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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
INDUSTRY OF KENOSHA COUNTY. 
BY J. M. LELAND, OF BRISTOL. 
However small on the great map of the State, we feel that 
Kenosha has interests as great politically, commercially and 
agriculturally, as any other county in the State, Located on 
Lake Michigan, our facilities for progress in all that pertains 
to a progressive people are unsurpassed. 
Topography. —The surface of the county is neither level nor 
hilly, but gently undulating. The relative proportion of timber 
land and prairie, I should judge to be about as one to eight. 
Originally the proportion of timber to prairie was some larger, 
but as emigration increased more or less of the timber has 
vanished. The face of the country is considerably cut up with 
sloughs of greater or smaller size, yet the most of them are 
available as meadow or pasture land, and of course would not 
be counted as waste land. There are, however, some of the 
sloughs which may never be brought into a state of cultivation, 
but the relative proportion is quite small. Our prairies, with 
the exception of Pleasant Prairie, are not large, but are con¬ 
veniently and beautifully interspersed with timber. There 
are, however, three belts of timber running through the county 
from the north to the south. One is on the shore of Lake 
Michigan, another lies along the O’Plain river, and the third 
is on the borders of the Little Fox river. The timber is prin¬ 
cipally of oak, (including the different varieties) with the ex¬ 
ception of the north-east portion of the county. There, in 
what are called the Pike woods, we find nearly all of the dif¬ 
ferent varieties, such as maple, beech, basswood, elm, &c., &c. 
Some hickory is found throughout our county. A few patches 
of the tamarac are to be found on some of the low grounds, 
and also some red cedar forms a border upon our little lakes. 
Upon a part of the school section in the town of Bristol, are 
found some large and excellent black walnut trees. White, 
red, black, and burr oaks prevail to a large extent. 
Besides our ten or twelve small lakes, we have the great 
Lake Michigan on the east, and with the addition of two 
