STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 505 



Finances : 



Balance in treasury from year 1855, $486 09 



Eeceived from annual members and admission tickets 



to annual fair, 1856, 1,157 45 



Received from Horace White (special premium,) 25 00 



Received for rent of stand at fair, _ 25 00 



Received for interest on loan, ^.. 22 52 



§1,716 06 



Amount of premiums and expenses paid for year 1856, 711 09 



Balance in treasury, 1 ,004 97 



Officers for 1857. — President, A. S. Chamberlain, Homer; Sec- 

 retary, S. E. Kingsley, Homer; Treasurer, Morgan L. Webb, Cort- 

 landville; Corresponding Secretary, Chas. P. Beach, Homer; and 

 four Vice-Presidents. 



DELAWARE. 



Delaware is one of those unfortunate counties which, though 

 paying yearly a large sum for internal improvements in the State 

 has never been benefited to an amount equal to the money paid. 

 It is true much money was loaned and lost by the State, while 

 attempting to aid in the construction of the New- York and Erie 

 raili'oad, designed for the benefit of this as well as other southern 

 counties, yet the road as now located and completed does not 

 benefit the inhabitants of the county as much as is generally 

 believed throughout the State. It runs upon an extreme l)order; 

 and a large share of our produce still finds its way to Catskill or 

 Kingston, on the Hudson, in preference to Deposit or Hancock on 

 the Erie road. The transi)ortation of goods or j)roduce, to or 

 from New-York, to the central or northern part of the county, 

 costs more than at Buffalo or Oswego. With all of these incon- 

 veniences the inliabitants of Delaware have prospered for the 

 year past. The drouth of June and July seriously injured sonic 

 of our crops, but as tliere was much more land sown and ])lantcd 

 in the county than in years past, we shall be less dependent upon the 

 importation of foreign flour and feed than usual. The season of 1854 

 tauglit us a lesson not easily forgott<Mi. Instead of relying as at 



