TABLES APPENDED TO CHAPTER XXV.

TABLE NO. 39.

SHOWING NUMBER OF ACRES OF IMPROVED LAND PER INDIVIDUAL ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURE.

  Improved land – 1820
(extrapolated). 		Improved land – 1840
(extrapolated). 		ACRES PER INDIVIDUAL. Increase, acres
1820. 1840.
State of New York ............ 5,436,213 11,061,831 21.9 24.3 2.4
Division II ............ 2,651,978 4,082,088 29.2 26.7 -2.5
Division III ............ 846,518 2,442,238 16.4 23.3 6.9
Subdivision II-A ............ 894,783 1,384,024 31.9 25.8 -6.1
Subdivision II-B ............ 1,757,195 2,698,061 27.9 26.1 -1.8
Subdivision III-A ............ 249,545 867,038 14.5 20.3 5.8
Subdivision III-B ............ 596,923 1,575,200 9.6 25.3 15.7

TABLE NO. 40.

STUDY OF THE INCREASE IN SIZE OF MANUFACTORIES.

  Total number of establishments (of the ten original classifications). Number of persons engaged in manufacturing – interpolated. Number of persons per establishment.
1821. 1835. 1821. 1835. 1821. 1835.
Division I ............ 387 59 12,202 39,722 31.5 673.3
Division II ............ 4,245 3,772 27,150 45,877 6.4 12.2
Division III ............ 2,185 2,512 9,228 24,361 4.2 9.7

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