The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-02-15

In Virginia tho proportion is about.7 acres; in
South Carolina acres; in Kentucky, IL acres
| and in Tennessee, so acres. The cash value
of the farms in tho United States is set DOWN
at S3, ,27O, ,7330 093. The whole number of a
cres Of improved land is liz. .487 622; Of sunim-
proved l84,62i, ,34s; total 303, ,Q78. $40; average
cash valuo per acre 80 10. Tho aggregate
| value of farming implents is set down at $780,
100000, of WHICH New York has @22. .os4. .926;
Pennsylvania $l4,722,54l; Louisiana, @lli-
| $40 ,938, (perhaps to great extent in machine
| nv for crushing sugar cane;) Ohio, @12, $50 ,665;
Kentucky, S5, l64.o37; Virginis, 81 ,02l .722.
Ofhorses, there are 4,250,000 in tho United
States. an increase of 100000 since l840. In
New York tho number has decreased 26,66G:
in Pennsylvania 10000; in New England IT.
po0-owing, probably, to tho extension OF rail-
roads. In Ohio and tho new States Of the
Northwest. the increase OF horses has kept pace
with that Of the population, There is in the
United States ono horse to fivo oftho inhabit-
ants, New York has one horse to seven per-
| sons; Pennsylvania one to six and six-tenths;
| Ohio one to four; Kentucky ono to three FREQ
| inhabitants The number of horses in the Uni
ted States is more than three times as large as
that in Great Britain. OF asses apd, mules
there are 559,o70 of which all but $4,000 arc
in the Southern States. Of cattle thero ar6
Is, 9,355,2S7. The amount of Butler produced
in 1850 was l904.542 lbs; of Cheese 10, ,36l ,l8g;
total value Sl,i24,652 OF sheep there hiss
been an increase off, ,309, ,los the whole num-
Der during the past ten years. In New Eng
land the number has decreased As per cent; il
| the FIVE Atlantic Middle States tho decreased
| 35 per cont: in tho FIVE Atlantic Middle States
the decrease has been 22h per cent; in tho
Southern and Western States the increase has
been very large. The number ofsheep has in
creased OH the whole l2 per cent during the
~, ssvxsxr nxraA
| breeding &c., the weight Of their feeces, has
augmented 46 per cent. In 1910 thero were
1881 1874 sheep yielding 35,S02. i IA pounds OF
woo-equal to l "a pounds per head. In 1850
the average weight of each fleece was 2,43.-
In Vermont the average weight of each fleece
was 2,43. In Vermont the average weight of
the fleece in 1910 was 2 l-5 pounds and in 1850
II had increased to 3 7l-100 pounds; the gain
| being equal to almost 20 per cent. In Massa-
chusetts tho avtrage weight Of the fleece .hap
been increased from % to 8 I-l0 pounds. The
State of New York produced 22600o pounds
moro wool in 1850, from $685. sheep, than
| from A. 900 in 1910, showing tn tthc weight
| of fleece has been raised from Ices than two
TO nearly three pounds. Our imports of wool
| i'm 1850 were lS,67s,794 pounds, in value @l,-
6Sl SOL the quantity imported now amounts
to about one fird Of that produced 10 it whilo
| from lS4l te ls45 it was nearly one half
| In the Whent crop ofthe United States there
has been gain Of 15,645,278. The crop OF
New England decreased from 2,014o00 to J.,
07S, 900 bushels decline of $4,000 bushels.
and indicating the attention of farmers has
been much Withdrawn from the culture Of
Wheat. Tho States from the Hudson to the
Potomac produced in lS49, 35,085, 900 bushels.
against 20 g56, 900 in 1916. In Virginia. there
was an increase of l2, ,l23, 900 bushels. Thcse
States embrace tho oldest Wheat growing re-
gion of the country, and that in which the soil
and climate seem TO be adapted to promote tho
permanent culture Of the grain. The increase
of production in the ten years has been 6.272,-
600 bushels equal TO 1876 per cent. Tho a.
rca of tillod land in these States is 3S,000,000
acres, only thirty per cont Of the whole amount
returned-whilc the proportion of Wheat pro
duced is forty-six per cent In North Carolina
there has heen an increase of170,000 bushels.
but in tho Southern Statos generally there was
a considerable decrease. Indiana, Illinois.
Michigan and Wisconsin, contributed TO tho
general aggregate under tho sixth census only
100000 bushels; ;undcrthe last they arc shown
to have produced upwards Of 25.000,000 brsh-
els, an amount equal to the whole ircrcase in
the United States for the period. According
10 tho census of 1910, tho wheat crop of the
United States amounted S4,s23,26 bushels;
in ls49, according TO tho census Of 1850, 100,
500 800 bushels, although in somo of tho larg-
est Wheat growing States, the drops Of 1S49
fell far below the average
The production of Ryc has decreased 49,
600 bushels in the aggregate, but in New York
it is greater than in 1910, by about forty per.
cent. Pennsylvania which is the largest pro-
ducer, has fallen off from G,613,373 TO 4,805,-
100 bushels. During tho year 1850 thcro
woro consumed of Rye about 2, ,l44, 900 bushels
in tho manufacture Of malt and spirituous Ii
quors. Tho aggregate produce of the country
in 1910 was 1855. .567 bushels; in 1850, L.
tSS63Y bushels.
OfIndian Corn, tho increase of production
was 2l4,000, 900, equal TO Sc per cent. The
production Of New England has advanced from
6,993, 900 to 1887 600 bushels showing an
increase of 1884, 900 bushels, nearly ff,y per
cent Now York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Delaware and Maryland. rncrebsed 20,sl2,OoO
bushels, moro than fifty per cent. In the pro-
Ohio, which in 1910 occupied the fourth place
as a corn producing State. now ranks as tho
first. Kentucky is second, IIlionis Third. Ten
nessce fourth. Tho crop Of Illihpis has incfc-
ased from 100000 to $500 900 bushels, or at
tho rate of ono hundred and sixty per cent III
ten years. Tho extended cultivation IF this
grain is chiefly confined to the Eastern, Middle
and Western States, though much moro sue
cossfuy grown in tho latter. According 81
tho census of ls40, tho corn crop Of the United
Statcs was 37L5sl,s75 bushels; in 1850, 592.-
326,612 bushels. fo
OF Oats the total produce was in 1910, 1885,
O7l.34l bushels; in 1850 il was 46,67s.s79.
Of Rice tho culture is chiefly confined ID
South Carolina, Gcogia, Florida, Alabama,
and Texas. The yield per aero
varies from twenty TO sixty bushels. weighing
from forty five to fr,y-eight pounds when
cleaned. Undcr favorable circumstanceA q
many as ninety bushels I'd. an ecrc have Been
raised. The Rice crop in lsIo amounted ID
s0,s4l.422 pounds: i'm 1850 il was 2l5.3l2,7l0.
OF Tobdcc6 the amount raised in 1S40 ]as
2l9, 9,l63.3I9 pounds; in 1850. l99. 752, ,646 pcu-
nds, showing deo ease in it's culture Of 49,
4l0,G73 pounds. "a H4r Bed a7f - ttfs