Missouri Agricultural Schedules, 7th United States Census, 1850 [microform].

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Missouri Agricultural Schedules, 7th United States Census, 1850 [microform].

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Census Schedules were compiled by assistant marshals of the federal government and submitted to the Secretary of the Interior to determine and evaluate the utilizaiton of farmland in Missouri. Each return includes names of county , and frequently, other legal subdivisions (e.g. cities, towns, townships, precincts an districts). Entries for esach farm concerning the activities of the previous year include: name of owner, agent or manager; number of acres of improved and unimproved land; valuations of farm, farm implements and machinery, livestock, orchard products, market garden produce, homemade manufactures and slaughtered animals; number of livestock (i.e., horses, asses and mules, milk cows, working oxen, other cattle, sheep, swine); quantity of produce (i.e., bushels of wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, peas, beans, Irish potatoes, barley, buckwheat, clover seed, other grass seed, flax seeds; pounds of rice, tobacco, wool, butter, cheese, hops, flaax, silk cocoons, maple sugar, cane sugar, beeswax and honey; tons of hay and dew and water rotted hemp; bales of 400 pound ginned cotton; gallons of wine and molasses). Returns also include name and certification of assistant marshal; date of census and recapitulation of totals.

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