No. 4.] AGKICULTUIUL SOCIETIES. 157 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



[Head aiid accepted at the Annual Meeting, Jan. 12, 1909.] 



The committee on agricultural societies have examined 

 the reports of the inspectors of fairs. 



All report successful, well-managed fairs, with no objec- 

 tionable features, and commend the arrangements made by 

 the officers of the societies. In almost all cases the weather 

 was favorable, the attendance large and the receipts greater 

 than the expenses. 



The institutes have in general been better attended than 

 in former years, and we believe the increased attention 

 which some of the societies have given to the institutes has 

 been well repaid by improvement in interest and usefulness. 



WILLIAM A. IvILBOURN". 

 ALBERT ELLSWORTH. 

 O. E. BRADWAY. 

 T. L. TIRRELL. 



