AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. 



In connection with the census of agricultural productions, as 

 at ante p. 201, we give the Agricultural Statistics from the intro- 

 duction to the Census Report, which were not received in time to 

 be given at the proper place. These statistics furnish matters of 

 special interest to the farmers of the State, and will be found 

 peculiarly appropriate in the Transactions of the Society, for 

 reference hereafter. 



The earliest attempt to collect the agricultural statistics of 

 New- York, was made in 1821. The number of acres of improved 

 land, and the num]>er of neat cattle, horses and sheep were then 

 returned, together with a few branches of manufactures that will 

 be hereafter noticed. In 1825 and 1835 the same inquiries, with 

 the addition of swine to the list of domestic animals, were 

 required. 



In 1840, the number of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, and swine, 

 and the value of poultry were ascertained. The number of bushels 

 of wheat, barley, oats, rye, buckwheat and corn, the pounds of 

 wool, hops, and wax, the bushels of potatoes, the tons of hay and 

 of hemp and flax, the pounds of sugar made, and cords of wood 

 sold, the value of the products of the dairy, orchard, and market 

 garden, the gallons of wine made, and the number of men em- 

 ployed, and capital invested in nurseries, were also ascertained. 



In 1845, to the above inquiries in reference to live stock and 

 amount of the product of the cereal grains and root crops, was 

 added the amount of land devoted to each separate crop. Tlie 

 censuses of 1850 and 1855 adopted similar inquiries, in addition 

 to which the latter provided fur the return of unenumerated arti- 

 cles of farm produce, and the amount, kind, and value of special 

 manures employed. The lolli»\ving comparative gummaries ex- 

 hibit the results of these several cminieiations. 



