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Lorenzo Carter, John Bloom, John P, Andrews, Elias J. Ayres, Vice- 

 Presidents ; Wm. L. Dewitt, Ithaca, Corresponding Secretary ; Sam- 

 uel Crittenden, Jr., Recording Secretary ; N. T. Williams, Treasurer. 



ULSTER COUNTY. 



The Fair was held on the 11th of October ; $175 were paid in 

 premiums. The report does not represent the Society as in a flour- 

 ishing condition 



Louis D. Bevier, President ; other officers not reported. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



The Fair was held on the 8th and 9th of October. $310 have been 

 paid in premiums the past year. The entire receipts were $366. 50 — 

 more than $100 greater than in any previous year. Among the pre- 

 mium crops were — wheat, 28 and 26 bushels of winter wheat ; 40 J, 

 27^ and 263 bushels of spring wheat ; 83 i and 79| bushels of corn ; 

 79 bushels of oats ; 41 of barley, and 29 bushels of peas per acre. 



Officers. — John McDonald, Salem, President ; James Savage, 

 L. B. Armstrong, Zachariah Sill, Ezra Smith, Vice-Presidents ; Or- 

 ville Clark, Kingsbury, Corresponding Secretary ; Asa Fitch, Salem, 

 Recording Secretary ; Henry Holmes, Treasurer. 



From the report of this Society, furnished by Asa Fitch, Jr., Re- 

 cording Secretary, the following extracts are made, showing the mea- 

 sures taken to raise funds for the Society : 



" Entitled to special notice, as forming an important part of our 

 proceedings, and bidding fair to render our society a permanent insti- 

 tution, is the system of financial measures adopted and carried into 

 operation the past season. 



" The uncertainty with regard to what the amount of our funds 

 would be, has annually been the most embarrassing obstacle which 

 the managers of our Society have had to encounter in conducting its 

 affairs. It is obvious that our premium list should be made out and 

 published some months previous to the days of our Fairs ; and yet 

 we have ever felt it to be most unsafe to issue this list, whilst we are 

 in utter uncertainty with regard to what the amount of our funds will 

 be, and when we know not that we shall receive a tithe of the amount 

 which we are promising to pay. Heretofore we had depended en- 

 tirely upon subscriptions to be annually renewed, and it has not been 

 until the very day of our Fair that our list of members has been com- 

 pleted — a large proportion of our resources having been in each year 

 paid in upon that day. For the purpose of remedying this inconve- 

 nience, the Society at one time resolved that no person should be per- 

 mitted to compete for a premium whose name was not enrolled as a 

 member six months previous to the day of the Fair. So very few 



