AYEKAGE YIELD. 



THE average yield of Indian corn in the United 

 States for 1850 was, according to the census of that 

 year, twenty-five bushels per acre ; the extreme limits 

 being eleven bushels for South Carolina and forty 

 bushels for Connecticut. For 1860 the census tables 

 do not give the average product per acre for the whole 

 country, nor do they furnish any returns from which 

 the average yield for that year may be accurately de- 

 termined. We have, however, numerous reports and 

 estimates of acreable products from, various sections of 

 the country since that period, from which a proximate 

 average may be arrived at. 



Mr. Ezra Cornell has reported for Tompkins Coun- 

 ty in this State an average of 46.7 bushels per acre 

 on the level of Cayuga Lake, and 32.4 bushels in lo- 

 calities one thousand feet higher. From other coun- 

 ties in the State there have been reports and estimates 

 ranging from twenty-six btshels per acre to forty bush- 

 els and over ; making the probable average for New 

 York between thirty-two and thirty-three bushels. 



From Ohio we have returns, both official and other- 

 wise, making the average product per acre in that 



