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THE CULTIVATOR. 
June 
in each of the counties of Albany, Allegany, Cayuga, 
Chautauque, Erie, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, 
Ontario, Seneca, St. Lawrence and Steuben, 16. 
From 16,232 acres devoted to the raising of beans, 
the aggregate number of bushels produced was 162,188, 
v an average of 10 bushels per acre. In the town of 
Westfield, Richmond county, from 2£ acres 2284 bushels 
were produced, being an average of 114 bushels per 
acre; in the ninth ward of the city of Brooklyn, 1960 
bushels were raised from 19| aere3, being an average 
of 100 bushels per acre; in the town of Newtown, 
Queens county, the average was 91; in the county of 
Westchester 20; and in the counties of Cayuga and 
Chautauque, 15 and upwards. 
From 192,504 acres sown with barley, the aggregate 
number of bushels raised during the year preceding, is 
returned at 3,108,705, exceeding by 610,535 bushels the 
crop of 1840, and averaging 16 bushels per acre. From 
11 acres in the county of Kings, 360 bushels were raised, 
being an average of nearly 33 bushels to the acre. In 
county of Schoharie the average return exceeded 22 
bushels to the acre; in the county of Suffolk, 44bushels; 
in the county of Richmond, 25; in each of the counties 
of Onondaga and Westchester, 20; in each of the coun¬ 
ties of Madison, Monroe, Niagara, and Ontario, 19; in 
each of the counties of Cortland, Oneida, and Schenec¬ 
tady, 18; in each of the counties of Cayuga and Chau¬ 
tauque, 17|; and in each of the counties of Allegany. 
Chenango, Essex, Franklin, Rensselaer, and Seneca, 17. 
From 255,495| acres of buckwheat, the aggregate 
number of bushels raised was 3,634,679, exceeding 
12,390,241 bushels the quantity raised in 1840, being an 
average of upwards of 14 bushels to an acre. In one 
of the outer wards of New-York 300 bushels were 
obtained from 8^ acres, or an average of nearly 38 
bushels to the acre. In each of the counties of Onon¬ 
daga and Ontario, the average was 21; in Genesee, 
19; in each of the counties of Cayuga, Kings, Putnam, 
Richmond, Schenectady, Seneca, and Wayne, 18; in 
each of the counties of Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, 
Livingston, Montgomery, Niagara, Tompkins and Yates, 
17; in each of the counties of Albany, Chautauque, Cort¬ 
land, Queens, Rensselaer, Steuben, Tioga, and West¬ 
chester, 16; and in each of the counties of Allegany, 
Broome, Delaware, Dutchess, Erie, Herkimer, Mon¬ 
roe, Oneida, Orange, Schoharie, St. Lawrence, and 
Ulster, 15. 
From 15,322| acres devoted to the production of tur- 
neps, the aggregate number of bushels raised was 1,350,- 
332, being an average of 88 bushels per acre. In the 
county of Suffolk, however, the average is as high as 
240; and in one town of that county (Riverhead) the 
average yield was 293 bushels. In Kings county the 
average was 197; in each of the counties of Mon¬ 
roe and Queens, 180; in each of the counties of Niagara 
and Rockland, 155; in Ontario, 148; in Wayne, 146; 
in Richmond, 142; in each of the counties of Onondag-a 
and St. Lawrence, 140; in Otsego, 135; in Orleans, 126; 
in Cortland, 125: in Clinton, 122; in Essex, 121; in 
Cayuga, 120; in Steuben, 115; in each of the counties 
of Delaware, Oswego, Saratoga and Schenectady, 110; 
in each of the counties of Franklin and Jefferson, 108; 
in each of the counties of Chemung and Montgomery, 107; 
in each of the counties of Genesee and Seneca, 105; in 
Chautauque, 104; in Wyoming, 103; in Livingston, 99; 
in Allegany, 98; in each of the counties of Tioga and 
Warren, 95; in Washington, 92; and in each of the 
counties of Cattaraugus, Lewis and Schoharie, 90. 
From 46,089 acres of flax, the average number of lbs. 
produced was 2,897,062£, or an average of 62 ^ pounds 
to the acre. In the town of Islip, Suffolk county, 120 
pounds were produced from one quarter of an acre; in 
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, 360 pounds from five- 
eighths of an acre; in the towns of Amenia and Rhine- 
beck, in the same county, an avex-age of 350 pounds 
per acre is returned; in Pleasant-Valley, 235, and in 
Clinton, 275. The average product in the county is 
237 pounds per acre. In Jefferson county the average 
is 190; in Columbia, 187; in each of the counties of 
Chautauque and Chenango, 180; in each of the counties 
of Lewis, Queens and Washington, 175; in each of the 
counties of Orange and Ulstei*, 165; in Essex, 164; in 
each of the counties of Clinton, Cortland, Franklin, 
Oneida, Putnam and Rensselaer, 150; in each of the 
counties of Oswego, Sullivan and Westchester, 140; in 
Warren, 139; in Delaware and St. Lawrence, 135; in 
Broome, 132; and in each of the counties of Greene, 
Hamilton, Monroe, Onondaga, Richmond, Saratoga, 
Steuben, Tioga and Wyoming, 100 and upwards. 
The aggregate number of heads of neat cattle in the 
State is 2,072,330, being an average of upwards of 35,- 
000 to each county, of which there are nearly 86,000 in 
the county of Jefferson; 85,464 in the county of Oneida; 
neai'ly 78,000 in the county of St. Lawrence; 66,885 in 
the county of Chautauque; 63,745 in the county of Che¬ 
nango; 62,555 in the county of Delaware; 61,706 in 
the county of Otsego; 59,712 in the county of Oi’ange; 
57,506 in the county of Erie ; 55,482 in the county of 
Steuben; 53,440 in the county of Herkimer; nearly 52,- 
000 in the county of Allegany; 49,498 in the county of 
Onondaga; 47,258 in the county of Dutchess; 45,256 in 
the county of Cattaraugus; 45,216 in the county of Ma¬ 
dison; 43,527 in the county of Washington; 41,584 in 
the county of Cayuga; and 41,300 in the county of Os¬ 
wego. The number of neat cattle under one year old 
is 334,456, and the number over one year old is 1,709,- 
479. The aggregate number of neat cattle is less by 
about 130,000 than in 1840. 
The aggregate number of cows milked is returned at 
999,490, or an average of nearly 17,000 to each county. 
The aggregate number of pounds of butter made during 
the year was 79,501,733^, or an average of about 1,350,- 
000 to each county, or 79^ pounds to each cow milked; 
while the aggregate number of pounds of cheese is re¬ 
turned at 36,744.976, being an average of 622,796 pounds 
to each county, or about 36 pounds to each cow milked. 
In the county of Oneida, the number of cows milked is 
stated at 47,713; from which 3,876,276 pounds of but¬ 
ter, and 3,277,750 pounds of cheese were made, or an 
average of upwards of 80 pounds of the former and 68 
of the latter. In the county of Orange, from 42,256 
cows milked 4,108,840 pounds of butter were obtained, 
being an average of 97 pounds to each. In the county 
of Jefferson, from 41,360 cows, 3,080,767 pounds of but¬ 
ter and 2,802,314 of cheese were obtained; averaging 
74 pounds of the former and nearly 70 of the latter. In 
the county of Kings, the average number of pounds of 
butter made from 'each cow milked was 110; in the 
counties of Delaware and Chenango, 100; in each of 
the counties of Putnam, Sullivan and Tompkins, 95; in 
each of the counties of Cortland, Greene, Onondaga, 
Schenectady, Schoharie, Seneca, Wayne and Yates, 90; 
in Livingston, 85; and in each of the counties of 
Dutchess, Ontario, Saratoga, Steuben, Tioga, Warren, 
and Washington, 80. 
In the county of Herkimer, 8,208,796 pounds of cheese 
were manufactured from the milk of 36,255 cows, being 
an average of 226 pounds to each; in the town of Fair- 
field, in the same county, 1,355,967 pounds were manu¬ 
factured from the milk of 3,910 cows, being an average 
of nearly 350 pounds. In the county of Madison, 2,022,- 
855 pounds were obtained from 21,513 cows, being an 
average of 90 pounds; and in the county of Lewis, 
1,420,368 pounds from 18,024 cows, or an average of 80 
pounds. In the county of Otsego, the average exceeds 
50 pounds. 
The aggregate number of horses in the State is 505,- 
155, being an increase of over 29,000 since 1840. In 
Oneida county there are 17,303; Onondaga, 16,968; in 
Monroe, 16,811; in Jefferson, 16,397; in Otsego, 14,- 
183; in Cayuga, 13,922; in Erie, 13,527; in St. Law¬ 
rence, 13,470; in New-York, 13,346; in Steuben, 12,- 
310; in Wayne, 12,258 ; in Madison, 11,774; in Dutch¬ 
ess, 11,342; in Tompkins, 11,191; in Washington, 11,- 
115; and in each of the counties of Albany, Allegany, 
Chautauque, Chenango, Genesee, Herkimer, Livingston, 
Orange, Rensselaer and Saratoga, 10,000 and upwards. 
The aggregate number of hogs returned is 1,584,344, 
or an. average of nearly 27,000 to each county. In 
Dutchess county there are 66,828; in Orange, 57,265; 
in Columbia, 54,477; in Jefferson, 53,068; in Ononda¬ 
ga, 52,907; in Monroe, 48,493; in Niagara, 45,723; in 
