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due principally, as before remarked, to the increased demand for barley for malting purposes, and the 

 high price which, relatively to other crops, and to the expense of its cultivation, it commands in market. 

 The following table shows the amount of barley raised in the New England States in I860 as 

 compared with 1 850 : 



I860. 1850. 



Connecticut 20, 813 19, 090 



Massachusetts 134,891 112,385 



Vermont 79, 211 42, 150 



Rhode Island 40, 993 18, 875 



New Hampshire 121, 103 70, 256 



Maine.. 802,108 151,731 



1,199,119 414,496 



It will be seen that the crop has increased in every one of the New England States. In the ag 

 gregate there was nearly three times as much raised in 1860 as in 1850. The greatest increase is in 

 Maine. More than five times as much was raised in this State in 1860 as in 1850. 



The following table shows the amount of barley raised in the middle States in 1860 as compared 

 with 1850: 



I860. 1850. 



New York 4, 186, G67 3, 585, 059 



Pennsylvania 530, 716 165, 584 



New Jersey 21, 9 1 5 6, 492 



Delaware 3, 646 56 



Maryland 17, 350 745 



District of Columbia .. 175 75 



4,753,469 3,758,011 



The production of barley in each of the middle States has increased since 1850; but the increase 

 is by no means equal to that in the New England States. New York produces over 85 per cent, of all 

 the barley raised in the middle States. The increased per cent., however, in this State has been far 

 less than in the other States. This, however, is due to the fact that, as compared with other States, 

 her barley crop was so large in 1850. She produced over half a million bushels more barley in 1860 

 than in 1850, which is nearly as much as the total crop in the other middle States. 



Pennsylvania, which raised thirteen million bushels of wheat in 1860, while New York raised only 

 eight and a half million bushels, and twenty-eight million bushels of Indian corn to twenty million 

 bushels in New York, produces only a little more than half a million bushels of barley, while New York 

 produces over four million bushels. 



The following table shows the amount of barley raised in the western States in 1860 as compared 

 with 1850 : 



I860. 18oO. 



Illinois 1,036,338 110,795 



Indiana 382, 245 45, 483 



Iowa 467, 103 25, 093 



Kansas 4, 716 



Kentucky 270, 685 95, 343 



Michigan 307, 868 75, 249 



Minnesota 109, 668 1, 216 



Missouri 228, 502 9, 631 



Ohio 1 , 663, S6S 354, 358 



Nebraska 1, 108 



4, 472, 101 717, 168 



