INDUSTRY OF COUNTIES. 
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county have died. I have a flourishing Clinton grape from 
the garden of Simeon Mills, of Madison, which has borne full 
for the past five years without taking from the frame in winter. 
Wild grapes, plums and berries abound. 
Manufacturing is in its infancy, but there is a large sup¬ 
ply of water power-waiting to be used. Prescott, the County 
Seat and principal town of the county, has eight steam mills, 
six of which are for lumber. 
Exports. —The following table of the exports of the county 
for the year 1860 has been carefully compiled from the ware¬ 
house books at Prescott, including grain estimated on hand 
April 1st, 1861; all the grain of the county being shipped at 
that place. 
Wheat, bushels, .... 
. 300,000, 
average 
price 
paid 
70 cents,_ 
.$210,000' 
Corn, “ 
. 50,000, 
a 
a 
a 
25 
a 
. 12,500 
Barley, u 
. 25,000, 
a 
a 
a 
40 
a 
. 10,000 
Oats, “ 
. 250,000, 
a 
a 
a 
20 
a 
. 50,000 
Pork, pounds, 
.224,000, 
u 
a 
u 
5 
a 
. 11,200 
Total,. 
Our population was 4,677 by the late U. S. census; from 
which it appears the above sum allows $62 as the average 
for every man, woman and child in the county. There were 
ten thousand acres of land broken during the past year. 
Pierce has a County Agricultural Society, dating back two 
years; at its first gathering, Prof. IToyt of Madison, addressed 
the Society; since which time they have taken the Prize Ban¬ 
ner offered by the citizens of Madison through the State 
Agricultural Society. I believe the county is also the banner 
county in the number of Wisconsin Farmers taken, in propor¬ 
tion to the population; and I am informed that the same is 
true as to the Journal of Education; this speaks well for the 
intelligence of the people. 
Owing to the several railroads touching the Mississippi, all 
competing for the carrying trade, we go to Milwaukee and 
Chicago at the same price that towns one hundred miles from 
either place do. Most of the crop of 1860 was taken to Mil¬ 
waukee at nine cents per bushel from Prescott. 
