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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
We submit a few items of the shipments by rail from Prairie du Chien 
during 1869, not as indicating the production of the county but rather its 
commercial transactions : 
Wheat, bushels. 4,851,875 
Barley, bushels. 75,429 
Oats, bushels. 83,175 
Flour, barrels. 478,432 
Dressed hogs, number. 40,630 
Live cattle, number. 2,836 
Live hogs, number. 16,268 
Wool, pounds. 276, 540 
Butter, pounds..1,145,710 
Hides, pounds. 2, 027,430 
And the aggregate of shipments in pounds for that year amounted to 
416,687,720 pounds. Heavy shipments of grain were also made from other 
stations and from river towns. 
The county is remarkably healthy, is well watered, has heavy forests in 
every town; in her markets, lumber and all descriptions of building 
material are jfienty and cheap. Improved lands may be purchased at from 
fifteen to thirty dollars per acre, and unimproved from five to ten dollars. 
The public schools are under the charge of good teachers and an 
efficient county superintendent, and are accessible to nearly every child. 
In Prairie du Chien is a large German school with an accomplished native 
teacher, while the Catholics have a large “ Sisters ” school, and will soon 
open another of a higher grade in a large and beautiful building which was 
erected at a cost of 50,000 dollars. 
The people of Crawford county are intelligent, industrious, wide awake 
to their interests, and hence are good patrons of schools, churches and their 
press, and taken all in all, the county possesses the natural, and other ad¬ 
vantages which in future will permit her to take a front rank among those 
which make up the noble commonwealth of Wisconsin. 
DANE COUNTY. 
[From the State Immigration pamphlet for 1870.] 
Dane county is situated midway between Lake Michigan and the Missis¬ 
sippi river; its southern boundary being twenty-four miles north of the 
south line of the state. It is bounded on the north by Columbia and Sauk 
counties, on the east by Dodge and Jefferson, on the south by Rock and 
Green, and on the west and northwest by Iowa and the Wisconsin river. Its 
extent is forty-two miles from east to west and thirty-five miles from north 
to south, containing thirty-five townships, or one thousand two hundred and 
thirty-five miles, or 790,400 acres of land. 
Madison city, the county seat and the capital of the state, has one of the 
most beautiful locations in the world, in the midst of charming lakes. Here 
