Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-06-24
Some Fi,ures Fr.m the causu;.

One of the most interesting of the many
very valuable special bulletins ISSUE 10y the
Census Bureau is that just published, giving
the area and product of cereals Of the several
States and Territories The statistics are,
of course, of the crops of 1874, and they are
compared with those of the last census,
which had reference to the crops Of 1869.
The mos striking suggestion of the figures
of this census bulletin is the enormous and
unprecedented advance in production during
the last decade, amounting 10 nearly one
hundred per cent, taking all cereal crops to-
gethcr, while the increase for the preceding
decade was only twelve per cent and for the
period 1850 1860. As TO particular crops,
the increase in corn in 1S.g over 1863 is 13;;
per ccnt-the great corn-growing States,
Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, proluc
ing more than the whole country in
1869. The total acreage in 1879 was
g., 32G, 952 on which 1,T2, 900, SIG
bushels were raiscd-figurcs SO stupendous
that they can be reached Only by the magma
ton, and yet small after all in comparison
with what the next census will probably
show. Illinois takes the lead as a corn
growing State, showing nine million acres
and 32S, 900, 900 bushels; Iowa comes next,
with G,61G. 900 acres and 2.6, 900. 900 bushels,
and Missouri third with j,jSS, 600 and a05,-
100000. Vermont stands at the head of the
New England States, showing an acreage of
80, ZOE and crop of 2,Oa2, 015 bushels against
l 800, $50 last year. Connecticut comes next
with 80, ,9G acres, but her crop was only
l ,9s4, 194 - showing. apparently, that her
farmers are not So successful rs thos2 of Yer
mont
In wheat the gain is - per cent in the
decade Seven-tcnths Of the entire crop was
produced in nine States, in the following
order of precedence, Illinois, 3,elS, 9G3
acres and 81, 1876, 455 bushels; Indiana, p
GIG, 3O7 and Il, 2SS, $50; Ohio, 2,jj6, 13i and
46, Ola, 500; Michigan, MInne7o;l Iowa
California, Missouri, Wisconsin. In all the
States and territories the acreage was 81, 49,,
O65 and the production ijo, 59l ,093. Maine
leads the New England States showing 49,
s29 acres and a crop of Cos, ia bushels
Vermont stands second, with 20, AS acres
and 337, 25s bushels against 454, 103 in 1869.
The production of oats has been extended
mainly in the West and South. Four-tenths
of the area of this crop, with nearly half its
product. is found in four States, Illinois,
Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania. The
total acreage was ID 800 Gil and the produc-
ton 407, go, .l2 bushels, against oS2, l01, 151
in 1869 Vermont leads the New England
States with 90, 5lS acres and 3, - 80 bush
els. California and New York still produce
nearly half of the crop of barley. Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, and Minnesota have made the
heaviest increase, and now produce the
larger part Of the remaining half. The total
acreage was zoos, 466 and number of bushels
Al, 40 40 against 30, .6l ,305 in 1869. Yer
mont had 10, 5lS acres and e6i, G2j bushels.
The increase of rye has been only seventeen
per cent, showing 4 decline in production in
proportion 10 population. Pennsylvania,
Illinois, and New York still produce about
half the crop, which aggregated 1860, G5a
bushels 10 l,S44, 32l acres. Vermont had
G3l9 acres and is credited with Il, ,.333 bush
els. The increased production Of In, !.whcat
has not been in proportion to advance in
population. As in 1879, Il is scarcely grown
in the South, and very little in the West,
two-thirds of the crop being the product OF
New York and Pennsylvania. The aggre-
crate was II, S51, .3S bushels fr'a Sd, 304
acres. Only nine States ranked ahead of
Vermont on this crop, the States acreage
being Il, 800 and its product 3j6, 6lS bushels