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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The State Horticultural Society made an excellent display of 
fruit. It presented over two hundred varieties of apples, and 
pears, crabs and grapes, etc., in great abundance, and of superior 
quality. This exhibition was unexpectedly good, and attracted 
much attention from visitors. 
HORSES AND SHEEP. 
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In large draft horses, Wisconsin took the palm. Mr. Geo. Mur¬ 
ray, of Racine, exhibited a Clydesdale horse that was universally 
acknowledged the best on the ground of this class. 
The State Sheep Breeders’ Association made a very excellent 
show of sheep — equal to any on the ground. A goodly number 
of sheep were exhibited, and they were all of superior quality^ 
This exhibition gave ample proof that Wisconsin has few, if any, 
superiors as a wool-growing state. 
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS. 
The individual exhibits from Wisconsin were quite numerous 
and attractive. Agricultural implements of all kinds, mill, and 
various articles of other machinery; leather, and many other in¬ 
terests were fully represented, by superior specimens. This is 
shown by the large number of awards given to our state. 
women’s pavillion. 
This article would be far from complete if no mention were made 
of the splendid exhibition presented by the women of Wisconsin. 
Soon after the organization of the United States Centennial Com¬ 
mission, a national organization of the women of the country was 
perfected. Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, of Philadelphia, was placed at its 
head, and a chairman for each state was appointed. Mrs. A. C. 
Thorp assumed the duties of chairman for Wisconsin in March, 
1875, and soon appointed assistants in various parts of the state, 
when active work was commenced. This organization of the wo¬ 
men was efficient in both nation and state in arousing an interest 
in the general purposes and objects of the Centennial Exhibition; 
and it culminated in a very superior representation of women’s 
work in the Women’s Pavillion on the Centennial grounds; in this 
pavillion, Wisconsin women occupied a proud position. By com 
mon consent, their articles were pronounced equal at least to those 
