399 



Discretionary premiums will be awarded on meritorious products of 

 the soil, not enumerated in the foregoing list. 



PLOWING MATCHES. 



1. Best plowing match with horses, $3 00 



2. 2d « « « 2 00 



3,3d « « « 100 



4. Best plowing match with oxen, 3 00 



5. 2d « « « 2 00 



6.3d « « « 100 



The usual steps were taken to give publicity to the foregoing list. 



Messrs. Walker and Lake attended on the part of the Committee ap- 

 pointed at the Annual Meeting, and reported that they had viewed an 

 eligible piece of land which could be purchased upon reasonable 

 terms. 



Tho President was thereupon appointed an additional member of 

 the existing Committee, and further power conferred upon it, authori- 

 zing the purchase of the land in question, or some other, for the purpo- 

 ses of the Society. 



The next meeting of the Executive Committee was held on the 19th 

 of August, when Grant Decker, Esq., was appointed Marshal of tho 

 Fourth Annual Fair. The usual Viewinof Committees were also then 

 appointed, and a code of rules and regulations for the government of 

 the Fair, was adopted. 



The Fair was held on Wednesday and Thursday, the 5th and 6th days 

 of October. During the first day the weather was cold and ungenial, 

 but the second was much finer. 



A much larger number of visitors attended than at any of the pre- 

 vious Fairs, and the grounds were quite thronged with an admiring 

 crowd. In 1852, 309 members' tickets were issued. This year the 

 number issued was 317. 



Considerable expense was incurred in erecting additional offices, pens, 

 sheds, &c., so that the officers of the Society were enabled to improve 

 the arrangements, and observe a better order in the distribution of the 

 stock and other articles on exhibition, than could be accomplished under 

 the deficient accommodation provided in previous years. 



Owing to the inclemency of the weather on the first day, exhibitors 

 generally, did not bring forward their articles for entry until the fore- 



