COUNTY REPORTS. 309 



the ground owned by J. W. Morelj, S. P. Kagerty, Jas. Morely, 

 of Sank County, and also some by J. W. Patterson, of N. Y. 

 F. G. Stanley exhibited the best horse team for all work. Some 

 good work cattle were offered but this division of the exhibition 

 was not on the whole what it ought to have been. The show of 

 grain and garden products was fine, but not full enough ; and 

 some fine specimens of mechanical skill were offered — this de- 

 partment was rather meagre this year. The fruit garden was 

 not wholly unrepresented, notwithstanding the wide spread de- 

 struction of fruit trees by the terribly severe winter of 185.5-6, 

 there was quite a fair show of fruit. Some choice Catawba and 

 Gazella grapes exhibited by R. G. Camp, A. G. Tuttle and T. L. 

 Clark, attracted much attention; and a superb collection of ap- 

 ples, exhibited by Jas. M. Clark, embracing 54 choice grafted 

 sorts, excited much admiration by their fine size, beauty and ex- 

 cellent flavor. The want of a suitable room for the 2d day di- 

 minished much the cash receipts of the Fair, and the Treasury 

 books not being present, I am not able to report the entire re- 

 ceipts. The cash premiums amounted to about 170 dollars, and 

 a considerable number of copies of Wisconsin FafTner and 

 Transactions of the State Agricultural Society were also paid 

 out as premiums — the precise number not known. 



At the close of the year the Treasurer reported the sum of $23 

 97 in the treasury after payment of all premiums and expenses. 



The following persons were elected officers for the ensuing year. 



President, R. H. Davis ; Yice President, J. B. Crawford ; 

 Treasurer, J. W. Morkly; Secretary, E. Martin. 



The President, R. H. Davis, having resigned that office July 

 11th, John W. Powell was appointed to fill the vacancy. 



Membership tickets to the amount of $100 had been disposed 

 of for the present year. A premium list has been presented by 

 the committee for a Fair, to be held September 24th and 25th 

 next ; and it is believed that with a good degree of industry, tact 

 and energy on the part of its friends, the Society may yet ac- 

 complish all that its most sanguine supporters anticipated, in pro- 

 moting the interest of the producing classes of Sauk County. 



Respectfully, E. Martin, Secreicry. 



