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WASHINGTON. 



In this county, an Agricultural Society has been formed, and a Fair 

 held during the year. The Fair was largely attended, and much inter- 

 est manifested in the proceedings of the Society. Organized in a large 

 Agricultural county, the Society cannot fail to accomplish much good. 

 No direct report has been received of its proceedings. 



MILWAUKEE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This Society has held three Exhibitions during the year, each of 

 which "was well attended. At the Annual Exhibition in September, the 

 display was of marked and superior excellence. The Secretary remarks, 

 that the prospects of the Society are particularly flattering ; arrangements 

 being in progress by which it will receive a valuable donation of land, 

 through the liberality of David Ferguson, Esq., and some others of its 

 members. This it is proposed to convert into a public, ornamental garden ; 

 thus practically inculcating lessons of taste and skill. The officers are 

 as follows : 



President, Hon. Hans Crocker ; Vice-Presidents, Thomas Hislop and 

 Charles Gifford ; Corresponding Secretary, Riley N. Messenger ; Record- 

 ing Secretary, William H. Watson; Treasurer, David Ferguson. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



RURAL HUSBANDRY IN WISCONSIN. 



Br George 0. Tiffany, Milwaukee. 



Vegetable productions, either directly or indirectly, are indispensible to 

 the existence of man. The savage who depends entirely on the success 

 of the chase, and the scientific farmer who summons to his aid the accu- 

 mulated experience of former ages, would alike share a common fate, 

 should our universal mother refuse us her nourishment for a brief period. 

 The domestic animals upon which we depend for subsistence, either for 



