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ern portions are mostly engaged in the manufacture of lumber and other 
productions of the forest. Still, the increase in population and the agri¬ 
culture of the county, since the census of 18G0, have been very satisfactory, 
and fully equal to that of any of the counties adjoining. 
The population of the county in 1860 was 8,770; in 1870,12,396. The 
agricultural productions for those years were as follows: 
Years. 
Wheat. 
Rye. 
Corn. 
Oats. 
Wool, lbs. 
1860 
72,275 
6,037 
57,499 
79, 656 
1,999 
1870 
194,048. 
15,373 
120,890 
196,263 
27,025 
Agricultural Productions —continued. 
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Years. 
Potatoes. 
Barley. 
Hops, lbs. 
Butter. 
Cheese,lbs. 
Hay, tons. 
1860 
1870 
39,598 
105, 264 
1,459 
4,596 
112,640 
220,200 
6,672 
3,420 
9,021 
15,270 
535,281 
The value of agricultural products and additions to stock in 1870, was 
$684,610. and the value of manufactured products $818,820—total, $1,503,- 
430; being $121 per capita of the population. 
Fruit being a slow growth, and owing to the recent settlement of the 
county, does not appear in the census statistics. Still, fruit of several des¬ 
criptions are raised to a considerable extent, sufficient at least to establish 
the fact that for raising apples, pears, cherries, tame plums and grapes, and 
all kinds of small fruit grown in Wisconsin, Juneau stands second to no 
other county in the state. At the county fair, held at Mauston, the county 
seat, in the fall of 1870, over one hundred varieties of apples, seven of 
pears, and fifteen of grapes—all the production of Juneau county—were on 
exhibition, and for beauty and quality could not be excelled in the western 
country. 
Perhaps no county in the state presents equal advantages for the culti¬ 
vation of cranberries. The Lemcnweir and Yellow rivers, and tributaries, 
pass through and drain the “Great Cranberry Marsh/’ lying along the bor¬ 
der of the northwestern part of the country, rendering the drainage and 
flowage for the cultivation of the cranberry both easy and cheap. Several 
parties are at the present time engaged^in preparing the ground for the cul¬ 
tivation of this fruit, and from the success that has so far attended this 
branch of industry in other portions of the state there can be no doubt of 
its success. 
Around the borders of the marsh, and bordering on the streams of water, 
are located very extensive hay lands, which must, in a very short time, be- 
