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of the counties of Genesee, Madison, Montgomery and Rockland, 

 17 ; and in each of the counties of Albany, Allegany, Cayuga, Chau- 

 tauque, Erie, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Ontario, Sene- 

 ca, St. Lawrence and Steuben, 16. 



From 16,232 acres devoted to the raising of beans, the aggregate 

 number of bushels produced was 162,188, or an average of 10 bushels 

 per acre. In the town of Westfield, Richmond county, from 2| 

 acres 2281 bushels were produced, being an average of 114 bushels 

 per acre ; in the ninth ward of the city of Brooklyn, 1960 bushels 

 were raised from 19^ acres, being an average of 100 bushels per 

 acre ; in the town of Newtown, Queens county, the average was 

 91 ; in the county of Westchester, 20 ; and in the counties of 

 Cayuga and Chautauque, 15 and upwards. 



From 192,504 acres sown with barley, the aggregate number of 

 bushels raised during the year preceding is returned at 3,108,705, ex- 

 ceeding by 610,535 bushels the crop of 1840, and averaging 16 bushels 

 per acre. From 11 acres in the county of Kings, 360 bushels were 

 raised, being an average of nearly 33 bushels to the acre. In the 

 county of Schoharie the average return exceeded 22 bushels to the 

 acre ; in the county of Suffolk, 44 bushels ; in the county of Rich- 

 mond, 25 ; in each of the counties of Onondaga and Westchester, 

 20 ; in each of the counties of Madison, Monroe, Niagara and 

 Ontario, 19 ; in each of the counties of Cortland, Oneida and 

 Schenectady, 18 ; in each of the counties of Cayuga and Chautau- 

 que, 111 • and in each of the counties of Allegany, Chenango, Essex, 

 Franklin, Rensselaer and Seneca, 17. 



From 255,495| acres of buckwheat, the aggregate number of 

 bushels raised was 3,634,679^2? exceeding by 1,390,241 bushels the 

 quantity raised in 1840, being an average of upwards of 14 bushels 

 to an acre. In one of the outer wards of New-York 300 bushels 

 were obtained from 8\ acres, or an average of nearly 38 bushels to 

 the acre. In each ot the counties of Onondaga and Ontario, the 

 average was 21 ; in Genesee, 19 ; in each of the counties of Cayuga, 

 Kings, Putnam, Richmond, Schenectady, Seneca and Wayne, 18; 

 in each of the counties of Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Livingston, 

 Montgomery, Niagara, Tompkins and Yates, 17 ; in each of the 

 counties of Albany, Chautauque, Cortland, Queens, Rensselaer, 

 Steuben, Tioga and Westchester, 16 ; and in each of the coun- 



