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At a subsequent meeting of the Executive Committee, held. 

 Sept 15, of the same year, Judge Clark presented his resigna- 

 tion of the office of President of the Society, and R. G. Camp 

 was appointed to fill the vacancy. 



The first Cattle Show and Fair of the Society was looked for- 

 ward to with no slight anxiety by the leading friends of the 

 movement. The Society was feeble, without funds. No cash 

 premiums could be offered — copies of the Transactions of the 

 State Agricultural Society and certificates only were offered as 

 premiums — and the arrangements for the Fair were necessarily 

 very imperfect. The farmers generally had not yet wholly re- 

 covered from the privations and disadvantages incident to the 

 settlement of a new country ; and by many it was feared that 

 the show would prove a failure, and the industrial interest of 

 the county be injured, rather than benefitted by the effort. Hap- 

 pily, however, their fears proved to be entirely groundless. The 

 Farmers of no inconsiderable portion of the county turned out 

 with commendable zeal. The mechanics and business men gen- 

 erally bestirred themselves in behalf of the Society ; and last 

 but by no means least, the ladies of Baraboo, by their zeal man- 

 ifested not only in the exhibition of the beautiful products of 

 their skill and industry, bu^. also by the tasteful assistance ren- 

 dered the committee of arrangements, in the preparation for the 

 Fair, contributed in a very important degree to the success of 

 the Society. To the surprise of not a few and the delight of all 

 the friends of the movement, the Show and Fair was eminently 

 successful. The exhibition of Agricultural and Mechanical pro- 

 ducts would have been creditable to a much older County and 

 Society. Over 100 membership ' tickets were taken; near 700 

 single tickets were sold at the gates of the Fair grounds, and the 

 Treasurer was enabled to report at the close of the year that a 

 ballance remained in the Treasury, after paying all expenses, of 

 $136 25. 



At the annual meeting held March 15th, 1856, the following 

 gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year : 



President, R. Gr. Camp ; Vice President, J. W. Morely ;. 

 Treasurer, R. H. Davis ; Secretary, M. C. Waite ; and an Exe- 



