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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
“ Thirdly, the premiums were chiefly pre$~ervable as memen¬ 
toes, consisting of silver table-ware and agricultural books. 
Among the latter, the Wisconsin Farmer appears to have been 
popular, inasmuch as 212 copies of the bound volumes for ’56 
and ’57 were awarded. 
u The fourth novel feature was the delivery of the silver-ware 
and book premiums at the time of declaring the awards. When 
a prize is announced it affords us pleasure to see the victor, 
and we think it a capital idea to call them upon the stand and 
let the people enjoy their modest blushes. On the occasion 
referred to, one young lady of 13 years, Miss L. Mary Gard¬ 
ner, by a strange good fortune, was called to the platform three 
successive times to receive prizes on best wheat bread, biscuit, 
worsted embroidery, each time modestly retiring amid the 
shouts of the multitude. 
“ But we are protracting our notice too far ; other opportu¬ 
nities will occur in which to do the subject justice. The Fair 
was a glorious one, weU worth the noble county of Walworth.” 
The Society has twelve acres of ground duly and properly 
enclosed with tight board fence six feet high, and is really, as 
the foregoing will show, in a very prosperous condition in every 
respect. 
EDWARD ELDERKIN, Sec'y. 
WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
This Society held its annual Fair on the 1st of December, 
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but we have no means of knowing, what was the success of the 
exhibition. 
The receipts and expenditures have been reported by the 
Secretary as follows: 
Total of receipts,. .$105 58 
Expenditures,... 81.00 
Balance in Treasury, 
. $ 24 58 
