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OZAUKEE COUNTY. 
BY J. W. JOHANNES, CEDARBURG. 
The population of this county is 16,000, mostly all of foreign birth, 
Its principal products are wheat, rye, oats, barley, peas, beans, buckwheat, 
corn and hay. 85,000 acres are under cultivation, yielding last year an 
aggregate of 400,000 bushels of wheat (averaging 22% bushels per acre)^ 
100,000 bushels of rye, 30,000 bushels of corn, 300,000 bushels of oats, 80,- 
000 bushels of barley, 100,000 bushels of potatoes, 40,000 tons of hay (most 
timothy), 6,500 bushels of buckwheat, 7,000 bushels of peas, and 15,000 
bushels of white beans, and various small products. 
The land is some of the best in this state; it was twenty-two years ago a 
primitive forest of heavy timber, such as maple, beach, bass, white and 
black ash, butternut, oak, etc. 
Fruit raising is yet in its infancy, but is fast becoming what it should be; 
every where you see young orchards of apples, pears and cherries. The 
apples raised here are in quality better than the eastern, in quantity they 
excel all I have seen in this state. 
Stock raising has been very much neglected, but few have choice stock; 
most have mixed stock, and it defies the best judge to class them. Farmers 
were aiming only to raise wheat, etc., but now they are turning their atten¬ 
tion to stock, because they see that they cannot work their farms many 
years longer without manuring the land, and on account of the high price 
of beef. Raising horses is better developed; the finest race horse and the 
strongest farm horse are bred. Hogs are largely raised. The Chester 
White is the favorite. Sheep breeding is in a poor condition; the amount 
of wool raised was 20,000 pounds, of a course quality. Our farmers have a 
good market for their wool at Cedarburg woolen mill, always getting more 
than the market price. 
Our quarries consist of white sand stone; seven are in successful opera¬ 
tion. The Milwaukee and Northern Railroad runs through the quarries, 
furnishing the best facilities for shipping the stone. Their are eight grist 
mills, with thirty run of stone, turning out the best kind of flour. One 
woolen mill with three set of spindles, and capacity of 120,000 pounds of 
wool, employing forty-five hands; six saw mills; five tanneries; three brick 
yards, making celebrated yellow brick; two cheese factories, making 10- 
000 pounds per year; eight shook shops, employing fifty coopers; fifteen 
wagon makers’shops, with sixty hands; two foundaries; seven breweries, 
and various other manufactories; seventeen churches, of different religions 
The new Catholic church, in Cedarburg, is the finest edifice in a country 
town in the state—cost of building $40,000. The public buildings are in 
excellent condition. Our taxes are low compared with those of neighbor¬ 
ing counties. All towns, having villages in their limits, have comparative 
