STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 9& 



TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Sacramento, January 2Gtb, 1865. 



In accordance with previous notice, a meeting of the California State 

 Agricultural Society was held this day, at two o'clock p. m., at Agricul- 

 tural Hall, in this city. The President of the l3oard of Agriculture, 

 Mr. Charles F. Eeed, of Yolo, called the house to ortler, and stated the 

 objects of the meeting to be the hearing of the reports of the Board and 

 its officers, and to elect a President for the ensuing year, and three 

 Directors for the ensuing legal term of three years, in place of JR. J. 

 Walsh, of Colusa, and A. G. Richardson and Robert Beck, of Sacramento, 

 whose terms of office expired with the close of this meeting, and to 

 transact such other business as might properly come before them. 



The President said the first business in order would be the reading of 

 the minutes of the last annual meeting, and if no objection the Secretary 

 would read. 



Mr. John H. Carroll, of Sacramento, said he supposed, as every mem- 

 ber had read those minutes in the published transactions of eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-three, tliere was no necessity for reading them now, 

 and moved that their reading be dispensed with. The motion being 

 put. was carried. 



The Secretary then read to the members the 



ANNUAL EEPOPtT OF THE BOARD. 



Gentlemen : — This being the year in which no report to the Governor 

 is required by law, the Board will reserve a more cletailcd report of the 

 year's transactions until the proper lime shall arrive, and proceed to 

 give to the members of the society a brief account of their stewardship, 

 and to make such suggestions and recommendations as their experience 

 and the condition of the society and the State seem to demand. 



One year ago, when we assumed charge of the affairs of the society, 

 it was at the close of a year of prosperity to all classes of industry in 

 the Slate. The agriculturist had been blessed with a plentiful harvest, 

 which had enabled and induced him to ]n'e])are for an extensive field of 

 operations, with bright hopes that his renewed efforts would again be 

 crowned with success. The miner, in addition to extracting from the 



