STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 507 



A comparative view of the condition of the Society may be 

 seen by a statement of the three last and most prosperous years. 



1854, premiums paid, §359.00, leaving a debt of, §28 40 



1855, " " §464.65, paid for tent §125, surplus 214 97 



1856, " " §653.55, leaving now in treasury,. 380 58 

 The amount paid for premiums has been nearly doubled, and 



yet the funds are yearly increasing. The present prosperity of 

 the Society may be in a great measure attributed to changing the 

 location of the fair, from year to year. Its officers have ever 

 been of the opinion that a permanent location of the lair would 

 be detrimental to this or even the State Society. 



Officers^ 1857: — President, D. C. Thomas, Stamford; Treasurer, 

 Hiram Olmstead, Walton; Secretary, T. B. Meigs, Delhi. 



Finances : 



Cash on hand, January 3, 1856, §214 97 



Cashfrom State,.. 106 00 



Cash at fair, 628 60 



Cash from citizens, Walton, 380 58 



$1,244 10 



Paid premium expenses, 1855, _ §11 02 



Paid expenses, 1856, 224 10 



Paid premiums, 1856, 628 40 



Cash in treasury, 380 58 



,244 10 



Grain and Root crop. 

 Spring wheat, E. lioe, 17^ bushels per acre; Sprinfi; wheat, L. 

 Ilaiiford, 16 J do.; Corn, E. St. John, 76 J do.; Buckwlieat, W. B. 

 llanfcrd, 39^ do.; Potatoes, E. Olmstead, 294 do.; Potatoes, II. 

 A. Rogers, 276 do.; Kuta baga, H. Olmstead, 382 Jiall'acrc. 



DUTCHESS. 



This Society was formed in the year 1841. The farmers of 

 the county were from the first higlily interested in its welfare; for 

 they thought they saw in it a means of improvement in agricul- 

 ture. In this I think it may be said with safety, they have not 

 been disappointed. They have given their money liberally, have 



