TABLE 7. Selected entries of the 1860 census of the large slaveholders of Louisiana (Menn, 1964).
Crops and livestock Conseil Plantation
(of St. Bernard
Parish)
St. Bernard
Parish
Orleans
Parish
Cane sugar (1,000-pound hogheads) 250 3,884 1,750
Molasses (gallons) 16,000 218,850 109,000
Ginned cotton (400-pound bales) 0 0 400
Indian corn (bushels) 3,000 68,300 22,500
Irish potatoes (bushels) 1,500 4,150 1,950
Sweet potatoes (bushels) 1,200 4,280 2,600
Peas and beans (bushels) 0 639 2,430
Horses 4 63 44
Asses and mules 36 579 196
Milk cows 12 119 82
Oxen 15 124 63
Sheep 30 268 284
Swine 0 72 387
Source: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File 98-36. Carbon storage and late Holocene chronostratigraphy of a Mississippi River deltaic marsh, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana (H.W. Markewich, ed.).

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