Note 46 — Chapter VII · COTTON SUPPLY AND WHITE LABOUR IN THE COTTON CLIMATE.
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Virginia, with 10,360,135 acres of improved land, produced, according to the last census returns,
35,254,319 bushels of corn,
56,803,227 pounds of tobacco.
Ohio, with 9,851,493 acres of improved land, produced
59,078,695 bushels of corn,
10,454,449 pounds of tobacco.
The aggregate value of these two products alone, at present New York prices, would be
Ohio $5,127,223,565
Virginia $3,564,639,385
Actual crops per acre, on the average, as returned by the marshals for 1849-50 (Census Compilation, p. 178):
Corn. Tobacco.
Ohio 36 bushels 730 pounds.
Virginia 18 ” 630 ”