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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
from so new a county; yet the log house and barn are fast 
being replaced by more substantial structures. The material 
for building here is cheap and abundant. At Port Washing¬ 
ton there are two brickyards, which turn out the cream-colored 
brick of a better quality even than that of Milwaukee. There 
is also a brickyard at Cedarburg. These, together with our 
stone quarries, and forests of all kinds of timber, except pine, 
furnish us with all that is necessary for elegant and substan¬ 
tial buildings. There are eight grist and flouring mills in this 
county, having in the aggregate about 20 run of stone. There 
is also one pearl-barley mill. Not less than 200,000 bushels 
of grain is ground up annually, and not less than 20,000 bbls. 
of flour is exported from the county yearly. There are bed¬ 
stead and chair factories at Grafton and Saukville, and a smut 
machine factory at Port Washington. There is also a foundry 
and machine shop, and several shook shops in the last-named 
town, and the usual number of w T agon, blacksmith and carpen¬ 
ter shops, all of which must turn out many thousand dollars’ 
worth of manufactures annually. The shook and stave business 
amounts to about $25,000 annually, and the last year there 
has been not less than 40,000 cords of wood shipped from the 
county. 
INDUSTRY OF PIERCE COUNTY. 
BY DR. O. T. MAXSON, OF PRESCOTT. 
Pierce County is yet in its infancy, dating back but six 
years to its organization. The early pioneer had found his 
way here a little earlier. 
The important feature in the development of the county up 
to this time, consists in its agricultural productions; which is 
the history of all new countries where the soil enters chiefly 
into the importance of the locality. L^p to 1859, no wheat 
had been shipped down the river; a few thousand bushels in 
all had been furnished the pioneer settlers of Minnesota and 
