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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS FOR 1840.
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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES,

ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF THE YEAR 1840.


STATES
AND TERRITORIES
.

||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|No. of bushels of potatoes.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|Number of tons of hay.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|Tons of hemp and flax.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|No. of pounds of tobacco.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|No. of pounds of rice.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|No. of pounds of cotton.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|Pounds of sugar made.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|Value of the products of
the dairy
.
||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|Value of the products of
the orchard
.
||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|Gallons of wine made.||style="border-right:1px solid black;"|Value of lumber produced.













Maine 10,392,280 691,053 38 238,230 $1,493,713 $148,249 2,236 $1,808,683
New Hampshire 6,234,901 496,847 53,040 115 406 1,097,398 1,585,955 220,056 94 401,358
Vermont 8,206,784 734,047 24 585 4,233 4,220,541 4,892,097 1,109,387 100 366,146
Massachusetts 5,385,652 569,425 23,132 64,955 1,741 579,227 2,273,219 389,177 1,905 476,845
Rhode Island 904,773 63,417 lb. 383 307 358 50 218,922 32,098 745 44,455
Connecticut 3,414,227 426,160 lb. 147,481 471,657 17,388 51,764 1,365,653 302,953 5,243 147,831
New York 30,000,508 3,160,916 763 6,567 2,103 10,093,991 10,497,032 1,732,357 14,700 3,788,173
New Jersey 2,074,118 326,496 33,710 1,992 1,966 56 1,315,676 562,863 9,416 297,856
Pennsylvania 8,626,923 1,199,963 170,760 350,861 278,939 1,555,977 2,271,420 554,957 19,162 566,607
Delaware 200,712 21,880 602 272 347 1,442 232,446 25,914 529 5,562
Maryland 1,058,919 110,836 34 18,916,012 5,673 2,290 36,266 446,558 114,339 7,623 230,985
Virginia 2,873,470 288,740 92,123 74,157,841 2,610 10,767,451 3,188 1,530,541 1,454,861 668,921 37,233 516,412
North Carolina
South Carolina 2,697,713 20,008 35 51,518 59,929,671 148,907,880 2,210 30,000 577,849 52,276 643 504,884
Georgia 1,184,388 9,264 1,787 164,551 12,199,412 124,322,755 3,208 231,140 552,805 135,446 6,319 106,066
Ohio 5,600,566 1,024,803 252,520 6,023,309 4,316 6,909,257 1,701,602 461,191 161,844 300,242
Kentucky
Tennessee 2,373,034 30,612 45,053 26,542,448 7,729 128,250,308 1,163 251,745 930,603 366,787 653 200,266
Louisiana 845,935 36,308 120,174 3,604,534 87,640,185 317 249,937,720 150,818 11,869 2,884 111,405
Alabama 1,560,700 13,933 5 214,307 108,181 240,379,669 1,351 10,135 197,449 33,161 11,253 233,828
Mississippi 1,538,628 171 16 83,451 273,190 289,838,818 85 70 389,177 41,119 12 152,094
Missouri 684,491 44,870 20,071 8,450,727 50 360,338 70 252,560 69,230 76,305 22 68,150
Indiana 1,548,190 191,158 97,657 1,821,406 180 379 3,720,186 751,441 90,324 3,495 213,471
Illinois 1,956,887 156,442 50,326 415,706 28,421 199,989 1,171 394,446 433,873 118,638 471 198,070
Michigan
Arkansas 290,387 579 1,039 143,889 927 23,887,192 90 2,535 34,577 7,454 161,685
Florida Territory
Wisconsin Territory
Iowa Territory 234,063 17,953 313 12,676 41,450 23,609 50 50,305
District of Colombia 12,035 1,231 55,550 576 75,566 3,507 25

31,400 barrels of tar, pitch, turpentine, and rosin. 16,500 tons of pot and pearl ashes, principally in N. York, Ohio, and Indiana. 1,093,100 pounds of hops, and 698,000 pounds of wax.