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acquaintance, and the limit allowed me, will permit. Not having any statistical 

 data at hand, my obsenations will necessarily be more general than perhaps 

 would be desirable for the purposes you may have in view. 



The surface of the country is generally flat, yet sufficiently rolling to admit of 

 drainage, and well divei-sified with timber, openings, and prairie; abounding in 

 springs of pure water, and so intersected by the Fox and Wolf Rivers, and Win- 

 nebago Lake, that no farm within the limits of the county can be more than six 

 miles from navigable water. The soil in the timber and openings is generally 

 clay underlaid with gravel, and intei-spersed with ridges of limestone and gravel, 

 and abounding in bouldere or '' hard heads." The prairies are small, and more 

 free from clay, but abounds in limestone. The timber is composed of oak, ash, 

 basswood, hickory, butternut, hard and soft maple, very little beech, some pine, 

 and swamps of the white cedar and tamarack. 



Crops. — Winter Wheat. Considerable attention has been paid to the cultiva- 

 tion of this important product ; and thus far it has proved successful, yielding 

 from twenty to forty bushels per acre, according to the season, and the manner 

 of cultivation. The last season was rather unpropitious; still a fair crop was 

 realized and of good quality. If sowed before the 25th of September, it seldom 

 winter-kills, or fails of a good crop, and is generally of excellent quality. 



Spring Wheat has generally proved a reliable crop ; and sowed in season, on 

 land properly prepared, it seldom fails of a rich return. 



Oats and Barley are cultivated to a considerable extent, and with very general 

 success. 



Corn is a never failing crop, and every farmer gives more or less attention to 

 it. It cannot, of course, be as easily and cheaply raised as on the great prairies 

 and rich bottoms of Illinois and Indiana; but it is here considered an indispen- 

 sable product for home consumption, and is generally as remunerative as the 

 finer grains. The flint and dent corn are both grown here; the foi-mer yields 

 generally forty and fifty, and the latter seventy bushels per acre. The average 

 price for the last six yeai-s has been fifty cents per bushel. 



Peas have been cultivated in some instances as a field crop; and when 

 ploughed in have generally done well, though they are not a favorite product 

 with our farmers. 



Red and White Clover, Timothy and Red-top, are natural to the soil and cli- 

 mate, and do far better here than in the more southern counties, so far as I 

 am acquainted. 



Some consideration is now being given to the subject of the cultivation of Flax 

 for the seed. An enterprising firm at Oshkosh, (Messrs. Weed and Guma?r,) 

 are erecting an oil mill on a tributarj- of the Wolf River, and ofter to furnish seed 

 to the farmers, and pay seventy five cents per bushel for all the seed raised. It is 



