exclusive charge of tiie Superintendents, and cannot be re-
moved loithont their consent.

All other entries for premiums must be made in writing, and
shall be placed in the hands of the Recording Secretar}-- on or
before the loth of November.

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

Tiie trustees have carefull}' 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 everj' town in the County to bring out the
results of their skill and industry.

HENRY S. RUSSELL, President.

Henry O. HiLdreth, Secretary.

LIST

OF

PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR tup: year 1874.

(Successful Competitors may receive their rremiums in Plate or Monei', at their option.)

Sltekixtexdexts at Exiiibitiox.

Worses.— Augustus P. Caldeu, Dorchester; Assistant, Henky A. Dar-
LIXG, H3'de Park.

Cat'tle. — Nathaxiel S. "White, Cautou.

Sheep and Swine. — Henry Gouldixg, Dover.

Fruit.— CiiMiLES F. Curtis, "West Roxbury.

Floioers. —RonEm Watt, West Roxbury.

Vegetables. — David Hexdersox, Needham.

Poultry. — A. F. Stevens, Needham.

Manufactures, Carriages, Agricultural Implements, Etc. — "William Ambs,
Dedhaiu.

Ploidng and Drawing. — Asahel S. Drake, Sharou.

Ladies' Work. — Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park.

Committee to Fill Vacancies on Committees at Exhibition.

Otis Cary, Foxboro'-, Henry 0. Hildretii, Dedham ; Albert B.
Balcii, Mtdtield ; N. B. Wilmartii, Walpole ; J. Walter Bradlee, Miltou.

FARMS.

EXPERIMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARMS.

Supervisory Committee.— Tlie Presiclent, Honorary President and Secretary, ex-
officiis; Charles C. Sewall, MedQeld; Otis Cary, Foxborough; A. W. Cheever,
WrenUi.im; Erastus L. Metcall', Franklin; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Ureck,
Milton; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton : Josiah P. Quiucy, Quincy ; Elijah Tucker, Milton:
Henry Goulding, Dover; E. C. R. Walker, Roxbury ; Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury ;
A. F. Stevens, Needham; Thomas B. Griggs, Brookliae; Henry M. Mack. Dorchester.

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, qualit}- 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 loth, $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; Horatio Boyden, Walpole; Charles E. C.
Breck, Milton; E. P. Carpenter, Foxborough; Walter H. Fisher, Xorl'olk.

Improving Meadow and Swamp Lands. — For the best exper-
iment in reclaiming wet meadow or swamp lands, b}^ 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, 84

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, 85 ; third
best, 83.

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, 88 ;
second best, 85 ; third best, $3.

TURNING IN CROPS AS MANURE.

Committee — Aaron D. Weld, West Roxbury;S.W. Richardson, Franklin; Ephriain
Wilson, Dover.

For the most satisfactory experiment of turning in crops as a
manure, either green or diy, on not less than one half-acre of land,
a detailed account of the whole process, expense and result to be
given in writing, 80.

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 ditference
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. So.

FEEDING AND FATTENING STOCK.

Committee. —A. W.Cheever, Wrenlliam; John Sias, Miltou; Charles Mackuitosh,
Needham.

Comparative Value of Crops as Food for Cattle. — For the
best experiment upon a stock of cattle, ijot 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, $5.

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, $3,

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cattle,
with a statement in detail of the process, expense and result, $5 ;
second best, $3.

Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine,
with a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second
best, $3.

HAY;

Committee. — Erastus L. Metcalf, 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, $10.

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, $1.

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

grai:n^, eoot axd mixed crops.

Committee.— Charles Breck, John Silas, Charles E. C. Brock, Milton; Henry Bird,
Stoughtou; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester.

Grain Crops. — For the best experiment in raising "Wheat, a
premium of 810 ; second best, S3.

For the best experiment in raising Rj'e, Oats or Barle}', each,
a premium of 810 ; second best, each, 83.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of
$10 ; second best, S3.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, Millet or Back-
wheat, each, S3.

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 bj^ weight as follows : Corn and Rye,
5G pounds each to the bushel ; Barley' and Buckwheat, 48 pounds
each ; Oats, 32 pounds ; AVheat, 60 pounds.

Root CROrs. — For the best experiment in raising Potatoes, 85 ;
second best, S3.

For the best experiment in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots, Pars-
nips, Mangel-wurzel or Ruta-baga, each, 85 ; second best, each, S3.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, 85 ; second best, S3.

For the best experiment in raising Flat Turnips, 85 ; second
best, S3.

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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tained b}^ weight of the roots — freed from dirt and Avithout tops —
as follows : Potatoes, Sugar Beet, Mangel-wurzel and Ruta-bagas,
GO pounds ; Carrots, 55 pounds ; Onions and Fkt 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 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 aAvarding premiums, regard will be had to
all these circumstances, and to the area of the ground in cultiva-
tion.

YEGETABLES.

Committee.— Charles L. Copeland, Milton; John W. Richardson, Franklin; AVilliam
J. Griggs, Brookline; William J. Hyde, Brookline; James 3Iackiutosh,Needham.

Vegetable Garden. — 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, first premium,
810 ; second do., $5 ; third do,, $2.

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
exhibited at the Show, $5 ; second best. 83.

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages — not less than
six heads to be exhibited at the Show, $5 ; second best, 83.

Show of Vegetables at Exhibition. — Class 1. — For the best
and largest collection of Vegetables exhibited, $20 ; second best,
815 ; third best, 810.

For the best and largest collection of Potatoes, not less than
one peck of each variety, §6 ; second best, 83.

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For the best and largest collection of Winter Squashes, not less
than four of each variet}', S-4 ; second best $3.

For the best new variet}- of Seedling Potatoes, superior to any
kind now in cultivation, a premium of 810.

Clcfss 2. — For one half-bushel best Tab\e Potatoes, $2 ; second
best, 81.

For one half-bushel best Turnips, $2 ; second best, 81.

For one half-bushel best Carrots, $2 ; second best, 81.

For one half-bushel best Beets, 82 ; second best, 81.

For one half-bushel best Tomatoes, $2 ; second best, Si.

For one half-bushel best Onions, $2 ; second best, 81.

For one half-bushel best Parsnips, 82 ; second best, 81.

For one half-bushel best Salsify, $2 ; second best, 81.

For two quarts best Lima Beans, 82 ; second best, 81.

For four best Late Drumhead Cabbages, 82 ; second best, 81.

For four best Green Globe Savoys, 82 ; second best, 81.

For four best Cauliflowers, 82 ; second best, 81.

For twelve best heads of Celery, $2 ; second best, 81-

For four best Marrow Squasli£s, 82 ; second best, 81.

For four best Canada Crookneck Squashes, 82 ; second best, 61.

For four best Pumpkins, $2 ; second best, 81.

For four best Musk-Melons, 82 ; second best, 81.

For four best Water-Melons, 82 ; second best 81.

For twelve ears best Sweet Corn, 82 ; second best, 81-

Xo exhibitor in class 1 shall compete in class 2 with the same
varieties.

SEEDS.

CotMiTTEE. — George E. Chickenng, Dover; John X. Smith, Walpole; ElbriJge L.
Mann, Dover.

For the best sample of ears of Seed Corn, not less than forty in
number — first premium, $2 ; second do., 81.

For the best collection of Onion, Carrot, Beet, Parsnip and Ru-
ta-baga Seeds — first premium, 83 ; second do., 82.

For the best ten pounds of Timothy, Redtop and Clover Seed,
81.

For the best sample, not less than one peck, of Wheat, Rye,
Barle}' or Oats, 81 each.

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TEEE CULTURE.

Committee. — Edward S. Rand, Jr., Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ; A. K. Teele, Milton ;
Georue Craft, Brookline; Cheever Newliall, Dorchester; Robert Watt, West Koxbury;
Charles r. Curtis, West Roxbury.

FRUIT TREES.

Apple Orchards. — For the best Apple Orchard, of not less than
fift}' trees, which shall have been set out at least five years, and
■n'hicli shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 1874, $8 ;
second best, $5.

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 1874, not less than twenty-five
trees, S8 ; second best, $5.

For the best engrafted on budded Pear Trees on Quince roots,
with same conditions, and not less than fifty trees, $8 ; second,
best, $5.

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 1874, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than fifty trees, grown from
pits planted since 1865, on the spot where the trees stand, which
shall be in the best condition in 1874, $8 ; second best $5.

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, 88 ;
second best, $o.

Seedling Peaches. — For the best variety of Seedling Penches
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, $3.

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

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FOREST TREES.

For the best plantation of Forest Trees, of either of the follow-
ing varieties, namely, White Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch,
Wliite Ash or "Walnut, Scotch Larch, Norway Spruce, Pitch, AVhite
and Norwaj^ Pine, or other varieties, not less that three years old,
and not less than one thousand trees, — entries to be made to the
Secretar}' previous to June 10th, — a premium of $15.

For the best plantation, containing not less than five hundred
trees, $10.

Orxamental Plantiko. — To an}' 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., So.

HEDGES.

For the best Live Hedge Fence, not less than five hundred feet
in length, $5 ; second best, 02.

For the best Evergreen Hedge of Hemlock or Norway Spruce,
not less than four luindred feet in length, $5 ; second best, $2.
Premiums to be awarded in 1874.

FLOWERS.

COMMITTEE. — A. K. Teele, Milton; Kobert Watt, West Koxbury; George Craft,
Brookliue; Lyman Davenport, Milton; Miss Elizabeth S. 8('\vall, Mudlield.

For the best collection of Pot Plants, $10 ; second best, So.
For the best collection of Cut Flowers, S -1 ; second best, $3 ;
third best, $2. Fur the best and most tastefull}- arranged baskets
of flowers, not less than four, §4 ; second best, $3 ; third best, S2.
For the best and most tastefully arranged boquets, not less than
four, $4 ; second, S3 ; third, S2. For the best collection of named
gladiolus in spikes, S4 ; second best, S3 ; third best, S2. For the
best collection of new seedlings in spikes, $3 ; second best, S2.
For the best new seedlings, Si. For the best collection of Japan
lilies, 83; second best, $2. For the best new seedling. Si. For
the !)est collection of dahlias, S2 ; second best, Si. For the best
new seedlings, SI. For the best collection of double zinnias, S2 ;
.second best, SI.

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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.

Rules relating to the award of premiums : —

All fruits offered for premium must be correctly named.

All fruits must be composed of exactly the number of specimens
or quantity named in the schedule.

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

Non-compliance with the rules will cause the rejection of the
articles offered for a premium.

APPLES.

Committee. -George Vose, Milton; Aaron D. Capen, Dorchester; 'Williara H. For-
bes, Milton; David Shaw, Foxborough; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of Apples, twelve
specimens of each variety — first premium, $12; second do., $5;
third do., $4; fourth do., $3; fifth do., $2.

For the best collection of five varieties of Apples, twelve speci-
mens of each variet}^ — first premium, $6 ; second do., $4.

For the best collection of the following varieties, twelve speci-
mens of each: Baldwin — first premium, $2; second do., $4.
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. Tolraan sweet — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. For any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second do.,

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PEARS.

Committee.— Charles F. Curtis, West Uoxbury; E. C. R. Walker, West Roxbury;
Otis Cary, Foxborough; John W. lirooks, Milton; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park.

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 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, $G ; second do., $i: third
do., $2.

For the best collection of the following varieties, twelve speci-
mens of each : Clapp's Favorite — first premium, $2 ; second do.,
$1. Bartlett — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre
d'Anjou— first premium, 82 ; second do., $1. Urbaniste— first
premium, 82 ; second do., U. Merriam — first premium, 82 ; sec-
ond do., 81. Louise Bonne de Jersey — first premium, 82 ; second
do., 81. Vicar of Winkfield — first premium, 82 ; second do., 81.
Duchesse d'Angouleme— first premium, 82 ; second do., 81. Seckle
— first premium, 82 ; second do., 81. Onondaga — first premium,
$2 ; second do., 81. Sheldon — first premium, $2 ; second do., 81.
Beurre Bosc— first premium, 82 ; second do., 81. Doyenne Bou-
souck— first premium, 82 ; second do., 81. Beurre ciairgeau —
first premium, 82 ; second do., 81. Lawrence —first premium, 82 ;
second do., 81. Winter Nellis — first premium, 82 ; second do., 81.
Beurre Hardy — first premium, 82 ; second do., 81. Buffum —
first premium, 82 ; second do., 81. Maria Louise — first premium,
82; second do., 81. Dana's Hovey — first premium, 82 ; second
do., 81. Mount Vernon — first premium, 82; second do., 81.
For other varieties, not exceeding three — first premium, Z2 ; sec-
ond do., 81.

GRAPES AND OTHER FRUITS.

Committee. -Abel F. Stevens, Neeaham ; Eliphalet Stone, Dedliam ; Joseph W. Page,
West Roxbury ; George Cartvvright, Dedhaui ; Charles F. Gerry, Hyde Parjc.

For the best collection of Foreign Grapes — first premium, $6 ;
second do., 84.

For the best four bunches of the following varieties, four bunches
of each variety : Black Hamburg — first premium, 83 ; Second

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•lo., $2. Wilmot's No. 16 — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.
Victoria — first premium, S3 ; second do., $2. For the best four
bunches of uny 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 tlie table — first pre-
mium, 620; second do., $10.

For the best collection of Native Grapes, six bunches of each
variety, — first premium, $4 ; second do., S3 ; third do., $2. Dela-
wai-e — first premium, $2 ; second do., SI • Diana — first premium,
82; second do., SI. Concord — first premium, S2 ; second do.,
SI. Hartford Prolific — first premium, S2 ; second do., Si. Wil-
der— first premium, S2 ; second do., $1. Agawam — first pre-
mium, S2 ; second do., Si. Merrimac — first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. Salem — first premium S2 ; second do., $1. Any other
variet}^ first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.

For the best collection of Peaches, twelve specimens of each
variety — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2 ; third do.,$l.

For the best collection of Plums, twelve specimens of each vari-
ety — first premium, $3 ; second do., $1.

Quinces. — For the best peck of Quinces, S2 ; second best, Si.
Cranberries. — For the best peck of Cranberries, S3 ; second
best, S2; third best. Si.

COLD VINERIES.

COMMiTTKE. — Eliphalct stone, Dedham ; John Pearce, West Eoxbury: Edward S.
Hand, Jr., Dedham: Henry S. Clarke, Walpole.

For the best crop, and the most economically kept Cold Vinery,
not less than thirty feet — first premium, S4 ; second best, S3.

PLOWmG MATCH.

Double Ox Teams.— With Michigan PIoiv.

Committee. — Nathan Longfellow, Needham; William J. Hyde, Brookliue; Uriah
Capen Porter, Stoughton.

For best performance in plowing sward land, at least one-eighth
of an acre, eight inches in depth, S15 ; second best, SlO ; third
best, S5.

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With (iny other pi 010. — Same coiulitions. Best, $1;"); second
best, SIO ; third best, 65.

Double House Teams. — With Michiijan Plow.

Committee. — Joliu E. Wetherbee, Dcilham; Charles Hartshorn, Walpole; .Tames T.
Sumner, Canton; James Capen, Foxboro'.

Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second best, 810 ; third best, S5.
With any other ploio. — Same conditions. Best, §15; second
best, SIO ; third best, §5.

Single Ox Teams. — With any Ploio.

Committee. — B. N. Sawin, Dover; Charles A. Bigelow, Medwaj-; Henrj- Blacknian,
Xeedham.

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, ^b.

Single Horse Teams.

Committee. — Lewis W. Morse, Sharon; Adam Mcintosh, Canton; Edward Sumner,
Dedham.

Same conditions. Best, 810 ; second best, 85.

Note. — A Douijlk Team will consist of two yokes of oxen with or
without a driver; oi a team of one yolvc of oxen and a liorse, with or with-
out a driver. Single Te.vm, one yolie of oxen or one pair of horses witli-
out a driver. Each competitor must own his team and plow, and euter the
same iu his own name. Plows must be held and driven by their owners,
or by persons statedly in their employ. In awardius^ premiums, one hour
will be allowed for the performance of the work, regard being had to the
width and depth of the furrow slicn, aud the evenness, ease aud quiet with
which the work is performed.

ANIMALS.

All animals to be entered in the name of the owner, who nuist
have had them in his possession at least six months before the Ex-
hibition.

All animals, entered in accordance with the rnles and resrula-
tions, will be fed, during the Kxhibition, at the expense of the
Societ}'.

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For an}' animal worthy of the first preniuira, having received a
similar one at an}' previous Exhibition, a diploma, certifying tlic
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
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 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 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. Caldek, Dorchester, General Chairman.
Class A. — Roadsters.

COMMITTEE. — William T. Thacher, Hyde Park ; William Porter, Randolph ; J. Free-
man Ellis, Stoiighton.

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

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2d Division.
For the best brood mare, with a foal at her side, a premium
2d best " '■ *i u

3d Division. — Colts and FiUies.
For the best 4 years old, a premium of .
For the 2d best 4 years old, a premium of
best 3 years old, "

2d best " "

best 2 j^ears old, "

2d best " "

best 1 year old, "

2i\ best " "

4:th 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 " " u

3d best " « "

4th best " " "

of$7

00

5

00

$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

2

00

Class B. — Horses of all Work.

CoMMiTTEE.-OliverDeane, Canton; Francis B. Kay, 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 qq

2d Division. — Brood Mares.
For the best Brood Mare, with a Foal at her side, a premium of $7 00
2d best " '» 4* u 5 qq,

M 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 "

3 00
5 00
3 00
3 00

2 00

3 00
2 00

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

2d best, " ....

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

Class C. — Family Horses.

$7 00
5 00

$6 00
4 00

COMMITTEE. -George R. Mann, Sharon; Erastus Nash, Weymouth; Henry Trow-
bridge, Norfolk.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallions, 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 '' "

M 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 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 " '^ "

bth Division. — Buggy or Chaise Horses.
For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of
2d best " '• "

3d best " " " "

<6th 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

$0 00
3 00
5 00
3 00
3 00

2 00

3 00

2 00

$10 00
7 00

S8 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. — DuAUGnx or Team Horses.

CoiraiTTEE. — Everett J.Eaton, Noedham; Allen Uolburn.Detlham; EphiiamMann,
Randolph.

1st Division. — Single Dranght or Team Horses.

For the best Draught Horse, a premium of . . $7 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 SlO 00

2d best " " " " 7 00

CATTLE.

Bulls.

Committee. — Asahel S. Drake, Sharon ; Nathaniel S. White, Canton ; James M. Cod-
man, Brookline; Edward M. Cary, Milton; Elijah Tucker, Canton.

For the best thoroughbred Bull, one year old and upwards, of
either Jerse}^ Durham, Devon, A3'rshire, Hereford, Kerry, or
other foreign stock — in each class, $10 ; second best, $-5.

For the best Bull Calf under one year old, foreign stock — $5 ;
second best, S2.

Cows.

COMJiiTTEE. — Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham ; Aaron Bacon, Dover; Ellis Tucker, Can-
ton; Samuel Cook, Milton; Jesse Fenno, Canton; Augustus Lowell, Brookline; Charles
F. Howard, Fo.xboro'.

For the best Cow, three j-ears old and upwards, of foreign stock,
of either class, each, SlO ; second best, $5 ; third best, §4.

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

For the best Milch Heifer, less than three years old, $4 ; second
best, S2.

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 825 ; 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.

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Heifers.

CoMinxTEE. — Edward P. Burgess, Dedham; Lemuel Billings, Quincy; Solomon
Flagg, Needhara,

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.

For the best Heifer Calf, under one j^ear old, of an}^ stock, S4 ;
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 yoke, 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 2500 pounds for oxen of five years old and upwards; and not
less than 2000 pounds for oxen under five years old. In testing the char-
acter of Steers, as the Committee niay direct, special regard will be paid
to their docility and proper training.

Fat Cattle.

Committee. — A. W. Cheever, Wreuthaiu; John Sias, Milton; Charles Mackintosh,
Needham.

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.

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SWINE.

CoMSUTTEE. — Samuel B. Xoyes, Canton; Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline; Henry
Gouldiug, Dover; Solomon Flagg, Nee<lham; J. B. Tilley, Brookline.

For the largest and best collection of Swine — not less than six
hogs in number — first premium, $15 ; second do., SlO ; 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, S6 ;
second best, $4.

Weaned Pigs. — For the best litter, not less tlian 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, §G.

Note. — No competitor for the largest collection of swine will be al-
lowed to offer the same for any premium of a cliflfereut class.

SHEEP.

Committee. —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, ^o.

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

POULTRY.

Committee. —Abel F. Stevens, Xeedham; Albert IX. Drake, Stoughton; J. F. Cow-
ell, Wrentham.

Special.

For the largest and best collection of Gallinaceous Fowls, first
premium of $15 ; second do., $10.

For the best collection of Water Fowls, first premium, $10;
second do., $5.

For the best trio of any variety, of either old fowls or chickens,
first premium, $3 ; second do., $2 ; third do., $1.

For the best pair of Turkeys, first i)remium, $3 ; second do.,S2.

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For the best pair of Geese, first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best pair of Ducks, first premium, $B ; second do., $2.

For the best collection of Pigeons, first premium, S3 ; second
do., 62.

Ten dollars in gratuities may be awarded, at the discretion of
the Committee.

Note. — Poultry must be entered on the first daj'of ihe Exhibition, be-
fore 12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

DAIRY.

Committee.— Milton M. Fisher, Medwny ; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Lucius Clapp,
Stoughton; Mrs. George Vose, Milton; Mrs. William R. Mann, Sharon; Charles H.
Mansfield, Needham.

Butter. — For the best produce of Butter, on any farm within
the County, for four months, from tiie 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 pre-
mium, $10 ; second do., $8 ; third do., So ; fourth do., $4.

Note. It will be seen than these premiums are offered for the best
produce on the Farms, a full statement of which will be required, 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 six pounds — first pre-
mium, $0 ; second do., S3 ; third do., S2.

g^^^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. So ; second do., $3 ; third do., S2.

BREAD.

Committee. — .J. White Belcher, Randolph; Albert B. Balch, Medfleld; Elijah
Tucker, Milton ; Mrs. A. S. Drake, Sharon; Mrs. B. F. Radford, Hyde Park.

For the best loaf of Wheat and Indian, of not less than two
pounds weight — first premium S3 ; second do., S2.

For the best loaf made of Unbolted AVheat, which has been

gro\vn in the Count}-, of not less than two pounds weight — first
preraiuin, S3 ; second do., S2.

For the best loaf of Rye and ludiari, of not less than four pounds
weight — first premium, 83 ; second do., 62.

For the best loaf of Wheat Bread, of not less than two pounds
weight — first premium, ?3 ; second do., 82.

For the best specimens of 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 mnst be made on the first day
of the Kxhibiiion, 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 onl}-
on the second day of the Exhibition, before 9 o'clock in the morn-
ing. Xo name or mark shall be put on the loaves, except the
number of the entry on 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, $2 ; second best, $1.

MAIS^UFACTURES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee.— William Ames, 2d, Dedham; Ileni-y Goulding, Dover; Horace Guild,
Canton.

For the largest and best collection. Si 2 ; second, S6.

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 86.

New Inventions. — For any new invention of decided superiorit}-
and usefulness to the farmer, a premium or gratuit3\ at the discre-
tion of the Committee.

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DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.
Fancy Articles.

CosmiTTEE.— Mrs. John Vose, Hyde Park; Mrs, W. T. Thacher, Hyde Park; Mrs.
Jeese Yose, Milton.

Including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shelhvork, Milliner}',
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 uuderstood that in this department of Ladies
work — while other thinjis will receive due consideration — the premiums
ai'e intendec* solely for newly made articles which are really useful or
particularly beautiful. For well made garments of any kind; for stock-
ing 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 thorough mending, patching and darning; for drawing, designing, or
painting in oil or water colors; for models in plaster, wood or marble,
&c.

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

Manufactures of Straw.

CoMsnTTEE.— A. S. Harding, Medway; J. A. Turner, Medfleld; 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.

Manufactures of Cloth, Flannels, Hosiery, &c.

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

Cotton Cloth. — For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty-eight yards in quantity, a pre-
mium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Woolen Cloth. — For the best specimen of Woolen Cloth, of any
description, not less than twent}- 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

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in quantity, a premium or gratuit}', at the discretion of the Com-
mittee.

Flannels. — For the best specimens 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 AVoolen Blankets, a premium or gratuity, at
the discretion of the Committee.

Hosiery, &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 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
(;ents.

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 61.

For the best specimen of neat and thorough mending, patching or
darning of garments, hose, &c., a premium of 81.

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

CouKTERFANES. — I or tlic bost Couutcrpauc — regard being had
to the quality aud expense of materials — first premium, $3; sec-
ond do., §2.

Carpetings, Rugs and Floor Clotii.

For the best "Common" Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting.
u u ''Fine" " " "

" "Superfine" " " "

" " "Common," "Fine" or "Superfine" Ingrain 3-ply
Carpeting.

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Foi' the best Brussels Floor Carpeling.

" " Tapeshy " "

" " 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
sliall 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.

Glass, Stone, Earthen, Wooden and Iron Ware.

CoMJriTTEE.— 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 gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

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 meadoiv lands, a
premium of SI.

$■2

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3

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2

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2

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1

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Leather, axd Articles Manufactured Therefrom, India Rub-
ber Goods., t&c.

Committee.— John Mann, Walpole; Jonathan R. Gay, Stoughton; P. H. Ba-
ker, Sharon.

Ikdia Rubber Goods. — For the finest collection of India Rub-
ber goods, a premium or gratuity, at the discretion ot the Com-
mittee

Brushes, Combs, Hats, Caps and Gloves. — For the finest col-
lection and best specimen of each of these articles, a premium or
gratuitj', at the discretion of the Commitee.

For the best specimen of Thick lioots, a premium of
" '' " Calfskia, ''

" " " 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, «S:c.

Committee — George K. Gannett, Milton ; Sauford Carroll, Dedham ; Joseph E. Fiske,
Needham.

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

For the best Covered Wagon ;
" " Open
" " Farm "

" " " Cart;

•' " " Wheelbarrow — either a premium or gratu-

ity, at the discretion of the Committee.

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Jellies, Preserves, Pickles, Ketchup, &c.

CojfjiiTTEE— Mrs. George Vose, Milton ; Mrs. Elizabetli F. Wilmarth, Walpole; Mrs.
James Mackintosh, Needham ; Mrs. Massenna Southworth, Stoughton ,

For the finest collection and best specimen of each, made of
articles of domestic growth, first premium, $5 ; second, $3 ; 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 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, 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.

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Committee.— A. W. Cheever, Wrentham; Edward Howe, West Roxbury; A. F.
Stevens, 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, first premium, $5 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $1.

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, first premium, $5 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $1.

AGRICULTURAL LABORERS.

For a certificate — signed by his employer, and countersigned b}'
any two of the Trustees residing nearest to the applicant — of the
superior qualifications of any man or youth, in the emplo3anent of
any member of the Society for a period next preceding, of not less
than two years, attesting the industry, integrity, respectful de-
maenor and general good habits, during the time, of the bearer of

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such certificate, a premium of membership of the Society and a
diploma.

AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS.

Committee.— Henry S. Russell, Milton; Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester; Charles
C. Sewdl, Medfield; Henry O. Hildreth, Dedham; Albert K. Teele, Milton; Theodore
Lymau, Brookline.

For the best Report of Committees which recommend the award
of premiums. First premium, S8 ; second, $6 ; third, S4.

For the best Essay on tlie relative importance and vahie, 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 825.

For the best Essa}' 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 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, Cut-Worm, Squash-Bug, Striped-Bug, Rose-Bug, etc., etc., a
premium not exceeding $25.

Preservation of Winter Fruit. — For the best Essaj' on the
preservation of Apples and other Winter Fruits, a premium not
exceeding S25.

Preservation of Vegetables. — For the best Essay on the
preservation of Vegetables, a premium not exceeding 825.

Agricultural Education. — For the best Essay on Argicultural
Education, a premium not exceeding $25.

Farm Accounts. — For the best Essay on a system of Farm Ac-
counts, a premium not exceeding 825.

For the best Essay on Domestic Poultry, a premium not exceed-
ing 825.

For the best Essa}' on Fences for Farms, uniting economj',
strength and appearance, a premium not exceeding 825.

For the be^t Essay on the Extermination of Weeds and Plants,
destructive to crops, a premium not exceeding 825.

For the best Essay on the Preservation and Application of
Liquid Manure, a premium not exceeding 825.

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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 Essa^^ 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 Barn3'ard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfox-t 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 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 bv the
Supervisory Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said Com-
mittee.

TRANSACTIONS

Norfolk Agricultural Society

1874.

PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Address, by John Quincy Adams, 5

Report of the President and Secretary 15

on Horses, jg

on Races, jg

on Rural Sports, 2g

on Plowing, jg

on Working Oxen, 19

on Fat Cattle, jg

on Bulls, jg

on Cows, 20

on Heifers, 20

on Poultry, 21

on Swine, 23

on Pears, 28

on Apples 29

on Grapes and other Fruits, 29

on Flowers, 3q

on Vegetables 31

on Bread, 33

on Dairy, 33

on Jellies, Pickles, Preserves, &c. , 34,

on Seeds, 34.

on Straw Manufactures, 34

on Manufactures of Cloth, Hosiery, &c 34

on Manufactures 35

on Leather Work, 35

on Carriages, Wagons, &c., 36

on Ladies' Work 3G

on Cabinets of Birds, Insects, &c., 37

Recapitulation of Premiums 38

Report of the Treasurer, 41

Proceedings of the Twenty-Si.\th Anniversary, 42

Officers of the Society, 45

Names of Members 48

ADDRESS.

BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, OF QUINCY.

Ladies and Gentlemen, — When your admirable presi-
dent asked me to address you, I confess to having been
somewhat alarmed. My strongest impression about agricul-
ture in my vicinity has been that it was an expensive luxury.
I felt that I had nothing to say which could profitably occupy
your time ; but it did occur to me, I must say, that if I could
not teach I might certainly learn. If I was unable to offer
valuable advice to the practical farmers I should meet here,
yet they might have a plenty for me. At least, like a true
Yankee, I could ask questions. Now my question is this.
How are you to farm it profitably, close about the city here,
say within ten miles of City Hall ? It is twenty-five years
since this society was incorporated, and in that small space of
time the change of circumstances has been great. The
answer to my question was comparatively easy then, but
every year seems to me to make it more difficult. Now I
want some assistance on this point. I have, in fact, very
urgent reasons of my own for wishing to get a satisfactory
reply to my question. I carry on just such a farm ; but to
show that I am ready to do my part, I will, if you like, Yankee
fashion, make my guess at it.

Bearing in mind, if you please, then, that it is only my
guess ; and taking fair warning, besides, at the outset, that I
am not talking to my friends who cultivate their lands as an
amusement, or enjoy it as a luxury, nor to those who turn to
the land as a mere make-shift to eke out some trade ; and
especially that I do not refer to gentlemen who buy and hold

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large tracts of farming lands for a speculation and not to
farm — bear with me as I hasten to my subject. Of course I
fully appreciate that these and many other reasons for the
application of labor to land may be very excellent, and yet not
come within my scope. I wish you only to assume with me
that we have a farmer who makes farming his business, and
who, having a certain capital to invest, selects land within
ten miles of the City Hall, to farm, with a view solely to get
from the land and his capital and labor the usual return
earned by an equal capital and like industry in other invest-
ments in this vicinity. How can he manage it ? What new
elements have made this problem a substantially new one
since this society was founded .''

Twenty-five years ago Boston, as many of us gentlemen
can very well remember, was a thriving little city, lying snug
in a small and compact territory and surrounded on the side
of Norfolk at least by tracts of sparsely inhabited land, which
were in great part occupied by regular old-fashioned farms.
Even Roxbury in those days might almost have been called
an agricultural region. For ten years later the larger part of
Dorchester was actually farming land. Within ten years
West Roxbury rejoiced in one hundred and eight ( io8 )
farms, which embraced seven thousand acres of her charming
territory. These places, to be sure, are now the city ; but it
is not that alone which has cooled their agricultural ardor.
They ceased to be agricultural not so much because they
were devoured, as because they were transfigured. Of course
I speak generally. Market gardening, floriculture, horticul-
ture, and some milk-farming doubtless still survive, and pos-
sibly a general farm or two in some remoter district ; but I
fancy that farming as a profitable pursuit is pretty well
finished in most of that region. So it is, I suppose, in our
faithful Brookline, which still holds fast to her old county
friends. For a multitude of people, whose business confined
them from morning till night in the city, found it both pleasant
and economical to have homes in the country. They worked
all day in the noise of Boston streets, but they were glad at

night to seek the quiet of the neighboring villages. They over-
ran all the region round about. Beyond our county they spread
over Brighton, Cambridge, Charlestown, and indeed a great
part of this ten mile metropolitan circuit. From about
200,000, in 1850, the population of Boston and these places
have swelled, in 1870, to more than 400,000 souls, and was
still growing faster than ever. An inevitable consequence of
this rapid influx of people was an enormous demand for home-
steads. The prices of convenient house lots rose with a rush.
Suburban farms which in 1850 were dear at one hun-
dred dollars an acre, in 1870 were cheap at a thousand. The
fortunes of the lucky farmers were made, — provided they
ceased to farm. Their ancient means of livelihood had be-
come an expensive amusement. Their crops did not pay the
taxes, and the more produce a man raised the poorer he
became.

So, too, wherever a canal was opened for the easy flow of
this flood of surplus citizens to more remote and less expen-
sive seats, the same process was repeated, and the same
phenomena were seen. Instances are familiar to all of you, and
are manifest in most of the towns around us. Look, for in-
stance, at Hyde Park yonder ; why, when I was a young
man, which I assure you was but a very few years ago, and
first began to drive over the road to court at Dedham, all
that territory was a wide stretch of pleasant farming land,
supporting a good many old apple trees, and affording pas-
ture to some cows and horses for a few excellent people.
Now I drive through a smart little city, which seems to
me to 'double its people once a year at least ; but the cows
are gone. And as to our old associate, Dorchester, since her
annexation, a careful observation would seem to indicate that
the crop which flourishes best upon her city soil is a post hold-
ing a board, upon which is inscribed, " This land for sale in
house lots ; apply to John Brown, State street." But I surely
need not dwell upon a fact so patent as that it has generally
proved more profitable to sell your farm than to work it in a
*'bed-roon town." Indeed, how can the man who pav.«; citv

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rates of taxation upon almost a city valuation of his barren
hill-side, compete with him whose best arable land pays a
tax not exceeding one dollar to the acre ? How can yon pas-
ture your cows upon land valued and taxed by the foot?
What general crop so profitable as a dwelling-house ? Indeed,
we may almost state it as an axiom that when land comes
to be sold off the principal streets of a village by the foot,
the day of general farming is done in that vicinity. In a
word, then, the land in a considerable part of Norfolk Coun-
ty has become so much more valuable for cutting into small
homesteads than for use in the broad fields and wide ran-
ges, required for what I call, for want of a better name,
the old, general, ample-skirted farming, that no one, solely
as matter of gain, cares to undertake it.

The old, familiar, homely ways, familiar to our boyish rec-
ollections, may, to be sure, linger here and there in some se-
cluded or favorable nooks ; for farming is a good conservative
pursuit, but we of the metropolitan circle, if I may be per-
mitted the term, must soon go further a-field to refresh the
rustic reminiscences of those pleasant summers when we were
young. For in the old-fashioned methods there seemed, at
least, to dwell something of sweetness and poetry which lends
a certain touch of sentiment even to grave agricultural

addresses*

You are all familiar with the picture, — its golden lights, —
its cool, gray shadows, — its mellow, tender tones. You see
the old brown farm-house, overshadowed by the giant elms in
the door-yard ; you catch a delicious glimpse of the cool, shady
orchard behind it, — there yonder is the great barn, with its
red doors, its dusty, cob-webbed beams, and deep hay-mows,
and the swallows flittering and twittering back and forth.
There, too, is the rocky hill-side pasture, with its patches of
short velvet turf, and the calm, contented cows winking and
chewing lazily in the shade, or dozing peacefully as they stand
mid-leg deep in the brook, taking their noon-tide rest. How
familiar it all is to us, and how pleasant ; but it is not busi-
ness. The fact is that the poetry and the charms, the fascina-

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tions and the loveliness, arc bccominc^ too expensive around
us here for any but wealthy men to indulge in.

Frankly turning our back, then, upon our old familiar
friend, the farmer of the past, let us turn to greet the coming
man for our purpose, — the farmer of the future.

For certainly this vast city population at our doors, if it
occupies the land, creates, too, an enormous daily demand for
certain products of the land. If the ground is enhanced in
value, so are the vegetables which grow on it sold to more ad-
vantage. To be sure, the far greater part of the agricultural
produce consumed in the city can be supplied more cheaply
from a distance. But experience seems to show that there are
some necessary luxuries, if you will pardon the phrase, which
are so much more prized fresh froni the farm-wagon than from
the car, that they can bear the tax incident to growing within
an easy drive of the city. Take the professional florist, for'one
case. The market gardeners, especially the hot-bed gardeners,
are another. Both of them seem to derive a sufficient advantage
from being within wagon-reach of the markets, to enable them
to compete with the rail-borne article. Many early vegetables,
for instance, are almost as rapidly spoiled by handling and
keeping as most fish are. Like oysters, they are best eaten
alive. One wants to stretch out one's hands, as it were, and
pluck them crisp and tender from the earth. But this near-
ness means dear land, high taxes, and a big fi.xed capital to
pay a profit on. And the only way to meet the difficulty is
to use but little land. We must raise the largest possible
crop on the smallest possible space. For this only one thing
is absolutely necessary, a cheap and plentiful supply of stimu-
lating dressing. Where shall we get it .? Why. out of Bos-
ton harbor, to be sure. Are we not yearly throwing half a
million of dollar's worth of the very thing our market-garden-
ers most need, into its bosom } The ocean, which stretches
frequent arms through this dense population, occupying the
space swept by a radius of ten miles from the State House, is
made a nuisance and dangerous sewer by the foul and waste-
ful uses to which it is subjected in this regard. P.nt the diffi-

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culty of thus disposing of the sewac^e of the multitude des-
tined to dwell in all this basin, is fast making imperative some
more sensible and systematic plan.

Not much longer will a cleanly and a thrifty people suffer
what Dr. Bowditch most justly terms: — " Such wide-spread
recklessness of spend*-thrift prodigality as this throwing away
of such vast amounts of excellent manure is." Then this
wonderfully effective servant will be enlisted in the service of
the market-gardeners, and the whole " garden sauce " of the
city will be manufactured, as it were, on the cheapest possible
terms from the refuse which is now thrown away as an un-
mangeable nuisance. Then consider another important pro-
duct,— milk. The farmer of the future, hereabouts, will be
forced to regard similar circumstances if he hopes to live by
the milk business. To be sure, his market will be handy, and
his customers many, but where can he pasture his cows .'' On
land which is assessed at one thousand dollars per acre, and
taxed fifteen or twenty dollars a year } I should like to see
him compete with railroad milk upon those terms. No, — he
must feed scientifically. Just reversing the system to which
he has been accustomed, he must keep his cows in the barn
all summer ; cut and eat his grass crop before it is ripe, and
buy every pound of hay he feeds in winter. His most telling
economy will be retrenchment of land, and his most essential
saving a reduction of rent. The cost of his hay-fields would
render it far less costly to buy than to make his hay.

For the same reason, he will forbear to breed his own stock.
The wide ranges and breezy pasture of a stock-farm would
make his own cows too expensive for profit. As fast as cows
cease to average eight or nine quarts per day yearly, they must
be fatted and sold, to be replaced by fresh ones. But, as I
have tried to recall the traditional farm of the past, let me
also endeavor to sketch the impending farm of our
future.

And first of all you must assume with me that our farmer
has obtained a compact tract of land, of about fifty or sixty
acres of good, plain, arable land, within ten miles, by the high-

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way, from City Hall. That neither fences, hedges, ditches
nor trees interrupt the free course of the plough from one
bounding wall to the other. It is within easy reach of a rail-
road, by means of a short track on one side, and has for a
neighbor on the other, a brewery, cheaply accessible by a con-
venient tram-way. Then our "enterprising proprietor," as
the newspaper will call him, goes about building.

At the most easily accessible spot near the front and centre
of his lot he erects a plain brick factory, four or five stories in
height, and covering an area sufficient to accommodate easily
about two hundred cows and twenty horses upon a single
floor. With this building there will connect on the one hand
a boiler-house and engine-room ; upon the other, refrigerating-
room, can-rooms, wagon-shed, a counting-house, and all the
paraphernalia necessary for the handling and delivery of milk.
Close by a second brick house of less size will serve for a
dwelling for the owner or manager and his foreman, and as a
boarding-house for his drivers, clerk, and regular farm-hands.
The space around the barn not required for these buildings
will be divided into large yards, provided with sheds and
other suitable shelter from sun or storm, and strewn with
litter where the stock may take their daily constitutional
promenade in all weathers. But let us walk into the big
barn and look at our friend's cows. They will stand one
story, or say half a story, from the ground. Beneath them a
well-lighted, dry hall, half basement and half cellar, will be
carefully prepared for the reception, "preservation and prepara-
tion of the mainspring, of our machine, manure. We find the
two hundred cows arranged in rows facing each other, with
tram-ways or rails for fodder-cars in front of them. Flowing
water of the purest and freshest is carried within their reach,
and spouts and sacks from above lead down to each feed-
trough. But it is time to go up stairs. There we find great
vats for steaming all the hay after it has been chopped fine
by the machines over head, large troughs for mixing the
steamed hay with meal or shorts from vast bins, in which
they are stored, and monstrous receptacles for the chopped

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turnips, beets, cabbages, etc., into which they tumble from the
busy machines above. If we mount up stairs further we
shall find the chopping machines already referred to in full
activity, driven by shafting turned by the engine below. The
space not required for their use, and the lots above, are de-
voted to the storage of hay and roots. All the hoisting,
pumping, steaming and moving of food is done by the engine.
A side-track from the railroad delivers all straw, hay, grain or
meal beneath the steam crane. The most perfect ventilation
is secured by a fan driven by the same power. In a word,
every appliance which ingenuity can suggest, and every de-
vice which skill can invent for the saving of labor and econ-
omy of force, will be impressed into the service. Neither
will any pains be spared to ensure the health and happiness
of the " milky mothers." It is true that to pasture they will
never again return ; but then they will be assiduously served
at their stalls with all the most varied, succulent and nourish-
ing food " which the market affords " or the season will sup-
ply. From the first moment that the returning sun can coax
out the earliest oats or rye from the rich hollow of the sun-
niest southern slope, until the savage frost cuts down even
the hardiest cabbage, they will be feasted upon the most ten-
der and delicious fresh vegetables. The best of the grain,
and grasses juicy and green, turnips, beets, potatoes, and I
know not what other kinds of luxurious living, will be theirs.
But you ask, where is all this green stuff" to come from ?
Surely, not from the Httle plot of fifty acres, which is left us to
farm ? True, it is small, but remember that every foot is
available, clear, clean land in the very highest profitable con-
dition. Our supply of manure will be magnificent ; and I
need not tell you farmers that manure can work miracles.
But if you still doubt, although I don't dare now to detail the
precise rotation of crops, and close, sharp handling by which
it may be effected, yet I can confidently refer you to the
authorities on soiling of cattle for verification. Then, even if
you find I have overstated it, at least you will be sure to de-
rive great benefit from your studies.

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But, after all, it is of very little consequence to my present
purpose, whether I am accurately exact as to my details. At
all events, you are convinced that my farmer must be a very
shrewd and energetic and skilful man, and you must be sat-
isfied that he will require all his capacity, industry and skill
to manage his business successfully. What with his corn to
buy in Illinois ; his grain in Iowa ; his hay in Maine ; his
cows in New Hampshire and Vermont ; and his straw and
the hundred other supplies in constant use to be bought each
in the best market, his mercantile faculty must be good, and
with the supervision of his stock and business, he will find
the longest day too short for his labors.

And so you see, my friends, the old brown house and the
poetic barn, the sunny pasture and the shady brook, haying
and harvest, all have disappeared, swallowed up by the insati-
able and relentless maw of progress. And as the whirling
spinning-wheel of the cottage has been turned into the lum-
bering mule of the factory, so the picturesque farm of im-
memorial literature and art is transformed into a milk-mill.

And now, I need hardly remind you, that I intend this crude
and hasty sketch merely as a suggestion. Is the narrow view
I have taken capable of a wider range .-' Is it not desirable
to call to our aid the close calculation of small economies and
exact application of the most approved means to ends which
characterize the plans of successful manufacturers .-* Would
it not pay us here near Boston to abandon the old, wide-
spread system of half cultivating a teijitory and turn to the
careful high tillage of a field .-'

I am not ignorant that many of our keen Yankee farmers
have long ago found this out. They have almost instinctive-
ly turned to take the only way out of the dilemma into which
all general farming in New England was thrown, when
millions of acres of such land, as many of you never dreamed
of, were thrown open to the plough at the West, and moved,
as it were, within competing distance by the railroads. It is
a matter of common fame, that four hundred thousand acres
of the improved land, in farms in our State, twenty-five years

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ago, are now run wild. A handsome principality has been
laid waste, during the life-time of our society in this Common-
wealth, and it was well and wisely done. If another like it
could be turned out of cultivation, and the labor wasted upon
its slovenly neglect applied to an increased care and culture of
more fertile or more favored sites, I believe it would be whole-
some for our wallets and strengthening to our agriculture.

And now let me crave your pardon for dwelling so tediously
upon matters so trite and so dry. It would seem as if the
dry " spell " which has just been broken by the storm still
stretched its drowsy influence over me. However, I think it
is only fair to say that I feel so much pleased with my model
farm of the future, that I am pondering the possibility of
building a milk factory and going into the scientific manufac-
ture of milk on purely business principles, when I have noth-
ing else on my hands. Meantime I shall doubtless continue
to exemplify the old discordance between precept and prac-
tice, by pasturing my cows and mowing my hay, and raising
my potatoes and cabbages, as my great-grandfather did before
me. But, gentlemen, mark well the sequel ; mark, and in-
wardly digest the fate of men who have not the courage of
their opinions, as the French say, — ponder, in short, I pray
you, the moral of my discourse.

/ net a dead loss every year.

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Report of the President and Secretary.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture :

SiK, — In accordance with the requirements of the
statute, the following statement of the Transactions
of the Norfolk Agricultural Society foi- the year
1874, embodied in the subjoined Reports of the
several Committees of the Society, is respectfully
submitted.

HENRY S. RUSSELL, President.
Henry O. Hildp.eth, Secretary.

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

HORSES

Class A.

Best Stallion, Four Years Old and nprvards.— Jason Houghton,
Milton, 1st premium, ten dollars.

Best Brood Mare, with Foal at side.—W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st
premium, seven dollars ; S. K. Bailey, Milton, 2d premium, five.

Best Four Years Old.— Oliver Dean, Canton, 1st premium, five
dollars ; Jason Houghton, Milton, 2d premium, three.

Best Three Years Old.—W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium,
five dollars ; J. H. McKendry, Dorchester, 2d pi-emium, three.

Best Two Years Old.—W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium,
three dollars ; Charles Cook, West Roxbury, 2d premium, two.

Best One Year Old.—W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium, three
dollars ; Jason Houghton, Milton, 2d premium, two.

Best Fair Roadsters.— C L. Farnsworth, Hyde Park, 1st pre-
mium, ten dollars.

Best Gelding or Mare.— JohnW. Thomas, Dedham, 1st premium,
eight dollars ; F. B. Ray, Franklin, 2d premium, six ; H. R. Bird'
Canton, 3d premium, four.

Class B.

Stallions. — No premiums awarded.

Best Brood Mare, with Foal at Side.—W. T. Cook, Foxl)oro',
1st premiiun, seven dollais ; Wisner Park, Hyde Park, 2d pre-
mium, five.

Be.'it Four Years Old.— J. W. Bradlee, Milton, 1st premium, five
dollars.

Best Three Years Old.— No premium awarded.

Best Two Years Old.—W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium,
three dollars.

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Best One Tear Old. — No premium awarded.

Best Pair in Harness. — W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium,
seven dollars.

Best Gelding or Mare. — W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium, six
dollars ; Silas A. Stone, Sharon, 2d premium, four.

Class C.

Best Stallion. — W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium, ten
dollars.

Best Brood Mare, loitli Foal at side. — J. II. Farringtou, Milton,
1st premium, seven dollars ; J. L. Kendall, Foxboro', 2d premium,
five.

Best Four Yeais Old. — None awarded. *

Best Three Years Old. — C. E.Tucker, Randolph, 1st premium,
five dollars ; J. H. Farrington, Milton, 2d premium, three.

Best Two Years Old. — W. T.Cook, Foxboro', 1st premium,
three dollars.

Best One Year Old. — Joseph Dix, Dorchester, 1st premium,
three dollars ; W. T. Cook, Foxboro', 2d premium, two.

Best Pair in Harness. — J. H. Farrington, Milton, 1st premium,
ten dollars ; Joseph Dix, Dorchester, 2d premium, seven.

Best Gelding or Mare. — A. T. Carpenter, Foxboro', 1st pre-
mium, eight dollars ; W. H. Morrill, Dedham, 2d premium, six ;
E. C. R. Walker, West Roxbur}', 3d premium, four.

Best Saddle Horse. — E. P. Tileston, Dorchester, iHt premium,
six dollars ; W. II. Morrill, Dedham, 2d premium, four ; F. D.
White, Milton, 3d premium, three.

Best Single Pony. — G. W. Gunnison, IIy<lc Park, 1st premium,
three dollars ; J. W. Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium, two.

The Committee recommend a diploma to Willard Lewis of Wal-
pole, for th roughbred mare, and Francis B. Ray, of Franklin, for
Morgan Grey mare.

Class D.

Best Drauglit or Team Horse. — C. & C. Mackintosh, Need-
ham, 1st premium, seven dollars; N. Farrington, Jr., Canton, 2d
premium, live.

Best Pair Team Horses. — N. Farrington. Jr., Canton. 1st
premium, ten dollars ; Freeman Fisher, Uedham, 2d premium,
seven.

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RACES.

Thursday — Trials of Speed.

First Race. — F. B. Ray, Franklin, 1st prize, twent3'-five dollars ;
P. S. Allen, Brookline, 2d prize, ten.

Second Race. — F. B. Riiy, Franklin, 1st prize, twenty-five dol-
lars.

Third Race. — R. W. Hambliu, Hyde Park, 1st prize, twenty
dollars ; Wisner Park, Hyde Park, 2d prize, ten.

Fourth Race. — ^Y. Park, Hyde Park, 1st prize, thirty dollars ;
J. C. Bancroft, Milton, 2d prize, fifteen.

Exhibition of Ladies' Horsemanship. — Miss A. Dickson, .Jamaica
Plain, 1st prize, twenty dollars.

Friday — Trials of Speed.

First Race. — B. R. Ballon, Stonghton, 1st prize, fifty dollars ;
Turner, Dedham, 2d prize, thirty ; W. E. Coffin, Dorcliester, 3d
prize, ten.

Second Race. — W. E. Coffin, Dorchester, 1st prize, fifty dollars ;
Harper & Stone, Sharon, 2d prize, twenty-five.

Third Race. — Jason Houghton, Milton, 1st prize, twenty-five
dollars ; W. B. Kendall, Milton. 2d prize, fifteen.

Fourth Race. — No entries.

Augustus P. Calder, Chairman.

RURAL SPORTS.

Foot Race. — John Powers, 1st prize, eight dollars ; John Man-
ning, 2d prize, five ; Dennis Mahony, 3d prize, two.

Bag Race. — Charles Cushing, 1st prize, eight dollars; Bernard
"West, 2d pi-ize, five ; John Manning, 3d prize, two.

Potatoe Race. — J. A. Manning, 1st prize, eight dollars ; Charles
Cushing, 2d prize, five ; Joseph Bass, 3d prize, two.

W. R. Mann, Chairman.

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PLOWING.

Double Ox Teams — One ontry. Willitim Fiilcs, Dodliam, 2(1
preiuiuin, teu dollars.

Nathan Longfellow, Chairmun.

Double Horse Teams — Two entries. Blackman Brothers, Need-
ham, 1st premium, fifteen dollars.

John E. Weatherbee, Chairman.

Single Horse Teams — Five entries. B. N. Sawin, and Aaron
Bacon, of Dover, Plow, Prouty and Mears, No. 155, 1st premium,
ten dollars; D. F. Decatur, West Dedham, Ilussey Plow, No IG,
2il premium, five.

Lewis W. Mouse, Chairman.

WORKING OXEN.

Three entries. — O. T. Rogers, Milton, 1st premium, ten dollars.
The Committee were most highly gratified with the team and
driver. A. T. Brown, Brookline, 2d premium, seven ; William
Fales, Dedham, 3d premium, four.

Henry M. Mack, Chairman.

FAT CATTLE.

Your Committee on Fat Cattle find no entries in this department,
but O. T. Rogers & Co., East Milton, showed a noble pair of work-
ing oxen, weighing 4540 lbs., which would have stood second to
few if they had been entered in this department.

A. W. Cheever, Chairman.

BULLS.

William T. Cook, Foxboro', for Jersey Bull, two years old, 1st
[)r(;mium, ten dollars.

Henry L. Pierce, Dorchester, for Jersey Bull Calf, six months
old, 1st premium, five.

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C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, for Ayrshii'e Bull, three years
and ten months old, 1st premium, ten.

James Galloway, Qnincy, for Bull Calf, ten months old, 1st
premium, five.

AsAHEL S Drake,"]

E. M. Gary, ( ^, ...

N. S. Whit^, ^Committee.

J. N. Smith, j

COWS.

Herds. — Henry M. Mack, Dorchester, 1st premium, twenty-five
dollars ; Henry L. Pierce, Dorchester, 2d premium, twelve.

Jersey. — A. K. Teele, Milton, 1st premium, ten dollai's ; A. T.
Brown, Brookline, 2d premium, five ; William T. Cook, Foxboro',
3d premium, four.

Ayrshire. — C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 1st premium, ten
dollars.

Grade — Henry Chaffin, Brookline, 1st premium, ten dollars ;
Dennis Haley, Dedham, 2d premium, five ; Owen Husjhes, Hyde
Park, 3d premium, four.

Heifers in Milk. — N. T. Davenport, Milton, 1st premium, four
dollars ; William T. Cook, Foxboro', 2d premium, two.

J. W. Gay. Chairman.

HEIFERS.
The Committee on Heifers award the following premiums : —

Jersey Heifers. — Wm. T. Cook, Foxboro,' 1st premium, five
dollars ; A. T. Brown, Brookline, 2d premium, four ; J. H. Wol-
cott, Milton, 3d premium, two.

Ayrshire Heifers. — C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 1st premium,
five dollars ; F. Parker, West Roxbury, 2d premium, four ; James
Galloway, Quincy, 3d premium, two.

Grade or Native //eifers. — C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 1st
premium, five dollars ; Wm. MacDonald, Milton, 2d premium,
four ; J. Fisher, West Dedham, 3d premium, two.

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Calves. — C. & C. Mackintosh, Needliam, 1st premiuui, lour
dollars ; A. T, Brown, Brookline, 2cl premium, two.

To Hon. Henry L. Pierce, the Committee award the Society's
Diploma, for his fine herd of young Jerseys, and to several other
exhibitors of meritorious young stock, premiums would gladly be
awarded if the Committee were allowed so to do.

Edward P. Bukgess, 1

Lemuel Billings, )> Committee.

Solomon Flagg, j

POULTRY.

Collection Gallinaceous Fowls. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 2d pre-
mium, ten dollars.

Collection Water Foids. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium, fif-
teen dollars.

VARIETIES.

Liglit Bralimas. — A. Starkweather, Brookline, 1st premium,
three dollars ; A. Starkweather, Brookline, 2d premium, two ;
Horace N. Plummer, Boston, 3d premium, one.

Dark Brahmas — Chicks. — Frtyicis Codman, Brookline, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars ; ditto same, 2d premium, two ; ditto same, 3d
premium, one.

Dark Brahmas — Foivls. — Francis Codman, Brookline, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars.

Partridge Cochin — Chicks. — M. I. P^llis, Norwood, 1st premium,
three dollars ; C. L. Copeland, Milton, 2d premium, two ; M. I.
Ellis, Norwood, 3d premium, one.

Partridge Cochin — Foivls. — M. I. FAVis, Norwood, 1st premium,
three dollars ; ditto same, 2d premium, two.

Mhite Cochin — Chicks. — M. L Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium,
three dollars ; C. L. Copeland, Milton, 2d premium, two ; M. 1.
Ellis, Norwood, 3d premium, one.

White Cochin — Fowls. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium,
three dollars.

Pbjmouth Rock — Chicks. — A. H. Drake, Stoughton, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars ; ditto same, 2d premium, two ; ditto same,
3d premium, one.

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Plymouth Rock — Foivls. — A. H. Drake, Stongliton,lst premium,
three dollars ; L. E. Gray, Foxboro', 2d premium, two.

White Leghorn — Foiols. — L. E. Gray, Foxboro', 1st premium,
three dollars.

Brown Leghorn — Fowls. — L. E. Gray, Foxboro', 2d premium,
two dollars ; A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 3d premium, one.

Brown Leghorn — Chicks. — J. E. Sherman, Foxboro'. 1st pre-
mium, three dollars ; L. E. Gray, Foxboro', 2d premium, two ; J.
E. Sherman, Foxboro', 3d premium, one.

Silver Spangled Polish — Chicks. — L. E. Graj?-, Foxboro', 1st
premium, tlu'ee dollars.

Silver Spangled Polish — Fowls. — J. E. Sherman, Foxboro', 1st
premium, three dollars.

White Crested Black Polish. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 2d premium,
two dollars.

Houda,ns — Chicks. — E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park, 1st premium,
three dollars ; ditto same, 2d premium, two ; ditto same, 3d pre-
mium, one.

Houdons — Fowls. — E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park, 1st premium,
three dollars ; ditto same, 2d premium, two ; ditto same, 3d pre-
mium, one.

Dom. Jjeghorn — Fowls. — A. F. Stevens, "Wellesley, 1st premium,
three dollars.

Bo7n. Leghorn — Chick. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium,
three dollars.

Dominique — Chicks. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium, three
dollars ; ditto same, 2d premium, two.

Dominique — Foiols. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium, three
dollars ; ditto same, 2d premium, two.

Dom. Game — Fowls. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium, three
dollars.

Black Bed Game—CUcks, — George Miles, Hyde Park, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars.

Black Spanish Fowls. — C. & F. Spring, Needham, 1st premium,
three dollars ; C. & F. Spring, Needham, 2d premium, two dollars.

Black Sj^anish — Chicks. — C. & F. Spring, Needham, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars ; C. & F. Spring, Needham, 2d premium, two ;
C. & F. Spring, Needham, 3d premium, one.

WJiite Bantam — Foiols. — A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 1st premium,
three dollars.

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White Bantam — Chicks. — A. F, Stevens, Welleslo}-, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars.

Silver Sebright Bantams. — A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 1st pre-
mium, three dolliirs.

Gold Sebright Bantams — Foiols. — J. F. Cowell, Wrenlham, 1st
premium, three dollars; J. F. Cowell, Wrentliam, 2d premium,
two ; S. W. Mitchell, Milton, 3d premium, one.

Game Bantams — Fowls. — H. B. Slade, Chestnut Ilill, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars.

Game Bantams — Chicks. — J. F. Mooar, Ilj-de Park, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars ; ditto, same, 2d premium, two ; ditto, same,
3d premium, one.

Black Cayuga — Ducks. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium,
three dollars ; ditto same, second premium, two.

Aylesbury Ducks — Old. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st i)remium,
three dollars.

Ayle.sbiu-y Ducks — Young. — M. I. P^llis, Norwood, 1st premium,
three dollars.

Mallard Ducks. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium, thi-ee dol-
lars.

Geese. — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium, tlu'ee dollars.

Rouen Ducks. — William E Sumnei", Milton, 1st premium, three
dollars.

White Holland — Turkeys. — A. F, Stevens, Wellesley, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars.

Col. Pigeons. — James J. Stuart, Hyde Park, 1st premium, three
dollars.

Gratuities. — Miss Nettie Engling, Hyde Park, for Canaiies, one
dollar ; John J. Smith, Dedham, i^oat, one dollar and ni'ty cents ;
J. Cartwri<4lit, Wellesley, lval)i>its, fifty cents ; John J. Smilli,
Dedham, Owls, fifty cents ; F. Slade, West Dedham, li. Lcohfirii,
one dollar; C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, P>ulf Cochin, one dol-
lar; M. I. Ellis, Norwood, Cock Cochin, one dollar.

A. F. Stevens, Chairman.

SWINE.

It is relat(Hl of a oei'tain County Stpiiri' Sturt. in Old Mnuland,
that, at an aiiricultural diuncr, in Dorselshirc, he ij,:ivi' this toast.

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" I prefer tlio grunting of a hog in a cottager's sty to tlie song of a
nigbtingaie, and I think sides of bacon the ver}^ best furniture of a
laborer's cottage." For as has been many times written, in point
of utilit\', as far as man is concerned, the hog claims precedence of
every member of the pachydermatous order, excluding the horse
and ass. Fresh or salted it is seen as an article of diet, alike on
the tables of the rich and the poor, and the raising and fattening of
the hog, and the preparation of it when killed for public consump-
tion, and for transportation, employ capital and labor in the Unit-
ed States of no trifling amount.

The hog has come to be regarded as an unclean animal. He is
the t^^pe of uncleanness and of disgustful, distasteful vulgarit}^
of gluttony, of filth, of indolence, of the lowest kind of brutality.

We say, that man is a hog who seeks to obtain for himself, by
unfair means, more than his share of what belongs to him in any
division of property. We call him a hog, who makes his own in-
dividual comfort of more consequence than the comfort of his "
famil}'^ or of his friends. " Hoggishness " is the term used, when
we would describe the acts of those persons who seek to take the
best places at feasts, at the lecture-room, in the street cars, or the
steam cars.

We call him " Pig Headed " who asserts opinions unsupported
by reasons and sticks to them. This is all wrong and is unjust to
the character of the hog. There is to us consolation in the thought
that there are man}^ great hogs, who are n<)t in our pens. But
they exhibit themselves daily, and no doubt to the enjoyment of
themselves, if not to their friends.

But your Committee are of the opinion, that in this, great in-
justice and great wrong is done to the character of the hog. They
have carefull}^ studied the natural history of the animal. They
have done this with minds more or less perverted by their early
education and prejudices. They have been t£<,ught from their very
infancy to believe, that " a hog is a hog and will be a hog no matter
where you put him." But they nevertheless have come to the con-
clusion that the hog is just what man his master makes him.

Plutarch remarks that Hesiod exhorted the husbandman to pray
for the harvest, but to do so with his hand upon the plough. So
he that would pray for fat hogs must do so with his hand upon the
open corn crib. A hog is like any other animal, or any human
being ; he cannot become fat on air. Provender is what will do the
business for either hog or man. What gives the members of this
societ}^ around me their rotundity of stomach? Provender, A
round, fat belly, with good capon must be lined, not to mention
the other good things.

Your Committee are human, and therefore may err. But from a
life-long study of the characteristics of the nature of the hog ; from
a careful perusal of the writings of Cuvier and Bulfon, and even of
Linneaus and of Sir Cliarles Bell, not to mention what they have

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read in th' ir days (and nights) of classical study in Virgil and
Ovid and Horace, and the purest poets of the Old Testament, and
the "writers of the New Testament, and what they have heard their
fathers say, the}' have come to the conclusion tliat the hog in these
days is not held in that degree of esteem to which he is justly
entitled.

Among the ancient Greeks and Romans the flesh of the pig was
held in great estimation. The rearing, breeding or fattening these
animals was made a complete study ; and the dishes prepared from
the meat were dressed with epicurean refinement and in many
modes. The dish consisted of a 3'oung pig whole, stuffed with
beccaflcoes and other small birds, together with oysters, and served
with wine and rich gravy. This dish was termed Porcus Trojanus,
in allusion to the wooden horse filled with men, which the Trojans
introduced into their city. An unpleasant allusion, one would
think, seeing that the Romans boasted of their Trojan descent.
And although we find from the perusal of the writings of Homer
and Herrodotus and Theocritus and other Greek writers, familiar
to your committee, and from the writings of Biblical writers, not
so familiar to j'our committee perhaps, that the hog was not held
in high estimation, your committee do find that, as a general rule,
a chine of pork, or a rasher of bacon, or a boiled ham, or a leg of
pork, or a hog's liead stuffed, or a pig's foot soused, or a pickled
shoulder was always a welcome dish, whether to Jew or Gentile,
to Greek or Barbarian.

It is gratifying to find that, among the early and pious Catholic
Saints, the hog was not without its patron. This life is full of
surprises. Every good deed of the present day, as well as every
bad deed, has had its parallel in the past ages. There was inhu-
manity to man, and cruelty to beast in the older days, and so
there was hunianit}', and tender, kindly care and S3'mpath3' with
suffering. Which of you seeing an ass fallen into a pit will not
take him out. Sabbath day or no day, was the sentin:»ent — all
kindl}' and sympathetic — which animated the minds of the holy
Christian fathers.

St. Anthony, was the protector of hogs, which were usually in-
troduced into his picture. St. Bridget kept i)igs, and a wild boar
came from the forest to subject itself to her rule.

In the tropical regions of the hot India Islands, on the islands
of Cuba, every negro has his pig. In Florida, and Southern
Georgia, before the war, every negro family had its colony of l)igs.

And if you ask
What more wa.s thi-re, I'd speak of luscious chine,
Aud loin of p(jrk, and liead of boar, all hot!

Pork ! Your Committee are old enough to look backward to the
days of country militia musters, and to the times when these mus-
ters were held, now in one town, and now in another, and when the

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" soldiers," or tlie visitors were billetted on tlie neigliboring farm-
ers. What did you have for supper and breakfast, were the in-
quiries of each on returning to eanip at sunrise. •' Fi csh pork,"
said one guest. "■ Sausages," said another. " Boiled Leg of
Pork," said another. "Cold Roast Spanish." iVom another. "Ham
and Eggs," from another. " Pigs Feet Souse," from another.
" Hogs Head," from another. " Pork and Beans," from another.
And so on. And it was a standing joke among the young men,
who mustered on Tiot Plain, that the people of that region lived
on pork.

The Committee on Swine make the following awards : —

For the Best Collection of Swine. — N. Farrington, Jr., Canton,
1st premium, fifteen dollars ; J. H. Farrington, Milton, 2d pre-
mium, ten ; N. Farrington, Jr., Canlon, 3d premium, seven.

For the Best Boar. — D. F. Decatur, West Dedham, 1st pre-
mium, six dollais ; John Sias, Milton, 2d premium, four; National
Sailors' Home, Quincy, gratuit}', two ; C. L. Copeland, Milton,
gratuity, two.

For the Best Soio. — C. L. Copeland, Milton, 1st premium, six
dollars; f^dward Cotter, Canton, 2d premium, four; Lawrence
McCarty, Brookline, gratuity, two; A. T. Brown, Brookline,
gratuity, two.

For the Best Litter of Weaned Pigs. — J. H. Davenport, Canton.
1st premium, six dollars ; A. T. Brown, Brookline, 2d premium,
four.

For the rest Fat Hog. — Edmund Cotter, Canton, 1st premium,
ten dollars ; John Sias, Milton, 2d premium, six ; J. H. Daven-
port, Canton, gratuity, two.

The Committee would recommend the covering of several more
pens, to better accommodate the increased number of contributors.

CYES, )
DING, )

Samukl B. Ncyes,

T. B. Gkiggs, )■ Committee.

Henry Gouldin(

PEARS.

The Committee on Pears report the following list of premiums : —

Twenty Varieties. — 1st premium not awarded. J. D. Bradlee,
Milton, 2d premium, twelve dollars.

Ten Varieties. — W. J. Griggs, Brookline, 1st premium, eight

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dollars ; J. R. Tilley, Brookline, 2cl premium, six ; B. F. Radford,
Hyde Park, 3d premium, four.

Five Varieties. — J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 1st premium, six dol-
lars ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 3d premium, four.

Single Dishes.

Bartlett. — J. D. Bradlee, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars ; R.
D. Newton, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Beurre de Anjou. — J. W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; J. P. S. Chureliill, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Urbanistc. — J. U. Bradlee, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars ;
H. P. Kidder, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Merriam. — J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, two
dollars ; N. T. Davenport, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Louise Bon de Jersey. — A.. S. Brown, Jamaica Plain, 1st pre-
mium, two dollars ; Lorenzo Smith, Jamaica Plain, 2d premium,
one.

Vicar. — J. II. "Wolcott, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars ; J.
D. Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Duchess de Angonleme. — Joshua W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium,
two dollars ; Captain Ra3-nes, H3Tle Park, 1st premium, one.

Seckle. — H. P. Kidder, Milton, 1st premium, two* dollars ; B.
C. Vose, H3ale Park, 2d premium, one.

Onondar/a. — Joseph Colburn, West Dedham, 1st premium, two
dollars ; G. D. Hicks, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Shekloii. — B. F, Radford, Hyde Park, 1st premium, two dollars ;
Col. Theo. Lyman, Brookline, 2d premium, one.

Beurre Base. — Geo. S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, two
dollars ; Joseph W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, one.

Doyenne Boussock. — J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 1st premium, two
dollars ; J. II. Wolcott, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Beurre Clairf/ean.. — B. F. Radford, Hyde Park, 1st premium,
two dollars ; Joseph Cull)urn, West Dedham, 2d premium, one.

Laivrence. — J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 1st premium, two dollars;
H. P. Kidder, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Winter Xelis. — Col. Theo. Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium, two
dollars; J. II. Wolcott, Milton, 2d premuim, one.

Beurre Hardy. — II. W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars ;
2d not awanled.

Buffum. — J. P. S.Churchill, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars ;
Col. Theo. Lyman, Brookline, 2d premium, one.

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Maria Louise. — Timothy Smith, Dedham, 1st premium, two
dollm's ; Col. Theo. Lyman, Brookline, 2d premium, one.

Dana's Hovey. — Col. Theo. Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium,
two ; 2d not awarded.

Mount Vernon. — Walker «& Co., Roxbury, 1st premium, two
dollars ; 2d not awarded.

Glout Morcmu. — H. P. Kidder, Milton, 1st premium, two
dollars.

Howell. — J. D. Bradlee, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars.

Colonel Wilder entered one hundred and twenty varieties of
Pears, and C. & F*. Curtis, twenty varieties, not for competition.

C. F. Curtis, Chairman.

APPLES.

Best Collection of Twelve. Varieties. — J. W. Talbot, Norwood,
1st premiuiti, twelve dollars ; C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 2d
premium, five ; E. Polley, Walpole, od premium, four ; E. Sum-
ner, Dedham, 4th premium, three.

Best Collection of Five Varieties. — Joseph Crane, West Ded-
ham, 1st premium, six dollars ; J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 2d pre-
mium, four.

Single Dishes.

Baldwin. — A. D. Capen, Dorchester. 1st pi-emium, two dollars,
J. Breck, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Hhode Island Greenings. — S. Bagley, Norwood, 1st premium,
two dollars ; J. F. Cowell, Wrentham, 2d premium, one.

Gravenstein. — Henry Bird, Stoughton, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; Mrs. F. Eish, Dedham, 2d premium, one.

Huhhardston Nonesuch. — Mrs. Dr. Talbot, Norwood, 1st pre-
mium, two dollars ; IL P. Kidder. Milton, 2d premium, one.

Roxhnry Russett. — Eben Paul, Dedham, 1st premium, two
dollars ; D. H. Elkins, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Tdlman's S>reet. — D. II. Elkins, Milton, 1st i)remium, two
dollars ; Eben Paul, Dedham, 2d premium, one.

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Coijsivdl. — Edward Sumner, DcLlham, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; Joseph Crane, Dedham, 2d premium, one.

Peck's Pleasant. — A. D. Capen, Dorchester, 1st premium, two
dollars.

Black Oxford. — J. "W. Talbot, Norwood, 1st premium, two
dollars.

Porter. — D. F. Decatur, Dedham, 1st premium, two dollars;
Henry Bird, Stoughton, 2d premium, one.

Crane's Siceet. — Joseph Crane, Dedham, 1st premium, two
dollars.

A. D. Capen, Chairman.

GRAPES AND OTHER FRUITS.

Native Grapes. — Best Collection. — Six Bunches, C. F. Gerr}^
Hyde Park, 1st premium, four dollars ; Edwin Reed, Hyde Park,
2d premium, three.

Sinijle Dishes. — Delaware. — J B. Tilley, Brooklinc, 1st pre-
miums, two dollars.

Concord. — B. F. Radford, Hyde Park, 1st premium, two
dollars; Lorenzo Smith, Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, one.

Hartford. — .J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 2d premium, one.

Clinton. — J. W. Cowell, Wrentham, 1st premium, two dollars.

Isabella. — Robert R. Mitchell, Needham, 1st premium, t^YO
dollars.

Maderia Seedliwj. — N. B. White, Norwood, gratuity, one
dollar.

Mr. N. B. White, of Norwood, exhibited a dish of Seedling
Grapes, for the first prize of twenty dollars. While the Committee
considered the specimens as superior in quality and bunch, yet
they did not feel warranted in awarding the premium, with their
limited knowledge of the habits and growth of the vine.

The Committee would recommend that the Society apjioint a
Conunittee of two from the Grape Connuittec, to visit INIr. White's
place, at dillerent times during the coming year, and re[)ort at the
next annual exhibition.

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Exotic Grapes.

Black I/ambicrg. — William J. Stuart, Hyde Park, 1st premium,
three dollars.

Victoria Hamburg. — William J. Stuart, Hyde Park, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars.

Black Barbara. — Henrj^ P. Kidder, Milton, gratuity, two
dollars.

Peaches.

Collection. — Joseph Colburn, West Dedham, 1st premium,
three dollars ; E. U. Sewell, Medfield, 2d premium, two ; Henry
Goulding, Dover, 3d premium, one.

Gratuities. — J. B. Tilley, Brookline, "Late Crawford," one
dollar ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, " Late Crawford," one ; H. W.
Vose, Milton, " Late Crawford," one ; Eben Paul, Dedham, " Old
Mixon," one.

Cranberries. — C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 1st premium,
three dollars ; Nathan Longfellow, Needham, 2d premium, two ;
John Vose, Milton, 3d premium, one.

Abel F. Stevens, Chairman.

FLOWERS.

Pot Plants. — E. Roberts, Hyde Park, 1st premium, ten dollars ;
H. P. Kidder, Milton, 2d premium, five ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park,
gratuity, four, and Society's Diploma ; G. W. Halliday, Hyde
Park, gratuity, one ; N. T. Davenport, Milton, gratuity, one ;
John Vose, Milton, gratuity, one.

Cut Floivers. — Mrs. John Vose, Milton, 1st premium, four
doUai's ; N. T. Davenport, Milton, 2d premium, three ; B. C. Vose,
Hyde Park, 3d premium, two.

Named Gladioli. — A. McLaren, Forest Hills, 3d premium, two
dollars ; A. McLaren, Forest Hills, best new seedlings, one.

Dahlias. — Mrs. Jos. Crane, West Dedham, 1st premium, two
dollars ; Mary B. Leseur, Hyde Park, 2d premium, one.

Double Ziimias. — G. A. Law, Roslindale, 2d premium, one
dollar.

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Four Baskets of Floicers. — Miss II. G. Davenport, Milton, 1st
premium, four dollars.

Gratuities.

Townsend & Co., Hyde Park, three Baskets Flowers, three
dollars.

(Jarrie Vose, Milton, one Basket Flowers, one dollar.
Louise Leown, Milton, one Basket Flowers, fifty cents.
Ida Thomas, Dedham, one Basket Flowers, fifty cents.
Mrs. Mackintosh, Needham, two Baskets Flowers, one dollar.
Mrs. C. H. Shute, Hyde Park, one Basket Flowers, fifty cents.
Mrs. Bolton, East Dedham, one Basket Flowers, fifty cents.
E. Roberts, H^-de Park, two Rustic Baskets, one dollar.
John Vose, Milton, one Rustic Basket, fifty cents.

Bouquets. — Miss H. G. Davenport, Milton, 1st premium, four
dollars ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 2d premium, three ; J. D. Daven-
port, Milton, od premium, two.

Rose Buds. — Lj^nan Davenport, Milton, gratuity for choice
collection of Rose Buds, three dollars, and Society's Diploma.

Seedling Verbenas. — Alice B. Sewell, Medflcld, gratuity,
three dollars, and Society's Diploma.

Gratuity. — Mrs. Joseph Britton, Stoughton, Seedling Verbena,
and Basket of Verbena Flowers, one dollar.

Societifs Diploma. — C. C. Cutter, South Walpole, choice collec-
tion of Dried Flowers, one dollar.

The Committee were highly pleased with the specimens of Rose
Buds from the green-house of Mr. Lj-rnan Davenport, of Milton,
and would recommend a special premium for Rose Buds hereafter,
and would also state, that as, owing to insulHcient accommoda-
tion, Mr. G. Crafts, of Brookline, was unable to give a fair display
of his choice (collection of cut flowers, they would recommend that
ths Society's Diploma be awarded to him.

The display of pot plants was unusually fine, and the Committee
regret that they were unable to award higher premiums therefor.

John Vose, Chairman.

VEGETABLES.

Largest and Best Collection. — James Mackintosh, Needham, 1st
premium, twenty dollars ; J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 2d premium,
fifteen ; L. J. McCarthy, Brookliuo, .'M premium, ten.

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Largest and Best Collection of Potatoes. — John Vose, Milton,
1st premium, six dollars ; A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, 2d premium,
three.

Largest and Best Collection of Winter Scpiashes. — C. & C.
Mackintosh, Needham, 1st premium, four dollars; G. M. Mellon,
Brookline, 2d premium, three.

Class Second.

Table Potatoes. — J, H. Farrington, Milton, 1st premium, two
dollars ; Patrick Nolen, Hyde Park, 2d premium, one.

Turnips. — C. & C. Mackintosh. Needham, 1st premium, two
dollars ; Wm. McDonald, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Carrots. — C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 1st premium, two
dollars ; John Sias, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Beets. — Gilbert Sumner, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars; C.
& C. Mackintosh, Needham, 2d premium, one.

Tomatoes. — N. T. Davenport, Milton, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; Geo. Craft, Brookline, 2 premium, one.

Onions. — Charles Spring, H3Tle Park, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 2d premium, one.

Parsnips. — John Sias, Milton, 1st premium, two dollars ; Gil-
bert Sumner, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Lima Beans. — Mrs. Dr. Talbot, Norwood, 1st premium, two
dollars ; Jolin Vose, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Drumhead Cabbage. — John Sias, Milton, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; J. H. Farrington, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Globe Savoys. — Eben Paul, Dedham, 1st premium, two dollars;
C. & C. Mackintosh, Needham, 2d premium, one.

Caidijlowers. — Robert R. Mitchell, Needham, 1st premium, two
dollars ; Mrs. Dr. Talbot, Norwood, 2d premium, one.

Celery. — Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline, 1st premium, two dol-
lars ; Gilbert Sumner, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Marroiu SquasJies. — Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline, 1st pre-
mium, two dollars ; Gilbert Sumner, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Canada Crook Neck SquasJi. — Eben Paul, Dedham, 1st pre-
mium, two dollars ; Gilbert Sumner, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Sioeet Corn. — vS. S. Somes, Milton, 1st pi'emiuDi, two dollars;
J. H. Wolcott, Milton, 2d premium, one.

Mr. D. F. Decatur of West Dedham, offered for exhibition sev-
eral stalks of Sweet Corn, with their full ears upon each stalk.

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raised from seed furnisilicd from the Agricultural Bureau, which the
committee regard as a vahiable variety for geueral cultivation, and
accordingly recommenil a gratuity of two dollars.

The committee are pleased to report that the show of vegetables
was very large and of excellent quality.

Charles L. Copeland, ']

William J. Ilvn.:, I Committee.

William J. Gkiggs, }■

David F. Hexdeuson, j

BREAD.

Tioenfy-eh/ht entries. — A much larger number than usual, and
quality generally good.

Wheat. — Mrs. B. N. Sawiu, Dover, 1st premium, three dollars;
!Miss Ellen Dray, Dedham, 2d premium, two.

Wheat and Indian. — Miss Alice O. Sewnll, Medfield, 1st pre-
mium, three dollars ; none worthy of 2d premium.

Unbolted Wheat. — Miss Sadie E. Everett, Dover, twelve years
old, 1st premium, three dollars and seventy-five cents; Miss Alice
O. Sewall, Medfield, 2d premium, two.

Ii>/e and Indian. — Mrs. E. W. Houghton, Milton, 1st premium,
three dollars ; Miss Sadie E. Everett, Dover, twelve years old, 2d
premium, two dollars and fifty cents.

J. White Belcher, Chairman.

DAIRY

Butter. — J. R. Fishor, Norwood, for best product, 2d premium,
five dollars.

J. ir. Wolcott, I\Iilton, for the best box of not less than H ll)s,
l&t premiuui, live dollars.

Cheese. — Nathaniel (Jay, Stougliton, 1st [)remium, tlu'ce dol-
lars.

M. M. FisniCK, Chairman.

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JELLIES, PICKLES, PRESERVES, Etc.

Mrs. Edward Sumner, West Dedliam, twelve jars Preserves, 1st
prciuium, five dollars ; Mrs. John Vose, H3'de Park, twelve
cans preserves, 2d premiinn, three ; Mrs. Charles H. Mansfieldj
Wellesley, 3d premium, two ; Mrs. E. Davis, Readville, eight
glasses Apple Jell}', Diploma, Dr. Henry Marsli, Providence,
R. I., Wahoo Wine for medicinal purposes. Diploma.

Mrs. Elizabeth F. Wilmartii, Chairman.

SEEDS.

Eugene Batchelder, of Dover, for Batchelder Corn, 2d premium,
one dollar.

YoiVr Committee noticed a very fine specimen of Corn, con-
tributed by J. B. Tilley, of Brookline, but there not being enough
according to the rules of the Society to entitle it to a premium, it
was necessarily debarred.

Geo. E. Chickering. Chairman.

STRAW MANUFACTURES.

Domestic Strmu Hats. — W. T. Cook & Co., Foxboro', 1st pre-
mium, eight dollars.

Straw Braid. — W. T. Cook & Co., Foxboro', 1st premium,
five dollars.

Velvet Hats. — W. T. Cook & Co., Foxboro', Diploma.

Charles C. Sumner, Chairman.

MANUFACTURES OF CLOTH, HOSIERY, &c.

The Committee regret that so little interest is taken by the man-
ufacturers of the county, in the exhibition of their products, and

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express the hope, that hereafter more attention will be given to
this matter.

The Committee renew the expression of their satisfaction at the
show of Sponge Car{)et Lining, moth proof, l)y Messrs. \V. T.
Cook & Co., Foxboro*, to which they award a Diploma.

Charles H. French, Chairman.

MANUFACTURES.

Geo. M. Snow & Co., Troy, N. Y., entered "Universal Rope
Clutch." The Committee have no premiums to offer on this article,
but they feel that they can recommend it to the public, as an ar-
ticle that will meet the wants of housekeepers.

Timothy Smith, Dedham, entered Spring Bed, of many springs.
Mr. Smith, has a good bed in the opinion of your Committee. It
has received the attention of the Society.

Charles B. Tower & Co., Hyde Park, exhibited a case of Writing
Ink, This Ink may be the best ink in the world so far as any
knowledge of the Committee is concerned. There was no test sam-
ple for trial. It looked well.

Charles Frizzle, Boston, entered two Step Ladders. Mr. Friz-
zle has here introduced a very neat, light, and strong article,
w^orthy of attention and our favorable notice.

Manuel & Bradt, Rcadville, entered a Coal Sifter, adjusted for a
barrel. Well adapted for those who have but little room to
■work in.

E. F. Green, West Roxl)Mry, entered Relief Washing Machine.
It has many good qualities. A woman who has to do this work
could test its virtues l)etter. A bachelor who has to do his own
work had better give it a trial.

Wm. R, Mann, Chairman.

LEATHER WORK. '

Robert N. Beunison, Randolph, for Buggy Harness, gratuity,
two dollars.

Geo. Fowkes, Randolph, for Buggy Harness, gratuit}', two
dollars.

William R. Mann, Chairman.

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CARRIAGES, WAGONS, &c.

J. W. Robie & Co., Norwood, for best Express Wagon, five
dollars.

J. W. Robie & Co., Norwood, for best Covered Wagon, three
dollars.

Harper & Stone, Sharon, for Side Spring Open Buggy, (there
being no premium offered,) a gratuity of three dollars.

George K. Gannett,^

JosKpn E. FisKE, y Committee.

Alexander Dickson, j

LADIES' WORK.

Of the one hundred and four articles contributed, fifty received
especial notice. Besides the usual contribution of Ladies' Work
we have the pleasure of calling the attention of the public to the
superior Piano from the manufactory of J. Ivers & Son, of Ded-
ham, to whicJi we cheerfully awaid a Diploma. Also the Victor
Sewing Machine, with Tisdale Ti'eadle attached, to which the Com-
mittee award a Diploma. A Carpet Sweeper, exhibited by Mr.
Joseph J. Hatliuger, of Hyde Park, is considered worthy of par-
ticular notice as being superior to any in use.

We award the following premiums : —

Mrs. R. Whiting, Dedham, Bedquilt, $1.

Mrs. C. Coulter, Needham, Transferred Quilt, SI.

Mrs. M. A. Mason, Needham, Knit Quilt, $1.25.

Mrs. Susan Harrow, Hyde Park, Knit Quilt, $1.

Mrs. W. Paul, Dedham, Quilt, 50 cents.

Mrs. A. A. Wheeler, Dedham, Worsted work, 50 cents.

Miss M. B. Jones, Dedham, Affghan, Si. 50.

Miss G. H. Johnson, Sharon, Affghan, $1.

Mrs. A. H. Drake, Stoughion, Rug, $2.

Mrs. John Soule, Readville, Rug, $1.

Miss S. H. Gushing, Readville. Mat, 75 cents.

Mr. James Clark, Readville, Model of Ship, $3.

Miss S. M. Vose, Hyde Park, Oil Paintings, $3.

Mrs. M. E. I-ewis, Milton, Oil Paintings, $1.

Miss O. J. McCullough, Hyde Park, Pencil Drawings, $3.

Mrs. S. Babcock, Milton, Ottomiin, $1.

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Mrs. S. N. Piper, Ilydc Park, Sofa Pillow, 81.

]Mrs. A. A. PoUey, East Walpole, Braided vSack, $1.

Mrs. B. F. Brown, Dorchester, Crotchet work, S3.

Miss Fanny Brown, Jamaica Plain, Slipper Case, $1.

Mrs. L. G. Britton, Stoughton, Silk J^nibroider}', $1.

INIrs. Jennie O'Conncll, Hyde Park, Hair Work, $1.

Miss Minnie Spring, Hyde Park, Wax Cross, Si.

Mrs. Daisy Spring, Hyde Park, Tidy, 50 cents.

P^lias Taylor, Dedham, Worsted Wreath, 75 cents.

Mrs. G. E. Smith, Walpole, Needle Work, S3.

Mrs. F. Smith, Walpole, Sorrento Carving, SI.

Bliss Grace Vose, Milton, Tatting-Tidy, S2.

Miss J. Talbot, Norwood, Scrap Bags, $1.

Mrs. Sarah Tucker, Dedham, Knitted Gloves and Mittens, Si.

Mrs. H. M. A. Laurison, Hyde Park, Mats, 25 cents.

Miss A. Chapin, Ph^ie Park, Mats, 25 cents.

T. E. Harlow, Hyde Park, Bread Basket, Si.

Miss H. Bonney, Hyde Park, Tidy, 25 cents.

Miss Edith Brainard, Hyde Park, Crotchet Sack, 25 cents.

Mrs. E. Davis, Readville, Perfume Case, 50 cents.

Miss Edna Brainard, Hyde Park, Mats, 25 cents.

Miss Ella Bragdon, Hj'de Park, Mats, 25 cents.

Miss G. B. Sumner, Milton, Tidy, 50 cents.

Mrs. A. Holmes, Milton, Yarn, Si.

Miss E. Hall, Readville, Tatting, 50 cents.

Mrs. Bragdon, Readville, Crape Shawl, Diploma.

Miss M. F. Clark, Sharon, Mats, 50 cents.

Mrs. Spring, Hyde Park, Picture, Diploma.

Miss H. Bradlee, Milton, Fancy Work, 75 cents.

Miss Mabel Morse, Milton, Toilet Set, 50 cents.

Miss R. Egan, Hj'de Park, Paintings, Diploma.

Miss M. Prescott, Sharon, Cushion and Mats, 50 cents.

Mrs. W. Goss, Hyde Park, Braiding, SI.

Mrs. J. Walter Biadlee, Milton, Embroidered Slippers, 50 cents.

Amount awarded, S47.00.

Mrs. John Vose, \

Mrs. W. T. Tiiacher, > Committee.

Mrs. Jesse Vose, j

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Your Committee find but one entry in this department the pre-
sent year. Wm. M. Hinckley, Milton, Mass., presented a case of
moths, butterflies, and beetles, containing one hundred and twenty-
five specimens, wiiich were arranged in a tasteful manner, and
correctly named. Wc rcconnnend an award of the second pre-
mium of three dollars. A. W. Cheever, Chairman.

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Recapitulation of Premiums
awarded by the

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

FOR 1874.

HORSES.

William T. Cook $56 00

J. H. Fairinatou 20 00

Jasou Houjihton 15 00

N. Farriiigtou, Jr 15 00

C. L.- Farnsvvortli 10 00

Joseph Dix 10 00

W. H. Morrill 10 00

John W. Thomas 8 00

A. T. Carpenter 8 00

J. W. Bradlee 7 00

C. & C. Mackintosh 7 00

Freeman Fisher 7 00

F. B. Ray 6 00

E. P. Tileslon 6 00

S. K. Bailey 5 00

Oliver Deaue 5 00

Wisuer Park 6 00

J. L. Kendall 5 00

C. E. Tucker 5 00

H. K. Bird 4 00

E. C. R. Walker 4 00

Silas A. Stone 4 00

J. II. McKendry :} 00

F. U. White 3 00

G. W. Gunnison 3 00

Charles Cook 2 00

HORSES. — ExTP.A Premiums.

W. E. Coffin $60 00

F. B. Ray 50 00

B. R. Ballou 50 00

Wisner Park 40 00

H.G.Turner 30 00

Harper & Stone 25 00

Jason Houghton 25 00

R. W. Hamblin 20 00

Miss A. Dickson S'O 00

J. C. Bancroft 15 00

W. B. Kendall 15 00

P. S. Allen 10 00

RURAL SPORTS.

J. E. Manning $16 (0

Charles Cashing 15 00

John Powers 8 00

Barney West 6 00

Dennis Mahoney 4 00

Moses Bass 2 00

PLOWING.

Blackman Brothers $16 00

William Fales 10 00

:J9

B. N. Sawiii & A. Biicon ifilO 00

D.F.Decatur ii 00

WORKING OXEN.

O. T. Rogers $10 00

A. T. Browu 7 00

William Fales 4 00

BULLS.

William T. Cook, $10 00

C. & C. MacUintosh 10 00

Henry L. Pierce 5 00

James Galloway 5 00

COWS.

Henry M. Mack $25 00

Henry L. Pierce 12 00

A. K. Teele 10 00

C. & C. Mackintosh 10 00

Hrnry Chatlin 10 00

William T. Cook 6 00

A. T. Brown 5 00

Dennis Hiiley 6 00

Owen Hufilies 4 00

N. T. Davenport 4 00

HEIFERS.

C. & C. Mackintosh $14 00

A. T. Brown G 00

William T. Cook 5 00

F. Parker 4 00

William McDonald 4 00

J. H. Wolcott 2 00

J.imes Galloway 2 00

J. Fisher 2 00

SWINE.

N. Farrin-rton. Jr $22 00

Edward Cotter 14 00

J. II. Farringlon 10 00

John Sia.s 10 00

C. L. Copeland 8 00

J. II. Davenport 8 00

D.F.Decatur GOO

A. T. Brown G 00

Lawrence McCarty 2 00

National Sailor's Home 2 00

POULTRY.

M. I.Ellis $77 00

A. F. Stevens 1(! 00

L. E. Gray 12 00

E. C. Aldrich $12 00

C. & F. Spriusi 11 00

Francis Coduuin "J OO

A. 11. Drake 9 00

J. E. Slierman 7, 00

J. F. Mooar G 00

A. Starkweather 5 00

J. F. Co well 5 00

C. L. Copeland 4 00

George Miles 3 00

H. B. Slade 3 00

William E. Sumner 3 00

James J. Sluart 3 00

John J. Smith 2 00

Horace H. Plummer 1 00

J. W. Mitchell 1 00

Miss Nettie Eyling 1 00

F. Slade 1 00

C. & C. Mackintosh 100

J. Cartwright 50

VEGETABLES.

James Mackintosh $20 00

J. B. Tilley 15 00

C. & C. Mackintosh 11 00

L. J. McCarty 10 00

John Vdse 7 00

Gilbert Sumner 6 00

John Sias 5 00

Eben Paul 4 00

Thomas B. Griggs 4 00

A. F. Stevens 3 00

G. M. Mellen 3 00

J. II. Farrington 3 00

Mrs. Dr. Tulbot 3 00

N. T. Davenport 2 00

Churlcs Spring 2 00

Robert R. Mitchell 2 00

S. S. Somes 2 00

I). F. Decatur 2 00

Patrick Nolen 1 00

William McDonald 1 00

George Craft 1 00

J. H. Wolcott 1 00

PEARS.

Jdlin D. Bradlee $10 00

J. B. Tilley 10 00

W. J. Gri::gs 8 00

B. F. Radford 8 00

Theodore Lyman ; "00

H. P. Kidder (I 00

B. C. Vose 5 00

J. VV. Vose 4 00

J. H. Wolcott 4 00

,1. P. S. Chiirchill -A 00

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J. W. Page $3 00

Joseph Colburn 3 00

A. S. Bicnvn 2 00

Geo. S. Curtis 2 00

H.'W. Vose 2 00

Timothy Smith 2 00

Wallver & Co 2 00

R. D. Newtou 1 OO

N. T. Davenport 1 00

Lorenzo Smith 100

Capt. Raynes 1 00

G. D. Hicks 1 00

APPLES.

J. W. Talbot $14 00

Joseph Crane 8 00

C. & C. Maciiintoslr. 5 00

E. Sumner 5 00

E. Polley 4 oo

J. B. Tiliey 4 00

A. D. Capon 4 00

Henry Bird 3 00

Ebeu Pawl 3 oO

D. H. Elliins 3 09

S. Bagioy 2 00

Mrs. Dr. Talbot 2 00

D. F. Decatur 2 00

J. Breck 100

J. F. Cowell 1 00

Mrs. F. Fish 1 oO

H. P. Kidder. •• 1 00

GRAPES AND OTHER FRUITS.

W. J. Stuart $6 00

C. F. Gerry 4 00

Edwin Reed 3 00

J. B. Tiiley 3 00

Joseph Colburn 3 00

C & C. Mackintosh 3 00

B. F. Ra<lf.a-d 2 00

J. W. Page 2 00

B. C. Vose 2 00

J. F. Cowell 2 00

Robert R. Mitchell 2 00

Henry P. Ki<lder 2 00

E. U. Scwall 2 00

Nathan Lonulellow 2 00

Lorenzo Smith 100

N. B. White 1 00

Henry Goukliiig 1 00

H. W. Vo8C 100

Eben Paul 1 00

Johu Vose . . 1 00

FLOWERS.

E. Roberts $11 00

B. C. Vose 9 00

Miss H. G. Davenport 8 00

H. P. Kidder 5 00

N. T. Davenport 4 00

Mrs. John Vose $4 00

A. McLaren 3 00

Townsend & Co 3 00

Lyman Davenport 3 00

Alice B. Sewall 3 00

Mrs. Josepii Crane 2 00

J. 0. Davenport. 2 00

John Vose 1 50

G. W. Halliday 1 00

Mary B. Leseur 1 00

G. A. Law 1 00

Carrie Vose 1 00

Mrs. Mackintosh 1 00

Mrs. Joseph Britton 1 00

C. C. Cutler 1 00

Louisa Lewin 50

Ida Thomas 50

Mrs. C. H. Shute 50

Mrs. Bolton 50

DAIRY.

J. R. Fisher §5 00

J. H. Wolcott 5 00

Nathaniel Gay 3 00

BREAD.

Miss Sadie E. Everett $fi 25

Miss Alice O. Sewall 5 00

Mrs. B. N. Sawin 3 00

Mrs. E. W. Hougliton 3 00

Miss Ellen Dray 2 00

JELLIES, PRESERVES, Etc.

Mrs. Edward Sumner, $5 00

Mrs. John Vose 3 00

Mrs. Charles H. Mansfield 2 00

SEEDS.
Eugene Batchelder .$1 00

STRAW MANUFACTURES.

W. T. Cook & Co $13 00

LEATHER WORK.

Robert N. Bennison $2 00

Geo. Fowkes 2 00

CARRIAGES, WAGONS, Ere.

J. W. Robie & Co iSS 00

Harper & Stone 3 00

BIRDS AND INSECTS.

W. M. Hinckley $3 00

LADIES' WORK.
(See pages 3G-37) 849 50

$1,G40 75

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Tl\EASUF\EF\'s fiEPOI\T.

C. C. Churchill, in account icith Norfolk AyricnUural Society.

Du.

To balance Nov. 30, 1873 §17 31

ciish of new members i;iO 00

" '• Comiuouwealth COO 00

•' proceeds of Fair, l,s7-t 3,024 GO .

" from all other sources 3,!) 17 39

$7,689 30

Contra. Cit.

By cash paid incidental expenses $2,545 46

" " [jremiums 1,590 50

" '< Secretary's salary 100 00

" " Treasurer's " 100 00

•' " Interest on debt 2,200 00

Balance in Treasury 1,153 34

$7,689 30

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.
Dkdiiam, D.'C. 31, 1874.

42

I^ROCEEDITSraS

on the occasion of the
Twenty-Sixth Anniversary

OF THE

:norfolk ageicultural society,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, September 24th and 25th, 1874.

The 2Ctli Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural Society
was held at Readville, on Thursday and Friday, September 2-lth
and 25th, 1874. Tlie weather was very favorable, the attendance
large and the show of products in the several departments un-
usually fine. The following is a brief recapitulation of the leading
features : —

Of Horses, the leading contributor was Col. Henrj^ S. Russell,
President of the Society, who sent a large number of represen-
tatives of his famous Fearnaught stock. A show of fine animals
was also made bj^ William T. Cook of Foxboro'. The display of
good horses was one of the largest ever made by the Society.

Among the many contributors of stock were fine herds of Jersey
stock from the Lawrence farm in Dorchester, and from Messrs.
William T. Cook of Foxboro,' and Henry L Pierce of Dorchester.
Contributions of choice stock were also made by Henry Chaflin
and A. T. Brown, Brookline, J. H. Wolcott and W. R, Robeson,
Milton, C & C. Mackintosh, Needhara, and others.

The principal exhibition of Swine, of which there were a large
number on tlie grounds, were the Messrs. Farrington of Milton

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and Canton, (■. L. Copeland and Jofin Sias of Milton; D. F.
Decatur, West Dedham, and A. T. Brown and L. McCasty, Brook-
line.

Of Poultry, M. I. Ellis of Norwood, was the laro;est contri-
butor, having nearly 50 coops of superior fowls. Other leading
contributors were A. H. Drake, Stoughton, L. E. Gay of tox-
boro', E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park, and A. F. Stevens and the
Messrs. Spring of Needhani.

The display of Fruit was very fine, embracing contributions of Pears
from Col. Marshall P. Wilder ; John D. Bradlee and H. P. Kidder,
Milton, C. F. & George S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, Theodore Lyman,
W. J. Griggs and J. B. Tilley of Brookline, and others ; of
Apples, from J. W. Talbot, Norwood, C. & C. Mackintosh, Need-
ham, K. Polley, AValpole, Edwcird Sumner and Joseph Crane, West
Dedham, J. B. Tilley, Brookline, A. D. Capen, Dorchester, and
others. Of Grapes, fine displays were made by William J. Stuart,
C. F. Gerry, PMwin Reed and B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, and others.
Joseph Colburn of West Dedham, exhibited a fine collection of
Peaches, as also did E. U. Sewall of Medfield, and Henry Gould-
iug of Dover.

The display of Plants and Flowers was very fine and attracted
much attention. The leading contributors were E. Roberts, B. C.
.Vose, G. W. Hallidny and Townsend & Co., Hyde Park; H. P.
Kidder, N. T. Davenport, Lyman Daveport, Miss H. G. Daven-
port, John Vose, Milton ; Miss Sewall, Medfield, A. McLaren,
Forest Hills, and others.

Of Vegetables, James Mackintosh of Needham, was the leading
contributor, and a fine display was also made by C & C. Mackin-
tosh, of the same town. Large contributions were also made by
J. B. Tilley, Thomas B. Griggs and L. J. McCarthy, Brookline,
John Vose, John Sias, Gilbert Sumner, Milton, Mrs. Dr. Talbot,
Norwood, and others.

The disi)lay of Ladies' Work was very large, many of the con-
tributions evincing decided taste and skill. To this department
Messrs. William T. Cook & Co., Foxboro', contributed several
cases of elegant Str^w and Velvet Hats, fine specimens of Straw
Braid and specimens of their celebrated Carpet Lining.

The show of Bread was larger than for several years, whilst that
of Butter was less, though of excellent quality.

To the department of Manufactures contributions were made by
Ivors & Son, Dedham, of Pianos ; J. W. Roby & Co., Norwood,
and Harper and Stone, Sharon, of Carriages ; Timothy Smith,
Dedham of Spring Beds ; Josiah Tisdale, Norwood, of Tisdale
Treadle on Sewing Machines ; Joseph J. Hatlinger, Hyde Park, of
Car[)et Sweeper, and others.

On riiursilay forenoon the Ploughing and Drawing Matches
to(jk plac(!, and the afternoon was devoted to the examination of
contributions by the several committees, and to trotting on the
course.

On Friday, the first performance was the cavalcade of all horses on
exhibition on the tracik. At 12 o'clock m., a procession was formed
nnder the direct] op of Captain A. A. Hall of Roxbury, Chief Marshal,
which, preceded by the Jamaica Plain Band, marched to the tent,
where, after prayer by Rev. Hillary B3'graves of Milton, Chaplain
of the Da\% the President of the Society, Col. Henry S. Rnssell of
Milton, invited the company to partake of an excellent and sub-
stantial dinner prepared b}^ L. E. Reed of Boston, at the close of
which the orator of the occasion, John Qnincy Adams of Quincy,
was introduced to the audience, and proceeded to deliver the ad-
dress, which will be found in full at the commencement of this
volume. Brief addresses were also made by Col. Wilder, the
Honorary President of the Society, Hon. John A. Hawes of P'air-
haven, delegate from the State Board of Agriculture, and others,
after which the proceedings in the tent were brought to a close,
and the company adjourned to the track.

The races on the track began at 2 o'clock under the direction of
Messrs. J. Freeman Ellis, Stoughton, William T. Thacher, Hyde
Park, and Erastus Nash, Weymouth, and occupied the time until
5 o'clock, when the Exhibition closed.

During the afternoon the Hyde Park Fire Department, having as
guests Tiger Engine Company, No. 4 of Hallowell, Maine, and a
portion of the Fire Departments of Dedham and Jamaica Plain,
visited the grounds and were the recipients of marked attention.
The display made by the several companies with their three bands,
added nmch to the attractions of the occasion.

The only drawback upon the pleasure of the day was the in-
ability of the famous stallion Smuggler to trot on the track by
reason of lameness ; but the anxiety of the public to see the ani-
mal was so great that the owner. Col. Russell, allowed him to be
led around the track, where he received an enthusiastic ovation.

Viewed as a whole the Exhibition was the best ever held by the
Society, and gave great satisfaction to all in al^tendance. Good
order prevailed during the entire two daj^s, the police arrange-
ments being admirably carried out b}' Deputy State Constable
Bailey of Dedham, assisted by other members of the force.
Captain A. A. Hall of the Roxbury Horse Guards, proved a
most efficient Chief Marshal, and his efforts were admirably
seconded by Messrs. William B. Fenner, A. L. Carleton, W". W.
McCue and J. Frank Sargent, all connected with the same corps.

4:5

Officers of the Society, 1874,

President!
HENRY S. RUSSELL of Milton.

Honorary President ■■
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER of Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents!

Hon. OTIS GARY '. of Foa-.borough.

ALONZO W. CHEEVER of Mrentham.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS of Quinaj.

ALFRED W. W H ITCOMB of liando/ph.

THEODORE LYMAN of Brookline.

WILLIAM R. MANN of Sharon.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary!
HENRY O. HILDRETH of Dcdhum.

Treasurer !
CHAUNCEY C. CHURCHILL of Dedham.

Executive Committee 1

E. C. R. WALKER of West lloxhury.

ALBERT B. BALCH of Mcdfield.

CHARLES F. CURTIS of West lioxbxmj,

AUGUSTUS P. C ALDER of West Itoxbury.

WILLIAM T. COOK of Foxhorough.

ELLIS TUCKER of Canton.

HENRY M. MACK of Dorchester.

DAVID W. TUCKER of Milton.

GEORGE CRAFT of Brookline.

Finance Committee and Auditors!

IRA CLEVELAND of Dedham.

WILLIAM J. STUART of ll>/de J'u,/c.

ELIPH ALET STONE of Dtdham.

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Board of Trustees,

ALVA MOERISON.
JOHN B. ARNOLD.

WILLIAM J. HYDE.
GEORGE GRIGGS.

BELLIXGHAM.

GEORGE H. CROOKS.
BBAINTKEE.

DAVID H. BATES.
GEORGE WALES.
BROOKLINE.

CHARLES STEARNS.
WILLIAM J. GRIGGS.

CANTON.

JAMES T. SUMNER.
NATHANIEL S. WHITE.

SOLOMON J. BEAL.

LUTHER EATON.
ALLEN COLBURN.

LEMUEL CLAPP.
SAMUEL J. CAPEN.
AARON D. CAPEN.

HENRY GOULDING.
EPHRAIM WILSON.

JAMES CAPEN.
FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS.

ERASTUS L. METCALF.
JOHN W. RICHARDSON.

ADAM McINTOSH.
EDMUND TUCKER.

COHASSET.

ABRAHAM H.
DEDHAM.

TOWER.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

DORCHESTER.

JOSEPH E. HALL.
GEORGE DORR,
DANIEL SPEAR.

POVER.

BENJAMIN N. SAWIN.
AMOS W. SHUMWAY.

FOXBOROUGH.

ERASTUS P. CARPENTER.
CHARLES F. HOWARD.

FRANKLIN.

HIRAM W. JONES.
FRANCIS B. RAY.

ALPHEUS P. BLAKE.
WILLIAM J. STUART

HOLBROOK.

CALEB S. HOLBROOK.

HYDE PARK,

WILLIAM T
HENRY

MEDFIELD.

THACHER.
A. DARLIN(i.

CHARLES C. SEVVALL.
ELIJAH THAYER.

WILLARD P. CLARK.
RICHARD RICHARDSON.

ALBERT K. TEELE.
LYMAN DAVENPORT.

WILLIAM Q. FISH.
ALONZO B. PARKER.

MEDWAY.

WILLIAM DANIELS.
MILTON M. FISHER.

MILTON.

OLIVER W. PEAFODY.
CHARLES L. COPELAND.

47

NEEDHAM.

ABEL. F. STEVENS.
CHARLES H, MANSFIELD.

WALTER II. FISHER.
ERASTUS DUPEE.

HENRY BLACKMAN.
JAMES MACKINTOSH.

NOKFOLK.

LUCAS POND.

GEORGE E. HOLBROOK.

NORWOOD.

JAMES R. FISHER
ISAAC ELLIS.

JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON.
LEMUEL BILLINGS.

J. WHITE BELCHER.
WILLIAM PORTER.

ROLAND WORTHINGTON.
J. AUSTIN ROGERS.
ISAAC HAYDEN.

JOSIAH W.
SIDNEY E.

TALBOT.
MORSE.

QUINCY.

CHARLES A. HOWLAND.
EDWARD TURNER.

RANDOLPH.

EPHRIAM MANN.
SETH MANN, 2d.

ROXBURY.

JOSEPH H. CHAD WICK.
GEORGE CURTIS,
SAMUEL LITTLE.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE.
LEWIS W. MORSE.

LUCIUS CLAPP.
HENRY BIHD.

WILLARD LEWIS.
HENRY M. PLIMPTON.

SHARDS.

GEORGE
THOMAS

STOUGHTOX.

ROBERT

R. MANN.
DECATUR.

PORTER, Ju.
H. DRAKE.

ALFRED S.
JOSEPH W.

BROWN.
PAGE.

JOHN W. LOUD.
JAMES HUMPHREY.

JOFIN F. COWELL.
EBENEZER B. PARKER.

ALBERT

WAPOLE.

JOHN N.
EDMUND

WEST ROXBURY.

HAMILTON
GEORGE S.

WEYMOUTH.

EltASTUS NASH.
JAMES L. BATES.
WREN rn A.M.

CIIAUNCEY G. FULLER.
ROBERT P. GRANT.

SMITH.
POL LEY

J. FARRAR.
CURTIS.

48

fTA

MES OF

JA

EMBER^S.

BELLINGHAM.

Chilson, Paul,* 18fiO.
Crooks, George H.
Pickering, Asa,* '69. [3.]

BRAINTREE.

Arnold, Johu B.
Arnold, Joseph A.
Bates, David H.
Blake, Joseph H. D.,* '68.
Bowditch, Ebenezer C.
Bradford, E. S.,*186U.
Chace, George
How, Charles H.
Dyer, Isaac
Dver, Joseph
Fogg, Charles M.,* 1854.
French, George G.
French, Charles,* 1861.
French, Jonathan
Hollingsworth, E. A.
Hollis, Caleb
Hollis, David N.
Hollis, Johu A.
Hollis, Josiah
Howard, J. G.
Ludden, Miss Carrie F.
Eudden, Joseph T.,* '62.
Locke, W. F.
Mansfield, John
Manstield, Warren
INlorrisou, Alva
Niles, Daniel H.
Penniman, Ezra,* 181J6.
Perkins, Oliver
Potter, Edward
Rand, William T.
Randall, ApoUos,* 1863.
Stetson, Amos W.
Stetson, Caleb
Stoddard, A. A.
Thayer, Ebenezer C
Thayer, Hezekiah,* 1854.
Thayer, Sylvanus,* 1S7'2.
Vinton, Thomas H.
Wainwright, Peter
Wainwright, Williaui L.
Wales, George
Wild, Hirain
Willis, Geo. W.,* 'o-2. [44.]

BROOKE I NE.

Amory, .Tames S.
Amory, William
Appleton, William, Jr.
Baboock, George*
Bartlett, James,* 1871.
Benton, Austin W.
Beegan, Jos. H.
Bird, Jesse,* 18."ifi.
Blake, George liaty
Blaney, Henry

Bramhall, William,* 1870.
Brown, Atherton T.
Brown, Josei)h T.
Chaflin, Henry
Churchill, Wm.,* 1857.
Codman, Francis
Codman, James M.
Corey, Elijah,* 1859.
Corey, Timothy
Craft, Miss Emeline H.
Craft, Caleb
Craft, Charles,* 1864.
Craft, George
Craft, Samuel,* 185C.
Dane, John,* 1854.
Dane, John H.
Denny, Francis P.,* 1871.
Ferris, Mortimer C.
Fisher, Francis,* 1871.
Frazer, Amherst A.
Griggs, George
Griggs, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas B.
Gilggs, William J.
Henshaw, Samuel,* 1833.
Hill, M. F.
Howe, Friink E.
Howe, James Murray
Howe, John,* 1867.
Humphrey, VVillard J.
Hnniphrey, W. A.
Hyde, WillianiJ.
Jameson, William H.
Kellogg, Charles D.
liawrence, Amos A.
Lyman, Theodore
McCarthy, Lawrence .1.
Parker, Edward G.* '68.
Parker, M. D.* 1863.
Parsons, Thomas
Reed, Eben
Reed, Mrs. Eben
Reed, Miss Ella
Salisbury, VVjHiam G.
Sampson, George R.
Shaw, G. Howland,* '67.
Stearns, Charles
Stearns, Marshall,* 1870.
Thayer, John E.,* 1857.
Tdley, Jas. B.
Trowbridge, John H.
Turner, .John N.,* 1864.
Welch, Matthew,* 1868.
White, Henry K.
Williams, MosesB.*'66. [65]

CANTON.

Abbott, Ezra,* 1873.
Ames, Frank M.
Billings, Uriah
Billings, William
Brav, Edgar W.
Brewster, Ezra S.
Cabot, Samuel

Capen, Ezekiel,* 1872.
Capen, Samuel,* 18C3.
Chapman , Oliver S.
Crane. Albert,* 1873.
Cushman, Charles F.
Davenport, Alfred
Davenport, Charles
Davenport, John, Jr.
Davenport, J. H.
Deane, 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.,
P^ager, Edward R.
Eldiidge John S.
Eldridge, John S., Jr.
Endicott, John,* 1855.
Endicott, Charles
Everett, J. Mason
Everett, Leonaid,* 1852.
Farrington, Nathaniel, J.
Fenno, Jesse
French, Charles H.
French, Thomas,* 1863.
Fuller, Daniel
Guild, Horace
Hall, John
Howard Lucius
Hunt, George L.
Huntoon, Benj.,* 1864.
Hnutoon, Mrs. Benjamin
Huntoon, D. T. V.
Kinsley, Lyman
KoUock, .Jeremiah
Lincoln, Frederick W.,* '71
Lord, William P.
Manstield, William
Mcintosh, Adam
Mcintosh, Roger S.
McKendry, William
Messinger, Vernon A.
Messenger, VirgilJ.
Morse, William
Noyes, Samuel B.
Proiity, Lorezo,* 1872.
Revere, .Joseph
Shepard, James S.
Spare, Elijah
Spaulding, Corodon
Stetson, .loseph
Sumner, James T.
Sumner, George P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah E.
Tilt, Benjamin B.
Tucker, Edmund
Tucker, Ellis
Tucker, Jedeiliah
TuL'ker. Nathaniel, Jr
Tucker, Phineas

i9

Tucker, William,* 1SC8.
Waril, Samuel G.
Weiilwortli, Kdwin
Wentworth, Nathaniel
White, Klishii*, 18C5.
White, Nathaniel S.
Wood, Kulus C. [79.]

COHASSET.

Beal, Solomon J.
Beal, Mrs. S. J.
Doane, James C.
Johnson, William B.,* '72.
Sohier, William D.,* 18C8,
Souther, Labaii,* ISCO.
Tower, Abraham H. [7.]

DEDHAM.

Adams, Benjamin H.
Alden, Al)uer
Alden, Francis
Alden, Ueoige,* 18f.3.
Alden, Leonard.* 1874.
Alden, Samuel F.
Ames, William
Ames, William, 2d
Babcock, Samuel B.,* '73.
Bacon, .>>ilas I>.
Bailey, Benjamin II.
Baker, David A.
Baker, Obed,* 18G8.
Baker, Thnothy
Baker, William
Balch,Benj. W.,* 1S58.
Barrows, Edward
Barrows, Thomas
Bates, Martin,* 1SG9.
Bean, Albion,* 1(^0.
Bestwick. Frederick L.
BIckiier, Samuel R.
Bosworth, Isaac C.,* I8GG.
Boyden, Addison
Boyden. Benjamin
Brooks, Eilward C.
Bryant. Austin,* 18.11.
Bullard, Elijah
BuUard, John,* l&W.
Bullard, Lewis
Bullard, William
Burjress, Ebene/.er,* 1870.
Burgess, Ebenezer (j.
Burgess, Edward P.
Capen, Charles J.
Capen, Oliver,* 1865.
Carroll, Sanl'ord
Cawlej', John
Chase, James M.,* 1860.
Chickerlng, Horatio
Chickering. Munroe
Churchill, Chauncey C.
Clapi>, Edward
Clapp, Nathaniel
Clarke. Jo.seph \V.
Clark, Moratlo,»I.s71.
Clark, Mi's. Horatio
Cleveland, Ira
Cobb, .Jonathan H.
Coburu, Charles
Ccburn, Mrs. Charles
Colburn, Allen
Colburn, Isaacus
Colbui 1), .Joseph
Colburn, Nathaniel,* ia")3.
Colburn, Waldo
Coiieland, Franklin

Cormerals, Henry
Coolidge, George
Cox, John, Jr.
Crane, E. B.
Crane, Ebenezer P.
Crane, Joseph
Crane, Mrs. Susan
Crocker, Amos II.,* 1864.
Crosstnan, Charles B.
Curtis, George F.
Cushing, Henry W.
Danirell, Wm. S.,* 1860.
Daniell.EUery C.
Davenport, George,* 1872.
Decatur, D. F.
Dean, James
Deane, John,* 1864.
Dixon, Rulus E.
Doggett, John,* 18.57,
Donahoe, Patrick
Dray, Ellen
Dravton,. John,* 1856.
Dun', John

Dunbar, Thomas, Jr.
Eaton, John
Eaton. John Ellis,* 1854.
Eatou, Luther
Eaton, Luther A.
Edson, Mrs. E. G.,* 1859.
Ellis, Calvin F.
Ellis, Colburn,* 1854.
Ellis, George,* 1856.
Ellis, Jason
Ellis, Merrdl D.
Ellis. Oliver
Ely.F. D.

Eiidlcott, Augustus B.
Everett, Mrs. Uepzibah
Fairbanks, Wm.,* 1863.
Fales, William
Farrington, Charles,* 1859.
Farrington, George O.
Farrington, James,* 1864.
Farrington, Mrs. .James
Farrington, Jesse,* 1857.
Farrn)gton, Jesse
Field, William
Fisher, Albert
Fisher, Alvan,*1863.
Fisher, Alvan J.,* It63.
Fisher, Amory
Fisher, Eben'r S.,*18!i7.
Fisher, Mrs. Elizabeth D.
Fisher, Freeman, 1860.
Fisher, Freeman *
Fisher, .Joseph
Fisher, Jo>liua
Fisher, Thonias
Flemmg, Douglas,* 18.58.
Follausbee, Isaac W.
Foord. Enos,* 1861.
Foordi 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,* 18.55.
Gay, Mrs. A. M..* 1866.
Gay. Wm.Kiug,* 1860.
Gleason, Daniel
Gould, (icorge
Green, Elisha,* 1865.

Green,. John
Greon, Mrs. .John
(iuild, Calvin
(Juild, Francis
liuild, Henry
(Junnison, George D.
Ilarnden, Harvey,* 1863.
Hartney, Thomas
Ilenck, John B.
Hewes, Hannah E.
Hewins, Mrs. Hattie W.
Hildreth, Ilenrv O.
ilinkley, Mrs. M.J.
Holmes, Edward B.,*1S64.
Houghton, William A.
Howe, Elijah, Jr.
Howe, Francis,* 18.59.
Howe,Josiah D.,* 1867.
Jackson, Marcus B.
Johnson, Edwin,* 1856.
Keelan, Michael
Keves, Ebenezer W.
Keyes, Edward L.,* 1859.
Kingsbury, Lewis H.
Kingsbury, Moses
Kingsbury, Mrs. Sally
Kingsbury, Warren
Lamson, Alvau,* 1864.
Luce, 1). W.
Lynch, Mrs. A.,* 1869.
Lynch, Daniel A.
Lynch, Wm. F.,* 1869.
McLane, James
Mann, Henry A.
Mann, Herman,* 18.51.
Mann, Samuel C* 1864.
Maun, W. H.,* 18fi4.
Marden, Charles
Marsh, Francis
Marsh, Martin,* 186.5.
Marsh, Mrs. Martin,* 1869.
3Iason, William
Mason, Wm. H.,* 1861.
iMercer, Miss Mary
Mitchell, Francis N.*
Morgan, John
Morrell, Henrietta W.
Morrill, William H.
Motley, Thomas,* 1861.
Murray, Daniel
Neal, A. B.
Noyes, Nathaniel
Norris, Andrew J.
Onion, Henry
Onion. Joseph W.
Otis, Benjamin H.
Page, Frederick A.
Patterson, Albert C.
Paul, Ebenezer
Paul, Mrs. Ebenezer
Pettee, James,* 18()8.
Phelps, Timothy
Phillips, Nathan
Phillips, Mrs. P. M.
Quincy, Edmund
Kand, Edward S., Jr.
Koblcv, Robert C.
Rice, John P.
Rice, William R.
Richards, Abiathar
Hichards, Edward M.,*'65
Richards, llcnrv White
Richards, J. F.,* 18.52.
Ric'Uarils, Lewis A.
Richards. Mason,* 18i;6.
Richards, Iteuben,* 185.5.
Richards, William 15.

50

Roflman, Alfred,* 18r>3.
Rodman, AUred
Rodmau, Mra. Alfred
Rooney, Francis
Russell, Cliarles
Russell, Ira
Sampson, E. W.,* 1867.
Scan Ian, David
Schwartz, Mrs. Jobanna
Scott, .Ioel,*1858.
Sliattuck, MHUard
Shaw, Charles B.,* 1809.
Sheriff, John L.
Sherman, Charles B.,*
Sherwin, Thomas,* 18G9.
Slafter, Carlos
Small, Miss Jaue S.
Smith, Pklwin
Smith, Henry
Smith Nathaniel,*
Smith, Nathaniel
Smith, Thomas
Smith, Timothy
Smith, Zebina,* 1865.
Spear, Henry F.
Stimson, Jeremy,* 1869.
Stone, Eliphalet
Sully, John
Sumner, Edward
Sumner, Mrs. Edward
Sumner, Mirick P.
Sumner, Mrs. Sarah R.
Sumner, William R.,* 1860.
Sutton, Enoch,* 1853.
Taft, Ezra \V.
Thayer, John H. B.,* 1873.
Thomas, John W.
Tower, William B.
Trel'ry, James
Tubbs, Benj.H.,*1854.
Van Brunt, G. J.,* 18t>3.
Vose, George H.
WaUefleld, 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 It.
W^ellcome, Jacol) II.
White, John,* 1S:">2.
White, Walter
Whiting, George E.
Whiting, Hezekiah
Whiting, Horace
Whiting, Margaret M.
Whiting, Moses
Whiting, William
Whitney, S. S.,* 1855.
AVight, Danforth P.,* 1874.
Wight, Ebenezer,* 1871.
Williams, G. W.,* ISOl.
Wilson, John F.,* ISiui.
Wilson, Reuben S.,* 1874
Withinglon, Wari-en
Wood, Mrs. Amos
Worthington,E. [284]

DO HC II ESTER.

Abbott, William E.
Adams, Benjamin W.

Atherton, Samuel
Austin, William K.
Bachi, Ignatius C, *1859.
Bacon, Charles II.
Baker, Edmund J.
Baker, Walter,* 1852.
Baldwin. Enoch,* 1860.
Barnes, Parker
Barry, Michael O.,* 1859.
Bass, Seth B.
Beal, Alexander
Billings, Lemuel
Bispham, Eleazer .T.
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, Williams B.
Brown, Augustus
Brown, George M.
Burt, George L.
Capen, Aaron D.
Capen, Samuel J.
Capen, Thomas W.
Campbell, Thomas
Carleton,Mary A.
Carleton, iMartha G.
Carruth, Charles
Carruth, Nathan
Carter, Josiah H.
Carter, Elizabeth E.
Carter, Lizzie S.
Childs, Nathaniel R.
Churchill, Asaph
Clai)p, Amasa, * 1874.
Clapp, Edward B.
Clapp, Frederick
Clapp, Lemuel
Clapp, James II.
Clapp, John P.
Clapp, Richard,* 1862.
Clapp, Thaddeus,* 18til.
Clapp, William,* 1860
Clapp, William C.
Cleveland, S. H.,* 1850.
Cobb, Moses G.
Codman, John
Codman, Robert
Coffin, William E.
Conant, R. B.
Copenhagen, A. W.,* 1866.
Curtis, Ebenezer
Gushing, Abel,* 18(;6.
Gushing, Benjamin
Davis, Barnabas
Dearborn, Axel
Denny, Daniel, *1872.
Denny, Daniel, Jr.
Doody, Dennis
Dorr, James
Downer, Samuel
Flynn, Thomas
Foster, William H.
Fowler, M. Field
Fiench, Benj. V.,* 1860.
French, Mrs. B. V.
Gardner, Henry .1.
Gilbert, Samuel, .Jr.
Gleason, Moses,* 1856.
Gleason, Roswel
Glea.son, Sarall, *]854.

Groom, Thomas
Hall, Joseph
Hall, Oliver
Hall, Samuel
Hammond, Horatio
Harding, William
Harding, Mrs. William
Hardy, Alpheus
Harris, Benjamin W.
Hartshorn, J^ewis E.
Hathaway, Nicholas
Haven, John A.
Haynes, Edward
Havnes, George A.
Hebard, B. F.,* 1871.
Hebard, C. F.
Hewins, John C.
Hickey, Timothy
Hickey, Wdliam
Ilolbrook, 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.,*18 2.
Liversidge, Thomas
Mack, Henry M.
Mack, Mrs. H. M.
Mack, S. P., *18(J0.
McAuliffe, Daniel
Marshall, VVm.,* 1867.
May, John J.
Means, Janiis U.
Mears, John
Mears, John, .Jr.
Miller, Erasmus D.
Minot, John,* 1861.
Mitchell, Simeon
Moseley, Flavel
Muniford, Thomas J.
Munroe, William
Murphy, Timothy
Na/.ro, John G.,* 1870.
Newhall, Cheevcr
Newhall, John M.,* 1869.
Nichols, Norman
Payson, Thomas
Payson, Mrs. Thomas
Perrin, Augu.stus W.
Peters, Henry H.
Petersilea, Franz
Pierce, Chas. B.,* 1857.
Pierce, Henry
Pierce, Henry L.
Pierce, Jesse,* 1850.
Pierce, Lewis
Pierce, Hobert
Pierce, Wdliam,* 18.5.?.
Pierce, Wm. B.,* 18.i8.
Pierce, William P.
Pope, Alexander

51

Pope, William

Pratt, Liib.xn

Preston, Kilward

I'lestoii, John,* 1856.

Preston, John

Prince, William G.

Kioliardoon, George,* 1874.

Kichsrdson, William H.

Kliloout, Asa

Kobie, John

Uobinson, Mrs. D. A.

Kobiuson, Eli W.

Robinson, Jolm H.

Koblnson, XathanT.

Robinson, Stephen .\.

Rujrgles, E<lwanl II. R.

Scudtler, Horace,* ISJl.

Shaw, Theroa V., 187u.

Smith, Heury

Snell, Stephen D.

Sonthxvorth, A.. C.

Spear, Daniel

Spear, Joshua, Jr.

Spear, Luther,* 1874.

Spooner,.Johu P.

Stephenson, Charles E.

Sumner, Clement

Swan, James,* 1873.
Temple, Haunaniaii,* 1873.
Temple, Thomas V.
Temple, William h\
Thayer, Benjamin W.
Thompson, Joshua P.
Thurlow, Rufus
Tileston, E. P.,* 1873.
Tileston, F. L.
Tileston, Samuel,* 1872.
Tolman, Eben'r,* 1863.
Tolman, William
Train, Enoch,* 1808.
Tremlet, Thomas,* 1858.
Trull, John H.
Trull, Airs. J. H.
Trull, John W.
Tuttle,. Joseph,* 1870.
Upham, James H.
Vinson, Thomas M.
Vose, Robert
Vose, Robert, .Jr.
AVashburn, Allen J.* 1805.
Webster, Charles W.
Welch, John H.
Weich, Mrs. J. II.
Whipple,. John L.
Wilder, Marshal P.
Wilder, Mrs. iM. P.,* 1851.
Wilder, iMis. M. P.
Williams, S. U.,*185l.
Willis, C.J.
WithinRton, William C.
Whitten, Charles V.
Wooilinan, .James
Worthington, VVm.*
Worthintrton,Wm. K.,* '73.
Wright, Edmund
Wright, .Mrs. Edmuml
Wright, Otis,* iSiiS. [223.]

DOVER.

Adams, Adna J.
Ailams, John
Allen,. Tared
Allen, Timothy
Bacon, Aaron
Bacon, Mary S.
Baldwin, Frank

Baker, Jabez
Barden, Calvia
Battelle, John
Battel le, 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
Bigelow, William A.
Bliss, Linus,* 1872.
Bliss, Mrs. Linus
Brookbank, Miss Bell.i
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.
Gaiieit, Wm. W.
Gay, Francis G.
G(Juluing, H. Emeline
Goulding, Henry
Gouldiug, Henry E.
Lyman, Miss Frances L.
Mann, Mrs. Adeline B.
Mann, Daniel,* 185a.
Mann, Daniel F.
Mann, Elbridge L.
Maun, llollis
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
Ricliards, Calvin,* 1873.
Richards, Mrs. Calviu
Richards, Jennie A.
Richards, Lucy M.
Richards, Luther
Rogers, Wilbor J.
Sanger, Ralph,* ISCO.
Sawin, Benjamin N.
Sawiu, Frank VV.
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 U.
Smith, Mary W.
Sullivan, Daniel
Tisdale, William
Upham, Martha F.
Upham, Walter W.
Wall, Patrick
Wilson, Ephraim

Wilson, Mrs. Ephraim
Wilson, E. Heury
Wilson, .Miss N. D. [87.]

FOXBOKOUGH.

Aldrich, II. D.,* 1851.
Barbour, Miss S. M.
Belcher, Lewis W.
Burr, Simeon
Capen, .James
Carpenter, A. T.
Carpenter, Daniels
Cariienter, Erastus P.
Carpenter, James E.
Carpenter, Oliver
Cary, Otis
Cobb, Elias G.
Cook, William T.
Dickernian, Lemuel
Dixon. Sarah O.
Fisher, Albert
Foster, .James W.
Gay, Lewis E.
Guild, Freedom,* 1802.
Hersey, David
Hodges, Alfred
Kerr, Robert W.,* 1867.
Kingsbury, Joseph
Leonard, Mrs. E. S.
Leonard, Samuel B.,* 1866.
Leonanl, James F.
Leonard, Sanlbrd
Pettee, David
Pettee, Joseph G.
Pettee, Simeon E.
Sbepard, J. M.,* 1806.
Sherman, .J. E.
Sherman, .Job
Smith, Silas
Shaw, David
Sumner, Mrs. A. M.
Sumner. Charles C.
Torrey, Martin,* 18 il.
Williams, Francis D.
Wymau, David. [40.]

FRANKLIN.

Adams, Albert,* 1869.
Adams, Peter
Adams, Ward,* 1865.
Alby, R.

Atwood, Mrs. Ruth.,* 1862.
Atwood, Shadrach
Baker, David P.
Bullard, Plain,* 1805.
Chapman, Elisha I',
Daniels, Albert E.
Daniels, Charles F.
Daniels, Mrs. Charles F.
DeWitt, Archibald,* 1859.
Dewilt, Mrs. Mary A.,*'05.
Fisher, Herman C.
Fisher, Ma.xcy,* 1865.
Green, Henry M.
Green, Martin,*
Harding, Lewis,*
Hills, TheronC.,* 1862.
•Jones, Hiram W.
Jones, Alice J.
Jones, I. L.
Jones, Lucy
Knapp, AH'red
Metcair, Alfred G.
Metcalf, Alfred H.
Metcalf, Eruslus L.

r^^A

IMctcalf, Erasmus B.
Melcair, Whiting,* lt<(;9.
Melcalt, William * 1872.
Miller, John W.
Miller, Phillip W.,* 18U0.
Morse, George W.
Morse, Joseph
Mason, George W.,* 18G8.
Pond, Henry E.
Ray, Francis B.
Kay, Mrs. Francis B.
Ray, Joseph G.
Ray, James P.
Richardson, John W.
Richardson, Stephen W.
Kockwood, E., * 1804.
Kockwood, Nathan, * 1874.
Sergeant, A. D.
Thayer, Davis, Jr.
Wadsworth, George M.
AVadsworth, Joseph H.
Wales, Otis, Jr.
Whiting, Joseph
Whiting, Joseph M.
Whiting, Wm. E. [53.]

HOLBROOK.

Holbrook, Caleb S., * 1874.
Holbrook, Elisha N., * '72.
[2.]

HYDE PARK.

Adams, Henry C.
Adams, C. Henry
Adams, Henry S.
Aldrich, E. C.
Allen, Zeiias
Blake, Alpheus P.
Bleakie, Robert
Blazo, W. A.
Bissett, Henry F.
Beatey, John
Bonney, William A.
Bradbury, CO.
Bradbury, W. C.
Brainard, Amos H.
Bragg, William M.
Bryant, H. J.
Bullard, WiUiom
Coleman, E. J.
Clarke, T. Emory
Connor, Barney
Crane, Nathaniel, * 1872.
Darling, Henry A.
Dolan, Tliomas
Davis, Enoch P.
Davis, David L.
Dow, J.E.
Downing, Alfred
Downing, Mrs. Alfred
Downing, .James
Eastou, F. A.
Ellis, Charles, * 1872.
Evans, Thomas C.
Everett, W. S.
Farns'.yorth, 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
llambliu, J. G.

Hamblin,R.W.

Hardy, B. il.
] Haskell, B. B.

Hebard, Nathaniel
i Horton, E. G.
I Howell, Miss L. A.
1 Ireland, John, * 1874.
j Ireland, Mrs. John
1 Kendrick, Henry C.
1 Lawson, J. D.

Leach, B. F.
! Leach, Mrs. L. A.

Lougee, K. W.

McAvoy,J. D.

Macomber, E. H.

Mooar, J. F.

Moseley, R. P.

Moseley, T. W. H.

Norris, R. N.

Nott, Gordon H.

Nott, lioxanna

Nott, L. B.

Nott, Margaret

Nott, Maggie G.

Noyes, George W.

0'Connell,D!Hiiel

Patterson, James

Parrott, George B,

Pratt, James

Perkins, E. G.

Park, Wisuer

Pierce, C. H.

Pierce, George

Plunimer, R. B.

Putnam, Sidney

Radford, B. F.

Raulett, D. D.

Raynes, J. J .

Raynes, Mrs. E. H.

Rich, D. B,

Rich, Henry A.

Roberts, Edward

Russell, A. L.

Spring, Charles

Sprague,R. T.

Sharrock, George

Stark, C. C.

Stevens, J. N.

Stuart, William J.

Stuart, Mrs. W. J., * 1872.

Sherman, George E.

Sanford, O. S.

Sumner, Clarissa, * 1869,

Straw, L. H.

Swan, B.

Swift, Thomas P.

Thacher, William T.

Thacher, Mrs. W. T.

Thaine,T. G.

Thaiue, Mrs. J. W.

Thompson, B. F., * 1874.

Tower, Isaac N.

Turner, C. R.

Turner, R. W.

Twitchell, John M.

Vose. John

Vose, Mrs. John

Vose, B. C.

Vose, Mrs. B.C.

Vose, Sarah N.

Weeman, W.E.

Wright, Richard

Whittier, A. R.

Williams, J. D.

Williams, John M.

Williams, Rinaldo

Williams, Mrs. Kmaldo

Willis, John M.
Whitcher, M. L.
While, Charles A., Jr.
White, E. P. [124]

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.
Batch, Albert B.
Battelle, Kalph 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 R.
Cushmau, Mrs. Jacob R.
Davis, George
Davis, Mrs. George
Ellis, Caleb
Ellis, Francis D.
Ellis, George W.
Ellis, John
Ellis, Samuel
Everett, Edmund T.
Everett, E. T.
Fisher, Hinsdale,* 18Ui)
Fisher, Mrs. Mary L.
Fisher, Mary E.
Fisher, Sarah H.
Fisher, Wm. Quincy
Fiske, George
Fiske, Isaac
Fiske, Mrs. Isaac
Frost, Phineas, Jr.
Hamaut, Miss AJice E
Hamant,Mrs. N. Anna
Hamant, Miss Abby
Haniant, Mrs. Eliza M. C.
Hamant, Caleb S.,* 1873.
Hamant, Charles
Hani;int, Mrs. Charles
Hamaut, Daniels, Jr.,* '73.
Hamaut, Daniel D.
Harding, Alfred
Harding, Nathan
Hartshorn, Joseph,* 18CG.
Hartshorn, Warren
Hewins, William P.
Hewuns, Mrs. William P.
Janes, Walter,* 1807.
Jones, John P.
Morse, Eliakim,* 1872.
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, Uobcrl,* 1872.
Rosa, Johu

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Salisbury, Win.* iai7.
.Sanborn, EilwardM.
Sanborn, \V.
Suwall, Alice O.
Sewall, Charles C.
Sewall, Mrs. C. V.,* 1873.
Sewall, Kilward U.
Sewall, Miss Elizabeth S.
Shuniway, Benjamin i!'.
Smith, George M.
Stedman, Cyrus,* lti65.
Thayer, Elijah
Thayer, Mrs. Elijah
Turner, John A.,* 18G4.
Turner J. Addison
Wetherell, Ilarlus W.
Wheeler, Emory
^Villard, Gibson [8S.]

MEBVVAY.

Adams, Edward
Adams, Elisha
Adams, Lyman
Adams, \Vyman
Barber, George,* 1851,
Barber, Thomas
Boyd, William B.
Bnilard, John, Jr.
Gary, Gilmau
Carev, William H.
Clark, James P.,* 1SG5
Clark, James W.
Clark, Mrs. James W.
Clark, Maria F.
Clark, Willard P.
Crosby, George,* 18G0.
Daniels, James Willard
Daniels, Paul
Daniels, Mrs Paul
Daniels, William
Ellis, .James H.
Fishec, Milton M.
Fuller, Asa M. B.
Harding, '•'heodore
Henderson, William
Hurd, Julius C.
Ide, .Jacob
Kingsbury, Gilbert
Lovell, Aashel P.
Lovell, Zachariah
Lovering, Warreu
Mann, James
Mason, Horatio,* 1868.
Mason, Miss Matilda G.
Metcalf, Luther
Morse, Asa D.
Partridge, Clark
Partridge, George
Richardson, Elisha P.
Kichardson, Jeremiah D.
Richardson, .Joseph L.
Richardson, Moses
Richardson, Richard
Slocnmb, C* 1861.
Stevens, l>aniel G.
Walker, John S.,* 1871.
Walker, Timothy
Wheeler. Abijali 11. [48.]

MILTON.

Adams, Edward II,
Adams, .John
Aibiiiis, Samuel
Ainory, Francis
Arnold , John, Jr.*

; Babcock, Josiali,* 1803.
' Babcock, Josiah
I Babcock, Lemuel W.
• Babcock, Samuel
I Baldwin, Edward
I Bailey, Samuel K.

Beal, Jonathan

Beck, Gideon

Blanchard, J. W..* 1874.
, Bradlee, .John D.
i Bradlee, J. W.
! Bradlee, Miss W. A.
j Breck, Charles

Breck, Charles E. C.
I Bronsdon, Charles
1 Bronsdon, Lewis

Brooks, .John W.
■ Bunton, .Jesse

Burt, .John

Burt, Sumner

Bush, James P.

Chase, Leander A.

Churchill, Jos. McKeau

Chapman, R. L.
I Clapp, G. W.

Clark, Thomas

Cook, Charles W.

Cook, Samuel

Cook, W. T.

Copeland, Charles L.

Copeland, Lewis

Cornell, Walter

Crehore, John A.

Crowd, George

Cunningham, C. Loring

Cunningham, Francis,* '07

Cunningham, John A.

Curtis, Daniel T.

Davenport, Edwin

Davenport, Mrs. Ellen M.

Davenport, F. G.

Davenport, Miss H. G.

Davenport, Lewis

Davenport, Lyman

Davenport, Xalhauiel T.

Davis, William II.

Dow, .John U.

Dudley, Benjamin F.

Elkins.D. II.

Emerson, Joshua

Everett, George

Fiirrington, Henry J,

Faulkner, .James

Fenno, Rul'us P.

Ferry George S.

Ferry, William M.

Forbes, .John M.

Forbes, Robert Bennett

Forbes, R. B. Jr.

Foster, William H.

Foster, William L.

Gannett, George K.

Gannett, Samuel

Garrett, George E.

Greene, George VV,

Hall, George W.

Harvey, William

Iliggins, David

Hinckley, Thomas II.

Hobson, A. R.

llobson. Miss Martha .J.

Ilollingsworth, Z.

Ilollis, Thomas,* 187:5.

Holmes, C. C.

lloliiifs, Mrs.Abraliain.Jr.

Houghton, (ieorge D.

Houghton, K. W.*

Houghton, Mrs. E. W.
Houghton, Jason W.,* '67.
Houghton, Jason
Hunt, Charles E.
Hunt, Charles L.
Hunt, George
Hunt, William M.
Kendall, J. B.
Kent, George W.
Kidder, Henry P.
Kinsman, Adolphus
Lothrop, T. K.
McDonald, William
Merriam, Mrs. Charles H.
Morton, E. W.
Myers, John
Parker, C. H.
Peabody, Oliver W.
Pierce, Dean
Pierce, Edward L.
Pope, Ebenezer,* 1853.
Raymond, George
Richards. Reuben A.
Robbins, .James M.
liodgers, O. T.,* ISTtd.
Rogers, II., Jr. 1855.
Rotch, Benjamin S.
Rowe, Joseph,* 1850.
Ruggles, E. T.
Ruggles, Philemon
Russell, Henry S.
Safford, N. F.
Senter, L. W.
Sias, Eliphalet
Sias, John

Sigouruey, II. II. W.,* '74.
Stone, Cliarles,* 1859.
Stevens, F. H.
Sumner, Gilbert
Sumner, R. W.
Teele, Albert K.
Tcele, Mrs, A.K.
Thayer, Jason
Thayer, James B.
Thompson, George,* 1858.
Todd, Robert M.
Towne, A. .J.
Tucker, Diivid W.
Tucker, Elijah
Tucker, Mrs. Elijah
Tucker, Stillman L.
Tucker, Timothy,* 1804.
Twonibly, Josiah F.
Vose, Francis E.
Vose, George
Vose, Mrs. George
Vose, Grace
Vose, Henry
Vose, Miss I^izzie W.
Vose, Joshua W.
Wainwright, H. C.
Watson, Kobcrt 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

[15a]

NEEDIIAM.

Aldcn.Olis
Avery, Joualhau

54

Ayling, Isaac.
Beless, Thomas
Bemis, Mrs. S. S.
Bowers, Heury
Blackmail, Henry
lilackmau, Augustus
Buck, Charles
Buck, Mrs. F. P. H.* 18a5.
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.;* 1867.
Flagg, Solomon
Flags, Wm.:*1861.
Gardner, Elbridge
Goss, DanielJ.
Gray, James
Harmon, Charles H.
Harmon, Cyrus
Harris, John * 1858.
Harris, John M.
Harvey, Stei)hen F.
Henderson, David F.
Holland, .John
Hollis, ElishaP.
Howe, Albion K.
Howe, Mrs. Eliza M.
Howland, George
Hubbard, G. G., * 1856.
Hunnewell, H. Hollis
Hunting, Israel
Kimball, Benj. G. * '73.
Kimball, Mrs. Betsey G.
Kimball, Daniel, * 1S62.
Kingsbury, J. M.
Kingsbury, Lemuel
Kingsbury, Lauren
Kingsbury, Thos., * 1859.
Kingsbury, William A.
Knaup, A. P.
Lombard, K. T.
Longfellow, George J.
Longlellow, Mary L.
Longfellow, Niithan
Longfellow, Mrs. Nathan
Longfellow, W. E. * '72.
Low, George W.
Lyon, Mrs. Julia A
Lyon, Edward
Lyon, William
Mansfield, Charles II.
^lansfleld, .John
Mansfield, Itobcrt
Mansfield, Mrs. Robert
Mansfield, William
McCrackin, John
MeCrackin. Robert
Mcintosh, Charles
Mcintosh, Curtis
Mcintosh, Mrs. F. E.
Mcintosh, Mrs. H.P.* 1874.
Mcintosh, James
Mcintosh, Mrs. Mary C.
Mills, John
Mills, Matthias
Morton, Otis, Jr.
Morton, W. T. G. * ISnS.
Newell, Artemus, * 1871.
Newell, Mrs. Martha S.
Noyes Josiah * 1871.

Peabody, Ezekiel
Phillips, Freeman
Pierce, William
Pierce, William, Jr.
Pierce, Mrs. Harriet
Revere, George
Richardson, Geo.
Robinson, Henry
Sawyer, John
Sawyer, Otis, * 1855.
ScHuder, 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, * 1873.
Turner, Mrs. John
Upham, Cyrus G.
Upham, Mrs. C. G.
Ware, Dexter,* 1851.
Ware, Rueben
Ware, Althea
Ware, Ruel
Ware, William S.
Washburne, G. W.
Webber, Aaron D.
Welles, John
Whittaker, Edgar K.
White, George
AVilder, C. T.
Williams, Silas G.
Wood, Henry
Wright, Levvis [122.]

NORFOLK.

Daniels, Adam a
Dupee, Erastus
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 [11.]

NORWOOD.

Baker, Joel M.
Boyden, Miss Emma F.
Day, Joseph
Day, Lewis
Ellis, Isaac
Ellis, M.J.
Everett, George
Fisher, James R.
Fogg, David S.
Hartshorn, Caleb W.
Hartshorn, liichard D.
Hoyle, Mark C.
Metcalf, George E.
Morse, Albert
Morse, Curtis G. * 1874
Morse, John * 18(il.
Morse, John L,, *18ii4.

Morse, Otis
Morse, Sidney E.
Smith, Lyman
Talbot, Josiah W.
Thompson, Robert * 1854.
White, N.B.
Winslow, Alfred N.
Winslow, George [25.]

QUINCY.

Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, John Q.
Adams Ebenezer
Bartlett, Ibrahim, * 1853.
Bass, Josiah
Bass, Lewis * 1874.
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, * 1867.
Carr, John J., * 1865,
Curtis, Noah, * 1856.
Eaton, Jacob F., * 1871.
Eaton, William N.
Emmons, Nathaniel H.
Faxon, William L.
Fellows, Ensign S.
Field, J. Q. A.
Frederick, Eleazer,
French, Washington M.
Galloway, James
Glover, H.N. , *l!;6;?.
Green, John A., * 1861.
Greenleal, Daniel
Greenleaf, Thomas,* 1854.
Howland, Charles A. -
Horton, Lloyd G.
Marsh, Charles
Marsh, Mrs. Henrietta
Miller, Charles E.
Morton, William S., * 1871.
Muuroe, Israel W.
Newcomb, James
Newcomb, John B.
Quincy, Josiah, * 1864.
Quincy, Josiah P.
Kichards, L., * 1852.
Robertson, Joseph W.
Rogers, Clitt
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 [56.]

RANDOLPH.

Alden, Eoenezer
Alden, Horatio B.
Belcher, Allen A.
Belcher. J. White
Buck, Nathan,* 1853.
Burrill, David
Cordley, Christopher M.*
Cushiug, Abucr L.

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Jordan, John T.,* 1835.
Leeds, Joseph,* 1858.
Maguire, James
Maguire James F.
Mann, Epliraim,* 18(13.
Mann, Seth, 2d
Kiles, Jacob,* 1871.
Porter. William
Snow, Zenas, 1&57.
Stevens, Richard
Tileston, G. H.
Tower, Isaac,* 1865.
Turner, Royal W.
Turner, Seth
Wales, Apollos
Wales, Ephraim,* 1855.
Wales, .John, 2d
Wales Jonathan, 1863.
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,* 18G0.
Elake, S. Parkman
Bowditch, Azell
Bowdltch, Azell C.
• Bray, Charles F.
I5i-igham, Joseph L.
Brown, Andrew J.
Bryant, Charles H.
Buflbrd, .John H.
Chadwick, Joseph H.
Chandler, John G.
Clarke, .John J.
Codman, Henry.* 1853.
«;opeland,B. F.,* 1j63.
Copeland.Chas.,* 1853.
Cotting, Benjamin E.
Crawshaw, Joseph
Crosby, Benjamin H.
Davis, Gilmaa
Dearborn, H. A. S.,* 1851.
Ellis, Charles,* 1860.
Ellis, Charles M.
Eustis, William
Fisher, Warren
Fiske, George A.
Ford, Seth H.,* J8f53.
Francis , Eben'r,* 1858.
French Jonathan
French, iMrs. J.
Fuller, H. Weld
Fussell, John
Gardner, Francis
Gray, Henry D.
Guild, Frederick
Guild, Henry
Guild, .James
Ham, Joseph
Harris, Horatio
Hayden, Isaac
Hendee, Charles .1.
Hewes, John M.
Hewins, Whiting,* 1855.
Hickling, Charles
Holmes, Richard
Holmes, JMrs. R.
Huckins, James, 1868.
Huckius, .James VV.

Huston, William R.
Keene, James
Kidder, Fiederic
King, William S.
Kingsbury. Wui. B.,* 1873.
Kittredge, Alvah
Lee, William Raymond
Lemist, Edwin,* 1872.
Lewis, Daniel
Lewis, Franklin H.
Lewis, Samuel S.
Longfellow, Fannie E.
Lovewell, Charles B.
Lowell, John A.
Mackintosh, Samuel
Mann, Benjamin
Mathes, Albert R.
McBurney, Charles
Mcintosh, William H.
Merrill, John J.
Monroe, George H.
Oakley, Frank E.,* 1865.
Paine, Joseph P.
Parker, Augustus
Parker, Geo. J.,* 1860.
Parker. Thomas
Perry, Almon
Pickering, Henry W.
Pike, Charles S.
Putnam, Allen
Rich, Naphthalie D.
Rice, George VV.
Ritchie, James,* 1873.
Robinson, J. P., 1863.
Ropes, Joseph S.
Sargent, Epes
Shed, Henry P.
Simmons, D. A., 1859.
Skinner, Elias
Sleeper, John S.
Stevens, Amos
Stone, Ebenezer W.
Sturgis, James
Tappan, Josiah S.
Tluicher, Thos. Jr.,* '69.
Thwiug, Supply C.
Tolman, James,* 1868.
Trescott, Elijah
Tucker, Daniel
Vinson, Cornelius M.
Walker, Samuel, * 1860.
Ware, Leonard
Way, Samuel A.,* 1872.
Weston, Lycurgus B.*, '72.
Whiting, Wm. (Montrose

avenue,)* 1873.
Williams, A. D.,* 1863.
Williams, Aaron D.
Williams, David tV.
Williams, Mrs. D. VV.
Williams, Dudley
Williams, G. Foster,* 1872.
Williams, (i. B.* 18(12.
Williams, S.,* If'Si.
Williams. Thomas B.
Wilson, Granville VV.
Winslow, Edward
Wiswall, Samuel
Wolcott, John \V.
Worthingtou, Roland [121J

SHARON.

Baker, P. Howard
Baker, Mrs. I'. H.
Blackiuan, K. H.
Billiard, Benjamin

Carpenter, Shepard
Carpenter, Mrs. Shepard
Clark. Edwin R.,* 1868.
Cobb, Warren
Cobb, Mrs. WaiTen
Cobb, Miss Ella M.
Cobb, Lizzie M.
Decatur, Thomas
Drake, Asahel S.
Drake, Mrs. Asahel 8.
Drake, Ellis D.
Gay, George W.
Gay. Mrs. G. VV.
Geissler, J. N.
Geissler, Mrs. J. N.
Hewins, Elijah,* 18.57.
Hewins, Lemuel D.,* 1868.
Howard, George F.
Howard, Mrs. G. F.
Hixon, G. F.
Hixon,Mrs. G. F.
Hixon, Charles O.
Hixon, Mrs. C. O.
Johnson, Lucas
Johnson, Otis
Lothrop, Howard A.
Mann, George R.
Maun, Mrs. George R.
Mann. William R.
Mann, Mrs. William R.
Mann, Miss M. Ella
Mann, Jliss E. Mary
INIann, George H.
Morse, Edward L.
Morse, Miss E. G.
Morse, Harvey
Morse, Leprellette
Morse, Mrs. Leprellette
Morse, Lewis VV.
Morse, Mrs. Lewis W.
Park, George C.
Pettee, D. Webster.
Pettee, Mrs. D. VV.
Randall, Macey, Jr.
Sanger, .John M.
Smith, Lewis
Stone, Silas A.
Talbot, Solomon
Turner, Calvin
Turner, Julia C.
Warren, Charles H.
Weld, H. O.
Wicks, Mrs. A . L.
I Wicks, Miss Mary L.
Wicks, William B.
\Vinship, Charles
Wiiiship, Mrs. Charles
Winship, Miss Elmira S.
[62]

STOUGHTON.

Anderson, E. S.
Atheiton, James
Atherton, VVilljam
Belcher, LuMier J.
Belcher, Orin
B.dcher, Wm. S.,* 18;;2.
Bird, Henry
Capen, .Samuel
Clapp, Lucius
Clapp, IMi's- l^ucius
Clark, Chester
<;urtis, SamufI W.
Drake, Alliert H.
r>i-ak(\ .loii;ilh:iii S.
Drake, Phillip II.

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Ellis, J. Freeman
(-iay, Cyrus H.
Gay, Iliram
<j!ay, John M.
Gay, Lemuel,* 1806.
Gay, Mace
Gay, Nathaniel
Goldthwait, Daniel A.
Hawes, Emery
Hill, James

Hodges, Leonard,* 1870.
Hodges, Samuel W.
Hodges, Mrs. S. W.
Ingham, James
Jones, Henry
Kimball, Henry C.
Littlefleld, Charles
Monk, Elisha C.
Paul, Samuel
Porter, Luther
Porter, Robert
Porter, Itobert, Jr.
Porter, Uriah C.
Porter, Theron M.
Porter, John M.
Southworth, Amasa,* 1872.
Soiithworth, Asahel
Southworth, Mrs. Wm. S.
Sumner, Francis C.,* 1874.
Swan, Elisha,* 1864.
Talbot, George
Talbot, Newton
Thayer, S. Lysander
Tucker, Wales
Wales, Nathaniel
Warren, N. M. [ol]

WALPOLE.

Allen, Jeremiah
Allen, Lewis
Bacon, II. E.
liucon, Samuel W.,* '69.
Bacon, William,* 1862.
Bird, Charles
Bird, Francis W.
Boytlen, Horatio
Cheney, Joseph
Clap, Edmund W.,* 1874.
Clap, George 11.
Clap, Samuel G.,* 1S70.
Clap, Warren
Clarke, ftlrs. Betsey M.
Clarke, Henry S.
Clarke, Mrs. H. S.
Clarke, Truemaa
Conant, George
Cram, .Jerome B.
Ellis, James
Ellis, Joseph,* 1851.
Fuller, James 11., 1874.
Gilbert, Samuel
Gould, John A.,* 1861.
(iray, H. Fannie
Gray, Smith,* 1869.
Gray, Mrs. Smith
Gray, William H.
Grover, Sarah B.
Guild, Charles
Hartshorn, Charles
Hartshorn, George
Hawes, Joseph,* 1849.
Hyde, George B.
Ijcwis, Willard
INlann, .John
Blann, Lnwell
Merrick, John M.,* 1871.

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, Miss G. E.
Smith, John 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, [58.]

WEST ROXBURY.

Allen, Stephen M.
Andrews, Edward R.
Andrews, Mrs. E. K.
Arnold, Joseph
Austin, Arthur W.
Austin, Miss Florence
Austin, William Perciv
Bacon, Daniel C.,* 1856.
Bacon, Francis E.
Bacon, William B.
Bailey, Lutlier C.
Balcli, George 11.
Balch, Joseph,* 1849.
Balch, Joseph W.
Banfleld, Everett C.
Barber, A. D.
Bartlett, Alden
Bartlett, Mrs. Alden
Beckwith, Henry
Billings, Joseph H.,* 1874.
Billings, Mrs. .Joseph H.
Billnigs, Miss Jennie
Billings, Miss Mary
Blake, John J.
Blake, William
Blackman, George
Bliss, George N.
Bliss, Mrs. Lucius S.
BoUes, Matthew
Bond, George William
Bowditch, .J. Ingersull
Bradiord, S. D.,* 1865.
Bradish, Levi J.
Brewer, Charles
Brewer, Otis
Brown, Alfred S.
Brown, Benjamin
Brown, Daniel A.
Browne, Ilortice E.
Brown, W. T.
Bruce, N. T.
Butters, J. A. C.,* 1858.
Cabot, Stephen
Capen, Mrs. .Josiah A.
Calder, Augustus P.
Cary, Isaac H.
Cass, Aaron
Cass, Francis W.
Cass. Henry W.
Ci'onin, Jeremiah
Crosby, Albert
Crosby, Miss Fannie II.
Crosby, Miss Irene M.
Crosby, Miss Mmuie 11.

Comins, Linus B.
Cowing, Walter H.
Curtis, Joseph II.
Curtis, (Tcorge S.
Curtis, Charles F.
Dabney, Chas. W. Jr.,*'71.
Davis, Francis,* 1865.
Dexter, Anson,* lb74.
Dixwell, John J.
Draper, Abijah W., 1874.
Dudley, Henry
Dudley, Ephraim W.
Eldridge, Oliver
Emmons, Johu A.
Ensliu, William
Evans, William
Farrar, J. Hamilton
Farrington, Ebenezer T.
Gates Mrs. V. L.
Gilbert, Luther
Gooding, George,* 1874.
Gould, Joseph D.
Greenough David S,
Hall, Alfred B.
Hail, David P.
Hall, Joseph
Hall, William D.
Harod, William F.
Head, Charles D.
Head, Francis C.,* 1865.
Henchman, Nathaniel H.
Hewins, Charles A.
Hilborn, S. C.
Howe, Edward W.
Howe, Mrs. Edward W.
Howland, 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
McLaren, Anthony
jMeserve, Andrew T.
Meserve, Isaac H.
Minot, George R.
Morse, Charles
Morse, Robert M.
Motley, Chnrles D.
Motley, Thomas
Motley, Mrs. Thomas
Motley, Thomas L.
North, George G.
Orange, Thomas
Page, .Joseuh W.
Page, Kilby,* 1869.
Palmer, William,* 1860.
Papinc'iu, Antoine
Papineau, Alfred
Parker, S. Winchester
Parkinson, John,* 1865.
Pearce, .John
Popp, Hieronemas
Pratt, John C.
Prescott, Nathan B.
Prescott, Mrs. N. B.
Prichard, Jeremiah
Prichard, Vila
Prichard, (iilman
Richards, Edward

57

Richards, George H.

Richards, Mrs. U. T-

Richmond, Thomas H.

Kobeson, William R.

Rodman, Samuel W.

Russell, Geo. R.,* 186(;.

Sampson, (Jharles,* IS-'iS.

Seaveins, Thomas W.

Shaw, Francis G.

Shaw, J. J.

Shaw, Quincy A.

Slocumb, William H.

Smith, Alvin,* 1870.

Smith, Humi)hrey

Smith, Joseph M.,* 1872.

Smith, Lorenzo

Smith, Melancthon

Spauldingr, Solomon R.* '74

Spooner, William H., Jr.

Stevens, S. W.

Sturgis, Russell

Sturtevant, Benj. F.

Swett, Samuel W.

Taft, Reed

Tavlor, H. B.,* 1861

Ticknor, Wm. D.,*1864
Tilden, George A.
Tolman, Ebenezer W.
Tolmau, Lucius A.,* Ife71.
Townsend, David
Tufts, James,* 1859.
Walker, E. C. R.
Watt, Robert
Watt, Lizzie
Watt, Marion J.
Webster, John L.
Weld, Aaron D.
Weld, Mrs. A. D.* 1872.
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,* '74.
Wheeler, Warren R.
Whitney, Israel G.
Whitney. Mrs. 1. G.
AVhitney. Miss N. B.
Whytal, Thomas G.
Whytal, Mrs. Thomas G.
Williams, B. P.,* 285(5.
Williams, George H..
VVilliams, Henry H.
Williams, Moses
Williams, Moses B.
Williams, N. D.,*1852.
Williams, Joseph W.
Wilson, Edmund B.
Winchester, Parker
Wing, B. F.
Withcrbee, John B.
Woodman , George F.
Woodward.Chauncv, *'72.
"Woodbury, Joseph"P.
Worley, B. W.
Young, Calvin, *1S74.
York, John [203]

WEYMOUTH.

Blanchard, Nathaniel
Kurrill, Ansel
Fitield, Noah,* 18(;7.
Howe, Appleton,* 1870.
Humphrey, Ebeiiezer
Humphrey, L.,* 18.57.
Hunt, A. N.,* 1S64.
Hunt, Elias
Jones, James
Kingsbury, F. A.,* 1860.
Loud Joseph,* 1874.
Loud, John W.,*1874.
Nash, Abner P,
Na.-h, Erastus
Nash, Stephen W.
Porter, Thomas B.
Richaids, Elias,
Shaw, Nathaniel,* 1860.

Tirrell, Albert
Tirrell, James,* lg65.
Tirrell, Wilson
White, James
White, Thomas [23]

WRENTHAM.

Aldrich, Artemas

Barnard Allied,* 1871.

Blakesley, Hubbard

Cheever, Alonzo W.

Cheever, Mrs. Eliza R.

Cht-cver, Otis G.,* 1872.

Clap, Harvey E.,* 18(j:i.

Clay, Nehemiah

Cowell, John F.

Cowell, William W.

Everett, Melatiah,* 1858.

Faxon, Francis G.
Fisher, Calvin, Jr.,* 1869.

Fisher, Hiram B.

Fisher, Silas P.,* 1865.
Ford, Peter
Fuller, Chauncy G.

Grant, George

Gassett, Henry, Jr.
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.
Proctor, Thomas
Sayles, Caleb W.,* 1863.
Starkey, Gardner H.
Stone, Curtis
Sturdy, James H.
Waie, Asa
White, James A.
Wiggin, James S. [36]

MEMBERS RESIDING OUT OF THE COUNTY.

Allen, George E., Newton.

Allen, Joseph A., Newton.

Allen , Nathaniel T., Newton.

Balch, Wesley P., Boston.
Beckler, Daniel W., Boston.

Callender, Benjamin, Boston.

Collins, James H., Cambridge.

Copeland, R. McCleary, Boston-

Deunie, 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, ISoston.
Gould, George, Newton.
Hapgood, Lyman S., Boston.
HoUis, John W., Newton.
Inches, Martin B., Boston.

Members admitted.
Members deceased.

Lawrence, Mrs. James, Boston.
Loring, A. K. Boston.
Matthews, Nathan, Boston.
Messenger, G. W., Boston,* 1871,
Minot, George H., Boston.
Norton, R. R., Boston.
Parmenter, Joshua, Natick.
Potter, Silas, Boston.
Quinn, John, Boston.
Rand, Edward S., Bo.ston.
Rogers, J. A., Boston.
Roswell, Mary Ann, Boston.
Slade, Hubert, Boston.
Smith, George W., Boston.
Stearne, John, Newton.
Tappan, Lewis W,, Boston.
Vinal, Otis, Boston.
Well.s,B.T., Boston.
Wheeler, Lewis, Cambridge.

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410.

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LIST OF PREMIUMS,

Rules and Regulations and List of Committees,

OF THE

Norfolk Agricultural Society

TWEATY-SEVENTII ANNUAL EXDIBITION

TO HE IlOI.UIiX AT

PvEADVlLLE,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, Sept. 23d and 24th, 1875.

HYDE PARK:

PllINIED AT THE GAZETTE OFFICE.

1875.

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,

1874-75.

rresident.
HENRY S. RUSSELL, Milton.

Honorary President.

Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents.

Hon. Otis C.ky, Foxboroujih.

Alonzo W. Chkevkk Wiviitbam.

John Quincy Adams, Quincy

Alfked W. Whitcomb, Randolph.

Theodouk Lyman Rmokli.ie.

William R. Mann^ Sharon.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary.

Henuy 0. Hildreth, D.dhum.

2'reasurer.
Chauncey C. Chukciiill, Dedham.

Executive Committee.
E. C. R.Walker, West Roxbury ; A. B. Balch, Medfleld ; Charles F. Curtis,
WestRoxbnry; Augustus P. CaMer, West Roxbury ; William T Cook'
Foxboro'; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester; David W. Tucker, Milton; Ellis
Tucker, Cauton ; George Craft, Brookline.

Finance Committee and Auditors.

Ira Cleveland, Dedham; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park; Elinhaiet
Stoue, Dedham.

Supervisory Committee.
The President, Honorary President, and Secretary, ex-officiis • Charles
C. Sevvall, Medtield; Otis Cary, Foxborough ; A. W. Cheever, wientham'-
ErastusL. Metcalf, Franklin; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Breck'
MUton; Lucius Clapp, Stoughton: Jo«iah P. Quincy, Quincy; Elijah
I ucker, Milton ; Henry Gouldiui.', Dover; E. C. R. Walk-r, West Hoxbury •
CharlesF. CurtLs, WestRpxbury; A. F. Stevens, x\eedham ; Thomas b'
Gnggs, Brookline ; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester.

Committee of Arrangements.
Henry S. Russell, Milton; William R. Mann, Sharon; Chauncey C
Churchill, Henry 0. Hildreth, Dedham; Charles F.Curtis, We.st Roxhury •
A. P. Calder, Dorchester; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park; John i)'
Bradlee, Milton; Albert B. Balch, Medlleld ; Alfred W. Whitcon.b
Randolph; Henry M. Muck, Dorchester; Abel F. Stevens, Needham.

:n^orfolk 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.

The several Committees sei-ving at the Exhibition, excepting
those on Plowing and Drawing, are required to report at the office
of the 8ecretai-y at twelve o'clock on Thursday, when all vacancies
shall be filled by the Committee appointed for that purpose.

^^ No person serving on any of the Committees shall act or vote
in any department in n'ltich he is p)ersonaUy interested as a comjjetitor.

l^ Committees are prohibited from atvarding gratuities, other
than diplomas, unless specified in the premium list.

B^ No object or article will be entitled to a p)remium, unless it
possesses poirds of superiority ; and the Committees are pirohibited
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 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 dol-
lars, 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.

Tlie same animal — except worki 112; oxen, draught liovses, and
horses entered I'or purses competed for on the track — 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 i)e in-
cluded 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 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 3'oke 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 ani-
mals which, in the judgment of the Committee appointed to man-
age them, are not of a superior charactei' and worthy of exhibition,
or have not been entered in accordance with the rules and regula-
tions of the Societ}^

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

All flowers, fruits and vegetables are to be grown by, and entered
in the name of, the contributor.

After the objects for exhibition are arranged, they will be under
the exclusive charge of the Superintendents, and cannot be re-
moved 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 be-
fore the 15th of J>Jovember.

Premiums awarded and not called for on or before the last
Wednesday in March following, will bo 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.

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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 tlie
highest importance that earnest and persevering efforts be made by
the citizens of every town in ihe County to bring out the results of
their skill and industry.

HENRY S. RUSSP:LL, Presklent.
Henry O. Hildreth, Secretary.

LIST

OF

PREMIUMS AND COMMITTEES

FOR THE YEAR 1875.

(Succesefiil Competitors rnay receive their Premiums in Plate or Money, at their option.)

SUPEKINTENDENTS AT EXHIBITION.

-Horses.— Augustus P. Calder, Dorchester; Assistant, Hknky A.
Darling, Hj'de Park.

Cattle. — Adam Mackintosh, Cautou.

Sheep and Swine. — Hbnry Gouldixg, Dover.

Fruit. — Chaklks F. Curtis, West Roxbury.

Flowers. — Robert Watt, West Roxbury.

Vegetables. — David Henderson, Needhara.

Poultry. — A. F. Stevens, Needham.

Manufactures, Carriages, Agricultural Implements, -fffc— 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 Cauy, Foxboro'; Henry O. Hildrkth, Dedham; Albert B.
Balch, Medtiekl; N. B. Wilmarth, Walpole; J. Walter Buadlee, Milton.

FARMS.

EXl'ERIMEKTS ASD IMPROVEMENTS THEREON.

MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FARMS.

SUPERVISORT Committee.— The President, Honorary President and Secretary, ex-
offidisi Charles C. Sewall, Mertfield; Otis Gary, Foxborough; A. W. Cheever,
VVrentham; Erastus L. Metcalf, Franklin; Henry Grew, Hyde Park; Charles Brcck,
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 tlie condition of
tlie buildings, fences and orchards, the cultivation of the lands,

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the care and management of tlie stock, the quantit;y, 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 Supervisor}' Committee, as they shall deem expedi-
ent, between June 20th and September 20th. Any farm offered
for inspection, without being entered for a jiremium, will be viewed
and reported by the Committee, if seasonable application be made
to the Chairman.

PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Committee— Henvy Grew, Hyde Park; Horatio Boyden, Walpole; Charles E. C.
Breck, Milton; E. P. Carpenter, Foxborough; AValter H. Fisher, Norfolk.

Improved 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, expense
and result of the experiment, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best, $3.

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, wMth 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, $3.

TURNING IN CROPS AS MANURE.

COMMITTEE — Aarou D. Weld, Wert Roxbury ; S. W. Richardson.Franklin; Ephraim
Wilson, Dover.

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,

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a detailed account of the whole process, expense and result to be
given in writing, $G.

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
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, $5.

FEEDmG AND FATTENING STOCK.

COMMITTEE - A. W.Cheever.Wientham; 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
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 months, $i2 ; second best, $o.

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, $3.

Fattening Cattle. — For the best experiment in feeding cattle,
with a statement in detail of the process, expense and result $5 •
second best, $3.

Fattening Swine. — For the best experiment in feeding swine,
with a statement in detail of the process and result, $5 ; second
best, $3.

HAY.

COMMITTEE. -ErastusL.Metcalf, Franklin; Ellis Tucker, Canton; Otis Carv Fov

borouffh

For the largest quantity and best quality of English hay per

10

acre produced on any fiirra in the County, regard being had to the,
character of the soil, the mode and cost of cultivation and making,
$25 ; second best, $10.

CRANBERRr 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, $1.

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

GRAIN, ROOT AIS^D MIXED CROPS.

Committee — Charles Bieck, John Sias, Charles E. C. Breck, Milton; Henry Binl,
Stoughton ; Henry M. Mack, Dorchester.

Grain Chops. — For the best experiment in raising Wheat, a
premium of $10 ; second best, $3.

For the best experiment in raising Rye, Oats or Barley, each,
a premium of $10 ; second l)est, each, $3.

For the best experiment in raising Indian Corn, a premium of
$10 ; second best, $3.

For the best experiment in raising White Beans, Millet or Buck-
wheat, each, $3.

Samples of each kind of Grain, not less than half a busliel,
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, GO pounds.

Root Chops. — For the best experiment in raising Potatoes, $5 ;
second best, $3.

For the best experiment in raising Sugar Beets, Carrots, Pars-
nips, Mangel-wui tzel or Ruta-baga, each, $5 ; second best, each, $3.

For the best experiment in raising Onions, $5 ; second best, $3.

For the best experiment in raising Flat Turnips, $5 ; second
best, $3.

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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 Beet, Mangel-wurtzel 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 Committee between July 1st and September 20th.

Claimants for premiums must render to the Chairman of the
Committee, on or before Xovcmber 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 exi)ense
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 culti-
vation.

VEGETABLES.

CoMMiTTEr -Charles L. Copeland, Milton ; John W. Richardson, Franklin ; William
J. Griggs, Brookline; William J. Hyde, Brookline; Aaron D. Capen, Dorchester.

Vegetable Garden. — For the best Vegetable Garden, regard
being had to the variety, excellence and quantity of the prod°icts
thereof, and the mode and expense of cultivation, first premium,
SlO ; second do., $5 ; third do., $2.

Entries must be made before the 10th of June, and an exact
statement rendered before the 1st of November.

Experiments in RAisma Vegetables. — For the best experi-
ment in raising Squashes — one half-dozen of each variety to be
exhibited at the show, $o ; second best, $3.

For the best experiment in raising Cabbages -- not less than six
heads to be exhibited at the Show, $o ; secoml best, $3.

Show of Vegetables at Exhibition. — Class 1. — For the best
and largest collection of Vegetables exhibited, $20 ; second best,
$15 ; third best, $10.

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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, $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, %\.

For one half-bushel best Tomatoes, S2 ; 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, %\.

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.-Geovge E. Chickering, Dover; John N. Smith, Walpole; Elbridge 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 Ru-
ta-baga Seeds — first premium, $3 ; second do., $2.

For the best ten pounds of Timothy, Rcdtop and Clover Seed,

$1. „

For the best sample, not less than one peck, of Wheat, Rye,

Barley or Oats, %\ each.

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TREE CULTURE.

Committee. — Edward S. Rand, Jr., Eliphalet Stone, Dedham ; A. K. Teele, Milton ;
George Craft, Brookllne; Chcever Newall, 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, wliich shall have been set out at least five 3'^ears, and
which shall be in the best and most thriving condition in 187o, $8 ;
second best, $5.

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 1875, not less than twenty-five
trees, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best engrafted on budded Pear Trees on Quince roots,
with same conditions, and not less than fifty trees, $8 ; second
best, $5.

Peach Orchards. — For the best Peach Orchard, of not less than
twent3'-five trees, which shall be in the most thrifty bearing condi-
tion in the autumn of 1875, $S ; second best, $0.

For the Peach Orchard, of not less than fifty trees, grown from
pits planted since 1865, on the spot where the trees stand, which
shall be in the best condition in 1875, $8 ; second best, $5.

Vineyards. — For the best Vine3^ard, of not less than one-half
acre, which shall be in the "best and most productive state in 1875,
$8 ; second best, $5. '

Seedling Apples cr Pears. — For the best variet}' 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, $5.

Seedling Peaches. — For the best variety of Seedling Peaches
of decidedly superior qualit}^ and worth}' of general cultivation —
one do;ien specimens to be exhibited two years in succession — to-

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gether with a history of its origin, a description of its growth, and
the bearing character of the tree, $5 ; second best, $3.

Note. — The Society will require a full statement in writing of the soil,
aspect, cultivation, fertilizers used, pruning, variety, &c., of Apples,
Pears, Peaches, Grapes, &c., and every essential thing pertaining to the
method of growing them. Entries to be made with the Secretary on or
before Sept. 10.

FOREST TREES.

For the best plantation o j 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, SlO.

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., $5.

HEDGES.

For tlie best Live Hedge Fence, not less than five himdred feet
in length, $5 ; st-cond best, $2.

For the best Evergreen Hedge of not less than four hundred feet
in length, $5 ; second best, $2. Premiums to be awarded in 1875.

FLOWERS.

COMMrrxEE. — A. K. Teele, Milton; Robert Watt, West Roxbury; George Craft,
Brookline; Lyman Davenport, Milton; Miss Elizabeth S. Sewall, MedflelU; B. C.
Vose, Hyde Park.

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 ; tliird best, $2.

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For the best and most tastefully arranged bouquets, not less than
four, $i ; second, S3 ; 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 seedlings, $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, to the amount of $10, may be awarded at the discre-
tion of the Committee.

FRUITS.

Rules relating to the award of premiums : —

All fruits ortered for premium mast be correctly named.

All fruits must be composed of exactly the numl)er of specimens
or quantity named in the schedule.

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

Non-compliance with the rules will cause the rejection of the
articles offered for a premium.

APPLES.

Committee. - George V^se, Milton; William H. Forbes, Milton; Davi.l Shaw
Foxborough; Lucius (Jiapp, Stoughton; James Mackintosh. Needhani; Amos W
Shumway, Dover.

For the best collection of twelve varieties of Apples, twelve
specimens of each variety— first premium, $12; second do., $5;
third do., $4 ; fourth do., $3 ; flftli do., $2.

For the best collection of five varieties of Apples, twelve speci-
mens of each variety— first premium, $6 ; second do., $-i.

For the best collection of the following varieties, twelve speci-
mens of each: Baldwin — first premium, $2; second do., $1.

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Rhode Island Greening — first premium, $2; second do,, $1.
Gravenstein — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Hubbardston
Nonesuch — first premium, S2 ; second do., $1. Roxbury Russet
— first premium, $2; second do., $1. Porter — first premium,
$2 ; second do., $1. Tohnan Sweet— first premium, $2 ; second
do., $1. For any other variety — first premium, $2 ; second do.,

PEARS.

CoMMiTTKK. - Charles F. Curtis, West Roxbury; E. C. R. Walker, West Roxbury;
Otis Gary, Foxboiough; John W. Brooks, Milton; William J. Stuart, Hyde Park.

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 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, $6 ; second do., 4 ; third

do., S2.

For the best collection of the following varieties, twelve speci-
mens of each : Clapp's Favorite — first premium, $2 ; second do,,
$1. Bartlett — first premium, $2; second do., $1. Beurre
d'Anjou— first premium, S2-; 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., SI. Vicar of Winkfield — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1.
Duchesse d'Angoulenie— 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 Bose — first premium, $2 ; second do., $i. Doyenne Bou-
souck — first premium, $2 ; second do., $1. Beurre Clairgeau —
first premium, $2; second do., $1. Lawrence — first premium,
$2; second do., $1. Winter Nellis — first premium, $2 ; second
do.', $1. Beurre Hardy — 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. Mount Vernon —first premium, 2; second do.,
$1. For other varieties, not exceeding three — first premium S2 ;
second do.. Si . ♦

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GRAPES AND OTHER FRUITS.

Committee. — Abel F. Stevens, Xeedham; Eliphalet Stone, Detlham; Joseph W.
Page, West Roxbuiy; George Cartwright, Dedham; Charles F. Gerry, Hyde Park;
Josiah W. Talbot, Norwood.

For the best collection of Foreign Grapes — first premium, $Q ;
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, S3 ; second do., $2.
Victoria— first premium, S3; second do., S2. For the best four
bunches of any white variety, S3.

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, S20 ; second do., SlO.

For the best collection of Native Grapes, six bunches of each
variety — first premium, S4 ; second do., S3 ; third do., S2. Dela-
ware — first premium, S2 ; second do., Si. Diana — first premium,
S2; second do.. Si. Concord— first premium, S2 ; second do.,
Si. Hartford Prolific — first premium, S2 ; second do., $1.
Wilder — first premium, S2 ; second do.. Si. Agawam — first
premium, S2 ; second do.. Si. Merrimac — first premium, S2 ;
second do.. Si. Salem — first premium, S2 ; second do.. Si. Any
other variety, first premium, $2 ; second do.. Si.

For the best collection of Peaches, twelve specimens of each
variety — first premium, S3 ; second do., $2 ; third do., Si.

For the best collection of Plums, twelve specimens of each
variety — first premium, S3 ; second do., 1.

QuiNCKS. — For the best peck of Quinces, S2 ; second best. Si.

Cranberries. — For the best peck of Cranberries, S3 ; second
best, S2; third best, $1.

COLD VINERIES.

Committee. — Eliphalet Stone, Dedham; John Pearce, WestRoxbury; Edwards.
Rand, Jr., Dedham.

For the best crop, and the most economically kept Cold Vinery,
not less than thirty feet — first premium, S4 ; second best, S3.

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PLOWING MATCH.

Double Ox Teams. — With Miclikjan Plotc.

Committee. — Nathan Longfellow, Needliam; William J. Hyde, Biookline; Uriah
Capen Poiter, Stoiigliton.

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 ploio. — Same conditions. Best, $15; second
best, $10 ; third best, $5.

Double Horse Teams. — With Michigan Plow.

Committee. — John E. Wetheibee, Dedham ; Charles Hartshorn, Walpole; James
T. Sumner, Canton; James Capen, Foxborough.

Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second best, $10 ; third best, $5.
With any other plow. — Same conditions. Best, $15 ; second
best, $10 ; third best, $5.

Single Ox Teams. — With any Ploiv.

Committee— B. N. Sawin, Dover; Charles A. Bigelow, Medway ; Henry Blackman,
Needhani.

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; Edward Sumner, Dedham; Horace Guild,
Canton.

Same conditions. Best, $10 ; second best, $5.

NoTK. — A DouBLK 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 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 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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ANIMALS.

All animals to be entered in the name of the owner, who must
have owned them at least three 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 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 considera-
tion.

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 tlie same for either sex.

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

In testing the strcngtli, 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 tlie 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.

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Augustus P. Calder, Dorchester, General Chairman.

Class A, — Roadsters.

Committee. —William T. Thacher, Hyde Park; William Porter, Randolph ; J. Free-
man Ellis, Stoughton.

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 S7 00

2d best " " " " 5 00

Sd Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old, a premium of .

For the 2d best 4 years old, a premium of

best 3 3'ears old, "

2d best " "

best 2 years old, "

2d best " "

best 1 year old, "

2d best " "

ith Division. — Pairs in Harness.

For the best pair of Roadsters, a premium of

2d best "

bth Division. — Harness Horses.

For the best Gelding or Mare, a premium of

2d best " " "

3d best " "

4th best " •' "

Class B.^ Horses of all Work

Committee. — Oliver Deane, Canton; Francis B. Ray, Franklin
Foxborougli.

85 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
2 00

William T. Cook,

1st Division. — Stcdlions.

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

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3d Division. — Colts and Fillies.

For the best 4 years old,

a premium of .

. 85 00

2d best "

a

3 00

best 3 years old,

"

5 00

2d best "

"

3 00

best 2 years old,

"

3 00

2d best "

n . . .

2 00

best 1 year old,

*'

3 00

2d best "

"

2 00

4:th Division. — Pairs

in Harness.

For the best, a premium

of

. $7 00

2d best; "

•

5 00

5th Division. — Horses in Harness.

For the best Gelding or

Mare, a premium of .

. $6 00

2d best, "

" " . .

4 00

Class C. — Family Horses.

Committee. — George R. Mann, Sharon; Erastus Nash, Weymouth; Henry Trow-
bridge, Norfolk.

1st Division. — Stallions.
For the best Stallions 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

Sd 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 years old, "

2d best " "

best 1 year old, "

2d best " "

4th Division. — Carriage Horses 15 to
For the best pair of Carriage Horses, a p
2d best " "

6th Division. — Bxigrjii or Chaise Horses.
For the best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of

« • • •

$0 00

. • .

3 00

. • •

5 00

• • •

3 00

• • •

3 00

• .

2 00

• • •

3 00

, ,

2 00

16 hands high.

)remium of .

. 10 00

a

7 00

$8 00

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2d best Buggy or Chaise Horse, a premium of

3d best " " " "

6th 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 .

2dbest " " " . .

best single Pony, "

2d best " " " . .

. $6 00

4 00

. $6 00

4 00

3 00

. §6 00

4 00

3 00

2 00

Class D. — Draught or Team Horses.

Committee.— ETcrett .J. Eaton, Needhatn; Allen Colburn,Dedham; Ephraini M.inn,
Randolph.

Is^ Division. — Single Draught or Team Horses.

For the best Draught Horse, a premium of . . $7 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 $10 00

2d best " " " " 7 00

CATTLE.

Bulls.

Committee. — Aeahel S. Drake, Sharon ; Nathaniel S. White, Canton ; James M. Cod-
man, Brookline; Edward M. C'ary, Milton; James T. Sumner, Canton.

For the best, thoroughbred Bull, one j'ear old and upwards, of
either Jersej^ Durham, Devon, Ayrshire, Hereford, Kerry, or
other foreign stock — in each class, $10 ; second best, $5.

For the best Bull Calf undej* one year old, foreign stock — $5 ;
second best, $2.

Cows.

Committee.— Jeremiah W. Gay, Dedham; Aaron Bacon, Dover; Ellis Tucker, Can-
ton; Samuel Cook, Milton; Jesse Fenno, Canton; Charles F. Howard, Foxboro';
Daniel Spear, Dorchester.

For the best Cow, three years old and upwards, of foreign stock,
of either class, each, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best, $4.
Grade, $10 ; second best, $5 ; third best, $4.

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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 an}^ 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 oflFered for herds shall be al-
lowed to offer the same animals for any premium of a different class.

Heifers.

Committee. — Edward P. Burgess, Dedham; Lemuel Billiugs, Quincy; Solomon
Flagg, Needhara.

For the best Heifer, two years old and under three, foreign
stock, of either class, each, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third, $2.

Grade or Native, $5 ; second best, $4 ; third best, 82.

For the best Heifer, one year old, of any stock, $4 ; second best,
$2.

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; 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, ii53.

For the best yoke of Steers, 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 exiiibitor, twenty per cent additional. In testing the
stren<;tli, docility, and training;: of Worliing O.xen, the load siiall not be
less than 2500 pounds for oxen of Ave years old and upwards; and not
less than 2000 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.

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Fat Cattle.

Committee. — A. W. Cheevcr, Wrentham; John Sias, Milton; Charles Mackintosh.
Needham.

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. — Thomas B. Griggs, Brookline; Heury Goulding, Dover; J. B. Tilley,
Brookhne; \V. L. Faxon, Quincy.

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

BoAus. — For the best Boar, not less than six months old, $G ;
second l)est, $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, $4.

Fat Hogs. — For the best Fat Hog, regard being had to breed,
age and feeding, SlO ; second best, $G.

Note. — No competitor for tlie largest collection of swiu'i will be al-
lowed lo oiler the same for any premium of a ditlerent chisis.

SHEEP.

Committee, — Charles Breck, Miltou; John S. Mackintosh. West Roxbury; Theo-
dore 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
b}' the exhibitor, $8 ; second best, $5.

For the best Ram — Cotsvvold, Leicester, Oxford Down, or
Southdown — not less than one year old, $o ; second best, $3.

POULTRY.

Committee. — Abel F. Stevens, Needham ; Albert H. Drake, Stoughton ; J. F. Cow.
ell, Wrentham.

For the best trio of any variety, of either old fowls or chickens,
first premium, $3 ; second do., $2 ; third do., Si.

For the best pair of Turke3's, 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.

For the best collection of Pigeons, first premium, 83 ; second
do., $2.

Ten dollars in gratuities may be awarded, at the discretion of
the Committee.

NoTK. — Poultry must be entered on the tirst day of the Exhibition, be-
fore 12 o'clock, to be entitled to a premium.

D AIR Y.

Committee. — Milton M. Fisher, Medway ; Henry Grew, Hyde Park ; Lucius Clapp,
Stougliton; Mrs. George Vose, Milton; Mrs. William R. Mann, Sliaroa; Charles H.
Munstleld, Nuedham.

Butter. — For the best produce of Butter, on any farm within
the County, for four months, from the 20th of May to the 20Lh of
September — a sample of not less than ten pounds to be exhibited
— quantity as well as quality to be taken into vievv, — 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 pro-
duce on the Farms, a full statement of which will be required, 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 six pounds — first
premium, $5 ; second do., $3 ; third do., $2.

Note. — Butter must be presented only on the morning of the sec-
ond day before 9 o'clock.

Cheesk. — For the best lot of Cheese — not less than twenty-
five pounds — first premium, $5; second do., $3 ; third do., $2.

BREAD.

Committee. — J. White Belcher. Randolph; Albert B. Balch, Meddeld; Elijah
Tucker. Milton; Mrs. A S. Drake, Sharon; Mrs. B. F. Radford, Hyde Park.

F'or the best loaf of Wheat and Indian, of not less than two
pounds weiglit — first premium $3 ; second do., $2.

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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 eigliteen 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 familj', 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 on 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, $2 ; second best, $1.

MANUFACTURES.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

Committee. — William Amesi, 2a, Dedham; Henry Gouldiug, Dover; Horace Guild
Cautou.

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

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

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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.
Jesse Vose, Milton.

Including Needlework, Crochetwork, Shellwork, Millinery,
Drawings, Painting, &c.

For such articles in this department as maj'' 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, ai 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
particularly beautiful. For well made garments of any kind; for stock-
ing 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 thorough mending, patching and darning; for drawing, designing, or
painting 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.

Manufactures of Straw.

Committee. — A. S. Harding. 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 specimen of Straw Braid of domestic straw, not
less than 100 yards, $o ; second best, $3.

Manufactures of Clotii, Flannels, Hosiery, «&c.

Committee,— Charles H. French, Canton; Naaman B. Wilmarth, Walpole; Luther
Metcali", Medway; Ezra W. Talt, Dedhani.

Cotton Cloth. — For the best specimen of Cotton Cloth, of any
description, not less than twenty-eight yards in quantity, a pre-
mium or gratuity, at the discretion of the Committee.

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Woolen Cloth.— Tor 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 quantitj^, 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 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 $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.

Counterpanes. — For the best Counterpane — regard being had
to the quality and expense of materials — first premium, $3 ; sec-
ond do., $2.

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Carpetings, Rugs and' Floor Cloth.

For the best "Common" Ingrain 2-ply Carpeting.

tt 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; 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. — 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.

Glass, Stone, Earthen, Wooden and Iron Ware.

Committee. — Frank M. Ames, Canton ; Alexander Dickson, West Roxbury ; 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-
pai'tments, 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 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 pre-
mium of $1.

Leather, and Articles Manufactured Therefrom, India Rub-
ber Goods, &c.

Committee — John B.Arnold, Braintree; Thomas Ferguson, Necdham; P. H. Ba-
ker, Sharon.

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 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 Boots, "

" " " 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

of .

$2 00

• •

3 00

. .

2 00

.

2 00

.

1 00

.

1 00

, ,

1 00

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Carriages, Wagons, Carts, &c.

Committee.— George K. Gannett, Milton ; Sanford Carroll, Dedhani; William Ames,
Dedham.

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

For the best Covered Wagon ;
" " Open "

" " Farm "

" " " Cart;

" " " Wheelbarrow — either a premium or sjratu-

ity, at the discretion of the Committee.

Jellies Preserves, Pickles, Ketchup, &c.

Committee.— Mrs. George Vose, Milton; Mrs. Elizabeth F. Wilmarth, Walpole;
Mrs. James Mackintosh, Neertham ; Mrs. Masenua Souihworth, Stoughtou.

For the finest collection and best specimen of each, made of arti-
cles of domestic growth, first premium, $5 ; second, $3 ; 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 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 discretiou.

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.

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Committee.— A. W. Cheever, Wrentham; Edward Howe, West Roxbury; A. F.
Stevens, 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 E^xhibition, first premium, $.3 ; second best, $3 ; third l^est, $1.

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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, first premium, $5 ; second best, $3 ; third best, $1.

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 habits, during the time, of the bearer
of such certificate, a premium of membership of the Society and a
diploma.

AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS.

Committee.— Henry S, Russell, Milton; Marshall P. Wilder, Dorchester; Charles C.
Sevvall, Medfleld; Henry O. Hildreth, Dedham; Albert K. Teele, Milton; Theodore
Lyman, Brookline.

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
source3 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 cultiva-
tion of Forest Trees, a premium not exceeding $25.

Insects. — For the best Essay on the destruction of Injects inju-
rious to vegetation, such as CurcuUo, Borer, Canker- Worm, Cater-
pillar, Cut- Worm, Squash-Bag, Striped-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
exceeding $25.

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Preservation of Vegetables. — For the l)est Essay on the
preservation of Vegetables, a premium not exceeding $25.

Agricultural Education. — For the best Essay on Agriciiltnral
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.

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 Liq-
uid 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 $2i>.

For the best plan for a Barn and Barnyard, with regard to the
keeping of the Hay, the comfort of the (Jattle, the ease and com-
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 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 $25(^0 — to be examined b}- the
Supervisory Committee — a premium to be adjudged by said Com-
mittee.

TRANSACTIONS

Norfolk Agricultural Society

1875,

PtTBr^isHRr) Hv u^iih: socikty.

Printed at the Korfolk County Gazette Office.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Address, by Col. Theodore Lyman 5

Report of the Presideut aud Secretary 19

on Horses 20

on Plowing 22

on Working Oxen 23

on Bulls 23

on Cows 23

on Heifers 24

on Swiue 24

on Poultry 25

on Vegetables 26

on Fruits , 27

on Flowers 3q

on Bread 31

on Dairy 31

on Straw Goods 32

on Seeds 32

on Birds and Insects 33

on Manufactures 33

on Ladies' Work 35

Recapitulation of Pi-emiums 38

Report of Treasurer 41

Proceedings of the Twenty-seventh Anniversary 42

Officers of the Society 45

ADDRESS.

BY COL. THEODORE LYMAN, OF BROOKLINE.

Although the schools of political economy quarrel about
almost everything, there is one point of agreement among
them, to wit : that crops make an addition to the wealth of a
country.

Let those of us who think they are annually losing money
on their land take courage from this principle, and reflect
that they are laboring under the approving eye of the politi-
cal economists. In the very nature of things it seems as if
digging the earth ought to bring something good to pass.
The Greeks, who seldom went wrong in a name, called earth
Mother ; the mother from whom all come and to whom all
return ; the mother who teaches her children this lesson,
that food follows work, and without work there is no food ;
the mother who tames her wild offspring by long and steady
discipline of toil. For man is by nature a destroyer and a
waster. The savage kills fish and game, and snatches wild
berries and roots, thoughtless of their decrease. In the an-
cient shell-heaps of Denmark, or in the river gravels of France,
we find the mute record of such savages who once peopled
the larger part of Central Europe. It is a dreary record —
everything for waste and nothing for renewal. The flint
hatchets, knives and arrow-heads, the piles of shells, the bones
of deer and of wild oxen, split to get out the marrow — all
denote a race that took what they could from nature, and return-

cd her nothing. They had no ear for the lessons of Mother
Earth. There are some children now-a-days who will not
mind their mothers, and who get sent to the State Reform
School. The reform of those old oyster-eaters and bone-
splitters was very gradual. Aachaeologists tell us that they
first became pastoral in their habits, and took to keeping
horses. Now I am not going to assert, in the presence of
our honored president, that horse-raising is a semi-barbaric
practice ; but the archaeological succession does go to prove
that wheat-growing is a step beyond it. Nor do I maintain
that the men of the ancient stone period raised horses artisti-
cally, as they are to-day raised at the Home Farm. On the con-
trary, the numerous skeletons found on the sites of those long-
forgotten villages, show us that the pre-historic horse had too
big a head. I might say he was all head ; and, as a Hunga-
rian officer once remarked : "A horse does not trot with his
head." In our day we have improved. We try to have the
driver all head and the horse all legs. Again, our horse-
breeders are advanced in respect that they use trotting wa-
gons ; albeit we must not boast of them too much ; for, in
the museum at Florence, you may see a trotting sulky that
was found in a pyramid of Egypt. You are told it is a Scy-
thian war chariot — Scythian it may be, but a clearer trotting
sulky I never met. Not certainly a sulky of our manufacture.
It is made, axles and all, of wood and leather. Shall we laugh
at it for that ? Remember it is 3000 or 4000 years old, and
still is in running order. What kind of order do you think
one of Brewster's best 500 lb. wagons will be in when it is
3000 or 4000 years old ? Not even the " deacon's one-hoss
shay " lasted 3000 or 4000 years. All honor then to that
Scythian sulky and to its unknown maker, who, were he
now alive, would have a rare reputation for durable v>^ork !

Those big-headed horses lived before men had invented
vehicles, nevertheless they were useful animals ; their mas-
ters ate them, and doubtless killed for their friends the fatted
colt. If we no longer eat horseflesh it is because we are
such good Christians. Like the unknown savages of the
stone age, our pagan Scandinavian ancestors, eight hundred
years ago, thought it the best of meat, and served it at the
feasts of Odin. Hence it became an abomination to the early
christian converts, who transmitted to us their religious pre-
judices ; and only of late years, and in certain parts of Eu-
rope, has it been added to the list of foods.

The lesson goes slowly on. One after another, animals are
domesticated, and, at last, comes the discovery of agriculture
proper — the idea that a seed well planted and tended will
yield many fold, whereof a part may be kept for next season
and the rest may be eaten. The ruins of so-called lake dwell-
ings, covered for long ages with water, have revealed the be-
ginning of such culture in Europe. Among the charred piles
which once supported wooden cabins built in a lake, have
been found bones of oxen, dogs and goats ; and, beside them,
heaps of wheat and barley. No writing, monument or tradi-
tion remains to tell us who were these primitive tillers of the
soil who thus sought safety from enemies amid the waters.
By their implements, fished up in quantities from the bottom,
we know that some of them still maintained the good old fash-
ion of stone tools ; while others more ambitious were able to
cast instruments of bronze ; another lesson from Mother
Earth who yielded her copper and tin for the melting-pot.

They were barbarians with the manners of barbarians ;
and it is safe to infer that women did all the field work, and
held undisputed possession of what the French call "the sa-
cred right to labor." The man goes into the Swiss forest, in-

tent, with flint-headed arrow, to slay a red deer ; the woman
must till the field and be back in good season with a bundle
of firewood to boil the venison which her lord may eat while
she dresses the hide with a stone scraper. To her the duty
of gathering, quartering and drying the wild apples for winter
use ; their fragments have been found — prototypes of apple
sauce ! She must bring in the grain from the small clearings
and store it safely in the lake dwelling, under the eye of its
master, who sits lazily chipping a pebble, whereof he will
fashion, by some weeks of labor, a spear-head. That woman
wrought better than she knew ! While perchance her thoughts
were only on her barbarian finery — her bronze bracelets and
hair-pins — she was founding an ever-glorious reputation as the
discoverer of agriculture. It passes my comprehension that
writers on woman's rights and woman's superiority have not
earlier hit on this capital fact — woman was the discoverer of
agriculture. The classic nations recognized it. Ceres of the
Romans, Mysia of the Greeks, was not a god, but a goddess,
who taught the uses of corn. On the eve of her festival the
women drove out of the temple men and dogs, shut the
doors, and had a good time by themselves. Alas, genius
lives on unconscious of itself! Woman planted and garnered
all through the last of the stone period and beginning of that
of bronze, unconscious that her praises would be sung, ages,
afterwards, by the Norfolk County Agricultural Society.
When she quartered and dried those sour wild apples, did she
dream of pomological clubs .'' Did she suppose it would ever
be possible to propagate three hundred varieties of pears .'*
There is encouragement to be drawn from such late recogni-
tion of genius. Perhaps we — without knowing it — are
doing something very remarkable which will only be found
out several thousand years hence. How delightful to feel that
several thousand years hence we shall be fully appreciated !

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And thus mankind had fairly learned something from the
earth : how to put in the seed, and to gather the increase ;
how to seek the hidden metals, copper, tin, and afterwards
iron. But, like the country lad who thinks he can learn
enough in two quarters' schooling, mankind thought that
wheat and game and wild fruits were enough to find out, and
sat down for an indefinite rest. Thus, at least, did our an-
cestors, and why should we trouble ourselves about those of
other people ? We might as well confess now as later that
our ancestors, the Jutes, or Saxons, or Germanni, or what
not, were the slow boys, the dunces of the family. For years
and years they fought and idled until good Mother Earth
thought they never would learn anything. Down to the time
of the Christian era they had not even a history, and then
their history was written by two foreigners, Csesar and Taci-
tus. It is a wholesome discipline to our vanity to reflect that
when the inhabitants of Greece and Italy were at the height
of their civilization, our progenitors went half-naked, and
were scarcely more tamed than American Indians. They
lived on game and on the milk and cheese of their domesti-
cated animals. Agriculture they scorned as a trade that took
away a man's mind from the only noble exercises, war and
hunting. Were we to meet one of those Germans with his
rough spear and shield, an untanned deer's hide flung across
his shoulder, and his long red hair tied in a knot on top of his
head, it would stick in our throats to exclaim reverentially :
" Thou art my grandfather fifty-four times removed." And
had he been thus addressed he would not have understood.
His rude tongue had a small list of short, pointed words, like
"good," "bad," "kill," "blood." In their altered forms they
still exist with us, and it is a notable fact that when a man
is in a towering rage he betakes himself to the short, fierce

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words of that grandfather, fifty-four times removed ; whereas,
if he be calm and gentle, and especially if he be addressing a
young ladies' Sunday-school, he is sure to use the French,
Latin and Greek derivatives wherewith he has painted and
padded the knarled old stock. Not forever were those tall
barbarians to stalk through the dark forests of beech and fir.
Their destiny was written on a golden tablet, and a power
stronger than the sword — the power of Christianity — was to
bring their proud knee to the neglected earth. From the
Catholic missionaries and monks of those remote times came
the first lesson in agriculture to their savage neophytes. It
was a little spark, but the wood of the beacon lay ready and
blazed with a clear and increasing flame. In this and in al]
other arts they have ever since gone rapidly on with labori-
ous study and untiring toil. These slow boys bent at last to
their task, and after eighteen hundred years of schooling,
they have beaten the spry, quick boys and stand at the head
of their class. Not alone in their native plains of Germany,
or among the sand dunes of Jutland, or by the fiords of Nor-
way, are these Northmen now found. They are everywhere,
from Iceland to Australia ; from England, through America
to Hindostan.

And now let us ask, how, from such mean beginnings, they
have come to results so grand .'' Plainly the power lay coiled
within them like a spring, which begins to push when the
clamp is taken off. But what special working had that spring
by which it came to beat other springs .-' The answer is, that
the Germanic mind is a scientific mind, and has always been
so from the day when its form grew to be recognizable.
What is scientific, and what is science .'' They are words on
every tongue, yet not one tongue in twenty will answer the
question aright. The nineteen wrong tongues will hasten to

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say that science first may be defined as the opposite or the
complement of practice ; and, secondly, as abstract theory
based on thought, and distinguished from working based on
experience. Why run so far for a reply and put it in so
many words when a short one is at hand? "Science" is
knowledge, and "scientific" is knowing; just that and
nothing less or more. The mind of the Northmen has grown
great and strong, because it is knowing and still seeks knowl-
edge.

To descend from generals to specials, and from greater
things to smaller, we cannot hope to thrive in agriculture ex-
cept by holding to the working method of our race ; we must
be scientific, having and eagerly seeking knowledge. There
are too many men who fall away from this method, and prop
themselves against one of the stupidest sayings ever invent-
ed by an idler : " What was good enough for my father Ik
good enough for me." They are like those lake people we
were talking of, who thought that wheat, dried apples and a
bronze hatchet were sufficient for any family, and who, so far
as we know, never got beyond these simple supplies.

You tumble against such folks at every turn ; and a deal of
hauling and pushing it takes to get them out of the way.
Last winter, a number of learned men asked the Legislature
for an annual grant for making a proper survey of this Com-
monwealth. Our friends of the bronze period awoke at once
from their customary doze. "What, what, what! A survey!
Have we not town, county, and state maps already } Did our
fathers complain of them } No, no ! This is a device to pay
a parcel of scientists who want to wander over the earth with
muck rakes ! " So the petitioners had leave to withdraw.
As a fact, there is no such thing in existence as a map of
Massachusetts. There is a sheet of paper painted with divers

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colors, and covered with lines which mean roads, and with
dots which signify towns. But that is not a map ; it is rather
a perfecting of the shingle with chalk-marks wherewith the
countrymen indicates to you the way to his father's wood-lot.
When we consider that, for every important problem of drain-
age, road-making, mining, manufacturing, water supply, and
agriculture, an exact topographical map is essential, the peti-
tioners would seem to have been in the right. There is no
country of Central Europe, however small and poor, that does
not possess a topographical survey. Our sister republic,
Switzerland, has a topographic map which is a model in its
way. She has mountains 14,000 feet high, whose every
crest and ravine is there minutely laid down ; while we, with
no hills that a child cannot climb, stay content with our im-
proved shingle and chalk-marks. All this comes of want of
knowledge or science. And thereby we are led to ask, what
is a scientific man, and how may we know him ? A scientific
man, like a gentleman, is rare, but may be looked for in any
station or class. I know that all males are in this country
called gentlemen. Call them what you please ; my experience
is that a gentleman is rare in this and in any other country.
So our man of knowledge, of science, may be looked for any-
where. Does a man's lettuce head better than his neighbor's
— he is scientific, knowing. When you examine him, you find
he knows just how many inches to open the frames at such and
such a temperature ; when to water and when to leave them
dry ; how to keep lice and mould away ; and how to maintain
a long, steady heat. Does a man have the best cows, — he,
too, is scientific ; for a good cow is no matter of chance.
He has stared at cattle till he knows their points by a sort of
instinct ; he can rise above the limits of breed or grade, and
can tell an animal on her own merits ; can say whether she

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runs too much to beef, or has not the constitution to keep up
her milk, or is too closely bred. The two men have one trait
in common ; they ane one-sided , they are specialists. The
lettuce-grower could not tell a fifteen-quart cow if he died for
it ; and the cattle-breeder would scald his lettuce before Feb-
ruary was out. Knowledge is great, and one student, though
he be talented, can master only a bit. Every scientist there-
fore is one-sided. He is all lettuce, or all cow. With this
preface we are prepared to place and to appreciate what are
called, with improper exclusiveness, " scientific men," to wit :
those who follow a subject not for the profit of it, not even
that they may teach it, but that they may know it. Such
men must of course be specialists, and one specialty is scien-
tific agriculture. We must not expect too much of scientific
agriculturists. They are human and can know a part only.
If they work all day with test-tube and re-agent, they cannot
be expected to " point out " a swarth as well as a country lad
who never got beyond the rule of three. This advantage,
however, is theirs, that they arrive at a result more rapidly
and reliably than men of slight education, because they do
not try problems already solved, and because they compare
thousands of facts where the others compare tens.

We have noted how ancient is the tilling of the soil, and
how slow has been its improvement. Nevertheless, each im-
provement was the act of somebody who refused to be con-
tented with things as they were, and who studied to find
something new and better. How long mankind delved with
sharp sticks, we know not. At any rate, the day came, day
when a grand genius was born. He gave his mind to the
study of sharp sticks ; and at last (perhaps when he was grey-
haired) hit on this discovery, that if you held a sharp stick
upright and fastened to it a horizontal blunt stick, you could

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drag the sharp upright by the blunt horizontal, and thus
scratch the ground — in fact, you could plough. There are
nations, like the Persians, who have never ceased to gaze with
awe on this invention, and who stil) use it. Others there are,
who have improved it until they have reached steam-plows
and gang-plows. Let us side with the latter nations, and
never say of any tool, it is good enough. Let us encourage
all sorts of research ; but especially that of highly educated
men, for of them is our best hope. Good examples are not
far to seek. Look at Germany. Perhaps somebody will ob-
ject to looking at Germany, on the plea that it is the land of
priveleged classes and of military rule. True ; but remem-
ber, we are talking of crops and not of nobles and soldiers.
A man may have a bad temper, and yet raise excellent string
beans. We do not scorn to drink tea because there is a
Tai-ping rebellion in China. Therefore, we look into Ger-
many, and, after getting through the stratum of nobles and
soldiers, ("who, it may be said in parenthesis, have thorough-
ly studied their trade of killing and have brought it to the fine
point of perfection) we shall find a people who have perhaps
more knowledge than all the rest of the world together. Not
that they are a fine-grained or a well-to-do people ; on the
contrary, one is struck by a certain coarseness and by a
general lack of means ; but in knowledge and research, they
• are to-day the world's leaders. Their governments are well-
known as exceptionally thrifty and economical, insomuch that
when a man is said to " Work for the king of Prussia," it
means that he works for nothing. If, then, these govern-
ments support certain establishments, we may be sure they
expect much advantage from them. And now look at their
establishments for the study of agriculture. The last statis-
tics tell us that Prussia proper has ninety colleges, academies,

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and schools of agriculture, in which every branch is taught
with extreme detail, including crop-raising, grape-growing,
horse and cattle-breeding, fish-culture, drainage, forestry, and
the care of bees ; all these in addition to original researches
in chemistry and in other pertinent sciences. Of these
colleges the four highest have eighty professorships, and
those of lower degree are proportionately supplied. One
academy, that of Proskan, has attached to it 17,000 acres of
tillage and forest. The little duchy of Baden, with a popula-
tion less than that of Massachusetts, has twenty agricultural
establishments ; and, in the entire German empire, the people
are taught nearly on this scale. Perhaps some one will ask.
What has this vast net-work of scientific schools brought to
pass ? What has this army of highly educated and spectacled
professors to show, in exchange for their apparatus and
salaries .'' Already I have said that German officials keep a
sharp eye on their penny's-worth. Being themselves well
scrimped, they are determined that nobody else shall grow too
fat, or get pay without full return. A Prussian employe who
should leave his post and run to Berlin to look after politics
and offices, would first be discharged and afterwards clapped
in prison. Sometimes I think that a little of such tyranny
might have a wholesome effect in our country.

The case before us makes no exception to the rule of thrift.
These professors have earned their wages. They found a
country that produced scanty crops of oats, barley and white
wine. To-day they show you an abundant yield of everything
their soil and cHmate will allow. Cultures that were feeble,
such as those of wheat and sugar-beets, have grown to grand
proportions ; waste lands have been reclaimed ; forests plant-
ed, grown and cut according to rule. Nobody there dares
sell a false manure with the argns eyes of a professor of chem-

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istry ever on him. It will not avail him to puDlisn a ten-
dollar analysis from a private assayer. The government
chemist says : "Empty out your bags here and let me ex-
amine their contents. If you have been swindling the farmers
to jail you go !"

Are we speaking of a land naturally fertile and of a favoring
climate ? Not so. North Germany is a dreary plain, the
gravelly, sandy bottom of an ancient lake. South Germany
is rugged with mountains. The climate, over a good part of
the entire region, is damp, chilly and tormented by bleak
v>finds. But a persevering and intellectual people have kept
on learning that lesson of Mother Earth ; and she has plente-
ously rewarded them accqrding to their deserts. Here are
guide and encouragement to us poor occupants of a country,
that long ages ago was subsoiled by the glaciers ; and a
glacier, let me tell you, is a plow that subsoils a little too
deep, and brings all the gravel and rocks to the top. Our
German cousins, however, are every whit as ill off ; and yet
they make the crops grow. We will not sneer at our own
efforts. It will not do to sneer at such shows of fruit and
vegetables as we to-day have seen. But let us all in all
honesty confess that we are partial farmers, working much
by rule of thumb, doing some things extremely well, and fail-
ing childishly in others. Our agriculture is nowhere thorough
and well proportioned. Here is a man who will raise prize
strawberries, and his apple trees, hard by, will be full of cat-
erpillar webs. Another excels in onions, while his starved
potato field is buried with weeds. In these respects our
transatlantic friends do better. You may start from Florence
in Italy and walk for miles along the valley of the Arno, with-
out seeing a fruit tree cut by insects or a weed in a vegetable
bed, or a Sfjuarc yard of arable soil without some crop on it.

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It may be that the peasants are driven to careful husbandry
by poverty, and that they work with antiquated tools. At
all events, they give a lesson to us who have money and fine
implements.

It is said there is no profit in Massachusetts agriculture,
and that our farmers grow each year poorer. Whether this
be true or not, certain it is that we must have a large body of
tillers of the soil, or be doomed to dwindle and become ex-
tinct. The waste in mankind is made good and the increase
furnished chiefly by the rural population. There is no occu-
pation like farming to make red blood. But the farming
people must live the lifeiof their trade. And here we strike
another of our troubles. Among our country people, the men,
though spare, are commonly strong and sinewy. Not so the
women, who, however pretty and intelligent, are apt to lack
vitality. During our long, cold winter and spring, farmers
are forced to be out of doors, while the women can stay, and
do stay, in the house. Staying in the house was not so bad
in the days of big open chimneys ; but in these days of iron
stoves it is very bad. The hotter the stove gets, the worse
the air becomes ; the worse the air becomes the less the
blood circulates, so that by spring the temperature of
the room is raised to eighty or eighty-five degrees.
You can easily convince yourselves of this by going next
winter to the committee-rooms of the State House. A large
proportion of the representatives are from the rural districts.
You will find those. rooms heated to 80 or 85 degrees, and if
you open a window some honorable member will jump as if
he were shot, and exclaim, in tones of fear, that there is a
draught ! It is a curious fact, of which you also may convince
yourselves, that of a winter's day, you may sec a greater pro-
portion of fat, rosy little children on Beacon street, than you

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would find amonc; niir back-country farms. The former are
children of rich parents and ought to be comparatively puny
and delicate. The reason they are not so is this : their
parents can command the best medical advice, and the best
medical advice^says : Never take any medicine, especially pa-
tent medicine ; send the children out daily ; give them bread
and meat, and no pie or candy ; let them not stay too long in
school ; have an open fire in their room, and keep the ther-
mometer under 70 degrees. The majority of children, if so
treated, though they may be puny as babies, will grow up
tolerably strong men and women. This may not be agricul-
ture, but it is man-culture, and one depends on the other.
Our native New England population of the old English stock
is said to' be decreasing ; nor will it increase till the law of
health becomes the law of living.

Wherever we strike in, we work round to this same truth,
that we ever need more science — knowledge ;■ and to be
more scientific — knowing. Let each one, then, approach the
subject as he can, not scorning the work of others, but com-
bining it with his own.

Mother Earth holds her secrets tightly clenched, and
means to make us pull hard at her fingers, getting out a little
here and a little there. Thus she keeps us strong and active
and teaches us to value and to understand what we get.

Y.)

Report of the President aud Secretary.

To the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture :

Sir, — We herewith submit, in compliance with
the requirements of the statute, the following state-
ment of the operations of the Norfolk Agricultural
Society for the year 1875, to be found in the sub-
joined Reports of the several Committees.

HENRY S. EUSSELL, President.
Henry O. Hildreth, Secretary.

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liEPOliTS OF COMMITTEES.

HORSES.

Class A.

Best Stallion^ — Four 3'ears old and upwards. — Jasou Houghton,
Milton, 1st premium SIO ; H. W. Tiltou, Walpole, 2d premium
$7.

Best Brood Mare with Foal at her side, — Jason Houghton, Mil-
ton, 1st premium, %1 ; C. F. Howard, Foxboro, 2d premium, $5.

Colts and Fillies — For the best four years old, J. Allen, Dover,
a premium of $5 ; best three years old, W. E. Coffin, Dorchester,
$5 ; 2d best, W. T. Cook, Foxboro', $3 ; best two years old ; 0.
Hodgkins, West Roxbury, $3 ; 2d best, J. Allen, Dover, $2 ; best
one year old, W. T. Cook, Foxboro', $3 ; 2d best, W. E. Coffin,
Dorchester, $2.

Bestpair of Roadsters, — F. B, Ray, Franklin, Isl premium, $10.

Best Gelding or Mare, — H. R. Bird, Cauton, a premium of $8 ;
Dr. F. L. Gerald, Hyde Park, 2d premium, 6 ; J, M. Twitchell,
Hyde Park, 3d premium, 4.

Class B.

Best Brood Mare with Foal at her side, — A. T. Brown, Brook-
line, a premium of $7 ; best three years old, D. Kelley, Stough-
ton, a premium of 5 ; H. R. Bird, Canton, 2d best 3.

Class C.

Best Brood Mare with Foal at her side, — W. T. Cook Foxboro',
a premium of %1 ; 2d best, W.^T. Cook, Milton, 5.

Best Three Years Old, — J. H. Farrington, Milton, $5 ; 2d
best, 2 years old, W. T. Cook, Foxboro', premium of 2 ; best 1
year old, W. L. Faxon, Quincy, 3.

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Best Buggy or Chaise Horse, — C. L. Copeland, Milton, a prc-
miunofSS; 2d best, Emeiy Hawes, Stoughton, 6; 3d best, H.
Briggs, Walpole, 4.

Best Saddle Horse, — S. C. Ferry, Milton, a premium of $6 ; 2d
best, C. H. Heustis, Hj'-de Park, 4 ; 3d best, J. W. Bradlee, Mil-
ton, 3.

Best Matched Ponies, — J. W. Hamblin, Hyde Park, a second
premium of S4 ; best single pony, Henry Trowbridge, Norfolk,
3 ; 2d best, J. W. Bradlee, Milton, 2.

Class D.

Best Draught Horse — J. A. Hatchings, East Medway, a pre-
mium of $7 ; D. F. Decatur, West Dedham, 2d best, 5.

Best pair of Draught or Team Horses — C. A. Bigelow, East
Medway, a premium of $10 ; J. Ware, Norfolk, 2d best, 7.

RACES.
Thursday — Trials of Speed.

First Race — Gents' driving horses. — H. Beckwith, Jamaica
Plain, Ist prize, S25 ; E. G. Perkins, Hyde Park, 2d prize, 15 ;
Oliver Deane, Canton, 3d prize, 10.

Second Bace — Double Teams — R. W. Hamblin, Hyde Park, 1st
prize, $25 ; F. B. Ray, Franklin, 2d prize, $10.

Third Race — Running Horses. — S. S. Putnam, Jr., Neponset,
1st prize, $20 ; T. Raymond, Neponset, 2d prize, 10.

Friday — Trials of Speed.

First Race — Open to all. — J. C. Dyer, Medfield, 1st prize, $40 ;
R. W. Hamblin, Hyde Park, 2d prize, 25 ; H. C. Turner, Dedham,
3d prize, 10.

Second Race — Double Teams. — H. Beckwith, Jamaica Plain,
1st prize, $40 ; R. W. Hamblin, Hyde Park, 2d prize, 20.

Third Race — Running Horses. — S. S. Putnam, Jr., Neponset,
1st Prize $20 ; A. T. Holmes, Boston Highlands, 2d prize 10.

Fourth Race — Ponies — J. A. Paine, Dover, 1st prize, $20 ; J.
W, Beals, Milton, 2nd prize, 10.

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Fiftli Race — For horses that have never beaten 2.50. — T. E.
Clark, Hyde Park, 1st prize, $45 ; S. T. Capron, Franklin, 2d
prize, 20 ; C. S. Plarper, Sharon, 3d prize, 10.

Sixth Race — Last horse in — J. H. Farriugton, Milton, 1st prize,
$10 ; J. Walter Bradlee, Milton, 2d prize, 5.

Augustus P. Calder, Chairman.

RURAL SPORTS.

Foot Race. — John Manning, 1st prize, $8 ; A. Thompson, 2d
prize, 5 ; Moses Bass, 3d prize, 2.

W. R. Mann, Chairman.

PLOWING.

Double Horse Teams with Michigan Plow. — Josiah Ware, Nor-
folk, 1st premium of $15 ; 2d, Henry Goulding, Dover, 10 ; 3d,
Blackman Bros., Needham, 5.

With other Plows, — Bigelow & Sawin, Medway, 1st premium,
$15, Steel Clipper, U. G., No. 3 1-2; D. F. Decatur, Dedham,
2d, 10, Iron Beam; John Hutchins & Co., Medway, 3d, 5, Lyon
Plow.

Charles Hartshorn, ^

James T. Sumner, V Committee.

James Capen, J

Double Ox Teams,— Wm. Fales, Dedham, 1st premium, $15 ;
Henry L. Pierce, Canton, 2d, 10 ; S. K. Bayley, Milton, 3d, 5.

Nathan Longfellow, Chairman.

Single Horse Teams, — Nathaniel Farrington, Jr., Canton, 1st
premium, $10, Nourse Plow, No. 75 ; Patrick McNamara, Dover,
2d, 5, Doe Plow, E. 4.

L. W. Morse, {committee.
Horace Guild, )

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WORKING OXEN.

S. K. Bayley, Milton, 1st premium, ^10; Henry L. Pierce,
Canton, 2il, 7.

Henry M. Mack, Chairman.

STEERS.

The Committee regret that Mr. Luther Eaton of Dedham, failed
to enter his yoke of twin streers (breed, Jamestown and Jersey,) on
the first day of the exhibition, as it barred them from the first
premium, the rules requiring them to be entered the first day be-
fore ten o'clock ; they being extra fine cattle, and in every v,^ay

entitled to it.

Henry M. Mack, \

Saml. K. Bayley, > Committee.

J. Walter Bradlee. j

BULLS.

Brittany, Flinfs StocJi. — Napoleon Harvey, Foxboro,' 1st pre-
mium, $10.

Ayrshire. — H. E. Bacon, Walpole, 2d premium, $o.

Jersey. — Hemy L. Pierce, Canton, 1st premium, $10 ; Geo. S.
Ferry, Milton, 2d, 5.

Ayrshire Bull Calf. — E. P. Burgess, 1st premium, $5.

Best Bull Calf. — E. M. Gary, Milton, 1st premium, $5.

Jersey Bull Calf. — Thos. Cauley, Readville, 2d premium, 2.

AsAiiEL S. Drake, ^
N. S. White, i ^

James T. Sumner, ] Committee.
Edward M. Gary, j

COWS.

Herds. — H. L. Pierce, Canton, 1st premium, $25.

Jersey — Charles Faulkner, Brookline, eight years old, 1st pre-
mium, $10 ; Henry Chaffin, Brookline, 7 years old, 2d premium, o ;
Benj. C. Vose, H^'dc Park, 3d premium, 4.

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AyrsMre — H. E. Bacon, South Walpole, "Lady Scott," five
3^ears old, 1st premium, $10 ; H. E. Bacon, South Walpole, "Lady
Norfolk," three j^ears old, 2d premium, 5.

Grade — Dennis Murphj% Milton, 1st premium, $10 ; Edward
McKenna, Hj^de Park, 2d premium, 6 ; C. F. Pepper, Dedham,
3d premium, 4.

H. M. Mack, Dorchester, offered 4 cows for exhibition only,
which were very excellent animals.

Heifers in Milk. — Henry Chaffin, Brookline, 2d premium S2.

J. W. Gay, Chairman.

HEIFERS.

Jersey — For heifers two years old and under three. — H. L.
Pierce, Canton, 1st premium, 85 ; Charles S. Sargent, Brookline,
2d premium, 4 ; H. L. Pierce, Canton, 3d premium, 2.

Grade. — C. M. S. Churchill, Milton, 1st premium, 5 ; E. P.
Burgess, Dedham, 2d premium, 4 ; E. P. Burgess, 3d premium, 2.

Jersey Calf 6 months old. — Charles Fq,ulkner, Brookline, 1st
premium, 84.

Grade Calf sixteen iveeks old. — D, F. Decatur, Dedham, 2d pre-
mium, 2.

J. W. Gay, \r. -,,

A o A i Committee.

AsAHEL S. Drake, J

SWINE.

Largest and best collection — N. Farrington, Canton, 1st premium
815 ; J. H. Farrington, Milton, 2d premium, 10.

Boars — For best boar not less than six months old — J. H. Far-
rington, Milton, 1st premium 86 ; National Sailors' Home, Quincy,
2d premium, 4 ; S. K. Bayley, Milton, gratuit}^ 2.

Sows — Best sow not less than six months old — National Sailors'
Home, Quincy, 1st premium $6 ; J. H. Farrington, Milton, 2d
premium 4 ; H. W. Tilton, Walpole. gratuity, 2.

Weaned Pigs — Best litter not less than six months old — E. Cot-
ter, Canton, 1st premium 86 ; N. Farrington, Canton, 2d premium,
4; J. H. Davenport, Canton, gratuity, 2.

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Fat Hogs — E. Cotter, Canton, 1st premium, $G ; National Sail-
ors' Home, Quincy, 2d premium, 4 ; N. Farrington, Canton, gra-
tuity, 2 ; H. W. Tilton, Walpole, for two spring pigs, gratuity, 2.

T, B. Gkiggs, ^

Henry Goulding, 1 r^

J. B. TiLLEY, \ Committee.

W. L. Faxon, J

POULTRY.

Light Brahmas. — J. F. Mooar, Hyde Park, on fowls, 1st pre.
mium, $3.

J. F. Mooar, Hyde Park, chicks, 1st premium, S3 ; 2d pre-
mium, 2.

Dark Brahmas, — Francis Codman, Brookline, chicks, 1st pre-
mium, $3 ; 2d premium, 2.

Buff Cochin. — David Cartwright, Dedham, chicks, 1st premium,
$S.

Plymouth Rock — A. H. Drake, Stoughton, fowls, 1st premium,
S3; 2d premium, 2; 3d premium, 1 ; J, E. Sherman, Foxboro',
chicks, 1st premium, 3 ; A. H. Drake, Stoughton, chicks, 2d pre-
mium, 2 ; 3d premium, 1.

Dominique— K. I. Ellis, Norwood, fowls, 1st premium, 88 ; 2d
premium, 2.

Wliite Cochins— M.. I. Ellis, Norwood, fowls, 1st premium, $3 ;
2d premium, 2.

Houdans—'E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park, fowls, Isl, premium, $3
2d premium 2 ; 3d premium, 1 ; E. C. Aldrich, Hyde Park, chicks,
1st premium $3 ; 2d premium, 2 ; 3d, 1.

White Dorkins—A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, fowls, 1st premium,
$3.

Brown Leghorn— L. E. Gray, Foxboro', chicks, 1st premium,
S3 ; 2d premium, 2 ; J. E. Sherman, Foxboro', chicks, 3d premium,
1 ; J. E. Sherman, Foxboro', fowls, 1st premium, S3.

Dominique Leghorn— A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, fowls, 1st pre-
mium, S3.

Black Spanish— E. A. Fluet, Dedham, fowls, 3d premium, $1.
B. B. E. Game— Geo. Miles, Hyde Park, fowls ; 2d premium,

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2 ; Geo. Miles, Hyde Park, chicks, 1st premium, $3, 2(1 premium,
2 ; 3cl premium, 1.

B. B. R. Game Bantams — J. F. Mooar, Hyde Park, fowls, 1st
premium, $3 ; 2d premium, 2 ; 8d premium, 1 ; A. F. Stevens,
Wellegley, chicks, 1st premium, $3 ; J. F. Mooar, Hyde Park,
chicks, 2d premium, 2.

Black Game Bantams — E. Lunt, Hyde Park, Ist premium, $3.

White Bantams — A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, Ist premium, $3.

Black Cayuga Ducks— M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium $3 ;
2d premium, 2.

Spangled Mallard — M. I. Ellis, Norwood, 1st premium, $i3.

Pekin Ducks — J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 1st premium, $3.

Musk Ducks — J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 1st premium, $3.

Morten Ducks — W. E. Sumner, Milton, 1st premium, S3.

Geese — W. T. Cook, Milton, 1st premium, $3.

Pigeons— W. T. Cook, Milton, 2d premium, S2 ; E. P. Cassell,
Dedham, on collection, 1st premium, 3.

Polish Ducks — J. B. Tilley, Brookline, 1st premium, $3.

Ring Doves — McKean C. Churchill, Milton, gratuity, $1.

Rabbits — J. H. Barney, Hyde Park, gratuity, 50 cents.

Abel F. Stevens, i

Albert H. Drake, > Committee,

J. F. Co well, )

VEGETABLES.

Largest and Best Collection — R. P. Sumner, Milton, 1st pre-
mium, $20 ; James Mcintosh, Needham 2d, 15 ; J. B. Tilley,
Brookline, 3d, 10.

Largest and Best Collection Potatoes,— John Vose, Hyde Park,
1st premium, $6 ; William McDonald, Milton, 2d, 3.

Largest and Best Winter Squash, not less than four of each
Variety.— W. T. Cook, Milton, 1st premium, $1; John Vose,
Hyde Park, 2d, 3.'

Best Half Bushel Potatoes,— Y.. Paul, Dedham, 1st premium,
$2 ; Ileiny Bird, Stoughton, 2d, 1.

Best Half Bushel Timvps. — E. Paul, Dedham, 1st premium, $2;
J. H. Farrington, Milton, 2d, 1.

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Best Half Bushel Carrots, — -Tlios. B. Griggs, Brookline, 1st
premium, ^2 ; A. F. Stevens, Needham, 2d, 1.

Best Half Bushel Beets, — E. Paul, Dedham, 1st premium, $2 ;
John Vose, Hj'de Park, 2d, 1.

Best Half Bushel Tomatoes, — John Vose, Hyde Park, Ist pre-
mium, $2 ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 2d, 1.

Best Half Bushel Onions, — Allen Colburn, West Dedham, 1st
premium, $2.

Best Half Bushel Parsnips, — A. F. Stevens, Needham, 1st pre"
mium, S2 ; Thos. B. Griggs, Brookline, 2d, 1.

Best Two Quarts Lima Beans, — B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 1st
premium, ^2 ; John Vose, Hyde Park, 2d, 1.

Four Best Drumhead Cabbages. — Allen Colburn, West Dedham,
1st premium. $2 ; John Vose, Hyde Park, 2d, 1.

Four Best Caulifloioers, — Allen Colburn, West Dedham, 1st pre-
mium, $2.

Best Dozen Celery, — Thos. B. Griggs, Brookline, 1st premium,

Four Best Marroto Squash, — Timothy Corey, Brookline, 1st pre-
mium, $2.

Four Best Canada Crooked Neck Squash, — E. Paul, Dedham,
1st premium, $2.

Four Best Pumpkins, — A. Hunt, Milton, 1st premium, $2.

Four Best Watermelons. — John Vose, Hyde Park, 1st premium,
$2 ; D. F. Decatur, West Dedham, 2d, 1.

Twelve Ears Best Sweet Corn, — D. F. Decatur, West Dedham,
1st premium, %2; S. S. Somes, Milton, 2d, 1.

The Committee were pleased to be able to report a very large
and fine display of vegetables.

William J. Hyde, ) .,

David F. Henderson, r^'^'^^^^^^'

PEARS.

Twenty Varieties — No competitors.

Ten Fam^tes— Joshua W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium, $8 ; John
L. Bird, Dorchester, 2d. premium, 6 ; B. F. Radford, Hyde Park,
3d premium, 4.

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Five Varieties — Edward Sumner, Dedham, 1st premium, $6 ;
Cyrus Curtice, Jamaica Plain, '2d premium, 4 ; W. J. Griggs,
Brookline, 3d, 2.

SINGLE DISHES.

Bartlett — Rufus P. Sumner, Milton, 1st premium, S2 ; J. D.
Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium, 1.

Beurre d'Anjou — A. D. Capen, Dorchester, 1st premium, S2 ;
J. J. Raynes, Hyde Park, 2d premium, 1.

Urhaniste — F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, 1st premium, S2 ; Horace
Eaton, Quincy, 2d, 1.

Merriam — Col. Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium, $2 ;
Lucius Clapp, Stoughton, 2d premium, 1.

Louise Bonne de Jersey — J. H. Spear, Quincy, 1st premium, $2 ;
Col. Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 2d premium, 1.

Vicar of Winlcjield — A. W. Benton, Brookline, 1st premium $2 ;
J. D. Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium, 1.

Duchesse d'Angouleme — J. J Raynes, Hyde Park, 1st premium,
$2 ; J. M. Williams, Hyde Park, 2d premium, 1 ;

SecMe—J. S. Whitney, Brookline, 1st premium, 82 ; J. H. Far-
rar, Jamaica Plain, 2d premium, 1.

Onondaga — F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, 1st premium, $2; J. D.
Bradlee, Milton, 2d premium, 1.

Sheldon — A. W. Benton, Brookline, 1st premium, $2 ; R. P.
Sumner, Milton, 2d premium, 1.

Beurre Bosc — J. W. Page, Jamaica Plain, 1st premium, $2 ;
Russell Churchill, Milton, 2d premium, 1.

Beurre Clairgeau — F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, 1st premium $2 ;
J. W. Talbot, Norwood, 2d premium, 1.

Lawrence — Col. Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium, $2 ;
John L. Bird, Dorchester, 2d premium, 1.

Winter Nelis — Col. Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium,
S2.

Buffum — Joshua W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium, $2 ; J. H.
Spear, Quincy, 2d premium, 1.

Maria Louise, — Col. Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium,
$2 ; Timothy Smith, Dedham, 2d premium, 1 ;

Dana's Hovey — Col. Theodore Lyman, Brookline, 1st premium,

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Mount Vernon— E. Reed, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $2.
n. du Cornice— 3. J. R&yues, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $1.
Fulton — John L. Bird, Dorchester, $1 ;
Fig's— Thomas P. Swift, Hyde Park, $1.

E. C. R. Watker, Chairman.

APPLES.

Twelve Varieties—Best collection— F, & L. Clapp, Dorchester,
1st premium, $12.
Five Varieties— Besi collection— F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, $5.

SINGLE DISHES.

Baldwins— 3 ^mes Brack, Milton, 1st premium, $2 ; John L.
Bird, Dorchester, 2d premium, 1.

R. I. Greenings— C L. Copeland, Milton, 1st premium, $2 ; F.
& L. Clapp, Dorchester, 2d premium, 1.

Gravenstein—F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, 1st premium, $2;
Charles Stearns, Brookline, 2d premium, 1.

Hubhardston Nonsuch— C. L. Copeland, Milton, 1st premium,
$2 ; Sumner Bagley, Norwood, 2d premium, 1.

Roxhury Ricssetts—F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, 1st premium,
$2 ; John L. Bird, Dorchester, 2d premium, 1.

Porter— J. D. Bradlee & Co., Milton, 1st premium, $2 ; James
Breck, Milton, 2d premium, 1.

Tolman Sweet— Joshua W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium, $2 ; F.
& L. Clapp, Dorchester, 2d premium, 1.

Seaver Sweet— Joahns. W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium, $2.

Gilli-Floioer—Mvs. Elkins, Milton, 2d premium, $1.

Mw York Ritssett—C. L. Copeland, Milton, 1st premium, $2.

Winter Sweet— Charles Stearns, Brookline, 1st premium, $2.

Crab Apples— The Committee recommend the following gratui-
ties : —

Emery Hawes, North Stoughton, for single dish containing
more than the number required by the schedule, $1.

Thomas P. Swift, Hyde Park, for dish of crab-apples, $1.

George Vose, Chairman.

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GRAPES AND OTHER FRUITS.

Native Grcqjes — Best collection — Horace Eaton, Quincy, 1st
premium, $4 ; Edwin Reed, Hyde Park, 2d premium, 3.

SINGLE DISHES.

Delaware — Horace Eaton, Quincy, 1st premium, S2 ; J. W. Tal-
bot, Norwood, 2d premium, $\ ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, gratuity,
50 cents.

Diana — R. W. Sumner, Milton, 1st premium, $2 ; J. W. Talbot,
Norwood, 2d premium, 1.

Concord — J. "W. Talbot, Norwood, 1st premium, $2 ; C. S.
Locke, West Dediiam, 2d premium, 1 ; B. C. Vose, Hyde Park,
gratuity, 50 cents.

Agaivam — C. S. Locke, West Dedliam, 1st premium, $2 ; C. F.
Holt, Hyde Park, 2d premium, 1 ; J. W.Talbot, gratuity, 50 cents.

Allen Hybrid — Chas. Spring, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $2.

Eumelan — Horace Eaton, Quincy, 1st premium, $2.

Clinton — C. S. Locke, West Dedham, 1st premium, $2.

Craveling — B. F. Radford, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $2.

Peaches — Ebenezer Paul, Dedham, 1st premium, $3 ; Mrs.
Sarah Watson, Hyde Park, 3d premium, 1.

Cranberries — Nathaniel Gay, Stoughton, 1st premium, $3 ; Na-
than Longfellow, Needham, 2d premium, 2.

Quinces — Joshua W. Vose, Milton, 1st premium, $2.

N. B. White, Norwood, entered one dish each of Norfolk Mus-
cat and Amber Queen grapes for special premiums, as seedlings as
equal to or better than Isabella, and ripening at or before the middle
of September. It was the unanimous vote of the committee that
neither variety came up to the requirements, and they therefore
withheld the premium.

Abel F. Stevens, Chairman.

FLOWERS.

Pot Plants— E. Roberts, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $10 ; B. C
Vose, Hyde Park, 2d, 5.

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Cut Flotvers — John Vose, Milton, 1st premium, $i ; N. T.
Davenport, IMiltou, 2cl, 3.

Bouquets — B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $4 ; James D.
Davenport, Milton, 2d, 3.

Dahlias — Miss M. B. Leseur, Hyde Park, 2d premium, $1 ;

Gratuities — N. T. Davenport, Milton, for rose-buds, $2 ; Miss
Helen A. Fisk, Hyde Park, for one basket of flowers, 1 ; Mrs. B.
C. Vose, Hyde Park, one basket of flowers, 1 ; Miss Fanny Staples,
Oakdale, two baskets of flowers, 1 ; John Vose, Milton, seedling
verbenas, 1 ; Mrs. M. B. Leseur, Hyde Park, one bouquet, 50
cents ; Mr. W. Briggs, Brookline, dahlias and one bouquet, 50
cents.

A. K. Teelk, Chairman.

BREAD.

Mhrat — Mrs. Henry Blackman, Necdham, 1st premium, $3 ;
Mrs. Nathaniel Gay, Stoughton, 2d premium, 2.

Unbolted MHieat — Mrs. Nathaniel Gay, Stoughton, 1st premium,
$3 ; Mrs. B. N. Sawin, Dover, 2d premium, 2.

Eye and Indian — Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, Needham, 1st
premium, $3 ; Mrs. Charles Blackman, Needham, 2d premium, 3.

J. White Belcher, Chairman.

honp:y.

Mrs. W. U. Fairbairn, Hyde Park, 1st premium, $2; William
Eldridge, Canton, 2d premium, 1.

J. White Belcher, Chairman.

DAIRY.

James R. Fisher, Norwood best box of butter, 1st premium, $5 ;
The Blue Hill Stock Farm, 2d premium, 3 ; Mrs. Lucius Clapp,
Stoughton, 3d premium, 2.

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No stntcmcnt, snch as required, was presented with the butter
of Mr. Fisher, otherwise he might have been entitled to a premium
offered for the best produce of butter. The samples presented
were fewer than usual, but of very good quality. No cheese was
offered.

M. M. Fisher, Committee.

PICKLES, PRESERVES, &c.

Mrs. John Vose, Milton, for collection of 16 jars preserved fruit,
1st premium, $5 ; Mrs. Edward Sumner, Dedham, for collection of
13 jars canned fruit, 2d, 3 ; Mrs. J. W. Talbot, Norwood, for col-
lection of 11 jars preserved fruit, 3d, 2 ; Mrs. R, W. Sumner,
Milton, for 6 jars of mixed pickles, gratuity, 1.

Mrs. Massena B. Soutiiworth, ) ^ ., ,
Mrs. Annie B. Thacher, } Committee.

SEEDS.

Adam Mackintosh, Canton, seed corn, 1st premium, $2 ; J. B.
Tilley, Brookline, 2d, 1.

G. E. Chickering, \

J. N. Smith, > Committee.

E. L. Mann, )

STRAW WORK.

Mrs. Sally Boyden, Foxboro', for one lot of Straw Braid, 200
yards, 1st premium, $5.

Chas. C. Sumner, Chairman.

CARRIAGES, WAGONS, &c.

To C. S. Harper of Sharon, for best Brewster road wagon, 1st
premium, $5.

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To C. S. Harper of Sharon, for one horse family carriage, 2rl
premium, S3.

G. K. Gannett, \

S. Carroll, > Committee,

Geo, Vose, )

CABINETS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS.

Your committee on birds and insects find but two entries which
come strictly under their jurisdiction.

Geo, E. Brown, Dedham, presented an ornamental case of stuff-
ed birds and animals, which reflect much credit on the skill and
taste of the exhibitor, and to whom we recommend the 2d pre-
mium of 63.

There was but one entry of insects, and these were evidently
not of a recent collection, as many of the specimens were much
faded and injured by exposure to light and atmospheric influences.
To the exhibitor, Mr, F, F. Brown, Dedham, we award the 3d
premium of $1.

The rules of the society require that all entries made in this
department shall be properly arranged and classified, and it is
hoped that in future this rule will be more strictly observed by
competitors.

To Mr, Charles Mansfield, Wellesley, who exhibited a collection
of about 50 birds' eggs, each of a dirferent name and variety, your
committee would recommend a gratuity of Si. Your committee
are pleased to find this year a novelty presented for their
notice in the way of a swarm of bees in working condition, con-
fined in a. hive of glass and black walnut, so arranged that it
may be kept in the house as a parlor ornament ; a constant source
of entertiiinment and instruction, aside from pecuniary considera-
tions. We award to the exhibitor, Mr. Charles F. Holt, Hyde
Park, a gratuity of S2.

A. W. Cheever, for the Committee.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES.

To George H. Mansfield & Co. of South Canton, the Society's

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Diploma, for their large and valuable display of braided silk and
linen fish lines, that will gladden the heart of any disciple of Ike
Walton.

To Walker & Phinney of Stoughton, the Society's Diploma, for
their exhibition of boot and Shoe lasts of superior workmanship.
From appearances there is no reason why any one should suffer
from a bad fitting boot in the future.

To S. C. & 1. G. Phinney of Stoughton, the Society's Diploma,
for patent boot and shoe counters and soles. A very good evidence
that there is to be no more " running down at the heel," however
hard the times may be.

To I. H. SuUavvay of Boston, General Agent for Morse's Rol-
ling Lug, the Society's Diploma. An ingenious invention and
remetly long sought for by every owner of a horse and carriage,
to prevent the sudden destruction of the saddle and injury to the
horse.

To Russell Pratt of North Easton, the Society's Diploma, for
his " American dish lifter." The wonderful adaptability of this
simple contrivance to grasp every form of utensil used by the house-
wife al)out a heated stove is truly surprising.

To E. R. Jones of Boston, for his fruit and vegetable knife,
the Society's Diploma. A very simple and therefore valuable arti-
cle for the kitchen, with a gauge easily adjusted to any required
thickness and no danger of getting out of order ; it is ever ready
for use.

To the New England Awl & Needle Co. of West Medway, for
their exhil)ition of sample card of machine and haiad awls made by
tliem, the Society's Diploma. The peculiarity of their manufac-
tory consists in workingall their several parts by machinery and
they are never over-heated to destroy their^quality and are uniform
in temper.

To Willard Lewis of Walpole, the Society's Diploma, and we
are happy to say a good word in favor of his anti-moth carpet lin-
ing, luiving used and proved the same. A valuable article to
every housekeeper.

To Charles B. Tower & Co.. Hyde Park, we award the Society's
Diploma, for his case of writing inks and mucilage, and we can say
his samples used by the society proved a superior article.

To the Brainard Milling Machine Co., of Hyde Park, the Socie-
ty's Diplom;i, tor their samples of bench vises for the machine shop.
A sul)stantial and n;'atly made article.

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To Josiali TiscUile of NorwooU, who dis[)hiyed his patent treadle
for the sewing machine the Society's Diploma, and we are glad to
say it is an improvement over his former exhibitions, having over-
come its previous imperfections.

To Timothy Smith of Dedham, an exhibitor of Manual and
Drake Spring Bed, the Society's Diploma. Mr. Smith is proving
himself to be an indefatigable worker for the comfort of liis fellow-
men in furnishing substantial and comfortable beds.

Your committee desire to thank those who contributed their man-
ufactures, for we duly appreciate their kindness and good will to
the Society, and regret that so many refrained from contributing
where when we had every reason to expect ; and hoping they will
not forget us in the future, we submit

Respectfully yours,

Wm. R. Mann, in behalf of the Committee.

MANUFACTURES OF CLOTH, &c.

The committee award to Messrs. Geo. R. and Wm. R. Mann
of Sharon, the Societj^'s Diploma for a very superior bolt of Cot-
ton Duck foundation to rubber machine belts. To the efforts of
the Messrs. Mann the Society are under lasting obligation, not
only for tlie fine exhibition in their own special branch of manu-
facture, but for their elforts to induce other manufacturers to con-
tribute to this important department. A little of the zeal and en-
ergy displayetl by these gentlemen, if diffused throughout the
county, would add very much to the attractions of our annual ex-
hibition.

Charles H. French, Chairman.

LADIES' WORK.

Carrie Watson, Milton, 1 quilt, Si.

Mrs. Mary Snell, Dedham, 2 quilts, $1.50.

F. A. Trowbridge, Norfolk, 1 quilt, Si.

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Fannie A. Barr, Dedliam, 1 quilt, 50 cents.

Mrs. Hannah P. Cook, Milton, 1 quilt, $1.

Miss Katie Logue, Randolph, quilt, $1.

Miss Josie Breck, Milton, drawn rug, ^2.

Mrs. Samuel Googing, Dedham, drawn rug, $1.

Miss Louisa T. Trescott, Sharon, tidy, $1.

Miss Sophia J. Ellis, Canton, carriage robe, $3.

Miss Alice L. Tolman, Walpole, carriage robe, $2.

Mrs. S. T. Egan, Hyde Park, wax foliage, $1.

Mrs. Charles B. Danforth, Dedham, wax cross, $1.

Miss Fannie Harlow, Hyde Park, quilt. Si.

Miss Minnie Spring, Hyde Park, embroidery, $1.

Mrs. J. Walter Bradlee, Milton, cushion, $1.

Miss Annie Chapin, Hyde Park, hood, 50 cents.

Mrs. G. A. Harned, Milton, hood, SI.

Mrs. Charles H. Merriam, Milton, needle work, $2,

Henry Harlow, Hyde Park, cross, Si.

Miss Alice Tucker, Milton, tidies, $1.50.

Miss Constance Whitney, Milton, book marks, 25 cents.

Miss Georgie Sumner, Milton, card case, 50 cents.

Miss Ida Staples, Dedham, cornucopia, 50 cents.
Mrs. B. C. Vose, Hyde Park, embroidery. Si.

Miss H. A. Perry, Hyde Park, embroidery, Si-

Miss Nettie R. Farrar, Jamaica Plain, handkerchief box, $1.

Mrs. J. A. Soule, Readville, Hyde Park, cushion, 75 cents.

Mrs. A. M. Stevens, Milton, cushion, 50 cents.

Miss E. L. Stevens, Milton, sofa cushion, Si.

Mrs. Nellie Brown, Oakdale, slipper case, 50 cents.

Miss Alice Tolman, Walpole, scrap bag, 50 cents.

Mrs. Leander Britton, Stoughton. underclothing, Si.

Miss Alice Policy, East Walpole, embroidery $1.

Mrs. S. M. Wales, Dedham, home made linen, SI.

Miss Clara Tuttle, Dedham, toilet sett, 50 cents.

Miss E. Mosher, Milton, silk patchwork, SI.

Miss Almeda Converse, Readville, French lace, 50 cents.

Mrs. Warren Ellis, Norwood, hair work, SI

Miss Marion F. Hall, Hyde Park, tatting, 50 cents.

Miss Susie Tisdale, Sharon, quilt, $1.

Miss S^die Morse, Milton, tidy, 50 cents.

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Mrs. Eugene Sanford, Hyde Park, paintings, $2.

George L. Crowd, Milton, cut pictures, Si.

James T. Tibbets, Readville, writing desk, $1.

L. P. Winchenburg (ten years) drawn rug, $1.

Mrs. Wm. H. Fales, Foxboro', tidy, 50 cents.

Roger Sumner, Milton, wooden pinchers, 50 cents.

Miss Katie Bradlee, Milton, tidies, 75 cents.

Mrs. John Crawford, Readville, knit doll, 50 cents.

Miss Louise Starr, Hyde Park, 50 cents.

Miss Helen Fiske, Hyde Park, needle-work, 50 cents.

Mrs. George Haggctt, Readville, toilet sett, 75 cents.

Miss Hoffman, Randolph, rustic pictures and mats, $1.50.

Miss Sarah J. Ellis, Norwood, card case and match box, 50 cts.

Mr. Geo. Gould, Milton, picture frames, gratuity, $1.

Miss Mabel Morse, Milton, sofa cushion, $1.

Mrs. Mary Carter, Oakdale, tatting, 50 cents.

Mrs. Harlow, Hyde Park, pillow shams, 50 cents.

Mrs. Samuel Wales, Dedham, carpeting, diploma.

Miss M. B. Lesseur, Hyde Park, ancient chair, diploma.

Mrs. John Vose, \

Mrs. Wm. T. Thachek, > Committee.

Mrs. Jesse Vose, j .

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Recapitulation of Pf<^emiums

AWARDED BY THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

FOK 1875.

HORSES.

Jason Houghton, $17.00

Wm. T. Cook, (Foxboro), 12.00

H. R. Bird, . ." 11.00

W. E. Coflin, 10.00

F. B. Ray, 10.00

C. A. Bigelow, 10.00

C. L. Copeland, 8.00

J. A. Hutchins 7.00

H. W. Tilton 7.00

J. Allen, 7.00

A. T. Browne, 7.00

J. H. Farrington, 7.00

J. Ware 7.00

W. T. Cook, (Milton), . . 7.00

F. L. Gerald, 6.00

Emery Hawes, 6.00

S. C. Ferry, 6.00

D. F. Decatur 5.00

C. F. Howard, 5.00

D. Kelley, 5.00

J. W. Bradlee, 5.00

John. M. Twitchell, .... 4.00

H. Briggs, 4.00

C. H. Heustis 4.00

J. W. Hamblin, 4.00

O. Hodgkins 3.00

W. L. Faxon, 3.00

H. Trowbridge, 3.00

HORSES. — Extra Premiums.

R. VV. Hamblin, $70.00

H. Beckwith, 65.00

T. E. Clark, 45.00

S. S. Putnam, Jr., 40.00

J. C. Dyer, 40.00

J. A. Paine 20.00

S. T. Capron, ....... 20.00

E. G. Perkins, 15.00

Oliver Deane, 10.00

F. B. Ray, 10.00

T. Raymond, 10.00

H. C. Turner, 10.00

A. T. Holmes 10.00

J. W. Reals 10.00

J. H. Farrington, 10.00

C. S. Harper, 10.00

J. W. Bradlee, 5.00

RURAL SPORTS.

John Manning, . $8.00

A. Thompson. 5.00

Moses Bass, 2.00

PLOWING.

Josiah Ware $15.00

Bigelow & Sawin, 15.00

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William Fales, 15.00 i

Henry Goukling, 10.00

D. F. Decatur 10.00

U. L. Pierce 10.00

N Farriiigton, Jr 10.00

Blackmail. Bros., 5.00

J. Hutchins &Co., .... 5.00

S. K. Bayley, 5.00

P. McNamara 5.00

WORKING OXEN.

S. K. Bayley, 10.00

H. L. Pierce, 7.00

BULLS.

Napoleon Harvey, .... $10.00

ILL. Pierce 10.00

H. L. liacon, 5.00

Geo. S. Fciry, 5.00

K. P. Buroess, 5.00

E. M. Carey, 5.00

Thomas Curley, 2. 00

COWS.

H. L. Pierce, $25.00

H. E. Bacon lo.oo

Charles Faulkner, 10. UO

Dennis Muiphy, 10.00

Henry Chaftinr 7.00

Edward McKenna, .... 5.0U

J{. C. Vo.se 4.00

C. F. Pepper, 4.00

HEIFERS.

H. L. Pierce $7.00

E. P. Burgess, 6.00

C. M. S. C'hnrchilll, .... 5.00
Charles S. Sarofent, .... 4.00
Charles Faulkner, 4.00

D. F. Decatur, 2.00

SWINE.

N. Farrington, $21.00

J. H. Farrington, 20.00

National Sailor's Home, . 14.00

E. Cotter 12.00

J. H. Davenport 4.00

il. W. Tilton 2.00

S. K. Bay lev 2.00

POULTRY.

M. I. Ellis, 18.00

J. F. Mooar 16.00

E. C. Aklrich 12.00

A. F. Stevens, 12.00

A. II. Drake, y.uo

J. B. Tilley y.OO

Geo. Miles, 8.00

J.E. Sherman, 7.00

Francis Codman, 5.00

L. E. Gray 5.00

W. T. Cook, (Milton), . 5.00

David Cartwright, .... 3.00

E. P. Cassell 3.00

E. Lunt, 3.00

VV. E. Sumner, 3.00

McLean C. Chuichill, . . 3.00

E. A. Fluet, 1-00

J. H. Barney 50

VEGETABLES.

K. P. Sumner, $20.00

John V(jse IG.OO

James Mackintosh, .... 15.00

J. B Tilley, 10.00

E. Paul, 8.00

Alltn Colburn 6.00

Thomas B. Griggs, .... 6.00

W. T. Cook, (Milton), . . 4 00

William McDonald, .... 3.00

B. C. Vo.se, 3.00

A. F. Stevens 3.00

D. F. Decatur, 3.00

Timo. Corey, 2.00

A. Hunt, 2.00

S. S. Somes 1 00

J. H. Farrington, I.OO

Henry Bird, 1.00

PEARS.

Theodore L^-man, $11.00

Josnua VV. Vose, 10.00

John L. Bird 8.00

Edward Sumner, 6.00

F. & L. Clapp, 6.00

B. F. Radtord 4.00

Cyrus Curtice, 4.00

J.' J. Raynes 4.00

A. W. Benton 4.00

John D. I'.radlee, 3.00

R. K. Sumner, 3.00

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J. H. Spear, 3.00

W. I. Griggs 2.00

James S. Whitney 2.00

A. D. Capen, 2.00

J. W. Page, 2.00

E. Reed, , 2.00

Horace Eaton, 1.00

L. Clapp, 1.00

J. H. Farrar, 1.00

Russell Churchill, .... 1.00

J. W, Talbot, 1.00

Timothy Smith, 1.00

T. P. Swift 1.00

J. M. Williams, 1.00

APPLES.

F. & L. Clapp $23.00

C. L. Copeland, 6.00

J. VV, Vose, i.OO

James Breck, 3.00

Charles Stearns, 3.00

John L. Bird 2.00

JohnD. Bradlee&Co., . . 2.00

Mrs. Elkins, 1.00

Emery Hawes, 1.00

Sumner Bagley, 1.00

Thomas P. Swift, 1.00

GRAPES AND OTHER FRUITS

Horace Eaton, $8.00

C. S. Locke 5.00

J. W. Talbot, 4.50

Edwin Reed, 3.00

E. Paul, 3.00

Nathaniel Gay, 3.00

R. W. Sumner 2.00

Charles Sprins:, 2.00

B. F. Radford, 2.00

J. W. Vose 2.00

N. Longfellow, 2.00

B. C. Vose, 1-00

C. F. Holt. ........ 1-00

Mrs. Sarah Watson, ... 1.00

BREAD.

Mrs. Nathaniel Gay. . . . $5.00

Mrs. Henry Blackman, . 3.00

Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, 3.00

Mrs. Charles Blackman, . 2.00

Mrs. B. N. Sawin 2.00

HONEY.

Mrs. W. U. Fairbairn, . . $2.00

William Eldridge, . .
DAIRY.

1.00

^5.00
3.00
2.00

James R. Fisher, . . .
Blue Hill Stock Farm,
Mra. Lucius Clapp, . .

SEEDS.

Adam Mackintosh, .... $2.00
J. B. Tilley, 1.00

FLOWERS.

E. Roberts $10 00

B. C. Vose, 9.00

John Vose, 5.00

N. T. Davenport, 5.00

J. D. Davenport, 3.00

Mrs. M. B. Lesseur, . . . 1.50

Miss Helen A. Fiske, . . . 1.00

Mrs. B. C. Vose, LOO

Miss Fannie Staoles, . . . 1.00

M. W. Briggs, 50

PICKLES, PRESERVES, &c.

Mrs. John Vose, 5.00

Mrs. Edward Sumner, . . 3.00

Mrs. J. W. Talbot. .... 2.00

Mrs. R. W. Sumner, . . . 1.00

STRAW WORK.

Mrs. Sally Boyden, ' . . . $5.00

CARRIAGES, WAGONS, &c.

C. S. Harper $8.00

CABINET OF BIRDS AND IN-
SECTS.

Geo. E. Brown, ...... $3.00

F. F. Brown. . , 1-00

Charles Mansfield 1.00

Charles F. Holt, 2.00

LADIES WORK,

See pages 35-G-7 $55.50

$1500.50

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Treasurei^'s Repoi\t.

C. C. Churchill, in account with Norfolk Agricultural Society.

Dr.

To balance Dec. 31, 1874 $1,153 34

cash of uew members 67 00

" " Commonwealth 600 00

" proceeds of Fair, 1875 1,487 89

" from all other sources 3,13156

$6,439 79

Contra. Cr.

By cash paid incidental expenses $2,997 63

'' " premiums 1,275 75

" " Secretary's Salary 100 00

" '♦ Treasurer's " 100 00

" " Interest on debt 1,852 34

Balance in Treasury 114 07

$6,439 79

C. C. CHURCHILL, Treasurer.
Dedham, Dec. 31, 1875.

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r» Tl O C E E 33 I ISI G S

on the occasion of the
Ty/enty-Seventh Annivee^sary

OF THE

NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, September 30th, and October 1st, 1875.

Tlie '27th Annual Exhibition of the Norfolk Agricultural Society
was held at Readville, on Thursda}' and Frida}', September 30tb,
and October 1st, 1875. The vreather was very unfavorable during
both days, interfering very much with the convenience of contribu-
tors and visitors, and causing a serious falling off in the usual at-
tendance. This result was the more to be regretted as the display
in many of the Departments was unusually fine. The following
is a brief recapitulation of the leading features :

Of Horses, the leading contributors were Col. Henry S. Russell,
President of the Society, William T. Cook of Foxboro', Francis B.
Ray of Franklin, and Wm. E. Coffin of Dorchester.

Of Stock, the principal exhibitors were Henry L. Pierce of
Canton, the Lawrence Farm, by Henry M. Mack, Dorchester, and
Messrs. Henry Chaffin and Charles Faulkner of Brookline, H, E.
Bacon, Walpole, and Edward P. Burgees of Dedham.

Swine were exhibited by the Messrs. Farrington, respectively of
Canton and Milton, National Sailors' Home, Quincy, H. W. Tilton,
Walpole and others.

Of Poultry, contributions were made by M. I. Ellis, Norwood,
A. H. Drake, Stoughton, L. E. Gray and J. E. Sherman, Foxboro',

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J. B. Tilley, Brookline, J. F. Mooar, and K. C. AUliici!, ilvd-j
Park, A. F. Stevens, Needham, and olliera.

The displa_y of Fruit was in many rospects tlie largest and best
ever niu<le by the Society. Of Pears, Hon. Marsltall P. Wilder,
exhibited 114 separate varieties, not ior premuim, and contribu-
tions were made by John D. Bradlee and Joshua W. Vose of Mil-
ton ; Col. Theodore Lyman, Brookline, F. and L. Clapj) and J. S.
Bird of Dorchester ; Edward Sumner, Dedhum, and others. Of
Apples, as usual, F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, were the leading con-
tributors, but fine displays were made by C. L. Copeland, John D.
Bradlee and James Breck, Milton, and others. Of Grapes, Horace
Eaton, Quincy, J. W. Talbot and N. B. White, Norwood, and C.
S. Locke, West.Dcdham, were the principal exhibitors.

The display of Plants and Flowers, owing to the frosts of the
preceding week, was not equal to that of former years. Yet fine
exhibitions were made by E. Roberts and B. C. Vose of Hyde
Park, N. T. Davenport aiid John Vose of Milton, and others.

The Show of Vegetables was of unusual excellence, the leading
contributors being R. P. Sumner, W. T. Cook, Milton ; James
Mackintosh, Needhara ; Allen Colburn and E. Paul, Dedham, and
others.

The contributions of Bread and Butter v/ere of average number
and quality. Of Pickles and Preserves, a fine display was made
by Mrs. John Vose and Mrs. R. W. Sumner, Milton, Mrs. Edward
Sumner, Dedham, and Mrs. J. W. Talbot, Norwood.

In the Department of Ladies' Work, the contributions, tliough
not as extensive as on former occasions, wore tasteful and in many
cases elegant. ^

In the department of manufactures the display was uuicii larger
tlian usiud, embraciiig specimens of the famous macliine liolting
from Messrs. Geo. R. & Wm. R. Mann, Sharon, a large and val-
uable display of braided silk and linen fish lines from Geo. H.
Mansfield & Co. of South Canton ; patent boot and shoe counters
and soles from S. C. & I. G. Phinney of Stoughton, sample card
machine and hand awls from the New England Awl and Needle
Co. of West Medway ; anti-moth carpet lining from Willard Lew-
is of Walpole; writing inks and mucilage from Charles B. Tower
of Hyde Park ; bench vises from the Brainard Milling Machine
Co, ; carriages from C. S. Harper, Sharon, &c.

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On Thursday forenoon, the Ploughing and Drawing Matches
took place, and the afternoon was devoted to the examination of
contributions by the several committees and to trotting on the
course.

On Friday, the first performance was the cavalcade of all horses
on exhibition on the track. At 12 o'clock m. a procession was
formed under the direction of Lieut W. B. Fenner of Roxbury,
Chief Marshal, which, preceded by the Sharon Band, marched to
the tent, when after prayer by Rev. A. K. Teele, D.D., of Milton,
Chaplain of the Day, the President of the Society, Col. Henry S.
Russell of Milton, invited the company to partake of an excellent
and substantial dinner prepared by L. E. Reed of Boston, at the
close of which the orator of the occasion, Col. Theodore Lyman
of Brookline, was introduced to the audience and delivered the
address, which will be found in full in the opening pages of this
volume. Brief addresses were also made by Col. Marshall P. Wil-
der of Dorchester, the Honorary President of the Society ; Judge
Edmund H. Bennett of Taunton, delegate from the State Board of
Agriculture ; Edward L. Pierce, Esq., of Milton, and Hon. Rich-
ard Goodman of Lenox ; after which the proceedings in the tent
were brought to a close and the company adjourned to the track.

The races on the course began at 2 o'clock p.m., under the di-
rection of the Judges, Alden Bartlett of West Roxbury, William
E. Angier of Milton, and J. Freeman Ellis of Stoughton, and
were carried through, notwithstanding the showers which continued
to fall during the afternoon.

During the interval of the races, the famous stallion Smuggler
was driven around the track much to the satisfaction of the large
crowd of spectators. During the afternoon the Hyde Park Fire
Department visited the grounds in the course of their annual
parade. Good order prevailed during the entire exhibition, which
gave promise of being one of the best ever held by the Society.
But rain during a portion of each day, ending in a pouring
storm on the second, kept away many visitors, and occasioned
much discomfort to all those Who were present.

The duties of Chief Marshal were admirably performed by
Lieut. W. B. Fenner of the Roxbury Horse Guards, assisted by
Orderly Sergants C. E. Fox, and A. W. Carleton, and Coporals F.
H. Gobs and John Bleiler, all of the same corps.

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PFFICEI^S OF THE SoCIETY, 1873.

President i
HENRY S. RUSSELL of Milton.

Honorary President;
Hon. MARSHALL P. WILDER of Dorchester.

Vice-Presidents ;

HOxN. OTIS GARY of Foxborough.

ALONZO W. CHEEVER of Wrentham.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS of Quincy.

ALFRED W. WHITCOMB of liandolph.

THEODORE LYMAN of Brookline.

WILLIAM R. xMANN of Sharon.

Corresponding and Recording Secretary:
HENRY O. HILDRETH of Dedham.

Treasurer;
CH AUNCEY C. CHURCHILL of Dedham.

Executive Committee :

E. C. R. WALKER of West Boxbury.

ALBERT B. BALCH of MedfieU.

CHARLES F. CURTIS of West Boxburg.

AUGUSTUS P. CALDER of West Boxbury.

WILLIAM T. COOK of Foxborough.

ELLIS TUCKER 0/ Cariton.

HENRY M. M ACK of Dorchester.

DAVID W. TUCKER of Milton.

ATHERTON T. BROWN 0/ Brookline.

Finance Committee and Auditors :

IRA CLEVELAND of Dedham.

WILLIAM J. STUART of Hyde Park.

ELIPHALET STONE of Dedham.

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GI

ALVA MOlilUSON.
DAVID 11. BATES.

WILLIAM J. HYDE.
GEORGE GRIGGS.

EDMUND TUCKER.
JAMES T. SUMNER.

SOLOMON J. BEAL.

LUTHER EATON.
ALLEN COLBURN.

LEMUEL CLAPP.
SAMUEL J. CAi'lCN.
AARON D. CAPEN.

HENRY GOULD IN G.
EPHRAIM WILSON.

JAMES CAPEN.
FRANCIS D. WILLIAMS.

ERASTUS L. MKICALF.
JOHN W. RICHAKD60N.

EVE

HENRY A. DARLING.
WILLIAM J. STUART.

CHARLES C. ^ SEWALL.
ELIJAH THAYER.

WILLARD P. CLARK.
CLARK PARTRIDGE.

ALBERT K. TEELL.
LYMAN DAVENPORT

Board of Trustees.
IIKLLINUIIAM.
CORGE H. CROOKS.
liUAlNTKL:L;.

GEORGE WALES.
E. A. HOLLINGSWORTH.
liUOOKLlNE.

CHARLES STEARNS.
WILLIAM J. GRIGGS.
CANTON.

ADAM McINTOSH.
NATHANIEL S. WHITE.
COIIASSET.

ABRAHAM II. TOWER.
DEDLIAM.

JEREMIAH W. GAY.
AUGUSTUS B. ENDICOTT.

JOSEPH E. HALL.
GEORGE DORR.
DANIEL SFEAR.
. OVElt.

BENJAMIN N. SAWIN.
AMOS W. SHUMWAY.
bOXiiOROUiiil.

CHARLES F. HOWARD.
JAMES F. LEONARD.
FRANKLIN.

HIRAM W. JONES.
FRANCIS B. RAY.
I10L]iU<;()K.
RETT E. HOLBROOK.

ilVDE PARK.

CHARLES F. GERRY.
C. L. FARNSWORTH.
MEDFIELD,

ALONZO B. PARKER.
R. T. LOMBARD.

MEOWAY.

WILLIAM DANIELS.
MILTON M. FISHER.

MILTON.

CHARLES L. COPELANl).
JOSHUA VV. VOSE.

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NEEDHAM.

ABEL F. STEVENS.
CHARLES H. MANSFIELD.

WALTEll H. FISHEH.
ERASTUS DUPKE.

JAMES R. FISHER.
ISAAC ELLIS.

JOSEPH VV. ROBERTSON.
LEMUEL BILLINGS.

H ENRY B LACK M A N .
JAMES MACKINTOSH.

NORFOLK.

LUCAS POND.

GEORGE E. HOLBROOK.

NORWOOD.

JOSIAH W. TALBOT.
SIDNEY E. MORSE.

QUINCY.

CHARLES A. HOWLAND.
WILLIAM L. FAXON.

RANDOLPH.

J. WHITE BELCHER.
WILLIAM PORTER.

ROLAND WORTHINGTON.
J. AUSTIN ROGERS.
ISAAC HAYDEN.

ASAHEL S. DRAKE.
LEWIS W. MORSE.

LUCIUS CLAPP.
NENRY BIRD.

WILLARD LEWIS.
HENRY M. PLIMPTON.

EPHRAIM MANN.
SETH MANN, 2d.

KOXBURY.

JOSEPH H. CHADWICK.
GEORGE CURTIS.
SAMUEL LITTLE.

SHARON.

GEORGE R. MANN.
THOMAS DECATUR.

STOUGHTON.

ROBERT PORTER, Jr.
ALBERT H. DRAKE.

WALPOLK.

EDMUND POLLEY.
NAAMAN B. WILMARTH.

WEST ROXBURY.

ALFRED S. BROWN.
JOSEPH W. PAGE.

JAMES HUMPHREY.
ALBERT TIRRELL.

JOHN F. CO WELL.
EBENEZER B. PARKER.

HAMILTON J. FARRAR.
GEORGE S. CURTIS.

WEYMOUTH.

ERASTUS NASH.
JAMES L. BATES.

WRENTHAM.

CHAUNCEY G. FULLER.
ROBERT P. GKANT.

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