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By a vote of the State Board it has been determined to 

 hold a State Fair at some time in the fall of the year 1852. 

 The organization, proceedings, and success of county or 

 district societies, will have great influence on the action of 

 the Board at their meeting in January next. 



If the county or district societies vi^ill forvi^ard to the State 

 Board, before the first of December next, full reports of their 

 proceedings and prospects, with any other facts or sugges- 

 tions that they may think proper to communicate, the Board 

 will be enabled to lay before the next Legislature an inter- 

 esting and valuable report concerning the agricultural re- 

 sources of Indiana. 



The General Assembly will, we doubt not, authorize the 

 publication and distribution of a large number of copies of 

 the first report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture. 

 It is the design of the Board to make this report full, useful, 

 and authentic; and interesting to citizens of the State, and 

 to strangers abroad. 



In order to carry into effect, as far as practicable, this de- 

 sign of the Board, the undersigned, very earnestly and 

 respectfully, request the county or district societies, and 

 gentlemen who may receive this Circular, to furnish from 

 their several counties information upon the points contained 

 in the following questions or upon any one or more of those 

 points that may fall within the scope of their experience or 

 observation. 



Communications may be addressed to "the Secretary of 

 the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, Indianapolis," at 

 any time before the first of December, 1851. 



JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, 



President of the Board. 

 John B. Dillon, Secretary. 



