farmers and mechanics are wide-awake to everything pertaining to their interest. The latest and most improved implements of husbandry can be found with almost all of our farmers. The march of events passes by only with the closest scrutiny. To the farmer living in the "Pocket" the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine is one to be long remembered, as it has been fraught with many blessings. A kind providence has favored us with most bountiful crops. The yield of the wheat crop is double that of any other season. The corn crops are excellent. The products of the garden, farm and field are truly encouraging. Under auspices so' favorable, we might reasonably expect, from an intelligent community, that an organization having for its object the development of the industrial resources of the county should be fostered as an institution worthy the consideration of all. Respectfully submitted, M. W. BENNETT, Secretary. President. Harvey Lewis. Henry Shugart. L. W. Hasselman J. N. Miller. 11. T. Sample H. Caldwell.. R. Baldridge. A. J. Boone Sept. I to 3. Secretary. Place of Fair. Time of Fair. Receipts. Expenditures. Entries. REMARKS. Lebanon...... Oct. 5 to 8. $2,831 35 $. 830 97 Sept. 13 to 18.. 1,452 96 Sept. 21 to 27. 3,262 0. Oct. 5 to 8..... 1,700 00 1,013 00 1,327 30 Marion 2,088 97 1,31 00 1083 No finances. W. N. Kyle.. Kokomo... Oct. 4 to 8.. The foregoing abstract is as full as it could be made from the reports. If the officers of the county and district societies would give this matter their attention, it would greatly add to the value of these annual publications. We find by the reports of thirty-one counties, imperfect as they are, that they received sixty-three thousand and seventy-two dollars ($63,072.00), and paid out forty-six thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents ($46,567.49). Thus, could we obtain like or better reports from all the agricultural societies in the State, some idea could be formed of the vast good we are deriving from these organizations. While their finances are the motive power indispensable in such organizations, still the great good accomplished by them is in comparison of results, interchange of practical knowledge and experience of cultivators who are brought together at these fairs. We have the receipts of twenty-five county and district societies, making an average of $2,522.88 per county, and nineteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-five entries made in twenty-six counties. For 1868, forty counties receive $77,259.16, showing an average of $1,931.47; and sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-one entries in twenty-eight counties. Average receipts per society for 1869, $591.41 over 1868. |