32 THE FLORIST AND 
within twelve months. The usual numher at a birth was three, but Dr. 
Emerson had had a ewe die from an injury a few days before her "term," 
in which four foetuses were found. The wool was not fine. It would neither 
full nor felt, and was unshrinkable. 
Mr. 0. Shekidan doubted if any ewe could furnish milk enough to sup- 
pert two or three lambs. His Southdowns certainly could not. 
Dr. Emerson replied that the capacity to furnish sufficient milk had been 
proved by his ewes, two of which had raised their lambs without any 
assistance. 
Mr. 0. Sheridan moved that the Executive Committee be requested to 
report at next meeting on the expediency of the Society's holding an Exhi- 
bition next autumn ; but he sbusequently gave way, in order to afford time 
for the annual election, which being held, resulted as follows : — For Presi- 
dent, David Landreth ; for Vice Presidents, A. T. Newbold, Aaron Cle- 
ment ; Corresponding Secretary, Sydney G. Fisher ; Recording Secretary, 
Alfred L. Kennedy ; Assistant Secretary, P. E. Freas ; Treasurer, George 
Blight ; Executive Committee, Dennis Kelly, Algernon S. Roberts, Samuel 
Williams, John Lardner, A. T. Newbold and John McGowan. 
Dr. A. L. Kennedy submitted the following resolution, which was unan- 
imously adopted. 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be and they are hereby tendered 
to Dr. A. L. Elwyn, for the courteous and impartial manner in which he 
has performed the duties of President during the last two years. 
Dr. Elwyn reminded the Society that they had frequently, during the 
last ten years, entertained a proposition to establish an Agricultural Read- 
ing Room, to be open on Tuesday and Friday evenings and during the day. 
He deemed the present the most eligible time to carry out the plan, inas- 
much as the Society would, ere long, be compelled to find other accommo- 
dations. He also announced that the next session of the State Society 
would be held in Harrisburg on 16th inst. 
The Chair deemed the occasion of that meeting a proper one on which to 
represent to the Legislature the great wrong done the Society and the cause 
of agriculture in this section of the State, by the withdrawal of our annual 
appropriation, which had been, up to the last session, continued uninter- 
ruptedly for many years. Adjourned. 
