382 Wisconsin State agricultural Society. 
THE OBJECTS SOUGHT TO BE ATTAINED BY YOUR ANNUAL FAIR. 
A fair, honest competition in the display of the products from 
your farms and gardens, from turf and field, from hearth and home, 
from store and shop, from brain and muscle; not ior dollars in pre~ 
7niU77is^ but for the growth and prosperity of the different branches 
of industry within your midst; for the benefit of agriculture, the 
mechanic arts, manufactures, trade and commerce. Remember that 
annual fairs bring all classes together for a common purpose, for 
friendly intercourse and relations which beget mutual respect and 
intelligent co-operation. Remember they bring relaxation from 
toil and recreation of our hard-working men and women, and give 
them an opportunity for enjoyment and instruction. Remember 
they bring reforms in agriculture, in raising stock, in growing pro¬ 
duce for man and beast, in making butter, in manufacturing cheese, 
in the improvement of farm machinery, in easing the labor of life, 
in stimulating the inventor, the mechanic, the manufacturer to 
greater effort. Remember they bring models of excellence from 
nearly every branch of industry to awaken enterprise and energy in 
the slow-going, less informed farmer and mechanic, and to stimu¬ 
late the fast-going, the advanced, to higher achievements. With 
these remembrances uppermost, the success and perpetuity of the 
Fond du Lac County Agricultural and Mechanical Society is assured, 
and your fairs will be held from year to year for ages and ages to 
come with undiminished zeal. 
WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE FOR FARMERS? 
BY B. S. HOXIE, COOKSVILLE. 
In our day we have much talk about science. Science of gov¬ 
ernment, of commerce, of astronomy, of botany, geology, miiieral- 
ogy, philosophy and chemistry. Go where we may, or in whatever 
direction we may turn, in the realm of space or ocean depths, to 
the highest mountain or lowest cavern, an unvarying law governs 
all; and the scientific explorer in either or any path of nature digs 
and delves with thought and fact to analyze a system which may be 
demonstrated, and then he calls it the science of-. 
