TRUSTEES' ACCOUNT, l^c. 



This being the first essay of the Essex Agricultural Society, 

 a splendid exhibition was not looked for. The experiment has 

 shown the necessity of different arrangements, which shall ad- 

 mit of a more convenient and satisfactory inspection of articles 

 presented for premiums — of time to consider the merits of each 

 — to write the reports thereon, by the various committees, and 

 to publish, and deliver to the successful candidates, the premi- 

 ums which shall be awarded. The want of such arrangements 

 has been the chief cause of the delay in publishing the transac- 

 tions of the day. The Trustees subjoin to this account a plan 

 which they hope will effectually remedy, in future, the incon> 

 veniences which have attended the first essay. 



REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



No. I. 



WOBKIJ^G OXEJSr JiJ^D J\'EJ1T LIVE STOCK, 



The Committee appointed to examine Working Oxen and 

 JVeat Live Stock, and to award premiums, have attended to the 

 duty assigned them, and respectfully 



REPORT, 



That the number of large and superior working oxen far ex- 

 €eeded their expectations, demonstrating their utility and supe- 

 riority in the labours of the husbandman, and the importance of 

 the requisites prescribed by the society, to entitle them to pre- 

 miums; inasmuch as among the many excellent cattle exhibited, 

 and which rendered it in some cases a matter of very careful 

 idiscrimination to whom the prize should be awarded, there was 



