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DUTCHESS COUNTY. 



The annual Fair of this Society was held in this village on Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday last, the first and second inst. It was got up 

 in a manner highly creditable to the spirited farmers and other indus- 

 trious classes of this first of agricultural counties. The displays of 

 stock, farming implements, &c. were decidedly superior to those at 

 any other fair of the kind ever held here, excepting only the State 

 fair of last year. In the line of agricultural products there was noth- 

 ing wanting, and the display was greatly beyond what any had 

 expected considering the past unfavorable season. In fruits and 

 flowers few if any counties in the state could beat us. Only in man- 

 ufactures did the collections fall short of the general expectation, or 

 what they should have been. An immense crowd of people attended 

 from all parts of the county, which shows that the interest felt in 

 these annual exhibitions, instead of diminishing, is constantly on the 

 increase. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : 

 Stephen Haight, of Washington, President ; Cornelius Dubois, 

 Elnathan Haxtun, John Fisher Sheafe, Thos. Tabor, Obadiah Titus, 

 Dudley B. Fuller, Vice Presidents ; Henry Mesier, John Van Wyck, 

 Sees. ; Barclay Haviland, J. W. Wheeler, Recording Secretaries. 



ERIE COUNTY. 



The executive committee, through the President of the Erie county 

 Agricultural Society, report, that this day has been finished the show 

 for this year, held on the 8th and 9th of this month. They have to 

 state, that the show this year is in most respects inferior to the four 

 which have preceded it. This inferiority has arisen from two causes. 

 For the last three weeks there have been frequent rains, and in con- 

 sequence the roads have become very bad and heavy, which has 

 deterred many from attending. During both days of the show, the 

 weather was stormy and inclement. While the condition of the roads 

 prevented the attendance of the farmers of the country, with their 

 families, the storm during the fair kept away large numbers of the 

 citizens of Buffalo. There was yet a more powerful cause to occasion 

 the decline this year. The rule which excludes all animals that have 

 taken first premiums from competition, tended to retain at home 

 nearly all the best animals in the county. This alone, without unfa- 

 vorable weather, would have made the show very limited in the 

 number of animals. To remedy this, it is recommended to alter, at 

 the show of next year, this rule of exclusion, and again allow to be 

 brought forward all our best animals to compete with each other. 

 With all the discouraging circumstances, there was a very large num- 

 ber of farmers in attendance from nearlv all the towns of the county ; 

 and more of them were in attendance, paying their membership fee, 

 without exhibiting, than on any former year. This evinces that the 

 right spirit is active, and would, under favorable circumstances, have 

 made a capital show. From it the committee augur well for the future. 



