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The present year has been one of prosperity and progress. 

 The funds of the Society have constantly increased and 

 the interest in its welfare has extended. Although the So- 

 ciety has received, for the past four years, sixty new members 

 annually, yet, this year, there have been sixty-five new mem- 

 bers, so that the whole number, including ladies, is now 874. 

 May the Society, in two or three years, have a fund of four 

 thousand dollarsj and count a thousand members. 



Through the courtesy of Hon. Edward Dickinson, member 

 of Congress from this District, the Society was supplied with 

 forty volumes of the U. S. Patent Office Reports, both Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical, to be awarded in gratuities. 



One hundred copies of the " Agriculture of Massachusetts, 

 as shown in the returns of the Agricultural Societies for 1854,." 

 and also the Second Annual Report of Charles L. Flint, 

 Esq., Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, 

 have been judiciously distributed. 



Members, who applied for valuable seeds, received from 

 other countries through the Patent Office at Washington, 

 have been liberally supplied. 



The annual Exhibition was well sustained in all its depart- 

 ments, and exceeded its predecessors in many essential par- 

 ticulars. The farmers turned out en masse, and have good 

 reason to be gratified with their show of stock, of agricultural 

 and horticultural and dairy products, with their plowing and 

 their horses. All seemed in the best spirits, and doubtless 



