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STATISTICS OF WHEAT CULTUBE. 



2nd. States growing 

 lion bushels. 



Michigan 



Winconsin 



Maryland 



Missouri 



Kentucky 



N. Carolina 



Tennessee 



New Jersey 



Iowa 



Georgia 



South Carolina 



over one million and less than six mil- 



Bushels. 



4,925,889 



4,286,131 



4,494,681 



2,981,652 



2,140,822 



2,130,102 



1,619,381 



1,601,190 



1,530,581 



1,088,534 



1,066,277 



Population. Bush, per head 



397,654 

 305,191 

 583,031 

 682,043 

 982,405 

 868,903 

 1,002,525 

 481,555 

 192,214 

 905,999 

 668,507 



12-39 

 14-04 

 7-71 

 4-38 

 2-15 

 2-45 

 1-61 

 3-27 

 7-96 

 1-21 

 1-60 



3-93 



Total.... 27,865,240 7,078,131 



3rd. The remaining States and territories. 



2,791,470 4,466,246 0'63 



Total wheat crop in the United States, 100,503,899 bushels. 

 Population, 23,246,301. Bushels per head, 4'33. 



Increase : U. States, 1839 . 84,823,272 bushels 



1849 . . 100,503,896 



Or 18-49 per cent, in ten years. 



Upper Canada, 1841 

 1851 



15,680,627 



3,221,991 

 12,692,825 



9,470,861 



Population. Bush, per head. 



62,678 3-50 



276,117 1-08 



193,800 1-06 



Popu- 



Or nearly quadrupling itself in ten years. 



Bushels. 



Pr. Ed. Island, 1847 219,787 



Newfoundland, 1850 297,157 



New Brunswick, 1850 206,635 



The Eastern States in 1849 raised 1,090,896 bushels, 

 lation 2,668,106, or 0'41 each. 



The population of Upper Canada is 952,904, and allowing five 

 bushels for each, 4,760,020 bushels ; and for seed at one and a half 

 bushels per acre 1,173,173 bushels = 5,933,193 ; leaves for export 

 6,761,668 bushels. More than sufficient to supply the consump- 

 tion of the whole of the Eastern States. 



Were the population of Lower Canada to consume flour at the 

 given rate, it would require 



Bushels. 



890,261 at five hushels each .... 4,451,305 

 Seed ... ... 640,000 



Grown 



5,091,305 

 3,075,868 



2,015,437 



Leaving a surplus of wheat in Canada 4,746,231 bushels, or at 

 four and a half bushels for each, equal to 1,054,718 barrels of 

 flour. 



