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interest therein, and to secure the active co-operation of intelligent and influential 

 citizens with the Society. The result proved extremely gratifying; and with 

 pleasure the Secretary has it to report, that in no instance did he fail to receive 

 the kindest treatment and co-operation at the hands of all. In some parts of the 

 State, a misapprehension of the objects of the Society seemed to exist ; and, as a 

 consequence, a feeling of coldness was apparent, but this soon yielded before 

 the proper statements and explanations, and the kindest feeling seems now to 

 prevail — indeed the Society has emphatically become the favorite. 



It is with much pleasure that the Secretary is enabled to announce that he has 

 obtained, through the medium of our Senators and Representatives in C<)ii-!e-;s. 

 the promise of a large supply of native and foreign seeds, of choice varietii;s; 

 these, as soon as received, will be distributed among the members of the Society, 

 under the direction of the Executive Committee. 



The prosjDCCt of the establishment of an Agricultural department in our State 

 University, is a matter of encouragement; and it is to be hoped that no very 

 long period will elapse, before an opportunity will be aftbrded for those who 

 desire to acquire that instruction which will fit them to excel in the profession 

 they have chosen. 



The undersigned is conscious of having imperfectly discharged the duties of 

 his position ; but he beaa-s with him the consolation, that he has devoted his best 

 energies to the advancement of the interests of the Society ; and although he has 

 not accomplished all that he has desired, or all that might have been done, yet 

 in all his efforts he feels that he has been actuated by a sincere desire to promote 

 the great interests of Agriculture, those interests which are second to none other 

 in our State. 



Respectfully submitted, 



ALBERT C. INGHAM, 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



