SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



It was our good fortune this year to have two pleasant days for 

 our Fair, and in consequence it was a decided success, the best fair 

 we have ever held and a credit to the Society, It will be my aim in 

 this brief report to point out some indications of advancement, as 

 well as to make a few suggestions in regai-d to future improvements. 



The report on stock in general is a correct index of our show in 

 that department, and I will only mention a few facts in reyrard to it. 

 There were forty-four cows exhibited tliis year against seven in 

 1851. This shows an increase in the dairy interest, and is certainly 

 a step in the right direction. The number of calves exhibited shows 

 that the farmers of this vicinity are raising their own stock, with the 

 object of obtaining choice grades for dairy purposes. The great 

 decrease in working cattle, which have been replaced by horses, 

 shows that machine power is gradually taking the place of manual 

 labor, and that our farms have been improved so as to be better 

 adapted to horse than ox power. Every one entering milch cows 

 for premium should give a written statement concerning them. I 

 will give a copy of one handed me at our last fair, both as a sample 

 statement and as the record of a good cow. Beauty, a grade Dur- 

 ham, owned by Mrs. O. S. Lougley, is eight years old. She came 

 in, Oct. 27, 1878, her greatest flow of milk was 54 lbs, 4oz per day, 

 or 378 lbs per week. Her average of butter 16 lbs. 8 oz. per week ; 

 her flow of milk was as follows : 



per day 



of butter per week 



August, 



