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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
after which, committees having been previously appointed to 
prepare a draft, the following Constitution, was adopted: 
[We omit the Constitution for want of space.—E d] 
The following officers were elected at the same time: 
A. B. Hubbard, President, Freeman; Dennis Bell, Bell 
Centre, James Robb, Seneca, and Wm. Curtz, Prairie du 
Chien, Vice Presidents; James H. Greene, Secretary , Prai¬ 
rie du Chien ; James Fisher, Treasurer , Eastman ; S. F. 
Huntington, Rising Sun ; Peter Hoffman, Bell Centre; 
Isaac Teller, Teller’s Corners ; John Ferrill, Marietta; 
Richard Dunn, Eastman ; J. McClure, Prairie du Chien ; 
Edward Da pis, Towerville, additional Members of the Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee. 
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On the 11th of May following, the Executive Committee held 
a meeting, at which time a general committee was appointed, of 
one member from each town in the county. The time of hold¬ 
ing the first Annual Cattle Show and Fair, was set for Tues¬ 
day and Wednesday, the 12th and 18th days of October, 1858, 
and the location selected was in the town of Seneca. At the 
same meeting, a partial List of Premiums, to he offered upon 
animals and articles exhibited, was adopted, and other needful 
regulations made. 
On the 12th and 13th days of October, the Fair was accord¬ 
ingly held. In the 12 classes—embracing farming implements, 
stock, grains, flowers, products of the dairy, garden, and farm; 
needlework, and the handicraft of workmen in all worthy 
branches of industry—there were eighty-three entries, and 
sixty-eight premiums awarded. The weather was exceedingly 
unfavorable, the times peculiarly hard, and a belief, generally 
entertained, that the first exhibition would be a decided failure; 
but the details of the Fair were carried out as nearly as cir¬ 
cumstances would permit; an appropriate address was deliv¬ 
ered by Mr. Geo. Cousland, of Prairie du Chien; and the four 
or five hundred people who were in attendance retired to their 
homes, at its close, abundantly satisfied with its success, and 
