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STATE AGRICULTUKAL SOCIETY, 
more liberal amount than §3,000 would be a paying invest' 
ment. 
It is a just ground for congratulation that the class of immi¬ 
grants who annually ‘choose Wisconsin as the place of their 
future abode are so largely from the most intelligent, industri¬ 
ous and enterprising of the working populations of the old 
world. . 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATIOJ^ IN’ -^VISCONSIN. 
But two years having elapsed since the organization of the 
agricultural department of the state university, and the total 
proceeds of the congressional grant upon which it was based 
not yet having reached §6,000, it were unreasonable to expect 
large results in the work of industrial education thus begun. 
The labors of the farm committee of the board of regents, 
of the president of the university, who has given much atten¬ 
tion to this department, and of Prof. Daniells, in immediate 
charge, have by no means been fruitless, however. 
At the date of organization, the farm recently purchased for 
experimental uses was nearly every foot of it in a state of 
nature, and such portions as were first demanded for improve¬ 
ment were incapable of cultivation without the expenditure 
of much labor in removing the great number of boulders im¬ 
bedded in the surface. There were no farm buildings of any 
kind on the premises; nor was there a team or an implement 
with which to commence operations. And as to facilities for 
instruction, the only laboratory was in an unfinished condi¬ 
tion ; while an industrial museum and a much needed agricul¬ 
tural library were yet to be begun. 
Fortunately for the improvement of the farm, the law of 
re-organization, which made provision for the purchase of the 
necessary lands, also included these words, “ and to improve 
the same.” Under this provision the board had a surplus of a 
few thousand dollars, after paying for the farm, to use in im¬ 
proving it. Employing this money, they have grubbed and 
debouldered a number of acres, erected a good farm barn and 
a dwelling for the foreman of the farm, and done something 
