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GENESEE FARMER. 



Aug. 



From 117,379 acres sown with peas, the ag- 

 gregate number of bushels raised was 1,761,504, 

 or an aveinge of 15 bushels per acre. In the 

 town of Westchester, Westchester county, up- 

 wards of 170 bushels are returned as having been 

 produced from Si acres, averaging 56 bushels 

 per acre. In the county of Kings, the average 

 crop was 35 bushels : in Richmond, 24 ; in Put- 

 nam, Queens, and Wyoming, 20; in Onondaga 

 and Orleans, 19i ; in Suffolk, 18 ; in each of 

 the counties of Genesee, Madison, Montgomery, 

 and Rockland, 17 ; and in each of the counties 

 of Albany, Allegany, Cayuga, Chautauque, Erie, 

 Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Ontario, 

 Seneca, St. Lawrence, and Steuben, 16. 



From 16,232 acres devo'ed to the raising of 

 beans, the aggregate number of bushels produced 

 was 162,188, or an average of ten bushels per 

 acre. In the town of Westfield, Richmond coun- 

 ty, from 2-5 acres 228 i bushels were produced, 

 being an average of 1 14 bushels per acre ; in 

 the ninth ward of the city of Brooklyn, 1960 

 bushels were raised from 19^ acres, being an 

 average of 100 bushels per acre ; in the town of 

 Newtown, Queens county, tiie average was 91 ; 

 in the county of \^ estchester, 20 ; and in the 

 counties of Cayuga and Chautauque, 15 and up- 

 wards. 



From 192,504 acres sown with barley, the ag- 

 gregate number of bushels raised during the year 

 preceding, is returned at 3,108,705. exceeding 

 by 610.535 bushels the crop of 1840, and aver- 

 aging 16 bushels per acre. From 11 acres in the 

 county of Kings, 360 bushels were raised, being 

 an average of nearly 33 bushels to the acre. In 

 the county of Schoharie the average return ex- 

 ceeded 22 bushels to the acre ; in the county 

 of Suffolk, 44 bushels ; in the county of Rich- 

 mond, 25 ; in each of the counties of Onondaga 

 and Westchester, 20 ; in each of the counties of 

 Madison, Monroe, Niagara, and Ontario, 19 ; in 

 each of the counties of Cortland, Oneida, and 

 Schenectady, 18 ; in each of the counties of 

 Cayuga and Chautauque, 17^ ; and in each of the 

 counties of Allegany, Chenango, Essex, Frank- 

 lin, Rensselaer, and Seneca, 17. 



From 255, 495 § acres of buckwheat, the aggre- 

 gate number of bushels raised was 3,034,679, ex- 

 ceeding by 12,390,241 bushels the quantity raised 

 in 1840, being an average of upwards of 14 bush- 

 els to the acre. In one of the outer wards of 

 New York 300 bushels were obtained from 8i 

 acres, or an average of nearly 38 bushels to the 

 acre. In each of the counties of Onondaga and 

 Ontario, the average was 21 ; in Genesee, 19 ; 

 in each of the counties of Cayuga, Kings, Put- 

 nam, Richmond, Schenectady, Seneca, and 

 Wayne, 18 ; in each of the counties of Chemung, 

 Chenango, Clinton, Livingston, Montgomery, 

 Niagara, Tompkins, and Yates, 17 ; in each of 

 the counties of Albany, Chautauque, Cortland, 

 Queens, Rensselaer, Steuben, Tioga, and West- 



chester, 16 ; and in each of the counties of Alle- 

 gany, Broome, Delaware, Dutchess, Erie, Her- 

 kimer, Monroe, Oneida, Orange, Schoharie, St. 

 Lawrence, and Ulster, 15. 



From 15,322 J acres devoted to the production 

 of turneps, the aggregate number of bushels 

 raised was 1,350,332, being an average of 88 

 bushels per acre. In the county of Suffolk, how- 

 ever, the average is as high as 240 ; and in one 

 town of that county (Riverhead) the average 

 yield was 293 bushels. In Kings county the 

 average was 197 ; in each of the counties of 

 Monroe and Queens, 180 ; in each of the coun- 

 ties of Niagara and Rockland, 155 ; in Ontario, 

 148 ; in Wayne, 146 ; in Richmond, 142 ; in 

 each of the counties of Onondaga and St. Law- 

 rence, 140 ; in Otsego, 135 ; in Orleans, 126 ; 

 in Cortland, 125 ; in Clinton, 122 ; in Essex, 

 121 ; in Cayuga, 120 ; in Steuben, 11.5 ; in 

 each of the counties of Delaware, Oswego, Sara- 

 toga and Schenectady, 110 ; in each of the coun- 

 ties of Franklin and Jefferson, 108 ; in each of 

 the counties of Chemung and Montgomery, 107 ; 

 in each of the counties of Genesee and Seneca, 

 105 ; in Cliautauque, 104 ; in Wyoming, 103 ; 

 in Livingston, 99 ; in Allegany, 98 ; in each of 

 the counties of Tioga and Warren, 95 ; in Wash- 

 ington, 92 ; in each of the counties of Cattarau- 

 gus, Lewis, and Schob.arie, 90. 



From 46,089 acres of flax, the average num- 

 l)er of lbs, produced was 2,897,062i, or an aver- 

 ;!gc of 62 g pounds to the acre. In the town of 

 Islip, Suffolk county, 120 pounds were produced 

 from one quarter of an acre ; in Poughkeepsie, 

 Dutchess county, 360 pounds from five-eighths of 

 an acre ; in the towns of Amenia and Rhinebeck, 

 in the same county, an average of 350 poinds 

 per acre is returned ; in Pleasant-Valley, 285 ; 

 and in Clinton, 275. The average product in 

 the county is 237 pounds per acre. In .TefTerson 

 county the average is 190 ; in Columbia, 187 ; 

 in each of the counties of Chautauque and Chen- 

 ango, 180 ; in each of the counties of Lewis, 

 Queens, and Washington, 175 ; in each of the 

 counties of Orange and Ulster, 165 ; in Essex, 

 164 ; in each of the counties of Clinton, Cort- 

 land, Franklin, Oneida, Putnam, and Rensselaer, 

 150 ; in each of the counties of Oswego, Sulli- 

 van, and Westchester, 140 ; in Warren, 139 ; 

 in Delaware and St. Lawrence, 135 ; in Broome, 

 13^ ; and in each of the counties of Greene, 

 Hamilton, Monroe, Onondaga, Richmond, Sara- 

 toga, Steuben, Tioga, and Wyoming, 100 and 

 upwards. 



The aggregate number of heads of neat cattle 

 in the State is 2,072,330, being an average of 

 upwards of 35,000 to each county, of which there 

 are nearly 86,000 in the county of Jefferson ; 

 85,464 in the county of Oneida ; nearly 78 

 thousand in the county of St. Lawrence ; 66,885 

 in the county of Chautauque ; 63,745 in the 

 county of Chenango ; 62,555 in the county of 



