GROWTH IN THIRTY YEARS.
This is an increase in annual product of 630,948,622 pounds in thirty years, or 212,057,523 pounds more than double the amount, in 1880, that was manufactured in 1850. History records no parallel to this anywhere on the face of the globe.
Let us put some of these figures into tabular form. We had in
| Cows | Inhabitants | |||
| 1880 | 12,443,120 | to | 50,155,783 | |
| 1850 | 6,385,094 | to | 23,191,876 | |
| —————— | ————— | |||
| Increase in 30 years | 6,058,026 | 26,963,907 |
We did not quite double the number of cows, but considerably more than doubled the population. The number of inhabitants was, in
| 1850 | 3.63 | per cow | |||
| 1880 | 4.03 | " |
The increase in 30 years is .40 inhabitant to each cow. That is to say, the population, as compared with the number of cows, was .40 larger in 1880 than it was in 1850.
PRODUCT PER COW AND PER CAPITA.
And now let us compare the product per cow and per capita. It was in
| Lbs. per cow | Lbs. per capita | |||
| 1850 | 418,881,199 lbs., | or 65.77 | or 18.06 | |
| 1880 | 1,049,829,921 lbs., | or 84.37 | or 20.93 | |
| —— | —— | |||
| Increase in 30 years | 18.60 | 2.87 |