Memoirs of Waukesha County. From the earliest historical times to the present with chapters on various subjects, including each of the different towns, and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in the county, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information.

              MEMOIRS  OF WAUKESHA  COUNTY 263
Following is a Recapitulation of the Abstract of Assessment Rolls for
1907.
Total Total Average
Number Value Value
Horses 12,608 $657,069 $52.11
Neat cattle  36,687 691,035 19.11
Mules and asses        51 2,385 46.76
Sheep and lambs   19,547 45,536 2.33
Swine   ....    8,466 52,133 6,16
Wagons, carriages and sleighs  ....... 8,378 124,176 14.82
Gold and silver watches        17 543 31.94
Pianos      926 59,730 64.50
Organs and melodeons       160 1,768 11.05
Bank stock  468,880
Merchants and manufacturers'stock ... 487,085
Total net amount of moneys, accounts, bonds, credits, notes and mortgages, $642,268; logs, timber, lumber, ties, poles and posts, $13,- 165; steam and other vessels, $15,919; real and personal property and franchises of water and light companies, not taxable under ch. 354, laws of 1899, $79,846; 24 automobiles, $16,470; all other personal property, $304,765. Total value of all personal property, $3,662,773. Land exclusive of buildings, $12,160,738; buildings as improvements, $4,541,055. Total value of land and buildings as improvements, $16,- 701,793. City and village lots exclusive of buildings, $2,392,206; buildings as improvements, $3,478,071. Total value of real estate, lands and lots with improvements, $22,572,070. Total value of all property, $26,234,843. Total number of acres of land, 344,747 55-100; average value per acre, $48.45.
Following is a Certified Statement of Acreage of Farm Crops and Number and Value of Farm Stock for 1907.
Number of acres. Wheat, 2,081; corn, 35,38354!; oats, 41,003; barley, 15330; rye, 7,812>4 ; potatoes, 4,944%; sugar beets, 527^4 ; beans, 17/4 ; apple orchard, 2,3165^1 Number of growing apple trees, 53,965 ; strawberries, 35; raspberries, 9; blackberries, i; currants, 4; grapes, 3; flax, o; hops, o; tobacco, 3; cultivated for hay, 34,768; growing timber, 18,035. Number and value of live stock: Milch cows, 23,091, $501,341; all other cattle, 13,596, $189,694; horses of all ages, 12,608, $657,069; sheep and lambs, 19,547, $45,536; swine four months old and over, 8,466, $52,133.
Number of bushels: Wheat, 38,171; corn, 1,083,864; oats, 1,203,948; barley, 525,545; rye, 89,085; potatoes, 525,132; beans, 12514 ; apples, 34,811; strawberries, 3,914; raspberries, 511; blackberries, 102; cur¬ rants, 185 ; grapes, 27; clover seed, 709; timothy seed, 343 >^. Number of tons: Sugar beets, 6,984; tame hay, 47,218. Acres harvested for seed: Clover, 347; timothy, i.
The manufacturing interests of the county, although not very large are constantly growing. The labor commissioner in his report for 1906 gives forty-five institutions in the city of Waukesha and eleven in the city of Oconomowoc, visited by the factory inspectors, although