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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
two principal of which are the Grand and the Puckyan rivers. 
Eox river flows through the county from the south-west to the 
north-east corner, and is navigable for steamers of light draft 
for some distance beyond the bounds of the county. 
Green Lake is the pride of the county. It is a beautiful 
sheet of water 12 miles in length and from 2 to 8 in width. 
Its waters are almost perfectly transparent, of great depth, and 
its shores present scenery of great variety and beauty. 
Little Green Lake, Lake Maria and several smaller sheets of 
water are within the county. Lake Puckaway is partly in 
Green Lake and partly in the adjoining county of Marquette. 
Eerlin, the county seat, is the only place that aspires to the 
character of a city. Markesan, Manchester, Kingston, Mar¬ 
quette, Dartford and Princeton, are villages following hard 
after, and some of them are beginning to adopt city customs 
to some extent. 
Agriculture is the main business of the county, and wheat 
the leading article of farm produce. It is raised in large 
quantities, and the quality is said by dealers and millers to be 
superior. The coarser grains are produced in quantities suffi¬ 
cient to supply the home demand. Pork was formerly a staple 
article, but latterly wool-growing seems to be fast taking its 
place. 
Much attention was paid to fruit culture by the pioneers of 
this section, and large orchards of very excellent varieties were 
planted, but the two “hard winters” destroyed many of the 
trees, and produced much discouragement. Later efforts have 
been crowned with success, until now there is a limited supply 
of apples, pears, grapes, and all the smaller fruits. And if the 
present efforts are continued and succeed as they are now 
doing, Green Lake County will be second to none in the U. S. 
for the supply and excellence of the hardier kinds of fruit. 
’Our manufactories are principally those of flour, lumber and 
agricultural implements, with which the county is tolerably well 
supplied. One woolen manufactory recently established suc¬ 
ceeds beyond the expectations of the public or of even its most 
enthusiastic proprietor. 
