From 1850 to 1860 there were but three articles showing absolute loss: rice, sugar, and home-made products.
From 1850 to 1860 there were eight articles of thirty-seven enumerated which did not keep pace with population: sheep, swine, oats, rice, wool, maple sugar, sugar,
home-made products.
From 1860 to 1870 there were eighteen articles of the thirty-seven showing an absolute loss, namely: neat cattle, mules, swine, rye, corn, rice, tobacco, cotton, buckwheat.
sweet potatoes, pease and beans, clover-seed, grass-seed, hemp, sugar, maple sugar, honey, home-made products.
From 1866 to 1870 there were twenty-four articles of thirty-seven enumerated which did not keep pace with population; six, in addition to those named, showing a
loss: acres in farms, improved acres, horses, cheese, butter, and market gardens.

Average number of acres cared for by one man, 32; about 3, 120,000 farmers or 6, 400,000 persons.

1860.