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us from the South, on the arrival of every mail, and although 

 they do not ask us directly for aid, yet we should feel it our duty 

 to beseech Him who dispenses good and evil, to stay the hand of 

 disease, and if need be, to put our hands into our pockets and 

 give to them a portion of those good things with which he has 

 so richly encompassed us. 



Our fature is full of hope and rich with promise. The good 

 time we have said has already come. But when this most fertile 

 country in the valley of Rock river shall have its resources fully 

 developed, no one in the present can truthfully imagine its 

 beauty, or what its reality will be. It is but comparatively a 

 short time since it was a wild and uncultivated waste. Now it 

 is teeming with civilization and refinement. But when the Chi- 

 cago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad on the North and South, 

 and the Southern Wisconsin on the West, shall be completed, 

 together with the other public improvements in which we are so 

 deeply interested, its latent resurces will begin to be fully devel- 

 oped. 



It remains then tor us of this association to be true to its ob- 

 jects and true to ourrelves — true to the best interests of the agri- 

 cultural and mechanical departments of our prosperity, and even 

 in our day, we may have the proud satisfaction, so far as Rock 

 county is concerned, of seeing the good time perfected and know- 

 ing that we were not insignificant assistants to its coming. 



FOND DU LAC COUNTY. 



To THE Secretary of the "Wisconsin State Agricultural Society: 



Dear Sir: — Enclosed please find the Report of our County 

 Fair, for 1865, and the list of premiums. 



In general terms I would state that our Society is in a pros- 

 perous condition, and bids fair to be of eminent utility in devel- 

 oping the enterprise and progress of our fine farming county. 



