Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-09
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

some Interesting Facts from the Last
Census Report.
Orr increase in all the chief articles of
agricultural produce, as shown by the cen
sus report, is something enormous.
Wine has increased fourteen-fold since
1850, and nearly doubled in the last decade.
California being It's chief producer.
Hops have Increased seven fold in the
same Time, and more than doubled in the
last ten y ears, New York growing two
thirds ofthe whole crop.
Barley has increased skiold.
Flax skiold, and haxseed trebled.
Wheat trebled and oats doubled
Irish potatoes have only increased one
third, and sweet decreased one half.
Live stock have trebled in value, and
now am punt to the handsome total of one
thousand FIVE hundred and twenty-five
millions of dollars, or an average of nearly
two hundred dollars for every family in
the nation.
ANIMALS slaughtered have nearly
quadrupled in value, now amounting to
four hundred millions of dollars annually.
Wool has increased from sixty to one
hundred millions of pounds.
Cotton is halfa million Of bales above
what it was in 1850, and three-fifths it's
amount in 1861
In only one instance is there decrease
of an i'm portant product, and that is the
Indian corn, which falls short of the
amount reported in 1860 by seventy eight
millions of bushels, or ten per cent of the
whole. At'EbEA
In some of the lesser products, how
ever, the downcone is considerable.
Silk cocoons are only third of their for
mer amount hemp a sixth, peas and bears
ana rice about third each. Buckwheat
has decreased from seventeen millions of
bushels to nine, and rye from twenty. one
millions of bushels to sixteen.
The farms themselves as may be ex-
pected from this great increase Of product
have risen in value from three to nine
thousand millions. while farming imple-
ments, valued in 1850 at $151, 587648, now
foot up 6,878, 429, and annual increase
OF nine millions of dollars. Few minds
can form even the remotest conception of
what 'hese numbers imply. The value of
the farms In dollar bills would take an
expert accountant, capable of getting over
one hundred a minute five hundred
years to count them, or if Communists
and Internationals had their way, and
their value was divided equally among
the whs lie people, it would afford one
Thousand dollars to each family, In addi-.
ton to the million or two which would be
sure to suck to the hands of the divide-s.
The farms have considerably increased
IN number, but diminished In size from
1879 tol53 acres, being on an average SO
acres each less than In 1850. This de-
crease extends TO every State in the Union
save four-Arkansas, Massachusetts,, n ew
Hampshire, and New Mexico. Of the
present number Of farms (2,659,485(, 6,875
are under 3 acres. Those with more than
10 acres and less than 500 have increased :;
those with less than 10 acres decreased in
number.One-sixth of the whole are over
100 acres and 500; but the largest num-
Der (847 Ola contain between 50 and 60
acres.
Twenty years ago Kentucky supplied
nearly a third of all ou1 flax product,
Virginia and New York about million of
pounds each, making up together as much
as Kentucky, and Ohio supplied less than
half a million pounds. But now Ohio has
nearly forty times its former product,
while Kentucky has only a tenth of it's,
and Virginia has gone down to d seventh.
The chief producing States are Ohio,
I8,O0O,OOO pounds, or two-thirds of our
whole product of 27,133,039 pounds nhe
product in 1850 was only 7,2O9,676
pounds; New York 100000: and
Illinois 100000; while New England
with the exception of little in Maine and
Vermont, may have ceased to be fax pro
ducing, as have also Alabama, Delaware,
and Georgia. 5aa
New York has now, as hitherto, about
a sixth of the whole mich COWS of the
nation, and used to occupy similar
positions as to working oxen but now
Texas has twice the number it can show.
California has increased It's sheep form
Ia,I54 to 2, 769,l87, being an increase of
leo fold, and the largest made by any
State IN any important article. Louisiana
still grows nearly all the sugar, but pigs
have changed their headquarters from
Tennessee and Kentucky to Illinois and
Missouri Pennsylvania, which used to he
highest in the production of wheat. is now
now sixth on the list, Illinois with 80. Iowa
with y, Ohio and Indiana with 27 each,
and Wisconsin with Is, all coming before
It's 10 millions Of bushels.