252 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



The annual address was given by the Rev. Mr. Preston, of a 

 neighborhig village, upon tlie dignity of labor. No comments 

 need be made upon the address but to recommend its publica- 

 tion for the the benefit of the laboring man. 



After the services in the church a procession vi^as formed and 

 escorted by the marshals of the day to the public house, where 

 at 3 o'clock P. M., the out.vard man seemed ready to feast, as 

 there was an abundance of the good things before him to enable 

 him to do so. After the dinner a few reports of committees 

 were made and an adjournment to the church for tlie remaining 

 reports ; and this closing part of the festival your delegate was 

 obliged to deny himself the pleasure of hearing for the want of 

 time. The exhibition as a whole was decidedly successful. 

 And in justice to the officers of this society the undersigned 

 would express his gratitude for the friendly and respectful 

 manner he was received and aided in his interesting duties. 



JosiAH White. 



WORCESTER. 



In obedience to the duty allotted to me by the Board of 

 Agriculture, I attended the thirty-ninth annual exhibition of 

 the Worcester Agricultural Society, as delegate from the Board. 

 The exhibition was held on Wednesday and Thursday, the 23d 

 and 24tli of September, upon the grounds of the society, in the 

 westerly part of the city of Worcester. A heavy rain had 

 fallen during the night and morning previous to the show, 

 which accounted, in part, for the absence of the multitude 

 which I expected to meet upon the grounds. Notwithstanding 

 the acknowledged zeal of the president and officers of the 

 society, in the cause of agriculture, I confess that tlie first 

 thought upon approaching the exhibition was one of disappoint 

 ment. Owing to the number of agricultural societies among 

 which the county of Worcester is divided, but more on account 

 of the almost entire diversion of agricultural products and 



