WEST VIRGINIA. 



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The writer has endeavored to procure more recent returns from the office of 

 the State auditor of West Virginia, and has succeeded in obtaining a partial 

 record of the condition of live stock; but the southern and south"\vestern and 

 some of the mountain counties have been so infested with guerillas and in so 

 unsettled a condition that the statement would be too partial and incomplete to 

 be satisfactory. 



In some counties great losses have been incuri'ed in live stock from maraud- 

 ing, particularly in horses. Yet the State returns for 1862 give an increase in 

 horses, over 1860, in the counties of Barbour, Brooke, Cabell, Doddridge, Har- 

 rison, Hancock, Jackson, Kanawha, Lewis, Monongalia, Marshall, Ohio, Preston, 

 and several others. In some cases this increase is extraordinary, as in Kana- 

 wha, from 1,402 to 5,222, doubtless due to a great influx from Fayette and 

 Greenbrier, on the great highway to rcbeldom, and from which there is no 

 report. The same disturbing causes have affected other stock to some extent. 

 Sheep had already increased, in 1862, in Brooke, from 40,620 to 46,200 ; in 

 Hancock, from 21,402 to 29,932; in Harrison, from 13,202 to 17,991 ; in Mo- 

 nongalia, from 10,945 to 17,594; in Marshall, from 16,022 to 22,197; in Pres- 

 ton, from 19,084 to 25,980. Since that date there has been a still heavier 

 increase. 



Statement exhibiting the quantity and value of some of the ^principal items oj 

 farm produce, according to the census o/'1860. 



Counties. 



Irish 

 potatoes. 



Butter. .Slaught'ed 

 animals. 



Barbour 



Berkeley... 



Boone 



Braxton 



Brooke 



Cabell 



Oalhoun 



Clay 



Doddridge . 



Fayette 



Gilmer 



Greenbrier . 

 Hampshire . 

 Hancock ... 



Hardy 



Harrison . . . 



Jackson 



Jefferson... 

 Kanawha . . 



Lewis 



Logan 



Marion 



Marshall . . . 



Mason 



Mercer 



Monongalia 



Monroe 



Morgan 



McDowell . 

 Kicholas ... 



Pounds. 

 596 



18, 729 

 15,534 



68, 578 



7,882 



26,229 



7,025 



127, 713 



61, 104 



3,000 



75 



1,450 



11, 715 



74, 691 



6,700 



338,264 



82,910 



13, 545 



25, 012 



10, 590 



21, 996 



182, 554 



1,380 



132,019 



2,234 



1,275 



14, 470 



Bushels. 

 17, 256 



18, 962 



10, 620 



8,300 

 20, 488 

 11, 119 



6,088 



4,269 

 13, 724 

 10,223 



7,836 

 24,858 

 41, 773 

 26,002 

 18, 534 

 15, 357 

 32,630 

 31, 876 

 12, 352 



9,822 



9,794 

 12, 618 

 46, 634 

 11, 873 

 10, 533 

 10,566 

 12, 692 



7,806 

 . 1, 410 

 16,528 



Pounds. 

 161, 6-27 



160, 069 



59, 262 



43, 772 



140, 326 



45, 230 



61, 050 



27,868 



66,554 



82, 082 



77, 274 



151, 156 



239,360 



125, 446 



102, 603 



155, 419 



111,506 



131, 684 



59,196 



66, 230 



48, 247 



226, 852 



146, 715 



67, 337 



81, 454 



171, 876 



112, 753 



61, 152 



6,407 



110, 453 



Value. 

 §53, 452 



93, 555 



30, 879 



20, 327 



36, 703 



49, 736 



13, 455 



12, 597 



24, 848 



44, 107 



21, 107 



114, 205 



109,834 



26,396 



71, 698 



75,883 



40, 260 



110,221 



56,345 



28,817 



30, 559 



55,990 



44,944 



55,706 



5S, 132 



46, 994 



78,506 



21, 325 



8, 1.38 



64, 227 



