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six hundred dollars of the money appropriated to tlie Society, 

 in tlie purchase and transportation of a new and valuable vari- 

 ety, known as the Golden Drop. This wheat became widely 

 distributed over the State, and gave universal satisfaction, from 

 the large yield and fine quality of the grain produced. As an 

 instance of its productiveness, the Hon. Wm. R. Taylor, of 

 Cottage Grove, Dane county, harvested forty-five bushels per 

 acre from two acres of ground, with only common cultivation. 

 The Society was entirely reimbursed for the expenditure from 

 the sales. 



The quality of the grain may be inferred from the fact, that 

 it took not only the the first, but also the second premium, for 

 the best samples offered at our late State Fair. The Society has 

 distributed from its rooms large quantities of choice and valua- 

 ble seeds received during the past year, from the U. S. Patent 

 Ofiice ; also many valuable Agricultural and Mechanical works 

 from the same source, together with several hundred volumes 

 of Transactions of this, and other State Agricultural Societies, 

 embodying much valuable information upon various subjects, 

 the result of experiment and observation in the various de- 

 partments of Agriculture and the Mechanical arts. 



The Annual Fair of the Society was held at Milwaukee, on 

 the 3d, 4:th, and 5th of October, last, and upon the same grounds 

 formerly occupied for that purpose, and situated on the summit 

 of Spring street hill. The attendance at the Fair, and the ani- 

 mals and articles on exhibition, far surpassed the expectations of 

 the Committee, when the fact is taken into consideration, that a 

 week of rainy weather just previous and one day during the 

 Fair, prevented many from attending who would otherwise 

 have done so. The necessity of having a waterproof building 

 in order to protect many of the articles in the collection of Fine 

 Arts on exhibition at our Annual Fairs, added very materially 

 to the expenses attendant upon the last. 



The interest manifested at our Annual Fairs shows that the 

 agriculturist, the mechanic, pnd the artist in skillful workman- 

 ship, demand an opportunity where they can exhibit the product 

 of their industry, skill, and invention. It is only through the ■ 



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