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and those of Richland and Sheboygan counties are especially 
successful, doing much good in their several localities, and, by 
the experiments and reports of their'members, adding to the 
common stock of horticultural knowledge. 
THE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 
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In despite of the embarrassments which necessarily attend 
the inauguration of such a work as it purposes, and with very 
limited means, is still gaining ground. Until it is better 
(Quipped and supplied with a full corps of instructors, the 
public should be very moderate in their demands upon it. 
By favor of W. W. Daniells, B. S., Professor of Agriculture, 
etc., we are enabled to publish a pretty full report of the pres¬ 
ent condition, plans and needs of the department. 
THE WISCONSIN .ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS. 
The organization of this institution within the year, of which 
this report is the industrial record, the great importance of the 
work it has undertaken to perform, and the intimate relation, 
which by reason of the character of the work, it must sustain 
to the State Agricultural Society,—these circumstances are 
not only sufficient warrant for a notice of it in this connection, 
but also for including in its appropriate place a condensed 
summary of such of the Academy’s proceedings as shall be 
deemed of interest and value to the industrial public. 
The first thing done by an intelligent man who would set 
himself up in business is to make a reckoning of his resources. 
Should he know absolutely that they are vast, while the new 
demand to be made upon them will for a time be limited, he 
may defer a very close calculation for a time. But as his bus¬ 
iness enlarges and competition increases, he naturally desires 
to know definitely what he has, and to make all dormant capi¬ 
tal available. 
This is also the necessity oi the state. And the recognition 
of such necessity is what first originated geological and gen¬ 
eral scientific surveys of countries and individual states, whose 
