REPORT 



OF TUB 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 1856. 



To His Excellexct Coles Bashfoed, Governor of "Wiscoxsix. 



Sir : — In compliance with the requirement of law, the Exec- 

 utive Committee of the State Agricultural Society, would re- 

 spectfully Report, — Tliat during the past year the Society has 

 been actively engaged in discharging the various duties devolv- 

 ing upon it. 



As a whole, the year of 1856 cannot be pronounced an un- 

 prosperous one, agriculturally, for the State ; although in some 

 respects decidedly unfavorable. In many districts, the earlier 

 part of the season was exceedingly dry, and, taken in connection 

 with the common custom, among many of our farmers, of plow- 

 ing very shallow, and often omitting even to plow at all, in 

 putting in wheat, eventuated in materially diminishing that im- 

 portant crop. The breadth of land sowed to wheat in the State, 

 was undoubtedly sufficient, if the tillage had been deep, and 

 appropriate to a dry season, to have produced a crop of fifteen 

 millions (15,000,000) of bushels, but under the unfavorable 

 circumstances before mentioned, it probably did not exceed ten 

 millions. 

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