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In Fond du Lac wheat and wool are the chief crops, our correspondent esti- 
mating the profit on the former at 50 per cent., and 35 per cent. on the latter; 
while in Brown wheat and hay rank first, the latter, in the spring of 1867, bring- 
ing $25 to $35 per ton. Our Door reporter says: 
The most profitable crops are wheat, 25 bushels to the acre; oats, 40 bushels; peas, 40 
bushels; potatoes, 130 bushels. 
In Calumet wheat and rape-seed are grown as follows: 
Winter wheat, 25 bushels per acre; spring wheat, 18 bushels per acre; rape-seed, 17 
bushels per acre; the cost of sowing and harvesting the wheat being about the value of five 
bushels, and of the rape-seed, four bushels. 
In Outagamie “the largest yield of winter wheat on new ground is from 45 to 
50 bushels—average, 35 to 40; on old ground, 30 to 35 bushels; spring wheat, 
when well cultivated, 35 bushels ; expenses of crop do not exceed $9 per acre, 
including seed.” 
In Sauk “‘hops are made a specialty, growing luxuriantly and yielding most 
abundantly, averaging three-fourths of a ton per acre, and selling at from 50 to 
60 cents per pound. This county alone last season received for the article of 
hops about $3,000,00C—cost of raising, about 22 cents per pound.” Our Mon- 
roe correspondent estimates the profits upon this crop to be $50 per cent. on out- 
lay of capital and labor. In Richland the profit is given at 150 per cent. Sauk 
is at present the great hop county, but the vines are being largely cultivated 
in other localities, and the great suecess which has attended experiments thus 
far must stimulate still greater attention to the crop, to which the region seems 
especially adapted. 
The wheat crop of 1866 reached 20,307,920 bushels, or an average of 144 
bushels per acre; corn, 9,414,583 bushels, average per acre, 28.3; oats, 17,174,086 
bushels, average, 333; potatoes, 3,940,273 bushels, average, 91 bushels; hay, 
1,151,477 tons, average, 1.3 ton per acre. 
5. The Scotch Fife, Canada Club, Lowland Scotch, California, Rio Grande, 
China Tea, Hoosac, Blue-stem, Stettin, White Missouri, Soulé, White flint, White 
and Red Mediterranean, Golden straw, and Siberian, are among the many varieties 
of spring and winter wheat sown in Wisconsin. The Club and Scotch Fife are 
preferred in Ozaukee, Rock, Chippewa, Winnebago, Green Lake, Kenosha, 
Pearce, St. Croix, Columbia, Portage, Buffalo, La Fayette, and other counties ; 
in Rock, Green, Walworth, Monroe, and Washington, the Rio Grande is highly 
esteemed ; the Golden Drop in La Fayette, and the China Tea wheat in Outagamie. 
The Club wheat is preferred on account of its large yield, while the Fife is valued 
for its freedom from rust and its stiffer straw. Speaking of the latter our Fond 
du Lac correspondent says : 
It sends its roots deep into the soil; never rusts or falls; stands the extremes of weather, 
and yields better than either the Rio Grande or Club. 
Our Ozaukee reporter writes : 
The Canada Club is preferred if it can be put in the ground very early ; otherwise the Fife 
wheat is surer and yields more abundantly, and is therefore more extensively sown, although 
it commands five or six cents per bushel less than the Club or Golden Drop. 
From Racine: 
Of spring wheat we have two classes, hard and soft—three varieties of hard, viz: Fife, 
Lowland Scotch, and California, the last yielding largely but making inferior flour; the other 
two are hardy, strong-stemmed ; yield, satisfactory; flour, good. Of the soft we have seven 
varieties: Club, Rio Grande, China, Pearl, Mammoth Tea, White Missouri, and Siberian. All 
make choice flour, but only the Club and Siberian are strong enough in straw to make them 
desirable. 
Comparatively little winter wheat has been grown in Wisconsin, but its suc- 
cess has been so repeatedly demonstrated in various parts of the State that the 
quantity raised is rapidly increasing. Our Douglass reporter says : 
This is a great country for winter wheat, as it has been well tested. 
