”ROOMS OF THE MARYLAND STATE AGRI-
CULTURAL SOCIETY.
May 7, 1851.
The stated quarterly meeting of the Society was held this day. Charles B. Calvert, Esq., President, in the chair.
A statement was made as to the action of the Committee of the citizens appointed to raise the means of rendering the Society’s Exhibitions permanent in the city of Baltimore, from which it teemed that no adequate means had been taken, except in very few instances, to collect the required aid.
Col. Ware, of Virginia, stated, that a Society bad been formed in the Valley Counties of Virginia, and that it was probable a union could be formed with it; and if so the citizens of Winchester would furnish all the needful accommodation. The same facilities for the free transportation of stock, &c., would be extended to the Exhibition at Winchester, as had been extended here. …”
Reference Data:
The American Farmer, 1852, page 41
