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to advantage than to make cheese. If they will take pains to improve 

 their stock every year, and seed down some portion of their farms with 

 timothy and clover, the time will not be far removed when good dairies 

 may be found in Wisconsin, and we shall no longer have it said that the 

 country is worthless for this business. 



It is one thing to talk and another to act, and it is no less requisite for 

 farmers to set about this business in earnest, than to discuss the subject, 

 acknowledging the facts which have been here presented, and still suffer 

 year after year to pass, and no efforts to be made to bring about a dif- 

 ferent state of things. But when they shall feel, as well as say, that it is 

 for their interest to give more attention to these matters, we shall look 

 for a better state of things in the stock business. Much depends upon 

 the women in the dairy business ; to them is committed much of the 

 care and management of things pertaining to it, more especially the 

 making of butter ; and it is incumbent on them to give heed to all those 

 matters, which are of so much importance to a proper manufacture of 

 the article. Let it be borne in mind, that there is no need of making 

 poor butter ; it is not a process difficult to be understood, but one of the 

 simplest operations that can be performed. Be not indifferent to what 

 you read, for it may be of some service to you. Be at some pains to 

 learn the best methods of making butter and cheese, and you may find 

 yourselves amply repaid for all the attention thus bestowed. The few 

 thoughts which have thus hastily been thrown together, I present to the 

 friends of agriculture, claiming for them that consideration only to Avhich 

 they are entitled, and hoping that they may not prove entirely unser- 

 viceable. With my warmest wishes for the prosperity of the Society, 



and of yourself. 



I am, my dear sir, as ever^ yours faithfully, 



B. F. ADAMS. 

 To Albert C. Ingham, Esq., 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



FLAX CULTURE. 



Symington Flax Factory, Mukwonago, Dec, 1852. 



Dear Sir: — In compliance with your request, I take pleasure in again 

 sending you a communication on the subject of flax, for the next volume 



