Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-01-31
THE HERALD.
Agriculture Some Interesting Facts.

No less than 225, 900 extra copies
of the Agricultural Report for 1869
10 are now passing into the hands Of
the people by frank. The book Il
a volume Of 702 pages, prepared by
eight specialists. Mr., Capron states
that rapid progress is making in rails
ing the standard of intellect among
farmers; the cotton manufacturers
are spreading south that American
mills. which in 1860 consumed 20
per cent, now consumes 40 per cent
Of tho crop. The cultivation of su-
car. VINEYARDS, and oranges, at the
south is resuming It's former success
with improved implements and fer
tilizers. 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 divi-
dends on watcred stock, are increas-
ing in equalratio the costs Of fret ghts.
Mr. Capron thinks there is very lit
tic to be made, as q rule, by holding
nou-productive lands for raise in
value; and, in support Of this, he
publishes a table wherein the in
crease in assessed value per annum Of
all the lands in the United States,
for the ten years from 1850 to 1860
is given. The department has dis
tributed 31l,702 packages of seeds,
mostly TO members of Congress, and
the commissioner INDUCES in the
lively faith that some of them have
"cOme up"
The statistician, J. Il. Dodge, says
that the total value of ali the cereals,
with hay. cotton and tobacco, is ST.,
$40. 179, 853, about one-tenth Of the
whole value of real estate. Corn,
s658 532 200; and then follows hay,
1897, 662, 600 cotton, 1903, 600 900
wheat, S247 ,O99, 100 and oats, Sl37,-
3l7 900.
The relatives values Of the yield
per acre, "a affected by prevailing
prices, are in this order Tobacco,
potatoes, cotton, barley. hay, corn,
buck wheat, oats, rye, wheat.
Vermont raises the greatest aver
age value in corn per acre, viz S41.-
60 New Hampshire is first in value
per acre of wheat, and Connecticut
in tobacco, her average yield being
1891 per acre Kansas, in 1869, yield
the largest average crop per acre OF
corn. viz. 484 bushels. Georgia the
smallest l bushels. Oregon yielded
the largest average per acre Of wheat
viz ~ bushels. Kansas being IS
bushel7. California 49,, and Yer
mont and Massachusetts 10. The
state yielding the smallest average
per acre in wheat was South Caro-.
lima, &C bushels; the next being
Georgia, IA; Alabama, rs; North
Carolina 8 Miss. bushels. Kansas
yields the largest average crop OF
oats. 42.1 bushels California, the
largest OF rye, 81 > bushels also of
barley, 353 North Carolina, strange
to say, is set down for the largest
average yield per acre Of ckwheat,
302 bushels while Virginia pro-
duces only third of that crop, and
Tennessee only a fifth. In potatoes
Vermont produces tho highest aver
age yield per acre, 100 bushels; Now
Hampshire $50; Michigan 1855; and
Kansas 40 We may, perhaps, as
cribe the large yield ia Vermont and
New Hampshire 70 the fact that the
acres are so uneven that they car
plant often 10 on II more rows Of pc.
tatoes on an acre than il it were level
That is sharp way the New Eng
landers have OF cheating the survey
or. Ia tobacco the largest average
crop is raised in Connecticut, 400
pounds per acre and the smallest in
Georgia, 375 pounds per acre. In
hay the largest average crop per acre
is raised in Iowa, being | $4,000 tons
The largest total average cash value
per acre of all crops planted belongs
to Nevada, $50 SO the lowest to
Delaware, S10S8. Massachusetts
stands S2S 30 per acre, and Connocti-
cut S2934. Iowa, Minnesota and
Nebraska are about S13 per acre, but
this is pretty near the cost Of the
acre. The average cost of horses
throughout the United States i7
SSl3S; of mules Sl69 Oh, and oxen
and other cattle, S22 81.
Our exports Of agricultural pro.
ducts for the year amounted in value
to 1885, 674,9 8l, of which cotton form.
ed $3.50, S07,9 5l. Our entire agricul.
tural exports have approached one.
tenth of production. The immigra-
ton arrived at New York during the
year amounted to $50, 0S4 foreigners,
of whom l2I 24l were Germans, 50,
POI were from Great Britain, 81, 100
from Ireland, and II ,99l from China
and Japan. OF these 50, 372 had no
other destination, at the time of their
arrival, than New York the next
largest number, 30,746 to Pennsyl.
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