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and stir it up so that the vitriolized water comes in contact mtli eacli. 

 grain of wheat ; which it will do very readily, wetting the wheat aiding 

 very materially in quickening the process, then shovel it aside and take 

 another basket. Two hands will, in this way, prepare forty or fifty- 

 bushels in half a day. The expense is trifling, when compared with, 

 the benefit derived, and the remedy is effectual. Many other recipes 

 have been given, such as the lye of wood ashes, &c., but they cannot be 

 relied upon. Chess can be very much lessened by sowing wheat free 

 from it, and sowing only on ground free from wet or moist spots. The 

 following experiment has convinced me that wet ground will produce 

 chess from wheat: In 1844, I cleaned my seed wheat with a hand seive, 

 by the pint or half pint at a time. With seed thus prepared, I sowed 

 two and a-half acres on ground which had never had a crop of wheat 

 grown upon it, having cleared the timber off myself. Through the 

 centre of this land ran a wet strip, about two rods wide, the leaching of 

 a small marsh. When I harvested this crop, there was not a head of 

 chess in any part of the field, except in this wet ground ; and on that 

 there was nothinsc else save a few scatterino: heads of wheat. The balance 

 of the ground was very dry, -and the wheat on it yielded twenty-five 

 bushels per acre. I have other fields with wet spots in them where corik. 

 has been planted, but I have never known chess to spring up unless, 

 wheat had been on the ground, or chess itself had been scattered. 



Indian Corn. — This valuable grain is becoming much more generally- 

 cultivated than formerly, and in point of utility is second only to wheats 

 if indeed we should assign it that station. It was extensively cultivated 

 by the aboriginal inhabitants of Wisconsin ; and in times of scarcity of' 

 game, formed their only dependence to shield them from starvation. 

 The remains of ancient corn plantations, cultivated either by the ances- 

 tors of the present tribes of Indians, or by some other people formerly 

 in possession of the land, are often seen in the vicinity of Milwaukee. 

 The hills, now overgrown with trees and bushes, but still perfectly 

 retaining their distinctive shape and form ; and by the age of the trees, 

 furnishing evidence that the cultivation took place at least five hundred 

 years ago. 



The cultivation of corn is easy, and but little labor is necessary, when 

 compared with that required by the same crop in the Eastern States. Greene- 

 sward, plowed under with two yoke of oxen, which will give strength 

 sufficient to plow to the depth of sis or eight inches, then harrowed 



