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The officers elected for the ensuing year, are as follows : — President, 

 Joseph Kerr, Randolph ; Vice-Presidents, Daniel S. Bushnell, Wyocena, 

 and George M. Bartholomew, Lodi ; Secretary, Henry Converse, Wyo- 

 cena ; Treasurer, Frederick C. Curtis, Lowville ; Executive Committee, 

 R. C. Rockwood, Wyocena ; J. Q. Adams, Fall River ; John Converse, 

 East Randolph ; Jesse Van Ness, West Point ; Henry Merrill, Portage 



City. 



I remain, dear Sir, truly yours, 



JOHN A. BYRNE, 



Sec. ColumUa Co. Ar/r. Society. 

 To Albert C. Ingham, Esq., 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



DANE. 



Pheasant Branch, November 13, 1852. 



Dear Sir — The Dane County Agricultural Society was organized in 

 1851, by the adoption of a Constitution and By-Laws, and the election 

 of officers. The first Annual Fair was holden at Madison, in September 

 last. It numbers now one hundred and twenty members. The receipts 

 of the Society have been ^ 1 20 00, and its expenditures for premiums 

 and expenses ^105 25. An Address was made to the members of the 

 Society by its late President ; and its first Exhibition was altogether 

 creditable to the Society. The Exhibition of sheep was small ; of cattle 

 and horses, good. The first Exhibition of the Society has demonstrated 

 that Dane county possess the means of constituting a large and respecta- 

 ble Society, and one of great utility to the county ; and that an Agri- 

 cultural Society is a public institution, and ought to be sustained as such 

 in view of its benefits to the Agricultural interests of the county. 



The officers elect for the coming year, are as follows : — President, 

 William H. Fox ; Vice-Presidents, Reuben Winston, W. M. Colliday, 

 Adin Burdick, Walter Waddle, Wm. Douglas, Philo Dunning ; Treas- 

 urer, Jehu H. Lewis ; Secretary, Robert L. Ream ; Standing Committee 

 on Premiums, Simeon Mills, William H. Clark, Abel Dunning. 



I am, very respectfully yours, 



THOMAS T. WHITTLESEY, 

 To Albert C. Ingham, Esq. President, ^ 



Sec. of the Wis, State Agr. Society. 



