Polynesian., 1853-03-12

TidnS tne next number, or 4, ,5S4; ana II W.
count the Dutch Reformed, Congregational
Lutheran and German Reformed with tn
Presbyterian, (and the differences betwee
all these seem slight and unessential,) tn
total is 5,ll2. But the estimated capacit
Of the Presbyterian and allied churches
greater in the average than that of the Bap
tist and Methodist churches, so that while al
the Methodist churches will accommodate
but A 2O9, 1873 worshipers and all the Baptis
but 3, l3O, ,37S. the Presbyterian and relate'
churches aforesaid have room for 8, 7O5, 81
worshipers The Catholics have but l, II:
churches, accommodating 52O, $50 worship
ers. The Episcopalians have ,423 churches
accommodating 625, ,2l3 worshipers Th'
average number that each church edifce il
Union will accommodate is 2S4; the tota
value Of church property S56, ,4l6, ,639; ano
il all the churches should be filled at one
time, they would hold l3, S49, 500 persons
probably something near the total population
that could at one time attend church.
The farm lands of the United States are
set down in the census as amounting to
'llS. .457 ,622 acres of improved and lS4 ,62l
3iS of unimproved; total 3O3 .07S. go acres
worth in the average $40 per acre. The
average value of 'he farm lands of Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is
about $50 per acre. (New Jersey highest,
Pennsylvania lowest;) while Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont average about S IL
per acre. We are rather surprised to see
the farm lands of North and South Carolina
Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee valued
in the average below S. per acre.
Of domestic ANIMALS, this country had an
early supply and has always been prolific
and the number continues to increase steadi-
ly and rapidly The increase of horses,
mules and asses, from 1910 to 1850 was
$50, ,O53, although the number has consider
ably decreased in all the States literally
chequered with railroads. New York has
one horse to seven persons, Ohio one to four,
and the whole Union about one to every five
persons, or a little over four millions in all
OF neat cattle, the number in 1850 was
D, ,355. 2S7-an increase in ten years o
about twenty per cent. The average product
of butter appears TO be about AZ lbs. per an
mum to each COW, with l6 3-4 lbs. of cheese
We export annually little over one million
dollars worth of dairy products. Of sheep
there was an increase of 2. 3O9, lOS between
40 and so, Notwithstanding Illumination
Of GAG, $50 in New England and ,76l 46t
IN the Atlantic Middle States, equal to a.
per cent. in the former and twenty-five anC
a half in the latter Sheep husbandry is
tending rapidly westward and southward-tc
the milder slopes of the Aleghanies and the
Prairies Of Illinois, Missouri and Texas
New Mexico has six sheep to each person
an extraordinary proportion. Best of all,
the returns show that while in 1910 the
average annual yield of Wool was a little
under two pounds per sheep, it was IN 1850
nearly two and half pounds per sheep, SO
that 81 ,6O9. 900 sheep produced in 1850
forty-six per cent. more wool than ~ 81 l
374 sheep did in 1910 An increase"of IL
per cent in the sheep had been paraIleled by
an increase Of forty-six per cent in the
wool. And in Vermont, where the greatest
attention has been paid to sheep husbandry
the average yield per sheep is almost four
pounds. Yet we import considerably OF
wool-manIy the cheapest and coarsest. In
1850, the import was 1869, 1913 pounds,
valued at 81 ,69l ,69l, or between eight apd
nine cents per pound The imports Of wool
have largely increased during three or four
years
Of tobacco. the aggregate returned in
1910 was 2T9, ,I63 3l9 lbs. in 1850 it was
I99, ,652 GAG pounds-a decrease of about
ten per cent. We fear the millennium is
not approaching so rapidly as these returns
would indicate.
Of cotton, the production continu's large
ly to increase. The product is now over
3 600, 900 bales or 600, 900 tons per annum.
OF potatoes, the product would seem to
have fallen off from los. Dos, ,O60 bushels in
40 to IO4, ,O55, $3.50 bushels IN 1850; and we
presume this is correct; the reason being
the effects and fears of potato rot. This
disease would now seem to be passing away,
and the culture of the root consequently re-
viving.
Divine, the production is steadily increas-
ing. Our importation amounts to six mil
lions Of gallons per annum; our consump-
ton to at least twenty millions of gallons
so that our home production must be not far
from fourteen million gallons. OF this az
arega,e, It seems that only 22l .e49 gallons
are acknowledged in the census-whence we
infer that our manufacturers of Madeira
Champagne, Hook, &c., prefer not to lei
their light shine be ore men," but meekly
nut aside the credit of their enormous con-
sumption of cider, turnips, logwood and
other domestic and imported products
Such an example of modesty is very rare in
this brazen age.
Of spirits and malt liquors, the annual pro-
duet reaches the enormous aggregate ol
eiehty-six millions of gallons, (sIx gallons
for each person cd enough to drink or to
know better, Jour imports and exports just
about balancing each other. This is great
country. The hop culture (mainly confined
to this State) is extending. =
or fax and hemp, the production did moi
materially vary from 1910 to 1850. We
trust it has since so received strong ant
lasting impulse; but Rome was NOT but in q
day. ,f,.,