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that, coming from sections of the country older in industrial 
experience than ours, and therefore likely to be superior to 
those produced by ourselves. If any other state, or any other 
country than the United States, could show better horses, cat¬ 
tle, sheep or swine, we wanted them to do it. Not only so, 
we wanted our farmers to buy them when they were brought, 
and so steadily improve their own stock by the infusion of 
better blood. 
Touching the matter of competition in the department of 
manufactures, Mr. Hoyt presented the informal protest of man¬ 
ufacturers of carriages and some other articles, against compell¬ 
ing them, in order to show at all, to compete with eastern 
manufacturers. But in doing so he took occasion to show that 
such protests were without proper ground; affirming, in the 
first place, that our carriage manufacturers, at least those of 
them who complained of this rule, had, of all men, the least 
occasion for fearing competition—that he had seen no better 
carriages, and no handsomer ones, in either style or finish, any 
where at the east, or even at the London or Paris exhibitions, 
than were made right here in Wisconsin. If, in the article of 
boots and shoes, they were accustomed to turn out a more fin¬ 
ished stock of common work, their work was inferior to ours 
in serviceableness, and there was no sufficient reason why our 
manufacturers could not also compete with them in style if 
they chose to try. 
Pin ally, it was unanimously voted that the time for limita¬ 
tions of this sort had passed—that Wisconsin was now cf age 
and needed no longer the advantage of odds against her neigh¬ 
bors. And so the rule was allowed to stand. 
Mr. Mitchell was of the opinion that the subject of entries 
should not be passed until some change had been made as to 
the kind of entry card used in the horse and cattle departments. 
He was opposed to rhe name of the exhibitor being known 
to the judges. Horses and cattle were stock in which breed¬ 
ers had large interests at stake; besides which, there was nothing 
else ever placed upon exhibition in regard to which there was 
naturally so much feeling, and hence so great danger of per- 
