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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
when, but for such contract the society was sure to lose all 
further use of the said grounds, since the estate to which they be¬ 
longed had been put upon the market and was bound to be sold. 
As a detailed account of the transaction will be found in 
the official proceedings of the annual meeting, herewith pre¬ 
sented, do further statement need be made in this connection. 
The state fair of 1870 was a most decided success as an ex¬ 
hibition. No department was deficient, and some of them, es¬ 
pecially the departments of manufactures and fine arts far ex¬ 
celled anything of the past. The facilities for getting to and 
from the grounds gave excellent satisfaction, as did likewise 
the railroad facilities for getting to and from Milwaukee. The 
thousands who attended found comfortable accommodations in 
the city at fair prices, and good feeling and satisfaction seemed 
to prevail universally. 
Had the entries been reckoned as much in detail as is usual 
with many other societies, the number would have considera¬ 
bly exceeded three thousand ; as it was they reached two 
thousand and ninety-seven. 
The report of the treasurer, herewith submitted (and pub¬ 
lished under the head of “ proceedings r ) shows the total re¬ 
ceipts in money to have been $23,495.23 ; the expenditures, 
$9,717.77 ; the amount awarded in cash premiums, $5,378.05. 
Addresses eloquent and practical were delivered by the Hon¬ 
orable Horatio Seymour of New York, His Excellency Grov- 
ernor Austin of Minnesota, His Excellency Governor Fairchild, 
and Charles Seymour, Esq., editor of the La Crosse Republican. 
The number of life members added during the past year is 
108; making the present total number 672. And since 
each , member is entitled by the terms of the con¬ 
stitution, and very properly so, to a copy of the society’s Trans¬ 
actions, we are led in this connection to ask the attention of 
the state to the propriety of increasing the number of copies 
of this document annually published. 
The edition was fixed at 3,000 Twenty years ago, and has 
not been changed from that day to this, although the demand 
has of necessity greatly increased, both at home and abroad. 
