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WISCONSIN AGEICULTUKE. 



2d do, 0. S. Rathbone, 



3d do, M. Spears, .... 



Best show autumn do, M. Spears, 



2d do, D. Matthews, .... 



3d do, 0. S. Rathbone, 



Best and greatest variety pears, J. Bell, 



2d best do, S. Pettibone, 



Best and greatest variety grapes, G. P. Peffer, 



Best plums, same, .... 



Best show water melons, same. 



Best show preserved fruits, same, . 



Best collection seedling apples, same, 



Seedling grapes, favorable mention, C. H. Gilford. 



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WISCONSIN FRUir GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. 



The Wisconsin Fruit Growers' Association was organized in 

 December, 1853. It was established for the purpose of collect- 

 ing, arranging and disseminating facts interesting to those en- 

 gaged in the culture of fruits, and to embody for their use the 

 results of the practice and experiments of Fruit Growers in all 

 parts of the State. 



The striking peculiarities of our climate and soils plainly 

 •evinced that something different from the teachings of Eastern 

 works on pomology and from the practice of Eastern orchardists 

 -was needed in Wisconsin. 



The first public exhibition of the Association was held at Mil- 

 waukee on the 5th and 6th of October, 1854. The number of 

 Tarieties thus brought together, the size, fairness and extraordin- 

 ary beauty of the fruits, satisfied those who attended the exhibi- 

 tion that Wisconsin was destined to take a place in the first rank 

 as a fruit growing State. 



