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SUMMAEY. 



Returns of crops in the several Provinces. 



Province. 



VEGETABLES. 



Prussia 



Posen 



Pommern 



Brandenburg 



Silesia 



Saxony 



Westphalia 



Rhenish Province . . . 

 Hohenzollern 



Average 



0. 83 0. 

 0. 88 0. 

 0. 82 0. 



0. 9n:o. 



0. 970. 

 0. 960. 

 0. 87 0. 

 0. 9i;o. 



-.0. 



971.08 

 89i0. 89 

 821.01 

 980. 96 

 97,0. 94 

 93'0. 95!l. 

 78 0. 99jl. 

 73|0. 9.51. 

 83i 1.04 0. 



1. 12 0. 69 0. 76 0. 84 0. m 0. 81 0. 97 0. 97 0. 98 1. 07 1. 00 1. 

 1. 00 0. 72 0. 89!o. 69 0. 62 0. 68 1. 06 0. 82 0. 87 0. 8.5,0. 98 1. 

 1. 05 0. 39'0. 78^0. 88 0. 81 0. 86,1. 03 0. 80 0. 82 1. 02 1. 14 1. 

 0. 89 0. 761. 02 0. 85 0. 89 0. 82 1. 15 0. 87 0. 93 0. 94ll. 00 0. 

 0. 93 0. 79 0. 99;0. 70 0. 78 0. 80 1. 06 0. 98 1. 02 0. 93ll. 05 0. 

 0. 99 0. 90 0. 74 0. 67 0. 92 0. 96 1. 15 0. 92 0. 93 0. 96' 1. 08 1. 



0. 95 0. 83 

 1.03 0.81 



0.97 



0. 76 0. 74 0. 76 0. 82 0. 86 0. 87 0. 86 0. 98 1. 12 0. 

 0. 71 0. 69 0. 90 0. 89 1. 07,0. 92 0. 83 0. 94!l. 09 1. 

 0. 800. 95 1. 01 1. col 0. 79 0. 95 0. 91 0. 



19 0. 70 

 02 0.70 

 10 0. 57 



980. 84 



96 0. 83 

 06 0. 98 



97 0.86 

 02 0. 84 

 971.... 



0. 89,0. 88,0. 98;1. 05 0. 99,0. 74 0. 83,0. 78 0. 84 0. 85,1. 04 0. 89 0. 89 0. 96 1. 05 1. 03 0. 79 



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This plan is an admirable one. If aided by a decennial census even, 

 so that the amount of the crop, in scheffels or bushels, could be ascer- 

 tained and made the standard of comparison, instead of the supposed nor- 

 mal one represented by 100, it would leave nothing more to be desired. It 

 represents the least change in the crop, and is capable of a condensation 

 that fits it for any extent of territory. The machinery through which it 

 acts, so far as we can conjecture, is objectionable, because agricultural 

 societies, although very useful in assisting to give information, are un- 

 suited to direct the operations necessary to collect and arrange the returns. 

 It should be done by the immediate agency of the Secretary of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



3. United States. — Before stating the plan pursued in this department, it 

 is proper to allude to the causes which called it into existence. 



The vast agriculture of the United States, and the remoteness of the 

 regions of great production from the places of consumption, require several 



