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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Number of pounds of wool manufactured into cloth, yarn, etc.. 1,500,000 
Number of pounds made into rolls lor custom work. 120, 000 
Total number of pounds used. 1,620,000 
Total number of pounds—clip for 1871—estimated at. 4, 620,000 
The capacity of the manufacturing cards now in operation, 
if run the whole time, would be 2,320,000 pounds per annum; 
but about two-thirds of all the mills in the state were shut 
down from one to three months of the season. Many factories 
have added largely to their machinery and made great im¬ 
provements in both quality, quantity and style of the goods 
manufactured, and are now supplying a large portion of the 
woolen goods used in the state. 
The extensive business done by the Milwaukee Iron Com¬ 
pany has been considerably enlarged, and is having a most 
prosperous career. This energetic and powerful company have 
rendered a very important service to the state by demonstrat¬ 
ing the feasibility of working up our iron ores on our own soil 
with common advantage to the producer, the operative and the 
capitalist. 
COMMERCE 
Has made important gains during the year in the way of a 
very considerable increase of facilities for transportation and 
handling of the products of the northwest and of all classes of 
merchandise delivered at our commercial ports for distribution. 
THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE STATE 
Continue to prosper. The state, district, and county Agricul¬ 
tural societies have held successful exhibitions and report a 
growing interest among the people in the objects for which they 
were created. A full report of the acts of the State Agricul¬ 
tural society will be found under the head of “ Proceedings.” 
Synopses of the reports of the district and various other inde¬ 
pendent organizations will also be embraced in this volume. 
dhe condition of the county agricultural Societies will ap¬ 
pear from the following tabular statement: 
