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should ever feel proud. The ladies' department exhibited 

 many articles of taste and value. 

 The officers of the society are — 



Gei\. G. K. Steele, President. 



Hon. W. C. Danaldson, Vice President. 



Jas. B. Cornelius, Secretary. 



Lewis Miller, Esq., "" 



Harvey N. Adams, Esq., 



Walker Adams, Esq., 



Peleg Redfield, ^ Directors. 



David Elder, Esq., 



H. H. Anderson, 



Solomon Allen, 



1. Principal Crops. — Wheat, corn, oats, hay, rye, barley, 

 buckvv^heat, fruits, to which may be added, horses, cattle, 

 hogs and sheep. 



2. Wheat. — Usual average product, twenty bushels per 

 acre. Varieties, Mediterranean, Red-chaff. The crop this 

 year is unusually good ; will average from twenty to twenty- 

 five bushels per acre, consequently we have a large surplus, 

 we suppose one hundred and fifty thousand bushels. Price, 

 forty-five cents per bushel, making an aggregate of $67,500. 



3. Corn. — There was a large quantity of corn raised, a 

 very small quantity of which was shipped, mostly being fed 

 in the county. In consequence of the high freshets in the 

 Wabash river, but little corn was raised in the bottom land. 

 Average crop for our county is from fifty to seventy-five 

 bushels per acre. 



4. Oats. — A very good crop raised this season — mostly 

 fed in the county. Price, sixteen cents per bushel. 



5. Rye and Barley. — Not much of either raised in our 

 county. Rye is principally raised for pasture. Barley raised 

 for breweries, and sold at fifty cents per bushel. 



6. Grass and Hay. — Timothy is considered the best for 

 meadow; a large quantity is raised in the county, principally 

 fed in the county. Our soil is peculiarly adapted to the rais- 

 ing of timothy. Average quantity raised per acre, two tons. 



