568 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



auxiliary in the prosperity and advancement of the science of 

 agriculture. 



At the annual meeting held January 13, 1857, premiums were 

 awarded on Indian corn, wheat, timothy seed, barley, oats, buck-, 

 wheat, turnips and carrots. A special premium was awarded 

 for vetches raised byB. C. Eishop of Jackson. The fair for 1857 

 was located at South Hartford, in the 2d Assembly district, $150 

 having been raised to cover expenses. 



Officers for 1857. — President, Hon. Henry W. Beckwith, North 

 Granville; Recording Secretary, K. K. Crocker, North White 

 Creek; Assistant do., Wm. L. Mo wry, Greenwich; Corresponding 

 Secretary, Rev. E. H. Newton, Jackson; Treasurer, S. W. Crosby 

 North White Creek; five Vice-Presidents and an Executive Com- 

 mittee of one from each town. 



On motion of Dr. A. Fitch, it was voted that, as an event of no 

 ordinary moment to this Society, the decease of its first president 

 and constant friend, Henry Holmes, has occui-red since the last 

 annual meeting, a committee be appointed to prepare suitable 

 resolutions for insertion in our minutes and for publication, in 

 commemoration of this bereavement. The chair thereupon ap- 

 pointed A. Fitch, J. M. Stevenson and John McDonald said 

 committee. 



Pursuant to said vote, the following preamble and resolutions 

 were presented by said committee and adopted by the Society : 



Whereas^ Henry Holmes, of Union Village, one of the origina- 

 tors of this Society and its first President — one of its most sub- 

 stantial friends and supporters, to wliose vigorous and elficient 

 exertions we are indebted for much of the prosperity which has 

 attended this Society hitherto, and rendered it to such an extent 

 an honor to our county and a benefit to its citizens, has departed 

 this life since our last annual meeting, 



Resolved^ That we deeply sympathize with the family, the 

 friends and the section of our county, which, in common with 

 this Society, has sustained so great a loss in this dispensation of 

 Divine Providence. 



Resolved. That the foregoing preamble and resolution be entered 

 upon the records of this Society, and published with the proceed- 

 ings of this meeting, and that a copy of the same be furnished 

 for insertion in the Country Gentleman. 



