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There are a few good dailies in this county, but none on a large scale. The 

 great obstacle to the successful prosecution of this business is, the lack of tame or 

 cultivated grasses for fall feed. Until this defect is remedied, as it easily may be, 

 the shortness of the dairy season from the early decay of the native grasses, will 

 discourage and defeat all successful exertion towards this object. A little forecast, 

 labor, and perseverance, would soon make the dairy business in Wisconsin both 

 successful and profitable. 



Considerable attention begins to be bestowed in this county upon the cultiva- 

 tion of grasses, particularly timothy, red-top and clover. Last year there was in 

 this vicinity a great scarcity of grass seed of all kinds ; but this season there is 

 an abundant supply of timothy seed of domestic growth, and some has been 

 barreled for shipment to an Eastern market. And I see no good reason why 

 both timothy and clover seed may not be profitably raised among us for export. 

 A second crop of clover can be grown each season for seed, especially if quick- 

 ened by a sprinkling of gypsum or plaster, which can thus doubtless be profitably 

 employed even in Wisconsin. A crop of clover seed would bring, in market, 

 nearly or quite as much as a crop of wheat from the same number of acres, and 

 with an outlay of not more than one-fourth the labor. Both timothy and clover 

 can be threshed in a machine like grain, and then used as fodder for stock ; thus 

 saving the seed. The experience of farmers in this county is, that the older the 

 tillage, the better is the yield of grass; and that the second seeding forms a more 

 uniform and compact turf, is of finer quality, and of a better yield than the first. 

 The ground should be seeded heavily, in the lattterpart of winter or early spring; 

 and if sown with grain, should be rolled. A mixture of timothy and clover pro- 

 duces the greatest yield ; and as an article of fodder is certainly more nutritious, 

 especially for horses, than native hay. The red-top has been successfully intro- 

 duced here on some of our bottom lands, on the unbroken soil, by being sown 

 upon the snow. Timothy has also been introduced in the same way. In two or 

 three years they will supplant the native grass, and yield abundantly. Some of 

 our farmers are sowing white clo\er seed on their pastures, and it. is believed the 

 result will justify the labor and expense. On the clayey and light soils, plaster, as 

 an aliment or manure, would doubtless be used with profit, I have dwelt the 

 longer on this subject, as I am convinced that the prosperity of the farming inte- 

 rest in W^isconsin is dependent more on the cultivation of grass than of grain, 

 especially of wheat, as the prime staple. 



Horses, Neat Stock and Sheep. — Considerable attention has been given to 

 the introduction of some of the best breeds of horses, particularly for the road and 

 draft. This county can show several fine specimens of studs, and many horses of 

 great beauty and value. 



Sufficient attention does not seem to have been devoted lo the iiiipru\euient 



