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October. I knew that it was late, but I hoped that chances might 
work favorably, as they sometimes do, and give me a crop, but they 
did not. The wheat went into the winter weak and small, and the 
most of it was killed in the spring. That which was left was at¬ 
tacked by the bug, and being late, the rust finished it. I only har¬ 
vested it in patches. Where there was no wheat, the weeds grew 
very luxuriantly. Many of the pig-weeds had to be cut with an axe. 
The whole had to be mowed, raked and burned before I could plow 
it in the fall. The ground is now full of foul seeds, and I have 
thought it best to change my plans in reference to it, and so have 
seeded it down in order to get a new start at some future day. Had 
I sowed it a month earlier, the probality is that I would have har¬ 
vested a splendid crop of wheat, my bins would have been filled— 
and consequently my purse—my ground would have been free from 
weeds, I would have been saved great labor and expense in prepar¬ 
ing it for the next crop, and my plans in reference to it would not 
have been disarranged as they are now. I had another piece of 
ground which I counted too poor to adopt at once into my rotation. 
It had not been profitable to its owner for some time before I came 
into possession of it. I sowed it to oats and seeded with clover. I 
harvested 25 bushels of oats per acre. The next spring I sowed 
plaster and secured a tolerably good growth of clover. There came 
a copious rain the last of June, and while the ground was in good 
condition I plowed the clover under. I then dressed it with 40 
bushels of freshly slaked lime to the acre and sowed it to buck¬ 
wheat. When the buckwheat was at its best estate I plowed it un¬ 
der and sowed it to wheat. The spring, with its dry freezing, was 
very bitter on winter wheat and injured it just in proportion to the 
lateness of its sowing, or inversely as it was rooted. In due time 
the bugs assailed it, and the rust hovered about it, but I threshed 
28 bushels per acre of wheat, that brought me at the Baraboo mill 
25 cents per bushel more than the market quotations. On land of 
the same quality in an adjoining field, spring wheat hardly paid for 
harvesting. After I have repeated the clover and buckwheat pro¬ 
cess, I shall adopt this land into my rotation. 
There is nothing which more thoroughly disorganizes a man’s 
plans than to have his grass-seed fail to catch. Without a reason¬ 
able certainty in his seeding, a rotation of crops seems impossible. 
However general the failure may be, there are always pieces which 
