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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
come valuable for hay and pasturage. Stock raising, except for home use, 
is yet in its infancy in the county. Still those who have engaged in this 
branch of industry have found it very remunerative. For all kinds of stock 
the climate is exceedingly healthy. 
The lumber interest occupies a very prominent place in the resources of 
the county, giving employment to a large number of men, raid creating a 
home market for a large part of the agricultural products of the county. 
The value of the lumber manufactured in the county last year falls but lit¬ 
tle short of |500,000. It is floated down the rivers in rafts, and is chiefly 
marketed on the Mississippi river, in the states of Illinois, Iowa and Mis¬ 
souri. The logs are floated down the Lemonweir and Yellow rivers from 
the counties of Clark, Marathon and Wood. The supply of logs will last 
for a considerable number of years to come. 
Only one line of railroad, the Milwaukee and St. Paul, is yet constructed 
through the county. This road runs east and west through the southern 
portion. Other lines, however, are projected, and some of them will doubt¬ 
less be put in operation before the expiration of any great length of time. 
Juneau county is well supplied with churches belonging to the various 
denomination, and also with public schools. The climate is healthy, and, 
upon the whole, it bids fair to keep even with its sister counties in popula¬ 
tion wealth and intelligence. 
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KENOSHA COUNTY. 
BY P. NEWELL, SALEM. 
Kenosha county is strictly an agricultural county. There is little 
machinery driven by water power, and but five places deserving the name 
of village. Kenosha is the only place of trade of any note. Small places 
perhaps the germ of future villages, may be noticed at the different depots 
along the line of the Western railroad. In fact, at several of these depots, 
a large amount of trade has already sprung up, in cattle, sheep and swine, 
and the various productions of the farm. Warehouses for the storage of 
grain, superceding the huge buildings on the lake shore, have been 
built at several stations, and most of the marketing of grain is done at 
these places, so that little or no grain is shipped at the lake port. 
At one of these stations a planing mill, a sash and door factory, a grist 
mill and a cheese factory are nowin operation. Yet at the present time,the 
principal manufactures, aside from cheese making, are found at Kenosha. 
The productions of the different departments of labor during the past year^ 
in Kenosha alone, at establishments which may properly be called factories, 
were valued at $881,105. 
The manufacture of lumber wagons may be considered theleading indus- 
