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" This shows an average profit of $24,58 per acre. We prefer the 

 June clover to the larger variety, because it will yield more and better 

 hay, and give more seed to the acre. We consider three bushels per 

 acre as an average crop of seed — four or five bushels are not uncommon 

 — and I have heard, from good authority, of six acres of land in this 

 State, producing forty-two bushels of clean seed. 



** We clean our seed by horse power. Three men, with Emery's two 

 horse power, will hull from twenty-five to thirty bushels per day. It 

 would require two men, about the same length of time to clean it 

 through a fanning mill. The cost of a huller is forty-five dollars. The 

 cost of a huller and cleaner, is about eighty dollars, being much the 

 best, as it will save the labor of two men in cleaning, and it can be 

 driven by the same power, and will do the same amount of work as the 

 huller alone. 



"We use for seed, when we stock with clover alone, eight quarts per 

 acre ; when we stock with timothy and clover, we use eight quarts of 

 timothy and four quarts of cloyer. 



" We consider the autumn of the year as the best time to stock down 

 land. The land should be harrowed after sowing, and should be used 

 as a pasture the following spring. We have used both the New York 

 and Michigan plaster, and have become satisfied that the Michigan plas- 

 ter is much the best for Wisconsin soils. We used half a bushel per acre 

 of Michigan plaster, upon a part of our clover field during the past 

 season, and were satisfied that it doubled the crop of hay, and added 

 one-third to the crop of seed. We used the same amount of New York 

 plaster per acre in the same field, and could discover no beneficial eflFects 

 from it. 



** Were a comparison to be instituted between Wisconsin, New York, 

 Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, I am well satisfied that in Wisconsin as 

 much hay can be raised, and as many sheep, cattle, or horses, can be 

 pastured upon an acre as can be done in either of the other named States, 

 the same kind of cultivation, of course, being given. 



Yours truly, 

 To Albert C. Ingham, Esq., E. W. Edgerton." 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



The Committee in their report say, " The show of grain samples was 

 very limited, but the quality was in general good, as was to be expected of 



