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On the 16th day of June the Executive Committee met at the Court 

 House, and allowed H. C. Campbell $2 for services, assisting the Secre- 

 tary in 1854, after which a list of premiums was adopted for the next 

 annual fair, the time of holding which is hereby fixed on the lOth and 

 11th days of October next, 



ANNUAL FAIR OF 1855. 



On the 10th and llth days of October, 1855, the annual fair was 

 held on the fair ground in the village of Centreville, at which the num- 

 ber of entries of all the important articles was as follows : 



Farms, 3 



Horses, 5i 



Cattle — Durhams, 16 



Devons, 11 



Cross, 17 



Natives, 14 



— 58 



Sheep, 10 



Hogs, 3 



Poultry, 11 



Farm produce, 15 



Garden produce, 20 



Fruit, -- 25 



Fancy work, ^ -. 23 



Mechanical work, ._ _. 21 



Cloth, 8 



Thread and knitting, 19 



Home products, 15 



Plowing, — « 4 



Miscellaneous, 32 



On the afternoon of the eleventh, the meeting was addressed by 

 Henry F. Steele and C. Betts, Esqs., after which the following premi- 

 ums were announced to have been awarded, and the meeting adjourned ; 



LIST OF PREMIUMS 



Awarded at the 5th annual fair of the St. Joseph County Agricul- 

 tural Society: 



