Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1869 — The Agricultural Report. [ARTICLE]

The Agricultural Report.

The following statistics are from the seventh annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture: ■ The value of cotton exports during the year 186* was—raw goods, *152,820,733; manufactured, *4,871,054. For .the year 1867 the figures were $201,47023, abfi *4,608,217118fi0, *191,806,565 and *10J)34,796. The value of bread-stuff exports, fioun and wheat, in 1868 was *7Q,046.187; ia 1867, *40,983168.; in The exports pf oormand.corn meql ip 1868 were *16,162,466; io 1867, *16,426,677; in 1866, *12,190,878, in 1860, *3,3114883. The production of sugar has beim as follows.: lb <864, 6,668 hhd.4: 15,500 in 18654.1,000ib 186 ff; 87,8*7.in 1887; 84,258 in 1868. The fallowing tabid exhibits the value of live stock in 1860,1868 and 1860, 'on 1 February 1 ofeachyear,f ■ Sthtos. inn#. • IKtN. , lHt». NS.SS'LWL »ia,W4,BW »4W1,3M ®iS' Miusaclinsette 13,737,744 111,314,ti.8(W.518 Khide Hand 3,(M3,<h4 - Coftndctfcat .. ' . -18.SSMK 7 84,687,141 New York... 103.856,2#6 166,567,069 183,766,349 18yta’.8W VUgiuia..... 85,430,360 35,148,572 37,705,568 N,.taroUn»'. ,31,130,805 ’ 26,052,456 24,434.747 8. Carolina.... 23,934,465 10,693,117 15,361,888 Alabama..,,. 43,411,711 21.126,883 27358.656w Texas.. 42,825.847 33,606,563 32,651,805 Arkansas..... 22,096.077 15,309,980 20,866,380 Tennessee... 60,211,427 38,708,709 53,186,562. W. Virginia.. 12,882,680 15,679,734 17.088,568 Kentucky... «f,B6a,ffl’ 40,401,619 49,189,4(8 Missouri .... 53,963,673 50.728,286 64,(00,717 Illinois 72,501,225 105,7W,764 120,689,917. Indiana 41,855,569 72,796,680 -T0,728-,2Bii MRS* US® Kansas 3,332,-150 9,962,811 12,902,800 Nebraska.... 1,123,771 -5,169.536 7,168,464 California.... 35,585,017 41.457,732

Since the organization of our Government, 80 years ago, a people of 8,000,000, of European extraction, have become 40,000,000, not altogether by natural increase, but in part by immigration, in a rippling stream at first, which has gathered volume until its current is equivalent tp a third of a million annually, and its total aggregation 8,000,000. It is one of the marvels of thc eventfUl nine years' Since 1860, that one-fourth of all the immigrants who have ever sought our shores have come during the mgbtftil civil war pr since its close. Two, -millions of human beings, two-thirds as many as fought the War of the revolution, have thus been added to our numbets sihee the taking of the fast census. During the past nine years the arrivals of immigrants makq an aggregate‘of 2,141,403—88fa545 from groat Britain (Ireland 890,032;) Germany, 616,268: British America, 87,602;,.China 46,681, Every quarter of the globe haS been represemted, even Africa and the isles of the Pacific. The German immigration has been large since the war, amounting- to 343,188, and .the total for Joni'" years past exceeds thfl aggregate ilimber'Millie Aim£<predous years. The Jariakit iaflwxjCronLGreat Britain wm ip 18fl6L4®»tthmi^ints; and Ift'il&MA-WdfaT Ireland was 69,977, in 1867. The greatest movement from Ger*> Ptafly was 12L- ‘ ■■■ . .. . ■ r