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The crop of buck wlrt, in 1352 at 2,800 bushels 4s., 1,400 



« potatoes, " 21,000 " 2s., 8,250 



" butter " 98,600 " 22c., 21,692 



« wool, " 7,960 '' 31c., 2,467 60 



Value of livestock, 68,510 00 



1122,864 10 



Value of animals slaughtered by farmers, §13,200 



« « by butchers, 4,000 



4,600 tons hay, ^8, 36,800 



The animals slaughtered in Chenango were, many of them of 

 foreign production. 



If you desire to know anything more of the condition of the 

 county, and its bu>iness and resources, I would add, that large 

 quantities of agricultural produce, salt, lime, plaster, hydraulic 

 cement, &c., are brought into Bingham ton, its chief business 

 village by the Chenango canal and railroads, and transported to 

 the Delavrare and Lackawanna country ; and also a large amount 

 of lumber and coopers' stuff, is manufactured and sent to market 

 from this county. 



The Lackawanna railroad, also, brings to Binghamton a con- 

 sideralde quantity of anthracite coal, wliich, after supplying the 

 wants of the immediate vicinity, is sent on the Chenango canal, 

 through the counties of Clienango, Madison and Onondaga, to 

 lake Ontario ; and when the other railroads, which are in contem- 

 plation, are completed, which will be done in about two years, that 

 branch of trade will be increased immensely. 



There is obviously a difliculty in estimating, with accuracy, 

 the nett income ('f farms, from the above statement. I can not 

 state the cost of ])roducti()n of the several articles, or what por- 

 tion of the value of live stock and slaughtered animals shr.uldbe 

 Bet down as a yearly increase, ur what portion of the hay and grain 

 miiy have been consunu'd in their growth and fattening. I there- 

 fore ^'5.sw7nc, that lhecustof}'r()ducing grain, butter kc , is ecjual to 

 one half the value, as farms in this country are generally let on 

 this assumption — the tenant doing all the work and giving tho 

 landlord half the crops. 



