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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
It is also an occasion of regret to the editor, that cir¬ 
cumstances have seemed to require so rapid an execution 
of the work—much of the material having been collected 
and prepared, and the whole volume crowded through 
the press within the period of thirty-five days—that he 
can hardly hope to find it free from some annoying typo¬ 
graphical errors, and many of a less important character. 
He has the consciousness, however, of having faithfully 
and unremittingly devoted himself to the work, and would, 
therefore, bespeak a generous leniency of judgment from 
those most directly interested, as also from the critical 
and professional reader. It is the intention of the pres¬ 
ent Board to re-establish the policy of publishing the 
Transactions of the Society annually , and thus the above- 
mentioned difficulties will no longer lie in the way of 
making the publication worthy, in every respect, of the 
cause it represents. 
The order of subjects adopted—with one or two ex¬ 
ceptions, arising from the haste of compilation—is such 
as appeared logical and convenient. The Transactions 
proper are chronologically arranged, so as to present a 
connected history of the Society for the period for which 
they are published. 
The reports of Awarding Committees have, many of 
them, been gathered up from scattering remarks in the 
class books used at the Fairs, and if any of them shall 
be found to bear a shade of meaning which the Judges 
would not have sanctioned, we hope they will be pro¬ 
voked to the making of such a report, when again it shall 
become their duty, as may be published without editorial 
modification. Mere bald statements of awards of pre¬ 
miums, unaccompanied by reasons therefor, are alike 
