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Neat Cattle.-Number in 1847, 18,265,334; increase and value of cattle sold for beef, $40,000,000.

Swine.-Number in 1847, 35,000,000; two-thirds slaughtered annually, say 23,000,000, valued at $5 each animal, $115,000,000.

Horses, Mules and Asses.-Number in 1847, 5,289,516; value of increase, (labor not estimated,) $7,934,250.

Poultry. Value in 1840, $9,344,410; increase 22 per cent., $2,055,770; total, $11,499,180.

Produce of the Dairy.-Value in 1840, $33,787,008; increase 22 per cent., $7,433,141; total, $41,220,149.

Total amount of live stock and its products, $246,054,579.

Products of the Forest-Including timber, furs, skins, game, &c., $21,599,628; fire wood, 25,000,000 cords, at $1.50 per cord, $37,500,000; total, $59,099,628. Products of the Fisheries-Including whale, cod, mackarel, and all other fisheries, $17,069,262.

Capital-Employed in commerce, trade and internal transportation, $390,972,423; profits at 6 per cent., $23,458,345.

Manufacture-Value of, $550,000,000.

Mines-Products of, including iron, lead, gold, silver, marble, granite, coal, &c., $74,170,500.

Banking and Insurance-Bank capital, $208,216,000; capital of insurance companies not known; profits of, $25,000,000.

Money Loaned at Interest-Profits of, $25,000,000.

Rentals Of houses and lands, $50,000,000.

Professions-Profits of, $50,000,000.

Grand total of the value of the products of labor and capital in the United States, $1,985,293,535.

Table,* exhibiting the population and property (real and personal) of each State and Territory in the United States, in 1847.

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Total amount of property, real and personal, of each state of

the Union$400 per head.

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$240,000,000

120,000,000

Massachusetts

850,000

340,000,000

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* See page 109 for statistics of population, and where this table appropriately be.

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In France the annual production of every kind of grain, at several periods, is given as follows:

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The total value of the annual product of grain of different kinds raised in France is 2,055,469,836 francs. (The franc is equal to 18-6 cts., or 5 francs equal 93 cents.)

The foreign wheat imported into France in 1846 was 4,845,552 hectolitres, valued at 115,568,981 francs. In nine months of 1847, it was 8,031,023 hectolitres valued at 289,116,000 francs.

In the statistical tables of France for 1848, we find the following estimate of the quantity and value of the wheat produced in Europe:

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The increase or multiplication of the seed of grain has been a subject of inquiry. The following results have been gathered principally from official docu

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In Sweden and Norway, the increase of seed is stated at 4 for 1.

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Tuscany

10

France
Lucca

7

15

Italy
Malta

10

22

In the United States the average increase of wheat is 8-Indian corn 10.

A hectolitre is 22 gallons or 2 bushels, and a litre 1 pints.

If, on this subject, we consult the writers of antiquity, we have, on the authority of the most distinguished of them, results so immense, as to exceed very far the increase of the present day.

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The following table comprises from the latest official tables, a correct exhibit of the number of banks, amount of bank capital, circulation and specie in each of the states. A few only are estimates, and these from correct data.

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A new bank has lately gone into operation at Galveston, Texas, with a capital of $300,000.

From the same source we have also a list of the banking capital in all the cities which possess over one million of capital each.

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The amounts of banking capital above stated are by no means indicative of the relative wealth or of business done at the several places named. There are several cities and towns not mentioned where there is a large export and import trade, and much wealth. Among these, we may especially mention Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis, Brooklyn, Charlestown, Mass., Norfolk, Nantucket, and New London. The amount of bank capital at Mobile is very small, while its exports are equal to ten millions annually. The 28 cities named above, it will be observed, have about two-thirds of the banking capital of the union;

1,475,000

and it may be added, that they have also continually in their vaults a still larger proportion of the specie in the country. While the country banks enjoy the largest share of the circulation, in proportion to their capital, the city banks, it is well known, have much the greatest proportion of deposits, which are equally a source of profit and advantage with the circulation.

From the preceding tables, it appears that the circulation of bank notes in the United States on the 1st January, 1848, was $209,831,000.

In 1830, the circulation was $61,323,898.

On the 1st January, 1840, it was $116,572,970. In 1843, it had sunk to $58,563,688.

In addition to the foregoing general statement, we are enabled to give some statistics of more recent date. We hope to have special returns hereafter from every state.

The report of the comptroller of the State of New York exhibits the condition of the banks of that state in 1847, to be as follows:

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The situation of the New Orleans banks for 1847, is shown in the report of

the board of commerce of that city:

On the 25th day of December of the said year, the aggregate

circulation of those banks amounted to

Their deposits to

Other liabilities

Total

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