2 i 6 Wisconsin state agricultural society . 
Corn fed in this way will bring from 30 to 40 cents per bushel 
of ears, and you have the satisfaction of knowing that you are not 
selling your farm, by the bushel as is too much the practice at the 
present time. 
Mr. Anderson did not believe in the idea advanced by Mr. 
Allen, of planting corn on clover sod, and advocated spring 
plowing for corn ground. Had tried plaster upon corn, but saw 
no good effect from its use. 
Mr. Scoville said he was a corn grower and had raised at the 
rate of 100 bushels per acre in a field of 30 acres—did not 
favor the idea of the writer that corn should be planted but three 
feet and two inches apart. His experience had been that wide 
planting and generous manuring produced heavy crops. He fav¬ 
ored pulling out suckers so that the corn should have plenty of 
room. Mr. Fox believed in deep plowing and thorough cultivation, 
fine pulverization of soil was essential in corn raising anywhere. 
Where he lived they found that a thorough harrowing, making 
the soil fine, suited for plant food, was much better than the 
same labor given in rolling the ground. 
ROTATION OF CROPS. 
I 
BY J. D. WOOD, BARABOO. 
The question of furnishing the world with food is one of the 
most important ones which can engage human attention. It is 
not only important to-day, but it grows in importance as we look 
to the future. A hungry dog will be a thief—a hungry ox will 
tear down a fence, and hungry men are as much more dangerous 
as their intelligence exceeds that of the dog and ox. The fierce¬ 
ness of the French revolution was in a great measure occasioned 
by h unger, and the Chicago communists, because of their hunger, 
aim to overthrow our laws for the protection of property and 
seize upon that which other men’s industry has'accumulated. 
Hunger never reasons, but clamorously demands and seizes food. 
When we look at our decreasing yield per acre on the one hand 
and our increasing population on the other, it is the part of wis- 
