SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



In offering the report of the Transactions of the 

 Worcester North Agricultural Society, for the year 

 ending Nov. 30th, 1863, the Secretary would embrace 

 the opportunity to present certain facts connected with 

 the organization and management of the association, 

 a part of which do not seem to be fully understood by 

 its members, and some suggestions with regard to the 

 future conduct of its affairs, and its prospective opera- 

 tions, which his deep interest in its welfare, and his 

 past six years familiarity with the action of its inter- 

 nal machinery induce him to believe will not be 

 altogether inappropriate. 



On the importance, to the farmers and others in the 

 vicinity of its location, of sustaining the society ; of 

 continuing its exhibitions ; of increasing and extend- 

 ing its influence, I need not dwell at length. Suffice 

 it to say, there seems to be no present danger of over 

 estimating the value of the society in its influence on 

 the agricultural, manufacturing or mercantile interests 

 of Fitchburg, as the center of its operations, nor upon 

 those interests of the other towns, near or remote, 

 whose inhabitants most actively and efficiently aid in 

 prosecuting the main objects of the organization. 



The magnitude of the Society, territorially, is not 

 well understood. Its limits are supposed, even by 

 many of its members, to be very narrow, and its oper- 

 ations it is thought by some, are, or ought to be, con- 

 fined to a very few towns in the immediate vicinity of 

 its central point of influence, and any attempt to 

 interest the inhabitants of other, or more remote towns 



