THE GEITERAL EXHIBITION. 
As hetofore, for many years, the annual exhibition of the 
society was held in connection with, and as a part of the ex¬ 
hibition of the state agricultural society. The display in all 
departments was a very fine one, doing great credit to indi¬ 
vidual exhibitors, to the competing localities, and to the state 
at large. 
As some account of it, and the full list of premiums awarded, 
have already been given by the secretary of the state agricul¬ 
tural society in the volume of whicf! this report constitutes a 
part, it is not deemed advisable to occupy space with any fur- 
ther report of it here. 
The annual address was delivered on Thursday evening of 
fair week, in the assembly chamber, to a large and apprecia¬ 
tive audience, by Dr. John A. Warder of Ohio. For the fol¬ 
lowing report of this address we are indebted to the Western 
Farmer : 
ADDRESS OP DR. JOHN A. WARDER, 
ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE. 
And this is Wisconsin !—the land of the winds. But a few 
years agone, in my primary geographical studies, it was a por¬ 
tion of tliat terra incognita^ the so-called northwestern territory, 
with here and there a small military post and between them 
vast plains, partially occupied by the wild game and the wan¬ 
dering tribes of the aborigines ; now it is the happy home of a 
great people, amounting to a million of souls, who have made 
themselves famous by the arts of peace, with their abundant 
productions, as, in our common country’s struggle, they also 
did in the field of battle, fighting bravely for the right in the 
great cause of human liberty and progress. 
The reasons for your greatness were explained by my elo¬ 
quent friend, who told you last night that the best men of their 
and had emigrated from the east, to populate the growing but 
