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ledge of the external world. There are other regions of a higher and 
holier nature, without the cultivation of which no true progress can be 
made. 
I thank you for your attention and patience, and wish you for the 
coming year, and for all years, abundant store of life’s best blessings, 
and every success in the pursuits of honorable industry. 
SHEBOYGAN. 
No report has been received of the operations of this Society for the 
year 1853. 
WALWORTH. 
The Society in this County having failed to make any report, we are 
without information as to its prospects or success. 
WASHINGTON. 
I have but little to say in answer to your favor of the 15th December, 
1853, asking a report from the Agricultural Society of Washington 
County. Our Society was organized one year ago, and I regret to say 
that its progress has not been commensurate with my expectations. 
The farmers of this County do not pay proper attention to, nor take 
sufficient interest in, the welfare of the Society to insure its immediate 
success. Their neglect is excusable inasmuch as it is attributable to 
the nature of the country, which is heavy timbered, requiring great labor 
to clear it, and prepare it for yielding crops; in so much that a great 
many of our farmers cannot actually spare time to devote themselves to 
the acquisition of agricultural knowledge. The tvant of the requisite 
agricultural information is seen in the course of our farmers in planting 
their soil with the same seed year after year—not allowing the land to 
be strengthened and rejuvenated by that judicious rotation which is in¬ 
dispensable to the preservation of the soil in its native vigor and rich¬ 
ness; and although our land, in consequence of its extreme fertility, 
continues to yield rich harvests of the same grain for a series of years, 
still the time will come, when by this course the soil will become ex¬ 
hausted, as it inevitably must be, and our farmers will feel seriously the 
