Reports of Local Societies. 233 



Tlie whole number of entries was 489, just 200 less than at onr 

 nrst fair, a decrease sufficiently accounted for by the facts above 

 stated. Compared with the fair of last year the total receipts 

 of the second were S24.08 in excess of those of the first, a fact 

 which does not indicate any abatement of public interest in the 

 annual expositions of the society. Tt may be here stated that 

 the net avails of $232.54 were appropriated to the payment of 

 expenses incurred by improvements made upon the grounds 

 pre]>arat()ry for the fair. 



The experience and observations of two years should enable us 

 to present, at our third aimual fair, the products and industries 

 of Brown county, especially those of the farming population, in 

 a much more complete and satisfactory exposition than either of 

 the two which have now been held, and it is to be earnestly 

 hoped that the society will make early and ample arrangements 

 for such an exhibit of all de[)artraents of industry and improve- 

 ment — horticultural, agricultural, mechanical, artistic, and edu- 

 cational — as will place Brown county in these respects, at least, not 

 below where she stands alphabetically among the counties of the 

 state. 



Membeksiiip. — At the date of the last annual report the male 

 membership of the society consisted of two life members, ninety- 

 six annual members and four honorary members, one hundred 

 and two in all. During the year there have been eleven addi- 

 tions to the class of annual, and two to that of honorary mem- 

 bers, making the male membership, at this date, to consist in 

 all of one hundred and fifteen members. The secretary is not 

 able to report the exact numl)er of ladies who should be regarded 

 as members of the society. By a standing rule all married ladies 

 become honorary members on the admission of their husbands. 

 By another standing rule all unmarried adult dauffhters of mem- 

 bers in good standing shall, on handing their names to the secre- 

 tary, be accepted as honorary members, and their names be 

 enrolled on the record as such. Only one addition of this class 

 has yet been made. 



Tlie effect of the action of the meeting of January 8th, was to 

 annul, in part if not in whole, the distinction previously' held 



