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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Table showing the Population, at different periods, etc .— continued. 
Place. 
t 
1850. 
I860. 
1870. 
Platteville. 
2,171 
356 
5,107 
2,865 
2,085 
7,822 
1,533 
4,262 
5, 302 
865 
543 
2, 587 
2,977 
9,881 
1,810 
5, 310 
7,555 
1,936 
1,849 
Ripon . 
Racine. 
Stevens Point.. 
Sheboygan. 
W aterto wn... 
1,451 
W aupun. 
Wausau . 
From the foregoing table, it will appear that the ratio of in¬ 
crease in the population of Wisconsin cities and villages be¬ 
tween 1860 and 1870 was not 86 per cent.—the ratio for the 
whole state—but considerably more than this, nearly 45 percent. 
It is worthy of mention that, although the selection of vilr 
lages has been made impartially, choice has naturally fallen up¬ 
on those which are more thriving and hence more prominent. 
It is quite likely, that if all the villages of the state were em¬ 
braced in the calculation, the ratio would fall considerably be¬ 
low 45 per cent. 
Indeed it is probable that if the great number of very small 
-villages, so located as to make growth very difficult, were 
grouped together, the ratio would fail quite below 86—in other 
words that the balance between the industries of the villages 
and of the rural districts has not been so far disturbed as would 
at first appear. 
This view is confirmed by the following figures, showing 
that the increase in the case of some has been very much great¬ 
er than 45 per cent: 
Ratio of Increase in the Population of certain Cities and Villages of TT7s- 
consin between I860 and 1870. 
Per cent. 
Milwaukee. 58 
Green Bay, over. * . 100 
Oshkosh., over. 100 
Fond du Lac. 134 
Wausau. 148 
Chippewa Falls. 233 
Eau Claire. 308 
