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If wc disregard the interest account, Massachusetts 

 exhibits an average return upon all her inhabitants of 

 eighty-three dollars. 



Wc have then this general result : 



Computing interest on the capital invested, we find 

 the production in Wisconsin to be forty dollars, in Ohio 

 forty-four dollars, in Illinois sixty-seven and a half dol- 

 lars, in Vermont seventy dollars, and in Massachusetts 

 seventy-two dollars, to each person. 



If we omit the item of interest, the average produc- 

 tion is forty-six dollars in Wisconsin, fifty-six in Ohio, 

 seventy-five in Illinois, eighty-three in Vermont and 

 eighty-three in Massachusetts. 



It is not assumed that these statistics are accurate 

 and complete in all their particulars ; but they are suf- 

 ficiently so to give confidence in the general result. 

 The prices named may be high, but it will appear by 

 comparison that they are favorable to the West. Inter- 

 est is computed at six per cent., which is considerably 

 below the actual interest in Ohio and Illinois. Again, I 

 have enumerated only the products of the land, and the 

 products of manufactures and the mechanic arts, although 

 Massachusetts had, in 1850, 19,598 men employed in 

 navigation and the fisheries, while Ohio had only 4.109, 

 Illinois 1.644, Wisconsin 561, and Vermont 159. 



If we divide the entire agricultural production of 

 each State among the men employed in that department 

 of labor, regardless of the item of interest, we have 

 the following result : In Wisconsin 251 dollars, in Ohio 

 303 dollars, in Massachusetts 326 dollars, in Illinois 386 

 dollars, and in Vermont 462 dollars to each man. Let 

 it not, however, be hastily assumed that labor upon the 

 land is better rewarded in Vermont than in Ohio ; there 



