THE WISCONSIN FARMER.                                 
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            A4doafture Clubs.              whole atteatlon to grain-dsiug,
whisk meet

  Now is the saon when an agricultural club of eastern people de because
they cam raise
should be put into operation in every town and snch an abundance of ii. I
cannot say bat I
densely populated neighborhood in the onn- have been " successfl as
most of my neigh-
try.                                        bore in raising grain. I have
raised as high
  Come, neighbors Thrift and Go-ahead, call  s forty bushels of wheat to
the acre.
your brethren together and organize without  I have not forgotten what you
said about the
delay. In times like these every farmer needs importance of us farmers turning
our attention
the best information available, in order to in- to raising sheep in your
discourse at the Grant
sure the largest returns for his labor. If any County Fair. You hit the eard
that I had been
man has a better method of doing his work pulling at but had not put it into
effect. Two
than his neighbor, let him communicate it to years ago I paid two hundred
and thirty-five
them at the Club, and so add to the common dollars for sheep. Since that,
I have realized
stock. No one need be afraid of giving more my money back twice, and have
five hundred
than he will get, unless he absolutely knows dollars worth of sheep on hand
now, all in
that he is wiser than all his neighbors put to- good condition.       JOHN
BATIs.
gether. To help on the good cause by giving  TAPTox. Dec. 1502.
a wider circulation of important facts and ex-  RIcEIPTS or WHIAT.-Tbe number
of bush-
periences, we propose to publish a synopsis of els of wheat received at Chicego
in the month
all valuable reports of the proceedings of such of November, of last year,
is reported at
clubs.                                      1,291,611. During the same month
in 1861,
                                            2,043,960 bushels were received.
In the three
A Leaf from a Young Grant County Farmer's months of September, October and
November,
                Elperienee.                 1862, 4,964,960 bushels were
received, against
  DR. HOYT:-I enclose one dollar for that 8,695,931, in 1861. At Milwaukee,
in the same
                                            three months, 5,440,405i bushels
are reported
indispensible,tbe FARMER. Ithasbeenamonth- against 7,074,t08M8 bushels in
1861. In the two
ly visitor for a long time, and I will assure you cities there is a falling
off of the receipts, for
it is a welcome one.  It is the best paper to those three months, of 5,865,040
bushels, as
                                            compared with last season, being
equal to about
stimulate the farmer to duty that I know of; 34 per cent.
besides, it is full of good information and time-          .   .      __
ly warnings.                                 FaAcTlOss OF AN ACRE.-It is
often desira-
                                             ble for the farmer to measure
off from a lot of
  I will try and scribble out some of my ex- land fractions of one acre,
for the purpose of
perience, although I am troubled with a lame making a series of experiments
upon different
arm and am also lame at composition.       modes of planting, cultivating
or manuring.
                                             To facilitate this, we give
below the measure-
  I have been -for myself" eight years, as ment of the side of a square
containing the
the young farmers say. I received my farm  following fractional parts of
an acre:
education in Canada West, near London.      1-16 of an acre contains about
62j ft. square.
           PLOWING MATrCH5, SC.                                         
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   Your FARNnE  warns the plowman to plow a             "      ''  
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little deeper. I think that every county in the4;      "           
 is  1471
State should encourage plowing matches for    I sore                    209
both men and boys, and especially for the boys,  2eacres______
for they do most of the plowing.  I may be  Wuo CAS BEAT TuIs ?-I raised
seventy-one
allowed to state in this connection that the fit and one-half (71 ) bushels
of Buckwheat brom
two premiums offered on plowing by the Iowa twenty-two (22) quarts of seed
sown. It was
Agricultural Society at their late Fair were sown on prairie which had just
been broken
won by J. C. Traner, of this town,        and harrowed, in the month of June.
      SUrZPABAISING AND owI-GRoWINO.                                    
J. A. lurk-
   My first six years in Wisconsin I turned my  irz  hAis.



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