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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
POTATOES. 
The experiments in seven different methods of preparing the seed, plant¬ 
ing the product of each method in the same manner the second year, that 
were begun in 18G8, were continued the present year. 
Men were set to digging these potatoes without my knowledge, mixing 
the product of the different methods of treatment so that no results can 
be reported. 
The experiments in hilling and flat culture were interfered with in the 
same manner. 
Early Bose Potatoes. —One-eighth of an acre of ground was planted to 
this variety for the purpose of ascertaining the rate of increase in field 
culture. 227 potatoes, weighing 54 pounds, and making 825 hills, were 
planted upon the plat May 10. Rows 3 1-2 feet apart, hills 20 inches apart 
in the row. Fully ripe, and vines dead August 5. Dug August 31. Weighed 
758 lbs., yielding at the rate of 101 bushels per acre, One pound of seed 
produced 14 pounds. From time of planting till full ripening of plants, 
87 days. 
W. W. DANIELLS. 
PRACTICAL LUMBERING—HOW IT IS DONE. 
Du. J. W. Hoyt, Secretary Wisconsin State Agricultural Society: 
Dear Sir —Since receiving your request for a paper on the methods of 
practical lumbering, it has been out of my power to comply. And even now, 
I am so pressed by manifold duties that it will be impossible for me to fur¬ 
nish you with more than a brief and hurriedly written communication, which 
you are at liberty to accept or reject at your own discretion. 
A logging camp is quite an institution. From fifteen to twenty-five men, 
with four to six teams, and a good cook—who is the busiest and hardest 
worked person in the lot—compose the crew. The logger, who is himself 
the owner of the pine land or lumber, or a contractor to put in logs from 
lands belonging to others, is the head-man or superintendent of the gang. 
Unlike the old fashioned state of Maine, where the shanties are low and 
dark, with a big smoking log fire in the center, with half the roof open for 
a chimney, they now build nice log shanties with windows and floors; one 
for cooking and eating house, with large cook stove and modern con- 
veniencies; another, with bunks upon each side, and a heating stove in the 
center, where the men sleep and sit evenings and Sundays. Others again 
for stables for teams, made warm and comfortable, and for storing the hay 
and feed. All these are covered with shakes (long rived shingles) or boards, 
which make tight and warm roofs. The cracks between the logs are 
nicely and warmly mudded up. These shanties are the first things built in 
the fall, and are located on or near good water in as convenient a place as may 
