REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY. 



To THE Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. 



Sir, — Notwitstanding the annual return of the Transac- 

 tions and Expenditures of the Society may be made, agreeably to 

 the requirements of the law, by filling out a blank received from 

 your office, it may be advisable to state more particularly than 

 such a form affords an opportunity to do, the spirit which prevails 

 in the Society, in reference to improvements in Agriculture, and 

 what has been done for the cause for which the Commonwealth 

 bestows its bounty on it, as well as upon all similar Associations. 



Since our last Annual Report, the Society has still further 

 added to its grounds by another purchase, which affords many 

 additional advantages in the exhibition of animals, and especially 

 of horses, affording a much more commodious track for the dis- 

 play of their qualities and beauties than heretofore. These ex- 

 penditures in improvements serve as an indication of the spirit 

 and liberality which animate the members of the Society with the 

 determination not to lag behind other Societies in the work in 

 which they are all engaged. 



The days of exhibition were the last of September and the fii'st 

 of October, the first of which was unpleasant and prognosticated 

 a storm on the following day, yet the numerous pens on the Socie- 

 ty's grounds for Cattle and Horses were all filled, and for the first 

 time since the Society was organized, were found inadequate to 

 the demand. 



It was feared from the lowering aspect of the first day of the 

 exhibition, and the few entries that had been made up to that time 

 for the Ploughing and Spading Matches, that there would be a failure 

 in those parts of the programme which have heretofore been among 

 the most attractive parts of the exhibition. The " bright rosy morn- 



