COUNTY EEPOETS. 447 



The Annual meeting in January, elected tlie following gentle- 

 men to fill the principal offices : 



Henry M. Billings, President-^ Samuel Hendy, Levi 

 Sterling, C. Sylvester, Vice Presidents ; L. H. D. Crane, 

 Secretary ; E. AruNDel, Treasurer. 



The operations of the Society, from the annual meeting until 

 the near approach of the Fair, were principally confined to the 

 distribution of seeds, of which over five hundred packages were 

 received from the Patent Office partly through the courtesy of 

 Hon. C. C. Washburn and partly from the Commissioner of 

 Patents direct. 



The distribution was made in each town of the county, by the 

 member who rej)resented the town in the " General Committee." 



With each parcel, we sent a circular, requesting each member 

 to report in writing the result of his experiment in the use of the 

 seed which accompanied the circular, and for the sake of uni- 

 formity, suggested the following synopsis of such report: 



regulations eor the distribution of seeds. 



1. All Seeds received by the Society, shall be impartially dis- 

 tributed by the Secretary to the several towns, through the me* 

 dium of the General Committee. 



2. Each member of the General Committee shall distribute to 

 such of his own townsmen as are members of the Society. 



8. Each member w^ho receives such Seeds, is requested to re- 

 port in writing to the Secretary, on the first day of the Annual 

 Pair, the results of his experiments with such seeds, whether 

 such experiments are successful or not. 



4. The following order may be observed in such Eeport ; 



1. Preliminary preparations. 



2. Character of soil. 



8. Kind and quality of manure. 



4. Date of planting. 



5. Date of coming up* 



6. Cultivation before blooming, 



7. Date of blooming. 



8. Cultivation after blooming. 



