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Excerpt from The Rise and Decline of the Wheat Growing Industry in Wisconsin From the Seventh Censusof the United States we have com paratively reliable statistics as to the Wheat industry in Wiscon sin just preceding. The advent of the railroad. We have, further, overwhelming testimony as to conditions in respect to wheat cul ture in Wisconsin at that time. In the Transactions of the Wis consin State Agricultural Society for the year 18512 we have a report on Agricultural Condition and Capacity that covers nearly all of the more important wheat producing counties of that state. This report is supplemented by numerous references in the columns of the Wisconsin and Iowa Farmer and North western Cultivator, in the Prairie Farmer, and in the various lo cal newspapers, local histories, pamphlets, etc. According to the census of 1840, bushels of wheat were produced in Wisconsm in with an acreage of acres. The crop of 1849 according to the Seventh Census amounted to bushels, and the acreage had increased to acres.3 Practically the Whole amount in 1849 was produced south of Green Bay and east of the Wisconsin River. Rock and Walworth counties together produced 33 1-3 per cent. Of the total. The four counties of Rock, Walworth, Dane and Dodge produced approximately 50 per cent. Of the whole crop. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.