The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-03-26
For the Pioneer
Wyandot County Agricultural Society.
Sc Have we an Agricultural Society
among us!,,

the Wyandot County Agricultural Socie-
| ty, is in healthy condition and under a
more thorough and systematic manage
ment than at any former period.
A full and complete examination and
report of the affairs Of the society, made
in compliance With an order OF the Board
passed Jan. 10th 1857, shows:
THE EXPENDITURES.
Cost of Fair Grounds $3.50. 90
:" fencing and clearing 569, ,n4
Expenses during Fair of 1856 1924
Amount of Premiums awarded 255. SO
1867. .96
RECEIPTS.
Balance in Treasur in year 1855 1851
Received during Fair of 1856 46O IS
All 46
Balanca of debts against the Society 800 so
To relieve the society from this bur
then of debt and place it once more upon
its financial legs, it affords US unaffected
pleasure to state, that majority of
the twenty eight original stockholders for
the purchase of the Fair Grounds, with
subscription each of $25. amounting in
all to 500, have with commendable
liberality, and devotion to The inter
ests of Agriculture, which must elicit tie
praise of every friend OF progress, released
the society from the payment of one half
of this amount and the interest due; and
it is morally certain that all of the stock
holders will Join in the release. The So
ciety in turn granting each Certificate
of Membership for the term of twelve
years. In addition to this, six hundred
dollars derived from the escheated Mtrri-
man lands have lately been paid into the
Treasury oftheSociety by the Treasurer of
the county. These two important items,
then, place the Society very nearly out
of debt.
1t only remains to be seen whether the
yeomanry of Wyandot, will secure to
themselves, the benefits, which generosi-
ty on one hand and good luck on the 9TH
er have placed in their grasp.
The mistakes Of the past will afford
lesson for the future, and furnish con
stant warning against the free and easy
method of transacting business, which
characterized the proceedings for the year
1856.
BY an order of the Board at it's late
meeting, held March 21st, 1857, the Sec
retary will draw no orders upon the Treas
ury for the payment of any claim, until
said claim has been audited and endors-
ed by the President and a majority of
the Board. By this simple arrangement,
all the business OF the Society, must for
the future, necessarily pass under the su-
pervison of the proper officers, whose
well known devotion to the Agricultural
interests, and whose business capacity
give the strongest assurance that the af-
fairs of the Society will be managed in
such manner, that success is inevitable
By the report of the able and energetic
Treasurer OF the Society, Mr.. NJ. H. Gil
lett, submitted February Goth, 1857, it
appears that the receipts for the Fair of
1856 were 1865, and for the year 1856
$46065.
The average receipts of the Fairs then,
with ordinary management, may safely
be placed at $500, and under the sys
tematic and thorough preparations, made
for the future management of affairs, we
do not hesitate to state, tha. they will be
largely increased from that figure.
One season more, then, will place the
Society out of debt with balance in the
Treasury for future operations.
The science of agriculture, undertaking
as it does the whole social fabric, and in
connected with its most mi
mute, as well as its most material
interests, (the nourishing mother of all
other arts, cannot safely be disregarded
by any community.
Its progress as a profession, the eleva-
ted position which it has assumed and
maintained, the number of men, not only
of material wealth but of high order Of
capacity, culture and social position, who!
have emanated from, as well as have4
been added to its ranks, during the pastt
ten years, afford the surest evidence, that
it must within brief time, attain andf
maintain that prominence as profession,
which its intrinsic merits demand, and for |
which nature designed it.
That the character of people and
their position as a nation, may invariably
be inferred from the respect in which Ag-
riculture and Agricultural men are held,
and the influence which they exert, is
ruth cf history.
Among nations where the lowest forms
Of agriculture and agricultural impe-
ments are found, the same degeneracy
marks their entire body politic--their arts.
heir arms, their religion, their schools,
heir commerce, partake of the same de-
generacy, until they merge into original