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Lowell, Massachusetts, inland, for only two dollars twelve and a half 

 cents per hundred pounds, or forty-two dollars and fifty cents pe' 

 ton. 



Distrihution of sheep and wool, hay and potatoes, in the Unite d 

 Stateo, according to the census of 1840, with a calculation of the 

 number of sheep'^to the acre, in each of the States and Territories :— 



Name of State, &c. 



Sh 



eep. 



Pounds of 

 wool. 



Tons of 

 hay. 



691,358 

 496,107 

 569,395 

 63,-149 

 426,704 

 83t).739 

 3.127,047 

 334,!-61 

 1,311,643 

 22,483 

 106.6^7i 

 364,708i 

 101,369 

 24,618 

 16,969| 

 12,n8 

 171 

 24,(51 

 31,233 

 88,306 

 1,022,037 

 178,029 

 164.932 

 49.083 

 586 

 130,805 

 1.197 

 30,9.38 

 17.953 

 1,331 



Bushels of 

 potatoes. 



10,248.108^ 



10,392,280 

 6,206,606 

 5,385,652 

 911,973 

 3,414,2,38 

 8,869,751 

 30,123.614 

 2,072.069 

 9,535,663 

 200,712 

 1,036,433 

 2,944,660 

 2,609,239 

 2,698,313 

 1,291,366 

 1,708,356 

 1,630,190 

 834,341 

 1,904,370 

 1,055,085 

 5.!- 05,(21 

 1.. 525.794 

 2,025,520 

 783,768 

 293.608 

 2,109,205 

 264,617 

 419,608 

 234,063 

 12,035 



108,298,060 



Ki. ot 

 acre? t( 

 A sh'.'ep 



50 

 10 

 12 

 10 

 10 

 31 



Ol 

 -5 



24 



24 



33^ 



33i 



33i 



50 



100 



143 



240 



250 



50 



50 



25 



10 



33 j 



100 



125 



1.000 



250 



5,000 



14,2.-5 



2 500 



100 



Since writing thus far, an opportunity has been embraced to obtain 

 some information as to the resources of Western Virginia and the 

 Carolinas. We were informed by a member of congress frorn Pittsyl- 

 \ania county that his flock of two hundred go through the winter one 

 year with another at a cost for food of not exceeding ten dollars for the 

 whole flock. It was only yesterday, 1st of February, that, in conver- 

 sation with Mr. J. Wadsworth, of Geneseo, President of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society, eminent for his intelligence and en- 

 terprise, as an American farmer of great opulence and influence, we 

 learned that coarse wool, under influences of recent existence, is 

 getting into greater demand. He observed that there were practical 

 farmers in New York, though he v/as not prepared to say it could be 

 realised, who contended that they could pursue sheep husbandry 

 profitably on land costing thirty dollars the acre. 



