EXHIBITION OF 1871. 
The eighteenth annual exhibition of the society was held on 
the grounds at Milwaukee occupied in 1870. 
In fulfillment of their pledges, the citizens of that place, act¬ 
ing through Mayor Ludington, also treasurer of the society, 
had ordered and executed many improvements, including the 
grading and smoothing of carriage roads to and upon the 
grounds ; the better preparation of the track for trials of speed; 
the building of a large number of neat and uniform stalls for 
horses; the enlargement of accommodations for cattle; the 
multiplication of swine pens and chicken coops more than a 
hundred fold ; the enlargement of each of the exhibition halls 
by adding fifty feet to their length, and the laying of floors 
therein; the addition of a large and spacious shed for hand 
machinery to the rear of the power hall; the building of a new 
and substantial 8-feet board fence on the best part of two sides 
of the grounds; the construction of a fence entirely around 
the half-mile track ; the digging of new wells, etc., etc. 
The Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company had pro¬ 
moted the convenient delivery of stock, heavy machinery and 
passengers, by the construction of extended and substantial 
^platforms adjoining the gates of admission and the entry and 
ticket offices on the north side, and by the building of chutes 
through which animals of every class could be delivered from 
the cars directly upon the grounds. The same enterprising and 
accommodating company had also built two offices within the 
grounds and contiguous to the offices of the secretary and treas¬ 
urer—one for the accommodation of the division superintend¬ 
ent and the ticket agent, the other for the freight agent. The 
presence of these agents upon the grounds where they could 
