ADVERTISEMENT. 
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Herewith, the undersigned presents to the Farmers of Wisconsin, the 
Third \ olume of the Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agri¬ 
cultural Society. 
Like its predecessors, he sends it forth with anxiety, and in like man¬ 
ner, he bespeaks for it at their hands a generous sympathy and a favor¬ 
able consideration. That it contains Papers of marked value and 
excellence, is his belief; and if in this belief, he is sustained by the judg¬ 
ment of his fellow-citizens, and especially of that class for whose benefit 
he is laboring, then will the ends for which those labors were undertaken 
be fully met. 
With the sending forth of this, his labors in the preparation of the 
Annual Volumes of the Transactions of the Society will close, and in 
taking leave of those, in whose behalf he has been so long engaged, he 
desires to tender to them the assurance, that the many kindnesses he has 
received at their hands, will not be forgotten, and though he may not 
longer serve in his present capacity, yet his services shall never be want¬ 
ing in that which promises advancement to Industrial Pursuits. 
He retires from his present position with the gratifying consciousness 
that he has endeavored faithfully to do his duty, and in this conviction, 
he feels a proud satisfaction, believing that though he may not have 
accomplished all that could have been desired, yet in what has been done 
he has not greatly erred. « 
To those gentlemen who have so kindly responded to the calls made 
upon them in the preparation of this Volume, he feels that his warmest 
acknowledgments are due, and as such they are most cordially tendered. 
ALBERT C. INGHAM. 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Madison, January, 1854. 
