SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Sacramento, January 28th, 1869. 



The regular annual meeting of the California State Agricultural 

 Society took place this afternoon at the Pavilion, corner of Sixth and M 

 streets. 



The meeting was called to order at three o'clock by the President, 

 Charles F. Eeed, who stated the objects of the meeting to be the election 

 of a President for the ensuing year, the supplying of the places of three 

 members of the Board of Directors, whose terms of office had expired, 

 the rendering of the annual reports, and the transaction of such other 

 business as might come before the society. 



On motion, the reading of the minutes of the last annual meeting was 

 dispensed with. 



The President announced that the first business in order was the read- 

 ing of the annual report of the Board of Directors. 



The Secretary, I. N. Hoag, then read the following report : 



ANNUAL EEPOET OF THE BOAED OF DIEECTOES. 



To the Members of the California State Agricultural Society : 



Gentlemen : It has been customary at our annual meetings for the 

 Board, in addition to the report of the transactions of the society for 

 the year, to enter at some length into a discussion of agricultural sub- 

 jects generally. At this time we shall depart from this custom, and only 

 in brief speak of matters relating more immediately to the interests of 

 the society, leaving the more general subjects for discussion in our 

 report required by law to be made biennially to the Legislature. We 

 feel called upon, however, to congratulate the members of the society 

 and the people of the State upon the fact which we all feel a pride in, 

 that never before since the admission of our young State into the Union 

 has California, as a State, or the Pacific coast as a whole, advanced so 

 much in permanent and substantial prosperity as within the last twelve 

 months. Agriculture, in all its departments, has been universally suc- 

 cessful ; and, as a consequence, all other industrial pursuits have been well 

 sustained and have shared in a season of general prosperity and improve- 



