after claim more attention as a profitable employment for the farmer. Timothy 

 grass, called by Yankees ' Herd's grass,' yields very well on prairie soil, contrary 

 to the predictions of those whose eastern lands produced it as a principal crop. 

 The first crop of timothy grass on prairie soil has generally been thin, and more 

 or less in bunches; but when such has been replowed and resowed with timothy 

 seed, the succeeding crops have been more thick and uniform, producing more 

 and better hay. It is hoped the farmers of this country will satisfy themselves 

 of the truth of this, by experiment, for the general and increasing failure of the 

 wheat crop, makes it necessary that a difterent course be had by farmers in re- 

 gard to future cropping. 



" I am the more confident in these remarks, from the success which has attended 

 my own eflforts in raising that grass. I have cut yearly from twenty to fifty tons 

 averaging from one and one-half to two and one-fourth tons per acre. 



" The early attention bestowed upon the cultivation of Fruit trees in this county, 

 promises to be of great advantage, utility, and comfort, to the inhabitants. 

 Thei'e are several good Nurseries in the county, and choice fruit can easily be 

 procured." 



Hoping that these hasty thoughts may not be unacceptable, and that your 

 efforts to elevate the condition of agriculture will be triumphantly successful. 



I am, yours truly, 



E. ESTABKOOK. 

 To Albert C. Ingham, Esq. 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



AGRICULTURE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



Washington county is what may be called, for Wisconsin, a heavily timbered 

 county; oak, maple, beech, ash, basswood, elm, &c., are abundant. The surface is 

 gently rolling, and living springs and streams abound. About one-half of the 

 county has a subsoil of gravel, with a rich alluvial mold for a topsoil. The other, 

 and northern half, has a reddish clay loam for a subsoil, with a good topsoil, but 

 not so deep or fertile as that found upon the gravel. The loam itself, however, 

 seems to have all the elements of fertility, easily disintegrates, and makes, when 

 well ploughed, a very fertile and permanent soil. This clay, when thrown up 

 from a depth of twenty feet, will grow vines, wheat and corn, with luxuriance. 



Wheat has been a better crop in this county than in any other part of the 

 State. This arises frcBttpthe protection aftbrded by the standing timber, and 



