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The total value of farm-productioas in Maryland is as follows ; 



Numier of live-stock. 



Counties. 



No. of horses 

 and mules. 



1870. 1860, 



No. of cattle. 



1870. 1860 



No. of sheep. 



1870. iseo. 



No. of swine. 



1870. 1860 



Value of live stock. 



1870. ■ 1860. 



Alleghany 



Anne Arundel 



Baltimore 



Calvert 



Caroline 



Carroll. .-. 



CecU 



Charles 



Dorchester 



Prederick 



Harford 



Howard 



Kent... 



Montgomery 



Prince George's 



Queen Anne 



Saint Mary's 



Somerset 



Talbot 



"Washington 



"Wicomico ,; 



"Worcester 



Total 



4,097 

 4,735 

 9,057 

 1,893 

 2,683 

 7,011 

 5,396 

 2,467 

 1,833 

 12, 211 

 4,844 

 3,225 

 5,058 

 5,574 

 3,966 

 4,289 

 2,749 

 1,534 

 3,868 

 8,531 

 1, 972 

 2,533 



3,706 

 4,725 

 8,890 

 2,598 

 1,297 

 6,381 

 5,114 

 3,398 

 2,988 

 ll,49rt 

 5,311 

 3,171 

 4,682 

 5,819 

 6,065 

 4,959 

 3,801 

 2,669 

 4,242 

 8,159 



3,764 



12, 711 



6, 928 

 16, 678 



4,087 

 5,409 

 14, 476 



13, 268 

 6,636 



7, 662 

 22, 095 

 13, 306 



6,156 

 8,736 



10, 139 

 6,975 

 7,372 

 7,974 

 6,120 

 6,987 



16, 333 

 5,526 

 9,765 



13, 133 



9,854 

 16, 636 



6,418 



3,364 

 12, 730 

 15, 499 



9,629 

 12, 824 

 21, .552 

 15, 311 



6,023 



9, 828 

 11, 863 

 12, 183 

 10, 668 

 11, 145 

 11,698 



9, 272 

 18, 271 



15, 340 



17, 232 

 5,345 

 5,511 

 3,109 

 2,826 

 5,279 

 4,579 

 3, 872 

 4,401 

 9,817 

 5,612 

 2,516 

 6,154 

 6,812 

 4,906 

 5,373 

 3, 982 

 3,199 

 6,044 

 9,268 

 5, 766 

 8, 094| 



15, 479 

 7,267 

 6,193 

 4,111 

 1,218 

 5,083 

 6,493 

 5,740 

 6,540 



10, 389 

 6,305 

 4, 223 

 7,563 



10, 487 

 8,828 

 7,618 

 5,668 

 7, 220 

 7,207 



10, 460 



11, 668 



8,065 



11, 680 



18, 733 

 4,723 

 6,672 



19, 265 

 9,716 

 6,978 

 8,433 



29, 939 

 11,676 

 8,441 



12, 866 



13, 267 

 9,045 

 9,942 



11, 302 

 7, 628 

 9,411 



20, 212 

 8,822 



11, 077 



9,975 

 16, 402 

 25, 280 

 10, 479 



4,951 

 23,740 

 10, 968 

 12, 828 

 18, 749 

 40, 548 

 16, 725 

 15,626 

 11,346 

 22, 823 

 25, 927 

 14, 848 

 21, 728 

 19,236 

 15, 691 

 29, 425 



20, 461 



$829, 767 



799, 384 



1, 867, 543 



284, 738 



412, 585 



1, 472, 970 

 1, 108, 396 



384, 357 

 402, 849 



2, 054, 773 

 1, 152, 058 



638, 320 

 999, 742 

 946, 010 

 659, 620 

 758, 667 

 561. 604 

 336, 189 

 694, 597 

 1,311,648 

 313, 682 

 444, 199 



$513, 281 

 616, 267 



1, 303, 873 

 380, 338 

 155, 113 

 784, 346 

 877, 563 

 439, 283 

 458, 091 



1, 534, 048 

 878, 736 

 455,964 

 699, 502 

 852, 767 

 875, 317 

 627, 447 

 546, 046 

 466, 892 

 601, 861 



1, 056, 125 



544, 993 



99, 526 



103, 235 215, 359 253, 241 



129, 697 155, 765 257, 893 387, 756 



18, 433, 698 14, 667, 853 



VALUE OF PARM-LANDS. 



The farm-lands of Maryland, returned in 1860 at 3,002,267 acres im - 

 proved and 1,833,304 unimproved, were valued at $30.18 per acre. In 

 1870 there were reported 2,914,000 acres improved and 1,598,572 unim- 

 proved, averaging $37.75 per acre. The reduction is presumed to arise 

 rather from the abandonment of lands as farms than from incomplete- 

 ness of the returns. The same cause reduced the area of farm-lands 

 throughout the Southern States, mainly in the item of unimi)roved land. 

 The increase in value thus appears to have been 25 i)er cent, in ten 

 years, notwithstanding the changes and disturbances of the war, in- 

 cluding the subversion of the labor-system. Not aU sections fared 

 alike in these changes. The counties that declined in farm-values are 

 Anne Arundel, Calvert, Prince George's, Charles, and Saint Mary's, 

 though the difference is very slight in most of them. 



The highest value is in Baltimore County, $88.98, and the lowest in 

 Wicomico, near the southern extremity of the peninsula. Washington, 

 a rich agricultural region on the Potomac, near the mouth of the She- 

 nandoah, a productive and well-improved county, containing farms some 



