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The Madison Manufacturing Company and others, to give for this 
purpose samples of their valuable farm machinery, and the others, 
other articles for the same objects. If then machinery prizes were 
offered for herds and superior animals from without Dane county , 
our own breeders will understand that such restriction had its 
origin in no other notion than a desire to increase as largely as 
possible the magnitude, attractiveness and usefulness of the fair. 
So far from being a disparagement of our home stock, it was a 
compliment to it, and was so intended by the officers of the society, 
whose aims, if they would accomplish the objects of the organiza¬ 
tion, would rise above considerations of individual interest, and 
adopt such measures as are best calculated to advance the common 
good of all. The exhibition of the Dane County Agricultural 
Society for 1872 is now open and ready for inspection. May it 
prove an occasion of much pleasure and of great profit to all. 
ADDRESS 
BY J. S. STICKNEY, PRESIDENT WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Delivered at the annual meeting of said society, February, 1873. 
Gentlemen of the State Horticultural Society: 
In ag&in meeting and greeting each other at this our annual 
conference, I trust we all come bearing full and complete notes of 
the year’s experiences and observations, which shall make this 
meeting equal to any former one as the record of a year’s real pro¬ 
gress in this our chosen calling. 
Our observations being made from such different standpoints, 
and under such varied circumstances, will differ very widely; and 
conclusions arrived at may sometimes be almost contradictory. It 
is this which gives zest and point and real value to our discus¬ 
sions. 
The past, though not an abundant fruit season, has perhaps 
given us its full share of hints and suggestions of improvements 
