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attention to many objects of industry is unprofitable. I think it must 

 be within the experience of every farmer, that when he raises a little of 

 everything, he suffers in his neglect of some, while he bestows unusual 

 care upon others. This mode of farming is more laborious, because 

 labor-saving machines cannot be afforded, nor can the same division of 

 labor be made, by the employment of many hands, as in a larger busi- 

 ness. To such districts purchasers would resort for the best breeds of 

 cattle, sheep and hogs ; for the best butter and cheese ; and such dis- 

 tricts would acquire a local character and a name, which would be worth 

 something to the producers. The county is large and varied, and adapted 

 to diflferent pursuits ; and our position is a good one for market. Flour 

 has been boated down the Wisconsin, and sixteen hundred bushels of 

 wheat within ten miles were recently sold at sixty cents cash for the 

 southern market. The Galena papers advert to the growing trade on 

 the Wisconsin, as important to their section. 



The wages of labor, compared with the price of grain, are very high. 

 The Dane farmer pays as much for. labor to raise wheat at fifty cents per 

 bushel, as the Genesee farmer at one dollar. As compared with mechan- 

 ical or professional labor, they are low ; about three and five to one. 

 The farmer, as farming is conducted, can scarcely pay his hired help 

 from the proceeds of his farm. There is no just proportion in the wages 

 of labor. While the cost of clearing and fencing a farm, the erection of 

 buildings, the price of plows, wagons and other implements, is more 

 than in the vicinity of the best markets, our grain brings less ; but land 

 is cheaper. I said as farming is conducted ; for it must be admitted, 

 that there is not enough of system and economy, and too much waste- 

 fulness every way from improvident management. I will give you two 

 examples somewhere near the exact truth. 



A. and B. owned in this county, each a section of fine land, composed 

 of wood, prairie and water, situated not far from each other, and equal in 

 respect to market. A. had capital ; B. very little. A large and about 

 equal proportion of each farm was fenced, and under the ploAV. The 

 farm worked with capital has been sold for debt. The other is out of 

 debt, furnished sixteen hundred bushels of wheat for market, cut fifty 

 tons of timothy hay, and enabled the owner to invest two thousand 

 dollars in the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad. Now these different 

 results followed from the widely different management. The proprietor 

 out of debt was temperate, was never in a lawsuit, and never courted 



