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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
The Fair Grounds were generously provided and fitted, up 
by the citizens of Ripon. 
At the Annual Meeting held during the Fair, the following 
gentlemen were chosen as the 
OFFICERS FOR 1859. 
E. L. Phillips, President; Jas. AY. Partridge, A. Os¬ 
borne, and J. A. Allen, Vice Presidents; W. B. Ransom, 
Corresponding Secretary ; John J. Metzgar, Recording Sec¬ 
retary ; and AY. B. Ransom-, Treasurer. 
JOHN J. METZGAR, Secretary . 
GRANT COUNTY. 
The friends of agriculture in Old Grant, made a grand rally 
this year, and have initiated a movement which will probably 
result in the purchase and improvement of permanent grounds 
for the annual exhibitions. 
The Fair was held on the beautiful grounds of J. C. Hollo¬ 
way, at Lancaster, on the 22d and 23d of September. The 
weather was fine, and the people poured in from every quarter, 
as though a new spirit of enterprise had been infused into them. 
Estimates of the number varied from four to five thousand. 
The total number of entries was 358, including fine speci¬ 
mens of blooded stock, several varieties of Grant county apples, 
an abundance of excellent products of the field and garden, 
and a fine collection of the products of domestic manufacture 
and works of art. 
The address by Prof. Hoyt, of the Wisconsin Farmer , was 
an earnest, pointed and practical discourse, and was listened to 
with marked attention by a vast concourse of people. 
The Treasurer’s report shows a healthy state of the finances, 
as will appear from the following statement of 
receipts and expenditures. 
Total cash received from all sources,.$427 00 
“ for premiums and expenses,. 203 76 
Balance in the treasury,.$123 24 
