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SECRETARY'S REPORT 



nation. He was followed by the Hon. John Brooks, of 

 Princeton, an abstract of whose remarks accompanies 

 this report. Appropriate remarks were also made by 

 Hon. Ivers Phillips, of Worcester, Hon. A. G. Hill, of 

 Harvard, J. T. Everett, Esq., of Princeton, and Rev. 

 George Trask, of Fitchburg, after which the awards of 

 the various committees were announced. These exer- 

 cises were enlivened by several songs from the same 

 glee club who added so much to the interest of the 

 exhibition on the preceding evening. 



During the meeting Mr. Everett, of Princeton, offered 

 the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That, we congratulate each other and our fellow citizens 

 throughout our State, and the whole country, upon the apparent entire 

 extirpation of that appalling disease, the pleuro-pneumonia, that so 

 suddenly and so fearfully commenced its ravages upon our neat stock, 

 threatening terrible injury, if not total destruction to the great staple 

 interest of the agriculture of the country. 



Resolved, That, we gratefully appreciate the services of the State 

 commissioners, Dr. George B. Loring, of Salem; Hon. Amasa Walker, 

 of North Brookfield, and Paoli Lathrope, Esq., of Hadley, in the extir- 

 pation of that disease, a- That, in"our judgment, their labors were charac- 

 terized by wisdom, energy and great perse verence, and were finally 

 crowned with success. 



A vote of thanks was tendered to the Hon. John 

 "Brooks, of Princeton, for a donation to the Society of 

 ten copies of " Grasses and Forage Plants," by C. L. 

 Flint, Esq., Secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture, each accompanied with a beautiful blank 

 diploma. 



A vote of thanks was also tendered to the gentle- 

 men from Millbury, who exhibited a herd of nine pure 

 blood Short Horn stock. 



