themselves up. They will have to work like the devil, and live within their means. Mr. Rawle. I do not think this is a good response. The devil is not honest in all his work. MEMBERSHIP IN COUNTY SOCIETIES. Mr. W. A. Hume offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the State Board be requested to amend the rule regulating the price of membership in County Societies, so that County Agricultural Societies may be permitted to fix their own rates of membership, provided such rate of membership be not less than one dollar. Mr. Hume remarked: I offer this for the reason that the rules of the State Board do not say whether the rate shall be more or less than one dollar. The resolution does not propose to change the present price of membership; it only proposes to state that the price of membership shall not be less than one dollar. Mr. Slusser. I do not see what good can be effected by the resolution. The State Board has adopted the rule that the admission fee shall not be less than one dollar, county societies to fix what rate they please over or just that sum. The society that I represent charges one dollar and a half. There is nothing to hinder our charging five dollars. Mr. Hume. The members of our society are of opinion that we can not increase the price of membership to more than one dollar, because the State Board says that is what the rate of membership shall be. Mr. Alexander. I would inquire if this permission to charge more than one dollar is with the view of increasing the revenue of the society? The gentleman answers in the affirmative. Then I would suggest that in years heretofore our society has had 250 to 300 members. We have been enabled to raise our members to 705, I think, the past year. We sell single entrance tickets for 20 cents, and give a membership ticket, with six coupons on it, for a dollar. We find this a better method of increasing our funds than any other plan heretofore adopted. We have doubled our membership and our receipts in this way. We used to sell membership tickets that took in whole families, embracing sometimes whole townships, or nearly so. Now our membership tickets admit but six, on coupons. D. A. Stocking. The Lorain County Agricultural Society, within the last two years, has raised its membership fee from a dollar to a dollar and a half, for the purpose of increasing its revenue. We were in debt; the consequence was we got out of debt. For the $1.50 we give five admission tickets. At the time of raising the price, our members numbered 500, now they number somewhere near 700. The increase has been successful with us, and I shall vote for the resolution. The question being put to vote, the resolution was adopted. PROTECTIVE DUTIES FOR FARMERS. Mr. Jones offered the following resolution: Resolved, As the judgment of this Convention, that the Congress of the United States, in arranging duties on imports, ought to provide that all agricultural products should have equal protection with manufactured articles and other imports. If it be said that the manufacturers of the country are compelled to compete with the cheap labor of other countries, it may be replied that the same is true in reference to persons engaged in agriculture. Wools are imported into the United States from countries where the same can be and are produced at less than one-half the amount their production will cost in this country; and in all the British and Mexican territory adjoining our borders, a great variety of agricultural products are sold in our markets in competition with the products of our own farmers. This Convention, therefore, insists that as a large revenue must be, for many years, raised by the imposition of duties upon imports, compelling agriculturists, in common with other consumers, to pay for the same an increased price. It is manifestly just that the protective influence of these duties should be equally and fairly extended to the products of their industry. Mr. Jones. That portion of the farmers of the State who are more immediately interested in wool growing, have had a meeting for the purpose of securing what is deemed a fair imposition of duties for the protection of that interest. It seems to me that, while that is all proper enough, the interests of the agricultural community generally would be stronger in the Congress of the nation if we were to say that all farmers demand that they shall have protection equally with persons engaged in other pursuits, in the arrangement of those duties. I think that, by presenting this consistent and solid front, we would be more likely to succeed than by dividing ourselves up into separate interests. It is true, as gentlemen know, that beef, and mutton, and pork, and grains of all sorts, produced in Canada, are sold in the eastern markets in competition with ours; and I can see no reason why there should not be the same duties levied on those products, for the protection of this branch of industry, that are levied on manufactured articles. It seems to me that this proposition is so evident that it only needs to be presented at Washington to be considered in the arrangement of the tariff. On motion of Mr. I. Clark, the following was added to the resolution: Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. As amended, the resolutions were then adopted. DESTRUCTION OF RATS. Mr. Wrenn offered the following: Resolved, That this body petition the General Assembly of the State of Ohio to pass an act giving a bounty for the destruction of rats. After a few jocular remarks by several gentlemen, a vote was taken and the resolution lost. THE CENTAL SYSTEM. On motion of Mr. Milliken, it was Resolved, That this Convention are in favor of the early and general adoption of the cental system of weights and measures, and we earnestly commend the system to the Boards of Trade in commercial cities. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The President appointed Messrs. Slusser and Steadman to act as tellers in the election of members of the State Board, and the election proceeded, with the following result: J. W. Ross, Perrysburg, Wood county. JAMES BUCKINGHAM, Zanesville. R. R. DONNELLY, Wooster. On motion, adjourned sine die. Secretary. LIST OF ENTRIES AND AWARDS AT THE OHIO STATE FAIR, HELD AT DAYTON, OCTOBER 16--19, 1866. ENTRIES OF THOROUGHBREDS. 1. Wm. Bain, agent for Chas. Anderson, Dayton, mare Kitty, 5 yrs. old, bay. 2. B. D. Anderson, Xenia, stallion Ben Butler, 7 yrs. old, bay. 3. A. W. Dolson, Columbus, stallion, Woodburn, Scythian, 7 yrs. old, bay. 4. Sol. J. Houck, Springfield, stallion Sam Blythe, 6 yrs. old, dark brown. 5. mare Blazella, 5 yrs. old, sorrel. mare Carrier, 4 yrs. old, sorrel. 7. Houck & Riley, Springfield, stallion Cumberland, 4 yrs. old, blood bay. 8. Elisha Soward, Bell Brook, mare Jane, 5 yrs. old, dun. 9. S. W. Miller, Urbana, Champaign county, stallion Billy Sherman, 2 yrs. old, sorrel. 10. Wm. A. Neil, jun., London, Madison county, mare Miss Trustee 2d, 3 yrs. old, sorrel. Lina Berry, 6 yrs. old, bay. 11. 12. S. H. Adams, Urbana, stallion Young Janus, 8 yrs. old, bay. 13. 66 mare Lady Janus, 2 yrs. old, sorrel. 14. W. T. Ball, Middletown, Butler county, mare Lady Rockey, 3 yrs. old, bay. 15 Wm. Bain, Dayton, stallion, Ky. Cruiser, 7 yrs. old, brown. 16. J. C. Vance, Urbana, stallion Ohio, 1 yr. old, chestnut sorrel. A. W. Dolson, Columbus, stallion Woodburn Scythian, 7 yrs., bay. SWEEPSTAKES. Woodburn Scythian, by imported Scythian, out of Sally Shannon by Woodpecker; out of dam of Darkness by John Richards; out of Ogle's Oscar-by imported Knowley -by imported Diomed. Best brood mare, 4 yrs. and over, S. J. Houck, Springfield. There were 16 entries in this class. The committee made no report. $30 20 20 2 ENTRIES IN CLASS OF ROADSTERS. B. D. Anderson, Xenia, stallion Young American Boy, 3 yrs., brown. 4. Allen Jobe, Yellow Springs, stallion, 3 yrs., sorrel. 5. L. D. Woodmansee, Dayton, stallion Tom Rolf, 10 yrs. old, bay. 6. Laban Taylor, Centreville, stallion Sam Hazard, 7 yrs. old, brown. 7. Perry Snyder, Bell Brook, stallion John, 2 yrs. old. bay. 9. 66 mare Jeuny, 4 yrs. old, brown. 10. Jos. Crippen, Worthington, Franklin county, mare Molly Morgan, 9 yrs. old, sorrel. 11. Wm. Wylie, Big Island, Marion county, stallion Flying Cloud, 3 yrs. old, black. 12. Van Buren Davis, Mechanicsburg, stallion Flying Morgan, 25 yrs. old, chestnut sorrel. 13. W. T. Ball, Middletown, stallion Sam, 8 yrs. old, brown. Best stallion, 3 yrs. and under 4, W. Wylie, Big Island, Marion county. 2d best " 46 B. D. Anderson, Xenia $50 25 25 15 20 30 Best stallion, 2 yrs. and under 3, Perry Snyder, Bell Brook, Greene county.. There were 17 entries in this class. The committee made no report. 20 ENTRIES IN CLASS OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 1. Sizer and Willyard, Kent, Portage county, stallion, Barney Searcher, 4 years, old, 3 months. 2. R. D. Anderson, Xenia, mare, Flora, 4 years old, bay. 3. 66 stallion, Glencoe, 7 years old, bay. 4. D. C Stafford, Fairfield, Greene county, stallion, Bill Robinson, 7 years old, bay. 3. E. Garst, Dayton, mare, Bet, 9 years old, bay. 6. J. Woodmansee, Dayton, mare, Belle, 6 years old, bay. 8. R. C. Anderson, Dayt.n, mare, Flight, 6 years old, grey. 9. |