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even five years ago. It will, of course, be readily seen, that 

 those lands in this county which are partially subdued, are, 

 therefore, such only as will produce the best crop with the least 

 culture, and that the agricultural resources of a single acre, are 

 really, as yet, undeveloped. 



PRODUCTS. 



C. C. Palmer, an intelligent resident of Lewis' valley, in which 

 the land is considerably improved, estimates the average yield 

 of winter wheat, for the years 1854 and 1855 at from 30 to 40 

 bushels per acre, and though the season of 1856 was less favora- 

 ble, the crop was still good. In the La Crosse valley, John 

 Hemstock sowed the same piece of ground to spring wheat, two 

 successive years, and in each case, had 45 bushels to the acre. 

 In the same valley, and in what was originally La Crosse county, 

 Geo. F. Retell produced 345 bushels of oats from 3 acres of 

 ground, making 115 bushels per acre. J. R. Oowdry, who has 

 two acres of highly manured land within the city of La Crosse, 

 states that he measured two hundred bushels of ears of corn from 

 a single acre. He also made and sold twelve barrels of pickles 

 from 110 hills of cucumbers. Wm. Hood, County Treasurer, 

 produced a watermelon, on ground within the city, weighing 43 

 pounds. S. T. Smith, land agent, says that his average crop 

 during the last three years, on several acres of very lightly ma- 

 nured land, situated in the city of La Crosse, has been 50 bush- 

 els of corn, and 200 bushels of potatoes to the acre. J. S. Har- 

 ris, raised, in La Crosse city, a ruta baga weighing 22 pounds, 

 and a radish, of the China purple variety, measuring 28 inches 

 in circumference, and 31 inches in length. The city of La 

 Crosse, as it is extensively known, occupies a sandy prairie. 

 On a farm, three miles from the river, and near the bluffs, back 

 of La Crosse prairie, Sylvester Smith has had an average crop, 

 during the last three years, of 300 bushels of potatoes on an acre. 

 He also raised a parsnip measuring 4 feet 6 inches in length. 

 S. T. Smith, who has a small farm under partial cultivation, on 

 the bluffs four miles from La Crosse city, and 550 feet above the 

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