INDUSTRY - OF COUNTIES. 
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A pamphlet, just published, has been compiled by the Secretary of State. 
From a copy forwarded to us by the Secretary of the State Agricultural 
Society, we extract the following, showing the rank of Fond du Lac county 
to be: 
3d for wheat. 1, G10, 362 
27th for rye. 13,742 
13th for corn. 284,535 
5th for oats. 976,660 
7th for barley. 59,493 
9tli for potatoes. 251,425 
3d for wool. 270,590 
3d for butter... 1,118,361 
9th for cheese. 60,793 
17th for hops. 50,132 
1st for hay. 76, 637 
5 th for agricultural productions and improvements.. 3,572,433 
4th^for product of manufactures. 3,359,876 
2d for last two items. 6, 932, 309 
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Milwaukee county alone is ahead of Fond du Lac county in general ag¬ 
gregate production. Dodge and Dane follow closely, the - first with $6,715,- 
237; the latter with $6,604,610. 
Let us, in conclusion, say a few words as to the social condition of the 
people. The county of Fond du Lac is now third in population. Milwau¬ 
kee and Dane counties being ahead. Some authorities place Dodge county 
as coming next, others make Fond du Lac the third. But Fond du Lac is 
ahead in density of population. 
Owing to the low price of lumber and building materials, no part of the 
state possesses finer country residences or more convenient and numerous 
out-buildings. Many of the country houses or city residences are first-class, 
and enjoy the highest comforts known to modern civilization, being stocked 
with rich and elegant furniture, including in nearly every instance, a piano, 
of which there are at least four hundred in the county, or an organ or 
melodeon. 
The people are polished, intelligent, well informed; the business men are 
not slow in improving the advantages of their position. Nearly one-lialf 
of the whole population reside in the cities and villages; Fond du Lac hav¬ 
ing 12,765 and Ripon 2,977 or more than one-third of the whole. The ten¬ 
dency appears to be toward a larger relative population in favor of the 
cities and villages. We merely state the fact, reserving our private opin¬ 
ion as to its wisdom. It is undeniable that many persons seek residences 
in cities, where they drag a wretched, dependent existence, who might be 
happier on small homesteads, even as laborers, in the country, but: de gus- 
tibus non est disputandum. Certain it is that the cities furnish nine-tenths 
of all the paupers. The county owns a fine poor farm, where the poor are 
kept. They are not numerous. 
A thriftier, happier set than the people of this county, taken together, is 
not to be found within the limits of Badgerdom. 
