Ad Ayrshire buH was eibibited which was considered a model in 

 color and form. 



The Executive Committee would tender the Auxiliary Committees 

 their best wishes for their promptness in making their reports. 



The Society will be able to pay all premiums as soon as called upoD, 

 and think that a larger list and higher premiums may be taken as a 

 ride for the coming anniversary. 



The following are the officers for the coming year : 



President— LUKE H. PARSONS. 

 Treasurer — James Cummin. 

 Secretary — P. S. Lyman. 



Executive Committee — A. C. Botsford, E. Cook, C. S. Johnson, M. 

 B, Martin, John W. Dewey. 



P. S. LYMAN, Secretary. 

 CoftfiWA, October 15th, 1853. 



ADDRESS 



DELIVKRED BEFORE THE SUIAW^VSSEE COUNTS AGRICULTURAL AND 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIE'nr, AT HABTWELLVILLE. 



BY L. II. PARSONS, ESQ. 



Fellow Citizens : 



Ladies, farmers, manufacturers, mechanics, and working men of Shi- 

 awassee county, we have met together at this time, not as the represen. 

 tatives of any association or body of persons, but as a primary assem- 

 blage — a Society of persons for a common purpose, to exhibit some of 

 the choicest specimens of our own handiwork — the result of our own 

 labor and care ; to compare these as well as the different varieties of 

 horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and fowls, belonging to the various members of 

 this association, with one another, and to endeavor if possible, from the 

 imited labors and experience of all during the past year, to learn some- 

 thing which shall result in our advantage the next year, and for other 

 future years to come. 



The great object of this association and these annual exhibitions, is 

 not the distribution of a few dollars and cents as a premium to a few 

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