TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR 1853. 
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 advancement of Agricultural Science and Improvement 
throughout the State during the past year has been highly gratifying. 
A spirit of emulation has been excited among our farmers generally 
which promises the most happy results. Many new and important im¬ 
provements have been introduced, theories tested, and practical truths 
developed, all tending to widen the range of present defective experi¬ 
mental knowledge and to increase and diffuse exact and reliable infor¬ 
mation upon the great fundamental principles which lie at the base of 
agricultural progression. 
One of the chief difficulties incident to the settlement and cultivation 
of a new country is the lack of knowledge as to what productions are 
best adapted to its climate and best. fitted for its virgin soil. This infor¬ 
mation is only to be obtained from experience—and this to be effective 
must be a recorded experience—an accumulation of facts preserved from 
