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preceding year was such as to cheer and encourage all who feel an 

 interest in the prosperity of this portion of the State, and gave a practical 

 demonstration of the productive capacity of this county, quite beyond 

 the expectations of many of our citizens. 



It would be gratifying to us to be able to present a particular descrip- 

 tion of some of the entries that were made, but the object of this commu- 

 nication will not, perhaps, admit of details, and we must content ourselves 

 •with the general remark, that many of the specimens shown under the 

 several heads, have not, either in quality or size, been surpassed in any 

 portion of this State or country. 



Tou will receive from Dr. J. J. Brown, on behalf of this Society, a 

 statistical and analytical report, which we .think will be found very inter- 

 esting and important. 



Sheboygan Coirnty won some laurels at the last State Fair, and might 

 have won more ; and we take this opportunity to say to our sister 

 Societies in Wisconsin, that if the farmers of Sheboygan County do their 

 duty the present year, and enter the lists in their full strength, at the 

 next State Fair, they will make an exhibition honorable to their County 

 and their State, and very hard to beat. 



Yours respectfully, 



CHARLES E. MORRIS, 

 Sec. Sheboygan Co. Agr. Society. 



To Albert C. Ingham, Esq., 



Sec. of the Wis. State Agr. Society. 



The following is the Report alluded to in the foregoing : 



REMARKS ON SHEBOYGAN COUNTY. 



Sheboygan, November 10, 1852. 



Dear Sir : — Settlements commenced in Sheboygan County in 1 835, 

 but the depression following the speculations of 1836, prevented, for the 

 time being, further additions ; so that, in 1840, there were but 133 inhab- 

 itants in the county, and no material advancement was made until 1845, 

 since which time our county has made rapid progress in settlements and 

 improvements. Our population now numbers over 9,000 ; and 54,540 

 acres of the then dense and unbroken forest, have disappeared before the 

 axe of the sturdy pioneer ; while grains and grasses have waved to the 



