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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
ity increased, in the aggregate, more than fifty per cent, are 
crowded, as yon will see, with a display of the products of the 
field, the dairy, garden and household, the mechanics’ work¬ 
shop and the artist’s studio, that would do credit to any of the 
older states. Our enlarged accommodations for horses, cattle, 
sheep, swine and poultry are taxed to their utmost, and the 
good people of the state are preparing to show their apprecia¬ 
tion of the better provision we have made for their conven¬ 
ience and comfort by coming in multitudes that no man can 
number, to congratulate each other and the society on the ex¬ 
traordinary success of this its latest effort during a long career 
of unfailing and ever-increasing prosperity. 
For how much of this ground of our rejoicing we are in¬ 
debted to the liberality and enterprise of the good people of 
Milwaukee, and of those great corporations, the railway compa¬ 
nies, will appear from a glance at the greatly improved grounds, 
and by a test of the superior facilities afforded both people and 
products for reaching this chosen place of our annual gather¬ 
ing. How much the city and county of Milwaukee, and the 
state at large are benefitted, in turn, by these efforts of the so¬ 
ciety does not publicly appear, though it is no less certain and 
easily demonstrable. For if things do not happen in this 
world, but occur in accordance with fixed laws; if the move- 
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ments of the heavenly bodies, wonderful phenomena of the 
geological, vegetable and animal worlds; the rise, development 
and downfall of nations ; the growth and prosperity of states 
and lesser communities, and the substantial and permanent 
success of individual man; if all these are in harmony with 
the great theory of cause and effect; if the political institu¬ 
tions, the financial and commercial systems of a state or nation, 
and the daily business of the individual citizen can not be safely 
and successfully carried on without forethought and wise cal- 
lation, neither can the industry of a great people hope to yield 
the largest and best results without systematic and judicious 
direction, either from the government, or from some proper or¬ 
ganization planned and managed in the public interest. In this 
state, the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society has undertaken 
