The Corresponding Secretary shall carry on the correspondence with other Societies, with Individuals, and with the General Committee, in furtherance of the objects of the Society.

The Treasurer shall keep the funds of the Society and disburse the same on the order of the President, or a Vice President, countersigned by the Recording Secretary, and shall make a report of the receipts and expenditures at the annual meeting in May.

The Executive Committee shall take charge of and distribute or preserve all Seeds, Plants, Books, Models, &c., which may be transmitted to the Society; and shall have also the charge of all communications, designed or calculated for publication, and, so far as they may deem expedient, shall collate, arrange and publish the same, in such manner and form as they shall deem best calcu lated to promote the objects of the Society.

The General Committee are charged with the interests of the Society in the counties in which they shall respectively reside, and will constitute a medium of communication between the Executive Committee and the remote Members of the Society.

ARTICLE V.-OF MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS.

There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Society on the third Wednesday of May in each year, in the Village of Madison, at which time all the. Officers shall be elected by a plurality of votes, with the exception of the General Committee, who may be appointed by the Executive Committee, who shall also have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in the Offices of the Society during

the year.

Extra meetings may be convoked by the Executive Committee-ten Members shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.

ARTICLE VI.-OF THE ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW AND FAIR. The Society shall hold an Annual Cattle Show and Fair, at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee, who shall prepare a Premium List, appoint Viewing Committees, and award the Premiums at the same. It shall be the duty of all the Officers to attend the Annual Cattle Show and Fair.

ARTICLE VII.-OF AMENDMENTS.

This Constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the Members attending any annual meeting.

I certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Constitution of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.

ALBERT C. INGHAM, Secretary.

LIBRARY ADDITIONS, 1853.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C.-Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vols. I. II. III. IV. V.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE, New York City, N. Y.-Transactions for the Years 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851. Also Catalogue of Library.

Hon. BENJ. P. JOHNSON, Secretary, Albany, N. Y.-Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society for 1852.

Prof. WM. W. MATHER, Secretary, Columbus, Ohio.-Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture 1851.

Dr. GEORGE SPRAGUE, Secretary, Columbus, Ohio.-Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture 1852.

JOHN C. HOLMES, Esq., Secretary, Detroit, Mich.-Transactions of the Michigan State Agricultural Society 1852.

His Excellency Governor JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, President, Indianapolis, Ind.— Transactions of the Indiana State Agricultural Society 1852. 50 copies.

Hon. SILAS H. HODGES, Commissioner, Washington, D. C.-Patent Office Report, Mechanical, 1852.

Hon. CHARLES MASON, Commissioner, Washington, D. C.-Patent Office Report, Agricultural, 1851. 50 copies.

ALBERT C. INGHAM, Madison.-Dr. William Darlington's Agricultural Botany. Also Owen's Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.

Hon. CHAS. D. ROBINSON, Secretary of State, Madison.-Session Laws and Journals of the Legislature 1852.

WILLIAM DUDLEY, Esq., State Librarian, Madison.-Laws and Journals of the late Territory of Wisconsin from 1836. Also Laws and Journals of the State of Wisconsin from 1848. 50 vols.

JOHN WARREN HUNT, M. D., Madison.-Wisconsin Gazetteer 1852.

FREDERICK MCCREADY, Esq., Publisher, New York City, N. Y.-The Working
Farmer 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853.

LUTHER TUCKER, Esq., Albany, N. Y.-The Country Gentleman 1853.
DANIEL LEE, M. D., Rochester, N. Y.-The Genessee Farmer 1853.
D. D. T. MOORE, Esq., Rochester, N. Y.-Rural New Yorker 1853.

WARREN ISHAM, Esq., Detroit, Mich.-Michigan Farmer 1853.
CHARLES BETTS, Esq., Detroit, Mich.-Horticultural Gazette 1853.
JOHN S. WRIGHT, Esq., Chicago, Ill.-The Prairie Farmer 1853.
MARK MILLER, Esq., Janesville.-Wisconsin Farmer 1853.

Prof. GEORGE BUCKLAND, Toronto, C. W.-Canadian Agriculturist 1853.
JOHN S. WARDEN, M. D. Cincinnatti, Ohio.-Western Horticultural Review 1853.
Hon. B. P. JOHNSON, Secretary, Albany, N. Y.-Journal of the New York
State Agricultural Society 1853.

JOHN C. HOLMES, Esq., Secretary, Detroit, Mich.-Journal of the Michigan State
Agricultural Society 1853.

JOHN FAVILL, M. D., Madison.-The Home Journal 1853.

ROBINSON & BROTHER, Green Bay.—Green Bay Advocate 1853.
SAMUEL RYAN, Esq., Appleton.-Appleton Crescent 1853.
ROYAL BUCK, Esq., Fond du Lac.-Fountain City Herald 1853.
GEORGE BURNSIDE & Co., Oshkosh.-Oshkosh Democrat 1853.
FLAVIUS J. MILLS, Esq., Sheboygan.-Lake Journal 1853.
J. H. WELLS, Esq., Berlin.-Marquette Mercury 1853.
R. A. BIRD, Esq., Ozaukee.-Ozaukee County Times 1853.
RUFUS KING & Co., Milwaukee.-Daily Sentinel 1853.
WILLIAM E. CRAMER, Esq., Milwaukee.-Daily Wisconsin 1853.
S. M. BOOTH, Esq., Milwaukee.-Daily Free Democrat 1853.
C. CLEMENT, Esq., Racine.-Racine Advocate 1853.
GEORGE H. PAUL, Esq., Kenosha.-Kenosha Democrat 1853.
MINOR & SKINNER, Watertown.-Watertown Chronicle 1853.
E. B. QUINER, Esq., Watertown.-State Register 1853.

H. D. BARRON, Esq., Waukesha.-Waukesha Chronotype 1853.
BERIAH BROWN, Esq., Madison.-Daily Argus and Democrat 1853.
DAVID ATWOOD, Esq., Madison.-Daily State Journal 1853.

E. C. HULL, Esq., Beaver Dam.-Republican 1853.

CHARLES BILLINGHURST, Esq., Juneau.-Burr Oak 1853.

LETTER

From the Corresponding Secretary of the State Agricultural Society.

STATE AGRICULTURAL ROOMS,

MADISON, January 28th, 1854.

SIR-In accordance with the requirements of an Act entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Agriculture and its kindred Arts in this State," approved April 2d, 1853, I have the honor herewith to transmit the Third Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.

A Message from His Excellency the Governor was announced, and being received from the hands of his Private Secretary, GEORGE P. DELAPLAINE, Esq., was read as follows, to wit:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

MADISON, January 30th, 1854.

To the Senate:

I have the honor herewith to transmit to you the Third Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, embracing its operations for the year ending December 31st, 1853.

WILLIAM A. BARSTOW.

Whereupon the said Message and accompanying documents were referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

Mr. REYMERT, from the Committee on Agriculture, reported the following Resolutions, which were considered and unanimously adopted, to wit:

RESOLVED BY THE SENATE (the Assembly concurring)-That the State Printer be directed to publish, immediately after the close of the present Session of the Legislature under the direction of the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, twenty five hundred copies of the Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society for 1853, of which five hundred and seventy copies shall be for the use of the Members of the Legislature and the State Officers, and the remainder for the Society, and that those for the Members of the Legislature be sent to them by the Secretary of State, in the same manner as the Session Laws.

RESOLVED FURTHER, (the Assembly concurring,) That the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society be and he is hereby authorized and directed to procure the binding of these Volumes in an uniform manner with the Volumes already issued, and to procure the engraving of thirteen Plates illustrative of the Grasses, &c., of Wisconsin, to accompany the same, provided that the cost of the said Engravings and Binding, shall not exceed the sum of forty five cents per volume.

The above and foregoing Resolutions were concurred in by the Assembly.