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cent, greater in 1860 than in 1850 for each acre of " im- 

 proved land" — an increase which is likely to be below, 

 rather than above the truth, and which has certainly 

 gone on since 1860 in a rapidly enlarging ratio. 



Coming now to the Live Stock, we have to note a 

 considerable increase in milch cows, while a slight 

 increase in butter and a falling off in cheese, show 

 that a smaller amount of the milk produced was man- 

 ufactured into these two items, leaving something more 

 than the actual increase in milch cows to supply the 

 greater demand for milk . by your growing city and 

 village population. Working oxen appear to be 

 decreasing in numbers, and farm horses to be increas- 

 ing. Other cattle show a considerable increase, proving 

 that more is done in feeding and grazing than hereto- 

 fore. Sheep, which had already shown a great decrease 

 in 1850 upon 1840, took another tumble during the 

 ten years previous to 1860, decreasing one-third, and 

 swine were also somewhat reduced in numbers. But, 

 taking the aggregate of the farm stock kept, so nearly 

 as we can set off the increase in some kinds against the 

 decrease in others, I think it safe to affirm that the 

 farms of the State are now carrying a someivhat larger 

 burden than they did in 1850— perhaps, in general 

 terms, equivalent to the keeping of from a hundred and 

 three to a hundred and five head of cattle on land 

 which then supported a hundred. 



And in the character of the stock kept, there has 

 been a marked improvement. The valuation aggre- 

 gates thirty-two per cent/ more in 1860 than in 1850, 

 and if we allow for an increase of five per cent, in the 

 total number of animals, we shall still have about 

 twenty-five per cent, for the increased valuation per 



