4: SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



The committees discharged their duties promptly and 

 faithfully, and the Hall was open to the public through 

 the evening, and was well rilled with our citizens and 

 their friends, the assembly being frequently entertained 

 by the singing of patriotic songs and glees by a volun- 

 teer club under the direction of Mr. N. 0. Prescott. 



The principal show was on Wednesday, the 25th. 

 The Plowing and Spading commenced at nine o'clock, 

 A. M., on. the farm of Lyman Nichols, Esq., north of the 

 village, and was witnessed by a large number of inter- 

 ested spectators. An exhibition of Rock Lifting took 

 place on the same farm, immediately after these trials, 

 and was a novel and instructive performance, which 

 excited much discussion and suggested many valuable 

 remarks: Mr. Nichols' farm was naturally an exceed- 

 ingly stony one, and by the use of a $225 machine he 

 has already cleared a large portion of it of the stones, 

 including many immense boulders, which are readily 

 lifted by the machine from their beds in the soil and 

 removed from the fields. A smaller and less expensive 

 machine for the same purpose, was exhibited on the 

 Common, and duplicates of it have since been used 

 extensively and successfully in various parts of this 

 town, and in several neighboring towns, greatly improv- 

 ing the appearance of the fields where it is operated; a 

 result, in part, no doubt, of the exhibition and discus- 

 sions above alluded to. 



At half-past ten o'clock the several committees on 

 Stock, Drawing, &c. r were organized and the various 

 trials of draught animals commenced immediately, were 

 largely contested and gave general satisfaction. The 

 number of animals exhibited in the various departments 



