INGHAM COUNTY FARMERS' CLUB. 263 



RECEIPTS. 



Stock issued ^23 33 



Gate receipts - 1»578 16 



Rent of booths and licenses 180 25 



Dining hall - 331 83 



Grand stand 66 76 



Horse stalls - - 55 00 



Speed entries 118 40 



Total - $2,253 73 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Printing |51 63 



Premiums '''43 25 



Speed premiums 292 33 



Indebtedness 268 06 



Labor, supplies in dinins; hall, police and amount on hand 898 46 



^^ $2,253 73 



We, the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Union Agricultural 

 Society, located at Litchfield, Michigan, do hereby certify that the above is a 

 correct statement of the receipts and disbursements of said society for the year 

 ending December 20, 1885. 



R. W. FEEEMAN, President. 



L. B. AGARD, Secretary. 



DAN. H.MILLS, Treasurer. 



mGHAM COUNTY FARMERS' CLUB. 

 HEDGE FENCE OR WIRE? 

 BY L. W. BAKER, OF DELHI. 



Mr. President and Members of tJie Ingham County Farmers^ Club : 



The time is already here when we cannot afford to use up our first-class tim- 

 ber in so clumsy a way as to s^jlit it into rails. 



In one of our meetings last year a member stated that he liked a good rail 

 fence and that laid with a good worm. I think he only voiced the opinion of 

 all. But that is only speculating on an impossibility, as we cannot have such a 

 fence, at the most, but a few years longer, as year after year we see our timber 

 giving way under the greatly increased demand. In view of that fact we begin 

 to look around for the next best material and construction for the future fence. 

 Farmers may expect to be imposed upon with many new devices and patent 

 rights for years to come. Whenever the farmers feel the need of anything 

 there are hordes of those fellows that want to get two dollars out of one and 

 that without work, ready to sell them some worthless article; and many times 

 when they think they are getting just the thing needed, they later find that it 

 is only one more addition to the list of swindles. That whole class are con- 

 stantly viewing the situation of the farmer and where they see his greatest 

 need there is their strongest hold. As we feel the need of some improved 

 mode of fencing at the present time, I would say, be on the alert and investi- 



