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CORTLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Accompanying this, I send the published account of the doings of 

 the Cortland County Agricultural Society the current year. The an- 

 nual meeting of the Society was held yesterday. William Randall 

 of Cortland Village, was chosen President, and George T. Taylor, 

 of Homer, Corresponding Secretary. 



The meeting was well attended, and the members generally seem- 

 ed gratified with the success which had attended their operations the 

 past season. At the Fair in October, there was a splendid display of 

 cattle, and there is a spirited competition among our actual farmers, 

 (the real bone and sinew of the country,) which promises the best re- 

 sults. 



In consequence of holding our annual meeting earlier than usual to 

 enable the proper reports to be made in pursuance of the statute, 

 some of our most efficient members were absent, having mistaken the 

 time. This was the case with several members of experimental com- 

 mittees who had prepared reports on the several duties assigned them. 



Dan Hibbard. 



Cortland Village^ 12th mo. Sth, 1842. 



DUTCHESS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Poughkeepsie, Dec. 29, 1842. 



The Dutchess County Agricultural Society was organized October 

 16th, 1841. It now has 258 members. We have received by vol- 

 untary subscription, $333 — from the State, $157. We have paid out 

 for premiums $289. We held our first annual fair on the 5th and 

 6th days of October last — the attendance was large, and the number 

 and quality of the stock exhibited was much beyond our expecta- 

 tions. The variety of samples of roots, vegetables, fruits, flowers, 

 seeds, &c. exhibited, were good, and told that the farmers of old 

 Dutchess are awake to the important subject of agriculture. There 

 was a good display of farming implements, many of which are well 

 calculated to save labor and expense, and to facilitate our labors. 



The greatest yield of wheat offered for competition, was 149|| 

 bushels from five acres — of corn, 403 bushels measurement on five 

 acres, and 107 bushels of corn on one acre — of potatoes, 376J bush- 

 els on one acre — of sugar beets, 495 J bushels from half an acre — of 

 ruta baga turneps, 350 bushels from half an acre. 



HENRY STATTS, President. 



Geo. Kneeland, Secretary. 



