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/ 

 The receipts of the eociety during the psst j&ai have been as 



follows : 



Cash on hand date of last report, $183 37 



" Floral hall, 205 00 



" Membership and other souices, 165 00 



State appropriation, . . . , 75 00 



$628 37 



Cash paid for premiums, $391 00 



" " papers, 20 00 



" ^^ incidental expenses,. . » 25 00 



Cash balance on hand, 292 37 



$G28 37 



Officers far 1853. At the annual meeting held December 23, the 

 following ofRcers were elected : President, Paris Barber ; Vice 

 Presidents, Moses Kinne, Josiah W. Rood, Lyman Hubbard, Man- 

 ley Hobart; Treasurer, M. L. Webb ; Secretary, Erasmus Bowen ^ 

 Corresponding Secretary, Amos Hobart ; Marshal?, Oliver Glo- 

 ver, Ira Bowen, A. L. Chamberlain ; Superintendent Floral hall, 

 Wm. L. Sherman; Executive committee, Israel Boies, Geo. J. J. 

 Bart>er, Amos Rice, iNoah Hitchcock, Jr., Hiram Hopkins, An- 

 thony Freer, Joshua Ballard, 2d, Hamilton Putnam, Peter Wal- 

 rad, Francis H. Hibbard, Hammei Thompson. 



ANTiiONY FREER, PrMidmt. 



DELAWARE. 



The annual fair and cattle show of the Sooietj was held in 

 Delhi on the Gth and 7th days of October, and was more numer- 

 ously attended thun any previous festival of the association. The 

 fair of the society for the past three jcars has been held In the 

 town or village paying the largest sum int) the treasury, and 0o« 

 far as our own experience is a guide, is a very satisfactory and 

 pro|>er arrangement. The officers of the Society^ by this plan of 

 locating the annual fair, are relieved from an cmbarassing respon- 

 sibility, while the members and patrons of the society are en- 



