OF 1865. 
EXHIBITION 
[From the Secretary’s Record.] 
After months of laborious preparation the Twelfth Annual Exhibition of 
the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society has come, and been numbered 
among the events of the past. 
The Grounds seem to have given universal satisfaction. The first effect of 
the exhibition proper would have been more impressive had the buildings, 
tents, and other structures been displayed within the track or on the oppo¬ 
site side of it, for, then, the whole of them would have met the eye of the 
visitor upon his first entrance within the enclosure. But the track having 
been already established on the farther side of the available grounds, it was 
impracticable to arrange the exhibition buildings beyond it, while the plac¬ 
ing them within the track would have so obstructed the view of the trials of 
speed as to have rendered this very interesting branch of the Exhibition 
much less satisfactory. The t rack itself was beautiful, and gave universal 
satisfaction. 
The entries were twice as numerous as last year, and in some departments 
more numerous than at any previous exhibition in this State. Number in 
“Division A,” Domestic Animals, 516; in “Division B,” Products of the 
Earth, 326; in “Division C,” Machinery, Manufactures and Works of Art, 
654; in “ Division D,” Farm Work and Equestrianship, 13; total, 1,609. 
The show in the Department of Horses was only just fair, in those of 
swine and cattle rather slim, but in all other departments excellent, and 
in some of them superb. 
The Wool Growers were there in full force, according to promise. In fact 
the show in this department was never equalled in Wisconsin. 
In the Poultry Department, the field was pretty much left to that King of 
stock exhibitors in Wisconsin, Simon Ruble, of Beloit, whose display of 
chickens of the most approved breeds, pea fowls, rare geese, ducks, &:c., was 
very fine and attractive. Mr. Ruble also had the credit of saving the swine 
department from being nowhere. His Yorkshires and Suffolks are fine ani¬ 
mals, worthy the attention of all farmers swinishly inclined. 
Field Products turned out as though a little afraid they might not be quite 
up to the mark. The committee of judges report that the samples were 
generally good, many of them excellent. Trempealeau County got in late— 
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