OF THE WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, INCLUDING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION JEREMIAH M. RUSK, Governor of Wisconsin: In submitting Volume XXIV of Transactions of Wisconsin State Agricultural Society and accompanying papers, I cannot withhold congratulations to you as Governor of a State ranking so high in agricultural development, and in behalf of the farmers of this great commonwealth, thank you in their name for generously putting the rooms granted by the State Legislature of 1866 for the use of this society, in the Capitol building, in so complete and attractive condition. CLINTON BABBITT, Secretary of Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Officers. Constitution, By-Laws, Laws of Publication, Life Members.. Exhibition of 1885- Opening Address-By President A. A. Arnold. 1-17 29-55 Minutes of Executive Board Meetings 61-67 Minutes of Society Meetings, including Election of Officers and Treasurer's Report 68-81 82-85 List of Officers for County Agricultural Societies for 1886.. 86-89 107-111 Sanitary Problem No. 11, House Drainage - By Erastus G. Smith, Ph. D... Our Farming, Its Changing Condition and Outlook- By G. E. Morrow. Agricultural Education - Major H. E. Alvord 236-243 Growth and Development of the Plow - By Prof. W. A. Henry 257-273 288-307 Address by George H. Harding.. 307-311 The Short-Horn as a Beef Animal- John A. Cole, Hustisford. A Pioneer's Greeting.. |