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The President said that the Kent County Agricultural Soci- 

 ety had, hy a recent vote, added 150 to the $200 already 

 donated this Society, for holding its fair in connection with 

 that Society, and he would respectfully tender them thanks 

 for the same. 



Mr. G. W. Griggs, President of the Kent County Agricul- 

 tural Society, said in reply : '• We would have been pleased to 

 have given you not only fifty, but five hundred dollars; and I 

 assure you that had our finances been such as to warrant it, 

 we should have presented you with the last named sum, for we 

 do not wish to conceal tbe fact that a large proportion of our 

 extraordinary success at the last fair was owing to the efforts 

 made by, and our connection with, the Michigan State Pomo- 

 logical Society; and I would further state, that although I 

 have attended many exhibitions of fruit, I never yet have 

 seen equaled, especially in the apple department, the show 

 made by your Society at our last fair." 



Mr. Griggs, in reply to a question, said Mr. Scranton, a 

 member of the Executive Board of the State Agricultural 

 Society, was in correspondence with the other members, and 

 he was in hopes to secure the location of the State Fair at 

 Grand Eapids, for 1871 and 1872. 



Mr. J. P. Thompson, President elect, read an address which 

 was ordered printed, and will be found in another column. 



An able and interesting paper was received from Benjamin 

 Hathaway of Little Prairie Eonde, which was read and ordered 

 printed, and will also be found on another page. 

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