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COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
oxygen-gas enter, circulate freely through it, greatly stimu- 
lating and aiding healthy growth, after the seed has been care¬ 
fully selected and cleaned. 
These are some of the more obvious ways in which these 
several plants aid in producing a rich and healthy growth of 
wheat; which cannot long be counted upon where that cereal, 
only, is raised in continuous succession. 
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One more important benefit to be derived from rotation, is 
that it secures greater variety of crops, and husbandry; and, 
consequently, greater security, and better preparation of feed 
for stock. \ 
LIBERAL MANURING. 
Another of the modes for restoring and preserving worn 
soils, and for maintaining them, continually, in good tilth, is 
plentiful manuring. 
The beneficial effects of this practice are so clearly obvious, 
that it seems almost superfluous to do more than name the sub¬ 
ject. 
Feeding the land, to get rich results, is just as essential, as 
feeding a horse well that he may perform well—or of highly 
feeding an animal if you wish him to fat thoroughly. 
But, perhaps something may be profitably said about the 
mode—the ways and means—of best procuring a plentiful sup¬ 
ply of manure in this region. Among the numerous sources 
which may be resorted to, I will point out what, in my mind, 
are the most prolific and economical resources for the farmers 
of Dodge and surrounding counties. 
Straw for Manure. —All over this State, 1 see annually, 
large stacks of Straw burnt up. Now this is a ruinous prac¬ 
tice, and our State cannot long afford to do it. The Straw , of 
wheat contains a larger share , than the kernel does, of that 
same precious element— phosphorus; and when we burn our 
straw, somewhere in a pile, we waste a valuable amount of 
that precious fertilizer, which it will, ultimately, cost us much 
money to supply from abroad. 
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