REPORTS AND AWARDS OF PREMIUMS. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON COUNTIES. 
To the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin State Agricul¬ 
tural Society : — The undersigned, selected as Judges to award 
the “Banner’ offered by some twenty citizens of Madison, 
“ for the largest and most creditable contribution made by the 
citizens of any one County, exclusive of Dane/’ have performed 
the duty assigned them, by carefully examining the various 
contributions from all the Counties that have been properly 
entered in competion for such Banner, and they have awarded 
it to the County of Pierce. It is but just, however, to say, 
that but for the published instructions of the Society, by which 
we were “ required to base our decision upon such circircum- 
stances of population, remoteness from the locality of the Fair, 
&c., &c., as will ensure equal advantage to all the Counties in 
competition,” we should have awarded the Banner to the 
County of Winnebago. 
The contributions from this County were very large and 
very fine in Horses, Cattle and Machinery and very creditable 
in every department. The contributions of grain and vegeta¬ 
bles from the County of Pierce far exceeded those of any 
County competing for the Banner, or of any County exhibit¬ 
ing at the Fair. In the department of Fine Arts, this County 
was well and creditably represented; it also contributed some¬ 
thing to nearly every department; so that after we consider 
that this County has a population' of only 4,667, that the 
County of Winnebago has a population of 23,788, and also 
that the former is distant from this place about 280 miles, and 
