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of two active life members, sixty-seven active annual members 

 and four honorary male members ; total, seventy-three male mem- 

 bers; together with sixty-eight honorary female members, making 

 in all one hundred and forty-one. 



During the year thirty-one male members have been added to 

 the active membership, and two have baen removed from all the 

 scenes of earth life. This gives for the present male membership 

 of the society: Life members, two ; active members, ninety-six; 

 honorary members, four: total, one hundred and two. 



By a standing rule, all married ladies become honorary mem- 

 bers of the society on the admission of their husbands, and all 

 unmarried adult daughters of members in good standing shall, on 

 handing their names to the secretary, be accepted as honorary 

 members and their names entered upon the record as such. 



The secretary is not able to give the exact number of ladies 

 who are to be regarded as honorary members of this society, their 

 names having not all been reported and enrolled. Probably the 

 female numerically equals the male membership, which would 

 make the total number of all classes two hundred and four. 



It should be here stated that four members, namely, W. R. 

 Bourne, Theo. Arter, J. T. Wright an J Alfred Thomas, reckoned 

 in the active list, have moved from the country, and their names 

 should either be stricken from the roll entirely or transferred to 

 that of honorary membership. 



The society made an excursion to Appleton, August 14, on 

 board the steamer Brooklyn, under an invitation of the Outaga- 

 mie County Association. Tne excursion was a success financially 

 and otherwise, being a highly pleasurable reunion of the two 

 associations, and an occasion of large addition to the membership 

 of our own. 



One of the most important events connected with the society 

 which has occurred during the past year, is its reorganization 

 under the state law for the promotion of agriculture, as recorded 

 in chapter 60, section 1460, of the Revised Statutes. This in- 

 corporation was effected on the 9th day of Sep' ember, 1880, by 

 filing in the office of the register of deeds of Brown county a 

 copy of a duly executed certificate of our original organization, 



