244 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



The first annual fair of the Brown County Horticultural and 

 Agricultural Society was held on the fair grounds of the Fox 

 River Driving Park Association, at West Depere, on the 21st, 22d, 

 23d and 24th days of September. The weather was fine during 

 the whole time, and the fair was an eminent success in all points 

 and respects. As the financial results of the fair have not yet 

 been formally reported to the society, the secretary will here enter 

 the statement prepared for him by his assistant, M. P. Persons, 

 the acting secretary during fair time : 



RECEIPTS. 



For advertisements in premium lists $ 169 00 



For sale of privileges on ground (booths) 376 10 



For box horse stal. rent 9 50 



Fur entry fees for horse trotting for purses 108 50 



For sale of tickets 1 ,457 69 



Total receipts $2, 120 79 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Purses for trotting horses $°68 33 



Premiums, all told 254 00 



Cornet band, four days 100 00 



Alex. McDonald's chariot racing 255 00 



Hay for cattle and horse* on ground 31 10 



Meals for help employed 33 50 



Watchman ami police service 65 98 



Ticket sellers and gate keepers 26 00 



Portable engine for running machinery 24 00 



Printing posters, dodgers and premium lists 198 15 



Total $1,356 06 



Excess of receipts over disbursements, $764.73. 



In addition to the preceding statement of financial results, the 

 secretary here reports the whole number of entries of all classes 

 in the Fair proper, as appears in the assistant secretary's entry 

 book, to be six hundred and eighty-nine, and the whole number 

 of entries for horse racing for purses to be twenty. 



One hundred volumes of the transactions of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society for 1879, 1880, fifty volumes of the transactions 

 of the State Agricultural Society for 1879, 1880, and twenty-five 

 of the State Dairymans' Association, 1879, 1880, have been re- 

 ceived and nearly all distributed among the membership and 

 given to other persons interested in the general cause. 



At the date of the last annual report the membership consisted 



