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AGEICUI^TUKAL REPOKT. 



The census pQvcentage is increased in some States, and diminished in 

 others, according to circumstances. In Maine scarcely more than one- 

 fourth of the area is in farms ; the remaining land being covered, gen- 

 erally, with forest growths, though culled of valuable timber, increases the 

 census percentage from 38.1 to 4G.9, and the increase would be ranch 

 greater (than the estimated proportion of one-half) but for the remarkable 

 extent of water-surface in addition to barren ledges and other wastes. 

 Khode Island, on the contrary, has 502,308 acresin farms, of its 835,840 — so 

 large a proportion of the whole that nine-tenths of the remainder, 333,532 

 acres, are assumed to be water, rock, roads, &c., thus reducing the per- 

 centage of total area in forest from 33.7 to 21.2, New York has nearly 

 two-thirds of its area in farms, and so much w'ater throughout the State, 

 especially the lakes of the western and northern sections, that only one- 

 third of its 7,889,190 acres in farms is assumed to be in forest. Florida, 

 though having less than one-tenth of its area in farms, has so large a 

 proportion of water area that it is not deemed safe to estimate more than 

 half the unoccupied surface in woods, which reduces the census j)ercent- 

 age CO to 50.0. Ohio has its available area nearly all occupied by farms, 

 and its percenta ge is therefore reduced from 31.7 to 28.4. The amended 

 percentage, if the estimates are accurate, must be the true proportion 

 for the entire State, and it is undoubtedly nearer the actual percent^ige 

 than the figures representing only farm-lands. 



The following table presents a statement of the area in farms, that 

 outside of farms, the total area, and the forest acreage in farni^ alone 

 and in the eutire area of each State and Territory : 



states and Tenitoiies. 



STATES. 



Maine 



New Hampsbire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Eliode Island 



Connecticut 



New Tork 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Virginia 



North Carolina 



South CarolLua 



Georgia 



Florida 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Arkansas. 



Tennessee 



West Virginia 



Kentucky 



Ohio.. 



Michigan 



Indiana ,. . . . 



Illinois 



AVisconsin 



Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri 



Kansas, 



Nebraska 



California 



Oregon-. 



Nevada 



Total of States.... 



No. acres in 

 farms. 



838, 0.i8 

 605, 994 

 528, 804 

 730, 283 

 502, 308 

 364, 416 

 190, 810 

 989, 511 

 994, 200 

 052, 322 

 512, 579 

 145,911 

 835, 410 

 105, 280 

 647, 941 

 373, 541 

 961, 178 

 121, 113 

 025, 817 

 396, 523 

 597, 296 

 581, 214 

 528, 394 

 660, 106 

 712, 420 

 Oli), 142 

 119, r,48 

 882, 861 

 715, 321 

 483, 828 

 541, 793 

 707, 220 

 656, 879 

 073, 781 

 427, 105 

 389, 252 

 208, 510 



405, 226, 769 



No. acres not 

 in farms. 



16, 561, 942 

 2, 333, 206 

 2, 006, 876 

 2, 261, 717 



333, 532 



675, 584 



7, 889, 190 



2, 335, 289 



11,445,800 



304, 478 



2, 606, 781 

 6, 399, 369 



12, 615, 150 

 9, 054, 7211 

 13,472,05!) 

 35, 557, 979 



17, 500, 902 

 17, 058, 727 

 19, 435, 623 



157, 191, 317 



25, 809, 424 



9, 602, 786 



6, 191, 600 



5, 455, 094 



3, 864, 540 

 26, 109, 498 



3, 518,^112 

 9, 579, 539 

 22, 790, 039 

 4C, 976, 012 

 19, 687, 007 

 2~0, 116,780 

 46,386,641 

 46, ,563, 019 

 10S1, 520, 735 

 .58, 580, 108 

 71, 529,-090 



809, 932, 271 



No. acres ii 

 total area. 



22, 400, COO 

 5, 939, 200 

 6, 535, 080 

 4, 992, 000 

 835, 840 

 .3, 040, 000 



30, 080, 000 

 5, 324, 800 



29, 440, 000 

 1, 356, HOO 

 7, 119, 360 



24, .545, 280 

 :!2, 450, 560 

 21, 760, 000 

 37, 120, 000 

 37, 931, 520 



32, 462, 080 

 30, 179, 840 

 26, 401, 440 



175, 587, 840 



33, 400, 720 

 29, 184, 000 

 14, 720, 000 

 24, 11.5, 200 



25, 576, 960 

 36, 128, 040 

 21, 637, 760 

 35, 462, 400 



34, 511. 300 

 53, 459, 840 



35, 228, 800 

 41, 824, 000 

 52, 043, 520 

 4«, 030, 800 



120, 947, 840 

 CO, 975, 360 

 71, 737, 600 



1,275,' 159, 040 



No. acres of 

 woodland 

 in farms. 



^, 224, 740 



1, 047, 090 



1, 386, 034 



706, 714 



169, 399 



577, 333 



5, 679, 870 



718,<335 



5, 740, 864 

 295, 162 



1, 435, 988 

 8, 294, 734 

 12, 020, 894 



6, 443, 851 

 12, 928, 084 



1, 425, 786 

 8, 380, 332 



7, 959, 384 

 4, 003, 170 



7, 662, 294 



3, 910, 325 

 10, /71, 396 



4, 304, 405 

 9, 134, 658 

 6, 883, 575 

 4, 080, 146 

 7, 189, 334 

 .5, 001, 578 

 3, 437, 442 



1, 330, 299 



2, 524, 793 



8, 96.5, 229 

 63.5, 4ffl 

 213, 374 

 477, 880 

 761, 001 



13, 415 



158, 867, 227 



Estimated to- 

 tal area iu 

 woodland. 



10,505,711 

 2, 213, 693 

 2, 390, 37^ 

 1, 460, 619 

 202, 752 

 644, 891 

 S, 309, 600 



1, 496, 764 

 11,463,764 



396,654 



2, 739, 376 



11, 494, 418 

 19,595,984 

 12, 236, 683 

 21,011,319 

 19, 204, 775 

 18, 880. 873 

 18, 194; 620 

 15,})04,545 

 46, 960, 123 

 16, 815, 037 

 15, 572, 789 



7, 460, 208 

 10, 953, 022 

 7, 270, 029 



12, 783, 312 

 7, 541, 14;; 

 0, 019, 531 

 7, 236, 781 

 9, 165, 634 

 4, 985, 668 



15, 670, 822 

 2, 9.54, 751 



2, 541, 524 

 9, 604, .607 



15, 407, 528 



3, 589, 869 



380, 639, 793 



