SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition was held on the 

 grounds of the Society, on Tuesday, September 26th. 



As usual, the exercises opened with a drizzling rain, which 

 prevented a large attendance and reduced the receipts considera- 

 bly. 



The Ploughing Match took place at 9 o'clock, and was con- 

 fined to a single competitor. Last year this part of the programme 

 was revived, after several years neglect, and from the successful 

 result which attended it last season, it was expected that this year 

 would see it restored to its desired prominence, but ploughing 

 among the farmers of Worcester North, apparently, is one of 

 the lost arts. The only person who gave any signs of a knowl- 

 edge of it, being Mr. N. B. Reed of Princeton, who was the only 

 one to enter. The trials of Working Steers and Oxen followed, 

 and was fully up to the standard. 



The exhibitions of Gentlemen's Driving Horses, Family 

 Horses and Matched Driving Horses were excellent, as they 

 always are at the fairs of this Society, and the show of Town 

 Teams, though confined to the single entry of the team of the 

 Town of Leominster was much superior in number to that of 

 some years before, but still far below what it ought to be. Fitch- 

 burg failed to present anything which, to speak mildly, is far 



