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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
schools, and in the country the neat white school house has 
taken the place of the old log one. Of the higher order of 
schools, we have Carrol college located at Waukesha, and the 
Theological Seminary located at Nashota, besides schools for 
young men and misses in the most of the towns; all of which 
appear to be in a flourishing condition. 
INDUSTRY OF WAUPACA COUNTY. 
BY DR. L. B. BRAINARD, OF WAUPACA. 
Waupaca County embraces the Government-surveyed town¬ 
ships numbered from twenty-one to twenty-five north, in 
ranges numbered from eleven to fourteen east, also town 
twenty-five, range fifteen, containing twenty-one townships, 
and according to the original survey, seven hundred and fifty- 
six square miles. 
Natural Advantages. —The W r olf liv'er flows from north 
to south through the eastern portion of the county, and is 
navigable for steamboats. The Little Wolf and Embarrass 
rivers and their branches traverse the northern and central 
portions, affording abundant and reliable water powers. 
Most of the eastern half of the county is heavily timbered 
with the usual hard wood varieties found in this latitude, and 
interspersed with pine groves and scattering pines of an excel¬ 
lent quality of timber. White and black oak of an excellent 
quality for staves and machinery are abundant; also basswood 
with considerable butternut and birch, suitable for furniture. 
There are numerous sugar and white maple groves, and in the 
northern portion of the county, extensive groves of hemlock. 
All the water powers on the Little Wolf, from its mouth to 
Micklejohn’s mill, (saw mill and grist mill,) in town 23, range 
13, were improved early in the settlement of the country, for 
the purpose of manufacturing lumber, an immense amount of 
which, as well as of pine logs, is constantly being taken down 
the W r olf river to Oshkosh, and up the Fox river to its differ- 
