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Wisconsin state agricultural society. 
and joyful. .At 12 o’clock M., Dr. J. H. Twombly, President of 
the University of Wisconsin, delivered the annual address. 
Brief addresses were also made by His Excellency C. C. Wash¬ 
burn, and Geo. E. Morrow of the Western Farmer. These ad¬ 
dresses were listened to by an intelligent assembly, and by a 
much larger number of people than is usual on such occasions. 
They may be found in this volume under the head of “Annual 
Addresses,” and are worthy of careful reading. 
The number of persons in attendance during the afternoon was 
probably larger than ever before assembled together upon a fair 
ground in Wisconsin, many estimating the vast assemblage at 
thirty thousand. The number would have been largely increased 
had the weather on Wednesday been favorable, as thousands who 
from advices received, had their plans all made to be present on 
Thursday, as the mayor had designated this as the big day , were 
detained at home by the threatening and forbidding aspect of the 
weather. 
Friday, the last day of the fair, is usually a lean day in attend¬ 
ance, but this was an exception to the rule. Many of the more 
important races had been postponed until this day, owing to the 
track not being in the best condition the day previous, which 
drew quite a large crowd, largely from the city, and made the day 
one of the most entertaining and attractive of the week. 
The exposition was a decided success. While the receipts 
were not as large as at some of the exhibitions of the society— 
although much larger than in 1872—yet the executive committee 
believe that in no year since the organization of the society, has 
there been so good a display of animals and articles as at this ex¬ 
hibition of 1873, and that the exhibits are of that superior class 
which show a marked improvement in stock, farm machinery and 
implements, heavy machinery, cereals, fruits, flowers and works 
of art, over the exhibition of any former year. 
This is, of course, gratifying to the committee, and they can 
but feel that it is in part due to their indefatigable exertions for a 
series of years, that these marked and beneficial improvements 
have been wrought, and that their great annual industrial gather¬ 
ings of the people under the auspices of this society have been a 
