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The number of cattle is 276,549 Value, $5,327,199 



Horses, 65,181 3,451,118 



Sheep, 354,943 558,284 



Swine, 104,740 9 17,435 



Asses and Mules, 47 2,785 



Total, 801,460 $10,256,821 



The business which employs the greatest number of hands is 

 the shoe business; there are 45,877 persons in this manufacture 

 alone, the whole value of which is returned at $14,799,140. The 

 cotton manufacture, or manufacture of cotton goods of all kinds, 

 employs 20,710 hands, w4th a capital of $17,739,000, whose va- 

 lue is stated at $13,193,449. In the manufacture of calico, 2,053 

 hands are employed, with a capital of $1,401,500, in value 

 $4,779,817. In woollens, 7,372 hands are employed, whh a 

 capital of $5,604,002, and in value $8,877,478. Value of wool, 

 $365,136; silk, $151,429. In the whale fishery, 11,378 hands 

 are employed, with an invested capital of $11,805,910, in value 

 $10,371,167; and 7,866 hands in mackerel and cod fishery, with 

 a capital of over a million of dollars; in the manufacture of palm 

 leaf hats and braid, &c., 13,311 hands are employed, whose value 

 is $1,649,496. 



Value of Exports. 



Domestic produce, $7,756,396. Foreign produce, $2,594,634. 



Value oj" Imports. 

 Domestic and foreign produce, $10,351,030. 



In American vessels, $18,150,295 



In Foreign vessels,- - - 4,630,729 



Total, $22,781,024 



The following objects were encouraged by offers of premiums 

 by the societies of the state. Bulls, milch cows, heifers, working 

 oxen, steers, fat cattle, greatest number of working oxen from any 

 one town, horses and colts, sheep, swine, plowing (double teams; 

 single ox teams) horses, subsoil plowing, effects of subsoil plow- 

 ing, management of farms, reclaiming wet meadows, subduing 



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