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111 accordance with this action a Fair was held at the appointed time and 

 jDlace, of which the Executive Committee thus speak : — " The result of the first 

 Fair held in Sheboygan count}^, has more than equalled the expectations of the 

 Executive Committee; the people have responded to their efforts with a zeal 

 worthy of commendation. Another year will, without doubt, treble the number 

 of members, and another Fair will be looked forward to with joyful aiaticipations. 

 Soon we shall be able to take part in the State Fairs, when Sheboygan county 

 will be brought into competition with the older counties of the State, and, with- 

 out donbt, with honor. It is to be hoped that at the Annual Meeting of the 

 Society, in March next, each member will make it a point to be present, to take 

 part in the election of a new board of officers, and be 2)repared to renew their 

 subscriptions. Much inconvenience has been felt by the Executive Committee in 

 not knowing what to depend upon. They published a list of premiums, with but 

 $10 in the treasury, trusting to the interest that might be awakened among the 

 people. They have responded, and the Committee have been enabled to pay 

 seventy-five i^er cent of the published premiums. 



The whole amount of cash received was eighty-five dollars, the amount of 

 premiums paid was sixty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents, and the amount of 

 expenses incurred for printing, stationery, • &c., was sixteen dollars and thirteen 

 cents; leaving a balance in the treasury of one dollar and twenty-two cents. The 

 whole number of members is ninety-four. 



The Committee on Soils have not yet reported. 



H. S. AN ABLE, Secretary, 



WALWORTH. 



Elkhorn, December 31st, 1851. 



Dear Sir — Your communication inquiring as to the origin, jjrogress, and 

 present condition of the Walworth County Agricultural Society is received ; and 

 below I give you a rough and hasty statement of the same, from such materials 

 as I have in my possession. 



The inhabitants of East Troy, under the lead of Messrs. S. Brooks, J, Burgit, 

 E.Thayer, and others, in the spring of the year 1850, resolved to associate 

 themselves together, under the name of " The East Troy Agricultural Societ}-," 

 to promote agriculture, horticulture, household manufactures, and mechanical 

 work. To carry out the objects above expressed, many citizens of the towns ad- 

 joining East Troy assisted, by subscribing their names to the constitution, paying 

 their initiation fee, and lending their intlufinoe to create a spirit of ambition 

 among the farmers in thf-ir several neighborhoods, to como too-pthcr in the fall, 



