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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
ing industrial associations and institutions of this country, 
seemed to warrant a partial substitution therefor of extracts 
from such of said reports as were of direct interest to the in¬ 
dustrial public of our own state. Many of the exposition re¬ 
ports referred to were prepared, without regard to trouble or 
expense, by the ablest men the government could employ— 
men who are everywhere recognized as authority on the sub¬ 
jects discussed and yet, owing to the fact that they are chiefly 
for distribution to public libraries in this and foreign countries, 
it is only by republication in this manner that they can be 
made available to the great reading public. 
The other miscellaneous papers embraced are also from wri¬ 
ters of acknowledged merit and will be highly esteemed. 
The report of the State Horticultural Society appears to us 
to contain more matter of real interest and permanent value 
than any of the several reports heretofore published. All in 
all, it makes a showing of which the fruit-growers of the state 
may be justly proud. 
J. W. HOYT. 
State Agricultural Rooms, 
Madison, June, 1870. * 
