TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 1852. 



To the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin : 



The Executive Committee of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, 

 pursuant to the requirements of the "Act for the encouragement of 

 Agriculture and its kindred Arts in this State," would respectfully 

 report : 



That the various operations of the State and of the County Agricultural 

 Societies, during the year just closed, have been in the highest degree 

 gratifying, while the great and increasing interest which has been so 

 generally manifested throughout the State in these operations, gives 

 encouraging assurance t"hat the labor will not be in vain, but that the 

 spirit of agricultural inquiry which has been awakened, will incite the 

 farmer to increased attention to the details of farm management, and to 

 the proper adaptation of his crops to the soils, so as to secure the largest 

 returns with the greatest permanent economy. 



Hitherto the progress, in this State, of improvement in Agricultural 

 Science has been slow, and has not kept pace with that rapid develope- 

 ment which has, in other respects, been the pre-eminent characteristic of 

 Wisconsin. In part, this may be ascribed to the adverse circumstances 

 Tvhich, almost of necessity, surround the early settler in all new coun- 

 tries J but another great cause may be found in our fertile soil and genial 



