Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-02-15

AGRicuLTuRE OF THE UNIrEp STATrs.--RE.
PORT THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTs.-The
tabular estimates of the agricultural productions
of the U. States, for the year lsi3 says the
Philadelphia Ledger, have been presented to Con.
gress, in the report of the Commissioner of Pa
tents, just made. The mass of information en-
bodied in this report shows the growth, increase
and prosperity of agriculture in this country. |
Much attention has recently been paid TO this
branch of our industry, and various societies have
been formed to promote improvements in agri
culture The discussions at the farmers clubs
have contributed much towards disseminating
useful information, and agricultural papers and
books are constantly increasing. Nearly every
State in the Union has now it, agricultural month.
ly or weekly paper and in some of the States
there many three or four. Volumes Of
great merit on the subject ofagrcultural industry
also, have been published during the past year
and the results of the experiments of foreign ag-
ricutursts are now becoming more easily acces.
sible to the farmers of our country. Science has
already conferred immense benefits on this por-
ton ofpeople BY the aid af chemistry, it is as
serted that the wheat growers of France have
succeeded in doubling the product of wheat in
that kingdom, and now annually harvest more
wheat than is grown in Grea; Britain and the
| United States. Science, too, has enabled the az.
riculturalists of England, not only to cut twice
as much hay from an acre of land now as they
did twenty-five years ago, but to keep twice as
many cattle, sheep and swine on the sane
amount of food they did and, ofcoursc. to make
twice much beef mutton and tallow, wool
butter and cheese from any given amount of We.
getablc food
In compiling the tables contained in the report
of the Commissioner, Mr. Ellsworth, some ad-
vantages nave been enjoyed for nearer approach
to accuracy, with respect to particular crops,
than was the case in the former reports. The
population Of the United States is estimated at
1873 600. The number of bushels of whea,
raised in 1913. was 100, O,3lO $50. Twelve mil
lions and half bushels by New York State
twelve millions and quarter by Pennsylvania
and nearly nineteen millions by Ohio. The
State which raises the greatest amount of oats il
New York-nearly twenty-five millions Penn
largest amount of rye is raised in Pennsylva
I via-nine millions and half bushels buck
i. wheat also, two and a half millions. Fiftce
Y millions of Indian corn were raised in Pennsyl
V vana in Tennessee sixty-seven millions, Mn
i millions bushels of potatoes were raised in thi
State; New York twenty.sx millions Main
ten Millions -Four hundred and forty-one tho,
y sand pounds of tobacco were raised in Pennsy
<, vania, twenty-six thousand pounds of silk eigl
IT teen hundred and seventy.eight thousand pount
A. of sugar, and nineteen thousand gallons of wiz
e. made. The total products of the whole countr
IT are as follows: Wheat, 100, $50 bushels
'd barley, 3,22O, ,72l; oats ii5, ,929 966 rye, "a
Sc 2sO, ,271 buckwhrat, 7,929,4lO; Indian cor
e. I9l, ,Gls,3l6 potatoes, l05 $50, 1873 hay, /;
ne 4l9 ,s07 tons flax and hemp, 16l 0o7 tobacc
f. ls5, 73l 55i pounds cotton, 747 600 900 pounc
n rice s7,s79,li5 pounds silk, 3l5,765 p nnd
IN sugar, l2G, ,Gl0 pounds wine, l39, ,24O 9;
n, Ions.