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and productive. Crops to which it is best adapted, corn, 

 wheat, barley, oats, tobacco and grass. Different kinds of for- 

 est trees, oak, poplar, walnut, ash, beech, dog-wood, red-bud, 

 sassafras, maple, hickory, &c. The land is generally rolling. 

 13. CouivTY OR District Societies. — The Knox County 

 Agricultural Society was organized August 18, 1851. The 

 board of managers consist of a president, vice president, 

 treasurer and secretary, and nine directors, being one from 

 each civil township, to-wit: 



Hon. Samual Judaii, President. 



Hon. James Williams, Vice President. 



Wm. Thornton Scott, Treasurer. 



A. B. McKee, Secretary. 

 Abner Smith, Samuel Thompson, Samuel C. Wills, Simeon 

 Root, Daniel Lane, John Steen, Benj. V. Beckes, Joseph 

 Kimmons, and George Bond, Directors. 



The society numbers one hundred and twenty members. 

 The society had a fair on the 15th of October, when some 

 fine specimens of horses, cattle, &c., were exhibited; and 

 between thirty and forty dollars paid out in premiums. It 

 was only designed as a beginning and but few were prepared 

 for or expecting it ; but an impulse was given on the occa- 

 sion, which I think will tell at a future day. Some of our 

 ablest and most enterprising citizens have embarked in the 

 enterprise, and the prospects of the society are bright and 

 glowing and its effects upon the county will certainly be of 

 the most happy character. It is pleasant to see the masses 

 mingling together on these occasions — the lawyer, the doctor, 

 the merchant, the mechanic, the farmer, all united in one 

 common brotherhood, and all standing upon one broad plat- 

 form, uniting their heads and their hearts to promote each 

 other's good and each other's welfare. Such societies will go 

 far to break down those unhappy distinctions and divisions 

 which unhappily so often exist in communities and exert so 

 baneful an influence. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



A. B. McKEE, Secretary. 



