572 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



be in constant correspondence with inventors, &c., and offer such 

 inducement as will secure the attendance of whatever will add 

 interest to the show. 



As matters now are, many humbugs are ostentatiously dis- 

 played, while a great deal of value remains at home, unnoticed 

 and unknown. The world is made up of small things, and there 

 are a great many little improvements, not patented, that need to 

 be got before the people. 



Let it be our aim to help forward, by every possible means, the 

 great interests of Agriculture and kindred pursuits. 



Receipts, _.. §441 87 



Expenditures, 342 02 



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Officers: — President, Hugh T. Brooks; Secretary, E. L. Eab- 

 bit; Treasurer, J. A. McElwain. 



HUGH T. BROOKS, President. 



YATES. 



The sixteenth annual fair of this Society was held at the village 

 of Penn Yan on the 9tli and 10th of October, 1856, and was atten- 

 ded by an unprecedented concourse of people from every part of 

 this and the surrounding counties. It affords us great pleasure 

 to be enabled to say, that notwithstanding a little hostile feeling 

 has been manifested in remote parts of the county, and no less 

 than two very respectable and, as we are no doubt correctly in- 

 formed, very promising rival Societies — one of several towns from 

 Steuben and the other from a portion of old Ontario — yet the 

 Society never gave more cheering signs of promise and the ulti- 

 mate attainment of the objects sought than it does at this present 

 time, as will appear from, the sequel. In proof of this, it is 

 only necessary to add that the amount received during the past 

 year, as compared with any previous year, show^s a very large 

 increase, and the amount of premiums paid shows the same result. 



Everything throughout the county in an agricultural point, 

 from year to year, bears evidence of a new impulse^ particularly 

 in the improving, growing and importing good stock; five years 

 since there was not a "full blood " in the county. We are proud 

 to say that we think we are prepared to compete successfully now 



