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WALWORTH. 



Elkhorn, December 3d, 1852, 



DsAR Sir : — In compliance -with your request, I take great pleasure in 

 communicating to you a brief sketch of the proceedings of tbe Walworth 

 County Agricultural Society, for the year 1852. 



The Society held its Annual Fair at Elkhorn, on the 28th and 29th 

 days of September. The weather being fine, the attendance of people was 

 much greater than on any former occasion — two thousand persons, as 

 was estimated, were present — thus showing that the interest previously 

 manifested in the welfare of our County Agricultural Society is steadily- 

 increasing. Many towns, entirely unrepresented last year, had a large 

 display upon the grounds at this Fair, and received their due proportion 

 of the premiums awarded. It is to be hoped that each succeeding year,with 

 its Annual Fair, will bring along with it an additional effort on the part 

 of our farmers to extend the influence of the Society, and to increase the 

 number of its members. 



The members of our Society are one hundred and fifty in number. — 

 The number of articles for exhibition this year was about the same num- 

 ber. The premiums awarded amounted to nearly two hundred dollars, 

 the Dipl6ma being awarded as the first premium in every case, by a 

 resolution of the Society. Two gentlemen of our county were invited by 

 the Society to read addresses on the first day of the Fair, but being dis- 

 appointed in their attendance, several gentlemen, members of the Society, 

 upon short notice, addressed those present upon a variety of subjects ; 

 and some of these impromptu remarks would not suffer in comparison 

 "with more studied efforts upon the subjects of which they spoke. Orra 

 Martix, of Spring Prairie, was called out, and took up the subject of 

 Fruit Culture — a matter heretofore too much neglected in Wisconsin, and 

 especially in our own county — and did himself great credit in its discussion. 



In former times, Walworth has been noted for the quantity and excel- 

 lence of its wheat ; but for the last two or three years, farmers have 

 turned their attention more to the raising of stock, wool, pork, butter 

 and cheese. Great improvement has also been made in our breeds of 

 horses, and the exhibition in that line at our late Fair, was creditable ia 

 a high degree to the intelligent farmers of the county. 



Our county is well adapted either for cropping or for pasturage. I 

 believe, however, that the low and inadequate prices which grain has 

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