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1860 Agricultural

1860 Agricultural

Database Description

The agriculture schedule was a supplemental schedule to the federal census, and exists for the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census years. Farmers were required to provide information about property ownership, what they grew, the numbers of animals they owned, etc.

The schedules vary from one year to the next but generally include specific information about animals, crops, products, etc. The 1880 schedule asks for the most specific information, but most of the following is requested all years:
- acres of improved and unimproved land
- cash value of the farm
- value of farming implements and machinery
- livestock in numbers (horses; asses and mules; milch cows; working oxen; other cattle; sheep; swine; chickens)
- value of livestock
- produce in bushels or pounds (wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, rice, tobacco, ginned cotton, wool, peas & beans, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, barley, buckwheat, hay, clover seed, other grass seeds, hops, both dew rotted and water rotted hemp, flax, flaxseed, silk cocoons)
- processed products including wine, butter, cheese, maple sugar, cane sugar, molasses, beeswax, and honey
- values of orchard products; produce of market gardens; homemade manufactures; animals slaughtered

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List of People in 1860 Agricultural

Items 1 - 40 of 3618
Items 1 - 40 of 3618