OPENING ADDRESS. 
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Your reports will be one of the most interesting features of the 
Fair, and nothing will be listened to with so much interest as 
the reading of them. We believe you appreciate this, and we 
have the utmost confidence, that your part of the programme 
will be performed with discrimination, ability and faithfulness, 
and that whatever conclusions you arrive at will be the honest 
convictions of your judgment. 
Without further remark, we now declare the Fair of the 
Wisconsin State Agricultural Society of 1858, duly opened. 
Officers will repair to their several duties, and the people to the 
enjoyment of the occasion. 
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