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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
been kindly furnished by their respective authors, and will be 
found on subsequent pages of this volume. 
The Annual Address was delivered by His Excellency 
Governor Randal], to a vast concourse of interested people. 
It was a plain, pointed, characteristic address, and we very 
much regret that a copy has not been furnished for publication, 
As usual, much inconvenience was experienced from the 
failure of many of the originally appointed Judges to be pres¬ 
ent, and perform their duties on the various committees—a 
failure all the more to be regretted, because a large majority, 
in response to a circular letter from the Secretary, had ac¬ 
cepted their appointments previous to the publication of their 
names in the List of Premiums, &c., of the Society. 
The Executive Committee can see no way in which this an¬ 
nually recurring source of embarrassment and error can be over¬ 
come in the future; but nothing is clearer than that the success 
and usefulness of the Exhibitions must be seriously impaired 
by the hurried making up of committees by the impressment 
of persons, who, however well qualified naturally and by gen¬ 
eral information, have not had time to fit themselves for the im¬ 
portant special duties assigned them. 
It is the opinion of the officers of the Society, however, that 
in their selection of Judges on this occasion, they were, in the 
main, very fortunate; and they cheerfully avail themselves of 
this opportunity to return to the several committees, their 
thanks for the faithful manner in which they seem to have 
performed their arduous duties. Had the chairmen of the 
committees more generally furnished full written reports on 
the subjects referred to them, the results of their labor of 
inspection would have been still more satisfactory to the 
Society, and profiting to the public. 
