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FORMER AGRICULTURAL MOVEMENTS. 



STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 1846. 



The followino- Papers are the Minutes of what is believed to have been the 

 First Association for the advancement of the interests of Agriculture ever formed 

 iu that Territory which now constitutes the State of Wisconsin. It was organized 

 by Members of the First Constitutional Convention, and furnishes gratifying 

 evidence of that desire for improvement which has characterized the history of 

 Wisconsin from its earliest period. No record can be found of any meeting sub- 

 sequent to the one held December 3d, A. D. 1846 ; and it is believed that this was 

 the last. The movement was undoubtedly premature, and to this, and not to any 

 lack of spii-it, must its failure be ascribed. 



PRELIMINARY MEETING. 



Tuesday, December 1, 1846. 



Pursuant to a call of several members of the Convention, and others, desirous 

 of forming a " State Agricultural Society," for the future State of Wisconsin, the 

 members of the Convention and other citizens of the Territory, assembled at the 

 Convention Chamber, and proceeded to organize the Meeting by calling the Hon. 

 Wlliam R. Smith, of Iowa County, to the Chair, and appointing La Fayette 

 Kellogg, of Dane County, Secretary. 



The object of the Meeting having been stated by the Chair, and after some 

 remarks from several gentlemen of the Meeting, the following resolution was 

 introduced by Mr. Burchard, and adopted by the Meeting, to wit: 



Resolved — That a Committee of three be appointed by the Chair to obtain 

 some suitable person to address the members of the Convention, upon the subject 

 of organizing a State Agricultural Society, 



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