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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
COLUMBIA. 
The Executive Committee of the Columbia County Agricultural Society 
met on the 14th day of June, 1853, at Wyocena, and decided to hold a 
Cattle Show and Fair, at that place, on the 28th day of September of 
the same year. 
The Fair was held according to the appointment of the Executive 
Committee; and considering the short space of time intervening between 
the appointment of time and place and the holding of the Exhibition, the 
result was highly creditable and gratifying. 
The number of entries amounted to fifty-seven, and were as follows: 
Horses, ninteen ; Cattle, nine; Sheep, four; Hogs, five; Grains, two; 
Carpets and Blankets, five; Needlework, seven; Painting, one; Fruit, 
two; vegetables, two. 
The premiums awarded to the successful competitors amounted to 
seventeen dollars in money ; and in addition to that, eighteen volumes of 
Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, and thirty 
Diplomas were distributed. 
The receipts of our Society, composed entirely of fees paid for mem¬ 
bership, most of those being received on the day of the Fair, amounted 
in all, as the fund of the last fiscal year, to.$30 00 
The expenses are as follows :—Premiums . . . $17 00 
Printing .... 11 00 
Total... 28 00 
Leaving a balance in the Treasury of the Society of $2 00 
As the Executive Committee, at their meeting in June, made no ar¬ 
rangements for that purpose, we had no essay read nor address pro¬ 
nounced at our Fair. 
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