The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-24
New York as an Agricultural state.

The right of New York to the title Of
the Empire State is rcatlirmed IN
striking degree by the census returns Of
1880. i, has Il million more inhabitants
than any other State and more than one.
tenth Of all the people in the United
States live within its borders. Ia the
extent OF its wealth, commerce and trade
it is naturally beyond comparison. Its
industrial supremacy is hardly less
marked. OF all the States in the Union
| it has the most manufacturing establish.
mens employs the most work people,
pays the most wages, uses the most ma.
| tcrials and turns out the most products.
1t is credited with nearly a fifth Of the
entire invested capital Of the country
and contribute more than fifth to the
| aggregate vaiIc of manufactured pro-
ducts In the value ofyearly products it
| surpasses its ncighbor Pennsylvania, tha
next IN the column of manufacturing
States, by three hundred million dollars.
With this great supremacy in CONNER.
| cIal and industrial activity; with 80
much of its territory taken up with
| mountain. wilderness and lake; with the
| nnhoundcd farming advantages afforded
by the West and Northwest, ani the
marvellous agricultural development
that has gone on in that part Of the
country, IT would not be surprising to
find that New York had dropped to an
inferior place in the line Of great agri-
cultural States. But the latest census
returns give it rank which in many re.
spects is first. Il has not NO many farma
| nor go much improved farm land rs ILL
nois or Ohio; but its farms are more
valuable than thoae of Illinois, and in
the value of farm prod c,ions it is far
ahead of Ohio, while its farming imple.
ments and machinery are valued higher
than those of any other State.
Taxing the value of all farm produc.
! tinns az the s!andar! nf rank I!!innis
holds the first and New York the second
place. The agricultural productions of
the former are returned at two hundred
and three million dollars and those of
the latter at hundred and seventy eight
millions. But the high figure reached
by Illinois is due to the enormous yield
| OF wheat and Indian corn on i,s vast
pralrles-Etnples in the production Of
which that State led all others in the
last census year. In the great variety Of
its farm products and the enormous ex-
tent to which many Of these products
are yielded New York holds a place
other State. AS q general agricultural
State it may be said TO rank first, while
in several important productions it far
surpasses all other S,ates 1t produces
more than third Of all the buckwheat
and about seventh of the hay grown in
the United States. In the yield of
barley it is behind California, but it
contributes between a fifth and sixth
OF the entire product of the country. 1t
ranks with the great rye and oats pro.
ducing States and the leading wool grow.
ing States. Twenty-one of the twenty
six million pounds of hops raised in the
United States in the last census year
were grown in New York, which is also
credited with fifth of the whole Irish
potato crop of the country, or twice tho
production of any other State.
The supremacy Of New York ~ a
fruit growing and as dairy State is
firmly established. The value of orchard
products as returned by the last census
was fifty million dollars for the Uni. i
States, eight millions for New York and
four millions for Pennsylvania, the next
greatest fruit-growing State. Not less
striking are the figures showing the ex.
tent Of the dairy interests of the Empire
state New York is credited with a
'n1lll0n ana iialf mich cows, which is
about one eighth OF the whole number
reported in the United States and is
nearly double the number returned in
any other State. OF the entire butter
product of the country-seven hundred
and seventy million pounds-New
York made one hundred and twelve
million pounds, and of the entire farm
cheese prnduct-twenty seven million
Pnunds-it turned out more than eight
million pounds, or nearly third of tie
whole. These figures do not includ
factory products. The value of the
cheese and butter made in all the facto.
ries of the United States during the cen.
sus year was twenty five million dollars
About half of this, or more than twelve
million dollars worth, was the product
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