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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
RECENT STATE LEGISLATION IN THE INTEREST OF INDUSTRY. 
There is but little to record under this head beyond what 
was mentioned in our last report, except the passage of a new 
law by the present legislature “to protect and encourage the 
raising of sheep, and discourage the raising of dogs,” and the 
adoption of amendments to the general u act for the formation 
and protection of county agricultural societies,” and the law of 
1868, entitled “ an act to encourage the planting and growing 
of trees, and for the protection thereof” 
We note with pleasure the growing appreciation of the 
industrial interests of the state, and a disposition on the part 
of the legislature to give such encouragement to them as seems 
necessary to their advancement. 
IMMIGRATION 
Has taken a step forward. Wisconsin has slept upon her 
oars quite too long, and it is well that more adequate provision 
has at last been made for insuring to us our full share of the 
old world’s population coming in such multitudes to the 
American shores. 
Our natural advantages, as a state, of themselves attract 
large numbers of immigrants; but when the competition is so 
general, and in several of the neighboring states so active, it is 
highly important that the most systematic and efficient meas¬ 
ures should be used. The state has done well therefore to 
create the office of commissioner of immigration, whose whole 
time and energies, with such assistance as he may require, shall 
be given to the work, first of interesting immigrants in this 
portion of the country, and, secondly, of providing them with 
such information and direction on their arrival as will help 
them in securing desirable and permanent homes among us. 
Such service intelligently and faithfully rendered cannot fail of 
important results. 
