Daily National Intelligencer

We are unacquainted with any local institution which has been productive of more benefit to an extensive and populous neighborhood than the Association in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, for the improvement of the useful arts and the promotion of agricultural objects. It would be a source of great satisfaction to us, could we see similar institutions rising up in every district throughout the union, or even one in each state there is nothing which would so essentially promote the solid interests and prosperity of the country. Wherever established and conducted with spirit, they are sources of pleasure as well as of profit, and we regret that the Berkshire Association, if not the only one of the kind now in operation, at least is the only one fostered with zeal by its friends. We are glad to find by the following notice (which we have been requested to publish) that the annual exhibition at Pittsfield is again to take place with unabated brilliancy.

BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
The sixth cattle show and fair will be holden in Pittsfield, Mass. on Wednesday and Thursday, the 2d and 3d days of October next. Gentlemen residing out of this state, especially farmers and manufacturers, are respectfully invited to exhibit specimens of domestic manufactures, as also domestic animals for sale or for premium, in conformity to a former notification; to be exhibited to the committee of awards by 12 o'clock on the first day—All gentlemen entering into the procession decorated with a badge of the society are requested to appear in full dressed homespun—on the promotion of which we must eventually build our national prosperity. By order of the executive committee.
WOLCOTT LAWRENCE, Sec.
Pittsfield, Sept. 2, 1816.