REPORT. 



Chico, November 25, 1880. 



To the honorable the State Board of Agriculture : 



Pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the 

 State of California, entitled an Act to provide for the management 

 and control of the State and District Agricultural Societies by the 

 State, approved April 15, 1880, the Directors of District Agricultural 

 Association Number Three respectfully submit this their first report 

 of the transactions of said Association, for the year ending this date. 



S. W. ELIOT, Secretary. 



OPENING ADDRESS 0E THE PRESIDENT, 



Delivered at the Pavilion, October 5, 1880. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, and Members of the Third District 

 Agricultural Society: In pursuance of the laws enacted by the 

 late Assembly of this State, I have been called upon to preside, as 

 your President, over the Agricultural Association of this district. I 

 esteem it a great honor to have been thus selected, and I assure you 

 that I have done whatever I could to make this association, new and 

 unusual in most of its features, a success, and to this end the various 

 officers of the association have given me their aid and assistance, 

 without which I could have done but little. The wisdom of the law 

 under which we are now organized cannot be fully shown or deter- 

 mined by this single trial. Not all of the counties comprising this 

 district are as fully represented as could have been desired, still I am 

 glad that the present management can congratulate you that it will 

 be a success. It gives us great pleasure, therefore, to know that that 

 interest in agriculture and horticulture, for which our citizens are 

 noted, has lost nothing since our last exhibition, but that there is a 

 healthy and steady progress in agricultural affairs manifested through- 

 out the Northern Sacramento Valley. Let us sincerely trust that this 

 devotion to the greatest and noblest interests of man may still con- 

 tinue with unabated zeal and vigor. 



Gentlemen, the Fair of the Third District Agricultural Association, 

 composed of the Counties of Sutter, Yuba, Butte, Colusa, Tehama, 

 Yolo, and Sacramento, is now opened for the transaction of business. 



