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Best specimens of boots, Thos. C. Jenner. 



Best double (heavy) harness, John Kirby. 



PLOWIKG MATCH. 



There was no regular " match," but Rummery showed the committee 

 a specimen of good plowing, and received a premium at their hands. 

 We want to live long: enouo;h to see a 40 acre lot full of teams and 

 men — we want to live over again the intense excitement of our boy 

 days at sight of a full grown plowing match. Somebody will see it in 

 Allegan county, if we don't. 



MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL. 



All praise is due to the executive committee for the time and labor 

 they have spent to forward the interests of the Society, and make the 

 Fair go off as it should. A set of men never worked harder, or more 

 successfully. See what has been accomplished. The County Society 

 has been organized now three years, in a county of a little over 7000 

 inhabitants. We now have 16 acres of land nearly paid for, (all but 

 about $25,) wo have a new, large, well made tent, which will cover 

 nearly half an acre of ground. We raised this year, by subscriptions 

 and tickets, over $300, and the good ship is now fairly iu deep water 

 with fair winds. 



We should not forget to mention that a thousand- and- one things were 

 exhibited which contributed not a little to the interest and excitement of 

 the exhibition. 



Messrs. Blakeman & Chandler, music dealers, from Kalamazoo and 

 Detroit, were there with some of their instruments, and the singing 

 and playing proved a very attractive feature. We hear the raelodeans 

 and pianos manufactured by this establishment spoken of very highly, 

 and several of our nabobs are supplying their parlors with instruments 

 from their shops. We like the men, and make no scruple in recom- 

 mending them to public favor. 



Mrs. Ranney, Miss McMurphy, and the Misses Forbes, contributed 

 materially to the fancy of the show, by exhibiting elegant drawings and 

 paintings. Let everybody bear in mind another year, that every beau- 

 tiful or useful thing should find a place at the county fair. 



The address, by Mr. Stuart, was purely practical, eminently timely 



