EXHIBITION OF 1871. 
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Tlie number attendant upon the grounds yesterday during the entire day 
lias been estimated, by good judges, to be at least 25,000 people. Every 
quarter of this state, and many foreign states were well represented. 
Although the number visiting the grounds has been very large, the 
utmost good order and feeling has prevailed. 
The weather has been a trifle cold, but as no rain has fallen the exhibi¬ 
tion has not had any »erious drawbacks. The presence of so many people 
and vehicles has powdered the driving tracks so that their vicinity is thick 
with a driving white cloud of fine dust, very disagreeable to the throat and 
lungs. Like the Valley of Humiliation it is very depressing to pass through, 
but then when you are through on the other side, you forget it, until you 
are called upon again to suffer. 
Thursday was a pleasanter day than either of the preceding. 
The clouds broke away during the forenoon, and the sun ap¬ 
peared with cheering effect. Visitors came in large numbers j 
the attendance in the middle of the day being estimated at 
between fifteen and twenty thousand. 
Several distinguished guests appeared upon the grounds, 
among them ex-Governor Frederick, of New Hampshire, for¬ 
merly treasurer of the IJ. S. Agricultural Society, and one of 
the soundest practical men of the country. The governor and 
his friends were on a visit to the Soldiers’ Home at Milwaukee, 
of which he is one of the directors, and was unable to remain 
and address the people of Wisconsin, as he had often been in¬ 
vited to in previous -years; but they nevertheless made the 
round of the stock departments, and at the conclusion, the 
governor did say this much to the few listeners gathered about 
his carriage, namely, that “ this was one of the finest exhibi¬ 
tions of cattle and swine that he had seen anvwhere, either in 
this country or in Europe.” 
In the evening of Thursday, the annual election of officers 
was held, of which an account will be found under the appro¬ 
priate heading. 
Friday, being the last day of the exhibition, is never so 
largely attended as either Wednesday or Thursday. The 
weather was favorable and the programme interesting. Nev¬ 
ertheless the attendance was light. The sunshine was three 
days behind time. 
