EAST AND WEST. 387 



Home manufactures, $205,333 



Product of manufactures, mining and the mechanic arts, 



exclusive of raw material, 65,280,374 



$83,651,078 



Deduct interest at 6 per cent, on $195,643,573 invested in 



manufactures, farms, and implements, . . . 11,738,614 



Balance $71,912,464 



This amount yields an average of seventy-two dollars, against 

 forty dollars in Wisconsin and forty-four in Ohio. 



If we disregard the interest account, Massachusetts exhibits 

 an average return upon all her inhabitants of eighty-three 

 dollars. 



We have then this general result : — 



Computing interest on the capital invested, we find the pro- 

 duction in Wisconsin to be forty dollars, in Ohio forty-four 

 dollars, in Illinois sixty-seven and a half dollars, in Vermont 

 seventy dollars, and in Massachusetts seventy-two dollars, to 

 each person. 



If we omit the item of interest, the average production is 

 forty-six dollars in Wisconsin, fifty-six in Ohio, seventy-five in 

 Illinois, eighty-three in Vermont and eighty-three in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



It is not assumed that these statistics are accurate and 

 complete in all their particulars ; but they are sufficiently so to 

 give confidence in the general result. The prices named may 

 be high, but it will appear by comparison that they are favor- 

 able to the West. Interest is computed at six per cent., which 

 is considerably below the actual interest in Ohio and Illinois. 

 Again, I have enumerated only the products of the land, and 

 the products of manufactures and the mechanic arts, although 

 Massachusetts had, in 1850, 19,598 men employed in navigation 

 and the fisheries, while Oliio had only 4,109, Illinois 1,644, 

 Wisconsin 561, and Vermont 159. 



If we divide the entire agricultural production of each State 

 among the men employed in that department of labor, regard- 

 less of the item of interest, we have the following result : In 

 Wisconsin -1251, in Ohio <|303, in Massachusetts $326, in 

 Illinois $386, and in Vermont $462 to each man. Let it not, 

 however,^ be hastily assumed that labor upon the land is better 



