76 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
SWEET POTATOES. 
Best sample, A. Bovee, Eagle, Waukesha county,... .one barrel Seed Potatoes. 
2d best. .do.W. H. Hayes, Palmyra, Jefferson co., ... .% . do . ..do 
3d best.. do. Henry Turvell, Madison,.. \ . do.do 
DRIED PEAT. 
Best specimen Peat, ^ cubic yard, F. C. Curtis, Rocky Run,. 10 
2d best..do.do.do.P. M. Perkins, Racine county,. 5 
STATEMENT OF H. H. WILDS. 
I cut my cane on tlie 19th of September, and took the whole 
of the ripe stalks and ground in a mill made with three wooden 
rollers. I strain the juice obtained, through a flannel cloth, 
twice; boil over a slow fire in an iron vessel, but before boil¬ 
ing, put a teacup full of strong lime water into sufficient juice 
for twenty pounds of sugar, and skim the boiling juice as long 
as any green scum rises. I then set it off and let it stand four 
hours; then turn the juice off till the sediment begins to ap¬ 
pear, and strain the juice twice as before. Next I mix one 
table-spoonful of saleratus with half a tea cup full of new milk 
and add to the above quantity of juice; stir the whole while 
heating, and skim as long as any scum rises; boil slowly until 
by dipping in a spoon and then dipping it quickly into cold 
water it will form a wax in the spoon. It is now in a condi¬ 
tion to become sugar. I make my syrup in the same way, ex¬ 
cept that I do not peel the stalks, and do not boil the juice as 
much the last time. 
IT. H. Wilds. 
Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wis. 
STATEMENT OF E. F. WILDS. 
The cane was raised on sandy loam, the second crop after 
breaking, and without manure. The land was plowed in the 
spring, ridged and planted four feet each way. Immediately 
after being ridged, which was about the 20th of May, cultivated 
and hoed it twice; and, as nearly as I could estimate, it would 
yield one hundred and twenty-five gallons of syrup per acre. 
I think the above amount is all that can be safely depended up¬ 
on, although in some localities, and under more favorable cir¬ 
cumstances, two hundred gallons may be realized. The process 
of the manufacture of the syrup exhibited by me, is as follows: 
After the cane had been cut, stripped of its leaves, and 
passed through a mill, the juice was strained through a coarse 
cloth and put into a copper boiler. I then added the whites 
of two eggs well beat up, to one tea cup full of strong lime 
