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STATE AGKICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
ists either a board of agriculture or a state agricultural so¬ 
ciety, sustained, in part, by appropriations from the public 
treasury; and in no one of them, except Wisconsin, has'it 
been deemed the dictate of wisdom, in these times when noth¬ 
ing appears more likely to insure the success of the national 
cause than the superior resources of the Northern States, to 
curtail the usefulness of its chief agricultural organization by 
an entire withdrawal of the aid it has been customary to afford 
in times when the efforts of that organization were less impera¬ 
tively demanded than now. 
It is not the intention of the Executive Committee to claim 
that the State Agricultural Society is the only agency by 
which this State may efficiently supervise its industrial re¬ 
sources, but they do respectfully urge that no state govern¬ 
ment may wisely omit, by means of some central and compe¬ 
tent agency, directly and uninterruptedly to exercise such su¬ 
pervision. 
THE world’s industrial EXHIBITION. 
During the spring and snmmer months, it was the privilege 
of the undersigned, in the two-fold capacity of Delegate from 
the State Agricultural Society and State Commissioner, to at¬ 
tend the third of what bids fair to be a continued series of in¬ 
ternational exhibitions of industry and art—the first having 
been held at London in 1851, the second at Paris in 1855, the 
third, and last, also at London. What the county exhibition 
is to the county, and our annual exhibitions are to the State, 
that same are these national exhibitions to all the world—with 
this advantage in their favor, namely, that, owing to the remote¬ 
ness of the the nations from each other and the differences of 
language, customs and laws, the nations have less facility for 
learning from each other, except through extraordinary means, 
such as these grand industrial reunions, than have the individ¬ 
uals which compose a county, or the counties which constitute 
a state. 
The Exhibition of 1862 has proven an unparalleled success, 
having brought together a greatly increased number of nations, 
