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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The prices of wheat were discouragingly low early in the 
year 1870—touching as low as $0.81 for No. 1, and $0.73 for 
No. 2; but, later, prices advanced considerably, reaching the 
maximum in July, when No. 1 brought $1.40 and No. 2 $1.27 
at Milwaukee. 
The prices for each month in the year are shown in the 
following: 
Table showing the range of prices of Spring Wheat during the year 1870. 
MONTHS. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
January. 
$0.75% @$0.84% 
February. 
84 @ 8834 
79% @ 84 
March. 
8434 @ 8834 
7734 @ 82% 
April. 
80 @ 9634 
73 @ 9434 
May. 
90 @ 1.07% 
8634 @ 1-0414 
June. 
1.01 @ 1.28 
97 @ 1.25 
July. 
1.12 @ 1.40 
1.0634 @ 1.35 
August. 
1.08 @ 1.3334 
99 @ 1.27 
September. 
98 @ 1.1534 
89 @ 1.13% 
October. 
1 . 00 % @ 1.1234 
96% @ 1.1034 
November.. 
9334 @ I.I 414 
92% @ 1.12i| 
December. 
1.0434 @ f -1034 
1.03 @ 1.08% 
The average price of No. 1 for the whole year being a frac¬ 
tion over $1.02 and of No. 2, 97 1-2 cents, and the proportion 
of No. 1 to No. 2, being as 42.7 to 49.4, according to the report 
of the Chamber of Commerce above quoted, we have a general 
average of less than 99 cents per bushel for the wheat product 
of the whole state, provided the same had been delivered at 
Milwaukee. Deduct from this the cost of delivery at Milwau¬ 
kee or any other market paying an equal price, and the price 
actually received by the farmers would probably fall below 90 
cents. Multiply this by the average yield per acre, (13.4) and 
you have $12.06, as the total value at the home market, of the 
product of one acre of land devoted to wheat. 
With these data, the wheat maniac will be able, by a simple 
estimate of the cost of plowing, seeding, harvesting and haul¬ 
ing to market, to arrive at the net profits of the business. 
It is flattering to our pride that Wisconsin should thus early 
have placed herself in the very front rank of the wheat grow- 
