300 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. 



The Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan Agricultural Society held its 

 third annual fair on the fair grounds between South Bend and Mishawaka, Sep- 

 tember •22d to 26th, inclusive. Our assocsation is now a member of the Ohio, 

 Michigan and Indiana Tri-State Fair Circuit, which was of great advantage to U8 

 in Kccuring a large list of exhibits, both in the Stock and Machinery DepartmenK 

 Our attendance, with the exception of one rainy day, was larger than last year. 

 The list of entries exceeded that of the fair of 1883. In the Horse and Cattle De- 

 partments our show was very tine. Hogs and sheep were well represented. Take 

 it altogether we had good reason to be proud of our last fair. The condition of 

 agriculture in our county is good. Crojis were fully up to the average. 



C. G. TOWLE, 



Secretary, 



TIPPECANOE COUNTY. 



The Tippecanoe County Agrkultural Association, having for the last sixteen 

 years held successful fail's, deemed it expedient to take a rest for one year, there- 

 fore, have no report to offer for 1883, except that the organization has been kept 

 up, and that we are in working order and expect to hold our fair at the usual time 

 this year, viz. : the first week in September. For list of officers see table appended. 



J. M. Deesser, 



Secretary. 



TIPTON COUNTY. 



The past year has added materially to the pro-perity of the industrial interests 

 of this thriving county. Its geographical position and general lay of land unite to 

 make this a point of interest, and bespeak for it a meritorious history. lis past 

 record has been one of continuous growth, but not until of late years has tlie con- 

 dition of the county been such as to show what could be accomplished in the way 

 of agriculture and horticulture. 



Our present advantage of drainnge has inspired our farmers to a more intelli- 

 gent, system of culture than ever undertaken before, and has developed the fact 

 that farming is not the dull and unprofitable business that it has been held to be 

 hitherto, but to the reverse, the ricli black loam studded with the beautiful forest 

 trees — ash, walnut, poplar, oak, hickory, beech and sugar — and underlain with a 

 porous strata of productive clay, has become a source of great pleasure to the honest 

 and industrious tiller of the soil. 



At the early opening of spring the different nationalities, Irish, German and 

 American, were seen busily preparing the soil for the coming crop, and the pride 



