SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The annual Meeting of the Society was held on the 28fch and 

 29th days of September, and they were uncommonly pleasant 

 and propitious autumnal days. 



The first day opened with the Plowing Match, nine teams 

 contending for the premiums, and following this introductory and 

 sturdy exercise, came the Trial of Working Oxen and Steers, 

 and the Exhibition of Town Teams on the track, all of these 

 reminding us of the beautiful and expressive lines of one of 

 England's sweetest poets, when he says : 



" Hvnv jocund did they drive tlieir teams a-field." 



Leominster and Princeton each contributed Town Teams 

 that would have done honor to any part of our beloved and ven- 

 erated Commonwealth. 



The show of Blood Stock, which numbered seventy-five ani- 

 mals, and a still larger number of Grade and Native, never was 

 surpassed in quality at any previous exhibition of this Society. 



The Dinner of the Society was ready at the good old-fashioned 

 hour of 12 o'clock, and prepared under the direction of Mr. 

 Joseph Waterhouse, formerly " mine host" of the ''Americaii.'''' 



After all were satisfied with the common and uncommon 

 bounties of a kind Providence, the President of the Society, 

 Samuel Osgood, Esq., introduced to the ladies and gentlemen 

 present, the Hon. WiUiam Birnie of Springfield, the Delegate 

 from the State Board of Agriculture, who made a few appropri- 



