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present, but expressing their warmest symyathy for the efforts put 
forth by our society to educate the farmers of the state, and sin¬ 
cerely hoped that the great struggle now going on everywhere to 
better the condition of the American farmer, would be a grand 
and glorious success. • 
“ Cranberry Culture.” Paper by' H. Floyd, of Green Lake 
county. 
“ Elements of Success in Farming.” Paper by G. E. Morrow, 
of the Western Farmer. 
“Grain Culture.” Paper by A. E. Allen, of Fox Lake. 
Mr. Allen was asked certain questions by delegates, to which 
he replied, as follows : 
Q. How much clover do you sow per acre ? 
A. About six quarts. 
Q. Do you prefer a broadcast seeder or drill ? 
A. I use a gang-plow seeder—one of my own construction. 
Q. Did you ever sow plaster upon grain, without seeding with 
clover ? 
A. I have, but would not advise it to be done. The best way 
is to sow plaster upon clover. Plaster.will make clover grow, and 
clover will make wheat grow. 
“Fish Culture.” Paper by Alfred Palmer, of Boscobel. 
A delegate asked Mr. Palmer, how much and what kind of food 
trout require? 
A. If you stock your ponds rightly, not too much, nature will 
supply nearly all the food they need. The older the ponds, the 
more animal life accumulates for food. I get livers of the butcher 
to feed them occasionally. My trout do not cost me ten cents a 
day for food. They are the cheapest meat I ever raised on my 
farm. 
Q. What was the age of your trout fed the last year, and the 
average number? 
A. My oldest trout we,re three years old, and the average for 
the year, some 20,000, large and small. Don’t think I paid over 
twenty-five dollars for food for them for the year. Of course, na¬ 
ture furnished a large amount of food, such as bugs and insects 
which breed rapidly in the water, and is food much sought after 
by the trout 
