WISCONSIN IN 1958                            
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some areas which were more richly endowed. Sheer effort on the
part of a vigorous population has produced abundance.
   Perhaps no set of statistics depicts the status of agriculture in
Wisconsin more dramatically than those compiled for the "1957
Wisconsin Farm Facts," published by the State Department of Agri-
culture. They provide a fitting summary forthis section.

                                                                      Value
of land and
          Farm       Total  Farm pop.            Land in    Size of     
buildings
          popu-     popu-    as 61 of No. of      farms     farms   Per farm
 Per acre
 Year     lation    lation    total   farms       acres     acres
 1850    ........... 305,391    ....  20,177    2,976,658   147.5   $ 1,414
  $  9.58
 1860    ............ 775,881   ....  69,270    7,893,587   114.0     1,893
    16.61
 1870    ............ 1,054,670 .... 102,904   11,715,321   113.8     2,335
    20.51
 1880    ............ 1,315,497 .... 134,322   15,353,118   114.3     2,663
    23.30
 1890    ............ 1,693,330 .... 146,409   16,787,988   114.7     3,262
    28.44
 1900    ............ 2,069,042 .... 169,795   19,862,727   117.0     4,041
    34.54
 1910    902,303   2,333,860  38.7   177,127   21,060,066   118.9     6,784
    57.06
 1920    920,037   2,632,067  35.0   189,295   22,148,223   117.0    11,558
    98.78
 1930    881,054   2,939,006  30.0   181,767   21,874,155   120.3     9,526
    79.16
 1940    882,938   3,137,587  28.1   186,735   22,876,494   122.5     6,365
    51.96
 1950    732,598   3,434,575  21.3   168,561   23,221,095   137.8    12,220
    88.58
 1954    ............. ............ .... 153,558 22,507,288 146.6    14,829
   100.85