EAST OXFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Secretary's Report. 



I herewith submit the following report of the doings of the East 

 Oxford Agricultural Society, for the year ending December, 1863 : 



This Society being yet in its infancy, and the funds of the same 

 somewhat limited, as the financial statement herewith transmitted 

 indicates, the Trustees, at their annual meeting in January, thought 

 it expedient to limit the number of premiums offered, to one for 

 any one kind of article offered. Accordingly, no second premium 

 was offered. There was, however, discretionary power, to a lim- 

 ited extent given the committees, to award gratuities, when, in 

 their judgment, the article presented approximated so nearly to the 

 article; which drew the premium, that justice should seem to 

 demand it. In some instances, where premiums were offered, no 

 competitors appeared.; and in other cases, gratuities were awarded 

 whei'o no premiums were ofiex-ed. Many of the animals presented 

 to this Society for premiums are of Native stock, some of which, 

 not being raised by the applicants, they are unable to give an 

 account of the actual expense of raising ; while othei's assert that 

 the extra care and expense is so trifling that a fair statement would 

 show no difference between that, and the expense incurred in rais- 

 ing ordinary stock. 



The Annual Exhibition of this Society was held at Rumford Cor- 

 ner, on the 14th and 15th of October last, and was well attended ; 

 and I think, considering the infancy of the Society — this being the 

 third exhibition — the entries made by competitors will compare 

 favorably with other societies in this part of the State. The disci- 

 pline of some of the working oxen was particularly creditable to 

 their owners. 



A beautiful stock horse was entered by Mr. James M. Brown of 

 Rumford, " Flying Black Hawk." He was sired by the Baldwin 

 Black Ilawk, Baldwin by the original Black Hawk, or Thurston 

 horse. His dam was a full blood Morgan mare, sired by old Sher- 

 man Morgan. He is ten years old and was raised in common with 

 other colts until two years old, after which be was put to light 



