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THE HOME, FAHM AND BUSINESS CYCLOPAEDIA. 



Populations of the Principal Cities of the Old World. 



Population, 

 London, En-land ...... 3,882,092 



how, I'liiiui ...... 2,000,000 



Paris, Fraiu-r ......... 2,000,000 



Pekin, China ......... 1,648,814 



Jeddo, Japan ........ 1,554,848 



Canton, China ........ 1,236,000 



( 'onst'inople, Turkey.. 1,075,000 j 

 Bombay, India ........ 01 



Calcutta, India ....... 



Berlin, Prussia ........ 



., Scotland ____ 



Vienna, Austria ...... 



St. Petersburg, Russia, 

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 Liverpool, England... 

 Birmingham, England. 

 Manchester, En-land.. 



828,013 

 i77,M4 

 617,514 

 080,000 

 420,000 

 4!)3.345 

 343,696 



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Edinburgh, Scotland. . 196,500 



Population. 



Lyons, France 325.000 



Dublin, Irtland 2 15,722 



Madrid. Spain 



ud 



Shetlirld, " L'3!),l47 



Bristol, " 182,524 



Belfast, Ireland 174,314 



Amsterdam, Holland. . 215,600 



Cairo, Egypt 313,383 



Lisbon, Portugal 224,063 



Hamburg, Germany.... 337,940 



Brussels, Belgium 172,000 



Dresden, Saxony 177,095 



Munich, Bavaiia 190,000 



Naples, Italy 448,743 



Rome, " 244,484 



Genoa, " 1*0,269 



Palermo, " 219,398 



Population. 



Venice, Italy 128,901 



Turin " 207,770 



Florence, " 167,093 



Milan, " 200,000 



Copenhagen, Denmark 181,291 

 Stockholm, Sweden.... 135,000 



Antwerp, Belgium 127,000 



Ghent, " .... 121,469 



Damascus, Syria 120,000 



Smyrna, Turkey 150,000 



Prague, Bohemia 157,275 



Alexandria, Egypt 238,888 



Marseilles, France 305,000 



Bordeaux, " 190,000 



Lille, " .... 156,000 



Melbourne, Australia.. 256,501 

 Sydney, Aus. , suburbs 200,000 

 Auckland, N. Zealand.. 31,400 



Number of Plants per Acre. 



NUMBER OF PLANTS ou TREES THAT CAN BE PLANTED ON AN ACRE OF GROUND AT THE FOLLOWING 



DISTANCES APART. 



How to Estimate Crops per Acre. 



Frame together four light sticks exactly 

 a foot square inside, and with this in hand 

 walk into the field and select a spot of 

 fair average yield, and lower the frame 

 square over as many heads as it will en- 

 close. Shell out the heads thus enclosed 

 carefully, and weigh the grain. It is fair 

 to presume that the product will be the 

 43,; 60th part of an acre's produce. To 

 pro*re it, go through the field and make 

 ten or twenty similar calculations, and 

 estimate by the mean of the whole num- 

 ber of results. It will certainly enable a 

 farmer to make a closer calculation of what 

 a field will produce than he can do by 

 guessing. 



A Mile Measure. 



A standard English mile, which is the 

 measure that we use, is 5,280 feet in 

 length, 1,760 yards, or 320 rods. A strip 

 one rod wide and one mile long, is two 

 acres. By this it is easy to calculate the 

 quantity of land taken up by roads, and 

 also how much is wasted by fences. 



The Creeds of the World. 



Christians 380,000,000 



Buddhists. . :. 360,000,000 



Other Asiatic Religions 269,000,000 



Mohammedans 165,000,000 



Jews 7,000,000 



Pagans 200,000,000 



