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PREFACE. 
After much delay, entirely unavoidable on our part, we are at 
length enabled to issue the Sixth Volume of the Transactions 
of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
A glance at the Table of Contents will show, that although it 
does not differ in its general objects from the volumes hereto¬ 
fore published, it has, however, at the same time, a special ob¬ 
ject, to wit: the better information of our own people as well as 
the citizens of other States and of foreign countries upon the 
subject of our industrial capacity, condition and progress as a 
State. 
To this end great pains have been taken to collect the im¬ 
portant facts embodied in the Report of the Executive Com¬ 
mittee and to insure the greatest possible accuracy in their 
statement. If, therefore, injustice has been done in that Report 
to any portion of the State, or to any of its diverse industrial 
interests, it should be attributed solely to the lack of the means 
of correct information, which at this early date in the history 
and progress of the commonwealth, could hardly be expected 
to be, in all respects, full and complete. It is nevertheless be¬ 
lieved that, while the exhibit therein made is eminently credit¬ 
able to the State, ■whether considered as to its wealth of 
