No 144. 



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poses Schoharie county is as old a county, and yet removed from 

 those influences, while the statistics show a slight decrease in the 

 amount of improved lands in that county, they show a steady 

 increase in the aggregate of productions for the ten years under 

 consideration. 



I have here, sir, a table which I have prepared from the United 

 State census of 18 iO, the New- York State census of 1845, and 

 the United States census of 1850— a table of the rates of varia- 

 tion of the principal agricultural productions of the State for the 

 period of ten years. Of the three columns, the first shows the 

 ratio per cent of increase or decrease on the first five years, from 

 1810 to 1845. The second shows the same thing for the next five 

 years, i e. from 1845 to 1850, while the last shows the ratio on 

 the ten years from 1840 to 1850. 



Improved lands,, 



Hay, 



Wheat, , 



Kye, 



Corn,. 



Oats, , 



Buckwheat, . . .. . 



Barley, 



Potatoes, , 



Horses,. 



Asses and mules. 



Cows, , , 



Butter, 



Cheese, 



Sheep, 



Wool, 



Hops, 



MitpJe sugar,.. . 

 Swine, 



From this table it will be seen that the production of hay and 

 the great cereal staples is increasing in a much faster ratio than 

 that of improved lands — that wheat and rye, to a certain extent, 



