This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...relative increase. Of this total, in I860, she produced 9,671,931 pounds--seven eighths of the whole--Vermont yielding about one half of the remainder, or 638,677 pounds. It will be seen by the Table of Brewing, hereafter given, that New York must have exported large quantities of hops to other States, --as States like ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...relative increase. Of this total, in I860, she produced 9,671,931 pounds--seven eighths of the whole--Vermont yielding about one half of the remainder, or 638,677 pounds. It will be seen by the Table of Brewing, hereafter given, that New York must have exported large quantities of hops to other States, --as States like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Wisconsin, which brewed a consider, able amount of ale or beer, grew very little hops. The Superintendent of the Keport says, "In this country, as in England, the cultivation of hops is confined to a comparatively small area. New York raises over eight tenths of all the hops produced in the United States; and in this State the bulk of the crop is raised in a few counties. The County of Otsego produces 3,507,069 pounds; Madison, 1,520,657 pounds; Schoharie, 1,441,648 pounds; Oneida, 838,460 pounds; Herkimer, 707,910 pounds; Montgomery, 515,584, pounds." The growth of barley in New York is not less important than hops--and as they are grown for, and go together in the manufacture of malt liquor, the statistics of the former will not be without their instructiveness. In 1840 the entire crop of the Union amounted to 4,161,504 bushels, of which the State of Agriculture of the United States in 1860; Compiled from the Origi. nal Heturns of the Eighth Census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. By Joseph G. C. Kennedy, Superintendent of Census. Washington Government Printing Office, 1864. New York furnished 2,520,0(38--more than three fifths of the amount--the remaining 1,641,436 bushels being chiefly divided between Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Hampshire, in the order given. In 1850 the entire crop was 5,167,015, showing an ...
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