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the United States, is twenty millions of dollars. The statistics 

 for 1840 are as follows : 



States. Value in dollars. 



Maine, 123,171 



New Hampshire, .... 97,862 



Vermont, 176,437 



Massachusetts, 540,295 



Rhode Island, ..... 61,492 



Connecticut, 176,659 



New York, 2,373,029 



New Jersey, 412,437 



Pennsylvania, . . . . 1,033,172 



Delaware, 47,465 



Maryland, 219,159 



Virginia, 752,467 



North Carolina, 544,125 



South Carolina, .... 590,594 



Georgia, 473,158 



Total, 



States. Value in dollars. 



Ohio, 734,931 



Kentucky, 536,439 



Tennessee, 581,531 



Louisiana, 273,314 



Mississippi, 369,481 



Alabama, 829,220 



Missouri, 230,283 



Indiana, 393,228 



Illinois, 330,968 



Michigan, 82,730 



Arkansas, 93,549 



Florida, 61,007 



Wisconsin, 16,167 



Iowa, 17,101 



District of Columbia, . . 3,092 

 .... $12,176,170. 



From this table it appears that the value of poultry in the 

 single state of New York was $2,373,029 ; which, on compar- 

 ison with other tables procured by the same census, shows that 

 this sum exceeds the value of the sheep raised in the same 

 state, the entire value of her neat cattle, and is nearly five 

 times the value of horses and mules raised within her borders. 



It is estimated, from satisfactory returns, that the city of 

 New York alone expends nearly a million and a half of dollars 

 per annum in the purchase of eggs. A half million of eggs 

 are consumed monthly, and the Astor House is said to require 

 a supply of one thousand per day during five days in the week, 

 and on Saturdays twenty-five hundred. 



The amount of sales of eggs, in and around the Quincy Mar- 

 ket, for 1848, was 1,129,735 dozen, which, at 18 cents per 

 dozen, (the lowest price paid 11 cents, and the highest 30 

 cents per dozen, as proved by the average purchases of one of 

 the largest dealer's books,) makes the amount paid for eggs to 

 be $203,352 30. And from information already obtained from 

 other egg merchants in the same city, the whole amount of 



