REPORT 



OF TUE 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOE 1855 



To His Excellency Wm. A. Barstow, Governor of Wisconsik. 



Sir : — In compliance with an act of the legislature of this 

 State, passed March, 1854, the Executive Committee of the State 

 Agricultural Society would respectfully Eeport, — That the 

 past year has been one of great prosperity to all industrial 

 occupations, and more especially to the agricultural portion 

 of our population. Abundant crops and unexampled prices, 

 with that richest of all earthly treasures, good health, has been 

 the portion of our population generally throughout the State. 



The Executive Committee, having become convinced long since 

 that a change of climate and soil produced great improvement 

 in the different kinds of grain, and more especially in wheat, 

 decided early last spring, to make an effort to introduce some 

 new and valuable variety which should replace the varieties 

 already cultivated here, and which from long continued cultiva- 

 tion had begun to diminish in the amount of yield, as well as 

 in quality of grain. The Committee accordingly procured the 

 services of Mr. T. C. Dousman, a gentleman of long experience 

 in the culture of wheat and other agricultural operations, to 

 proceed to Canada and procure some new variety for distribu- 

 tion, which should be furnished to members of the Society at the 

 cost price. This was acted upon, and Mr. Dousman invested 

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