44 DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE. . 



Hogs slaughtered. lbs. Average. 



New York State, 706,716 128,462,487 181 



Suffolk County, 13,942 3,060,602 219 



Cattle slaughtered for beef 

 New York State, 221,481 1-4. Suffolk County, 2,447 



Value of farm implements and machinery. 

 New York State, $21,189,099.75. Suffolk County, $407, 257. 



Fertilizers purchased. 

 New York State, "$838,907. 52. Suffolk County, $294,429.40 



The value of poultry owned in 1865, and of poultry and eggs sold in 

 1864, in twelve counties, is thus: 



Value. Poultry sold Eggs sold 



in 1864, ' in 1864. 



31,016.40 34,957-61 



41,696.50 44,772.00 



31,195-05 33,125.14 



76,326.50 52,059,50 



38,706.05 33,743-98 



34,607.28 45,978.84 



32,101.24 36,858.36 



80,035.00 45,960.00 



36,500.81 45,082.91 



29,277.20 36,601.30 



45,068.46 41,346.53 



47,120.00 57,003.13 



The results of these figures make this showing a fraction less than one- 

 hundredth part of all the improved lands in the State'lie in the county of 

 Suffolk. If that county produces one-hundredth part of all the aggregate 

 product of the crops in the State that shows, other things being equal, that 

 the farmers of Suffolk County understand their business at least as well as 

 the averao'e farmer. If the land of our county be reckoned poorer than the 

 average in the State, that fact will notdessen the force of the figures, or de- 

 tract from the greater credit due to Suffolk County farming, provided that 

 production comes up to the average State production. At the outset it 

 appears that of all the tools and machinery used in farming in the State, 

 Suffolk County held in value about one-fiftieth part — showing that the Suf- 

 folk County farmer was up to the average twice over in the value of me- 

 chanical appliances in his business. 



Suffolk County purchased over one-third of all the fertilizers in the 

 State, and more than an}- other ten counties. Suffolk County kept over 

 one-hundredth of all the neat cattle in the State, and slaughtered over that 

 proportion of all the cattle slaughtered therein, showing that her system of 

 ao-riculture returned to the soil very largely the products, and was no skin- 

 ning process; that the corn, oats, roots and grass were fed to domestic 

 animals, and thereby the elements of fertility were restored to the soil. 



Although these figures show an average for the county per acre of 13 

 bushels of potatoes less than the State average, they show more on all other 

 productions. The average of the county over the State is, per acre in corn. 

 7 bushels; wheat, 5 ; oats, 9; rye, 8 ; barley, 12 ; and turnips 75 bushels. 

 This county raised nearly one-thirtieth of all the corn raised in the State; 

 more than one-thirtieth of all the wheat, over one-seventieth of all the oats, 

 nearly one-fortieth of all the rye, over one-eighth of all the turnips, and 



