COMMITTEE MEETINGS. 
97 
On motion, it was Resolved , That there should be erected a 
“Hall of Fine Arts,” 50x100 feet; a Ladies Hall, 20x36 feet; 
an Executive Office, 20x40 feet, with partitions for a Superin¬ 
tendent’s Office, and an Editorial Hall; an Operative Machin¬ 
ery Hall, 50x100 feet; 2,000 running feet of stalls for cattle 
and horses; 600 running feet of pens for swine and sheep ; 
and 50 running feet of coops for fowls: a Judge’s stand within 
the trotting course, together with such other structures as may 
be necessary to the convenience and comfort of the public. 
It was likewise Resolved , That the enclosure be eight feet 
high, and constructed of good cedar posts and upright boards. 
On motion, the Secretary was instructed to advertise for 
bids, and to let the contract for mechanical work to the lowest 
responsible bidder. 
The following preamble and resolutions were offered by the 
Secretary, and unanimously adopted : 
Whereas, That contagious and most destructive disease known as “ pleuro¬ 
pneumonia,” is now making fearful ravages among the cattle of New Eng¬ 
land; and , 
Whereas , There is great danger, unless every precaution shall he used to 
prevent its spread, that it may extend from State to State, until the whole 
country shall have been made to suflFer its devastations, therefore, 
Resolved , That it becomes the imperative duty of every State not yet inva¬ 
ded by said disease, and of all agricultural organizations therein, to discour¬ 
age, and, by all lawful means, strive to prevent the importation of every des¬ 
cription of neat-cattle, until satisfactory evidence shall have been furnished 
that it has been entirely extirpated from the country. 
Resolved, That, in pursuance of this conviction, we feel called upon, as the 
authorized representatives of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, to care¬ 
fully exclude cattle, brought from without the limits of this State, from competi¬ 
tion at the annual fair to be held in Madison in September next, or from ad¬ 
mission to the grounds to be occupied for the purpose of the exhibition. 
Resolved, That we do hereby urge upon all farmers and dealers in cattle in 
Wisconsin, the policy of non-importation, not only as the wisest measure of 
self-protection, but also as a patriotic duty to the welfare of the State. 
Resolved, further, That we respectfully and earnestly recommend to all the 
Boards of Agriculture, and Agi'icultural Societies of other States, a similar 
policy of non-importation. 
Committee then adjourned sine die. 
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