EXHIBITION OF 1867. 
[From the Secretary’s Record.] 
The Exhibition of 1867, just closed, in the main was a great success. In the 
estimation of many disinterested persons, it exceeded all previous 
exhibitions of the Society, in the number and variety of the exhibits as well 
as in the interest manifested by the attendance. The grounds—which, for 
natural beanty and admirable adaptation, are unsurpassed by any that we have 
ever seen in any part of the world—were comfortably fitted up and satisfac¬ 
torily accommodated the several departments. The B shaped mile track for 
trials of speed was in perfect condition and gave universal satisfaction. 
The Department of Field and Garden Products, though not as meagre as 
last year, was much inferior to what it ought to have been—especially in 
view of the very considerable increase of premiums. For once, we would like 
to see Agricultural Hall well crowded with samples of the cereal crops, grass¬ 
es and other products of this sort, together with a creditable show of the 
products of the dairy, apiary and household ; though we begin to despair of ^ 
a realization of such hopes. Next year, we must double, or treble the prem¬ 
iums in this whole department and see whether that will effect anything. 
The farmers of the county where the exhibition is held should feel themselves 
disgraced by their neglect of it. A few bags of grain, two or three samples 
of clover and timothy, as many pecks of potatoes, a wheel-barrow load of car¬ 
rots, turnips, beets and onions, and a half dozen crocks of butter and a shelf 
of cheeses—may be considered a pretty fair summing up of this department. 
The Horticultural Department was a beautiful and verv extensive repre¬ 
sentation of the orchards of the State. We doubt if abetter exhibition of 
fruits plants and fiowers was ever made at any state fair in the United States 
The large hall, supposed to afford ample room, ran over early on Thursday, 
and the vacant places in Agricultural Hall, even to the extent of one entire 
half of its capacity, were made attractive by a supplementary display of as 
handsome a collection of fruits as ever delighted the eye of Pomona. The 
fruit growers of Wisconsin are eminently deserving of the thanks of the 
people for the enthusiasm and persistency of effort with whicFthey have, from 
year to year, contended with the adversities of climate. 
The exhibition of horses was a very valuable and attractive one, present- 
ng for the inspection of lovers of this noblest of the lower animals, many of 
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