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WISCONSIN STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
a fine bridge has been built across the Wisconsin at Stevens Point, at a cost 
of over twenty-two thousand dollars. We have from 15 to 20 church build¬ 
ings in the county, and capacious and convenient school edifices in nearly 
all our towns. The court house at Stevens Point is a fine stone building, 
now nearly completed, at an expense of thirty thousand dollars; its elegant 
architecture and proportions would not do discredit to any of our large 
cities. No railroads at present traverse any portion of the county, although 
there are two or three in process of construction, whose advent is confi¬ 
dently expected within a year or two at farthest. 
With railroad facilities at our command, a new era of prosperity will 
doubtless dawn upon our county, and a few years to come will see her 
holding a prominent rank among the foremost counties of the state. 
EACINE COUNTY. 
BY IION. W. C. ALLEN, RACINE. 
Racine county is bounded on the east by lake Michigan, on the south by 
Kenosha county, on the west by Walworth and on the north by Milwaukee 
county. The climate may be considered as good as in any county in this 
country, in the same latitude, and in some respects superior. The 
waters of lake Michigan, exert a salubrious and healthy influ¬ 
ence on the atmosphere in dissipating all poisonous vapors that might be 
in the air inducing fevers and other sickness. In the summer season there 
is always a sea breeze from the lake during the night, and a land breeze 
during the day, thereby changing the atmosphere almost continually. 
The topography of the county is that of an undulating character, rising 
to two hundred and sixty feet or more above the waters of lake Michigan. 
The county has only one considerable river,—the Fox—which runs through 
the whole breadth of the county from north to south, affording excellent 
water power in the flourishing villages of Waterford, Rochester and Bur¬ 
lington. Root river which empties into the harbor at Racine, affords con¬ 
siderable water power. The soil of Racine county is generally of an argil- 
lacious loam, rich and deep. The county is abundantly supplied with stock 
water. The subsoil of the county is marl clay, generally free from gravel or 
sand. All kinds of timber grow in abundance in the county, common to 
the state, except the coniferous class. The soil of the county is well 
adapted to the raising of wheat, rye, barley, oats, corn, potatoes, turnips 
and carrots; but, in our judgment, there is no county in the state better 
adapted to the raising of grass, and stock-breeding. From the peculiar 
character of the soil, and the moist atmosphere prevailing during the 
spring, summer and autumn months, induced by the constant vapors from 
lake Michigan, an abundant, sweet and nutritious grass is produced. 
