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ABSTRACT OF REPORTS. 
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. 
Amount received for Memberships,. $69 00 
Amount received for Admission Tickets,. 39 50 
Amount received for Canvas sold,. 7 14 
Total of receipts,.$115 64 
Total of expenditures,. 185 13 
Balance against the Society,. $68 49 
This is certainly a rather unflattering presentation of our¬ 
selves, but we beg leave to add that we are by no means dis¬ 
heartened, and are resolutely determined to so order the affairs 
of the Society as to be able to make a more encouraging report 
next year. 
T. CHICKERING, President. 
J. M. Fisn, Secretary. 
PIERCE AND ST. CROIX COUNTIES IN UNION. 
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To the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society: 
Dear Sir: —The North Western Union Agricultural Society 
held its Third Annual Eair at River Falls, in Pierce county, 
on the 23d and 24th of September, 1858 ; the Fair was largely 
attended, and as a success, bore about the same relation to the 
one of the previous year as that did to the first ; both the sec¬ 
ond and the third* having been double the extent of the preced¬ 
ing ones, and have proved that our country, though new, is 
capable of doing anything she undertakes. 
St. Croix county came up to the work nobly, her farmers, 
mechanics and artists, particularly from in and around Hudson, 
bringing in their productions in quantity, and quality, indicat¬ 
ing that they knew how to do things up in ‘‘broad guage” style. 
The members of the Society from the northern part of Pierce 
county, kept her reputation good in the exhibition of the larger 
share of stock, and grain and garden productions ; both coun¬ 
ties exhibited a large number of fine horses. 
The ladies (as usual) lent the aid of their kind hearts, and 
willing hands, as only the ladies can ; their-dairy and house- 
