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| 22,634,211 | 23,424,474 | 32,760,434 | 57,000,000 Missouri | 17,332,524 | 19,725,146 | 27,148,608 | Arkansas | 4,846,632 | 6,039,450 | 8,754,204 | Michigan | 2,277,039 | 3,058,090 | 3,592,482 | Florida Territory| 898,074 | 694,205 | 838,667 | Wisconsin | 379,359 | 521,244 | 750,775 | Iowa T. | 1,406,241 | 1,547,215 | 2,128,416 | D. of Columbia | 39,485 | 43,725 | 47,837 | +-------------+-------------+-------------+------------- Total | 377,531,875 | 387,380,185 | 494,618,306 | 500,000,000 -----------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------- The Indian corn crop of 1850, for the whole of the United States, is returned as over 500 million bushels, a gain of about 40 millions on that of 1840. I give below the quantities of Indian corn and meal which were exported from the United States in the following years:-- Corn, Bushels. Meal, Bushels. Value. Dolls. 1790 1,713,241 1794 1,505,977 241,570 1798 1,218,231 211,694 1802 1,633,283 566,816 1806 1,064,263 108,342 1,286,000 1810 1,054,252 86,744 1,138,000 1814 61,284 26,438 170,000 1818 1,075,190 120,029 2,335,405 1822 509,098 148,288 900,656 1826 505,381 158,652 1,007,321 1829 897,656 173,775 974,535 1833 437,174 146,678 871,814 --(_Pitkin's Statistics of the United Stales, and Seybert's Statistical Annals_.) _System of culture pursued in the United States_.--Maize, the _corn, par excellence_, of America, is grown in every State in the Union. Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, and Indiana, are in their order the greatest producers of this grain. In Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, New York, Maryland, Arkansas, and the New England States, it appears to be a very favorite crop. In Massachusetts, the most Northern and least favorable State on that account, being cold, a fair proportion is grown, the aggregate produce being greater there than in any of the grains, except oats; more, indeed, t
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