CIRCULAR. 



INDIANAPOLIS, June 4, 1851. 



The Indiana State Board of AoRicrLTURE, at its late 

 session, adopted a resolution by which the President and 

 Secretary of the Board are required to collect, for arrange- 

 ment and publication, particular information concerning the 

 present condition of the agricultural interest of the S tate ; 

 and, also, reUable opinions, from authentic sources, respecting 

 the magnitude to which that interest may be increased by 

 the introduction of methods of farming more thorough, sys- 

 tematic, and profitable, than those methods which now 

 generally prevail. 



At the proper time, with the aid of county or district 

 societies, county organizations, and county fairs, we shall be 

 able to hold a State Fair that will place Indiana in a distin- 

 guished position among the first agricultural States in the 

 Union. But, it will be of little advantage to our agricultural 

 interest, to have, at some point in the State, a great parade, 

 to be called a Fair, if, at the same time, our county organiza- 

 tions, and our citizens generally, are not prepared and dis- 

 posed to co-operate In the work. 



It will be seen by the law which is published with this 

 circular, that some inducements are offered for the organiza- 

 tion of county or district societies. They may receive the 

 whole amount of tax assessed and collected annually, in the 

 county, upon menageries, circuses, theatrical performances, 

 or other shows. In some counties of the State, this tax, it 

 is estimated, will amount annually to the sum of fifty dollars. 

 In other counties it will probably amount to the sum of one 

 hundred dollars. The sum will be subject to the order of the 

 county or district society, to be paid out in premiums, &c. 



