98 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
ciously and intelligently control the legislative and judicial depart¬ 
ments of the government. Said the Secretary: Farmers of the 
state, you have the numerical strength to change and reform 
abuses if they exist. If you are satisfied that an unequal propor¬ 
tion of the Lurdens’of government rest upon you, and that you 
are discriminated against so as to be unable to reap a just propor¬ 
tion of the profits arising from your labor, you have the remedy 
in your own hands. Be just to others, but generous to yourselves. 
On behalf of the agricultural society, Secretary Field thanked 
the Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Chicago and Northwestern 
Railway Companies for their courtesy and generosity in convey¬ 
ing delegates to and from the convention at reduced rates. The 
convention then adjourned, with the best of feeling, each seem- 
ingly glad that he had attended and contributed something to the 
general result. 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
I am happy to state that the legislature at its session of 1873, 
just closed, enacted a law for a thorough geological survey of the 
state, having for its object, as specified in section two of the act, as 
follows: 
“ 1st. An examination of the geological structure of the state, 
including the dip, number, magnitude, order and relative position 
of the various strata; their richness in minerals, metalic ores, 
clays, mineral waters, fertilizers, building stones, and other useful 
materials, the value of such materials for economic purposes, and 
their accessibility for mining and manufacture. 
“ 2d. Accurate chemical analysis and assays of the various ores, 
clays, peats, marls, building stones, etc., discovered by the state. 
“ 3d. A careful topographical survey of the lead region, for the 
purpose of ascertaining as far as possible, the amount of denuda¬ 
tion, and the exact position of the mining ground at each locality ; 
also such other topographical surveys as shall be deemed neces¬ 
sary by the corps, also careful barometrical observations on the rel¬ 
ative elevation and depression of various parts of the state. 
“ 4th. A n examination of soils and subsoils, and observations 
