An Abundant Way of Life

I found an additional agricultural schedule that was attached to the US Federal Census.

It lists the names of the farmers in a town and what they produced on their farms in the past year.

The amount of data was overwhelming. 

I have started with 1860, which is the first year this information was gathered at census time.   The information reported was for the year starting on July 10, 1959, and ending on July 10, 1860. 

 I have included images of the original documents..........

as usual....click on the images to make them larger...........

 

 I also organized the data into a more readable table format.......
The farmers are listed in alphabetical order.......

 

 I knew that our forefathers grew many things they needed.  After looking over these Ripley farms and what they produced, I have a better understanding of how truly self sufficient they were.  


There were 12 thousand 8 hundred and 30 POUNDS of butter produced in our town in a year!!!  I think that is amazing.

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