The Annual Meeting of this Society was well attended, and an unusual degree of interest manifested in regard to the reports of committees and the arrangements for the future. One of the most prominent topics was the propriety of selecting one or two central and permanent locations for the Annual Fairs. A committee, appointed a year ago to consider this matter, read a carefully prepared report in favor of permanent locations, but the Hon. Mr. Burrows, of Orleans county, made a very effective argument against the report, and it was laid over for another year.

One thing is very evident to us, viz.: that such a Society as this should have far more complete arrangements at its exhibitions. The winter show at Albany of grain, poultry, fat cattle, dressed carcasses, Ac, was held in miserable filthy sheds, no better than we could find around any country tavern. The funds have greatly decreased within two or three years; and, instead of charging this decrease upon the weather or the prevalence of cholera, we are pretty well satisfied that it is mainly due to the notorious discomforts of State Fairs - the universal jam and rush, and the utter impossibility of seeing satisfactorily what people came to see. Only make good arrangements for exhibitions, and provide for the visitors means of easy access to every department of the Show, and have every thing made as plain and instructive as possible, and there will be no lack of visitors, even if the admission were 50 cents, instead of a shilling.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year, and the next fair is to be held in the city of New York':

WILLIAM KELLY, Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., President. J. C. Jackson, New York; A. B. CONGER, Rockland; GRO. Vail, Bensselaer; LE Roy MowrY, Washington; J. C. WoodeuFF, Onondaga; J. Barber, Cortland; D. H. AbEll, Livingston; 8. M. Burroughs, Orleans, Vice Presidents. B. P. JohNsoN, Albany, Corresponding Secretary. E. COENING, Jr., Albany, Recording Secretary. B. B-KiRtlaNd, Rensselaer, Treasurer. Edgar C. Dibble, Genesee; Eton Comstook, Oneida; Chas. Morrcll, Tompkins; T. B. Arden, Putnam; Ambrose Stevens, New York, Executive Committee.

The show of Fat Cattle, Poultry, Grain, Ac, was much the best the Society has yet made. This winter Show promises to become important. The show of fruit was about equal to previous years. There were several very handsome collections of Apples: N. &. E. S. Hayward, Brighton, Monroe county, twenty-one varieties; Isaac Merrit, of Penfield, eleven varieties; R. H. Brown, Greece, twenty varieties; Henry Freeman, Richfield, fourteen varieties; F. Atwater, Ithaca, ten or twelve varieties (all handsome, including fine specimens of the King Apple and Powell Sweet); Hart Massey, Watertown, ten varieties; Isaac Foster, fine Baldwins and Greenings; James H. Watts, a dish of Northern Spy; Jas. Winslow, Watertown, three varieties. Of Pears, there was but one collection, of twenty-eight varieties, from Ellwanger A Barry, Rochester. Some fine Isabella Grapes were shown by John S. Goold, Esq., of Albany.

We must remark that if it be desirable to have a Show of Winter Fruits, it should be made in some place more accessible,, as we saw very few in the room, and very many inquiring where the Fruit Show was to be found.