Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-11-06

.Uuullo moe miles
81 RSE|fosd i6on Kentucky built during
the wbole pssiod.' The railroads part
II completed at the census connected
the interior Of the State with the east
at Eve different points on the Mississip.
pi river, At two Of which freight could
be passed forward to market without
bulk. But We are now much
oose iotimstely connected with the
great American railway system than
we we're, even so recently a. 1860; and
It may safely be said that five years
hence nearly every town in the State
will have home market OF its own, by
reason Of that same system under the
operations of which the east and the
rest have become next-door peighbors.
MANUFACTURER.
Cor State, like the country generally,
is more agricultural than manufacturing
or commercial. Our exports OF anu
features, except lead, are merely nom'-
nal, or were, at ell events.unt'l 1869. we
now begin to export largely OF flour
and meal. Yet 10 1850, our manuiac-
turing establishments, the productions OF
each of which amounted to at least
$500, 900 annually-for OF those produc-
iog less the census took no notlce-gave
employment to an average force OF g.
sri hands. consumed raw material aud
fuel to the amount Of $500, 900, aud
produced sl4, 100000 worth OF manu-
featured articles. LIE. Us briefly look al
the details:
The value of agricultural implements
r anfac.ure,i in 1850 was SIT ,90O-ln
1860 was 500; of steam engines
and machinery, in 1850, $4,000, in 1860
s1eG.72O; Of iron founding in 1850 49,
500, 10 1860, 1887 ,435; value OF books,
Jobs, and newspapers in 1850 80, $50, 10
1860. &l4O,313; of saved and planed
lumber, in 1850, s47O, 100, in 1880, 81
a7s,52o; of lour and meal in 1850,
s2.ol0,44s, in 1860. s8,95O.049; wool
en- goods, 10 1850, $ll2,454, in 1880,
Sl67 900; value of leather tannet, In
1850, $24,55O, in 1860, SOL, 100; boots
and shoes in 1850, S56.533, in 1860,
1926, 296; furniture, in 1850, 1851 ,so5,
in 1860, Sl57, 49l; soap and candles,
none returned in 1850, value In 1860,
sll347O. In several Of these manu-
fa.,ures-boots and thQes, lumber and
machinery-the rate Of increase has
been much greater in Iowa than in any
other State, and in many others greater
than in most Of the States.
| FARMS AND THE PRODUCTIONS or A6Ri-
CULTURE.
The number Of acres of improved
lands in the State in 1850, was s24,6S2
in 1860, 3.7S0,253; tie number OF
acres of lands unimprovcd, attached to
the improved lands, was, in 1850, L.
9ll,3s2, ana in 1860 5,e49,l36. The
cash value Of farms in 1850, wai
sl6,657 ,567, and 10 $50 $lls,74l,4o5
Of farming implements and machinery
sl,l7.,e 800, in 1850, and $5,l9o,O42 il
1860. Were the facts and figures al
hand, showing the progress Of the State
in agriculture annually, we do not doub
that it would appear that we have made
in this most important respect, more
substantial improvements since tho Fl
nancial crisis Of 1857 than previously
thereto. Since that time thousands o
farmers who had before been take.
with the mania of speculation, have di
rectcd their energies to the improvement
and better cultivation of their farms
| a, Ill. ~,
lived in our cities and towns engaged il
wild and and corner lot business, on cap
ital borrowed at a cent and halt pc
month for every dollar used, have beer
compelled by necessity to follow il
channels Of business better calculated
to permanently improve the State
Very many Of them are already prosper
Gus farmers, and Iowa may well rejoice
that, If her cities have not improved &c
rap dly as the golden dreams OF 1861
indicated, she grows more cereals ano
sends more livestock to market by III
hundred fold than when the rage o
speculation was at white heat, aud W,
were all az rich as Croesuses, in imagin
alton.
The number of horses owned by III,
farmers OF Iowa in 1850, WIS 38, $3.50, il
1860, ia ,957; asses and muller in 1856
f54, in 1860, 5,7l3; mich cows, ir
1850, 45,7O4, in 1860, 1886; work
ing oxen, in ls5o,..2l,s92, in 1860, Sc,
$50 other cattle in 1850, 69,O25, il
1860, pol Jas; sheep, in 1850, las, 900
in 1860, 25e,22s; swine, in 1850, 1923,
PAT, in 1850, 92l, l6l. The value o
the live stock in 1850 was 3,6s9,275
dollars, in 1860, 2l,776,7s6 dollars
These figures show a very gratifying in
crease in all the kinds Of live stock, but
not SO great in sheep aud mules as W.
hope to chronicle touching those profit
able animals, when ten years hence w
come to speak Of the progress of on,
State during the current decade, sh al
it please God to permit rs to 1--we tha
long.
1t is to be remembered, too, that per
sons not farmers owned a great deal o
took not enumerated below. The mum
Der Of horses Thus being in the State il
1860, was 36,Ol8; asses and mules, 2,
O54; neat cattle, 94,1e4; sheep, %,
267 swine, l3O,e91.
The productions Of agriculture as re
CARDS all the crops generally cultivated
By our farmers, or which can be profita