Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-01-06


der the Sixth Census only $500 900
bushels under the last they are shown
20 have produced upwards Of % 900, 900
bushels, an amount equal TO the whole
increase Of the United States for the pc
Rod. According to the census Of 1910,
the wheat crop of the United States a.
mounted to S4,623, 272 bushels; in
1919, according TO the censds of 1850,
/ 100, SOB 500, although in some Of the
largest wheat growing states the crops
of / $40 fell far below the average.
The production Of Rye has decreased
49, 900 in the aggregate but in New
York it is greater thln in 1910 by about
forty per cent. Pennsylvania, which is
the largest producer, has fallen OF from
6,6l3, 373 to 4 sos, 100 bushels. During
the year 1850 there were consumed of
/ rye about ?, IA, 900 bushels in the man
ulacture Of malt and spirituous liquors.
/ The aggregate produce of the country
in 1910 was lS,615,5 SCI bushels; in
/ 1850, ISIS, 637 bushels.
OF I0dian Coln the increase of pro-
duction was 2l1, 1905 900 bushels, equal
to Sc per cent. The production of New
England has advanced from 6,993,OOO
to l0,377,OoO bushels, showing an in
crease of 1884, GOO bushels, nearly 50
4 per cent New York, New Jersey, Del
aware, Pennsylvania and Maryland in
creased 20,Sl2,0OO bushels, or more
than 50per cent. In the production Of
this crop no State has retrograded.
Ohio. which in 1910 occupied the fourth
place as corn producing State, now
ranks as the first. Kentucky is second
Illinois third, Tennessee fourth. Tie
crop Of Illinois has increased from L.
600, 900 TO 2 10000 bushels, or at the
rate of 100 per cent in ten years. Tie
extended cultivation of this grain is
chiefly confined TO the Eastern, Middle
and Western States, though much more
successfully grown in the latter. Ac-
cording 10 the census Of 1910, the corn
crop of the United States was 81 1881
So bushels; in 1850, 592 ,326,6l2
bushels.
OF oats the total produce was, in
1910, 1901, ]l4 bushels in $50 it
was l46,6lS, $40.
OF Rice, the culture is chiefly confined
TO South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, AL
ALBANIA, Mississippi aud Texas. The
yield per acre varies from 90 to 60 bush
els, weighing from 10 to IS pounds when
cleaned. Under favorable circumstan-
ces as many as 80 bushels TO the acre
have been raised. The rice crop ia 1910
amounted TO SO,Sll,4 22 pounds; in
1850 it was 2l5,3I2,7lO.
OF Tobacco, the amount raised in
1910 was 9,I63, 10 pounds f.; in 1850
it was 699,752,646 pounds, showing a
decrease in the culture of l9,4lO,673
pounds.
or CoiioR, ths amount raised in 1910
was 79O,479,l75 pounds in 1850. 977.-
10000 pounds, showing an increase of
l96,91O,325 pounds. 1t appears that
the culture Of cotton is rapidly d;min-
lshing in Virginia and North Carolina.
In those States it is doubtless giving place
to another production OF the soil Ala
bama now occupies the first place as
cotton-pantiug State, and has almost
doubled lis production since 1910. The
average annual yield for the five wears
ending with 1885, was estimated at L.
O55,000 bales; for the same period end
ing in 1910, 100000; for a like pc.
rod terminating with 1850, 2,27O.O 900
bales. Had no disturbing cause inter
rupied the progressive advance, the a.
mount in 1850 would have exceeded
100000 bales.
OF Bachcheat, the annual quantity
raised, according to the returns Of 1910,
was 7,29l,713 bushels; in 1850 it was
S,056,9l6 bushels.
OF BARLEY, the consumption for the
past year in the manufacture of malt and
spirtuous liquors amounted to 3, $50, 900
bushels. According to the census re-
turns of 1910, the amount of barley
raised in the United States was 4.l6l,-
504 bushels; in 1850 it was 5,I67,Ol6
bushels.
OF the Street Potatoe, which grows
abundanty throughout the Southern
States, and as tar north as New Jersey
and the southern part of Michigan, there
was exported in 1850, l06,3i2 bushels.
The quantity raised was 39,259,I96;
and of potatoes Of all kinds, there were
l0i ,055, $50, which is about 1000, COO
bushels less than the amount reported in
1910.
The quantity Of Vine produced in
the United States was reported in 1910
at $4,000 gallons in l850it had risen
to p ,249, including 6O,7lS raised in
California and New Mexico, which were
not included in the other estimate. The
consumption of wine in the United
States is given al q, 100, 900 gallons.
In Hops the increase has been nearly
200 per cent, and almost the whole of it
m the Stale of New York, which, from
less than half million of pounds in
1910, now produces more than two and
a half millions, which exceeds FIVE
seyenths of the whole crop of the Unit
ed States. New York also stands fore
most in the production Of ale, beer and
porter, in the manufacture of which the
larger part Of the hops raised is consum-
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