Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-01-26
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Interesting L. ). Agricultural Facts.

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No less than Sa25, 900 extra copies of the
Agricultural Report for 1869 arS now
passing into the hands OF the people
under frank The book is volume Of
t02 pages, prepared by eight specialists,
Mr. Caprou states that rapid progress Is
making in raising the standard of intellect
among farmers; that cotton manufactures
are spreading South; thar American mills,
which in 1860 consumed 30 per cent, now
consume 40 twr cent Of tie crnp. 1ihe
cultivation of sugar, vineyards and oranges
at the South is resuming its former success,
with improved implements and fertilizers
The planting of new lands in the West
with wheat is removing westward year by
year. the centre of wheat production and
Increasing the distance of transportation ;
while the railroads, by their combinations
and advance Of tolls TO secure dividends
on watered stock, are increasing in equal
RATIO, tile cost Of heights Mr. Capon
thinks there is very little to be made, as a
rule, by holding non-produetive lands for
a rise in value and in support Of this, he
publishes n table wherein the increase in
assessed value per annum # all the lands
in the United States for the ten years from
1850 to 1860, is given The dep#stment
has distributed 81 ,SG2 packages OF seeds,
mostly to members of Congress, auS the
Commissioner INDUCES in the lively ta!th
that some of them have come up"
The statistician, j, Il. Dodge says that
the total value of all the cereals, with hay,
cotton and tobacco, is 81 $40, ll9,sia, about
onc-tcnth Of the whole value OF real estate,
Corn, 500, ,J32, 700 and then follows hay,
$331B 1B62, 600; cotton, S303, 100000; wheat,
$2a7,099,1 100; and oats, $l3I, ,341 ,OU0.
The relative values OF the yield per
acre, as affected by prevailing prices, are
in this order Tobacco, potatoes, cotton,
barley, hay, corn, huCkwheat, oats, rye,
wheat
Vermont raises the greatest average
value in corn per acre, vi2i $4l 60 New
Hampshire is first in value per acre of
wheat, and Connecticut in Tobacco, her
average yield being 1891 per acre kans
sas, in 1869, yielded the largest aver
age corp per acre Of corn, viz 4s4
bushels; Georgia, the smallest, IL, Ore
gon yielded the largest average per acre
of wheat, viz 10 bushels, Kansas being
ls.5 bushels, California 1872, and Vermont
and Massachusetts, TO- The State yield
ing the smallest average per acre IN wheat
was South Carolina &C bushels; the next
in ORDER being Anorgia, "A Alabama, ,',S
North Carolina, 94 Tennessee, 81 and
Mississippi, 9 bushels Kansas yields the
largest average crop Of oats AZ bushels
California, the largest Of rye, 3l.5 bush
els also Of barley 1873 North Carolina
strange 10 say Is set down for the largest
average yield per acre Of buckwheat, 3o2
bushels while Virginia produces only n
third Of that crop, and Tennessee only u
fifth In potatoes, Vermont produces the
highest average yield per acre, 1850 bush
els New Hampshire, 100; Michigan, l5j ;
and Kansas, 1i0 We may, perhaps
ascribc the large yield in Vermont and
New Hampshire TO the fact that the acres
are SO uneven that they can plant often
10 or IL more rows Of potatoes on an acre
than If it we're level That ia Il sharp
way the New Englandcrs have of cheating
the surveyor In tobacco the largest aver
age crop is raised In Connecticut, 1850
pounds per acre, and the smallest IN Gcor.
gia, 3Tj pounds per acre In hay, The
largest average crop per acre "a raised in
Iowa, being / $500 tons The largest
total average cash value per acre OF all
crops planted belongs to Nevada, $3B 50 /;
the lowest TO Delaware, $10.sS. Massa
chusetts stands $3.50 per acre, and Con
necticut 5000 Iowa, Minnesota and
Nebraska are about tl3 per acre, but this
is pretty nearly the cost Of the acre. The
average price Of horses thrxghont the Uni,
It'd States is $st3S Of mules, $l69Ol, and
ni oxen and other cattle, s22I.
Our exports Of agricultural products for
the year amounted in value to $3S9B74, 1881,
of which cotton formed $3.50 s07 ,05l. Our
entire agricultural exports have approached
one tenth Of our production. The immi'
grafton arrived at New York during the
year amounted TO ,0si foreigners, Of
whom 124 ,24i were German, 95,204 were
from Great Britain, 81 100 from Ireland,
and 14,99l from China and Japan OF
these, S2,372 had no other destination, at
the time Of their arrival, than New York
the next largest number, 1913, came to
Illinois, and the next largest number,
90, ,746, to Pennsylvania.