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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Table showing the number of establishments, etc —continued. 
Counties. 
Number Estab¬ 
lishments pro¬ 
ducing over 
$500 worth. 
Number of Hands. 
Value of Product. 
I860- 
1870. 
1860. 
1870. 
1860. 
1870. 
Sheboygan..... 
182 
412 
466 
1,390 
638,143 
1,748,339 
Trempealeau... 
2 
60 
7 
92 
51,400 
170,748 
Vernon . 
43 
84 
94 
184 
173, 076 
470, 765 
Walworth. 
99 
167 
384 
523 
798, 856 
1,074, 278 
Washington ... 
60 
192 
169 
457 
626,940 
1,061,824 
Waukesha. 
95 
261 
271 
432 
544,400 
774,142 
Waupaca. 
41 
113 
116 
347 
188,310 
464,929 
Waushara. 
24 
55 
55 
95 
149, 487 
260,897 
Winnebago .... 
91 
237 
511 
2,634 
966,818 
6,312, 754 
Wood. 
31 
45 
299 
623 
172,000 
370,890 
Total. 
3,064 
7,136 
15,414 
39, 055 
127,849,467 
|85, 624, 966 
The character of the manufacturing establishments enumer¬ 
ated in the foregoing tables does not therein appear. And 
since it may be important to some, as it will doubtless be in¬ 
teresting to all of the readers of this report to know the extent 
to which the several counties are engaged in specific branches of 
manufacture, we have devoted several weeks of laborious ef¬ 
fort to gleaning tlie statistics of such as are most important 
from the returns of the United States Census of 1870, depos¬ 
ited with tbe secretary of state, to whom we are indebted for 
the courtesy of granting their use. The tables containing the 
results of this labor will be found in appendix U B,” at the 
end of this volume. 
As we have often said before, nature seems to have designed 
Wisconsin to become the leading manufacturing state of the 
west, and the progress made within the past ten years affords 
tbe most gratifying evidence that sbe is rapidly advancing to 
tbe place of honor thus assigned ber. 
COMMERCE. • 
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The commerce of the state has made progress corresponding 
with that of its productive industries. 
All our efforts to procure full statistics of tbe business done 
by other cities than Milwaukee, having failed, we shall have to 
