ADVERTISEMENT. 



In presenting to the Farmers of Wisconsin, the Second Volume of 

 the Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, the 

 undersioned, for his Associates in the Executive Committee, and in his 

 own behalf, would most respectfully tender to them warm and sin- 

 cere thanks for the favorable reception accorded to the First Volume. 



The present Volume, it is hoped, will not be deemed unworthy of its 

 predecessor, nor yet of the more advanced age of the Society. In its 

 preparation it has been the aim of the Executive Committee to present 

 such papers as would, if duly considered, be found of use and practical 

 benefit to the Farmer. 



If they have succeeded in this, and if the present Volume should 

 be found worthy of the attention of those interested in Agricultural 

 advancement, then are their labors fully rewarded. 



To those gentlemen who have so kindly assisted the undersigned in 

 the preparation of this Volume, by responding to the calls made upon 

 them, he returns his grateful thanks, and as the only return he can 

 make, he gives them the assurance that his best exertions shall be given 

 to the Society with which he is connected, and to the cause of Improve- 

 ment which it is striving to advance. 



ALBERT C. INGHAM. 



State Agricultural Rooms, 

 Madison, January, 1853. 



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