The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-12-16

! Average cash Nalue per acre, incluuihB
States, Districts and Territories 1919
Value of Farming Implements and Machine
ru-One hundred and ffty.one millions of dol
lars would appear to be at this time invested
in implements and machinery, for aiding and
abridging the work of the hands in cultivating
the earth and in preparing its produce for con-
sumption.
No greater delight was enjoyed by foreigners
in London, during the great industrial exhibit
I ton than that by Americans on the trial of
the reaping machines, and the triumphant sue
cess OF the American Reaper. Of the whole
sum expended in articles of this character
New York has inyested-$22 OS4 925; Penn
sylvania, Sl4722 SAL; Louisiana, ST., SIG, 935
, perhaps to great extent in machinery for
crushing sugar cane J Ohio, Sl2 $50, 585 Ken
lucky, S. l69,O37: Virginia, S7O2l,772.
Domestic ARimdlS-AH interesting relation
of the introduction of the animals domesticated
in the United States, precedes the statistical
statements on the subject for which we have
not room, but proceed at once to the material
facts.
According to the census returns Of 1870
there were in the United States 4 1885 669
horses and mules 1877 ,586 neat cattle
I93l1,374 sheep and % 30l ,293 swine of
y.
%, 36O, 24l horned cattle, Including 6, 1922 046
milch cows and 1899 24l working oxen J
81, 72l ,Sl4 sheep and 3O,3l66O3 swine.
The increase in the aggregate number of
horses, asses, and mules, from 1910 to 1850 was
$50 053 In the Northeastern States there has
been considerable decrease in the number of
these animals. The nse Of them has been su-
pcrseded to great extent by the extension of
roll In tba Atofa oNft ka
West and Northwest large increase is obserya-
BILE
Of H0rses-New York has one horse to seven
persons Pennsylvania, one to six and six-tenths !;
Ohio one to four Kentucky, one to three free
inhabitants The number Of horses in the Uni
ted States is more than three times as large as
that in Great Britain
! Mich CoWS Under the general term of neat
cattle were embraced, in the Sixth Census, tho
three descriptions of animals designated in
that Of 1850. as mich cows working oxen, and
other cattle. The aggregate of the three
classes in 1870, was 1877 ,586; in 1850,
10 1855 287. The increase, therefore between
the two periods, was 3. 1893, 70I, or about twenty
per cent. They appear to be distributed quite
equally over the Union The amount of butter
gives IN average Of something over 40 pounds
To each mich cow. The average production
Of cheese to each COW ~ l623 pounds AS with
horses the same allowance must be made on
account of the omission of cows except in corr
necton with agriculture. The only schedules
IN which the live stock Of the country could
be enumerated, were those used for obtaining
the agricultural products Of farms. From this
fact tbs schedules for population and manufac-
lures being alone Bsed in cities, their live stock
was not included in them.
Butter and Chee@.-The censas of 1870 fur
nishcs us with 10 statistics from which we can
accurately determine the quantity Of butter
and cheese then produced. The value of both
is given under the heading of value of tho pro,
ducts Of the dairy, at the sum Of $33, 1877, 600
1t is presumed that the marshals made their
returns in accordance with the prices govern
ing La THAR respective districts which would
differ ~ widely ~ h render any assumed aver
age mere conjecture New York is far in
advance Of any other State in the producSive.
ness of its dairics They yield one fourth Of
all the butter, and nearly one half the cheese
produced in the Union. Pennsylvania, which
makes 40,00O0OO pounds Of butter, is less
prolific in cheese than many smaller States
In LIi9 latter article Ohio is before all other
competitor, l.Eept New York
The following tsbs. Slows the amount Of
dairy products exported iron, tae United States
for several years past: