4 
WISCONSIN" STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Comparative Table showing Ratio of Increase per cent. 
States. 
Years. 
Ratio of 
increase 
per cent. 
Iowa. 
.from 1840 to 1850. 
347 
Illinois. 
.from 1810 to 1820. 
350 
Ohio. 
.from 1800 to 1810. 
408 
Indiana. 
.from 1810 to 1820. 
510 
Michigan.. 
.from 1830 to 1840. 
575 
Wisconsin. 
..from 1840 to 1850. 
886 
The facilities for immigration were very much greater 
between 1840 and 1850 than they w r ere between 1810 and 
1820, when Indiana and Illinois had their greatest growth, 
■and have been still greater since, to the advantage of the 
states younger than Wisconsin; but no explanation based 
upon this or any such ground will account for our present 
falling off. Shall we not be honest with ourselves and charge 
it upon our lack of foresight and enterprise ? 
The distribution of the population by counties, and the in¬ 
crease made by each, are presented in the following table: 
Table showing the Population of Wisconsin in the years 1850,1860 and 1870, 
by counties: 
Counties. 
1850. 
1860. 
1870, 
Adams.. 
187 
6,492 
515 
13 
6,713 
221 
^Ashland.. 
Barron. 
538 
*Bayfield. 
353 
344 
Brown. 
6, 215 
11, 795 
3^864 
12 
25,180 
11,123 
706 
Buffalo. 
Burnett. 
Calumet. 
1,743 
615 
7,895 
1, 895 
* 12,334 
5,635 
3,446 
28,769 
13,117 
53,109 
47,140 
4,869 
1,132 
9,491 
10,782 
46, 292 
Chippewa.. 
Clark. 
789 
Columbia ... 
9, 565 
2,498 
16, 639 
19,138 
24, 441 
8, 068 
43, 922 
42, 818 
2,948 
812 
2, 704 
3,162 
34,154 
Crawford. 
Dane . 
Dodge :. 
Door. 
Douo-las. 
Dunn. 
Eau Claire. 
Fond du Lac. 
14,510 
* Ashland ancl Bayfield, together known in 1850 as La Pointe, then had a population of 
489, which number is included in the total of that year. 
