2 io Wisconsin state agricultural society. 
distribution of reports of geological surveys, always prove benefi¬ 
cial by calling public attention in an official and reliable manner, 
to the resources and advantages of the district surveyed, for the 
agricultural, manafacturing and other interests. 
The next paper was by Hon. C. K. Dean, upon “ The best 
means to secure the legitimate ends of the Wisconsin State Agri¬ 
cultural Society.” 
The ideas advanced were, that the society had too broad a field 
to make their labors effectual; that it should be confined to more 
definite and practical points. That the annual fairs should be 
held at the state capital, and that grounds and buildings be pro¬ 
vided by the city of Madison. He repudiated horse racing at 
fairs to the exclusion of more legitimate and profitable purposes, 
and to the schemes of chance and other games of immoral ten¬ 
dencies that were annually admitted to their grounds. Said that 
the state had an agricultural department connected with the Uni¬ 
versity of Wisconsin, an experimental farm, and that these in¬ 
terests should be turned over to the State Agricultural Society, 
that they might be quickened into new life and made of value to 
the great producing classes; that the society should issue a week¬ 
ly or monthly paper, to be edited by the best minds in the coun¬ 
try, men of education and high attainments in the science and 
practice of agriculture, and be circulated throughout the state. 
He pointed out some of the advantages which he thought would 
be realized to the industrial interests if this was done. 
Ux-President Hinkley said that this paper evidently had been 
written by a gentleman who knew but little of the work performed 
by this society, and less of practical value relative to the work to 
be done, to secure good and profitable results to the people. Some 
of the suggestions made were well enough if they could be re¬ 
duced to practice, but you cannot force each farmer in the state to 
subscribe for a weekly or monthly agricultural paper, if such an 
one should be published by the society. This was a private en¬ 
terprise, and could be conducted far better by those who made it 
a special work than by a state society. 
