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eluding steam engines, separators, horse-hoes, &c., better than at any 
previous late exhibition. There was also a fine exhibition of implements 
proper. 
The Manufacturers’ Tent was well filled with articles properly shown there 
and was made additionally lively by the click of numerous sewing machines 
and the clank and rattle of hand-looms and spinning jennies. 
Fine Arts Hall, having been materially relieved from the pressure which 
characterized it last year by the erection of a separate building for musical 
instruments, gave more satisfaction than last year. Handsome embroideries, 
paintings, lithographs, photographs, specimens of penmanship, &c., &c., 
abounded on every hand, though, with a little crowding, a still larger dis¬ 
play might have been made. 
Music Hall was handsomely filled with some of the very finest instruments 
ever put on exhibition. 
The election of officers took place, according to announcement, in the 
Court Room on the evening of the 2Yth, and was the most spirited affair of 
the kind of which we have had personal knowledge since our connection 
with the Society. [See report under head of Proceedings.] 
The meetings of the State Horticultural Society and the Wisconsin Wool 
Growers’ Association, held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings 
of Fair week, were well attended and highly interesting and profitable to all 
who participated. 
