INTRODUCTION. 
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the average for all the States is 19, and for the United States and Terri- 
tories 11. The ratio for England was, in 1851, 332, and is now proba- 
bly about 450 ; that for the entire globe about 23. The number of fami- 
lies in North Carolina is 205,970 ; which gives 5.20 persons to a family. 
The number of dwellings is 202,804 ; persons to a dwelling, 5.29. The 
corresponding figures for New York are 898,722-4.88, and 688,559-6.37. 
Industries .— More than three-fourths of the population of the State 
are engaged in agriculture ; one-seventh in professional and personal ser- 
vices ; one-eighteenth in manufacturing, mining and mechanical opera- 
tions, and one thirty-fifth in trade and transportation ; or, to give the 
numbers more exactly, 
Engaged in all classes of occupations, 
351,299 
“ in agriculture, 
269,238 
“ in professions, &c., 
51,290 
“ in manufactures, &c., 
20,592 
“ in trade, &e., 
10,179 
Agriculture .— The total number of acres in the State is 32,450,560. 
Of these 19,835.410 are included in farms ; 5,258,742 acres being under 
-cultivation, and 14,576,668 unimproved. 
|The totol number of farms is 93,565 • the average size, 212 acres. 
The number of farms 
under 3 acres, is 
293 
a u 
a 
between 3 and 
10 acres, 
is 
6,744 
a u 
a 
a 
10 and 
20 
a 
is 
14,257 
u a 
o; 
u 
20 and 
50 
a 
is 
35,280 
a a 
u 
u 
50 and 
100 
a 
is 
22,167 
u u 
a 
a 
100 and 
500 
a 
is 
13,819 
a 
u 
u 
500 and 
1000 
a 
is 
889 
u a 
u 
over 
1000 
a 
is 
116 
It will be observed that nearly nine-tenths of them contain less than 
100 acres. 
The principal agricultural products are, in the order of their money 
value, as follows, viz : 
Indian corn, 
Cotton, 
Wheat, 
Oats, 
18,454,215 bushels. 
144,935 bales. 
2,859,879 bushels. 
3,220,105 « 
