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the fair. It is intended that our annual fair shall hereafter be a 

 fair for the sale as wfeil as the exhibition of stock. This was the 

 first expeiiment of the kind, and the result fully proves that such 

 an arrangement will be of vast importance to the interests of the 

 oountj. 



A geological and agricultural s'ar\'ey of the county has been 

 made during (he summer and fall. The farmers show a strong 

 desire to leatn all the secrets of skilful and scientific agriculture. 



The improvements in stock, and the Vastly superior crops of 

 com, oats, buckwheat and potatoes, produced in the county this 

 year, induce the belief that the society lias awakened the inter- 

 est and energy of the farmers, and that it must hereafter benefi- 

 cially afi*ect the wealth and happiness of the county. 



GAB WALES, S retary. 



B. P. Johnson, Esq., Secretary. 



Dear Sir — I transmit to you the following statement in regard 

 to the season and crops of this county. The spring was exceed- 

 ingly backward, making it very late before the farmers commenc- 

 ed their spring* work. The weather continued cold till about the 

 firct of June, when a fine growing season commciLoed. Almost 

 all kinds of crops grew finely until the dry weather came on ; the 

 (iiougi-ii- ail iciot bccaHiC cxocsiive, iiicac*.oV\7S uiiu paSiUiC aIcaClS veiy 

 nearly dried up. The hay crop is at least one-third short. Win- 

 ter grain and summer crops did not appear to suffer as much from 

 drought as hay and pasture. The oat crop has exceeded any for- 

 mer crop for at least six years. Rye was excellent, and so was 

 corn, if we except a few neighborhoods where the very severe 

 hdl storms, one in May, two in June, and one in September, each 

 of these storms nearly destroyed everything before it. Their ex- 

 tent, however, was quite limited. The potatoe crop was unusu- 

 ally good. There were more planted last spring than usual. I 

 have heard but little complaint about the disease. There is pro- 

 bably as many raised this season as there ever was in any former 

 season before the disease made its appearance. 



