98 WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
cies only to point out the source of our troubles, and to stimulate, 
if possible, the people of this commonwealth to encourage the in¬ 
troduction of manufactures and the employment of skilled labor. 
I may assume as a basis of comparison that as large a share of 
manufactured products is used in Wisconsin as in other states, in 
proportion to the population. The entire population of this coun¬ 
try in 1870 was 88,558,371, and that of Wisconsin, 1,054,670, or 
about one thirty-seventh of the whole. 
The total wealth of the United States at that time was 
$30,068,518,507, and the total valuation of Wisconsin was 
$702,307,829. It will be.seen that in respect to wealth Wiscon¬ 
sin falls below its proportion, estimated on a basis of population. 
On this basis it should be valued at $812,662,662, or $L10,355,333 
more than its present worth. In respect to wealth, it is below the 
average of the states, and almost correspondingly deficient in the 
value of manufactured products. Our soil is fully equal to that 
of the country at large, and our farming interests are well devel¬ 
oped, which facts are shown by the following 
TABLE: 
Acres of land, in farms. 
United States. 
Wisconsin. 
188,921,099 
$9,262,803,861 
336,878,429 
2,447,538, 658 
5, 899,343 
$300,414, 064 
14,239,364 
78,027,032 
Value of farms. 
Value of farming implements. 
Value of farm productions, including better¬ 
ments . 
By an examination of these figures we discover that on the 
basis of population, the wealth of the state in farms and farming 
implements is more than forty millions, and its farm productions 
thirteen millions in excess of its relative proportion. Turning to 
the department of manufactures, we find a deficiency of $15,000,- 
000 in the capital invested, and a greater deficiency in the amount 
of wages paid and of products realized. The value of products man¬ 
ufactured in the United States in the year ending June, 1870, was 
in round numbers, $4,232,000,000, and in Wisconsin, $77,214,000, 
while the proportionate share for the state was $118,000,000, 
showing a deficiency on the basis assumed of nearly $36,000,000. 
