The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-04-01

business already on hand to occupy tho re-
mainder OF the session.
little more Strengthening OF bad bills Is
the first thing in order. Then pass the good
ones and go home.
The Enormous Superiority of New York.
Perhaps the most striking fact exhibited
by the figures OF the census Is tho dominnt
ing position and influence OF the great State
III which THR Sun is printed, and In which SO
many Of its readers live.
In the Union OF States New York Is one Of
thirty-eight. In the Senate OF tho United
States New York's representation Is one
thirty-eighth. In size the State Is only nine
teenth in rank. How many people not famil-
lar with tho exact statistics OF land areas arc
aware that North Carolina Is u larger State
than Now York by q thousand square miles.
and Michigan by ten thousand ? But al
though New York's territory includes less
than one-siXtythir,l of the whole country,
its inhabitants form more than ono-tenth of
tho total population:
New York 5Gs2 s7i
or the total white population 1t has be-
tween one-nnth and one-clghth:
Its twenty-five cities contain between one
fifth and ono-fourth OF the entire urban pop
ulation OF tho United States:
All the cities in the United States ........iI ala 81
New forks cities '...,................... 25i09s5
New York draws freely from the other
States and gives literally to them. There
ore within our borders natives OF Connecticut
enough to make n city as big as Bridgeport,
Maine people enough to rcpopulate Bath, ma
tivcs OF Massachusetts, enough to make
Lynn or Lawrence. Pennsyvanans enough
to stock Harrisburg nearly twice over, al
most enough Jcrseymcn to fill the busy city
OF Paterson, and more Vcrmontcrs than in
Burlington, Rutland. and st. Adams to-
gether. Ga the other hand, New York has
given to California people enough to mako
two cities IA large as Sacramento, to Conncc-
ticut almost enough to make Hartford, to
Kansas enough to make the three cities OF
Atchison, Topeka, and Leavcnworth, to
Ohio more than enough to make Columbus
or Toledo, to Wisconsin thrcc-Quarters Of the
population of Milwaukee, to Iowa the popu-
lation OF her four biggest cities together.
to Pennsylvania 100000, to Illinois 100, 900,
and to Michigan twice the population of De-
trot. Michigan is tho favorito State with
New Workers who have gone West to live;
nearly onc-iifth Of the Ainerican-born popu-
lation OF Michigan are natives OF Now York.
One-half Of the inhabitants of New York
live in cities The number engaged in ngri-
culture is less than in Alabama in Georgia,
in Illinois, or in Ohio. In its acreage of i'm
proved land in farms New York is behind ILL
nois Iowa, and Ohio:
Illinois 2siisis.
Ohio"
New York 7i7s63
Notwithstanding these facts, New York is
second only to Illinois as a farming State,
taking as the basis OF comparison tho total
value Of all farm products during tho year
before the census:
Rs .m 'f f9s s fs:s 49, ss,
Ohio i50777 is2
In other words. while Illinois. with &c, OOO, 900
acres and $4,000 farmers. produces S2O4, OOO,-
900. New York, with less than $1,000. 900 acres
and $4,000 farmers produces $l7s,OOO OOO
The comparison is favorable to New York
The average annual yield Of the Illinois farms
Is a little less than So an acre; OF tho New
York firms, little more than $40. Tho av-
erage annual product OF the Illinois farmer Is
$4Gs; OF tho New York farmer, $i72
Turning TO the details OF its agricultural
pIoSpcEity, We Iluu tuaC New 0OfK raises
more barley than any other State except
California, moro oats than any other State
except Illinois and Iowa. more ryo than any
other State except Illinois and Pennsylvania.
We find that 1t raises more buckwhcat than
any other State, producing more than third
OF the entire buckwhcat crop OF tho country:
,.r,,o, s,,,o. s,.h e!
New hork'..''''' $@l 100
It's hay crop surpasscs that Of any other
State, aad is more than one-seventh tho ell
tire crop OF the country:
The Cntch States 81 2n ~
1t produces about onc-ffth OF all the Irish
potatoes grown in the United States, and
more than twice as many Us Pennsylvania
the next potato State in rank:
" Bu,h,l,
Tns United States isa ~ sts
New YORK Ss1tt MI
pennsylvania l"2sAsiO
Its hop crop Is moro than four-ffths OF the
total crop OF the country, more than ten times
that OF the State next In rank:
Til. United s,,,., 5.s &.
Wi.nnsin 2i12sp3l
tits tho great fruit-growin8 State. Its plen.
tlful orchards yield In value one-sixth OF the
total production OF tho United States, and
almost twice that Of its most successful rival.
Pennsylvania:
rhs united $50 s7oisa
fsnnsy ....,., sos TX sSs
1t is preGmlnently the dairy State, produc
w ~oss than oas-sevepth Of al the butter