GENERAL AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE. 
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Practically all of the crops grown in this region may be con¬ 
sidered in part as cash crops, for hay, corn, oats, rye, and barley 
are sold to some extent directly from the farms. Potatoes are 
grown mainly for sale although they are one of the most im¬ 
portant subsistence crops. By far the greater proportion of the 
hay, corn, and oats produced is used in feeding livestock, and 
thus much of it finally reaches the market in the form of dairy 
products, beef, and pork. A considerable quantity of grain and 
hay is used as feed for work stock. 
Oats is grown more extensively than any other crop except 
hay. Its production is distributed throughout the county, and 
while it is grown on nearly all of the soils, best returns are 
secured from the fine sandy loams, loams, and clay loams rather 
than from the soils of lighter texture. 
Hay is the crop which is first in importance from the stand¬ 
point of acreage. This includes timothy and clover, together 
or separately, alfalfa, and also such crops as oats, or oats and 
peas which may be cut green for hay. Only a small proportion 
of the total hay crop consists of this latter variety, however. 
Hay-makes its best growth on the soils of medium to heavy 
texture rather than on the light sandy types. 
Corn is the crop of third importance from the standpoint of 
acreage. While corn will usually mature in this section a large 
proportion of it is used as ensilage since nearly every farmer 
has a silo. The soils of this county which are best adapted to 
corn raising are the fine sandy loams which have a rather heavy 
subsoil, since the sandy surface permits the ground to warm 
up quite early; so the crop can get a start more readily than 
on the heavier soils where the drainage is rather deficient, and 
the ground rather cold in the spring. 
Barley is a crop of considerable importance and is grown on 
a variety of soils. 
Rve is confined more extensively to the sandy portions of the 
county because these soils will produce rye better than any other 
grain crop. 
The growing of potatoes while of some importance has not 
reached the magnitude which this industry has in either Wau¬ 
paca or Portage Counties to the west. This fact is due chiefly 
to the soil in Outagamie County some of which is heavy and not 
so well suited to the commercial growing of potatoes as are the 
lighter so ils of the other two counties mentioned. In 1920 the 
