9. The estimates for poultry, feathers, milk, and eggs, of which arti cles no returns are found in the census tables of 1850, may seem to many extravagant; but the gross amount is equal to an average of only some twelve or fifteen dollars to each farming establishment in the United States, and is undoubtedly very considerably within the truth.

10. Too high an importance has been sometimes attached to the residuum of crops as an integral part of the agricultural wealth of the United States. In official tables heretofore published, the value of such portions of the produce of the field and forest as are not susceptible, in the usual course of trade, of a transfer to market, and must be consumed on the farm, has been given at one hundred millions of dollars. But it should be remembered that by far the greater part of this value has been already expressed in that of live stock, by which nearly the whole of it is consumed. It would obviously answer no good purpose to give prominence to what has been thus disposed of as an independent item in our annual productions. But straw, corn-husks, and some other substances which come under this classification, are extensively used in the minor manufactures of the country, and will bear the valuation assigned to them in the table.

The following statements show the number of manufacturing establishments in the United States, the amount of raw materials used, the capital invested, and the total value of products, according to the census of 1850.

NOTE. The chief production of California is gold.

The amounts set opposite those States marked with a star are not official, and the revision of the table now going on in the Census Office may slightly vary them; but the increase or dimunition will not be so considerable as to affect, in a material manner, the deductions which it is our purpose to draw from the statement. The aggregate of the above table added to the total productions of agriculture for the past year, and the value of home manufactures, given in another part of the census statistics, will give us a condensed view of the total money value of the productions of industry, including all interests, for the year 1852. The statement is as follows:

Productions of agriculture..

Productions of general industry, 1850.

Increase of productions of general industry in 1852..

$1,769,512,642

1,030,000,000

103,000,000

Home manufactures, 1850*.

Increase of home manufactures, 1852..

Total value of productions of industry, including all enumerated interests..

$27,500,000

2,750,000

2,932,762,642

Were it practicable to bring within the scope of a general system of statistical inquiry, like that of the late census, every variety of occupation leading to valuable results, it cannot be doubted that this grand aggregate of production in the United States would appear much larger than in the foregoing statement. Divided by the number of inhabitants, free and slave, it gives $126 as the average annual production of each person. If we estimate the proportion of adult males as one to four of the whole population, the annual average production of each is shown to be $504.

Statement exhibiting the value of domestic produce and manufacture exported annually from 1821 to 1852, and also the value per cupita during the same period.

* Employed in manufactures-613,000 males, 214,000 females.

Exports of domestic produce for several years, with amount to each individual.

The following table has never been published; it shows that the exports have doubled, per capita, with an increase of the population of about two hundred and forty per cent:

Statement exhibiting the value of foreign merchandise imported, re-exported, and consumed, annually, from 1821 to 1851, inclusive, and also the estimated population and rate of consumption, per capita, during the same period.

Total imports consumed in the United States for several years, with amount