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Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
pursuits, but also with other societies or associations whose objects are kindred to 
ours, whether in this country or foreign lands, and to preserve a journal of such cor¬ 
respondence in the archives of the Society. 
3. To collect and arrange for convenient examination, standard agricultural Avorks 
and periodical publications, together with such models, machines, and implements 
as may be donated to, or othenvise acquired by the Society. 
4. To investigate, as far as practicable, the nature of fertilizers, indigenous and 
cultivated plants, insects injurious to vegetation, etc., and to collect and preserve such 
specimens thereof as will illustrate the natural history and agricultural resources, 
condition, and progress of the State. 
5. To institute and collect reports therefrom, needed experiments relative to the 
preparation of the various soils of the State for economical culture, the cultivation of 
different grains, fruits, and garden vegetables, the breeding and raising of stock, etc. 
6. To visit, by the advice of the executive committee, or as his own judgment 
may direct, the various portions of the State, and to give lectures on the science and 
practice of agriculture, wherever and Avhenever they may be deemed most necessary 
or desirable. 
7. To co-operate with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the agent of 
the Normal-School Board, for the introduction and use in the schools of Wisconsin, 
of standard Avorks on agriculture and the other industrial arts and sciences. 
8. To attend as many as possible of the industrial exhibitions of this country, par¬ 
ticularly the county fairs of Wisconsin; to co-operate Avith the president and special 
committee of arrangements for the judicious pieparation and management of our 
State exhibition; and to have the sole supervision and control of the office of entry 
thereat. 
9. To carefully prepare and superintend the publication of the Annual Report of 
the Society to the Governor of the State, embodying therein the proceedings of the 
State Agricultural Society, an abstract of the reports of the incorporated County 
Agricultural Societies of the State, and such reports, essays, and addresses, or other 
matter of information as may be calculated to enhance the value of said report. 
Finally, it shall be his duty, not only by the means above named, but also through 
such other instrumentalities as he may devise, and the committee approve, to devote 
himself faithfully and unreservedly to the promotion of the industrial interests of 
the State. 
It shall he the duty of the Treasurer — 
1. To receive primarily and exclusively all moneys due the Society from what- 
ever source. 
2. To keep a full and faithful record of all receipts of moneys coming into his 
hands, and of the sources whence derived, in a book specially furnished by and be¬ 
longing to the Society, and to have the same open, at all reasonable times, to the in¬ 
spection of any person or persons authorized by the executive committee to make 
such examination. 
3. To likewise keep an exact record of every order by him paid; and such record 
must be verified by the proper vouchers, showing that the sums therein named have 
been by him so paid. 
