SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



enough to fertilize two acres of corn. He urged that 

 our animals should be improved in breed, that labor 

 saving machines should be used, that farmers should 

 encourage their sons to remain on their farms by adopt- 

 ing more enterprising methods of agriculture. 



Charles L. Flint, Esq., Secretary of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, spoke in regard to the location of the 

 new agricultural college, and stated the action of the 

 Trustees in relation to locating the same at Amherst. 

 He believed the decision of the trustees was correct? 

 and given after the most careful consideration of the 

 matter, and appealed to farmers to more carefully de- 

 velope their farms, in the introduction of new crops and 

 labor saving implements, as the surest means to improve 

 and increase agricultural interests. 



Interesting remarks were also made by N. S. Hub- 

 bard, Esq., of Brim-field, President of the Worcester 

 South Agricultural Society ; Charles E. Miles, Esq., 

 President of the Worcester Agricultural Society ; Col. 

 Ivers Philips, of Worcester, and C. C. Esty, Esq., of 

 Framingham. After which reports were made from 

 the different committees. 



On the second day of the exhibition the Society met 

 again at the Hall, and were congratulated by the Presi- 

 dent on the fine display of horses and colts on exhi- 

 bition, the best by far ever made by this Society. 



Mr, Steadman said he made a slight omission in his 

 remarks yesterday to the Society, viz : that he was 

 very much gratified with the exhibition, particularly the 

 articles in the Hall, and with the order and regularity of 

 all of our arrangements. 



No public address, as formerly had been provided for 

 but arrangements had been made for the reading of the 



