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STATE AGRICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
of virgin lands, and reached at length that period, sure to 
come, wherein American agriculturists shall be forced to give 
earnest heed to those inexorable laws of nature, obedience to 
which is an absolute condition of permanent, or even of the 
highest present, success. 
THE BARLEY CROP 
Was only fair in yield and quality. The agricultural de¬ 
partment reports the increase upon the aggregate crop of 
1868, at 10 per cent. ; average yield per acre, 25.9 bushels, 
against 24 bushels in 1868. The prices at Milwaukee ranged 
considerably lower throughout the year than during the cor¬ 
responding months of 1868, as will appear by the following 
figures taken from the secretary’s report to the chamber of 
commerce: 
Price of harJey at Milwauhee in 1868 and 1869. 
Months. 
Prices in 
18t)8. 
% 
Prices in 
1869. 
January. 
$l.'70@2.15 
$1.66(^1.75 
February. 
1.95@2.30 
1.70@2.00 
March. 
1 . 9.t@2.30 
1.65ra)2 05 
April..'. 
2.85@2.55 
1.65@2.10 
2.10@2.65 
1.60@1.85 
June. 
1.50@2 10 
1 .55 
Julv. 
1.28@1.60 
1.10@1.55 
Auffust. 
1.3S@) .81 
1.15@1.35 
September. 
1.38@1.S0 
1.10@1.45 
October. 
1.15@1.96 
95@1.27 
November. 
1.20@1.85 
85@1.15 
December. 
1.25@1.80 
85@1.16 
Several new varieties were sent out from this office during 
the winter, but the returns made by those to whom they were 
