IOO 
WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . 
by mankind will, I believe, prove of value to the state, equal to 
her agricultural resources. 
THE GREAT NEED OF THE STATE 
is manufacturing. No state purely agricultural, unless its sur¬ 
plus products could be marketed in an adjoining state, with low 
rates of transportation, was ever known to become rich. It is 
true, that the industry of Wisconsin is somewhat diversified. Its 
lumbering, mining, commercial and many other interests are annu¬ 
ally growing and increasing in importance; working more men, 
and using more of the surplus products of the state, and yet the 
annual shipments of the great staples of food, such as wheat, corn, 
flour, beef, pork and cheese, to the seaboard manufacturing states, 
and to Europe, are rapidly increasing. 
Manufacturing is in a healthy condition, and is enlarging its 
field of operations, but it is not keeping pace with agriculture, 
and while I would encourage the young men of the state to pur¬ 
chase the cheap and valuable lands along the new lines of rail¬ 
way extending into the northern part of the state, settle upon 
them, and by their industry and economy, make themselves com¬ 
fortable homes, increase their possessions and add to the aggregate 
wealth of the state, I would at the same time as strongly urge 
them to work at any other class of honorable business, where their 
taste and talents may incline them, and thereby help to consume 
the surplus products within our own state. Pennsylvania, with 
her iron, coal, oil, and other manufacturing industries, is fast be¬ 
coming a wealthy state. Her farmers find a ready and remunera¬ 
tive market for their products, and are prosperous and happy. 
Massachusetts, with a soil much inferior in richness to ours, with 
a climate less favorable, and with no conditions superior, except 
those derived from manufacturing and commerce, and largely 
from the former, with her great manufacturing establishments, 
employing thousands of operatives, and producing a demand for 
all the varied products of her farms and gardens at paying prices, 
is rapidly accumulating wealth, and the profits of the labor of 
the husbandman are retained within her own state, and distributed 
among her own people. 
It is a matter worthy of the consideration of our legislature, 
