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The Calhoun County Agricultural Society is believed to have been ' among the first and most useful organized in the state, upon a permanent basis. An unsuccessful attempt to create a popular sentiment among the fanners, which should induce them to associate for the objects involved in the present Agricultural Society, was made two or three years prior to 1847, when the present society was organized. Since that period it has held annual meetings, with increasing profit and pleasure, not only to farmers but to the community generally. It has excited and diffused a healthy rivalry among its members, and has also awakened a kindly spirit which has resulted in better and more general acquaintance and good will. Conservatories and parterres of handsome flowers and plants, adorrn many houses and yards, and a vastly higher type of cattle, horses and sheep, and, indirectly, a richer and more showy turn-out, are the outgrowths of this Society. It is a stimulus to labor, to refinement and to the beautiful. Our citizens generally look forward to these annual meetings with unalloyed pleasure; indeed our fair days are, by common consent, given up to social enjoyment with old friends, and to the formation of new and "pleasant acquaintances. The meetings are always held on its spacious grounds in the City of Marshall, where permanent and tasteful buildings have been erected.
The Farmers' Fire Insurance Co. of the County of Calhoun was organized April 7th, 1862. At the first annual meeting there were 164 members, and the value of all the property insured amounted to $190,890. No loss by fire having occurred, there was in the hands of the secretary $46.37. The annual report, made as by law required to the secretary of State, Jan'y 23d, 1863,
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