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a helping hand, or this Society, which has been kept alive by a 

 few zealous men whose efforts and labors have been unremittingly 

 performed, and which have been productive of marked results for 

 good — will surely go down. lias it not proved itself deserving of 

 a worthier fate ? " 



The Annual Meeting of the Society 

 was held on Thursday, the third day of the exhibition, at which 

 oflBcers were elected for the ensuing yeai", (as elsewhere named), 

 votes of thanks were adopted — to the town authorities of Water- 

 ville for the liberal facilities afforded for holding the exhibition, 

 to the citizens for their assistance and cooperation in the same, 

 and to the Maine Central and Knox & Lincoln Railroad Companies 

 for granting free return tickets to persons in attendance ; and the 

 remaining business was postponed to the Winter Meeting, invita- 

 tions for holding which were received from the Farmers' Club of 

 Monmouth through Mr. Geo. II. Andrews, and from the fcitizens 

 of Waterville through Joseph Percival, Esq., President of the 

 North Kennebec Agricultural Society. 



On the fourth day a collection of specimens of Maine Fruits 

 was made up and forwarded for exhibition at the Centennial Ex- 

 position, numbering 150 varieties of apples and a few of pears, and 

 Messrs. Z. A. Gilbert and J. A. Varney were appointed as a com- 

 mittee to attend the same. (Their report will be found in full in 

 the proceedings of the Winter Meeting.) Then came the general 

 packing and clearing up, and with the social festivities of the 

 evening and the leave taking — with its indifferent pecuniary re- 

 sults, but with its higher and better and more enduring success in 

 its educational, aesthetical and social results — our fourth exhibi- 

 tion ended. 



