The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-15
STATE AGRfeUITURAL SOCIETY.
Meeting Of the society at wessover

Meeting OF the society aE NeSsOver.
A PEEP AT MAJOR DREWRY's FINE ES-
TATE-MEMBERS AND GUESTS PRESENT
{ The RIDING CLUB CHARACTERISTIC
NATIONAL GAMES FOR THE FAIR-GENE-
RAJ INTERESTS OF THE SoCIETY-1TS
PROCEEDINGS TO BE PUBLIsHED-ELEC-
IIoN OF COLONEL KNIGHT AS sECRETA-
RY OVER Mr.. LEIGH-PERSONAL, &C.
The Executive Committee OF the State
Agricultural Society, pursuant to arrange
ment, met at "Westover on the james"
last Wednesday, and its sessions continued
until Saturday morning. This noble estate,
under the management OF Major Drewry,
is now quite equal to what it was when
+" William Byrd OF Westover, Esquire" dis
penscd its splendid hospitality. To man
lands elsewhere in the State this farm wears
the face OF Eden. Everything about it is
smiling; the wheat is beautiful, the grass
equal to that in Southwest Virginia, the ne
groes as happy as liz old times, the mules
sleek and liveIy-eyerything, indeed. just
what one would like to see, ''readiust-
iUoEi' " luc COulldiy MISUNDERSTANDING
MEMBERS PRESENT.
The meeting OF the committee was very
full. 1t stood as follows: Major A. H.
Drewry, president; e. G.. Leigh, Esq, seq
retary; Colonel Robert Beverley, Colonel
B. johnson Barbour, Captain Thomas Wat
kins, Colonel Randolph Harrison, DR.. r. T.
Taylor, George w. Palmer, Esq, Colonel
Thomas e. Carter, Dr.. w. t. Walker, Ma
ior A. N. Bowman, George Chrisman, Esq,
James Newman, Esq, Slaughter W. Flick
lin, ESD, and DR.. s. P. Moore, and EXPIRE
sidents Harvie and Knight as consulting
members. The invited guests were Gov
ernor Fred. w. NJ. Holiday, Colonel Tay-
lor thc Governors private secretary, Col
onel J. L. Darlington, Dr.. Dickinson (editor
of the Planter and Farnler), and Mr.. John
OFT. OF Richmond. But two members OF
the committee were absent-Dr. EllZeV. or
Blacksburg, and Major Burke, OF Staunton.
The proceedings Of the January meeting
OF the Board were read and approved.
Some disputed premiums and other rou-
tine matters were disposed OF. This done,
the business Of the next fair engaged the
committees attention.
BUSINESS OF THE NEXT FAIR.
The subcommittee in charge OF the sew
eralI departments covered by the premium
list made their reports in detail, when 1t
was agreed that the aggregate amount in
money OF the premiums to be awarded
should not exceed that Of last year. The
notifications made were not numerous
still they indicated Improvement. In the
mechanical department, silver-medals VIII
be given should the local committee ind the
expense to be within reasonable range; and
this we regard as q good move. The pre-
mium-list will be given to the public with
out delay, and this is certainly important;
it will give everybody time to prepare their
work for the fair, and we learn no effort
will be left untried to see these premium
lists thoroughly distributed throughout the
State.
The heavy business concerning the falr
being finished, matters in the direction OF
came up, When tue following
resolution in reference to
THE VIRGINIA RIDING CLUB
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the committee appointed
at the January meeting to confer with the
Virginia Riding Club be hereby continued
and empowered, should it be deemed advi-
sable, to confer and cooperate with its sue
cessor, the Virginia Jockey club, and to
perfect such arrangements as VIII make Tue
intercourse between that Club and this So
ciety az pleasant and profitable as in past
wears, subject, OF course, to all constltu-
tionaI restrictions bearing upon the SUD-
iect.
Also. the following resolution:
ResoLued. That the committee in charge
OF the matter OF trials for speed confer with
nm organization OF our ladies looking to an
exhibition OF horseback riding by ladies,
ane, should an arrangement be affected
premiums OF the value OF $3.50 in the az
gregatc be appropriated.
NATIONAL. GAMES AT THE FAIR.
And the following, offered by Colonel
Barbour:
Resolred, That it would be most agree
able and acceptable to the Executive Com
mittce OF this Society il the English, Scotch,
German, and Irish residents OF Virginia
would arrange to have characteristic eXhl-
bitions OF their various national games on
the grounds Of the Society during the pro-
eress of the fair, at such times anu unaer
Such regulations as the local committee may
determine, and to that end correspondence
with said committee is hertTy inyltea'
Colonel Beverley was directed u aet Ill
conjunction with the local committee in pro-
curing the services Of an orator for the fair.
The discussion, indeed, OF ell matters per-
tanning to our great annual gatherlng-the
State Fair-was very full, no point needing
being neglected.
THE GENERAL CONCERN OF TIE SOCIETY
was now considered. Colonel Carter Of
fered the following resolutions, which were
adopted:
Resolued, That it is the desire Of the Ex-
ecutiye Committee Of the Virginia State
Agricultural Society to use all Legitimate
means in it's power to increase the number
OF life-members OF the Society, that new
vitality may be impaired to its organlZa-
ton, and through its instrumentality new
yigor be instilled into our people which
will arouse and foster better development
OF our great agricultural resources.
Resotred further, That it is the opinion
OF the Executive Committee that large
accession to the life-memberShip may be
effected by an arrangement with the rail-
road companies CT the State by which free
TRANSFORMATION shall be given to the new
members of each year to and from the fair
CT the year only in which they become life
members OF the Society, and for no other
fair; and that it is the belief Of the Execu-
tive Committee that the railroad companies
will be no less adyantaged than the Virginia
State Agricultural Society in purely bust
ness point OF view, since it may be safely
assumed that parties investing twenty dol
lars in q life.membership will attend the
fairs in subsequent years, accompanied in
many instances by members OF their fami-
lies, and that the companies will be more
than compensated.
ResoLved further, That the interests OF the
State Agricultural Society and Of the rail-
road companies are inseparably interviewer.
Resolved further, That the Society pledges
- l., tho auant Of the accantanca OF this