the Society great facilities for exhibiting the stock competing for 

 its annual premiums. 



The show of blood stock from Princeton, Leominster, Fitch- 

 burg, and other towns in our vicinity, was finer than on any form- 

 er year, and previous to the day of exhibition, seemed to require 

 of the committee of arrangements the appointment of a " com- 

 mittee on pedigrees ^^^ — accordingly John Brooks of Princeton, 

 Augustus Whitman and Edwin D. Works of Fitchburg, were 

 appointed. 



The Hall Exhibition was under the general superintendence 

 of Edwin P. Monroe, Esq., who did himself and the Society and 

 exhibitors great credit by his fine taste in arranging the various 

 articles and trades which adorned the Lower Hall on this occa- . 

 sion, every available space being occupied by Fruit, Flowers, 

 Vegetables, and other productions and handiwork of our citizens. 



Dinner w^as provided by a Committee of the Society, of which . 

 William Woodbury, Esq., was chairman, w^ho certainly are de- 

 serving of much credit for the substantial material provided and 

 for the prompt manner in which it was served. 



On the first day of the Exhibition, after the tables were filled 

 by the ladies and gentlemen present, the President of the Soci- 

 ety, E. T. Miles, Esq., invited the Rev. S. B. Grant, D. D., of 

 Fitchburg, to invoke the Divine blessing, and after all were sat- 

 isfied with the good things provided, he introduced Charles C. 

 Bassett, Esq., of Athol, Delegate of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, who said on rising, that he was not a speech maker ; " my 

 mission, Mr. President, here to-day, is not to inflict upon you any 

 thing of this kind, and permit me now to say, that I was quite 

 sorry to notice my name among ' distinguished' men as one to 

 make remarks upon this occasion. Neither am I here to pre- 

 sume to impart information or instruction to the farmers and 

 others of your Society. The Worcester Northwest Agricultural 

 Society having honored me with a seat at the State Board of 

 Agriculture — your Society has been assigned me, to visit your 

 Fair, for the purpose of obtaining information in regard to your 

 doings, and to gather statistics which may be of some use to the 



