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Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
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VI.—PROCEEDINGS. 33-57 
Executive Board Meetings. 33-44 
Society Meetings—E lection of officers. 44-46 
Annual Meeting. 46-48 
Treasurer’s Report. 47,48 
Warrant-Account of Secretary. 49-57 
.VII.— EXHIBITION OF 1875 . 58 
Opening address of President Eli Stilson. 58-63 
Address of Hon. Geo. W. Cate. 64-66 
Address of David Ward Wood. 66-79 
Report of Vice-President, John L. Mitchell, superintendent horse 
department. .... . 80, 81 
Report of Vice-President, Geo. E. Bryant superintendent cattle 
department. 81 
•Report of Vice-President T. C. Dousman, superintendent sheep, 
swine, and forage departments.82, 83, 93, 94 
Report of A. A. Boyce, superintendent poultry department. 83, 84 
Report of Dr. C. L. Martin, superintendent agricultural depart¬ 
ment. 84-86 
Report of G. J. Kellogg, .superintendent horticultural department. 86-88 
Report of Vice-President R. D. Torrey, superintendent machinery 
department. 88-90 
Report of S. D. Carpenter, chairman of special committee on ma¬ 
chinery. 90-92 
Report of Vice-President Satterlee Clark, superintendent manufac¬ 
turers’ department. 92, 93 
Premiums Awarded.95-120 
VIII.—STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. 121 
Brief remarks by President Stilson. 121 
Finance. By Sidney Myers , Esq .121-141 
City life affords only time for action, little time for thought. .. 121, 122 
Country life the best mills in which to grind truth. 122 
Convertible currency on a specie basis. 123 
Science is uncommonly good common sense. 124 
Different systems of currency.124-126 
Make the greenback honest by making it convertible. 127 
Rule of three introduced into finance. 128 
English system of finance. 129 
Causes of financial, commercial, and industrial disasters in this 
country and England.130,131 
Important propositions, 1-9.132, 133 
.All great innovations are at first ridiculed. 134 
Resumption of a system of suspensions and panics.135-137 
.Hoarding pumps and air pumps.138,139 
. Solution of the problem of the age.140, 141 
Delegates etc., in attendance.141, 142 
Opening Remarks. By President Stilson .142-145 
Reason why agriculture has made slow progress in the past. 142 
Agencies which are advancing agriculture to-day. 143 
Leave your theory at home, and give us facts. 144 
Compare experiences, and apply science to practical agriculture. 145 
Less theories and more practical experience urged. 145 
Discussion.145-148 
Tiie Farmers of Wisconsin. By Geo. W. Lee .149-152 
Society advanced as agriculture is developed. 149 
Vital questions should be discussed in these conventions. 149 
A nation may be rich, but the masses Door and half-fed. 150 
Manufacturing, transportation, currency.150, 151 
Infamy and fraud visited upon the people under the name of party 152 
