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The outlook is not unfavorable to the payment of your deht on maturity. 

 You will please notice that I estimate the profits for 1875 at §450, and assure 

 you at the same time that they were for the year now ending $539 72. 



Admitting then that the profits are all required to meet the floating debt, 

 which will then be matured, you will then be called upon to raise 81,000 in two 

 years, which it seems to me you may reasonably expect to do if your prosperity 

 remains undiminished. 



I desire to say that it seems to be the determination of the Board of Director^ 

 that nothing shall tempt them to hazard the credit of the association ; hence 

 the conservatism which has made their certificates of indebtedness j^ass at par, 

 against the want of confidence which some of our business men have been lav- 

 ishing upon us at every step, from the conception to the consummation of the 

 Central Fair Association of Hubbardston. 



A. D. LUCE, 



Secretary. 



KALAMAZOO COUNTY. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE KALAMAZOO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At the annual meeting held at Kalamazoo January 15, 187G, Mr. Frank Lit- 

 tle, Secretary of the Society, made the following report : 



Mr. President — G-entlemen : — We have assembled here to-day, at the be- 

 ginning of the new year, to attempt briefly to recall and note in a some\vhat 

 formal manner some of the principal facts and experiences in the historv of our 

 Agricultural Society for the past year, and also to lay anew the foundations of 

 an effective vrork to be accomplished for the year that is just opening before us. 



And first, with a devout and fervent gratitude, let us recognize the beneficent 

 acts of a kind Providence, giving thanks to our Heavenly Father for all the 

 mercies and benefits with which he has surrounded us, and for the success that 

 has crowned our efforts for the year just closed. 



That the annual fair of the Kalamazoo County Agricultural Society of 1875 

 was a successful one, comparatively, in all that is really essential, is conceded 

 by all. Its fame has gone abroad, and our achievements as a society have placed 

 us in the first rank of sister organizations in the State. And can we marvel or 

 be astonished at this? Where will you look for a more intelligent and thrifty 

 peojile than those that inhabit these fertile woodlands and plains? Where will 

 you find a people more richly endowed with enterprise and patriotism, and all 

 the attributes that elevate and tend to make perfect our truer manhood and 

 womanhood? Then, again, it is safe to say that our accommodations and 

 facilities for such an exhibition are unequaled in the State. ''jSTational Park," 

 at Kalamazoo, has truly a national reputation, and is well deserving of all that 

 has been said in its praise. 



The thanks of this society are due to Mr. Eeed, the proprietor of the grounds, 

 for the use of the park upon very favorable terms during the past three years. 



It is my pleasure to note an increasing interest in the society that is being 

 taken year by year by the people of the county. I think there is a much better 



