STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



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In domestic manufactures specimens were abundant and well 

 wrought; never better at any previous fair in this county. 



Fine Arts and General Manufactures. — The liberal premiums 

 offered brought out a good degree of taste in the several depart- 

 ments. 



Fruits and Flowers. — The American Pomological Convention 

 being held in this city at the same time with our fair, took off the 

 attention of our professional and many of our amateur fruit and 

 flower men, so that this, although quite creditable, was in pro- 

 portion to what it might and should have been the least commen- 

 dable of any part of the exhibition. 



Female Equestrianship. — The first trial of this display was made 

 this year, and §75 offered in premiums; the consequence was 

 that an immense crowd collected to see the performance, adding 

 materially to our receipts, which we estimate in round numbers 

 as follows : 

 Collections for life-mem])erships, in all the past year, 



$10 each, say, $3,500 00 



Annual memberships, $1.00 each, say, _ 1,200 00 



Shilling tickets of admission, 1 ,300 00 



§6,000 00 

 Add to this fur subscriptions not collected, 1 ,000 00 



$7,000 00 

 Total expenses, as above, _ 7,000 00 



We expect to collect the $1,000, subscribed and not collected, 

 previous to the next annual fair. If so, we shall have bought 

 and paid fur our location and improvements tlie first year, wliicli 

 is better than farmers generally are in the habit of doing individ- 

 ually, and quite as well as we could expect, taking the results 

 attained in other counties as a standard. 



The annual address was delivered by Hon. Washington Hunt, 

 an abstract of which is annexed. 



The results that liave followed from permanently locating our 

 fair grounds, are sHlficicnt to prove to us the wisdom of the meas- 

 ure, and although it met with opposition, and was not secured 

 without strenuous exertions on the part of the officers, I do not 

 believe that a man of ordinary intt'llitjence can be found in the 

 county who does not a]»i»rove of the })lan; and we can say with 



