328 WISCONSIN AGRICULTUKE. 



Executive Committee — Royal T. Graves, of East Randolph ; 

 Timothy Terrill, of West Point ; Thomas Dalziel, of Leeds ; A. 

 P. Smith, of Arlington ; John Ewing, Jr., of Lewiston. 



At the annual meeting for election of ofl&cers, a vote of thanks 

 was passed to the Hon. J. J. Guppey, for his able address before 

 the Society, on the 3d day of October, 1856. 



Very respectfully yours, 



Henry Converse, Secretary. 



LA CROSSE COUNTY. 

 To THE Secretary of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 



Dear Sir : — Your letter, directed to me, and designed for the 

 Secretary of the La Crosse County Agricultural Society, was 

 duly received ; but finding on careful inquiry, that no such 

 Society exists, and being anxious that this portion of Wisconsin 

 should be represented in your forthcoming volume, at the solic- 

 itation of friends, I have consented to suspend my clerical duties, 

 for the purpose of preparing a very imperfect article on the sub- 

 ject suggested in your epistle. 



area, latitude and position of la CROSSE COUNTY. 



This county has a surface of about 520 square miles, being so 

 situated that its northern line coincides very nearly with the 

 parallel of 44° north latitude, while the center of its western 

 boundary, is not far from the point where Black river enters the 

 Mississippi ; which last mentioned river, owing to the eastward 

 bearing of its channel, extends along this county to the distance 

 of 31 miles. 



CULTIVATION. 



About fifteen years since, the first white man, an Indian tra- 

 der, established himself in what is now the city of La Crosse ; 

 but little or nothing was done by way of cultivating the soil. 



