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you to try my plan. If you would follow the recommendation that 
I give to my neighbor, very likely you would get into difficulty. 
And now our papers have said, plow deep. It is all wrong. I 
have said, “boys, plow light in the spring. I don’t care how light 
you plow, but in the fall of the year I never have plowed my land 
with less than three horses, just as deep as we can get in with the 
plows we have. 
Now my experience is this, in reference to plowing deep in the 
spring. If I plow deep, the first rain that comes sets the ground as 
hard as a brick, and I cannot help myself. I don't care what is in 
the soil, but if I have a deep subsoil, and 1 take the land that 
has been frozen or left exposed to the atmosphere, I can work it all 
summer. Now that is my way of working my farm. But now, gen¬ 
tlemen, don’t go home, and come back here next winter and say 
there was a big, fat fellow over there in Waukesha that told me 
something that I followed out, and have lost $500 to $600 by it. 
Here is the thing—these respectable farmers before me know the 
condition of their soil, can manage it better than a Professor from 
the University, or a Professor from any other institution of learn¬ 
ing. 
Now if we leave a company of men like this and go out into the 
streets and see men selling wood, as I went to half a dozen men 
since this convention commenced, and I.said, “do you know there is 
an agricultural convention here.” Well, three or four of them knew, 
and the rest did not know anything about it, and they were all 
Dane county men too. One man says. “Yes, I know there is,” 
but says he, “I know w r hat they are. They are a lot of thieves 
and shysters, and they just g?t their living out of other people, and 
I could not be hired to go there.” 
In reference to our neighbor, we shall have to do this, we shall 
have to educate our brother farmer up to that port that he will be 
interested in the State Agricultural Convention, and to the impor¬ 
tance of farmers attending it. 
Mr. Clark, of Trempealeau. This is a subject that should interest 
every person. But th° Prolessor has a report there that we want to 
hear from, so far as deep and shallow plowing is concerned. 
Professor Daniells. I waint to say that in all the remarks made 
there has been nothing said that you will find anything op¬ 
posed to in my paper, sd far as I understand it. In regard to sub- 
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