280 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Specimens of Crude Gypsum, Calcined Plaster, and Land 
Plaster, exhibited by Mr. Hovey, of Ilovey & Co., Grand 
Rapids, Michigan,—good for buildings, for stucco finish, and 
for ornaments ; but above and before all, it is valuable, essen¬ 
tial, to farmers everywhere ; and we earnestly recommend it 
to them as a fertilizer that will vastly more than remunerate 
them for the expense of purchase and application. Mr. Hovey 
has made arrangements to supply the Wisconsin demand for 
this valuable article, and farmers will henceforth be enabled to 
buy it at reasonable rates at almost any of the railroad stations 
in the State, 
The Iron Upsetting Machine, by E. J. Dodge, is an admira¬ 
ble and useful contrivance. 
Hoyt’s Patent Self-Supplying Marking Brush, exhibited by 
G. Hatch—a simple and convenient thing—entitled to notice. 
The Mole Drainer, exhibited by E. W. Skinner, performs 
its work well and meets a great want in our State in an ad¬ 
mirable way. 
J. M. Stebbins’ Wagon Spokes are of excellent workman¬ 
ship and superior timber; and inasmuch as they are, in every 
respect, a home production , we regard them as an article of 
especial interest to the wagon makers of Wisconsin. 
In connection with the entry of spokes, Mr. S. submitted 
the following communication, which the Society may do well to 
publish with this report : 
Wisconsin State Fair Grounds, 
Milwaukee, Sept. 29, 1S59. 
The attention of the officers of the State Agricultural Society, is called to 
the fact, that thousands of dollars are annually sent out of the State for the 
purchase of Wagons and Wood-Work for same, owing to the impression that our 
State does not afford a suitable article of timber for such purposes. 
It is acknowledged by those who have examined the timber in Northern 
Wisconsin, from which the work of the Great Western Hub and Spoke Factory 
is selected, that it is far superior to much of the material used for Wagon 
Work at the East. 
These facts, it is desirable, should be laid before the public, not more for my 
own benefit than for the credit of the State and the benefit of her citizens. 
J. M. STEBBINS, Proprietor. 
Other articles may have been deserving of notice, but none 
others occur to us as being especially so, and, we cannot refer 
