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want of that information which it is the object of the Agricultural Society 
to impart. 
No premiums were awarded at the Fair, in consequence of the insuffi¬ 
ciency of the funds. 
It is an astonishing fact, that in our Society there are only two Ameri¬ 
can born members, the remainder are all Germans, and on that account 
the address of the President at the annual meeting was delivered in the 
German language. 
The officers of the present year are:—President, Jared W. Natting, 
Young Hickory P. 0.—Secretary, Charles Walfrum, West Bend P. 0. 
William Bohn, President . 
To Albert C. Ingham, Esq. 
Sec. of the Wis. State Ayr. Society. 
WAUKESHA. 
The Waukesha County Agricultural Society held its Annual Fair at 
Waukesha, in the month of September, 1853. No report of its opera¬ 
tions has been received, though it is believed to be in a prosperous 
condition. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
WISCONSIN FARMING—ITS CHARACTER AND ECONOMY. 
BY D. J. POWERS, MADISON. 
About twenty years have elapsed since settlements were first begun in 
Wisconsin, by the pioneer agricultural immigrants. From year to year 
this agricultural immigration has gone on, opening new farms and subdu¬ 
ing new fields, until now almost the whole of the southern and eastern 
portion of the State are checkered by the fields, and dotted with the 
cabins and cottages of the farmer. 
In numbers, we have probably increased more rapidly than any other 
agricultural people, that ever spread over a new country, even from the 
days of the patriarchs down to the present time. 
