36 Wisconsin state Agricultural society. 
that it can be shipped from the dairy to Liverpool for about one 
cent per pound. Too much attention cannot be given to this branch 
of industry, as there is little danger that it will be overdone, or 
the price unremunerative when it can be carried a thousand miles 
across our country and three thousand across the Atlantic for one 
dollar per hundred pounds. Besides, it is an article of food 
liked by all classes, but from the price it usually commands, is 
used in limited quantities—more as a luxury than otherwise—by 
the poorer people, whereas if the amount manufactured was 
largely increased—even doubled—the price would be slightly 
less, and the consumers wonderfully increased, so that the pro¬ 
duct would be all used, and at remunerative prices to the pro¬ 
ducers. There is no other branch of farming which has paid bet¬ 
ter in the state than this, and the better its manufacture is under¬ 
stood the better will be the profits. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
APPLES. 
There was a very light crop of this standard fruit—not half 
enough for home consumption. Orchards of hardy varieties are 
however being planted all over the state, and promise a fruitage 
in the early future, of such abundance as not ouly to supply the 
home demand, but the calls from other states less favorably situated 
for successful fruit culture. 
PEARS. 
This excellent fruit is produced in limited quantity, many cul¬ 
tivators believing that they can not be successfully and profita¬ 
bly raised. 
Experience and observation have however shown that they may 
be produced in abundance, and of excellent quality in many parts 
of the state. The remarks of ex-senator J. T. Kingston upon pear 
culture, will be found in this volume in the proceedings of the 
agricultural convention held in February, 1873, and are worthy of 
careful thought and investigation. The Flemish Beauty and Early 
Bergamot have been cultivated to considerable extent, have been 
raised for some years and are very hardy. 
