CALHOUN COUNTY. 



J. C. Holmes Esq., Secy Mich. State Agricultural Society: 



Sir — The undersigned, on behalf of Calhoun County Agricultural 

 Society, herewith submit their annual report. 



The seventh Annual Fair of the Society, was held on the 10th and 

 11th days of October last, on the grounds of the Society, at Marshall, 

 with results that plainly indicated an increasing interest in the welfare 

 of the Society; a desire to hasten the progress of improvement in all 

 matters pertaining to the agricultural interests of our community — and 

 of further developing the wealth that correct theory, and strict thorough 

 practice have shown to exist unused in the fertile soil of our beautiful 

 county. 



We claim that there is a marked change within the limits of our 

 county, and that our society has been active in its mission; in awaken- 

 ing thought; in arousing the feelings; by an exchange of opinions im- 

 proving the judgment, and by its exhibitions exciting the ambition and 

 increasinfr the desire to excel, so natural to all I Of and in the farm- 

 ing community around us, who, even if they had, as has been formerly 

 most slanderously charged upon the inhabitants of our beautiful Penin- 

 sula, "left all Sabbaths behind, when they crossed Lake Erie," did not 

 fail to bring with them a portion of that spirit of " goaheadativeness," 

 claimed to be all-pervading among those they left behind them. 



And science, theoretical, combined in its usefulness with the practical, 

 is rapidly increasing the number of its votaries, who are thus becoming 

 most successful advocates of the truth of the adage, " knowledge is 

 power," by their actual and declared demonstration, as well by the 

 effect of their example, manifest in the greatly increased and superior 

 returns both in quantity and quality, of produce, over the results of 

 indifferent culture of former years. 



