TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I.- ECONOMIC RESOURCES OF MANITOWOC COUNTY             ----------------------------
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PART II.- MANITOWOC COUNTY PEOPLE              --------------------------------------
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PART III. - PHYSICAL RESOURCES OF MANITOWOC COUNTY               ----------------------------
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RANK OF MANITOWOC COUNTY AND OF WISCONSIN               -------------------------------
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PART IV.- MANITOWOC COUNTY FARM PRODUCTION AND MARKETING -----------------
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PART V. - MANITOWOC COUNTY AS A MARKET CONSUMER           -----------------------------
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PART VI.- CHANGES IN MANITOWOC COUNTY AGRICULTURE            ---------------------------
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INDEX                      -------------------------------------------------------
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           This publication is printed under legislative authority by the
Wisconain State Department of Agriculture, D. N. McDowell, Director.
         Cooperating agencies are the United States Deparnment of Agriculture
Agricultural Marketing Service, Walter H. Ebling, Agricultural
         Statistician in C(arge, and the University of Wisconsin Agricultural
Extension Service, Henry L. AhIgren, Associate Director.
                                                   PREFACE
   Rural America is changing. Communities that were
once largely agricultural are now a blend of farm and
non-farm people and enterprises. Each year there are
fewer farms and farmers and more of the farms have
become part-time farming units. The problems of our
rural communities are now much broader than just the
problems of agriculture and farm people.
  Also, as rural areas become more complex the need
for forward-looking plans in our communities is grow-
ing. To implement such planning and forward thinking,
the data requirements relating to agriculture and other
rural resources are more and more needed for subdivi-
sions of the state and the counties. While this trend
has been apparent for a long time, it has become more
obvious in the last few years.
  For many items local data have been more difficult
to obtain than totals for the state and the nation. The
collection of material by the Census and other agencies
has, for over a century, brought together much informa-
tion from towns and counties, but a great deal of it
was never summarized or published for the small sub-
divisions so as to be available for use by the people
in these local units. Details of the local resources for
small areas have been lacking because it was easier
to put the data together and offer them for important
national, or possible state totals, then for the numer-
ous smaller areas.
  In Wisconsin the growing demand for local data was
recognized years ago. It crystalized partly through the
requirements of the agricultural extension workers in
the counties, through teachers who try to deal with
local issues in schools, and through others who were
concerned with local or community projects. In this
state there is a long history of trying to meet these
requirements, but at first progress was slow because
resources for the purpose were small.
  With important new programs now underway, agricul-
tural extension work is given greater responsibility of
leadership in the development of ourrural communities.
AlU of the local knowledge that we can bring together
is needed in the conscious endeavor toward making the
most of the resources and opportunities in each com-
munity. The idea of group effort to a common purpose
is old, but we are now faced with new challenges to
make the best of our opportunities. We come to realize
more and more that the sum of what is best for each
of the communities is also best for the state and the
nation. Perhaps some of our national Iroblems can be
best solved by working them out locally for each com-
munity. It is with the hope of assisting local people in
all of our communities to more fully study their own
economy and plan fbr a greater future that this series
of publications on the rural resources of each Wiscon-
sin county is undertaken.
  This is the fourth series of these Wisconsin county
publications which is made possible by the cooperation
of several agencies. The Crop Reporting Office of the
Wisconsin and United States Departments of Agriculture
has the formal responsibility for preparing the county
books. The United States Department of Agriculture
through the Marketing Act of 1946 has made important
contributions. Staff members of the College of Agricul-
ture and the Extension Service have supplied specific
parts. A committee of county agents has made important
suggestions for improvement and in each county the
county agents' office officially distributes the books.
The State and County Historical Societies have also
contributed to the project. Special credit for the work
goes to workers in the Crop Reporting Office, partic-
ularly C. D. Caparoon, N. L. Brereton, Angela Krause,
Harry Spray, and others.
Walter H. Ebling
Agricultural Statistician