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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
the county and outlet for its produce upon the Milwaukee & 
Mississippi R. R., Richland City, Onion and Port Andrew upon 
the river, Sextonville, Richland Centre the county seat, in the 
centre, and in the northern part Rockbridge, Woodstock, Loyd, 
Cazenovia, Neptune, Spring Valley, Viola, Boaz, and some 
others, which bid fair to become thriving country towns, and 
centres of considerable business. 
According to the late census, we have about 9,710 inhabi¬ 
tants, which for the time since the commencement of its 
settlement, and the financial embarrassments of the country 
generally, shows a more rapid increase than could have been 
expected. 
The county Agricultural Fairs have been well attended since 
the organization of the Society, and the exhibition in products, 
stock, and manufactured articles, was very creditable in quan¬ 
tity and quality; showing a good degree of enterprise and 
intelligence in the farmers and mechanics. With that industry 
and economy characteristic of the pioneers of Wisconsin, we 
confidently lock forward to a degree of improvement and in¬ 
dependence in our circumstances which are the legitimate fruits 
of health, industry and enterprise; and though our progress 
may be slow, we regard the result as certain and satisfactory. 
INDUSTRY OF ROCK COUNTY. 
BY DR. A. I. BENNETT, OF BELOIT. 
In surveying the pleasing drapery of surface, and in contem¬ 
plating the numerous advantages presented in the County of 
Rock, before it was disturbed by human agency, the traveler 
must have been led to feel that Dame Nature had acted in her 
blandest and most beneficent mood, while thus lavishiug her 
gifts to promote the welfare of those who might inherit the 
boon. 
He will have traveled far and seen much of earth, who shall 
have met with any region of similar extent, which more fully 
