52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – 34a – Another Non-Population

Yesterday I wrote about the non-population schedule where my 3^rd gt-grandfather, William L. England, appeared in 1880.

But in 1850, 1860 and 1870 he was on a different non-population schedule: agriculture. Since I grew up on a farm, learning what livestock and crops my ancestors grew is fun for me.

This is a table showing what the agriculture schedules showed about him.

	1850	1860	1870
Township/Precinct	Fabius	Fabius	Coyote Valley
County	Davis	Davis	Lake
State	Iowa	Iowa	California
Improved Acres	50	110	40
Unimproved Acres	110	150	120
Land Value	$800	$2600	$400
Implements Value	$85	$100	$50
Horses	5	6	2
Milch Cows	4	8	2
Working Oxen	12
Other Cattle	3	21	2
Swine	20	26
Livestock Value	$405	$796	$300
Wheat bushels	30		300
Barley bushels			150
Oats bushels		150
Indian Corn bushels	500	2600
Hay tons		12	14
Irish Potatoes bushels	10	50	25
Sweet Potatoes bushels	5
Butter pounds	200	150	150
Honey pounds			100
Produce value			$680
Slaughtered Animals	$24	$107

In looking at this table, I see the only agricultural items that are the same for 2 different years are the pounds of butter produced, and that was done in 2 different states.