State Contention—What Wheat to Raise. 343 
its superior value, will find lodgment in the farmer’s pockets. It 
can be sold by sample to millers who appreciate its merits, and 
need not enter the local markets in competition with the softer va¬ 
rieties of wheat. 
Mr. Allen: I believe any kind of wheat, particularly the Fife, 
can be so invigorated b} r being sown upon clover-sod for several 
years, that it will be better than any Minnesota wheat we can get. 
Question: What kind of soil? 
Mr. Allen: Mine is a clay soil. 
Mr. Grates: I have been residing in this county for over twenty 
years. When I first came I made a success of raising wheat; but 
for ten years past it has been a failure. Farmers are losing money 
b} r raising so much wheat. Now, I have been raising corn and hogs 
every year, and have made money even when pork was three and 
a half cents a pound. 1 always have a clover-pasture and feed but 
little during the summer. In the fall I begin to feed, sometimes 
turning them into my corn-field. I never saw hogs do better. 
They will eat it all up clean and nice, the field not being too large 
for the number kept. 
Colonel Warner: In my paper I stated that exclusive wheat-cul¬ 
ture would be ruinous to the average farmer of Wisconsin; yet I 
think the average farmer ought to raise considerable wheat. I 
think our climate is better adapted to wheat than to corn. I am 
not entirely certain about all the propositions in the paper read. 
Fife wheat seems to have failed, notwithstanding some say it can be 
kept up by proper culture. Other varieties have been introduced 
within the last few years of more value than the Fife. This variety 
has yielded from ten to fifteen bushels per acre, while others yielded 
fifteen to thirty. 
Question: What is the kind of wheat raised that yields from 
fifteen to thirty bushels per acre. 
Colonel Warner: There is a kind raised in this (Dane) county. 
It looks a good deal like Fife, and is called the Prussian or Judkin 
wheat, i am informed that, on the same kind of ground sown to 
the Rio Grande, it yielded from fifteen to thirty bushels. That has 
been my experience. It is a bald wheat. I have raised of this 
Prussian wheat twenty-five bushels to the acre, while the Fife and 
