I ; WISCONSIN FARMER.



  But Wisonsein is rnt1ll ehsed an the acreage
of her chief products. The average of wheat
per acre in Ohio was only 141 bushels; ours
was 241.
  We may, with some degree of propriety,
therefore, boast of our superiority as a wheat
growing State-especially since there are good
calculators who figure our crop of this year
up to 30,000,000 bushels.  When we come to
sow as many acres as site does, Ohio will be
nowhere.

             A Flea fOr Farming.
  From the "Introductory" of a pamphlet
recently published, entitled "A Plea for Farm-
ing," we extract the following:
  Well directed efforts in farming are always
crowned with success. Individual competence
for every one, and a nation's peace and pros.
perity must he born of agricultural successes.
All institutions of civilization rest upoa the
basis of farming, and these institutions totter
and fall, or stand firm and strong, according
as the resources and pursuits of agriculture
are weak and neglected, or ase healthy andi
vigorous.
  Uleohanics and manufacturers keep pace in
progress with the increase of productions that
come from the farmer s hand. The institutions
of useful knowledge are developed with the
increasing wealth of a nation's Agricultural
riches. The germ of financial morality, and
the antidote for all financial woe that now
covers the earth, is yet to be developed by
well directed efforts in agricultusal pursuits.
There is a long outstanding debt of attention
and respect yet unacknowledged that the
business men of the world owe to agricultural
efforts, and the time is not far distant when
this debt will be acknowledged and will be
paid.  And the wreck and the ruin of the
property of-trading millions, that now sweeps
through the finaneial ranks of men, is but a
warning to take heed of this indebtedness.
Men who are the shrewdest, and have had the
most experience in trade, see and know the
injustice and almost criminality that is inci-
dent to "legal" trade; they are satisfied of
the injustice and the uselessness of nine-tenths
of the time and effort bestowed thereon.
  Farmers, manufacturers and mechanics feed
and clothe the world. Traders work in an
opposite direction; they take the food and
clothing that others have produced, to live up-
on, without producing anything that contri-
butes lawfully to the end of their temporal
existeace. It is a justdemand of nature that
every healthy man, should, by his efforts,
contribute something to his own support-be
useful and do good in the world-and thus it
seems a just retribution from the powers that



rule our existence, that "ninety-nine trades-
men in every hundred fail in business.' They
fail to maintain their own prosperity. because
they actually do nothing to support it. Every
tradesman is unwittingly the agent himself
that undermines his own successes.
  Let tra dsmen, nineteen out cf twenty, urn
from their unhallowed, unproductive, specu-
lative pursuits, to the honest, useful. healthy
business of farming, whereby the necessities
and luxuries of Hife shall be produced, and
they will lend a helping hand to the true end
of existence. Then,-when this shall be,-
tman's inhumanity to man" will be lessened
and the world will be turned in the direction
of the millennial age. It is the desire of all
to better the present condition of living. This
can never be done by the increase of labor
and effort that is unproductive and useless;
but it may bie easily done by the increase of
labor and effort that is productive and usefnl.



The Whent Xania-'rrshing, he.



  El). FARDIER :-t seems to be the lot of this
world to be made up of extremes: and the
present generation can bawMe no rival. I have
lived long enough to witness two past extremes
since my boyhood andl youthful days. Then
wheat was only raised uu a limited scale as a
rotation crop, with barley, oats, peas, clover
and various other seeds. The grain had all
to be threshed out by band, and the precious
strav all fed out on an equality with hay.
  I have myself passed through the ordeal of
band-threshing, and know the value of mn
&traw. The cattle in these days could always
remind the owner that the straw was not re-
lished beyond a week or two from the flail.
But time seems only to have passed away as
the morning dew. Before we seem to have
arrived at the other extreme, we seen, to have
got to a part of the world and an era of time
when the watchword is wheat! wheat I wheat I
and the greatest leviathant threshing machines
a yearly song from January to April-- per-
petual inquiry, What is wheat worth a bushel?
  No sooner is the grain deposited In the
ground, in April, than the old song is resumed
until harvest; when that arrives, it is gen-
erally expected to be little else than wheat.
Now, if every sixty pounds of wheat contain
eight pounds of sugar, twenty-eight pounds



of starch, fourteen pounds of gluten, and the



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