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STATE AGEICULTURAL SOCIETT. 
LATE FA EM EXPEEIMENTS. 
Since the establishment of agricultural colleges, systematic 
experimentation has become common in all countries where 
such institutions exist. * It could hardly be expected, on the 
one hand, that many, nor indeed any, of the various difficult 
problems that perplex the intelligent agriculturist will be 
settled immediately; nor, on the other, can it be denied that 
such questions are at last in the way to be settled, nor that 
science has fairly undertaken to determine the principles 
which underlie the agricultural art. Both for the conclusions 
already reached and for the valuable suggestions they afford 
to private experimenters, we extract from several of the 
reports of such institutions such matter as seems most inter¬ 
esting and important. 
EXPERIMENTS ON THE FARM OF THE WISCONSIN STATE 
UNIVERSITY. 
From the report of the board of regents of the Wisconsin 
State University we copy the following account of experi¬ 
ments conducted by Prof W. W. Daniells, chief of the 
agricultural department: 
Experiments. —A scheme of experiments for the i-ear was prepared by me, 
and submitted to the board of regents, for their approval, at their meeting 
in February. From that list the farm committee chose the following as those 
best adapted to present facilities for conducting experiments: 
1«<. Wheat —To try raising winter wheat by protecting from winds by belts 
of timber. The trial to be made with both red and white varieties. 
'’Xd. Profits of Wheat and Corn Raising .—Cultivate an equal quantity of 
ground in each, keeping an account of the cost and value of production ; the 
