PRESENTATION OF THE PRIZE BANNER. 
The presentation of the Prize Banner referred to in the Re¬ 
port of the Executive Committee, took place at the Speaker’s 
Stand on the Fair Grounds, in the afternoon of Friday, Sep¬ 
tember 28th—Secretary Hoyt officiating on behalf of the State 
Society, and S. R. Gunn, Esq., responding on behalf of the 
Pierce County Society. 
The Banner was made of the richest materials and presen¬ 
ted a blue and a white side. On the blue side was an elegant 
representation of Ceres, sitting in the midst of stirring indus¬ 
trial scenes, immediately surrounded by the products of Agri¬ 
culture, and leaning upon the shield of the State. On the 
other side, in letters of gold, was the following inscription, 
encircled by a wreath of wheat heads and flowers: 
“Prize Banner awarded by the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, to 
Pierce County, for Best Exhibition at the State Fair of 1860.” 
In presenting the Banner, Mr. Hoyt spoke, in substance, as 
follows: 
Mr. Gunn and Gentlemen of the Pierce County Agricultural 
*Society: You are already familiar with the circumstances 
which have brought us together here, as delegations of State 
and County Societies, in the presence of this vast concourse of 
the people of Wisconsin. 
The earnest desire of the State Agricultural Society to pro¬ 
mote the great objects for which it was established, aided by 
the means tendered by the citizens of Madison, have re¬ 
sulted in the offering of a costly and beautiful Banner to 
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