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Wisconsin state agricultural society . 
RASPBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES. 
The raising of these small fruits 1 would highly encourage and 
commend, not only to the small gardener in our villages and 
cities, but to the general farmer. With little labor and small 
expense these berries may be grown in great abundance, and are 
not only healthful and a luxury, but are a considerable source of 
profit, if near our cities and larger towns, where they may be 
marketed to advantage. Their culture I am happy to say has 
increased the last year, particularly upon our prairie and sandy 
soils, where they flourish with great vigor, bearing fruit abun¬ 
dantly. I know of no climate or soil better adapted to an abun¬ 
dant yield or more perfect maturity of these fruits, than that 
which our state affords. 
STOCK RAISING-. 
I would again urge upon the farmers of the state the import¬ 
ance of raising more and better stock. Be governed bv circum¬ 
stances as to the kind, whether horses, cattle, sheep or hogs. 
While any part of our state is adapted to the raising of stock, 
some portions are more especially calculated to produce better 
pasturage and hay than others, and would be more suited to suc¬ 
cessful horse, cattle and sheep growing than for swine, while other 
localities are better for corn and clover, indispensible articles of 
food in successful hog growing. Wisconsin is too far removed 
from the great consuming markets of the east and of foreign 
countries to enable the farmers to obtain remunerative returns for 
their labor by shipping the coarse grain products of the farm to 
such distant markets. These products must be utilized at home, 
on the farm, in the growth and production of animals which can 
be transported to eastern or foreign markets at a trifling cost of 
their value, when compared with the expense of shipment of 
grain, etc., upon which they are to be fed. And here let me say, 
that it should be apparent to every thinking, intelligent farmer, 
that it costs no more to ship a good animal, pound for pound 
than a poor one, and that the extra price per pound which such 
animals always command is a valuable consideration—in fact is 
