478 [ASSEIVIBLY 



If I have succeeded in stimulating the members Ox^ this society 

 ia their efforts to advance the interests of the public, by advan- 

 cing the interests of the farmer, then has the object of my 

 coming been accomplished. 



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ONONDAGA. 



The annual fair of the Onondaga county Agricultural Society 

 was held at Syracuse on Wednesday and Thursday the 22d and 

 23d days of September, 1852. 



The exhibition of live stock, farm implements, &c., was upon* 

 the grounds of Larned & Hutchinson, in. the south part of the 

 city, and that of fancy articles, fruits, Howers, domestic manufac- 

 tures, &c., &c., was at the new, spacious and elegant Wieting 

 hall in the center of the city. Though this hall is estimated to 

 hold three thousand people, yet at times it was filled. 



The whole exhibition surpassed that of any previous year. 

 The society Iiad greatly increased the variety and amount of its 

 premiums, thereby offering additional inducements both for exhi- 

 bition an - attendance. 



The society also adopted the plan of charging a shilling ad- 

 mission to all who were not members. This added five hundred 

 dollars to the receipts of the treasurer. The total amount of 

 monies received was about one thousand dollars, all of which was 

 absorbed by the expenses and premiums of the society.. 



The annual address was delivered by the Hon. Horace Greely, 

 of the city of New- York, and it was listened to with the greatest 

 satisfaction. It w^s replete vvith good practical common sense, 

 and the regret was universal that owing to its extempore form of 

 delivery no copy of it could or has been obtained for publi- 

 cation. 



