18i^ 



Our cattle, hoi-ses, hogs, vkc. have generally been bought in southern Wisconsin 

 and northern Illinois, and are of the various breeds usually found in those places. 



Our soil is well adapted to tillage and grazing, and will not suffer in the least 

 by a comparison with western New York or any other place in this respect. 

 Some of our farmers have already engaged to considerable extent in the dairy 

 business, apparently with good success. 



Horticulture and fruit-growing can, in all human probability, be carried on as 

 successfully in this county as in any other place in the same latitude in the 

 Union ; and the subject has already begun to attract the attention of our farmer* 

 and citizens. 



A densely timbered country is necessarily settled less rapidly than one which 

 is more easily improved. But you may put it down as one of the established 

 truths, that the hard timbered portions will eventually, and that ere long, become 

 the wealthiest, most densely populated, and powerful. 



The annual amount of our business is probably greater in proportion to our 

 population than that of any other county. And in order to give you a more 

 correct idea of the amount and nature of our business transactions, I append 

 Tables of Imports and Exports of the A'illages of Manitowoc and Two Rivera 

 during the past year. 



COMMERCE OF MANITOWOC FOR 1851. 



IMPORTS. 



A 



EXPORTS. 



3661 barrels flour. . . . |10,983 00 

 447 barrels pork 5,364 00 



74 barrels beef 444 00 



558 barrels meal 1,116 00 



855 barrels salt 1,082 00 



65 barrels vinegar 195 00 



120 firkins butter 1,200 00 



7800 lbs. lard 536 00 



7 tons fresh pork 700 00 



7000 lbs. mutton hams. . . 210 00 

 135 bushels beans 201 00 



75 bushels lime 75 00 



55 bushels plaster 75 00 



395 tons merchandize. 73,750 00 

 Drugs and medicines . . . 800 00 



4,825,000 feet lumber. . .$28,950 00 



855,000 feet lath 2,565 00 



275,000 pickets 1,650 00 



15,467,000 shingles 27,068 00 



8,700 cedar posts 348 00 



750 cords shingle bolts 3,750 00 



1,750 cords wood 2,625 00 



75 cords tan bark. . . . 225 00 



8,000 feet square timber . 480 00 



1,190 bbls. white fish . .5,950 00 



36 bbls. cranberries . . 216 00 



3 tons potash 360 00 



2 tons black salts ... 160 00 

 2,500 lbs. maple sugar . . 250 00 

 Furs and peltries 2,525 00 



Total Imports . $106,721 00 



Total Exports. $77,122 00 



