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and this can be done^without any'altcration, the'samc group \ of characters serving 

 equally well for horse block, saw buck or lame duck, for bees or lice, bed bugs or 

 fat hogs. There is one advantage in these reports, — they need no correcting, and 

 if the printers are satisfied we surely ought not to'coinplain. 



The Society has paid, during the year, for improving itsjjrounds and, buildings, 

 for premiums offered, and for its ordinary current expenses, $6296 91. This ex- 

 ceeds its receipts by quite an amount, but the balance is for permanent and durable 

 improvements, and the balance in the Treasurer's hands is still ample for any con- 

 tingency that is likely to happen. Among the items of expenditure are : Jfor farms, 

 $50; for plowing, $40; reclaiming swamps, $10; orchards' and || fruit yards, '$36; 

 compost heaps, $18; dairies, $35 ; neat cattle, $323 ; horses, $642 ; sheep, $8!) ; 

 swine, $46; poultry, $51,50; other stock and groups of stock, $120.$ The amount 

 awarded under this head of farms and farm stock,' is $1460 50. $ For farm and gar- 

 den products, the awards are : for grain crops, $239; grass, $12; grass seed, $9; 

 root crops, $164 50; fruits, $90; flowers, $17 50. Other crops, $190; butter, $41 ; 

 cheese, $54; honey, $10; bread, 40. ^ Making under this head, #867. Add to this 

 for agricultural and mechanical implements, domestic manufactures and works of 

 art, and fancy, useful, beautiful and time-killing, $440, and you have a] total of 

 S'2707 50 ; and this sum (abating less than a dozen dollars for Committee's errors) 

 has been paid. We have not learned to make a show by large awards and small 

 payments. The blanks senVout from thejHub, considcr"awarding and paying en- 

 tirely different things, and if you willjlook at the published returns of some eastern 

 societies you will see that this distinction is important. 



LIST OF ENTRIES. 



Examined ey Visiting Committees " on the Stump.'' — Winter wheat 3, spring- 

 wheat 12, rye 21, oats 51, meslings 17, barley 21, sowed corn'17, grass |18, sweet 

 corn 4, corn 53, buckwheat 34, beans 6, carrots 2, potatoes 50, beets 8, cabbages 5, 

 turnips 19, gardens 8, compost heaps 9, flower gardens 3, mows of hay 11 — 372. 

 ^Examined by Committees on the Fair Grounds. — Bulls (thorough-bred) 16, 

 cows (thorough-bred) 6, heifers (1 and 2 years) 9, fat cattle 10, oxen and steers 29, 

 cows and heifers 80, herds of cattle 4, sheep 72, swine 19, poultry 31, horses and 

 colts 132, trotting and running horses 10, plowing 10 — 428. 



Examined by Committees in the Society's Hall. — Cheese 17, bread and bis- 

 cuit 107, butter 61, vegetables 88, seeds 57, fruits and their products 147, flowers 

 IS, household manufactures 325, manufacturers' department 11, paintings and 

 works of art 56, agricultural and mechanical implements 50 — 937. Making in all 

 178o! It should be remembered that "many of these entries contained several ani- 

 mals or articles. 



