SECRETARY'S REPORT. 127 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



The Middlesex South Agricultural Society was incorporated 

 by the Legislature of 1854, and organized on the 24th day 

 of April last. 



The first meeting of Trustees was held on the 3d day of 

 May. 



The act of incorporation embraces the towns of Framing- 

 ham, Ashland, Holliston, Hopkinton, Marlboro', Natick, New- 

 ton, Sherborn, Sudbury, and Wayland, in Middlesex county; 

 and Southboro', in Worcester county. 



The society has purchased a beautiful tract of land contain- 

 ing five acres, lying about half a mile west of the centre 

 village in Framingham, and within that distance of a depot on 

 the Agricultural Branch Railroad, and it is bounded on two sides 

 by public highways. 



The society has enclosed the lot with a substantial picket 

 fence, and furnished it with a large number of strong and con- 

 venient movable pens, and now proposes to erect a large and 

 commodious building upon it. 



William Buckminster, Esq., the president of the society, 

 proposes to give them a lease for thirty years of a beautiful 

 grove containing four acres. The grove lies adjoining the 

 land of the society on one side, and the Agricultural Railroad 

 on the other. 



Passengers can be landed from the cars on one side of the 

 grove, pass across it by a beautiful path to a gate, or entrance, 

 to the society's grounds. The main entrance for teams is on 

 " the Worcester turnpike." When the whole thing is completed 

 as contemplated, it will be a most convenient and complete ar- 

 rangement, and will be of great value to the society. 



The property of the society, consisting of land, fixtures, and 

 money, amounts to about $3,500. The first public exhibition 

 of the society was held on the 26th and 27th days of Septem- 

 ber, 1854. The undersigned was present as a delegate from 



