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A communication from J. S. Silver, Esq., in behalf of the Butchers and 
Drovers' Association, urging the fitness of their grounds, in Twenty-fourth 
Ward, for the purposes of the Exhibitions of this Society, was read, and 
referred to the Executive Committee. 
Mr. G. Blight, in behalf of the committee to examine the tract of land 
above Germantown, proposed as a site for this Society's Exhibitions, 
reported the terms on which the grounds could be used ; which report was 
accepted, the committee discharged, and the subject referred to the Exe- 
cutive Committee. 
Mr. Landreth, of the committee to confer with the President of the New 
Jersey Agricultural Society, on the subject of that Society's holding its 
next Annual Exhibition in Philadelphia, presented the correspondence had 
in relation thereto, and asked for an expression of opinion on the course 
pursued by the committee. 
H. Ingersoll, Esq., moved. That the action of the committee meets the 
approval of the Society. 
Which motion was carried. 
Mr. Isaac W. Roberts, long an active member of the Society, resigned 
his membership, and was immediately nominated as an honorary member by 
Dr. Elwyn. 
Nomination lies over, under the rules. 
On motion of H. Ingersoll, Esq., That the President, Recording Secre- 
tary and Treasurer be a committee to ascertain whether a suitable room 
can be secured for the meetings of this Society, and to report at next 
meeting. 
Which was so ordered. 
The Chair called attention to the subject of the Wheat Crop. Its con- 
dition was a question of national, as well as local interest. There were 
members present from widely different localities, and he would be pleased 
to hear the results of their observations. In his own neighborhood, in Bucks 
County, appearances were decidedly unfavorable. 
Mr. Dennis Kelly reported the same of his section of Montgomery 
County. The Wheat looked very poor. 
Mr. S. C. Ford had recently returned from a trip beyond the Susque- 
hanna, and in the Counties of Dauphin and Lancaster, through which he 
passed, he had never at this season seen the prospects for Wheat so unpro- 
mising. The grain generally appeared to have been winter-killed. Some 
portions of well cultivated fields exhibited life, but the greater part seemed 
efi'ectually killed, as if fire had passed over the ground. 
