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town, Queens county, the average was 91 ; in the county of Westchester, 20; in the 

 counties of Cayuga and Chautauque, 15 and upwards. 



From 192,504 acres sown with barley, the aggregate number of bushels raised during 

 the year preceding is returned at 3,108,705 — exceeding by 610,535 bushels the crop of 

 1840, and averaging 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 exceeded 22 bushels to the acre; in the county 

 of Suffolk, 44 bushels ; in the county of Richmond, 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, IV^; and in each of the counties of 

 Allegany, Chenango, Essex, Franklin, Rensselaer, and Seneca, 17. 



From 255,495|- acres of buckwheat, the aggregate number of bushels raised was 

 3,634,679/j — exceeding by 1,390,241 bushels the quantity raised in 1840, being an 

 average of upwards of 14 bushels to an acre. In one of the outer wards of New York, 

 300 bushels were obtained from 8|- 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, Putnam, 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, Renssalaer, Steuben, Tioga, and Westchester, 16 ; and 

 in each of the counties, of Allegany, Broome, Delaware, Dutchess, Erie, Herkimer, 

 Monroe, Oneida, Orange, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, and Ulster, 15. 



From 15,322^ acres devoted to the production of turnips, the aggregate number of 

 bushels raised was 1,350,332, being an average of 88 bushels per acre. In the county 

 of Suffolk, however, the average is as high as 240 ; and in one town of that pounty (River- 

 head), 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 counties of Niagara 

 and Rockland, 155 ; in Ontario, 148 ; in Wayne, 146 ; in Richmond, 142 ; in each of 

 the counties of Onondaga and St. Lawrence, 140; in Otsego, 135; in Orleans, 126; 

 in Cortland, 125 ; in Chnton, 122 ; in Essex, 121 ; in Cayuga, 120 ; in Steuben, 115 ; 

 in each of the counties of Delaware, Oswego, Saratoga, and Schenectady, 110 ; in each 

 of the counties 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 Chau- 

 tauque, 104; in Wyoming, 103 ; in Livingston, 99 ; in Allegany, 98 ; in each of the 

 counties of Tioga and Warren, 95 ; in Washington, 92 ; and in each of the counties of 

 Cattaraugus, Lewis, and Schoharie, 90. 



From 46,089 acres of flax, the average number of pounds produced was 2,897,062|, 

 or an average of 62| 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-eigths of an acre ; in the towns of Amenia and Rhinebeck, in the 

 same county, an average of 350 pounds per acre is returned ; in Pleasant Valley, 285 ; 

 and in Clinton, 275. The average product in the county is 237 pounds per acre. In 

 Jeffeison county, the average is 190; in Columbia, 187; in each of the counties of 

 Chautauque and Chenango, 180 ; in each of the counties of Lewis, Queens, and Wash- 

 ington, 175; in each of the counties of Orange and Ulster, 165; in Essex, 164; in 

 each of the counties of Clinton, Cortland, Franklin, Oneida, Putnam, and Rensselaer, 

 150 ; in each of the counties of Oswego, Sullivan, and Westchester, 140 ; in Warren, 

 139 ; in Delaware and St. Lawrence, 135 ; in P)roome, 132 ; and in each of the counties 

 of Greene, Hamilton, Monroe, Onondaga, Richmond, Saratoga, Steuben, Tioga, and 

 Wyoming, 100 and upwards. 



The aggregate number of heads of neat cattle in the State is 2,072,330, being an 



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