Show THE CENSUS reports of 1880 furnish furn-ish in regard to the agricultural interests in-terests of the United States some interesting information concerning the relative profits arising from this great industry in the various sections sec-tions of the country The highest productiveness appears to be in the Pacific states where 110667 persons engaged in agriculture in 1879 produced pro-duced staples worth 75811422 or S685to each person engaged in the business The next highest in the list are the four middle states New York New Jersey Pennsylvania and Delaware where 755635 persons per-sons raised crops valued at 6343 757272 or S454 to each person The Mississippi valley states come next with 2346544 persons producing crops worth 913960652 or 389 to each man The poor soil and worse climate of the New England states so cut down their products that 3C1815 farm workers produce only 3103343566 or 342 to each But the worse showing is from the South In that section 4 079945 farm workers produced in that year crops valuedat only 756 391309 or only 180 to each While these figures are from the census they may not be wholly accurate The difference shown by these fig ures though are startling That the Pacific States should produce more than 50 per cent more in proportion i pro-portion to the labor employed than therich and highly cultivated Middle Mid-dle States 296 for each worker more than those in the rich and productive Mississippi valley states I and 500 each more than the farmers farm-ers in the South will astonish everyone every-one The Southern man will be very loth to admit that the farmers amid the rocky and sterile hills of New England produce twice as much per man as his own sectionand the Western farmers will scare y credit that they only produce 47 each more than the farmers of New England |