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Enclosed are the reports of members to whom premiums were 

 awarded on grain, with some others. We regret to say that the re- 

 ports are few in number ; and on stock, the manner in which it is 

 raised, generally, does not seem to admit of an accurate detail of ex- 

 penses ; and a disposition seems manifest adverse to report vague 

 conclusions. 



JOHN D. COE, 



President. 



TOMPKINS COUNTY. 



This society numbers, this year, about 200 members, most of whom 

 are sturdy farmers, instead of " beggars,^' and who seem to take a 

 deep interest in the agricultural welfare of our county and State. 

 Our meetings through the year have generally been well attended. 

 Our last annual fair, which was held in this village on the 3d and 4th 

 of October last, was indeed a farmer's jubilee. Nature smiled. 

 Farmers, mechanics, men, women and children, were there, and they 

 also smiled. From the increased number who attended the fair, as 

 also from the spirit of rivalship manifested as to who should excel in 

 obtaining the first premiums. We are satisfied that the State and 

 county societies are, in connection with the various agricultural pub- 

 lications of the day, working great good to the farming interests of 

 our country. 



The annual address was delivered by D. B. Stockholm, esq. 



The amount of funds raised mostly in sums of four shillings from 

 each member for membership in our society the past year, is |110. 

 An equivalent amount has been received from the State. This amount 

 has mostly been appropriated in payment of premiums, and in de- 

 fraying necessary expenses of the society for the year. 



The committee on plowing report, that there were eleven teams 

 and plows entered the field for competition. That the plowing by 

 most of them was very superior and highly creditable to the plow- 

 men, and they challenge any county in the State to produce the same 

 number of teams and plowmen to do as good and as much work in 

 the same time. 



Officers : Jacob McCormick, Ithaca, President ; Thomas Robert- 

 son, Lansing, Henry Brewer, Enfield, George Jones, Newfield, James 

 Giles, Dryden, John W. Abell, Ulysses, Nathan Benson, Groton, E. 

 Wixon, Hector, Jacob Bates, Danby, James R. Speed, Caroline ; 

 E. L. Porter, Ithaca, Recording Secretary ; E. Mack, Ithaca, Cor- 

 responding Secretary; N. T. Williams, Ithaca, Treasurer. 



S. CRITTENDEN, Rec. Secretary, 



Ithaca, Feb. 18, 1846. 



