ANNUAL REPORT—AGRICULTURE. 
25 
TURNIPS, RUTA BAGAS, CARROTS, ETC. 
It is a matter of regret that neither the state nor the United 
States’ census- supplies statistics of any of these crops—a fact 
which too plainly shows that they hold an unimportant place in 
the estimation of the agricultural public. Having repeatedly 
urged their importance to successful husbandry, not only as a 
means of ameliorating many soils, but also as being essential 
to stock-raising, without which permanently successful farming 
is impossible, we shall pass them without further remark in 
this place. 
THE SUGAR BEET 
Has not been so successful in Wisconsin during the past 
year as we had hoped. The several experiments made in its 
production, in Dane county, under the direction of Col. Far¬ 
rington of Madison, who, in the event of success, contem¬ 
plated starting an extensive factory here, have shown that, in 
this locality, we cannot rely upon more than about eight per 
cent, of sugar. It is said to have succeeded better elsewhere. 
The results of experiments at Black Hawk, in Sauk county, 
are more encouraging, as will appear from the following quo¬ 
tation from a recent editorial in the State Journal: 
“We gave an account last summer, of the organization of the f First 
Sauk County Beet Sugar Company/ at Black Hawk, thirty-six miles west 
of here. We were agreeably surprised yesterday, by a visit from Senator 
B. U. Strong of Spring Green, and Hon.C. C. Kuntz, member of Assembly 
from Black Hawk, accompanied by a resident from their county, Mr. H. 
Ochsner, treasurer of the above company, who had specimens of the beet 
sugar just manufactured there. From him we learn the following facts: 
The shares of the company were sold for $250, on condition that the holder 
would raise and deliver to the factory four acres of sugar beets for each 
share held by him. The money obtained for the stock was used to put up 
a factory and buy machinery. In December last, a wooden buildiqg one 
hundred and nineteen feet long, forty feet wide and two stories high was 
completed. In addition to this there is a stone boiler room about twenty- 
four feet wide by thirty-six feet long; a wooden building called the bone- 
black house, about forty feet long and twenty feet wide; a tower about ten 
feet square and four stories high and two furnaces. The buildings are about 
ten rods from Honey Creek, and cost complete, seven thousand dollars. 
