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STATE AGEICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 
of necessity, have a rapid growth in commercial importance. 
Her position on the map of the ISTorthwest, the excellence of 
her harbor, and many other natural causes, conspire to pro¬ 
duce this result. Already she has attained the proud dis¬ 
tinction of being the greatest primary wheat market in the 
world,—a distinction which the superior quality of the wheat 
produced by all that vast section of the Northwest naturally 
tributary to her will make it easy for her to maintain,—and the 
rapid development of our agricultural, mining and manufactur¬ 
ing resources, warrant the belief that in other branches of com¬ 
merce she will, also, soon come to hold an enviable rank among 
the metropolitan cities of the Great West. 
Of course the movement of flour and grain must* depend 
upon the crops of the year reported and of the year previous ; 
so that figures of this kind do not fairly indicate the growth of 
our commerce, inasmuch as the aggregates of our grain crops 
in 1860, ’61, ’62 and ’63 were greater than they have been 
since. Nevertheless, they help to give an idea of the magni¬ 
tude of the ordinary commercial transactions of this State. 
TABLE indicating the comparative movement of Grain Crops of last seven years, 
by Receipts at Milwaukee. 
YEAR. 
WHEAT. 
OATS. 
CORN. 
BARLEY. 
RYE. 
1861 
15,930,706 
151,346 
114,931 
66,991 
149,997 
73,448 
1862 
15,630,995 
282,756 
258,954 
154,476 
1863 
13,485,419 
9,147,274 
948,429 
858.450 
199,469 
158,882 
1864 
1,055,844 
657,492 
460,575 
198,325 
88,541 
1865 
12,043,659 
12,777,557 
270,754 
149,443 
134,360 
1866 
1,817,230 
789,080 
152,696 
192,007 
383,030 
237,202 
186V 
12,523,464 
1,156,319 
693,684 
Although the question of price does not strictly come with¬ 
in the plan of this Keport, we nevertheless deem it a matter of 
sufficient interest to make the following record of the average 
prices paid for wheat, at Milwaukee, during the several years 
of the period under review: 
Average price in 1861.I. 
.. .do... .do.1862. 
.. .do... .do.1863.____ 
. $0 794 
. 1 12f 
...do....do... 
. .1864;. 
. 1 574 
...do....do... 
,. .1865... 
. 1 294 
...do....do... 
,. .1866. 
...do....do.., 
,. .1867. 
