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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
improved, can be purchased at from §2.50 to $6 per acre; the 
price varying in proportion to the distance from Hudson City, 
the market for the county. 
A few sheep have been introduced within the last two years, 
which, owing to our dry and healthful climate, are doing 
remarkably well. Cattle thrive well, and 'winter much better 
than in Illinois, or any region subject to frequent thaws and 
cold winds. 
We have observed the diseases of this region almost thirteen 
years, and I have yet to learn of more than a single instance 
of consumption that was not developed before coming here. 
We occasionally have typhoid fever, some bilious remittent and 
and intermittent diseases, and frequently, at the early setting 
in of winter and in the spring, some cases of pleuritis and 
pneumonia, and once in about five or six years dysentery or 
bloody flux prevails to some extent. 
We have tried long and hard to cultivate the apple, with 
partial success. The grape, currant, gooseberry, strawberry, 
&c., grow abundantly, and the woods fiirnish us with abun¬ 
dance of the raspberry and blackberry, and the marshes with 
cranberries. 
INDUSTRY OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY. 
BY GEORGE GALE, OF GALESVILLE. 
Trempealeau County derives its name from a bluff about 
four hundred feet high, and containing about forty acres, situ¬ 
ated in the Mississippi River, which was a landmark of the 
old French voyageurs, and means, “ Soaking in the water.” 
The county is located on the east bank of the Mississippi, 
between the south line of township 18 north and north line of 
24, and between the east line of Range 7 and the center of 
Range 10 west, and contains about twenty townships of land. 
It is watered by the Mississippi on the south, Black river on 
the south-east, Beaver and Tamarac creeks in the southern 
