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Show OUR NEXT FAIR. <br><br> It may seem early to commence now the discussion of an agricultural fair in this county next fall, but we believe it will have a good result if the subject be kept before our farmers at the season when they are planning their summer's work, and deciding upon the crops to be put in. <br><br> Spring time is the season for our agriculturists to commence preparations for competing at the autumn fair for prizes that may there be won, and we hope to see a wide-spread interest taken in this matter throughout our county. Let some of our farmers make up their minds to carry off next fall the biggest premium for the best field of grain, others for the best vegetables, others for the finest fruits, while still others prepare to compete for the prizes to be awarded to the finest stock, &c. Much competition commenced in the spring will prove a healthful stimulus during the entire summer, and will be amply repaid by the improvements on the farm, and in the stock and crops, even if no prize should be won at the fair. <br><br> In this connection we wish to urge the necessity that exists for putting the Cache County Agricultural and Manufacturing Society on a firmer ???. At present it is only an informal organization, without anything in the nature of articles of association or capital stock. It ought to assume a more permanent form, and indeed will have to, in order to accomplish the work and good for which it was originally designed. It should become an incorporated body with a capital stock of say fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. On being incorporated ten per cent of its capital stock would have to be paid up, and this would give a working capital of fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars, provided there were subscribers for all the stock, which we have no doubt would be the case. The Society would thus have sufficient funds to construct a building, sheds, &c., in which to hold its fair, and its income in the form of gate money, rental of space to exhibit, etc., would be considerable, sufficient at least for the prizes to be given away, and probably for a dividend on its paid up capital. Let the Society assume the nature of an incorporated body, and we venture to predict that it will meet with hearty support and extensive patronage from the entire county. |