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hundred and seventy-five members paid each one dollar the last year 

 to the Society. Five crops of corn ranged from eighty-eight to one 

 hundred and eight bushels per acre. The soil of the county being 

 chiefly adapted to grazing, those farmere have been most successful 

 who have adapted their operations mostly to that branch of agricul- 

 ture. The annual Fair was held on the 25th and 26th of September, 

 presenting a fine exhibition, and indicating the advancing prosperity 

 of the county. 



Officers. — Thomas B. Campbell, President ; D. J. Matteson, 

 Abijah Clark, Caleb O'Daughaday, Wm. Prendergast, 2d, J. S. Pat- 

 terson, Henry Baker, W. W. Chandler, Timothy Judson, Elisha Nor- 

 ton, Nathan Mixer, Vice-Presidents ; Wm. Riley, Secretary ; Samu- 

 el A. Brown, Treasurer. 



CHEMUNG COUNTY. 



The Annual Meeting and Fair were held at Havana on the 2d and 

 3d of October. More than two hundred domestic animals were ex- 

 hibited, and other departments of the Fair exceeded in interest and 

 extent those at previous fairs. The annual address was given by A. 

 J. Wynkoop. 



Premiums were given on Wheat, for 50^ bushels per acre ; corn, 

 116 bushels, 105 bushels, and 961 bushels per acre ; on Barley, 61 

 bushels per acre ; and on hay, 3 tons 1,750 lbs. per acre. 



Officers. — E. C. Frost, President ; Comfort Bennett, Gabriel 

 Sawyer, Abel N. Sweet, Nathaniel Barnes, G. B. Dix, William Hoff- 

 man, Peter McKey, Samuel Leverick, Henry Crandall, Vice-Presi- 

 dents ; Levi J. Cooley, Corresponding Secretary ; William W. Wis- 

 ner, Recording Secretary ; Wm. Maxwell, Treasurer. 



CLINTON COUNTY. 



The Fair was held at Plattsburgh, Sept. 27th, 1844. The Society 

 have published a pamphlet of their proceedings, which evinces the 

 prosperous condition of the Society, and contains many interesting 

 and valuable reports, in the various departments of agriculture. 

 Among other crops, of which distinct statements of the modes of 

 culture are given, are. Corn, 92 bushels, ; 88 bushels, and 80 bush- 

 els per acre ; and Potatoes, 496 and 300 bushels, respectively, per 

 acre. The pamphlet also contains statements of experiments on the 

 cultivation of fruit trees ; on Beets and Turneps ; on Rotation of 

 Crops ; and on the manufacture of Butter and Cheese, with a descrip- 

 tion of a new and improved churn ; all of which are given under 

 their appropriated heads in this volume. 



Officers. — Edwin Benedict, Plattsburgh, President ; Augustus 

 Ransom, Charles C. Knappen, Willetts Keese, Robert E. Keese, Vice- 

 Presidents ; Jacob H. Holt, Corresponding Secretary ; George W, 

 Palmer, Recording Secretary ; Moses K. Piatt, Treasurer. 



