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Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
While submitting the foregoing facts and suggestions, the com¬ 
mittee must not be understood as censuring in the least any officer 
of the Society, all of whom so far as the committee know or believe, 
acquitted themselves in a most commendable manner, especially so 
far as the department of machinery was concerned, and it is only 
to prevent misunderstanding in the future that these suggestions 
are submitted. 
You will find on file, with Secretary Field, a list of the recom¬ 
mendations, which the committee believe proper to submit, which 
have, so far as the committee know, all been ratified by the board, 
and the list will no doubt be found under Classes 37 and 38, in “ pre¬ 
miums awarded.” 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
S. D. Carpenter, 
Chairman. 
DEPARTMENT I.—Manufactures. 
BY SATERLEE CLARK, SUPERINTENDENT. 
In this department, I am sorry to say, the display was not as good 
as on some former occasions. While there were many articles of 
great merit, many recent inventions that attracted much attention, 
and many improvements in articles of more common use, I cannot 
help expressing my astonishment that so few Milwaukee manufac¬ 
turers avail themselves of so good an opportunity to exhibit their 
wares and advertise them to the world, where it can be done at so 
little expense and trouble. 
The city in which the fair is held must necessarily derive a great 
advantage from our fairs, and it becomes, therefore, the duty of 
such persons as have attractive articles to exhibit, not so much to 
compete for a premium (as our premiums are not generally of great 
intrinsic value) as to show their interest in the Society, and the 
city in which the fairs are held. 
There was so much that was attractive that it is hardly possible 
to give each article of merit special mention. 
One word for the hardware-men of Milwaukee I must say; no 
