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A VERY EARLY AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL FAIR[AGRICULTURAL FAIR, BROOKFIELD, MASS.]. At a Meeting of the Brookfield Agricultural Society, on the 25th day of January, A. D. 1813. Upon the Report of a Committee appointed at the last meeting, Voted that, to induce exertions for raising the best Cattle and Sheep, the following Premiums, to be paid out of the Funds of the Society, be offered---viz. First Lot...The time and place for the exhibition of said Sheep and cattle shall be on the first Monday in September, A. D. 1814, at the present dwelling house of Capt. Simeon Draper, in Brookfield, when and where the estimate shall be made and the premiums adjudged... 4to broadside, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2". [Brookfield, Mass.: Printed by E. Merriam & Co., 1813]..
We find no reference to the existence of this early American agricultural society, except by the only other copy known which is at AAS. The first… Read More