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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
fourthly, a uniform course of legislation calculated to secure 
and firmly establish the confidence of the commercial world in 
the integrity and honor of our people. 
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 
This want is primary and universal. It is referred to last, 
therefore, only because it sustains a remedial relation to the 
above and to all other material wants of the State. If in a 
general and comprehensive sense, knowledge is power, by how 
much more must it be true of that special knowledge which 
directly acquaints the man of industry with the principles in¬ 
volved in his pursuit and also with the actual results of the 
most skillful practice of those best informed. The recent rapid 
development of the sciences and their constantly increasing 
applications to the practical affairs of life have rendered their 
study, not only in the college and high school, but also in the 
common district school and by the laboring man at his fire-side, 
a practical necessity. It is hoped that at no distant day this 
State will be provided with at least one thorough scientific and 
practical school, which may serve as a fountain-head for the 
better information of all the teachers of our schools and all 
the working classes of the people, in relation to the every-day 
duties of life. Until then everything should be done that can 
be, through the medium of plain, simple and elementary books 
in the schools, and of a large proportion of popular scientific 
works in all our public and private libraries, as well as by means 
of popular lectures and the organization of clubs or associations 
in every section and neighborhood of the State. 
When all these things shall have been accomplished, the 
faults and defects of our industry will be less palpable and se¬ 
rious than now, and Wisconsin will early take her legitimate 
industrial rank among the foremost of the American States. 
J. W. IIOYT, Secretary. 
