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tady, Queens and Essex, 10 J ; and in each of the counties of Alba- 

 ny, Delaware, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Herkimer, Lewis, Mon- 

 roe, Montgomery, Orange, Warren and Westchester, 10. In the 

 ninth ward of the city of Brooklyn, 265 bushels were obtained from 

 16 acres, being an average of 25 bushels to the acre ; and an equal 

 average crop was obtained in the town ,of Gravesend in the same 

 county. 



From 595,135 acres planted with corn, the aggregate number of 

 bushels harvested is returned at 14,722,115, being an increase of 

 3,636,973 over the harvest of 1840, and averaging nearly 25 bushels to 

 the acre. In the county ol New-York, the average yield was 40; 

 in Kings county, 38^ ; in Richmond, 35 ; in Suffolk, 34; in each of 

 the counties of Orange and Westchester, 32 ; in Rockland, 31 ; in 

 each of the counties of Monroe and Orleans, 30 ; in each of the coun- 

 ties of Niagara, Ontario and Seneca, 29 ; in each of the counties of 

 Chemung, Chenango, Jefferson, Oneida, Onondaga, Putnam and 

 Tioga, 27 ; in each of the counties of Clinton and Wayne, 26^ ; and 

 in the county of Broome, 26. 



From 255,762| acres planted with potatoes, the aggregate number 

 of bushels obtained was 23,653,418, or an average of 90 bushels to 

 the acre. In Jefferspn and Franklin counties the average yield ex- 

 ceeded 150 bushels ; in St. Lawrence, 145 ; in Clinton and Orleans, 

 137 ; in Essex and Genesee, 125 ; in Washington, 122 ; in Suffolk 

 and Wayne, 120; in Chautauque, 112; in each of the counties of 

 Kings, Monroe and Niagara, 110; in each of the counties of Onta- 

 rio, Cattaraugus and Cayuga, 105 ; in Allegany, 99 ; in Yates, 98 ; 

 in Seneca, 97 ; and in each of the counties of Lewis and Queens, 95. 

 In each of the towns of Antwerp and Rutland, in Jefferson county, 

 the average yield per acre was 187 bushels. There has been a fall- 

 ing off of the potato crop of upwards of six millions of bushels since 

 1840. 



From 117,379 acres sown with peas, the aggregate number of 

 bushels raised was 1,761,504, or an average of 15 bushels per acre. 

 In the town of Westchester, Westchester county, upwards of 170 

 bushels are returned as having been produced from 3 1 acres, avera- 

 ging 56 bushels per acre. In the county of Kings, the average crop 

 was 35 bushels ; in Richmond, 24 ; in Putnam, Queens and Wyo- 

 ming, 20; in Onondaga and Orleans, 19 i ; in Suffolk, 18; in each 



