14 
WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Table showing the number of 
bushels of Wheat grown, etc. —continued. 
Counties. 
Oconto. 
Outagamie .. 
Ozaukee .... 
Pepin....... 
Pierce . 
Polk. 
Portage. 
Racine. 
Richland 
Rock. 
St. Croix .... 
Sauk. 
Shawano 
Sheboygan .. 
Trempealeau 
Walworth ... 
Washington , 
Waukesha .. 
Waupaca ... 
Waushara.., 
Winnebago.. 
Wood. 
Totals .. 
1859. 
1869. 
1,202 
87,473 
105,147 
16, 741 
80,514 
7,310 
94,125 
309,312 
84, 671 
1,389, 390 
109, 071 
361,028 
1,171 
270, 055 
52,440 
807,165 
362,311 
582, 012 
96,889 
141,149 
448,292 
903 
15, 812,625 
23,992 
353,187 
311,903 
97,905 
325, 978 
40, 778 
210,139 
* 166,246 
188,676 
882,851 
796, 908 
487,001 
27, 012 
570, 665 
516,664 
611,809 
714,094 
646,244 
192, 745 
142,673 
791,803 
8, 518 
25,323,647 
The above footings would indicate a very creditable pro¬ 
gress in wheat growing during the past ten years. But it 
should not be forgotten that the crop of 1859 was a very poor 
one for that period, while that of 1869 was a pretty fair one 
for the present. The first half of this statement is substantia¬ 
ted by the fact that the crop of 1860, as shown by the returns 
of that year to the secretary of state, was no less than 27,316,- 
306 bushels, or greater than that of any crop for several years 
past, if not the greatest ever produced by the state. 
The ratio of production to population in 1859 and 1869, as 
shown by the United States census, exhibits scarcely any 
change : being as follows: « 
Bushels per inhabitant in 1859. 23.82 
Bushels per inhabitant in 1869. 23. 99 
This is a very high figure compared with the per capita pro¬ 
duction in the older states, or indeed in any of the states, un- 
* But partial returns. 
