Annual Report of the 
soils that show their permanent character. When the surface 
strength of the"soils of the great west shall have been exhausted, as 
it will be speedily, then those soils that have a solid constitution 
will be in demand, and among those preeminently, will be found 
the soils of eastern Wisconsin. 
To complete the subject, I ought to dwell upon the relations of 
these classes to the native vegetation, geological formations, topo¬ 
graphy, drainage, lake influences, etc., but time forbids. This, with 
a more complete description of its foregoing evils, is included in the 
geological report for the present year. 
Mr. Benton. Could you give us information and help us to de¬ 
termine on which class of soils the sulphate of lime produces the 
best grain and by what process it assists vegetation, and what soils 
require its application most? 
Profesor Chamberlin. That is a matter that does not lie in my 
line of observation; my examination has been of the physical char¬ 
acteristics of those soils and not in the line you refer to. 
LIVE-STOCK ON WISCONSIN FARMS. 
BY G. E. MORROW, OF THE WESTERN RURAL, CHICAGO. 
[This address was delivered from notes, and the author lias kindly furnished the 
following brief abstract.] 
The condition of farming in the West, and in Wisconsin and the 
Northwest as fully as in any other part of the country, for the past 
few years, as is well known, has been far from satisfactory. There 
has been a general feeling that too exclusive attention has been 
given to grain growing, and connected with this has been a general 
increased interest in relation to stock raising and feeding. For this, 
Wisconsin and the Northwest has some disadvantages, chief of 
which are the facts that the winters are long and cold, and there 
is more liability to droughts than in some other sections. There 
are, however, some advantages. The soil is fertile and grass and 
other forage grows with great rapidity. The difference in length 
of Wisconsin summers and those two hundred miles south, is less 
