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question of the policy or impolicy of having the Society's 

 annual show permanently located. The motion was adop- 

 ted, and Mr. Walker made a statement, showing that the 

 Society would be largely benefited by a permanent location, 

 as they could, by saving the annual expense of erecting fen- 

 ces and buildings, and giving larger premiums to competitors, 

 and more liberal inducements to parties at a distance to 

 bring forward their stock, more materially advance the in- 

 terests of improvement than they could do under their exist- 

 ing arrangements. His sentiments seemed to make a very 

 favorable impression on the Society, as they were well cal- 

 culated to do. 



Mr. Dickerson, of Grafton county, in tlic view, that, when 

 the fair has been held out of Concord or Manchester, the 

 expenses had always exceeded the receipts, favored the 

 proposition ; but he thought it best to leave the matter with 

 the Executive Committee. 



Gen. Gliddcn,of Unity, admitted the financial argument, but 

 he wished to remind the Society that both at the Keene and 

 Meredith shows, the cattle exhibited were much better than 

 those shown at Concord or Manchester, the first years of 

 the exhibition there. He commended the presentation of a 

 resolution which would elicit the opinion of the large meet- 

 ing now assembled, and was of the belief that the pecuniary 

 interests of the Society would be best served by holding in 

 Concord, Manchester or Nashua, where the most money 

 could be made. He moved the adoption of a resolution in- 

 structing the Executive Committee to permanently locate the 

 exhiltitions of the Society in some central place in the State. 

 Mr. Paul R. George, of Hopkinton, in a very able argu- 

 ment, gave his support to the resolution, and suggested Con- 

 cord as the most eligi))lc and central place; and witliout 

 consultation with any of its citizens, he would voudi for 

 them tliat they would meet the proposition, if carried in 

 tlu'ir favor, in Ihc most liljcral spirit. 



The debate on the permanent location of the Fair was 



