REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
To His Excellency , Alexander W. Randall, 
Governor of the State of Wisconsin: 
Sir: — By an interesting coincidence, this, the tenth year of 
the organization of the State Agricultural Society, at the same 
time terminates the first full calendar decade of our history as a 
State, and a most important and memorable decade in the 
history of the Republic. 
The Executive Committee have thought it proper, therefore, 
that the Report herewith presented should embrace, in addi¬ 
tion to the usual proceediags of the Society and other matter 
required by law, a concise review of the natural resources of 
the State, and of the industrial operations within that period, 
together with a general statement of its present industrial 
condition and wants. 
Reviews and reckonings of this sort are as important to the 
State as are the ordinary daily and annual posting of accounts 
to the individual merchant or farmer. It is a source of regret 
to the Committee, however, that notwithstanding the most vig¬ 
orous and persistent efforts have been used to secure full and 
reliable data, they are compelled, after all, to make a report 
which can justly claim to be nothing more than a partial show¬ 
ing of what it ought to present in completeness. It is hoped 
that at no distant day the Society, with the aid of the State, 
will be able to commence and carry forward a systematic agri¬ 
cultural survey of the State, which wfill provide full information 
on those important points in which our present knowledge is 
necessarily deficient. It is also hoped that measures will be 
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