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prairies into those -wonderful garden-fields of beauty and plenty that never fail to enrapture- 

 the eye and delight the heart of needy and ennobled humanitj'. 



This is the kind of agriculture we want in California, from the partial development of which 

 our State has taken a stride in progress in eighteen years unknown to anj'' half century of pre- 

 vious historical knowledge. 



Hon. A. A. Sargent also delivered, by request of the Society, an 

 address upon the " Education of the Industrial Classes," which was 

 full of practical suggestions as to the wants of CalifoTnia in that 

 direction, and the character of the institution intended to supply 

 these wants. "Four great interests should work harmoniously 

 together in the future for the benefit of this State — agriculture, mining^ 

 manufactures, and commerce." 



The financial reports of the officers for 1865, January 1st, show: 



Total receipts for the year . $22;865 40 



Total expenditures 22,609 05 



In treasury " 256 35 



Old debts canceled within the year 6,987 36 



Balance old debts outstanding 6,204 44 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the Society was held at the 

 Pavilion on the 30th of January, 1866. C. F. Reed, of Yolo, was 

 re-elected President of the Society, and Edgar Mills, J. H. Carroll,, 

 and C. T. Wheeler were re-elected Directors. The Board re-elected 

 I. N. Hoag Secretary, and R. T. Brown Treasurer. The State appro- 

 priated for the use of the Society this year the sum of $4,000. The 

 time for holding the annual fair was set for the 10th to the 15th of 

 September. The Legislature not having taken any action looking to 

 an exhibition of the products of California at the World's Fair to be 

 held in Paris in 1867, the Board determined to do what it could with 

 its limited means to bring about such an exhibition. 



Arrangements were effected with Wells, Fargo & Co. and the Pacific 

 Mail Steamship Company, by which all California products were 

 delivered to the United States agent in New York, free of charge. 

 The Board undertook the collecting, packing, and shipping of articles 

 wuthout expense to contributors, and succeeded. A full assortment of 

 wines from six manufactories, samples of hops, raisins, grain, and 

 garden seeds, and samples of manufactures were shipped and exhib- 

 ited. Two members of the Board and two other citizens were com- 

 missioned as delegates of the Society and attended the Exhibition to^ 

 look after and see that the articles were properly placed on exhibi- 

 tion and brought to the notice of the European public. The fair 

 of 1866 was the best exhibition of the valuable products of her agri- 

 cultural, mechanical, and manufacturing industries up to that time 

 ever made in the State. 



President Reed delivered the opening address. He traced the rise 

 and progress of agriculture and mechanical association in the devel- 

 opment and improvement of the material industries, the advance- 

 ment in agricultural productions consequent upon the introduction 

 of agricultural machinery, and spoke of the prejudice of ignorant 

 laborers against these labor-saving machines: 



The same blind prejudice exists to some extent among certain classes, even to this dajf. 

 against railroads — the most effective agencies for the development of a country yet known. 

 When the Pacific Eailroad shall have been completed, and the iron horse shall have been fully 

 governed, trained, and let loose upon the track for that long race across the continent, then a 

 new era will dawn upon the agriculture of the Pacific Coast. When you are exhibiting your 

 superior grains, your unequaled vegetables and fruits, your delicious grapes and wines, your fine 



