104 



are 15-1 represeutiug- ia the census 71 per cent, of the total production 

 that appear in our present exhibit. These counties made a total of 

 186,276,726 pounds in 1869, and now return 99,805,602 pounds. In the 

 census year 49 counties in Kentucky, which now report 19,306,835, pro- 

 duced 84,593,456 pounds. In 26 counties of Virginia, the decline is from 

 25,000,000 to 19,000,000, while the same counties last year yielded 

 33,000,000. In Ohio 10 counties give little more than half the census 

 record, which was very incomplete. The estimate for Montgomery 

 County is 2,500,000 pounds, less than a third of its usual product. Seven 

 counties in Maryland that produced four-fifths of the crop of 1869, yield 

 three-fourths as much as in that year, and about six-tenths as much as 

 last year. In Tennessee the business has been nearly abandoned, 9 

 counties declining in production from ten millions in 1873 to one and a 

 half in 1874. The decline has been small in most of the Connecticut 

 Valley counties ; in Hartford County the estimate was six millons in 

 1873, and six and a half in 1874. The reduction is large in Onondaga, 

 New York, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The summary, by States, of 

 the present returns is as follows : 



states. 



5 to 

 §.S 



S.2 





New Hampshire . 

 Massachusetts . . . 



Connecticut 



New York 



PennsylvTuda 



Maryland 



Virginia 



North Carolina. . . 



Florida 



Tennessee 



West Virginia . . . 



Kentucky 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Wisconsiu 



Missouii 



Total 154 !l86,276,72G 90,805,60-2 



I ' ' ! ' ■ 



151, 



1, 095, 



7, 513, 



1, 408, 



3, 371, 



12, 536, 



25, 131, 



6, 859, 



118, 



10, 666, 



976, 



84, 593, 



14, 662, 



3, 603, 



3, 285, 



875, 



9, 426, 



1,45 



173, 300 

 616, 000 

 350, 000 

 789, 670 

 877, 400 

 568, 958 

 474, 980 

 260, 375 

 200, 000 

 450, 000 

 488, 308 

 306, 835 

 680, 333 

 795, 000 

 782. 500 

 775, 000 

 216, 943 



130 



385 



6, 475 



1,215 



8, 427 

 15, 553 

 35,180 



12, 737 

 300 



2, 402 



600 



30, 025 



10, 638 



8, 225 



1, 382 



760 



13, 843 



Genu. 

 20 

 28 

 32.3 

 13.1 

 15 



9.2 

 12.1 

 16.3 

 22 



9.7 

 14.1 

 12.4 



8.3 



9.4 

 10.9 



7.5 

 11.1 



634, 660 



172, 480 



2, 696, 500 



104, 054 



1, 489, 410 

 886, 943 



2, 224, 506 

 696, 875 



44,000 



140, 775 



69, 313 



2, 383, 94» 



404, 781 



357, 150 



195, 900 



58,125 



1, 241, 97» 



148,277 1 13,201,391 



The details of the above statement, by counties, are as follows : 



