OF THE

WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,

INCLUDING

PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL CON-
VENTION, HELD IN FEBRUARY, 1882, WITH
PRACTICAL AND USEFUL PAPERS.

VOL. XX.-1881-82.

PREPARED BY

GEORGE E. BRYANT, SECRETARY.

MADISON, WIS.:
DAVID ATWOOD, STATE PRINTER.

1882.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

I. Constitution, By-laws, Members and Officers..
II. Proceedings of Society and Executive Board

III. Exhibition of 1881, address of President Fratt..

IV. Premiums awarded and Superintendents' reports..

V. Agricultural Convention, address by President Fratt.

VI. Discussion of address

Page.

7, 21

22-40

41-51

42-86

87-94

95-102

VII. Ensilage and other Experiments at the University

IX. Sugar and Sugar Making in Wisconsin, by A. J. Rus-

sell......

....

Farm, by W. A. Henry, Professor of Agriculture.... 103-110

VIII. Discussion of last subject...

111-115

116-120
121-130

X. Discussion of last subject...

XI. Experiments in Sugar and Syrup Making at the Wis-

consin Experimental Farm, by Magnus Swenson 131-142

...

XII. Discussion of this subject..

XIII. Thoughts on Dairy Farming in Southern Wisconsin, by

Hon. J. Luchsinger

XIV. Needless Losses of Dairy Farming..

XV. Disease of Domestic Animals, by E. W. Palmer
XVI. Discussion of the Ladies' Papers

XX. Discussion of Stock Breeding, Stock Growing and

XXIII. University Farm, by Prof. W. A. Henry

XXV. Blight, Mildew, Rust, etc., by Hon. R. P. Speer

XXVI.

Discussion....

XXVII. Resolutions and Discussion..

XXVIII. Farm Book-keeping. y I. M. Pilcher.

286-291

292-822

323-331

332-334

335-337

338-339

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

Hood for Bulls and Horses

Potatoes

Short Horn Steer "McMullen ",

XXXII. The Berkshire Hog, by Phil. M. Springer

XXXIII. Southdown Sheep of A. O. Fox....

346-349

350-353

XXXIV. Farm Products Growing in Wisconsin in 1882.
XXXV. Farm Products Grown in Wisconsin in 1881.

354-357

358-361

XXXVI. Officers of Local Agricultural Societies, 1881..

362-365

XXXVII. Annual Reports of Local Agricultural Societies, 1881. 366-369

XXXVIII. Census of Wisconsin, 1880....

370-371

XXXIX. Assessment of Live Stock in Wisconsin, 1882.

XL. Address of Col. Wm. F. Vilas at Minnesota State Fair,

1881....

372-374

875-391

XLI. Address of S. C. Carr, Master of Wisconsin State Grange 392-400

XLII. Address of Hon. Geo. B. Loring, U. S. Commissioner

of Agriculture, at National Convention ...

XLIII. Animal Husbandry in the Central West, by G. E. Mor-

401-407

row

408-414

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