189 

 TIPPECANOE COUNTY. 



REPORT OF THE TIPPECANOE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 To the Indiana State Board of Agriculture : 



To give satisfactory answers to the many questions em- 

 bodied in your circular, or to render a statistical account of 

 the aggregate of crops raised in our county the present sea- 

 son, would be, (under the circumstances,) impossible. Could 

 means be adopted for obtaining an annual agricultural census 

 of the several districts throughout the county, the task of 

 rendering an account, by the aid of such statistics, would 

 not be difficult. 



During the past year, an attempt has been made to estab- 

 lish a county agricultural society ; but the efforts thus far 

 have been in a measure unsuccessful. The state of our mar- 

 kets is such at present that most of our farmers manifest a 

 great want of energy in all things pertaining to agriculture : 

 hence the depressed condition of affairs in the management 

 of the society. An attempt will be made, however, during 

 the present winter, to enlist more practical farmers among 

 the number of subscribers, hoping thereby to increase the 

 treasury sufficient to secure to us the benefits granted by the 

 act of the Legislature, approved February 14, 1851, entitled 

 "an act for the encouragement of agriculture," which will un- 

 doubtedly place the organization upon a prosperous and per- 

 manent basis. The task of establishing a society in a district 

 where the sentiments entertained by the people are so adverse 

 to such "innovations," is attended with considerable labor 

 and vexation. 



When the time honored prejudices of our old fashioned, 

 anti-progress farmers shall have been overthrown, and a 

 general and liberal agricultural education substituted, we may 

 expect a better condition of affairs. 



