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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Wool carding is not included in the above statement. So 
far as returns have been here received, the amount of capital 
invested in this branch of woolen manufacture is $19,000; an¬ 
nual expenditures for material, $26,655; value of annual pro¬ 
duct of rolls, $49,588. 
The wooden arcd willow-ware business, though less in magni¬ 
tude, may be properly mentioned in this connection. The 
manufacture of wooden-ware, such as baled boxes, bowls, 
pails, etc., is most of it done at Neenah and Menasha, Depere 
and Green Bay; the total value of the product in Winnebago 
and Brown counties being: 
Winnebago county. $192, 550 
Brown. 51,840 
Stated more in detail, the factories at the tnree places named 
are reported as follows: 
Capital invested. 
Expenditures for material, 1870. 
Hands employed. 
Paid for labor. 
Value of product. 
Menasha. Depere. Green Bay. 
$125, 000 $20,000 $140,000 
97,835 8,450 . 
200 40 . 
82,500 14,400 . 
192,550 37,840 14,000 
The articles manufactured at Menasha in 1870 were : 
Pails. 240, 000 
Wash tubs. GO, 000 
Wash boards. 12,000 
Measures. 6,000 
Churns. 14,400 
Covers. 18,000 
Fish kits. 95,000 
Butter tubs. 50, 000 
Ivulers. 10, 000 
Bannakins. 50, 000 
Broom handles .... 80, 000 
Clothes pins. 6, 000,000 
The manufactures at Depere were: butter tubs, 81,707 ; fish 
kits, 74,950 : oak pails, 9,004. 
Those of Green Bay consisted of 60,000 fish kits. 
The manufacture of willow-ware is chiefly confined to Mil¬ 
waukee, we may say, in fact, to one establishment, that of Mr. 
Adolph Meinecke; whose business is sufficiently large, howev¬ 
er, to warrant the distinction of a special notice in this place 
Beginning in a small way, this enterprising gentleman has 
steadily extended his business until his buildings, which are 
new and in all respects admirably adapted to their uses, now 
occupy a large area in the heart of the city, and are the scene 
