ORDER OF EXERCISES AT CHURCH, 



AT THE 



ELEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION 



OF THE 



NOEFOLK AGRICULTUEAL SOCIETY, 



September 28, 1859. 



At eleven o'clock a procession was formed under the direction 

 of Hon. Joseph M. Churchill, of Milton, the efficient Chief Mar- 

 shal of the day, aided by the following gentlemen as assistants : — 

 William S. Belcher, of Stoughton ; Rufus C. Wood, Canton ; 

 John D. Bradlee, Milton ; William R. Mann, Sharon ; George 

 K. Daniel, Needham ; David L. Shepard, Foxboro' ; Jason G. 

 Howard, Braintree ; Henry Partridge, Medfield ; Erastus B. 

 Metcalf, Franklin ; William A. Shaw, Weymouth ; Ezra Penni- 

 man, Braintree, and John C. Shorey, Dedham ; which marched 

 to music by the Boston Brigade Band, to the Rev. Dr. Lamson's 

 Church. 



After a voluntary on the organ, the President, Hon. Marshall 

 P. Wilder, addressed the Society in a brief introductory speech. 

 He spoke of Agricultural and Horticultural Exhibitions as the 

 great holidays of the year, and of their happy influence, not only 

 on the farmer, but on other classes of the community. He 

 alluded to the course pursued by the Supervisory Committee in 

 visiting diiferent parts of the County, and of the information to be 

 uc(juired and diffused by sucli intercourse witli the cultivators of 

 the soil. He cungratuhitcd the Society on the laudable interest 

 which existed in the reclamation and draining of Avaste lands, 

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