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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
but from the experiments made, the evidence is conclu¬ 
sive that for every species of fruit usually grown in this 
State, (peaches excepted,) there is no county ahead of Calu¬ 
met. There were about one hundred bushels of apples raised 
last year in this county, by a few' of our farmers, besides some 
very nice pears, cherries, &c. Currants and wild fruits grow' 
in great abundance; wild plums are quite plenty, and grow 
very large, some of them being nearly as good as the tame 
ones. There are some marshes in the eastern part of the 
county, where cranberries are very plenty. 
I have traveled through nearly all parts of this State, and I 
find no county in it better adapted to all kinds of agricultural 
purposes, or with a more productive soil than Calumet; and I 
do not think there is any portion of the State so generally 
healthy as this. 
INDUSTRY OF CLARK COUNTY. 
BY G. W. KING, OF NEILSVILLE. 
Clark County is fifty-four miles in length, from north to 
south, and thirty miles wide from east to west; and contains 
forty-four townships of land. The principal stream in the 
county is Black river. It runs nearly through the centre of 
the county from north to south; it is a very rapid and rocky 
stream, varying in w T idth from fifty to one hundred yards. It 
has numerous branches in the southern or middle portions of 
the county. The north-west portion of the county is drained 
by the Eau Claire river and its branches. The north-east 
portion is partly drained by streams that run into the Wiscon¬ 
sin river. 
The greater portion of the land in the southern tier of 
townships is generally very level, and in many places it is 
swampy. The soil is generally poor, being principally sand 
and gravel, and is hardly fit for cultivation. There is, how¬ 
ever, some good land in the four townships in the southern 
