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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



$18,083,502; wood, $5,069,510; other materials, $7,778,152. The rela- 

 tively large iiroportion of materials to product is due to the reduction 

 in prices of implements and machines. In this connection it is desir- 

 able to notice the increase in number of implements. 



The increase of implements manufactured relates not only to num- 

 bers but to variety. Machines for harvesting were well advanced in 

 1870, yet improvements have been constant and valuable since that 

 date. The increase of ten years is thus noted : 



Implemeut*. 



Seeders aud jjlanters : 



Corn-planters 



Cotton-plailters 



Fertilizer distributers. 



Grain-drills 



Grain-aowers 



Seed-sowera 



Transplanters .' 



Implements of cultivation : 



Clod-crasliers 



Cotton-choppers 



Cultivators 



Harrows 



Hoes 



Plows ,^..... 



Shovels 



Hollers 



Harvesting implements : 



Fruit gatherers 



. Grain-cradlea 



Harvesters 



Hand-rakes 



Hay-forks 



Hay-loaders 



Hay-tedders 



Horse-rakes 



Lawn-mowers . 



Mowers 



1880. 



Xumher. 

 6.S, C9i 



19, 2a8 

 8,155 



43, 222 

 15,5(53 



20, 289 

 4,245 



C84 



138 



318, 057 



127, 997 



3. 502, 056 



1,32«, 12.1 



2, 545, 764 



3,002 



315 



167, 402 



25, 737 



3, 704, 784 

 2, 480, 724 



8,957 



2,334 



95, 625 



47, GGl 



72, 090 



1870. 



Number. 



21,709 



2,000 



Implements. 



32, 033 



"6,'966' 



88, 740 



9,150 



1.021,668 



861, 9)7 



309, 072 



103, 646 



3, 566 



2, 487, 720 



1, 298, 256 



80, G19 

 2,536 

 39, 486 



Harvcstinp implements — 

 Continued. 



Potato-diggers 



Reapers 



Reapers and mowers 

 combined 



Scythes 



Scythe-snaths. . , 



Sickles 



Seed separators : 



Clover-huUers 



Com-huskers 



Corn-shellevs 



FauniDg-mills 



Separators 



Thrashors 



Miscellaneous : 



Cauo-mills 



Cider and wine mills . . 



Feed steamers and boi 1 era 



Hay and straw cutters 



Hay-presses 



Horse-powers 



Stalk-pullers 



Stone-gatherers 



Stump-pullers 



Sirup-evaporators 



1880. 



Number. 



33, 453 

 35, 327 



54, 920 



1, 244, 204 



437,178 



95, 613 



1,412 



44, 370 

 59, 157 



45, 412 

 9,103 



10, 424 



2,350 



10, 202 



1, 482 



33, 883 



791 



11,161 



93 



9,008 



703 



1,460 



1870. 



Number. 



60,388 



59, 645 

 881,244 



17, 680 

 3; 600 



5,20fl 



12, 941 



19,772 



1,131 



22, 931 



108 



30, 879 

 ""4,54! 



EXPORTATION OF AGRICULTURAL IIMPLEMENTS. 



The exportation of agricultural implements is a trifle compared with 

 home cousumi)tion, nor does it increase as rapidly as the extension of 

 manufacture. The first separate official statement of exports of imple- 

 ments was in 1864, when the value of such exports was $611,152. In 

 the following year the record was $1,385,274, possibly 3 per cent, of the 

 production. It was much less in 1867 and 1868, and did not mucii ex- 

 ceed $1,000,000 again till 1872. In the six years from 1864 to 1869, in- 

 clusive, the value of exports aggregated $6,010,557. 



The exports of the last twenty-one years are valued at $42,534,450, or 

 an average of about $2,000,000 per annum. The cxporlation has pos- 

 sibly been 4 per cent.of the production, after reducing export values to 

 factory values. This point should not be misunderstood. As the freight 

 is heavy, and is brought to the sea-board, a distance of 500 to 1,000 

 miles, before exportation ; it is cause for national congratulation that 

 so largo a surplus can bo shipped throughout the world. It is not 

 merely cheapness that renders it possible, but the ingenuity of the ma- 

 chinery, the skill in manufacture, and lightness and strength of mate- 

 rial. Our people would scarcely take foreign implements as a gil't, and 

 foreign nations arc learning their superiority. 



The following table shows our total exportation of this class of i)rod- 

 ucts for each fiscal year from 1870 to 1884, inclusive, with the numbers 



