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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
sive employments, become more skillful, and their inventive facul¬ 
ties are quickened to discover and make advanced improvements 
and a better and more efficient application of labor, and corres¬ 
pondingly they improve mentally, physically and socially, and soon 
acquire other wants adapted to their improved condition. 
The farmer discovers that in a distant latitude and in another cli¬ 
mate. the farmer produces a different quality and kind of vegeta¬ 
bles and fruits, for which he desires to exchange his own, and this 
desire is mutual with both. They have not the time or the means 
to make the exchange, and so some one is assigned to the duty, or 
business, and he buys of the one and sells to the other, and receives 
his compensation by a small profit, and here we have the merchant. 
Soon it is found out that the mercantile agent acts to great dis¬ 
advantage by combining two employments incompatible with each 
other, viz : Merchandising and transportation or carriage, and it is 
discovered both by the farmer and himself that it would be more 
profitable for them both to separate them, and here we have the 
common carrier. 
To pursue his avocation, he must have the best means of trans¬ 
portation by water and by land, and the employments of the boat 
and carriage builder are established, and with them the peculiar 
business of men to manage and take care of these new construc¬ 
tions. 
In the meantime mankind has advanced in intelligence and cul¬ 
ture, and the population has increased, and frequent conflicts of in¬ 
terest occur, and wrongs are committed, and they realize the want 
of common protection, and some authority which can define their 
rights and redress their wrongs, and a 
SOCIAL AND CIVIL COMPACT 
is formed, laws are enacted, and courts are established to adminis¬ 
ter them. Officers and agents of government are found to be neces¬ 
sary, and lawyers educated and informed in civil jurisprudence 
to be competent judges and counselors; and thus new occupations 
are made, requiring special ability and aptitude for such high 
trusts. And all for what ? To secure to the farmer the products 
of his industry and labor in tillage, and to all the other branches 
of business which have naturally grown out of the original founda¬ 
tion avocation of agriculture and necessary to it. Society advan- 
