COUNTY REPORTS. 343 



The whole affair showed conclusively, that there was abundant 

 elements in Dane county, for a good Agricultural Society, and 

 tha^. nothing was wanting to secure high success, but proper 

 effort on the part of those interested, to wit : — the Farmers. 



The gross receipts of the Fair, were about $6">0, and the net 

 receipts after paying all expenses and premiums, were nearly 

 $250; which sum added to the State appropriation of $100 to 

 County societies, left$3'iO, or thereabout, in the tr^.-asui-y, at the 

 close of the year; which was put at interest for further use. 



The first annual meeting of the Society was held at Mad- 

 ison, on the l7th of December, A. D. l8o6, and the following 

 board of officers was elected for the ensuing year : 



President, Hon. P. W. Matts; Vice Presidents. D. S. Curtis, 

 G. H, SL.A.UGHTER, and J. E. Carpenter ; Secretary, II. F. 

 Bond ; Treasurer, D. J. Powers, 



Executive Committee — Adin Burdick, S. L, Sheldon, J. H. 

 B. Matts. 



Note. — The foregoing Reports of County Societies, few and scanty as they are, 

 are all that we have been able, after diligent punching^ to obtain. 



About one half of the Societies make no reports whatever ; probably owing to 

 the fact that thev have Secretaries wlio pay no attention to their duties, or tlie in- 

 terests of their Societies. Bass wood is poor timber for officers of Agricultural So- 

 cieties, as all will find out alter a little experience. 



There are numbers of errors in these County reports as printed ; wliicli arises 

 from the fact of our being absent when they were on the press; and from the fact 

 that the copy had not been fully pruned and prepared, before it went into the hands 

 of the Printers. — Ed. 



REPORT 



OF THE 



COMMITTEON BLOOD HORSES— OFFI CIA L 



At State Fair of 1856. 



Milwaukee, October loth, 185'i. 



The Committee appointed to report upon the following classes 

 of horses exhibited for premiums at the late State Fair, would 

 report as follows : 



