What is true of wheat is true of all the other 
products of the farm. The splendid work done 
in this state where we are met is to the point. 
The average yield of corn in Wisconsin has been 
raised, by the application of scientific methods, 
from 27 to 47 bushels per acre. The new value 
thus created in a single state for a single year 
amounts to about $15,000,000. I need not go into 
other details, because they are similar in kind 
and any one may examine them for himself. Such 
inerease of the national wealth, such additional 
reward for labor waits upon the adoption of the 
best methods in every department of agriculture. 
Other peoples have been quicker to learn it than 
we. Denmark has an area of less than 16,000 
Square miles, a little less than one-fifth that of 
Minnesota, and a population in 1906 of 2,605,268. 
Only 80 per cent of her area is productive, and 
her population is 167 per square mile. Yet in 
1906 she sent abroad over $80,000,000 worth of 
her home product of provisions and eggs. Great 
Britain bought from her that year butter to the 
amount of $48,000,000 and bacon worth over $21,- 
000,000. It is interesting in this connection to 
note that, though her population is so dense, there 
were in 1905 but 754 men and 69 women in her 
penitentiaries. 
The Netherlands is a still more closely com- 
pacted population of 5,672,237 on an area of 12,- 
648 square miles, or 448 per square mile. The 
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