sundown; renewed on Saturday, and terminated on the evening of that day. These trials were very gratifying to an immense number of spectators, and no doubt added very much to the receipts of the fair. Good order prevailed during the entire exhibition. The amount of premiums offered in money or plate, exclusive of medals, was $3,300 and 400 books; the awards amounted to $2,400, three silver medals and 400 appropriate books. The undersigned, appointed by you at your last annual meeting as a track committee, for the taking care of and regulating the track belonging to you on your fair ground, beg leave respectfully to submit to you the following statement of their receipts and expenditures during the past year: Total amount received for membership of the track, use of track, and money received from grand stand....... $1,349 75 Expenses. Paid for keeping track in order, and repairing same, together with wages of gate-keeper, printing, advertising, etc.... Paid builder of grand stand Making a total of .... $363 41 1,313 41 $36 34 20.00 Paid N. Holmes Odell, treasurer, and now in his hands.. Leaving a balance in the hands of the chairman of $16 34 society, 1869 ... 318 00 Loan made of First National Bank of Tarrytown, to meet expenses of the society... 800 00 The display of stock of all kinds at our last fair excelled all our previous ones. The display of horses was, in the judgment of many, not excelled at the State fair. The yield of apples was very large in this county, although fully one-third were frozen on the trees and became of little or no use. There was also a large yield of vegetables of all kinds. More cheese was made last year than ever before in this county. The yield of fruits of all kinds was a success, notwithstanding the partial loss by being frozen. Milch cows are now being brought into this county in large droves from Canada and Michigan, to supply the increased demand occasioned by the continued increase of cheese factories. The demand for Wyoming county cheese is fast increasing and is quoted as a standard cheese in the New York market. Financially also the fair was a success, as more money was received by the treasurer than for many years. Receipts for 1869... Disbursements On hand.... Due the society and not paid.. $1,397 22 1,049 17 $348 05 106 00 $454 05 Officers, 1870.-President, E. B. Chace, Castile; Secretary, L. L. Thayer, Warsaw; Treasurer, H. A. Dudley, Warsaw. L. LOCKWOOD THAYER, Secretary. 710 ANNUAL REPORT OF STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. YATES. The Yates County Agricultural Society was organized in the year 1840, and has continued to hold agricultural fairs from that time to the present. The annual fair for 1869 was held upon grounds owned by the society in the village of Penn Yan on the 5th, 6th and 7th days of October. The weather was pleasant, the exhibition good and the attendance unusually large. The season proved a favorable one, and the farmers of the county realized large crops of wheat, barley, oats, corn and hay. The number of entries for premiums at the fair was 800. The amount offered for premiums was $1,123.75, and the amount awarded $712. The annual address was delivered by Hon. John Cochrane, and was listened to with marked attention by the people present. The show of cattle, horses, sheep, swine and agricultural implements fully equaled that of any previous year, and was pronounced far better than that of neighboring counties by persons who had attended other fairs. Received for membership and admittance to the fair.... $1,538 37 Paid premiums of 1868. premiums of 1869. expenses of 1869 $13 50 664 25 675 11 1,352 86 $185 51 Balance Number of members 703. GEO. Y. EASTMAN, Secretary. REPORTS OF TOWN AND UNION AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND FARMERS' CLUBS. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The trustees have the satisfaction of reporting that the financial condition of the Institute is even more favorable than they had anticipated. Surplus funds up to this date have been sufficient to purchase $40,000 of United States bonds. For a detailed account of receipts and expenditures during the past year reference is made to the statement of the committee on finance. The unencumbered real estate on Broadway and Leonard street, belonging to the Institute could not be disposed of since no offer for it has yet reached the sum below which the trustees are directed by resolution not to sell. Its actual value will not soon decrease, because it is located within the most valuable part of the city area devoted to wholesale trade. Owing to a depression of business, rents are lower, and the trustees have been compelled to let this property at a less rate than that received the past two years. By the action of the Institute, to which allusion was made in the last annual report of the trustees, in relation to providing space for an exposition by the National Association of Wool Manufacturers to be given under the auspices of the Institute and in connection. with its exhibition, new and extraordinary duties were imposed on the present board of managers. They met the emergency by securing for the joint exhibition, the largest structure to be obtained, although it was more than four miles from the City Hall and its enlargement involved the outlay of more money than had before been expended by the Institute for such a purpose. This bold undertaking was looked upon by many with distrust, since no previous attractions had been potent enough to draw large crowds continuously to that point. Yet the result confirmed the foresight and judgment of the managers, The gross receipts of their undertaking amounted to more than $61,000 and the net proceeds, including the sum expended for buildings and materials to be used for the exhibition of 1870, exceeded by several thousand dollars the profits of the successful preceding fairs. To the energy, watchfulness, and self-devotion of a majority of the present board of managers, and to the good taste and executive ability of the officers of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, the Institute is chiefly indebted for the most complete and satisfactory display of American productions ever made, and for its financial success. Reports from the several standing committees will show, that all the other departments of the Institute have evinced commendable activity during the past year. Unabated interest has been kept up in the weekly proceedings of the Farmers' Club and the Polytechnic Association, as well as in the monthly meetings of the Photographical Section. Large additions of valuable scientific works have recently been made to the library, which now occupies nearly all the available space in the rooms at present occupied by the Institute. The most certain and gratifying evidence of the increasing influence of our organization, is found in the very large accession of new members during the past year. In accordance with the desire expressed at the close of the course of the scientific lectures delivered before the Institute last winter, the trustees made arrangements for a similar, but shorter, course for the present season, and the following programme of the lectures was issued: I. Friday, December 17th, 1869. "The Battle-fields of Science," by Andrew D. White, President of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. II. Friday, December 24th, 1869. "How Animals Move," by Professor E. S. Morse, of the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. III. Friday, December 31st, 1869. "The Corelation of Vital and Physical Forces," by Professor G. F. Barker of Yale College, New Haven, Conn. IV. Friday, January 7th, 1870. "The Air and Respiration," by Professor J. C. Draper, of the College of the City of New York. V Friday, January 14th, 1870. "The Connection of Natural Science and Mental Philosophy," by Professor J. Bascom, of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. VI. Friday, January 21st, 1870. "The Constitution of the Sun,” by Dr. B. A. Gould, of Cambridge, Mass. |