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W. Cotton, until recently of the U. B. army, a few years ago resigned his com- 

 mission and sword and the excitement of the camp, to pursue in quiet a life 

 devoted to agriculture. His farm (Beauprey Place,) is situated on the highland 

 one and a-half miles from Green Bay, upon the east side of the river, and until 

 Capt. Cotton undertook its culture, was truly an unpromising tract. In 1850, 

 the first year of his efibrts, with one coat of manure upon land that had been 

 " worn out," of a sandy soil, and a clayey-mari sub-soil, with deep ploughing, and 

 thoroughly pulverizing the surface, he raised from thirty-five to forty bushels of 

 winter wheat to the acre, and remunerating crops of corn and oats. Upon one- 

 fifth of an acre, with field culture, he raised 335 bushels of carrots, the largest of 

 which, when trimmed, weighed six pounds each. The past summer, from a field 

 of four and a half acres, that had been " run to death" by the French mode of 

 tillage, by the plan of culture he had pursued the year previous, he raised and 

 harvested 340 bushels of ears of corn, and about 1800 pumpkins. These results, 

 compared with the make-shift culture that has prevailed with most of those who 

 have pretended to cultivate the soil, serve to prove that Brown County may, 

 when her forests have been removed, and the land brought under the genial 

 influence of the sun, raise at least her own substantial of life, and not depend 

 for her supply upon the fruit of the husbandman's labor elsewhere. Very many 

 of the inhabitants who have lived here for years, and who have pretended to 

 gather their scanty crops from their exhausted fields, seem to have had no idea of 

 the value of manure, for they permitted it to accumulate as if accident had thrown 

 it together, or, if it was in the way, they hauled it to the river, marsh, or slough- 

 hole, and got rid of it the easiest way possible. But example upon this class of 

 farmers has not been lost, there having been for the past two years an obvious 

 and general improvement. The virgin soil is proverbially quick and strong, and 

 new farms when opened have not seemed to require any artificial stimulus. This 

 fact, connected with the hitherto unconquerable propensity of the Indian race to 

 avoid systematic labor, and the imitative faculty of the French people, led their 

 descendants to the adoption and pursuit of a course of farming very nearly 

 resembling the rudest eftbrts of the aborigines. This unprofitable waste of time 

 and labor is beginning to bo realized, and as intelligence advances, will be among 

 the things of the past. 



Stock. — Very httle attention has ever been paid to stock raising. Colonel 

 Tuller- brought a drove of cattle to Green Bay from Illinois, in 1836 or '37, 

 which was the basis for most of the neat cattle that have been raised here. In 

 1839, the Hon. M. L. Martin obtained and brought here a full bred Durham 

 short horn bull, which he kept five years ; and although no pains have been 

 taken in raising cattle, the benefits resulting from Mr. Martin's enterprise, are dis- 

 tinctly visible. Many of the cows from this stoi'k are excellent milkers, and in 



