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WISCONSIN jStatn Agricultural society. 
R. S. Houston, Kenosha, butter. 
S. Faville, Lake Mills, butter. 
J. J. Smith & Sons, Tomah, butter. 
Benj. Holmes, Ft. Atkinson, butter. 
J. H. Paul, Genesee, American Merino Ram, 1 year old; also, 2-years 
old and three yearling ewes — three awards. 
P. Humbert, Caldwells Prairie, three yearling ewes. 
Geo. Lawrence, Jr., Waukesha, merino sheep. 
There may have been other awards that have not been obtained. 
ADDRESS. 
BY HON. E. E. CHAPIN. 
Delivered at the Fond du Lac County Fair, September 28, 1876. 
Afr. President^ Ladies and Gentlemen : Agricultural and Me¬ 
chanical Societies — County, District and State Fairs, for the ex¬ 
hibition of produce, live stock, farm machinery, manufactured 
goods, wares and merchandise for competition and premiums are 
not aged institutions. 
A quarter of a century ago, not one in a thousand would have 
believed that the golden harvest would bow to xAmerican inventive 
genius—would fall before the triumphant march of farm machinery. 
One-half a century ago not one in a thousand would have believed 
that the vast carrying system by steam and rail, or news by light¬ 
ning, would be a grand success in this our day. A century ago 
science in agriculture was unknown. But tilling the ground, 
keeping of sheep and herds, is old as the garden and fields of Eden. 
ANCIENT FAmrERS. 
Adam and Eve were happy while they subsisted upon the spon¬ 
taneous, unforbidden fruit which grew and ripened within their 
reach. But they and those who followed became miserable and 
unhappy because of the famous general order No. 1 — “ work,” 
“ sweat,” “ eat.” Adam was driven forth from the garden to the 
field, to till the ground, to work without hoe, ax, hammer or tool of 
iron; and Eve to make bread without yeast, and biscuit without 
