354 WISCONSIN STATU AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . 
growing ; sowing the same field to this cereal every year; invest¬ 
ing every dollar in this crop, and making everything subservient 
to one object— wheat. Then in spring and early summer, day after 
day, you exult over your glorious fields. Buoyant with expecta¬ 
tion, you purchase things not needed, a new reaper, on time , of 
course , when the old one, just as good with a little repairs, is lying 
rotting in the field just where you left it last harvest. This new 
reaper gets you into debt, which you expect to meet by your 
bountiful wheat crop, but just before-harvest, comes a blight, 
chinch bug or some other bug, or even ten days of hot weather, 
just when the grain is in the milk, causing rust and ruin to the 
crop, and away goes your glorious wheat, and you are ruined. 
Gentlemen, there is a way to avoid this ruin; shall I tell you why 
some'of you fail in farming? You use unsuitable means to 
achieve a successful result. I affirm, and I know whereof 1 speak, 
that if agriculture is prosecuted with judgment, intelligence and 
industry, there need be no failure. 
I wish to draw your attention from those large wheat fields of 
which we have been speaking, to a plan of farming which you 
will find both safe and profitable : A variety and diversity of crops, 
breeding and rearing a variety of domesticated animals, and to 
make it more pleasing as well as more profitable, let your horses 
be well bred. They will cost you no more than low bred ones. If 
you wish to keep them, they will do more work in the field and 
on the road in less time and much more pleasantly, and when 
sold, will bring twice the money. The same rule holds.good in 
cattle. 
Durhams .—This breed makes an early or quick return of the food 
consumed. Early maturity is the grand and peculiar character¬ 
istic of this breed. That beautiful ripeness of condition at so 
early an age has excited the wonder of every judge of cattle. 
Now, gentlemen, we have some well bred colts and cattle in 
Wisconsin, and I have no fear for the colts, as the man who has 
spirit to breed good ones will take care of them; but I want you 
to take good care of your cattle. House them well, and keep 
them warm, ever remembering that it requires a certain amount 
of animal heat to live—much more to thrive; and also, that it 
requires three times the food to keep up this animal heat in any 
