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STATE AGRICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
make our sixteenth general exhibition the most satisfactory 
in its results of all that have ever been held. I thank }fOufor 
your devotion to its interests, and for the zeal with which you 
are ever ready to labor for the public good. I will not reite¬ 
rate my expressions of the anxiety felt by the executive 
board that all who are charged with special duties on this oc¬ 
casion should be mindful of the importance to the society and 
to the industry of the state of a prompt and faithful discharge 
of those duties. Nor will I attempt to urge upon the public 
in general the great advantage as well as pleasure that may be 
derived from a study of the exhibition here organized. A lit¬ 
tle reflection on the part of each will supply not only abundant 
suggestions but likewise every needed incentive. 
Grateful for the favorable auspices under which it has been 
inaugurated, I now proclaim the sixteenth annual exhibition 
of the Wisconsin state agricultural society open. 
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