The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-01


The acres of improved farming
land in the United States IN 1870
numbered ISIS, 92l ,O99. The wood
land on farms amounted to $780,
3l0,lT7 acres, and the unimproved
land, not woodland, numbered So
sos, 765. The estimated value of
all farming land is q little more
than $4,000, 000,000 against Sc, 50G,-
600, 900 in 1860. The increase of
value in some of the Northern
States is most extraordinary. Hi
nois, for example, has now invest
ed in farming land $90O,0OO,OO
against $500, 00O,O in 1860; In
diana has almost doubled its val
uation, and Michigan has added
more than 100 per cent; Minneso-
tn has sprung up from $27, 100000
to $97, 10000 and the most de-
cided advance of all, Iowa has in
creased its farm investment from
$Il9,OOO,000 to almost 100000
900. All the Northern States have
made much larger advance in
this direction than the average of
the country, while there has been
an astonishing depreciation in the
value of farm lands in nearly all
the Southern States. In 1860, AL
ALBANIA returned a farm valuation
of 100000, while now it is
only $67, 100000; Arkansas has
gone backward more than 100 per
cent; Georgia has fallen from
$I57, 100000 to $94, 100000; Lou
isiana from $200,U0O,O00 to $64,-
100000; Mississippi from $780,
100000 to $Sl, 100000; South Car
DINA from $l39,OO0,000 to $44,-
100000, and all the other South
ern States have lost heavily, ex-
cept kentucky, Maryland and Del
eware.
One OF the important staples of
che country, potatoes, is not in
cluded in the illustrated statistics,
and was not mentioned in the for
mer article. The table of returns
is divided into two columns, Irish
and sweet potatoes, and the
amount produced yearly is given
in bushels. New York leads the
list in the amount of Irish pota-
toes produced, returning the enor
nous yield OF 2s,000,0O0 bushels f;
Pennsylvania follows with nearly
100000, Ohio with 100000,
Illinois and Michigan each with
100000, Maine with nearly s.
100000, Wisconsin with 5000, 900,
Iowa, Indiana, and Vermont each
with upward of 100000, New
Jersey and New Hampshire with
more than 4, 800, 900 bushels. The
particular parts of the country
which yield the most according to
the area cultivated are Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, and
Northern New York. The best
potatoes, also, come from these
States, rs the millions of bushels
shipped to the Southern States
each year will attest.
But the States that yield the
best and most profitable crops of
Irish potatoes do not find the
sweet potatoes at all profitable,
if we may judge from this report,
New York raising only 10000
bushels, New Hampshire 160 bush
els, and Maine $50 bushels. New
jersey, however proves that the
sweet potato may be raised profit
ably further North than was sup
posed before the war. That State
returned an annual production OF
100000 bushels, which is about
the average yield of the Southern
States.
Among the one-sided statistics
of the census are those relating
to the sugar and molasses crops
The only States that make returns
of sugar from cane are Alabama
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina
South Carolina, Tennessee ant
Texas. Tennessee returns only
two hogsheads. The only States
returning more than 1000 hogs
heads are: Louisiana, 22l 900;
Texas, 5000; and Florida and
Georgia each but little more than
1000. OF molasses from cane,
Louisiana produces 100000 gal
Ions, and the other States named
about the same yield relative to
their sugar crops, except that Car
olina makes no return.
The returns of maple sugar re-
verse the scale, few of these
Southern States making any ac-
count of this crop. Vermont is
the banner State for maple sugar,
reporting a yield of almost 10000
900 pounds. The production OF
New York is somewhat larger, but
nothing compared with the differ
ence in area. The only other
States which return more than / )
100000 pounds are Michigan,
100000; Ohio, 3,25O,O0O; Penn
sylvania, nearly 100000; New
Hampshire, 2,250,O0O; Indiana,
100000; Massachusetts, q few
pounds more than 100000. The
total production is 10000. 600.
The total production of maple
molasses is 100000 gallons, of
which Ohio returns nearly 100000
gallons, Indiana nearly 100000,
Kentucky 10000, and the other
States smrllar amounts, Vermont
being away toward the foot of the
the list, only returning 10000
gallons.