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GENERAL AGRICULTURE OF WAUPACA COUNTY. 
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The type of farming which is followed most extensively in 
Waupaca County is based upon the dairy industry. In the 
southwestern and western parts of the county, potato raising is 
the leading industry in connection with dairying. In the east¬ 
ern part, in the region of Superior soils, much less attention is 
paid to potato growing, and dairying is the leading industry. 
In the region of these heavier soils there are a number of farms 
upon which not enough potatoes are grown to supply the home 
table. On these heavier soils grain raising receives more at¬ 
tention than elsewhere. 
Practically all of the crops grown at present may be consid¬ 
ered in part as cash crops, for hay, corn, oats, rye and barley 
are sold to some extent directly from the farm. Potatoes are 
grown mainly for sale, although they are one of the most impor¬ 
tant subsistence crops. The greater part of the hay, corn, oats 
and barley is used in feeding life-stock, and a large proportion 
of it finally reaches the market in the form of dairy products, 
beef and pork. 
Hay is grown more extensively than any other crop. In 1909 
the census reports 58,286 acres in all hay crops with a produc¬ 
tion of slightly over 98,000 tons. Of the hay crops grown, by 
far the greater proportion consists of timothy and clover mixed. 
A small amount of timothy is grown alone and also a small 
amount of clover. There are approximately 9,500 acres from 
which marsh hay is cut, and the balance of the hay crop is made 
up of alfalfa, millet, glam which is cut for hay, and coarse for¬ 
age crops. The best hay crops are produced on the heavier type 
of the Superior, Kennan and Antigo series. As many of the 
soils in the western part of the county are somewhat acid, alsike 
clover is sometimes grown in place of red clover. Red clover 
does well on land whose productiveness has been kept up, and 
succeeds on new land in spite of the acidity; but on run down 
fields which are acid, it is frequently difficult to get a good 
stand of clover. In 1919 there were 1248 acres of alfalfa in 
the county. 
In 1909, the acreage devoted to oats was 38,860 acres which 
produced a total yield of 1,153,059 bushels. This crop does best 
on the fine sandy loams, loams and silt loam soils. Where it is 
raised on the extremely sandy soils in the southwestern part of 
the county, results are usually unsatisfactory. In 1919 the aver¬ 
age was 40,781. 
