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PREFACE. 
The Fifth Volume of the Transactions of the Wisconsin 
State Agricultural Society is offered to the public in the 
belief, that it contains a large amount of valuable matter, 
and that it will be read with pleasure and profit by the 
friends of Industry, irrespective of class or profession. 
The objects kept in view, in its preparation, have been, 
first, to present as complete a record a's possible of the 
history of the industrial arts and scientific investigations 
in Wisconsin, for the period embraced within the years 
1858-9 ; secondly, to furnish the best practical infor¬ 
mation, available, on subjects of importance connected 
with Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Mechanic and 
Household Artsand thirdly, to stimulate all who are 
engaged in these pursuits to renewed and more earnest 
effort for their elevation and advancement. 
No little embarrassment has grown out of the neces¬ 
sity to incorporate the Transactions of two years in one 
volume—not only because absolute accuracy, in many 
particulars, is hardly possible after a considerable lapse 
of time, but likewise for the reason that the difficulty in 
properly arranging the contents of the work is thereby 
increased, and that a larger proportion of relatively un¬ 
important particulars must be embraced, to the exclusion 
of matter possessed of greater general interest. 
