510 ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW- YORK 



ERIE. 



Officers for 1857. — Erastus Wallis, President, Willink; George 

 W. Scott, Treasurer, Bufifalo; James M. Payne, Secretary, East 

 Aurora. 



ESSEX. 

 Officers for 1857. — E. W. Rogers, President, Wliallonsburgh; 

 Samuel Hand, Secretary, Elizabetlitown; W. W. Root, Treasurer, 

 Elizabetlitown. 



FRANKLIN. 



We are able to report that our prosperity is equal to that of 

 former years. Premiums were offered by the Board of Managers 

 amounting to $770.00, of which the Judges awarded $554.00. 



The annual fair was held in the village of Malone, Sept. 24th, 

 25th and 26th, and notwithstanding that two State fairs were held 

 near us, it was as well attended and as successful as any previous 

 fair. 



The number of entries was upwards of 600. Thirty yoke of 

 fine oxen seemed to make the strongest impression of anything in 

 the stock department. 



There w^as a good display of horses among w^hich were several 

 spans well-matched. 



The annual address was delivered by the Hon. Henry N. Brush, 

 and was not unworthy of its author. 



The lease of the ground which the society received free from 

 Wm. Andrus, Esq., having nearly expired, the board deeming it es- 

 sential to its future prosperity that it should own grounds on which 

 permanent and convenient buildings could be erected, have pur- 

 chased 10 acres of land for $1,000. The society will continue to 

 add improvements in the way of buildings, shade trees, &c., and 

 we hope to render it worthy of the object for which it was 

 designed. 



The annual meeting was held on the 8th of January, and the 

 following oflB.cers elected for the ensuing year. 



William Andrus, President; Samuel Man, Vice President; J. 



R. Seaver, Secretary; R. R. Stevens, Treasurer; Joseph Wilson, 



James G. Dickey, Directors. 



D. R. SPERRY, Secretary. 



