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The, increased yield of the more deeply plowed plats will doubt¬ 
less be much greater after two or three years, as it is difficult to 
mix the soil unilormly to so great a depth, only by thoroughly 
tilling it for a series of years. 
In 1871, the yield was greatly in favor of shallow plowing, the 
following being the yield of Early Yellow Dent corn : 
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Plat 1.55.4 bushels. 
Plat 2. 50.65 bushels. 
Plat 3. 44.95 bushels. 
Plat 4.. 42.21 bushels. 
The effect of the severe dry weather of July and August was 
much less marked upon plats 3 and 4 than upon plat 1, as could 
be readily seen by walking through the field. 
In the experiment with comparison of different varieties of 
corn, the soil was cultivated seven inches in depth. The average 
yield of Yellow Dent and Cherokee varieties in that experiment 
was 52 bushels to the acre. The average yield of the same varie¬ 
ties upon the deeply plowed plats, in the above experiment, was 
55 3-4 bushels. The increased yield of these deeply plowed plats 
is only great when the rapidity with which the deep plowing has 
been accomplished is taken into account. 
The Department of Agriculture has received during the year 
the following donations: 
From tbe Commissioner of Agriculture— 
8 quarts White Australian Spring Wheat, grown in Oregon. 
34 bushel Tappannock Winter Wheat. 
15 quarts Arnold’s Hybrid, No. 9, Winter Wheat, grown in Canada. 
4 quarts White Winter Touzelle Wheat. 
6 quarts Probsteier Barley, from Germany. 
6 quarts Birlie Oats, from Scotland. 
6 quarts Silesian Sugar Beet seed. 
1 peck Silver Hull Buckwheat. 
Several packages of garden vegetable seeds. 
Through Hon. W. W. Field, Secretary of Wisconsin State Agricultural So¬ 
ciety, from Commissioner of Agriculture— 
1 bushel Mammoth Red Spring Wheat, grown in Illinois. 
1 peck Birlie Oats. 
From H. Grunow, Mifflin, Wisconsin— 
1 peck Manshury Barley. 
Erom Alexander Findlay, Esq., Madison— 
12 pounds Chevalier Barley. 
12 pounds common Barley. 
15 pounds April Wheat, all imported from Scotland by Mr. Findlay. 
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