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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Sheep, for both wool and mutton, are raised to quite an ex¬ 
tent. Some excellent flocks are owned within the county. The 
principal breeds are the French and Spanish Merinos; then 
follow their crosses. Southdowns are raised but little, as also 
are the coarser breeds. This county is able to produce more 
wool and mutton by far than it does at present, but the accursed 
enemies of sheep (dogs) operate as one of the great drawbacks 
to the business. There is not a manufactory of woolen goods 
within the county, but there is one wool-carding establishment 
in the little town of Wi-lmot. 
Rut little attention is given to the raising of swine, but what 
we have are good and profitable for us. The race of “ third- 
row hogs ” and blue racers is run out here, and better ones 
have taken their place. Farmers find it more profitable to keep 
their hogs all the time a-fattening. 
Manufacturing. —Our county cannot be called a manufac¬ 
turing one, though something is done in that direction. Two 
flouring mills comprise all that is done in that branch; two 
mills heretofore in operation now being at rest. Wagons in 
large numbers are here made and sent into different parts of 
this State and Illinois. Plows, likewise, are made at several 
places. Stoves, washing machines, sash, doors, blinds, boots, 
shoes, harnesses, friction matches, fanning mills and wooden 
pumps, are all manufactured in Kenosha City, some of them 
quite extensively. There are also several foundries and ma¬ 
chine shops located here. A very large business is done in 
the manufacture of the celebrated thimble skeins for wagons. 
A planing machine for dressing lumber, siding, flooring, &c., is 
doing an extensive business. The manufacture of barrels, but¬ 
ter firkins, &c., forms another important branch of industry. 
Tin and sheet iron ware is made here by two large establish¬ 
ments. A large tannery is located here in the city of Kenosha, 
which is doing a large business in manufacturing leather; the 
quality of which is not surpassed, probably, in the State. 
Commercial Advantages. —Of the city of Kenosha as a 
point of commercial importance, Alex. C. Triming, Chief En¬ 
gineer of the Kenosha, Rockford & Rock Island R. R. Co., in 
