264 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
STATISTICS OF PRODUCTION. 
The statistics of agricultural production in New England, for the last 
three decades, illustrate the changes wrought by the causes enumerated 
above, showing decrease at one point and increase at another, and in 
the total an absolute depreciation, which is perhaps not quite equal to 
the loss of agricultural population, the use of labor-saving machinery 
more than compensating for decrease of fertility upon the neglected 
farms of the interior. The following table includes the aggregates of 
the census returns of live stock and principal farm products for the six 
New England States: 
1850. 1860. 1870. 
ELOTHES Pepe Re Pee er Eee hSacnco ato seet~ceet- detnet -senee number. . 212, 274 258, 992 259, 358 
AW ARLE) satCl SISOS. Sa a COneae 376 357 961 
OXGHAMCOUMEM CATO Res. ce cote cee locd scene Sensis Le ccen doesn. 860, 809 892, 846 715, 544 
MINN Gicany sere eee nee te ne ok occa cet ec acm cetcd oboe sou dole 608, 219 679, 930 642, 593 
STN aay setts Osa ge pk i do 2,257,583 | 1,779,767 | 1, 449, 695 
JSUT GE SS al 2 BAR eo el fn Soe eae ee eee: ite 361, 481 326, 176 241, 000 
Cerro meee meee E CU Jak MeN LS oa ela bushels..| 10,175,856 | 9,164,505 | 7, 347, 666 
AUIS pel A A a IRN a a do....| 1,090,894} 1,083,193 | 1, 000, 693 
Rye... ..-.| 1,570,589 | 1, 425, 851 703, 379 
Oats .. ..--| 8,101,268 | 10,895,185 | 9, 169, 504 
Barley .... 3 414,496 | 1,199,119 |. 1,075, 059 
Buckwheat Loe 716, 044 990, 812 1, 189, 413 
Potatoes .. SEE hee icio Stree atch no eeiicis ete Sue do....| 19, 618,111 | 21, 343, 616 23, 928, 604 
Tobacco... aS: 1, 405,920 | 9,266,445 | 15, 870, 484 
PETE; mene EN SMH BME ES Se tons..| 3,463,652 | 3,869,200] 3, 936, 560 
It thus appears that milch cows have decreased 5 per cent. in ten 
years, other cattle 20 per cent., sheep 18, and swine 26, and that horses 
and mules have slightly increased. Corn shows a reduction of 19 per 
cent., wheat nearly 8, rye 50, oats 16, barley 10; while buckwheat is 
increased 20 per cent., potatoes 12, hay nearly 2, and tobacco 70. That 
hay should not fall off with the cattle may be partially accounted for by 
the increase of horses, which is probably much greater than is shown 
by the above figures, which only give the horses of the farm, while those 
ot the cities, numbers of still larger magnitude in some of the States, 
are not enumerated. 
In orchard and garden products the increase has been very large, 
being from $2,703,032 in 1850, and $4,959,455 in 1860, to $7,143,907 
in 1870. Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont have greatly enlarged 
the productions of orchards, and Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and 
Connecticut, that of gardens. The following table will show the rate 
of increase in the several States: 
1850, 1860. -° 1870. 
States. . : 
Orchard Produce- Orchard Produce Orchard Pr oduce 
roducts market roducts make eee roducts. | ™market 
P '| gardens. Pp S- | gardens. | P "| gardens. 
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IMGIIIO (Se be te rasins £6 aim aic'si<'> $342, 865 $122, 387 $501, 767 $194, 006 $874, 569 $266, 397 
New Hampshire ..-......... 248, 563 56, 810 557, 934 78, 256 743, 552 119, 997 
Mernionseee ree ee cise cae. 315, 255 18, 853 211, 693 24, 802 G82, 241 42, 225 
Massachusets.----.-.--..-.. 463, 995 600, 020 925, 519 1, 397, 623 939, 854 1, 980, 231 
HOUS MISland seeeme eee. 2 63, 994 98, 298 83, 691 140, 291 43, 036 316, 133 
Connectiquiw oes eesee cn. = 175, 118 196, 874 508, 848 337, 025 535, 954 599, 718 
otal (sate Mae! - 1, 609, 790 | 1, 093, 242 | 2, 789, 452 | 2, 170, 003 | 3,819,206 | 3, 324, 701 
That the reader may examine in detail the changes in the several 
States, exhibited by the census of 1870, in comparison with that of 1860 
and 1850, the following table is presented: 
