REPORT 



OF THE MONROE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



In no previous year have we liad in this county so many State and 

 County Fairs as during the present season ; and never before has such 

 general interest been manifested in Agricultural pursuits. All classes 

 and professions are beginning to realize the importance of the farmers 

 calling, and to respect it as among the most honorable in which man 

 can engage. It has within a few years become so identified with the 

 sciences, and many of the improvements of the age, and partakes so 

 much of the progressive spirit that characterizes the times, as to give it 

 additional dignity and importance, and the respect of all, as a science of 

 paramount importance. This should ever be the case. To respect and 

 support it as such is the surest and easiest method we have to protect 

 our popular institutions ; for it is not upon the population of crowded 

 cities, so much as upon agriculturists scattered throughout the Repub- 

 lic, calmly looking upon passing events, and passing unbiased judgment 

 upon them, free from passion and excitement, that we are to look for 

 support in the hour of peril to our country. 



The Fourth Annual Fair for Monroe County which closed on the 

 13th instant, was such as to give greater confidence to the friends of 

 the organization of its stability and usefulness in the future. Many who 

 at first opposed, or enlisted in the enterprise, fearing it would not pro- 

 mote the ends sought, after seeing the many beneficial results which 



