Agriculture of the United States in 1860: Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth CensusU.S. Government Printing Office, 1864 - 292 halaman |
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ACRES OF LAND AGRICULTURE ammonia Animals slaughtered Asses and mules bales of 400 Barley Beeswax Buckwheat bush bushels in 1860 bushels Oats butter Cane sugar Cash value cattle cent cheese chinery compared with 1850 Connecticut COUNTIES crop cultivation Delaware Dew rotted England exports farmers Farming implements Flax Flaxseed following table shows gallons Georgia Ginned cotton HEMP horses Illinois Improved increase Indian corn inhabitant Iowa Irish potatoes Jefferson Kentucky LIVE STOCK manufacture manure Maple molasses Maple sugar Milch cows Mississippi Missouri nearly Ohio oxen Pacific Peas and beans Pennsylvania plough pounds in 1860 prepared hemp produced proportion to population railroads raised Rhode Island sheep shows the amount shows the number Silk cocoons SLAVEHOLDERS AND SLAVES soil Sorghum molasses South Carolina southern superphosphate Sweet potatoes Swine Tennessee Territories tons Total Unimproved value of farms Vermont Virginia Washington Water rotted western wheat wine Wool York ཎྜ
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Halaman clxx - Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree ; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.* My father tauld me sae forty years sin', but I ne'er fand time to mind him.
Halaman xcii - Alabama Arkansas California Connecticut Delaware. Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri New Hampshire...
Halaman clxv - So great are their benefits that, if the entire cost of railroads between the Atlantic and western States had been levied on the farmers of the central west, their proprietors could have paid it and been immensely the gainers.
Halaman xxxiii - Society, in his sixth report on the "noxious and other insects of the State of New York...
Halaman 237 - S and under 4 4 and under 5 5 and under 10 10 and under 15 15 and under 20 20 and under 25 25 and under 30 30 and under 40...
Halaman xiii - for the better encouragement of the making of engines for the propagating of the staples of the Province...
Halaman cxxxvi - The grain merchant has been in all countries, but more particularly in this, the pioneer of commerce, whether we refer to the ocean or the inland trade, and not till he was established could other commercial adventurers find a foothold. The commercial history of the United States is based mainly on breadstuffs — staples always marketable at some quotation wherever the human family dwells. . . . ' ' Commencing at an early period with the scant products of the Atlantic States, the grain trade was...
Halaman cxxx - Virginia, where the feeding of cattle had been carried on lor many years in a manner peculiar to that locality, and which materially differed from the mode practiced in Pennsylvania or further north. The cattle were not housed nor sheltered, but simply fed twice a day in open lots of eight or ten or more acres each, with unhusked corn with the fodder, and followed by hogs to clean up the neglected grains and ears ; which practice was adopted here, and is still the almost universal method throughout...
Halaman xxvii - Originally the cotton was separated from the seed with the fingers, and afterwards there were several contrivances used, among them the employment of a long bow fitted with a number of strings, which, being vibrated by the blows of a wooden mallet while in contact with a bunch of cotton, shook the seed and dust from the mass. In 1742 M. Dubreuil, a wealthy planter of New Orleans, invented a cleaning-machine, which was so far successful as to give quite an impulse to the cotton culture in Louisiana,...
Halaman clvii - Chicago from Kansas and Nebraska via the Missouri river, the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad. As an outlet to the ocean for the grain trade of the west, the Mississippi river has almost ceased to be depended upon by merchants.