58 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Before I quit the subject of climate, I will say a word upon 
acclimation. Seeds and plants should be carried from the 
north to the south as a general rule. Bev. C. E. Goodrich, of 
Utica, N. Y., imported potatoes from several tropical climes, 
but could not get improved plants but by seeding anew, the 
imported stock running down. I brought a fine sort of Irish 
potatoe from the city of Mexico, in 1847, but it failed to repro¬ 
duce fine fruit here. In 1857, I planted corn from New York, 
in consequence of the difficulty of maturing the corn in the last 
few years. It matured well in Kentucky, where so much corn 
was frosted. My neighbor, Ben. Howard, a .careful farmer, 
fearing that the frosted corn of last year would not germinate, 
procured seed corn from Mississippi. It bids fair to be all 
frost bitten, whilst my Kentucky corn is already ripe ! About 
ten years ago I tried to acclimate the Black Hamburg grape 
vine, and fruit in the open air ; the fruit was produced, but 
never became eatable. Laying it down in winter, never im¬ 
proved its hardiness, and it now lives barely, producing no 
fruit ! So the “ Sorghum ” and “ Imphee ” are tropical plants ; 
I warn our farmers against selling out all they have, to invest 
in Sorghum ! 
If the Southern States cannot compete, in sugar, with a 
bounty of three cents per pound, with the tropical islands, 
how can we expect to raise sugar in competition with the warm 
latitudes ? The Chinese Sugar Cane may do well to feed stock 
for a few weeks before the frost comes, but I am fearful that 
for other purposes, it will turn oht like the Morus Multicaulis, 
Dioscoria Batata, and Shanghai chickens ! No doubt the great 
failure of the foreign vine in this country is owing to a differ¬ 
ence of climate. To acclimate them, we must again and again 
reproduce them from the seed, or what is better, start with the 
native vine, and reproduce from the seed of that until we get 
varieties equal to or better than the European varieties. 
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE PROGRESSION. 
Upon the full application of these “vital forces” under other 
favorable circumstances and surroundings, depend all develop- 
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