WEST VIRGINIA. 75 



The value of live stock is $12,382,680, a sum exceeding the value of the 

 same interest in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Min- 

 nesota, and other States, and exceeded in Massachusetts by only $355,064. 



The value of slaughtered animals, $2,124,869, exceeds the income from the 

 same source in Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Rhode Island, 

 and Oregon. It is exceeded slightly in Maine, (S2,780,179 ;) Maryland, 

 ($2,821,510;) Massachusetts, (S2,915,045 ;) and Vermont, ($2,549,001.) 



The product of butter exceeds that of eleven States, among them California, 

 Kansas, the Carolinas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Maryland makes but 494, 5H 

 pounds more. 



In flax, greater results are shown than in any of the States, with the excep- 

 tion of Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Virginia 

 proper, the latter of which is far exceeded by West Virginia in proportion 

 either to population or area. 



More of maple sugar is found than in a score of the States, and this product 

 could be increased more than ten-fold. Sorghum is also a growing interest. 



The following is the order of precedence of the several counties in the several 

 items indicated : 



In farm implements, Hampshire, Barbour, Jefferson. 



In value of farm lands per acre, Jefferson, Brooke, Ohio, Hancock. 



In horses, Hampshire, Harrison, Monongalia. 



In cows, Hampshire, Preston, and Marion. 



In working oxen, Wayne, Kanawha. 



In sheep, Brooke, Ohio, Hancock, Hampshire, Preston. 



In swine, Jefferson, Hampshire, Berkeley, Harrison, Greenbrier. 



In corn, Hampshire, Jefferson, Harrison. 



In wheat, Jefferson, Berkeley, Mason, Hampshire. 



In oats, Marshall, ]\Ionongalia, Greenbrier, Preston. 



In barley, Ohio, Brooke, Hancock. 



In buckwheat, Hampshire, Pendleton, Marshall. 



In butter, Pocahontas, Hampshire, Marion, Monongalia, Berkeley. 



In hay, Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, Barbour, Monongalia, Jefferson, Marion. 



In tobacco, Putnam, Kanawha, Mercer, Wood, Monroe, Fayette. 



In flax, Nicholas, Upshur, Mercer, Barbour, Logan, Marion. 



In cheese, Hai-rison, Upshur, Preston^ Barbour, Monroe, Marion. 



In potatoes, Marshall, Preston, Hampshire, Wood, Jackson, Jefferson. 



