The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-24
EBENSBIRG, THIRSDiT, MARCH "a, 1853.

| er causes there has been an augmentation of 46
per cent. in the weight of their feeces. The
| increase in the number of sheep has taken place
in the States south of Maryland and west of New
York. In 1910 New York had D, Is, 010 sheep,
which produced 226,000 pounds of wool less
than were produced in 1850 with 9, 3,453, 600
sheen.
On the whole wheat crop of the United States
there was gain during the ten years of Ii, $40,
318 bushels. In the New England States the
crop has decreased. The greatest propOrtionate
increase has been in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin. The increase in those States
is, indeed, equal TO the whole increase in the
United States Rye has fallen from 6. 645. .567
bushels IN 1910 TO IA. lSS, 637 bushels in $50
The p! oduction of Indian corn has increased TO
the extent of PA, 600 900 bushels, equal to So
per cent. In regard to this crop State has
retrograded Ohio produces most, and Ken
lucky, Illinois and Tennessee rank next Oats
advanced from 123, OIL ,24l bushels in 1910 10
146, 67S, ,S79 in 1850: buckwheat from 1892,
743 bushels TO s, $50, ,9l6 bushels barley from
i, f6I ,504 bushels TO .. lG7 ,0l6 bushels In the
last year, 3,7S0, 600 bushels of barley were used
in the manufacture Of malt and spirituous Ii
qEors.
The rice crop in 1850 was 2l5, ,3I2,7IO 0 pounds,
nearly wholly derived from S. Carolina, Ga,
Fla, Ala, Miss, and Texas.
The production of tobacco was decreased
about ten per cent. In 1910 it was 3I9, l63,
3l9 lbs: III 1850 il was 1873. 81. 646 lbs.
In cotton there has been gain of 1876, go.
325 lbs. The returns o. 1850 give 987 4i9. .CCC
lbs. the quantity cultivated. Alabama occu-
pies the first place as cotton growing State,
having almost doubled its prediction in the last
ten years. Mississippi appears almost station
airy, while there has been heavy falling of in
Lousiana-the inundatrons of the Mississippi
and its tributaries being assigned as the princi-
pal cause in both cases In Virginia and North
Carolina, the culture has largely diminished.
The product of potatoes has fallen from lG8,
POS, 600 bushels in 1910 TO 04 ,055, !iS9 bushels
IN 1850; the prevalent disease or rot being
unquestieunbly the main cause. The quantity
Of sweet potatoes raised in $50 was 3S, $50, 81
bushels.
OF wine the total product in 1850 was OIL
80 gallons. California and New Mexico gave
G0,IlS gallons. The increase IN other portions
OF the Union has been but $4,000 gallons; fact
which conflicts with the ordinarily received
opinion in regard to the production of this arti-
Gle in Ohio and other States.
The quantity of ale and spirtuous liquors
produced iu the United States in the same year
amounted to 100000 gallons-being at the
rate of nearly four gallons per head
The increase in the culture of hops has been
nearly 200 per cent. Almost the whole of the
increase has been in the State of n. Y
The returns of 1910 exhibited 50, ,25l tons of
flax and hemp as the quantity raised in the Uni
ted States; those of $50 give 35,093 of hemp
and I,lo.96l lbs. OF flax Mr. Kennedy sug-
gests that in the former case the marshals may
have written tons where pounds were intended.
In the culture of silk there has been large
decrease, having been only l 4. 663 lbs in 1850
against 6 l, ,663 TBS in 1910. Connecticut is the
only State which has continued the culture
without suspension.
The cane sugar understanding TO the cen
sus Of 1650-was 247 ,5Sl 900 lbs, besides 12,
700, ,906 gallons of moasses; maple sugar, 81,
259. 1856 lbs; being an aggregate increase in ten
years of 26, 730, 077 lbs.