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this, but of all other branches of Wisconsin industry, by striv¬ 
ing to secure, at the earliest day practicable, such public internal 
improvements as will open up our resources to the world by 
an increase of means of the transportation of both raw and 
manufactured material. 
The State Agricultural Society has enjoyed another year of 
prosperity, and has been enabled to adopt measures for increas. 
ing its usefulness by large additions to the prizes offered in some 
of the more important departments of industry, as well as by 
the publication of the 7th volume of Transactions, of which 
this report and the proceedings of this year are designed to 
constitute a part. The Secretary has also carried into partial 
execution certain plans, long cherished, for creating, in the 
Agricultural Eooms, a cabinet of economical materials, both 
native and foreign, that shall illustrate the resources of our 
own State and their relations to those of other countries. 
The Exhibition of 1868 was one of the best hitherto held by 
the Society, and the attendance quite as large, although the 
receipts were considerably less, owing to circumstances inde¬ 
pendent of the Exhibition itself. Nevertheless, the finances 
are in a healthy condition, as will appear by the Treasurer’s 
Eeport, herewith submitted, and the officers of the Society are 
more than ever hopeful of opening to it a new career of pros¬ 
perity more satisfactory than that hitherto enjoyed. 
Respectfully, 
J. W. HOYT, Secretary. 
State Agricultural Rooms, Jan. 1, 1869. 
[For Treasurer’s Report see last page of Transactions for 1868.] 
