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that stringent laws should be enacted and then enforced, and that 
dogs were a nuisance generally. 
Mr. Fox favored a law taxing dogs and providing for keeping 
them muzzled. 
A vote was taken and the resolutions were defeated. 
Adjourned to 7 1-2 P. M. 
Evening Session. 
Convention met in the Assemblv Chamber at 7 1-2 P. M. 
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Secretary Field in the chair. 
Address upon Production and Consumption, Transportation, 
Population and Taxation, by S. D. Carpenter, of Madison. 
This interesting and valuable address, full of facts, statistics 
and arguments, the preparation of which occupied much time 
and great research, giving elaborate tables of the relative cost of 
carrying freight by water and by rail, may be found under the 
head of “Appendix A,” in this volume, and will be found replete 
with information touching these important subjects. 
Adjoured to 9 A. M., Friday. 
Friday, 9 A. M, 
Convention met. Secretary Field in the chair. 
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE IN FARMING. 
BY J. m! smith, green bay, 
President Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Asoociation. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen oj the Convention :—Many years 
since, my now aged father, made his first trip west. At that time 
all the country west of Ohio was a vast territory, or wilderness, or 
both. Just fifty years later he made another western journey and 
visited me at my home in Green Bay. One day while conversing 
with him about the vast improvements in the west, I said to him 
what would you have thought if some one had said to you fifty 
years ago when you were traveling on foot about the country 
where Chicago now stands, that you .would live to see the day 
