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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Some departments of the exhibition were particularly well 
represented, while none were entirely deficient, and the whole 
affair afforded just ground for congratulation on the part of the 
members and friends of the Society, as may be gathered from 
the following account by Prof. Hoyt, who delivered the Annual 
Address : 
“ This Fair was also a success. The weather was fine, the turn 
out of people large and the display of articles in most of the 
departments highly respectable. 
The grounds are just within the corporation, in a beautiful 
oak grove and are neatly enclosed with a substantial board 
fence. The Floral Tent is “bran new,” and the handsomest 
one we have seen in the State,—will probably take the premium 
at the State Fair next year, should the Society think best to 
offer one. * 
The exhibition of stock was very creditable. Among other 
animals worthy of honorable mention, we noticed a premium 
cow and calf of fine blood, entered by our friend and editorial 
brother, Harrison Reed, Esq., late of the Neenah Conservator. 
The Mechanical department was fairly reprosented. 
Show of Fruits respectable, particularly of apples and grapes, 
of which last our friend Jas. L. Fisk, Esq., exhibited some as 
handsome specimens as were ever clustered upon the vine-clad 
slopes of Guerin, Longworth, or Buchanan. 
In the Dairy department, Mr. Stilson was alone represented. 
Of Flowers there was likewise a deficiency, and we took oc¬ 
casion to scold our fair friends not a little because of this 
neglect. Hope the time will come, when the farmers’ wives 
will take more pains to produce these beautiful poems of 
nature. 
•The music of two brass bands added not a little to the live¬ 
liness of the occasion, and the Fair, all in all, made an impres¬ 
sion upon our minds which we shall cherish with pleasure.” 
In addition to the articles usually exhibited at such fairs, we 
were favored with several fine specimens of Sorghum Molasses. 
The first premium $5, was awarded to S. Bowron, and the 
