164 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
about this desirable result, upon consultation with the Executive 
Committee of this society, I issued the following circular letter in 
the month ot August last, and forwarded a copy to each of the 
clubs, and other local agricultural societies so far as known in the 
state: 
State Agricultural Booms, 
Madison, August, 1872. 
To Farmers' Clubs, County and District Agricultural Societies: 
Gentlemen: —The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society has 
long felt the importance of more intimate and practical relations 
existing between Farmers’ Clubs, County and District Agricul¬ 
tural Societies, and the State Agricultural Society. Article II of 
the constitution of this society provides that “ the presidents of 
County Agricultuial Societies shall be members ex officio , entitled 
to the same privileges as life members, and together shall be known 
as the general committee of the society.” While presidents of 
some of these local societies have acted under this provision of the 
constitution, the larger part have not. The most friendly rela¬ 
tions have ever existed between such local societies and the state 
society, and yet there has seemed to be a want of that associated 
effort, and practical, efficient co-operation which seems so essential 
in a great work of industrial education. Each has been fruitful 
in good results in its own limited sphere, but we believe that 
much higher and more practical results ought to be and can be attain¬ 
ed by the harmonious and co-operative action of thinking, reading, 
observing, practical and scientific men of the state meeting anna- 
ally together, where essays pertaining to any department of in¬ 
dustry may be read, where the experience, observation, and re¬ 
sults of private enterprise and scientific research may be fully dis¬ 
cussed, and spread before the people of the state for the advance¬ 
ment of industrial education. 
To endeavor to attain these higher results, the Executive Com¬ 
mittee of this society has decided to call a meeting at the Capitol 
during the coming winter—time to be fixed at the State Fair in 
September—in which active workers in all departments of in¬ 
dustry are cordially invited to participate, and especially do we 
extend to farmers’ clubs, county and district agricultural societies 
