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“ The product of each liill is unusually great. The potatoes are still 
growing, the tops being yet green and of uncommon length of vine. The 
seed potatoe is as fresh as when the cutting was put in the ground. 
“ I am unable to tell what will be their yield, as they are not yet raised 
from the ground. They are of most excellent quality for the table. I 
consider this potatoe as a new and most desirable acquisition. 
“Wm. It. Smith .” 
The Committee in their report remark, “that the display and varieties 
in the departments which came under their supervision, were somewhat 
limited. This is the more to be regretted, as for the last two years the 
State of Wisconsin has given unmistakeable evidence of its unrivalled 
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capabilities as a grain producing country, and the interest commensurate 
with its importance should be attached to this branch of our agricultural 
resources. 
“ The deficiency alluded to, however, the Committee are inclined to 
account for in two ways—first: the expense and inconvenience of trans¬ 
porting these products from a distance ; and second, a diffidence and 
timidity on the part of many to exhibit unless possessed of something 
rare or extraordinary. 
“ The exhibition of wheat, though limited, contained not one inferior 
or indifferent sample—indeed the quality of all, both winter and spring, 
would do credit to any State in the Union. The Committee had no small 
difficulty in making the awards, the samples being so nearly alike in 
point of merit. 
“ Of Indian corn, only one exhibitor has entered the required quantity 
for competition, the others entering a few ears each. The latter entries, 
though some of them contain superior grain to the former, are conse¬ 
quently disqualified for competition. The Committee, therefore, made 
the award in favor of the former. 
“ There was only one sample of barley entered—well colored, but not 
very plump. Also one of oats, of only medium quality. 
“ Red clover seed—only one sample was exhibited—rather above me¬ 
dium quality, and evidently well harvested. The exhibitor .of this article 
is entitled to no small degree of credit for its production. In the opinion 
of the Committee, information as to the managing and comparative profit- 
