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injury, would of course be impossible to say. But lying adjacent 
to plat 4, on tbe side opposite plat 3, was an acre that has always 
been plowed about seven inches deep, and which otherwise has had 
the same culture as the above plats. It was more badly injured by 
chinch-bugs than plat 4, and yielded this season at the following 
rates per acre: 
4 Corn, 55 bushels. 
Oats, 45 bushels; which is much less than any of the above plats 
in experiment, and shows that the difference in yield cannot be at¬ 
tributed to depth of culture alone. 
The Department of Agriculture has received the following do¬ 
nations during the year: 
From the Commissioner of Agriculture: 
Ten quarts Arnautka wheat. 
Sixteen quarts Clawson winter wheat. 
Twelve quarts Canada oats. 
Twelve quarts Summerset oats. 
Eight quarts white-winter rye. 
Four pounds mangel-wurzel seeds. 
Four pounds sugar-beet seed. 
Various vegetable seeds. 
From the same, through Hon. W. W. Field, Secretary Wiscon¬ 
sin State Agricultural Society: 
Ten quarts Arnautka wheat. 
Twelve quarts Canada oats. 
From W. W. Collins, Esq., winter-rose potatoes. 
From Gf. P. Peffer, Esq., Pewaukee, twelve apple-trees. 
