STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 527 



Manny's and Allen's, one equal between Manny's and Ketclium's, 



and one not tested. 



The receipts of the Society for the year 1856, have been as 



follows : 



Amount received from State appropriation, $120 00 



" " C.D.Miller, 5 00 



" " annual memberships, 325 00 



" " rent of fair ground to pedlars,.. 50 00 



" at gate at annual fair for admissions,.- 416 60 



Total amount of receipts $916 60 



Premiums and expenditures, _ $928 18 



mmu — 



List of Premiums. — Spring wheat, R. S. Ransom, 25 bu. 2 lbs. 

 per acre; Corn, E. Richardson, 81f|- bu. per acre; Potatoes, L. 

 Bl'own, 342 bu. per acre. 



Officers for 1857. — President, John R. Chapman, Sullivan; 

 Treasurer, L. D. Dana, Morrisville; Secretary, Lucius P. Clark, 

 Morrisville. 



MONROE. 



Tlie Monroe County Agricultural Society have, during the past 

 season, secured a permanent location of their fair grounds, and 

 as our success lias been unexampled in our own history, and fully 

 equal to our most sanguine expectations, I send you a somewhat 

 fuller statement of our proceeding than might otherwise be 

 necessary. 



Our Society has pursued the usual course adopted by Agricul- 

 tural Societies generally, viz. : holding fairs in dillereut locations, 

 sometimes endeavoring to arouse a spirit of emulation by holding 

 the fiir where the greatest number of nu'm])ers were ofiVred, and 

 once by holding two fairs in one year in diifcrent portions of the 

 county, Sec, &;c. Eut all the means used seemed to fail in one 

 respect; wc did not ^rvt ahead any — we did manage to keep out of 

 debt, l)Ul tile interest in the Society among the farmers s*eemed to 

 l)e rather at a low ebi). At its annual meeting in January, 1855, 

 the Society a]i]Mjinted a committee to investigate the subject of 

 permanent location of fair ground, and report at the next annual 



