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er. The sale of membership tickets up to the first day of the Fair, waa about 

 1 100. At first they selected a piece of land in the outskirts of the vil- 

 lage ; but on inquiry, it was found necessary to expend some three hun- 

 dred dollare to fence and prepare the ground. This, aside from the cost 

 of a proper building to exhibit those articles required to be under cover, 

 left the means on hand insufficient to pay premiuma. It was them 

 deemed advisable to place the exhibition upon the public square, and use 

 the Court House. The cost to the Society has been but little. The result 

 is highly gratifying — it is no longer an experiment — it is now a fixed 

 fact — Jackson County will maintain a County Fair. We have the 

 means of paying ofi" all of the premiums, and have something in the 

 hands of the Treasurer for the coming year. Next year we trust suflS- 

 cient means will be had to secure a larger piece of ground for an exhi- 

 bition, ha\e it properly fenced, and in order. We congratulate the So- 

 ciety upon its present flourishing condition. We think it far preferaWe 

 to put up with little inconvenience this year, and be out of debt, than 

 to gratify the feelings of some, and he heavily involved. Whatever we 

 'have done, we trust has been for the best. 



J. G. CORNELL, Pres't. 

 Jas. C. Wood, Sec'y. 



ADDRESS 



OKLIVERED BEFORE THE JACKSON COUNTY AGRICULTUEAL SOCIETY, OCTOBHK 

 6th, 1853, BY CHARLES FOX, LKCTUREK ON AGRICULTURE IN THE 0NITBESI- 

 TY OF MICHIGAN; SENIOR EDITOR OF THE " FARMEr's COMTANION AND HOB- 

 TICULTURAL GAZETTE," 40. 



" The first three men in the world, were a gardener, a 'plowman, and a grazier ; at>d if any 

 uiau object thut the second of these were a murderer, I desire he would cousidoi , that us soon 

 aa he wis so, he quitted our profession and turned builder." — Coicley. 



It is with peculiar satisfaction that I accept the invitation extended 

 to me by your Society to deliver the address at your first Fair, to-day. 

 It is now more than fourteen years since I arrived in Michigan, with 

 the intention of becoming a permanent resident in, and a citizen of the 

 State. It was in this village that I spent the two first yeai-s; and I 

 might still have been among you, had not a failure of health obliged 

 me to seek a change of climate. But I have never forgotten, and never 

 •hriU forget, the kindness 1 then received, and I often look back with a 

 longing desire, that those days of warm feeling, undisguised hospit^ity, 

 mnd unwearied energy might return. 



