246 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
PRODUCTS OF THE EARTH, 
FIELD CROPS BY THE ACRE. 
The Executive Committee are enabled to make a report on 
Field Crops for the year 1859, of which the Society and the 
State may well be proud. The season in most parts of Wis¬ 
consin, proved to be unusually favorable for the wheat crop, 
which is—and wm may add too exclusively—the main reliance 
' of our farmers; and, stimulated, as we presume, by the discred¬ 
itable Report of the Committee for 1858, a number of enterpris¬ 
ing and ambitious gentlemen have produced crops worthy of 
the best soil and the most thorough cultivation. 
The following is a list of the awards of the Committee, 
made at the meeting in December. Each published report was 
accompanied by the required affidavits: 
N. W. Dean, Madison, 1st premium on one acre Wheat, variety “Blue 
Stem” Club, No. of bushels 59 1-5,.$10 
Luther Landon, Waupun,2d do, variety not named, No. bushels, 40 1-4,.. 5 
Eli Stilson, Oshkosh, 1st premium on one-fourth acre Carrots, variety, 
Large Yellow and Long Orange, No. bushels 296. 10 
No other satisfactory reports having come before the Com¬ 
mittee, they were denied the pleasure of making any further 
awards. 
WHEAT—STATEMENT OF N. W. DEAN. 
The undersigned, a resident of Madison, has raised upon 
one acre of land, the present year, fifty-nine and 12-60 bushels 
of the variety known as “Blue Stem” Club Wheat, a sample of 
which is now on exhibition in the Agricultural Rooms at 
Madison. 
The land upon which the above wheat was raised, was an old 
Indian field, directly upon the east bank of Lake Monona, in 
the town of Blooming Drove, in Dane county. The land had 
been seeded down to blue grass for several years, in commons. 
It was first broken up in June, 1858, to the depth of about six 
inches. In the fall of the same year, it was cross-plowed about 
eight inches deep. 
