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selves, and also to the causes which have made every other species 

 of property (at least nominally,) to appreciate. Our annual fair 

 was held on the 23d and 24th days of September, with its usual 

 interest ; Oliver Barber of Gaines, was elected President for the 

 year 1853, also a vice president for each of the nine towns in the 

 county, John G. Lawyer was re-elected Recording secretary, and 

 John H. White, Corresponding secretary. 



Balance on hand at the commencement of the year,. . . . §56, 93 



Received of members and by sale of tickets, 282 , 90 



From Comptroller, 75 , 00 



$124,83 

 Paid for use of tents, $41 00 



For rent of land, 10 00 



Printing and other miscellaneous expenses, . . 39 00 



$90 00 



Premiums awarded, ..,...." 181 62 



» ' ^ 



$•271 62 

 Balance on hand. $1 53 21 



A. BYINGTOxV, Vice- /'resident. 



Extract from the Address of A. Byington, V. President. 



The United States have been inhabited by civilized man a little 

 more than two hundred years, and in parts of the country that 

 have been longest settled, many fields, once fiiiitCul, are turned to 

 waste, as not worth the cost of fencing and tillage. The county 

 of Orleans has been settled about forty years, and many of its tields 

 show unmistakable signs of <liaiinished IVitility. It is a iiiw of the 

 animal economy, that population keeps pace with tlie jDduction 

 of the means to sustain it, and that as population bi comes more, 

 dense, a better system of cultivati(»n must be adopted, or resort 

 must be li.id to an inferior kind of food; and if the creat mass ol 

 the population ot tliiti country does not some day liavt- U» subsist 

 upon a vegetable instead of a meat diet, they will escape the fate 

 that lias beiallen every densely populated country that has pre- 



