Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-03

100000 of people, the value of agricul-
tural implements produced was only
one-seventeenth of the whole A /
brighter day is, however, dawning for
this long benighted and semi-civilized
portion of our country.
Few persons have any idea of the ex-
tent Of the manufacture of agricultural
implements in the country, who have
not examined the statistics, and of the
increase of applications fled in the
Patent Office for patents for improve
ment and new inventions of labor-saving
machinery. The Commissioner of
Patents says "that notwithstanding half
million of our agriculturists have
been Withdrawn from the farm to engage
in the military service, still the number
of applications for patents in sgricultu-
raj implements Exclusive of reapers,
bee-hives, horse hay-forks and horse hay
rakes) has increased from $50 in 1861,
to 502 in 1864."a
1t viii seem rather strange to learn
that the earliest agricultural associa-
tions in the United States should have
been established in 1855, in that little
slave-holding, rebellious State Of South
Carolina, and Pennsylvania in the same
year. Iu the first mentioned State,
nearly century before, the Assembly
passed Gan actor the better encourage
nent of making engines for propagating
the staples Of the Colony" In 1884 the
Assembly enacted q regular copyright
law, giving to authors of books and
Inventors of useful machinery the ex-
elusive benefit of their productions for
IA years" This, as will be seen, was in
the earlier, purer aud better days of
the Republic, before negro slavery
had become one of the diuine institu-
tions; before the discovery was made
that, by the aid of the Democratic party,
and negro slavery, Southern slavehold-
ing aristocrats could be perpetually kept
in Office. 1t was not until 1892 that in
Massachusetts society for promoting
agriculture, labored successfully to pro.
mote like improvements. The first sta
tistics of the national industry collected
the following year, embraced one small
manufactory of hand rakes in Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, which made, an.
nually, lilo rakes, valued at $1,870
Of-the total product of 1860, nearlytwc
millions in value were made in New
4 England, being an increase of l6 pei
cent. over 1850
The increase in the Middle States wal
134 per cent The increase in New
York was 1877 per cent, and that o.
Pennsylvania 85.5 per cent. over 1850
But the increase in the Western Statet
was unprecedented, being 1925 PEI
cent. This will give the reader som'
!. idea of the rapid progress of the Grea
West, and the powerful influence sh,
will ere long exert in this country.
The manufacture of labor savinl
machinery, in the West, nearly equalleC
that of the whole Union in 1850. Tht
States Of Ohio and Illinois, together
manufactured greater amount than an.
other two States in the Union, the valu
manufactured in the former being 81
$50, ,626, and in the latter, $2,379, 1862
an increase of 405.5 per cent anc
r 2l2.2 per cent. Iowa increased it
manufacture I,208.6 per cent and Ken
j. tueky did remarkably well for slav
, State, her increase over 1850 wa
;, 1854 per cent. When she once full
/ casts of that barbarous and unciqil
g lied, unchristian institution of negr
slavery, and arrays herself fully o
the side of the country and of fres
dom, when her Judges fully recognis
3 and respect all the laws passed by tn
e Congress of the Nation, then may sh
: expect a tide of prosperity to set in ths
: will be unprecedented in her history
; Stark county, Ohio, has the honor c
!. manufacturing the largest amount {
Q any county in the Union. IulS60, ther
4 were Is establishments in that county
V producing machinery valued at 5000
480; the greatest part consisted o
d Mowers and Rsapers. The next larget
v county production was Cook county, III
Il the value produced was S529, 900. Rem
s sslaer and Cayuga counties, New Yorl
IS each produced upwards of $4,000
: worth OF Agricultural implements, 81
a. q single firm in Stark county, Obi
ID manufactured Reapers, Mowers, ar
le Threshers, to the value of $399, ,000
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