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ABSTRACT OF REPORTS. 
strong in the faith that the future of the Society would be pros¬ 
perous and widely beneficial. 
The following is a correct statement of the receipts and ex¬ 
penditures of the Society, during the past year: 
RECEIPTS. 
Cash received on Memberships,.$89 00 
donation by J. P. P. Gentil,. 5 00 
Ira B. Brunson,. 5 00 
Thomas W. Tower,. 3 00 
Hill and Green,. 3 00 
V. A. W. Merrill,,. 3 00 
Dealton Tichenor,. 2 00 
from sale of honey donated by James Fisher,.. 2 50 
Total receipts of cash,.$111 50 
EXPENDITURES. 
Cash paid for premiums,.* • * $35 00 
Fixing fair grounds, and for provender,. 20 00 
For printing,. 9 00 
Incidentals,. 12 50 
Total expenditures,. $75 50 
Balance in Treasury, .$35 09 
Twenty volumes of the Transactions of the Wisconsin State 
Agricultural Society —drawn from the State—and about ten 
volumes of other works, donated by the editor of the Wiscon¬ 
sin Farmer, were also distributed as premiums. 
Previous to the closing of the Fair, a meeting of the mem-- 
bers of the Society was held, when an election for new officers 
took place, as provided for in the Constitution as amended at 
a meeting held subsequent to the Convention above referred to, 
and the following persons were duly elected as officers of the 
Society for the ensuing year—to assume the duties of their 
positions on the first of January, 1859 : 
Daniel Smotiierurst, Seneca, President; E. Davis, 
Utica, A. B. Hubbard, Freeman;--, Vice Presi¬ 
dents; Jas. H. Greene, Prairie du Chien, Secretary. 
additional members of executive committee. 
Dennis Bell, Clayton; Philander Green, Eastman ; A. 
E. Davis, Freeman; Lutiier Poland, Marietta; D. G. Me- 
