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WISCONSIN AGRICULTUEE. 



Paid 



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EXPENDITURES. 



in Premiums, 

 Purcliase of Wheat, 



Salary, 



Office Expenses, 

 Pitting np Fair Grounds, 

 Expenses of Executive Committee, 

 Bills Printing, 



Traveling and Incidental Expenses, 

 All other Expenses, 

 Cash and Bills receivable to balance 

 Total, .... 



$7542 95 



ANNUAL ADDEESS 



DELIVERED AT THE 



STATE AGRICULTURAL FAIR, 



In Milwaukee, Oct. 5th, 1855. 



BY HON. HARLOW S. ORTON 



Fellow Citizens : — In those countries, where now cultivation 

 and refinement diffuse their varied forms of usefulness and 

 grace, and the teeming earth responds to the cheerful labors of 

 man by the exuberant productions of vegetable wealth and 

 beauty, not many years ago, the uncultivated soil was surren- 

 dered to the spontaneous and alternate growth and decay of 

 nature, or barely yielded to the reluctant toil of slavery, the 



