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STATE AGEICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
tion temporarily withdrawn by the Legislature of 1861. Stilly 
in view of other demands that must be made upon the present 
Legislature in the interest of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts, the Executive Committee do not feel warranted in asking 
for such reinstatement of the former appropriation, at present. 
The need the Society has for more secure and commodious 
rooms for its office than those now occupied, or which it is pos¬ 
sible for it to procure, together with the fact that the new Cap¬ 
itol is not wholly occupied by the departments, has given rise 
to the suggestion that rooms therein might be assigned for its 
use, without detriment to the State and with great advantage 
to the Society. 
It is also highly important that provision be made without 
^ further delay for the regular publication of the Society’s Trans¬ 
actions. No institution or organization can continue to flour¬ 
ish or make itself largely useful to the State without some 
proper medium of communication with the public; and but for 
the war j ust closed—which, however, does not furnish a suffi¬ 
cient reason—it would be difficult to explain the ground on 
which the Legislature of this great and growing commonwealth 
should have neglected, for several successive years, to make 
provision for the annual publication of the reports of the only 
institution within its limits devoted exclusively to the import¬ 
ant work of advancing the State in material wealth and power. 
If examples be demanded they are not only presented by all 
the more enterprising States on every hand, but even by the 
former more wise and liberal practice of our own State. 
The six volumes already issued by this Society compare fa¬ 
vorably with the best of those annually sent out by the other 
State Societies of the country; and besides doing much good 
at home, they have added to the credit of both State and So¬ 
ciety abroad, and secured exchanges with many of the most 
noted and useful industrial and scientific organizations in both 
the new and the old world. 
It is confidently believed that the Legislature of Wisconsin, 
when fully aware of the many reasons which support these 
views of the Society, will inaugurate a more liberal policy in 
