COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



EOCK COUNTY. 



To THB SkCRKTART OP THE WISCONSIN StATK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Dear Sir : — In order that our County Society may appear 

 properly on the record, and contribute something toward the 

 forthcoming volume of " Transactions " to be issued by your So- 

 ciety, I enclose you a copy of our President's annual address, 

 together with such statistical information as seems necessary to 

 secure the object I have in view. 



Our Society was organized in 1851, by a few enterprising and 

 hopeful farmers and mechanics of Eock county. It was subse- 

 quently incorporated by the legislature under the name and style 

 of the " Eock County Agricultural Society and Mechanics In- 

 stitute." We then adopted a common Seal, an impression of 

 which I send you. 



We have every year held a Fair. There was excited a be- 

 coming degree of interest in the outset, which has steadily and 

 uniformly increased, until we number over 500 annual mem- 

 bers, ,and over 150 life members. Our last Fair was held on the 

 25th, 26th, and 27th days of September last, and the exhibition 

 in all its departments, was such as to " astonish the natives" of 

 the Eastern States who were here, to see so much done by way 

 of improvement in the character of our stock, implements, and 

 even in our population, in so little time. We really feel a little 

 honest pride in the Fair of 1855. 



A novel feature in our hill of fare^ about which tastes differ, 

 was a Ladies Eiding Match, and I believe we are entitled to the 



