STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The stockholders of the State Agricultural Society held their annual meeting in the State House, in Trenton, on Wednesday, the 20th of January, 1886. A full Board of Directors and officers for the year was elected. The twenty-eighth annual exhibition of the society will be held at Waverley Park, the Society's permanent grounds, beginning Monday, September 13th, to the 18th, inclusive. The entry books will be open one month before the exhibition, at the Society's office, 764 Broad street, Newark. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY'S REPORT. To the Stockholders of the State Agricultural Society: GENTLEMEN-It is a pleasure as well as my duty to present to you, at this the annual meeting of stockholders of the State Agricultural Society, a brief and succinct outline of work accomplished by the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Society for the year 1885. Before entering on this part of my task, it may not be out of place to briefly refer to some few of the husbandman's industries, the promotion and fostering of which our Society has always aimed to advance by practice and precept. It is not my intention to summarize in grand totals the aggregate yields and values of the same, of the staple crops of the nation, which run up to billions of dollars, but instead to look to the part our State contributes towards those, and call your attention to the ways and means of increasing our average yield of the crops grown in our State by better methods of cultivation, and also of the feasibility of adapting our systems and crops to our surroundings. It is a fact that the market prices of farm staple crops in the last year have averaged lower than they have for twenty-five years past. The causes of these low prices are traceable, but even with a lucid explanation of the causes it makes the Jersey farmer no happier to know these facts, when he is compelled to sell his corn at |