SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of the Worcester North 

 Agricultural Society, and the first on their own grounds, was 

 held on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 24th and 25th, 1867. 



The Trustees took possession of their grounds June 1st ; the 

 first purchase being from the Fitchburg Riding Park Associa- 

 tion, containing about fourteen acres, other land was added after- 

 wards, until the whole comprised about twenty-five acres, and is 

 enclosed with a substantial board fence. The last purchases 

 were partly woodland, and give us beautiful groves on the north- 

 ern and southern portions of the enclosure, suitable for pic-nics 

 and parties in the warm season. The improvements which have 

 been made since the purchase, have been done under the super- 

 intendence of Mr. Abel Marshall, and were completed previous 

 to the day of exhibition, and when that day arrived, everything 

 favored the opening. Tuesday was a fine autumnal day, all 

 that could be desired. The Railroads had reduced their fare, 

 and came in with full trains, so that everything had a gala day 

 appearance, and some four or five thousand persons visited the 

 grounds. 



The exercises for the first day commenced with the Plowing 

 Match, at 9 1-2 o'clock, A. M.,— of Working Oxen at 10, and 

 of Steers at 11 o'clock, all of which done their work satisfactory 

 to the crowds of spectators, and showed great skill and dexterity 

 in subduing these useful animals to the purposes of man. 



Much regret was manifested that no Town Teams of Oxen, as 

 in latter years, had entered for the premiums of the Society, but 



