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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
resources or its industrial enterprise, it is likewise, in all im¬ 
portant regards, worthy of the public confidence, as a scientific, 
historic and practical record. 
The Map included in this volum ewas prepared by the author 
for the express purpose of illustrating the Report. It presents, 
at a glance, the results of extensive personal observation and 
investigation in nearly all portions of the State, the communi¬ 
cated results of the observations of reliable persons resident 
in many of the localities illustrated, and of numerous scientific 
gentlemen who have, at various periods, been directly or indi¬ 
rectly engaged in geological surveys of Wisconsin. Messrs. 
I. A. Lapham and T. J. Hale and Professors Jas. Hall, E. 
Daniels and J. D. Whitney, are especially entitled to our ac¬ 
knowledgments. In the location of the meteorological lines, 
we have relied chiefly upon the authority of the Army Meteoro¬ 
logical Register, of the observations more recently taken by 
citizens of the State under the direction of the Smithsonian 
Institute, and of the valuable works of Dr. Forry and Lorin 
Blodgett on the Climate of the United States. 
The series of papers on the Industry of Counties are in har¬ 
mony with the plan of the general Report and will be found to 
contain matter of much local interest and importance. It is a 
source of regret that all the counties are not therein represented; 
but inasmuch as vigorous effort was made, both by private cor¬ 
respondence and public notices, to secure such reports from 
every county in the State, the non-appearance in this volume 
of the several counties not so reported is entirely chargeable 
to their own neglect. It fortunately happens, however, that 
the portions of the State which are represented, are so widely 
and well distributed that, taken together, they may be regarded 
as fairly representative of the whole State. 
