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•same eltjection cannot he made to raising hog's,'. - Pork now bring' a high. 

 iCasli price. It is the lowest depth of miscalculation to sell pork in tax 

 paying time at $2 50 per hundred, and buy in harvest at $16. 



Our county is traversed every year by Illinois farmers, carrying pork 

 to the northern market ; and Milwaukee is supplied from the same quar- 

 ter — when we have, or can have all the materials, as clover, peas, acorns, 

 and corn for making good pork. Take your pork to market at the pro- 

 per time, and buy your winter groceries for cash. Wool has been a 

 'Cash article, and buyers have come to your doors, cash in hand, for wool. 

 Is there any country more favorable for raising sheep ? Can we not in 

 this branch successfully compete with the East ? 



These are three leading produ.cts all bearing high cash prices, and 



foreign money is sent here to purchase them. One cause of the scarcity 



of money is, we have not value to exchange for money. There has been 



. a great demand for esculent plants. There has not been a supply of 



' onions, cabbages, beans, and potatoes, in our own market. To raise 



vclover seed and hops Avould pay well. 



-In addition to this, Ave manufacture very little. This county has paid 

 abroad an immense sum for farming implements. I do not know of a 

 pail manufactory in the county, and many dollars have gone out for 

 mop handles and brooms, while enough has been paid for stoves to build 

 ten miles of rail road. Can it be wondered at, then, that we are low in 

 funds, and yet the direct opposite of all is within our immediate grasp. 



Blame not the times, blame not your country, but make your industry 

 more productive and more profitable. 



The division of mechanical labor, renders it more productive to the 

 operator. The manufacture of a pin, employs several hands. Why is 

 not a division of agricultural labor equally useful ? The more mind 

 and attention are bestowed on a single branch of industry, the more it is 

 perfected. In some States are to be found entire districts devoted to 

 separate branches of agricultural labor, denominated the dairy district, 

 cotton, wool or grain growing district. Dane county is admirably adapt- 

 ed to raising stock. Its supplies of water and pasturage are abundant. 

 The demand for cheese will well warrant an outlay of capital for its 

 manufacture. Dane county cheese, might rival the Cheshire or Ham- 

 burgh. Eight or ten cheeses, some twenty sheep, two or three cows, 

 and half a dozen hogs, may furnish a comfortable supply, but not a 

 source of great revenue. Time and tools cost something, and a divided 



