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witli much propriety, liave been laid before the Association. They may still be 

 •considered as a component part of their proceedings, as they have lately been 

 communicated to me by Hon. Hemy M. Billings, Vice President of the Asso- 

 ciation. 



Winter Wheat. — This crop has been gradually failing for the last five or six 

 years, owing more to bad cultivation than any other cause. The average crop 

 this year (1851) is fifteen bushels to the acre; a few fields have yielded twenty- 

 five or thirty bushels. The kinds are, the common white, and red chafi" — bald 

 and bearded — the Mediterranean, and Hutchinson ; the two last have proved to be 

 much the best. Our winter wheat is liable to spring kill in the month of March, 

 by freezing, and thawing, and dry cold winds. This may be prevented by proper 

 cultivation — deep ploughing, thorough harrowing or rolling, or by drilling, and 

 by early sowing, the latter part of August, or first part of Sej^tember. 



Spring Wheat. — The average crop this year (1851) twelve bushels per acre. 

 Kinds grown — black sea, red river, common Avhite and red chafi" — bald and 

 bearded — hedge-row, and Canada club. This last received a premium at the 

 State Agricultural Fair, and is a very fine wheat. The hedge-row was an entire 

 failure; very few of the fields harvested — the}' were aftected by what is called 

 the spot. 



Oats. — This crop was veiy heavy this year (1851) ; average sixty bushels per 

 acre. Many of our oldest farmers have very much reduced their lauds by con- 

 tinuous cropping ; they have seen their error, and are now adopting the system 

 of rotation of crops. 



Barley. — This has become quite an important crop ; average thirty bushels per 

 acre this year (1851.) 



Buck-Wheat. — Few farmere cultivate this grain ; the average crop this year 

 (1851) twenty-five bushels per acre. 



Corn. — This great and important staple crop of our country, which is depended 

 on for stock feed, is light compared with former years; the usual crop then was, 

 from forty to fifty bushels per acre; this year (1851) the average crop was only 

 twenty five bushels per acre, owing to a cold wet spring, and an extremely wet 

 summer. 



Potatoe. — This crop was an entire failure from rot, except in the sandy lands 

 bordering on the Wisconsin river, where the rot did not appear. 



Ruta Baga. — This esculent yields well, and is an important crop; average five 

 hundred bushels per acre. 



Roots. — These succeed and grow well, of all kinds. 



WILLIA]\I R. SMITH, 

 Sec. of Iowa County Agr. Society. 



To the Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society. 



