4,286,131 305,191 14.04
Maryland 4,494,681 583,031 7.71
Missouri 2,981,652 682,043 4.38
Kentucky 2,140,822 982,405 2.15
North Carolina 2,130,102 868,903 2.45
Tennessee 1,619,381 1,002,525 1.61
New Jersey 1,601,190 481,555 3.27
Iowa 1,530,581 192,214 7.96
Georgia 1,088,534 905,999 1.21
South Carolina 1,066,277 668,507 1.60
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Total 27,865,240 7,078,131 3.93
3rd. The remaining States and territories.
2,791,470 4,466,246 0.63
Total wheat crop in the United States, 100,503,899 bushels.
Population, 23,246,301. Bushels per head, 4.33.
Increase:--U. States, 1839 84,823,272 bushels
" 1849 100,503,896 "
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15,680,627
Or 18.49 per cent. in ten years.
Upper Canada, 1841 3,221,991 "
" 1851 12,692,825 "
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9,470,861
Or nearly quadrupling itself in ten years.
Bushels. Population. Bush. per head.
Pr. Ed. Island 1847 219,787 62,678 3.50
Newfoundland 1850 297,157 276,117 1.08
New Brunswick 1850 206,635 193,800 1.06
The Eastern States in 1849 raised 1,090,896 bushels. Population
2,668,106, or 0.41 each.
The population of Upper Canada is 952,904, and allowing five bushels
for each, 4,760,020 bushels; and for seed at one and a half bushels
per acre 1,173,173 bushels = 5,933,193; leaves for export 6,761,668
bushels. More than sufficient to supply the consumption of the whole
of the Eastern States.
"Were the population of Lower Canada to consume flour at the given
rate, it would require--
Bushels.
890,261 at five bushels each 4,451,305
Seed 640,000
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5,091,305
Grown 3,075,868
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