130 Wisconsin state agricultural society. 
C. A. Buttles, Milwaukee, was on hand as usual with a splendid 
display of everything in his line, among the most attractive of 
which was his ornamental iron work. 
Otto Zweitusch, Milwaukee, contributed largely to the beauty 
of the exhibition by setting up at considerable expense a splen¬ 
did marble fountain, with the draft apparatus lor mineral waters 
of every variety, and a beer preserver, all of which attracted a 
great deal of attention. 
No branch of industry attracts more attention than carriages, 
and the manufacturers are always on hand in force with a display 
which cannot be excelled anywhere. 
Too much credit cannot be awarded to the furniture firms of 
Milwaukee, for their efforts to make our fairs attractive; they 
have been always on hand with the most elegant and costly fur¬ 
niture and cabinet ware to be found anywhere. 
Messrs. Gunther & Hanson exhibited an elegant display of furs 
of all kinds, worthy of special mention. 
In manufactures the display was good, and I regret that the 
bad weather operated unfavorably. 
Two years of good weather would place us in a position that 
would enable the society to offer greater inducements to manu¬ 
facturers and producers to exhibit at these annual fairs. 
FINE ARTS. 
BY J. O. EATON, SUPERINTENDENT. 
As superintendenl of the Fine Arts Department, I have but little 
to report. 
It is expected that the citizens of the place where the fair is 
held will give tone to this department by freely and generously 
contributing from their parlors. 
Some sore head, each year the fair has been held in Milwaukee, 
has growled because no better exhibition was made in this depart¬ 
ment. This year, as recommended in my last report, this depart¬ 
ment was left entirely to the enterprise of Milwaukeans, and they 
freely and generously contributed, one oil painting and three chro- 
