PREFACE. 
D 
The tabular abstract of the returns of County Agricultural 
Societies presents, in a condensed form, the more important 
facts connected with each. The scope of the entire work and 
its limitations as to space forbade the publication of a fuller 
abstract, in accordance with the usage in previous volumes. 
Under the head of Essays, Addresses, Communications, &c., 
the amount of matter is necessarily less than was at first 
intended. It is believed, however, that the papers of this class 
are especially valuable, and that they will commend themselves 
to all readers interested in the subjects of which they severally 
treat. 
Mr. Hale’s “Additions to the Flora of Wisconsin,” commenced 
in the fifth and designed to be continued in successive volumes 
of the Transactions, are possessed of a high scientific value 
and reflect much credit upon their enterprising and industrious 
author. 
* • • • • • • • • ' V » . » . . T, 
The Report of the Fruit Growers’ Association, being an im¬ 
portant collection of carefully formed opinions and the sifted 
results of years of practical experience, will undoubtedly receive 
that careful consideration to which it is so justly entitled. 
Should there prove to be a considerable number of unimport¬ 
ant typographical errors in this volume, we ask the reader, and 
especially the authors of the several papers in which they may 
be found, to bear in mind, that the irregularity of the work of 
printing, together with the serious illness of the Editor, while 
portions of the work were going through the press, have ren¬ 
dered impracticable that careful inspection of proof, in all cases, 
which it would otherwise have received. 
J. W. IIOYT. 
State Agricultural Rooms, February, 1862. 
