ANNUAL KEPORT 
FOR THE YEAR 1862. 
His Excellency^ Edward Salomon, 
Governor of the State of Wisconsin: 
Sir: —Tlie Executive Committee of the Wisconsin State 
Agricultural Society, in submitting the Twelfth Annual State¬ 
ment of its fiscal affairs, would respectfully further report: 
That the past year has been even more trying to the industry 
of the State, and upon all associations and institutions organ¬ 
ized for its advancement, than the year preceding. 
AGRICULTURAL CONDITION AND PROGRESS. 
The wheat crop, which is, unhappily, almost the entire re¬ 
liance of a large proportion of our farmers, in some parts of the 
State has been a serious failure, owing to the combined causes 
of bad management, unfavorableness of weather at the most 
important period of the season, and a partial deficiency of 
working force by reason of the large number of farmers who 
have enlisted in the ranks of war. Moreover, the price of 
grain actually produced has scarcely been equal to a compen¬ 
sating rate for the most productive yield; while everything the 
farmer has been obliged to buy has cost him nearly twice as 
much as in former years. 
Two feasible remedies against a successive recurrence of like 
embarrassments suggest themselves, to wit: Increased facili¬ 
ties for getting the products of our agriculture to Eastern mar¬ 
kets, and certain material modifications of the present agricul¬ 
tural practice. 
The first of these remedies is the more palpable, and has al- 
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