Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-08-27
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MEsSRS EDtiOhs'
Allow me to draw the attention of the citizens
of our county, to the importance of the next
quarterly meeting of the County Agricultural
Society, to be held on the first Monday in Sep
tember at the Society's Hall in Bristol At
this meeting the day for holding the Fair will
have to be fxed-Rules and regulations drawn
up to control it, and Judges be chosen, for the
proper carrying out the objects OF the society
There is no meeting of the whole year so lmpor-
tant as this, and as the citizens of the county
turn out and make their selections for Judges,
so will be the satisfaction Of all concerned at
the present, and the future prosperity of the So
ciety ensured, or its failure be complete. lean
assure all that, although the society stands Pc
cunarily in better position at present than it
has ever before, it is still far, very far from be
ing in state to take care Of itself, but requires
the untring and well directed efforts of all its
friends to keep it moving
There are some amongst us | know who claim
to have an interest in the advancement of tho
society, but whose actions show that their hearts
are not enlisted in the cause | hope to see a
revolution in such, and that they will, instead
of contenting themselves with simply paying in
their dollar per year, towards its support-take
an active part in the primary meetings. doing
their best to make the society what in their
opinion it should be, when, if from some cause
they should not succeed, | win give them read
iIv my consent to grumble as much as they
please, which, until they have used their best
=. J hiatt pal X
deny thier right to do.
The Judges as general thing in the past,
have been taken without the least regard to their
fitness for the place allotted to them-Some men
who would have been good judges Of articles or
animals with which they were acquainted, and
well CALCULATES, to fcrp correct opinions on their
merits, have been so placed, either for the fun
of the thing, or from the impulses of the moment,
rs to make the whole duty unpleasant to them.
and injurious to the society, from a conviction
in their own minds of their incapacity to do JUS
tice to ali interested, although anxious in the
extreme to do right. This course Gf action in
iures the society materially, from the fact that
very frequently parties who are anxious to ex-
hibit and compete with their neighbors not SO
much for the sake of the money value of the pre-
MUM as for tue rishtsqQs ard honorable motive
of comparing notes with his fellow men, are
deferred from doing so, and do really stay away
entirely from the show for the reason that they
do not WISH indeed will not have their animals
or articles, judged by men incompetent to the
task, The stern necessity for putting the right
men in the right PLACES, must be patent to all.
There is material enough in kenosha county
to make out an unexceptionable list of judges,
men, who knowing the merits of the animanl or
article, they are called upon to pass an opinion
on, can do so unreservedly, and having done so,
are able and willing to sustain their position,
as opposed to, as frequently must of necessity
be, tie biased judgment of owners or friendly
sympathizsers Allow me to nope that there
will be general turn out, not only of farmers
but of mechanics and tradesmen to our next
meeting, each and every one prepared to, not
only select the best men for judges, but to take
steps to ensure their attendance, at the same
time would advise gentlemen, as the idea may
strike then, if some individual we'll calculated
to be judge of cattle, to make minute of the
same in their pocket memorandum, and so on
ofjudges in every other class for which premi-
ums are offered. We should perhaps by such
course be saved the humiliation of being
obliged to take q man Tor a judge BECAUSE he
happens to be there, and instead be enabled to
place man in the place he is peculiarly fitted
to fill.
There is much more that would wish to say
on the present occasion, but have already ex-
tended my remarks to a greater length than is
probably commensurate with your space, ant
| further perhaps some other may SEND you com
munication on this subject-should such h. w
ever be the case you are at liberty to burn this
as | have no doabt but that the production o
anothers brain. would be more conducive to the
welfare of the society, for whic., alone write
than anything that could emanate from mine.
A FRIEND.