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STATISTICS OE WHEAT CULTrEE. 



2nd. States growing 

 lion "bushels. 



Miclijgan 



"Winconsin 



Maryland 



Missouri 



Kentucky 



IS". Carolina 



Tennessee 



Xew Jersey 



Iowa 



Georgia 



South Carolina 



over one million and less tlian 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. Bust, 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. 

 Popnlation, 23,2i6,301. Bushels per head, 4-33. 



Increase 



-U. States, 1839 

 1849 



84,823,272 bushels 

 100,503,896 „ 



Or 18-49 per cent, in ten years. 



Upper Canada, 1841 

 1851 



15,680,627 



3,221,991 „ 

 12,692,825 „ 



),470,861 



Bush, per head. 

 3-50 

 1-08 

 106 



Popu- 



Or nearly quadrupling itself in ten years. 



Bushels. Population. 



Pr. Ed. Island, 1847 219,787 62,678 



K"ewfoundland, 1850 297,157 276,117 



New Brunswick, 1850 206,635 193,800 



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 bushels each . . . . 4,451,305 

 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. 



