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Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
Hampton. —Edward Fairbanks. 
Syene. —David Whitson. 
Riverside. —E. B. Thomas. 
Welcome. —X. W. Whiting. 
Liberty Prairie. —A. B. De Voe. 
Beaver Creek. —D. T. Pilgrim, W. W. Woodard. 
Beloit and Turtle. —Lewis Clark, L. K. Cogswell. 
Lake. —Geo. Chase, Andrew Kile. 
Du Lac. —S. C. Can, L. T. Kogers, J. C. Plumb. 
FARMERS’ CLUBS. 
Union. —X. M. Gleason, H. J. Wilkinson. 
Skillett Creek. —J. W. Wood, Levi Cahoon. 
Blue Mound Valley. —Charles Trens. 
Live Oak. —Secretary R. F. Roberts, P. O. Woodworth. 
Numerous other societies and organizations were represented, 
but the names of representatives were not handed in. In addition 
to the above representatives, many of the leading educators, mem¬ 
bers of the legislature, and leading business men of the State, took 
a deep interest in the convention, and participated in the discus¬ 
sions. Prominent among them were President Bascom and Pro¬ 
fessor W. W. Daniells, of the State University of Wisconsin; Pro- 
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fessor T. C. Chamberlain, Beloit College, now State Geologist; Hon. 
Hamner Robbins, Platteville; Hon. I. C. Sloan, Madison; Hon. 
C. F. Bliss, Racine; Hon. M. Anderson, Cross Plains; Wm. Sellers, 
Green Bay; J. Harris, Esq., Little Suamico, W. Orledge, Kenosha, 
S. D. Carpenter, Madison; C. H. Williams, Randolph; J. H, Will¬ 
iams, Fox Lake; W. Clark, of Green county, and Messrs. Adams, 
Sherman, Warner, Dwight, Flintman, Hall, and Graves, of Dane 
county. 
President Stilson made brief opening remarks as follows: 
Gentlemen: —VYe are assembled this morning again to open an 
agricultural convention, an assembly of comparatively recent origin. 
One reason why, in the past, agriculture has made so slow progress, 
is the isolation in which the farming population live; their want of 
confidence in each other; their want of a more thorough education, 
and the application of scientific agriculture, reconciling it with 
practical agriculture. The farmer in the past has made many and 
important discoveries, but in order to make them of real value they 
should be continued through a series of years, nearly alifetime, and 
