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and pride with her best men and best fruits, and received premiums for her un- 

 rivaled grapes, and for her pears and apples. Two hundred dollars were paid 

 to gentlemen from that county for fruit premiums. 



Saginaw county need not be ashamed of her second premium on county col- 

 lection of grapes, and Mr. Geddes seemed well pleased with the red that was 

 placed on his collection. 



The first premium on single varieties of plums was awarded to a citizen of 

 Saginaw, Mr. L. P. Mason. Another northern and new county, Oceana, bore 

 off the well-earned trophy of first premium for collection of plums, as well as 

 for the best specimen of Early Crawford peach. 



The Grand Traverse section was alike honored by her specimen men, women 

 and fruits. 



The collection of preserved fruits and jellies exhibited by P. Allyn, of Trav- 

 erse City, was the largest ever shown at a fair in the State by a single indi- 

 vidual, and brought the owner nearly $100. 



All agreed that the award of first premium to Peninsula township, Grand 

 Traverse county, for township collection of apples, was just and righteously 

 deserved. 



The man who took the largest amount of money awarded on fruit was a 

 gray-haired, veteran fruit culturist of seventy-two years, John Gilbert, of Ovid, 

 Olinton county. His fruit was fair, well colored, hard, and free from insects. 

 The good old man says this is probably his last State Fair, but we hope to 

 greet him at the next ; and may it be his fortune to win another $50 for the 

 best county collection of apples. Heaven bless these, the old and honored 

 pioneers of Michigan ! 



A check of $61 was handed the Messrs. Chilson, of Battle Creek, for their 

 display, and the Grangers of Calhoun county need never be ashamed of their 

 representatives. 



One of the best collections of apples in the Hall was that shown by E. P. 

 Flanders, of Galesburg, Kalamazoo county, and he received $27. 



Another collection was that from Tuscola county, awarded $30, and so well 

 pleased were the Tuscola friends that they took a life membership for Wm. 

 Johnson, the President of the Tuscola County Agricultural Society, and a 

 large number of annual memberships, sufficient to entitle them to 100 volumes 

 of the Annual Eeport for 1874. 



H. B. Chapman, of Reading, Hillsdale county, took $10 and a life member- 

 ship for his peaches and pears. 



John C. Zeigler, of Saginaw City, for grapes, wine, and his garden, received 

 $10, and this Mr. Zeigler invested in a life membership. 



The largest and best exhibition of dried fruit, etc., was made by L. C. Liu- 

 coln, of Greenville, Montcalm county, and he was paid $13 therefor. 



The display of peaches and fruit made by the Luke Shore Pomological Sa- 

 ciety at Douglass, Allegan county, through its secretary, "Wm. Cummings, 

 Esq., was awarded first prize of $15. This was mostly from the town of 

 Ganges, a town north of South Haven, and one of the most promising fruit 

 sections in the State. "" 



Spring Lake was represented by her large-hearted lumberman and fruit 

 grower. Hunter Savidge, Esq., and to him was awarded, for his display of 

 grapes and peaches, the premium chromo, "Boy with Basket of Peachea," 

 from Mr. A. F. Dixon's collection. 



Mr. A. F. Dixon, East Saginaw, was awarded $20 for his display of pictures, 

 and he certainly deserves well from the citizens of Saginaw for his enterprife. 



