INTRODUCTORr 



Day, of the Fitcliburg Hotel, The President then 

 directed attention to the mental feast, by introducing the 

 Hon, Simon Erown, Editor of the New Enghmd Farmer, 

 who was followed by Charles L. Flint, Esq., Secretary 

 of our State Board of Agriculture, both of whom gave 

 utterance to valuable practical thoughts, in their usual 

 earnest and eloquent style. Brief and pertinent re- 

 marks were also made by the Rev. Kendall Brooks, 

 Hon. G. F. Bailey, Alvah Crocker, Esq., and Bev. W, 

 P. TiLDEN, which were interspersed with the reading, by 

 the President, of the premiums awarded, and with songs, 

 by a quartette club, consisting of Messrs. R. R. Safford, 

 G. W. Kimball, N. 0. Prescott and H. E. Danforth, 

 whose rendering of the " Harvest Hymn," the " Old 

 Farmer's Elegy," " The Old Mountain Wave," and 

 ^' Uncle Sam's Farm," was received with much apparent 

 satisfaction. 



Thus the day passed happily and profitably, notwith- 

 standing the unpropitious state of the atmosphere ; and 

 now an important question suggested by this year's 

 experience is, how can these exhibitions be sustained 

 so as to be productive of the most progress in agricul- 

 ture ; so as to increase the number and improve the 

 spirit of competitors and exhibitors, as well as admiring 

 spectators; so as to fill our exhibition grounds with 

 animals of the different classes surpassing in number, 

 and in the various points of excellence those of any 

 previous show ; so as to induce our farmers to compete 

 oftener,and more systematically for the premiums offered 

 in the various departments of the list of Experiments, as 

 well as those offered for Farms, Gardens, Plowing, &c.; 

 in short; so as to render the exhibition of each succeeding 



