STATE FAIR OF 1 8 6 0. 
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The Te^ith Annual Exhibition of the Society was held at 
Madison during the last week of September. 
The Grounds, which for convenience to railroad and city, 
for the beauty and magnificence of their surroundings—com¬ 
manding, as they do, a charming view of lakes, city and coun¬ 
try—for the admirable form of their undulating surface, and 
for their perfect adaptation to the purposes of such an Exhibi¬ 
tion, are unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any in this country, 
were handsomely fitted up and in every respect well calculated 
to produce a most pleasant general effect. * 
The enclosure was extended beyond the lines occupied in 
1858, and by thus including twelve or thirteen more acres— 
most of it covered with beautiful young oaks—very materially 
improved the appearance and convenience of the Grounds ; 
while the erection of neat cottage offices, more commodious,, 
substantial and imposing exhibition halls, the better grading 
of the trotting course and the lengthening of its curves, the- 
better provision in the way of stalls, pens, &c., for the use of 
the stock, and the retiring into the back ground all refresh¬ 
ment stands, contributed yet further to make this, w T hat it 
is almost universally thought to have been, the finest Exhibi¬ 
tion hitherto held in this State. 
The weather was faultless, the entries large in number and 
of superior quality, and the attendance, especially on Thurs¬ 
day and Friday, entirely unparalleled in the history of the So¬ 
ciety’s Fairs. 
