22 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
1. To make a faithful record of each meeting of the Execu¬ 
tive Committee, and keep such record in a condition for the 
convenient reference of any member thereof, at any time ; also 
to make a record of every order drawn on the Treasurer, and 
delivered to parties in whose favor they were so drawn—separ¬ 
ately entering and numbering the orders drawn to pay premiums 
and those to pay general expenses, and so defining them^-and of 
all moneys due the society ; in all cases holding the parties so 
indebted responsible therefor until they shall have presente'd to 
him a certificate from the Treasurer, showing that the same 
has been paid. 
2. To open and carry on such correspondence as may be 
advantageous to the Society or to the common cause of agricul¬ 
tural improvement, not only with individual agriculturists and 
eminent practical and scientific men of other industrial pursuits, 
but also with other societies or associations whose objects are 
kindred to olirs, whether in this country or foreign lands, and 
to preserve a journal of such correspondence in the archives of 
the Society. 
3. To collect and arrange for convenient examination stand¬ 
ard agricultural works and periodical publications, together 
with such models, machines and implements as may be donated 
to, or otherwise acquired by the Society. 
4. To investigate as far as practicable the nature of ferti¬ 
lizers, indigenous and cultivated plants, insects injurious to 
vegetation, &c., and to collect and preserve such specimens 
thereof as will illustrate the natural history and agricultural 
resources, condition, and progress of the State. 
5. 'To institute, and collect reports therefrom, needed ex¬ 
periments relative to the preparation of the various soils of the 
State for economical culture, the cultivation of different grains,' 
fruits, and garden vegetables, the breeding and raising of stock, 
&c., <fcc. 
6. To visit by the advice of the Executive Committee, or as 
his own judgment may direct, the various portions of the State, 
and to give lectures on the science and practice of agriculture, 
