588 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



EXPENDITURES. 



Paid interest on mortgage $246 54 



Paid insurance 14 40 



Paid drawing and sawing logs 21 48 



Paid loan and interest at bank 95 54 



Paid permanent improvements 505 57 



Paid contingent expenses 6G8 42 



Paid premiums 889 50 



Cash on hand 658 89 



$3,100 34 



The following officers were elected on the second day of the fair to become 



operative January 1st, 1879: 



President — Fitz L. Reed, Olivet. 



Secretary — Seth Ketcham, Charlotte. 



Treasurer — B. W. Warren, Charlotte. 



Directors, three years — Fitz L. Reed, Olivet, M. L. Squier, Vermontville. 



Bii'ectors, two years — Harris Cooper, Carmel, A. P. Ilartson. Eaton. 



Directors, one year— 'Esek Pray, Windsor, H. S. Robinson, "VValtou. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



SETH KETCHAM, 



Secretary Eaton County AgricuUural Society. 



Dated at Charlotte, January 1st, 1879. 



GENESEE COUNTY. 



The Annual Meeting of the Genesee County Agricultural Society was held 

 at the Court House in this city, on Wednesday, with a very good attendance. 

 In the absence of the President, the meeting was called to order by Director 

 J. C. Dayton, and C. H. Rockwood, of Genesee, was appointed Chairman. 



Before proceeding to any business the chair called attention to the Farmers' 

 Institute to be held in this city next week, and said he was requested to invite 

 all, especially the farmers, to attend. 



The Secretary then read his Annual Eeport, whicli was accepted and adopt- 

 ed, and is as follows : 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Gentlemen : — We have assembled to-day at our annual meeting, to review 

 the transactions of the Society for the past year, and to see if any advance^ 

 ment has been made in the object for whicli Agricultural Societies are formed. 

 While we may be unable to show any increase in the number of entries, it is 

 gratifying to know that wc have not deteriorated. 



In the wisdom of an All-Wise Providence, we have been blest with another 

 year of bountiful harvest. The yield of the productions of the soil has again 

 been a large one ; the average of wheat per acre was perhaps a little under the 

 year 1877, but a larger number of acres were sown, as statistics show, in the 

 aggregate an excess, while the quality compares favorably. 



