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The State Society is not independent of the County Societies, and neither are 

 the County Societies independent of the State Society. They are co-laborers 

 •with it, and though the operations of the one are more enlarged than those of 

 the others, yet they are all parts of the same system, all having one common 

 object, and all equally important in their respective stations. 



COLUMBIA. 



During the session of the Board of Supervisors of the county of Columbia, 

 held at Fort Winnebago, in the month of November, A. D. 1851, it was pro- 

 posed by some of the members of the Board to form a County Agricultural 

 Society ; and for this purpose, after notice had been given, a meeting was held 

 on the evening of November 18th, 1851, at which time a Constitution was 

 adopted, and officers were elected. 



The officers are as follows : — President, Jesse Van Ness, West Point ; Vice- 

 Presidents, Joseph Kerr, Randolph and T. C. Smith, Columbus; Recording 

 Secretary, John A. Byrne, Otsego; Corresponding Secretary, Henry Converse, 

 Wyocena; Treasurer, F. C. Curtiss, Lowville. 



No further returns have been received from this Society. 



DANE. 



"The Dane County Agricultural Society" was fully organized on the l3th 

 of September, 1851 ; the articles of Association require an annual meeting of 

 the Society to be held at Madison, (unless otherwise ordered,) on the first Wed- 

 nesday of October in each year, at Avhich time and place a Cattle Show and Fair 

 is to be held. Special meetings may be called at any time on two weeks notice. 



The following is a list of officers of the Society hv the current year, viz. : — 

 President, Thomas T. Whittlesey; Vice-Presidents, N. J. Tompkins, William H. 

 Fox, Jonathan Larkin, Philo Dunning, Charles Wilson, and George Anderson ; 

 Treasurer, Jehu H. Lewis; Secretary, Robert L. Ream; Standing Committee on 

 Premiums, Joseph A. Payne, James R. Larkin, and Philo Dunning. 



The Society has held several interesting meetings since its organization, and is 



rapidly increasing in numbers. The Agriculturists of this county, I am happy 



to 'inform you, are awake to their true interests, and we promise you that our 



first annual exhibition in 1852 will be second to none in the State. 



Very respectfully yoiu's, &c. 



ROBERT L. REAM, 



Sec. Bane Agl Soc. 

 To Albert C. Ingham, Esq. 



Sec. of the Wif. State Ag'l Soc. 



