Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-08-16
Agricultural Society.

| Upon motion of Mr.. VIM. s. Brooke, the
lished. W. V. BoUio, Jr.,
Secretary.
To the Farmers Of Montgomery County :.
We the Board of Management of the Agri-
cultural Society of Montgomery county take
this method of making an earnest appeal to
you in behalf Of your Society, 1--WE say yours,
because it ought TO be the pride OF every
| farmer in the county to be enrolled on its list
of members, with the hope that you may be
| induced to take an interest in an organization
that your fathers founded, and, that in spite
of the uke-warmness and indifference of very
many of you, has grown and strengthened in
many ways with every advancing year
AS you are, perhaps, aware, at resent
meeting of the Society such changes in our
Bylaws were adopted as tend to make our
Fairs not only pre-eminently a farmer's exhi-
billion, but to throw our dependence for sue
cess entirely upon your generous and liberal
cooperation and support. Without this we
are convinced that failure and financial en-
barressments will overtake US at the approach
ing Fair, cut off as we how are from sources
OF revenue that have rendered our Fairs a
reproach in many of your minds.
We have no stronger interest in the Society
than every one of you, Except that we have
been chosen to manage your affairs, and do a
great deal OF gratuitous work, and we feel
that we are asking no more than we have a
right to expect from you, when we ask you to
come to the Fair, bring all your family with
you, bring your fine stock and the products
of your farm, and induce yonr wives and
daughters 10 display specimens of their handi-
work with which they load your tables and
adnrn bon IN balr Oh
Como forward and swell our list OF member
ship, until 1t becomes the most numerous Or
gahization in the county, and after you have
become members attend our meetings, aid US
with your counsels and help Us 10 manage
the Society in such way as 10 make il the
pride and ambition of every one who loves
our dear old county, 10 be a member of such
an Agricultural Society as she ought to have.
We urge this in all sincerity and earnest
ness, for there is no reason why ours should
not be the banner Society of the State, own
ing as We do the best adapted Fair Grounds in
the State, provided with commodious and
convenient buildings and accommodations for
exhibits and stock, situated as it is, in the
midst of populous and improving county,
whose people will compare favorably for in
dustry, thrift and intelligence with those Of
any county in the State or country at large,
and being within a few minutes ride by rail,
not only of the seat of government Of this
great nation, but also of the cities of Balti-
more and Annapolis, and our thriving sister
counties and towns of Western Maryland
With all these advantages permit us to say
that If we do not succeed ii will be your fault,
and because you are not true to your own in.
terests and destitute of that county pride
which should animate every farmer in old
Montgomery, and which gave birth to the
grand conceptions of your fathers who orga-
nized this Society, and whose loved and ven
Grated forms have year by year fallen by the
way and dropped from our ranks uutl now
with few exceptions their white hairs are seen
no more at our yearly reunions.
| Now 10 conclusion, by the memories of the
past, and on our faith in the future, we re-
specially but earnestly adjure you to wake up
to that interest in your Society that will make
our approaching and future Fairs source of
unalloyed pleasure and pride TO all the farmers
OF the county and teach them to look forward
TO our annual gatherings there az an occasion
where our people may meet and lay aside all
the differences and chickering's eugendered by
political strife and the various issues that set
mankind upon common ground actuated by
a common interest, to vie with one another
TO advance and promote the success of tina,
glorious cause which is the foundation OF
the happiness and prosperity of all our people,
from the humblest laborer to the wealthest
| farmer.