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We have depended on wheat for cash, but we have leaned on a broken re^ — 

 What else could we liave raised at a handsome profit ? Ten tons of broom corn, 

 cleaned from the seed, would have brought at Milwaukee the past season, in cash, 

 seven hundred dollars. I suppose two acres will produce a ton. It is as easily raised 

 as Indian corn. Has a single load been carried to the Lake this past year from 

 Dane County ? The culture of tobacco is profitable. I have been informed 

 that one acre will produce $100 in tobacco. Flax and grass seed are cash articles. 

 The dairy business is a source of profit. Wool-growing is also profitable; wool 

 being easy of transportation. It is estimated that Michigan has received seven 

 millions of dollars for her w^ool. Indian corn is a more valuable article to raise 

 than wheat, it is convertible into beef and pork ; and stock raising is better than 

 raising wheat. Fi-uit trees will be a source of great profit, and now is the time 

 to plant them. Now what does Dane County produce to get a return for what 

 she expends? We buy our brooms — not make them. We buy our cloth instead 

 of manufacturing it. We purchase from abroad our cheese, and make but little. 

 And if farmers will raise wheat, have they subsoil ploughs, rollers, and do they 

 change their seed ? — do they spread their straw over the land, or burn it in the 

 stack? — do we attend to rotation of crops, or consider that a plant will not grow 

 in rich soil, if the aliment for the nourishment of that plant is exhausted by 

 repeated cultivation ? We are on the great ocean of life, and if breakers are 

 a-head, like good sailors, we must tack about or perish — for we shall labor for 

 that which is not bread. ' 



A well cultivated farm must have a constant and permanent owner. And to 

 this end it must be paid for, and then it will be cared for. Durable fences, sub- 

 stantial buildings, and all the outfits auxiliary to the right accomplishment of the 

 farmer's plan of husbandry will then be erected — orchards will be planted — 

 improvement will follow improvement. He will not only endeavor to make his 

 grounds profitable, but pleasant and ornamental. It then becomes an object of 

 attachment, and the farmer enjoys his comfortable home. He not only has 

 enough, but something to spare, and helps onward the great cause of tempe- 

 rance and benevolence in this age of progress. 



Our imports exceed our exports — we pay out more than is paid in. This 

 county has paid out suras of money for threshing machines, reapers, fan mills, 

 and nearly all the implements of husbandry except ploughs. We import our 

 rakes, brooms, pails, all our earthen and stone ware, cloth, cheese, and frequently 

 butter and pork ; our grass seed, cattle and horses, besides foreign merchandize 

 brought in by the merchants. Our indebtedness is immensely heavy ; we manu- 

 facture comparatively nothing. This policy is ruinous, and will conduct to inevi- 

 table bankruptcy. My advice is, keep from debt, change and im.prove your 

 m( de of husbandry, own and cultivate less land, and expend your profits and 



