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expenditui-es of the Society for the year ending December 



31st, 1856, is : 



Eeceipts, $1,705 71 



Expenditures, _ _ 1,074 38 



At the annual election of the of&cers of the Society for the 

 year 1857, held at the Court House in Geneseo, on the 24th day 

 of December, 1856, the following oificers were duly elected for 

 the year commencing January 1st, 1857, and ending December 

 31st, 1857: 



Geo. W. Root, of York, President j H. E. Rochester, of Cale- 

 donia, Vice-President; Jas. S. Orton, of Geneseo, Secretary, E. R. 

 Hammatt, of Geneseo, Treasurer; Wm. A. Mills, of Mt. Morris, 

 and Jasper Barber, of Avon, Directors. 



CHAS. JONES, President. 



G. J. DAVIS, Secretary. 



R. WHITNEY, Treasurer. 



MADISON. 



The Madison County Agricultural Society held its annual fair 

 at Morrisville on the 8th, 9th and 10th of September, 1856. Tlie 

 weather was exceedingly fine, the attendance large, and the exhi- 

 bition far superior to any previous one held by the Society. 



The fair grounds comprise eight acres, substantially enclosed 

 with a fence eight feet high — " Agricultural Hall," a large and 

 substantial building, occupying the center. This Hall has two 

 floors — tlie lower one for the exhibition of the products of the 

 dairy, tlie garden and the orchard, and for the dis])lay of the lar- 

 ger articles of mechanism, the upper one for domestic manufac- 

 tures, needle, shell, wax- work, painting, flowers, &c., &c. 



Altliough it was too early in the season for mature vegetables 

 and fruit, and the prizes otlered for dairy products too small to 

 insure such a com])t'titi(jn as would do hunor to a county so justly 

 distinguished for its numerous, large and excellent dairies, yet in 

 every department the exhibition was creditable, and in the more 

 important ones, superior. 



The competition for the numerous j)rizes offered for superior 

 fancy luidfarju horses, was unusually spirited. Indeed, the \n-i- 

 mary source of enjoyment and i)ride of the farmer in the pursuit 



