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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
1859.. .Club Wheat, and seeded with Clover; seeding killed by drouth; Fall 
ploughed. 
1860.. .Club Wheat and seeded with Clover. 
Lot No. 4—20 Acres. Standing Water. 
1855.. .0.t crop and seeded to Clover. 
1856.. . Pasture. 
1857.. . Pasture. 
1858.. . Pasture. 
1859.. .0.t crop on the sod, (Spring ploughing.) Fall ploughed. 
1860.. .Club Wheat. N. B.—Should have been seeded to Clover, but was too 
poor to buy seed, having lost all my last year’s seeding and seed crop 
by the drouth. 
Lot No. 5—20 Acres; 15 Acres under cultivation , 5 woods. Standing Water. 
1855.. .0.t crop and seeded to Clover; has been pastured to this date; will be 
fall ploughed for Oats in 1861. 
Lot A r o. 6—10 Acres. Standing Water. 
1855.. .Pasture. 
1856.. .0.t crop on the sod. (Spring ploughing.) Fall ploughed. 
1857.. .Club Wheat and seeded with Clover. 
1858.. .Hay crop and seed. 
1859.. . Pasture. > 
1860—Oat Crop on the sod, (Spring ploughing;) seeded with Timothy, Red 
Top, Red and White Clover for a permanent pasture. 
Lot No. 7—10 Acres. Dry Lot. 
1855.. . Pastu re. 
1856.. .0.t crop on the sod, (Spring ploughed.) Fall ploughed. 
1857.. .Club Wheat, and seeded with Clover. 
1858.. .Clover hay crop and seed. 
1859.. .Corn crop on Clover ley, (Spring ploughed.) Fall ploughed. 
1860.. .Club Wheat. N. B.—Should have been sowed with Oats this year, and 
next with Wheat and seeded to Clover, but being desirous of doing 
my part toivards redeeming Wisconsin , “went in on the Wheat.” 
Lot No. 8—20 Acres. Standing Water. 
1855.. .Pasture to this date; contemplate fall ploughing for an Oat crop in ’61. 
Lot No. 9—20 Acres. Dry Lot. 
1855.. .This field had been several years in pasture, with No. 10, the field 
below, hot having been divided at the time; was manured in the 
years 1851 and ’52 with 1200 loads of manure; in the Spring of ’53 
was subsoiled with the Michigan Double Plough, using a four-horse 
team and turning a furrow 10 inches deep, depositing the manure in 
the bottom of the furrow and bringing the subsoil to the surface, 
and planted to Corn. 
1854.. .Club Wheat and seeded to Clover. 
