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owners of teams seemed doubly animated and sensitive as to the 



result. 



Immediately after tlie jolowing followed tlie equestriansliip by 

 the ladies. The large circle upon which the riding and driving 

 took place was densely surrounded by footmen and carriages 

 filled to their utmost capacity. There being quite a com- 

 petition in driving, it made this feature of the fair very 

 Interesting. The annual address was delivered by A. B. 

 Sylvester, Esq., of Lowville, and was listened to by a nu- 

 merous and attentive audience, who seemed well pleased and 

 repaid for their convening. The speaker having been reared 

 upon a farm was rightly fitted to give a good practical and 

 instructive address, calculated to inspire the farmer to make con- 

 stant effort to render his fields more productive, and elevate his 

 vocation by scientific and systematic research and application. 

 The discourse was characterized by practical knowledge, and 

 sound sense. 



The annual winter meeting of the Society was held at the vil- 

 lage of Houseville, on the 23d day of December, 1856, and the 

 following officers elected for the ensuing year : 



President, Col. Edmund Baldwin, Turin, and six Vice-Presi- 

 dents; Rec'g Sec'y, Mortimer Smith, Houseville; Cor'g Sec'y, 

 Cornelius E. Stevens, Lowville; Treasurer, M. M. Smith, do. 



MORTIMER SMITH, Secretary. 



LIVINGSTON. 



The President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Livingston 

 County Agricultural Society, in obedience to the require- 

 ments of section nine of an act of the Legislature of the State 

 of New-York, entitled " An act to facilitate the forming of 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Societies," passed April 13, 1855, 

 respectfully report that the following is a statement of the trans- 

 actions of said Society for the year ending Dec. 31, 1856, viz : 



The annual plowing match of said Society was held pursuant 

 to notice on the 12th day of June, 1856; also, pursuant to notice 

 the annual cattle show and fair of said Society was held on the 

 grounds of the Society on the 23d and 24th days of Sept., 1856, 

 and continued during two days. The amount of the receipts and 



