Annual report of the Board of agriculture of the State of Ohio

On motion, it was

Resolved, That during the ensuing year the Board will not make any appropriation for clerk hire, except during the time of the Fair.

Ordered, That David Tayler be allowed $5, to refund the amount paid by him at Dayton to Gillespie.

On motion, N. S. Townshend and H. B. Perkins were appointed a committee to examine the accounts of the Treasurer and Executive Committee.

On motion,

Resolved, That his Excellency Governor Tod be requested to present to the Ohio State Board of Agriculture the original manuscript address of the Hon. Geo. Tod, first President of the Agricultural Society organized at Youngstown in the year 1818.

On motion, adjourned until Thursday morning.

THURSDAY MORNING, Jan 9th, 1862.

Same members present. The President appointed Messrs. Townshend, De Witt and Perkins to act with him as Executive Committee.

On motion,

Resolved, That the Board hold its next Fair at the city of Cleveland, provided that a bond, to the satisfaction of the Executive Committee, for the payment of the sum of five thousand dollars, as the committee shall direct, and for furnishing proper grounds and ordinary railroad facilities, shall be tendered to this committee; the ground to be such as the committee shall approve. And in case the city of Cleveland shall neglect in any respect to comply with the above conditions within twenty days, the committee shall proceed to make arrangements to hold the Fair at Columbus, upon the terms proposed by the latter city.

Voted, That the sum of $20 be allowed to Follett, Foster & Co., as balance due on Premium List.

Voted, That the sum of $10 be allowed B Stedman, for money advanced by him for goods lost at Cleveland Fair.

On motion, the Board adjourned to meet at the call of the President.

H. B. PERKINS, Recording Secretary.

Attest: J. H. KLIPPART, Corresponding Secretary.

STATE FAIR.

The State Fair for 1861 was held on the same grounds where the Fair had been held the previous year, near the city of Dayton. There appears to be a general belief that regular annual storms take place about the time of the autumnal equinoxes. The Fair of 1860 was held on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of September; during the greater portion of these days the weather was exceedingly unfavorable, and in order to avoid a like occurrence, the Fair for 1861 was fixed on the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th days of September. The event justified the change; for notwithstanding the weather was not so fair as was desirable, yet there was less absolutely foul weather than the year preceding.

All things considered, the Fair was a greater success than could well have been expected under the circumstances. Almost all the industrial avocations of the people were interrupted, the ordinary channels of commerce from the State south obstructed, and almost the entire business affairs of the nation deranged-the people had scarcely recovered from the shock and consequent gloom spread over the country by the battle of Bull's Run, which occurred 1. ss than sixty days before the Fair; yet, not withstanding all these unfavorable surrounding circumstances, the attendance of visitors was very fair indeed, and the articles on exhibition scarcely less than in the preceding year.

Annexed are entries of cattle and horses, together with the reports and awards of the several committees in the various departments of the exhibition.

CATTLE.

SHORTHORNS.

W. White, Centreville, O.........
J. P. Mumma, Dayton, O.......
G. W. Coulter, Reesville, O.........
Joseph Kennedy, Dayton, O.........
Nathan Dewey, South Bloomfield, O. .
Wm. Palmer, Bloomington, O.......
W. P. Dunlap, Xenia, O.
Wm. Mathews, Etna, O....
A. Coulter, Reesville, O. ...
D. McMillan, Jr., Xenia, O.....
Alfred Coulter, Reesville, O........
Z. Vesey, Reynoldsburg, O..........
D. McMillan, Jr., Xenia, O.....
David Crall, Lima, O....

D. McMillan, Jr., Xenia, O..........