470 WISCONSIN" AGRICULTUEE. 



farmers, exclusive of their families, in attendance altogether. 

 And this too after a highly satisfactory fair the year before, and 

 after a good deal of advertising and drumming all through the 

 county, coupled with the inducement of a large premium list, 

 and the finest weather that could be imagined, or asked for. 

 Many towns were not represented by a single person. This we 

 call conclusive evidence of want of enterprise, almost amounting 

 to stupidity ; for the county undoubtedly contains at least 5000 

 farmers, good and poor (a good many of the latter we trow) not 

 to be represented by over 500, at their great main annual holiday 

 and show for the year. 



We know that many find a ready excuse for non attendance, 

 under the plea that such societies are himibugs, mere individual 

 speculations, &;c., &c. 



Now in answer to such, we have only to say, that we regard 

 such staij away fault-finding suspicions people as the most con- 

 summate humbugs, decidedly, to be met with in this day and age, 

 mere old fogies who neither do anything themselves, beyond 

 mere eating, drinking and fault finding, nor hold out any en- 

 couragement for others. If the world was wholly made up of 

 such wise do-nothing folks it would stagnate and retrograde 

 to barbarism again in a few generations. But we do not wish to 

 enlarge further on so unpleasant a subject, and will conclude 

 that those people who cannot get time to attend the county fair, 

 once a year, must be of the same piece with those who cannot 

 find time to attend election once a year, to discharge the sacred 

 duty of casting a vote to save those liberties that their forefathers 

 bled and died to gain. Mere potato diggers, and threshing ma- 

 chine men, who leave agricultural progress, and the afiairs of 

 government to take care of themselves, rather than spend a day 

 in their behalf. But for the present we will leave all such to 

 the reflections and iipbraidings of their own consciences, with 

 the feeble hope that there is still vitality enough in them of the 

 old Pilgrim stamp, to work a reformation in future. 



But notwithstanding the meagre attendance from the country, 

 through a very good city attendance the fair went off pretty well, 

 on the whole. 



