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New York and Ohio; from whence, however, thousands of barrels are yet 

 annually imported into this part of Wisconsin. 



Stock- Raising. — Experience shows that Racine County is well adapted to 

 the rearing of neat cattle — of cows for the dairy, beeves for the shambles, and 

 steers for draft oxen. The number of cattle driven into this State from Illinois 

 and Indiana, is decreasing yearly; and our farmers are now more saving of 

 their calves for stock, which they are manifesting much anxiety to improve by 

 choice breeds. It appears from the census of 1850, that the value of every 

 kind of live-stock w^as then stated at $250,000 in the county, and may now be 

 safely put down at $300,000. 



Beef and Pork. — Several of our enterprizing citizens are vigorously pursuing 

 the business of packing beef, pork, <fec. ; some 4,000 barrels were shipped abroad 

 from this port during the past season, of an aggregate value of $35,000. The 

 number of slaughtered hogs brought to Racine during this season has been large ; 

 and much pork fattened in our county has found a market elsewhere. Pork now 

 sells readily at from $3 50 to $4 50 per cwt.; whereas some few years ago it 

 brought only |2 to $2 50. 



Horses. — Of these noble and indispensible animals, there are about 3,000 in 

 Racine County, of an average value, say, of $150,000. [In Ohio it appears that 

 the whole number of horses is 517,396, and the average value per head $39. Whole 

 number of mules 105,968, and the average value $47 a head.] There is a diver- 

 sity of opinion among our farmers as to the relative utility of liorses and oxen 

 as working animals on a farm, although very many use both. There are proba- 

 bly not to exceed 2,000 working oxen in the county; the horses therefore 

 predominate as to numbers. Yet, when it is considered, that no inconsiderable 

 portion of these 3,000 horses are used for other than farming purposes, and that 

 the 2,000 oxen are all literally beasts of burden to the farmer, we may set down 

 the number of each description of animals that are directly employed in agricul- 

 tural operations as nearly equal. It may be assumed, then, that at least two- 

 thirds of all the horseflesh in Racine county is in the shape of farm horses. This 

 of itself exhibits, in a strong point of \\ew, the utilitarian characteristic of our 

 people. In England, where the privileged classes, such as the " gentry," the 

 " nobility," &c., are numerous, out of 2,000,000 of horses in the kingdom, only 

 one-twentieth, say 100,000, are used for agricultural purposes! A large propor- 

 tion of the balance, are what may be called " pleasure horses" — mere accessaries 

 to the luxurious propensities of man I Many of our farmers are now devoting 

 much of their attention to the rearing of colts; and the show of horses at our 

 agricultural exhibition was respectable. 



Wool and Sheep. — It is believed that wool is to become one of the most 

 important maiketable products of this part of the State. There are at this time, 



