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BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



From the same source it appears that in that year there were 

 20,000,000 of acres devoted to meadow and pasturage, while 

 the hay crop covered 13,000,000 of acres, and was valued at 

 •$90,000,000. The same year 11,000,000 of acres were devoted 

 to wheat, which was valued at $100,000,000, and 7,500,000 

 acres to oats. The number of acres devoted to cotton was but 

 5,000,000, and the aggregate value was but ^98,000,000. 



The above product of Indian corn was distributed over tlie 

 various sections of the country, so as to give the comparative 

 yield to each person and the proportion of improved land 

 devoted to this crop, as follows : — 



The details of this important crop will appear more clearly 

 in the following table, showing the number of bushels produced 

 in each section, and the number of bushels per acre in each in 

 the year 1850. It will be seen that the avera,ge yield per acre, 

 for the Avhole United States, is about twenty-five bushels, and 

 that of the New England States thirty-one bushels, while the 



aggregate amount raised in New England 

 bushels. 



was 10,171,000 



